Top 10 Horror Movies...Let's have 'em

[Kid_A]

No real order

1) An American werewolf in London
2) Pet Cemetary
3) Psycho (1960)
4) Scream
5) Halloween (1978)
6) Evil Dead
7) Creepshow
8) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
9) Behind the mask: the rise of Leslie Vernon
10) A nightmare on Elm street (1984)

 

[Mister D]

Ever?

Did this for the Dark Discussions podcast a few months ago. Let's see...

Top 5 in order:

1. The Thing
2. Jaws
3. Night of the Living Dead
4. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
5. Halloween

The rest:

The Exorcist
Creepshow
Tremors
Phantom of the Opera (Cheney)
The Fly

Though to be fair I couldn't think of anything more horrifying than being made to watch Breaking Dawn again.

 

[Mister D]

I must say Les that that is a list of movies to respect. However, it seems alot of posters on this board don't seem to realize that movies WERE around before 1960.

Of course we've lost most of the films from before 1930, so we're mostly drawing on 30 years of film prior to 60, and 50 years of film after. Factor in that more recent films are more readily available, and that the 60's saw a radical redirection for the horror genre, and that observation isn't unexpected. In fact I'd say this board has done a better job than many others I've seen, where posters didn't know movies were made before Platinum Dunes.

 

[Mister D]

I really enjoyed the Entity

JAWS is a horror film. The Greatest Horror film EVER This film with the exception of The Exorcist scared more people then any other film in History. It is not straight foward Horror. It has elements of action, adventure, comedy and Drama. But deep down it gets us by our most primal fears. It's why it's not only the great horror movie but the Greatest film EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ALIEN is a Horror film all the way IMO. It's horror with Sc-Fi elements. ALIENS on the other hand I would call Sci Fi.

I agree that Predator is not a horror film.

Halloween is a great film.

In reverse order:

1. Which Halloween?
2. Agreed on Predator.
3. Double agree on Alien, though I don't know that the film would be as scary now, especially since the Alien itself is so iconic, and its life cycle, a surprise in 1979, is well known now.
4. Jaws was made as a horror film and scared audiences more than all but a handful of movies in history. It caused a serious down turn in beachgoing that summer and it ranks as my favorite film of all time. BUT the fact that it is a bit of a watered down horror (as you say, heavily mixed with adventure and drama), when ranking horror films, I have to slide it down below the Thing, which I find more effective AS a horror film. Does that make sense?

 

[mmmmBrains]

No Re-Animator love? Shame...

 

[fanger54]

1: Halloween original
2: Dawn of the dead remake
3: Halloween H20(in my mind its the final chapter to the original)
4: Host(japan horror film)
5 Resident Evil After Life
6: Texas Chainsaw Massacre the beginning
7: Rob Zombie Halloween
8: Halloween 6
9: Return of the Living dead
10: Devils Rejects

 

[River Man]

Same here, no particular order...

1. High Tension
2. Cabin Fever
3. Poltergeist
4. Halloween 4
5. Friday the 13th Part 4
6. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre -Remake
7. The Hills Have Eyes - Remake
8. Dawn of the Dead - Original
9. Jaws
10. The Fog - Original

 

[drunkman]

No particular order:
Top 10 Horror Films

1. A Clockwork Orange
2. A Nightmare On Elm Street
3. The Shining
4. Black Swan
5. Re-Animator
6. Eraserhead
7. Jaws
8. The Fly
9. Evil Dead 2
10. Gremlins

 

[hko]

1 Shining
2 Jaws
3 The Thing
4 The Omen (1976)
5 Carrie
6 The Mummy (1959)
7 The Blair Witch Project
8 Låt den rätte komma in (Let the Right One In)
9 Wicker man (1973)
10 Spoorloos

 

[devilof76]

The Exorcist
Night of the Living Dead
Phenomena
A Nightmare on Elm St.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Phantasm
Salem's Lot
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Howling
Poltergeist

...something like that.

 

[sithjedi171]

In no particular order

Poltergeist
House of 1000 Corpses
The Exorcist
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Shining
Jaws
Blair Witch Project
Halloween (original)
Halloween II (original)
Silver Bullet

 

[devilof76]

Silver Bullet is my favorite werewolf movie.

I think I have a final list.

The Exorcist
Night of the Living Dead ('91)
Phenomena
A Nightmare on Elm St.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Phantasm
Hellraiser II
Angel Heart
Salem's Lot
Poltergeist

The Exorcist almost shouldn't even be in the running. It's like The Beatles. There's The Exorcist, and then there's everything else.

 

[Garemlin]

No particular order

American Werewolf In London
The Fog (original)
Dawn of the Dead (Romero)
Dawn of the Dead (remake)
The Lost Boys
Nightmare on Elm Street (original)
Devil's Rejects
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (remake)
Friday the 13th (original)
Halloween (Rob Zombie remake)

 

[Tonymontana]

No order:

Friday 13th
Halloween II
House of 1000 corpses
Devils rejects
Paranormal activity
The strangers
The exorcist
Insidious
Freddy vs Jason
Texas chainsaw massacre


I really like ghosts and the paranormal

 

[nexon86]

1. The Shining (1980)
2. The Thing (1982)
3. Alien (1979)
4. The Exorcist (1973)
5. Psycho (1960)
6. Rec (2007)
7. 28 Days Later (2002)
8. Saw (2004)
9. The Others (2001)
10. The Descent (2005)

 

[MrStayPuft]

1)The Shining
2)Halloween (Carpenter)
3)Evil Dead
4)Psycho (Hitchcock)
5)Jaws
6)Exorcist
7)Dawn of the Dead (Romero)
8)American Psycho
9)The Thing (Carpenter)
10)Basket Case/Re-Animator - tough call

 

[buzzybean]

No order but JAWS is definitely first and Alien is definitely second.

JAWS
Alien
Exorcist
Frankenstein (Karloff)
Dracula (Lugosi)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (Oldman)
Horror of Dracula (Lee)
The Thing
Halloween
Dracula (Palance)

BB

 

[craig1/6freak]

my list is

1. halloween
2.halloween 2
3. first 8 friday the 13th's
4. the shining
5. dark city
6.halloween 3

 

[Calvin Candie]

1. THE SHINING
2. Death Proof
3. American Psycho
4. The Devil's Rejects
5. The Exorcist
6. Halloween (original)

 

[darthviper107]

I wouldn't count Death Proof as horror.