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TOP 18 HORROR MOVIES
Exorcist: The Beginning For all you naysayers, you are wrong. Every review I've read, bashing this movie, has either said that the special effects are bad or it didn't scare them. Maybe every filmmaker doesn't have the elephantine budget that Steven Spielberg has...did you ever think of that? Huh? Well? Back up! Break yourself sucka! The movie is interesting and if you can't look past the average CGI, then you're missing out on the best Exorcist movie (Again... just because you've heard people talk about how great the original was, this doesn't mean that they are right. The original Psycho was reviled by critics when it first came out, and only received the acclaim it deserved years later).
The Fly (1986) This is, without a doubt, the nastiest movie I have ever seen. If gore does equal scary, then this will frighten even the toughest Slayer fan. I do not recommend watching this while eating any type of food.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) The original TCM is guilty of making Hellboy director, Guillermo del Toro, turn to vegetarianism, and for good reason. It's much grittier and feels more like a demented home video than a horror flick. Favorite Scene: Grandfather Sawyer, unable to eat solid foods, is fed by drinking blood from a girl's cut finger.
The Blob (1988) No, it's not the biography of Star Jones. Silly.
The Wicker Man Even though this movie can be found in the horror section of every video store that carries it, it's actually more of a mystery/musical, so don't expect a Freddy or Leatherface to start hacking people up. In fact, there isn't a single drop of blood the whole movie. But the story of a policeman discovering an isolated heathen community where sex is encouraged in elementary school, still manages to rattle you after its final scene.
Thinner You may have missed this one. It's proof that if a movie doesn't have stars like Colin Farrell fruiting it up, nobody will watch it. Stephen King's Thinner has an old gypsy man who delivers one hell of a terrifying performance that will make you think twice about dieting.
The Thing (1982) Kurt Russell lays the smackdown on a shape-shifting alien in the Antarctic in John Carpenter's The Thing. So cool, it was even made into a PlayStation 2 game, 20 years after its release!
Creepshow Three short stories from George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead movies) and Stephen King that will make you check your underpants for stains after it's through.
Dracula (1992) Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula is a gorgeous version of Bram Stoker's novel. Gary Oldman brilliantly plays the Count, and Keanu Reeves is just brainless in his attempt to play an Englishman.
House of Wax (1953) It's unfortunate when such an important horror classic such as this one is remade into an incoherent mess of a movie staring none other than Paris Hilton. This House of Wax was originally released in 3-D, so there are some parts where strange things will happen, like a yoyo being thrown into the camera, and it may break the flow of the film slightly. This is arguably the best Vincent Price movie.
Dead Alive Pre Lord of the Rings Peter Jackson directed this gruesome zombie-filled love story. For those who haven't seen it, you will never see as much blood and innard splatterage in any other movie. This is definitely not a fuzzy story about Hobbits and wizards. The movie doesn't take itself very seriously. There is a priest karate kicking the heads off of the undead, a zombie woman who eats a live dog, possessed intestines, people accidentally eating popped scab juices in porridge, and a final scene where the central character obliterates hundreds of zombies with a lawnmower.
Psycho (1960) Psycho shocked audiences not only by having a maniacal transgender as its star. It also killed off its hot babe early in the film (Janet Leigh). This was unheard of at the time. Psycho stills stands the test of time as a great horror movie, and is milder the rest of the stuff out there.
They Live The Rock wasn't the first pro wrestler turned bad actor. "Rowdy" Roddy Piper plays a construction worker who finds a pair of sunglasses that reveal that some people who appear to be human, are actually freaky looking aliens. Who could forget a line like "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum."
Saw New horror movies always have a medium to large sized group of central characters. This serves no purpose other than to make it harder and require more time for the killer to pick them off. Saw is different. It builds suspense the old fashion way, by not making it so damn obvious who will die and who won't die.
Exorcist III Exorcist III is based on the book Legion, by William Peter Blatty, just like the original Exorcist. The third in the series feels very different from any of the others and delivers some truly chilling moments that are still unmatched today.
Day of the Dead Land of the Dead was worse than an Adam Sandler movie. See this one instead. It had the Bub the zombie, a scientist's loyal pet until Bub got hungry and munched on his veins.
Army of Darkness I have heard a rumor that the original Evil Dead is being remade with Ashton Kutcher as Ash. Say it aint so!
Tales of Terror
Adapted from three Edgar Allan Poe short stories, Tales of Terror stars the great Vincent Price. Price has been in almost every single film version of Poe's work, and this is by far, the best of 'em.
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why did you change it to only 10? you might have to make this on to be continued... you didnt even have room to talk about the blaring 80's spund trake of day of the dead and the scene when the disected zombie sits up on the operating table and his guts fall out. you cant leave out such classic moments as these. at least you made room house of wax. vincent price is the bomb.
where's the house of 1000 corpses?
nothing is scarier than OPRAH at a buffet, or your jacking off and your friend knocks on the door, or your parents are having sex in the other room....house of 1000 corpses was a flop...because a lot of reasons, I am not a fan of the horror genre but we are now becoming close friends....whatever scary movie 2 is awesome....HERE IS A COMMENT....yeah when david cronenberg was making the fly he wanted it to be as real as possible and his effects are eerily real....see History of Violence those gun shot wounds look so damn real....my pubes are scary...
Great list! I too love The Thing, The Blob, The Fly (what's with the The movies, anyway? They always rock) and Day of the Dead.
Know what else those movies had in common? They were 80's horror flicks. 80's horror flicks are hands down the best ever. They knew how to do special effects back then...
I loved the first half of SAW and then proceeded to hate the shit out of the 2nd half.... let's hope the sequel learns from its mistakes and makes the most of a second chance to be a kickass new horror franchise for the 21st century.
I don't think Saw II will be as good as the first. The trailer looks like it's full of teeny boppers, and teeny boppers in scary movies = splinter shits. May I recall Freddy vs. Jason, I Know What you did Last Summer, The House of Wax, etc. And notice how they are trying to recreate all the great 80's horror flicks, and they turn out sucking Ewok censors (refer to bikinigamer.com). i.e. Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The original was so much more scary. Arrr...I need to vent.
The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is the worst move ever along with any of those cheap and not scary romero zombie flicks. Terrible directing, casting, and acting made TCM one of the worst movies ever. I have read this in many places thought that was a long time ago and I dont remember my sources. Its not even scary. All those zombie flicks were cheesy and lame with poor directing. Theres a reason a zombie flick never wins an Oscar and its because they suck! Zombies are old and they are not scary. What could be scary about a dumb, brainless, slowpoke wannabe human who can only bite. Scary movies are ones with creatures, specifically from hell or inanimate objects coming to life. I cant get enough of movies where dolls or puppets come to life and surround people and kill them. Evil clowns are scary too and movies like The Dentist are scary because they use a real situation and put a nasty twist on. Psychopaths are scary too but they gotta be smart not like fatss Leatherface who runs and cant even catch up to a girl! He runs and cant even keep his balance. What a horribly made movie.
HA HA. Bitch.
Your logic is flawless.
san andreas is now rated AO, that sucks!!!!!
