Top ten horror movies

Writer2011 · Sep 22, 2006

With Halloween around the corner--well a month. At any rate I wanted to get your top ten horror movies... here are mine, not in any necessary order.

(1) Halloween
(2) Halloween II
(3) Friday the 13th
(4) Texas Chainsaw Massacre-1974
(5) The Thing
(6) The Omen-1976
(7) The Exorcist
(8) Hellraiser
(9) The Shining
(10) Nightmare on Elm Street

Just was curious is all..

jbal · Sep 22, 2006

You missed The Thing! (the John Carpenter version) one of my favorites just for the ending if nothing else.
I don't really have a top ten without spending more time than I really want to, but I'll also throw in 28 days later, House of 1000 corpses, and back to Carpenter for In the Mouth of Madness. Good one for writers, that.

Writer2011 · Sep 22, 2006

I forgot about The Thing...one of his best IMHO other than Halloween..

Haggis · Sep 22, 2006

You left out Night of the Living Dead (original). My all time favorite.

Writer2011 · Sep 22, 2006

Well I want everyone else's top ten too

robeiae · Sep 22, 2006

jbal said:
You missed The Thing! (the John Carpenter version) one of my favorites just for the ending if nothing else.

I still watch it whenever I'm feeling annoyed at the world. Great ending.

As to a top ten:

1) Halloween
2) Salem's Lot
3) The Shining
4) The Exorcist
5) Alien (the first one is really horror first, sci-fi second)
6) Re-animator
7) The Other (NOT The Others)
8) Scream
9) Gremlins (hey, a little humor goes a long way)
10) Titanic (pure horror, every second of it)

tiny · Sep 22, 2006

The Shining is a christmas movie. I watch it every year while I'm wrapping presents.

JoeEkaitis · Sep 22, 2006

Madonna says The English Roses is going to be made into a movie.

I'm sorry, that would be a movie horror, wouldn't it?

E_B · Sep 22, 2006

Tops on my list would be "The Entity".

PattiTheWicked · Sep 22, 2006

Not really horror, but one of my favorite sends-chills-down-my-spine films is The Sixth Sense.

jbal · Sep 22, 2006

robeiae said:
I still watch it whenever I'm feeling annoyed at the world. Great ending.

As to a top ten:

1) Halloween
2) Salem's Lot
3) The Shining
4) The Exorcist
5) Alien (the first one is really horror first, sci-fi second)
6) Re-animator
7) The Other (NOT The Others)
8) Scream
9) Gremlins (hey, a little humor goes a long way)
10) Titanic (pure horror, every second of it)

Holy crap, that's almost exactly mine! I almost put in Re-animator except I would classify it more as comedy.

stormie · Sep 22, 2006

JoeEkaitis said:
Madonna says The English Roses is going to be made into a movie.

I'm sorry, that would be a movie horror, wouldn't it?

Oh yeah. Major horror.

Blackheart · Sep 22, 2006

Where's Young Frankenstein?

Kate Thornton · Sep 22, 2006

Dead of Night.

"Ealing Studios' Dead of Night (1945) is one of just a handful of 'true' horror films of British cinema's first half-century" --- from screenonline.org

jbal · Sep 22, 2006

I almost forgot Nosferatu so here's ten in no particular order
1. alien
2. re-animator
3. the shining
4. Halloween
5. the thing
6. 28 days later
7. in the mouth of madness
8. the exorcist
9. house of 1000 corpses.
10. nosferatu

Soccer Mom · Sep 22, 2006

Hmmm

1. Nosferatu
2. Scream
3. Halloween
4. The Thing
5. The Omen (original)
6. Salem's Lot
7. Alien
8. American Werewolf in London
9. Jaws (still can't swim in the ocean)
10. Anything with Julia Roberts in it. (Make the scary lady go away, Mommy!)

Perks · Sep 22, 2006

I hate being restricted to ten -

The Exorcist
The Ring
The Shining
Jacob's Ladder (arguably a thriller with strong horror components)
Poltergeist
Shaun of the Dead (arguably a comedy)
Carrie
Aliens
The Others
Rosemary's Baby

(and since there were two that could go into other catagories, I get two alternates-

Final Destination (for sheer inventiveness)
A Nightmare on Elmstreet

I coud go on and on...

SC Harrison · Sep 22, 2006

Most of those above are really cool, but I would add:

Nightbreed (although the monsters are the good guys)

The Amityville Horror (the first one)

Silent Hill (freakier than the game)

There are more, but I'm drawing a blank.

jbal · Sep 22, 2006

Perks said:
I hate being restricted to ten -

The Exorcist
The Ring
The Shining
Jacob's Ladder (arguably a thriller with strong horror components)
Poltergeist
Shaun of the Dead (arguably a comedy)
Carrie
Aliens
The Others
Rosemary's Baby

(and since there were two that could go into other catagories, I get two alternates-

Final Destination (for sheer inventiveness)
A Nightmare on Elmstreet

I coud go on and on...

Ahh, Jacob's Ladder! Great one

aadams73 · Sep 22, 2006

1. The Omen(original not the lame remake)
2. The Changeling (with George C. Scott)
3. Alien
4. House of Wax (With Vincent Price)
5. Army of Darkness (Give me some sugar, baby!)
6. Hellraiser
7. The Other
8. Village of the Damned (the 1960 version)
9. The Lost Boys
10. Rocky Horror Picture Show (It counts, right?)

Ol' Fashioned Girl · Sep 22, 2006

The Changeling is #1 on my list. Then:

Exorcist
Alien
Jaws
Arachnophobia
Psycho
The Shining
Misery
Silence of the Lambs
The Fly

TrainofThought · Sep 22, 2006

Let’s see, I was never into horror movies, but I will list those that really, really scared me.

1) The Uninvited
2) Halloween
3) Burnt Offerings
4) When a Stranger Calls
5) The Blob
6) Night of the Living Dead
7) Amityville Horror
8) Poltergeist
9) Nightmare on Elm Street
10) Psycho

Vincent · Sep 22, 2006

Alien and American Werewolf in London would have to fit in there somewhere.

Shadow_Ferret · Sep 22, 2006

1) Them! (1954)
2) The Thing from Another World (1951)
3) Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
4) Dracula (1931)
5) The Wolf Man (1941)
6) The Mummy's Hand (1940)
7) King Kong (1933)
8) Frankenstein (1931)
9) Night of the Living Dead (1968)
10) Evil Dead (1982)

Bmwhtly · Sep 23, 2006

In no particular order:

The Thing
Day of the Dead (85, not the upcoming butchering, i mean remake)
28 Days Later
Shaun of the Dead (I know, but it is)
Dog Soldiers (See Shaun)
The Descent
Evil Dead (Scariest Film EVER)
Severance
Jaws
Dawn of the Dead (78, not the action-fest of 2001)
Dusk Till Dawn (Well I like it)

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