10 Best Horror Movies in History

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What is your Best Horror Movies?


The 10 best Horror movies are,

Stacker's 10 best horror movies of all time, along with the director:


  1. Psycho, 1960, Alfred Hitchcock
  2. Rosemary's Baby, 1968, Roman Polanski
  3. Bride of Frankenstein, 1935, James Whale
  4. Alien, 1979, Ridley Scott
  5. Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1956, Don Siegel
  6. Frankenstein, 1931, James Whale
  7. King Kong, 1933, Merian C. Cooper and Earnest B. Schoedsack
  8. Repulsion, 1965, Roman Polanski
  9. Night of the Living Dead, 1968, George A. Romero
https://www.newser.com/story/297912/2/10-best-horror-movies-in-history.html
 

I am not much into this genre, but the ones that spring to mind are:

The Exorcist
Psycho
Poltergeist
Arachnophopia
The Amityville Horror
Jaws
The Day After
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Nightmare on Elm Street
any in the Halloween, Child's Play or Friday the 13th series
 
That is a pretty good list. It is easy for me to overthink this because some movies that scared me were not necessarily "horror" films. Silence of the Lambs is an example along with Se7en. But without overthinking too much I will list those two movies among my favorites along with
The Shining
Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte
House on Haunted Hill (Vincent Price)
The Exorcist
The Birds
Wait Until Dark (Crime drama but scared the sheet out of me watching it as kid)
The Witch
The Blair Witch Project
Cat People
Halloween (original only)

I am a sucker for a good horror movie no matter how cheesy it is :)
 
never heard of "repulsion"?? any of the movies that devolved into part 7... part 17... maybe just the 1st (maybe part 2) is worth watching. like "Halloween", "Friday the 13th", even "child's play" but no sequels.

movies like "jaws" and "wait until dark" are more high suspense than horror. my old HS used to show movies on weekends. brother came home from "wait until dark" with both knees ripped out of his jeans. movies were shown in "old school" auditorium... seat in front of you had pull-down "desk" to use during study hall. when Alan Arkin came flying thru the air at Audrey Hepburn, brother shot straight out of his seat and ripped his jeans. oh, and when old fisherman's head popped out of hole in "jaws" i had unfortunate seat right next to him and got thumped in the shoulder. of course he denies this ever happened! ;)
 
I think I posted in an earlier thread that the "ONLY" horror movie that actually scared me and still does is the 1963 Blob Movie which was rumored to have been based on an incident that occurred in The City of Brotherly Love. I haven't researched it because to be perfectly honest I really don't want to know.

1: The Blob (1963)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blob


2: House_on_Haunted_Hill (1959)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_on_Haunted_Hill


3. The Birds (1963)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_(film)


4. Sole Survivor (1984)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sole_Survivor_(1984_film)


5. Friday the 13th (1980)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th_(1980_film)

 
wcwbf:
You are correct,
Wait until Dark will bring you out of you seat.
Horror films just don't cut it, we watched them in our young years, didn't we?
They scared us, didn't they, can't remember?
Jason will return doesn't matter if you shoot him nine times, he is needed for sequel.

The real life monsters are scary enough: Richard Ramirez-'Night Stalker', Zodiac, Charles Mason ...
The real monsters are among us, they don't identify themselves with peculiar mask..,

(the zombies caught my attention for a hour or so, the best way to kill a zombie is to stab him in the top of his head šŸ„“ :rolleyes:šŸ˜–
all they want to do is eat your brain-right, so we can assume their running with no brainsšŸ˜µ 0 brains)

Addendum: Waco
 
not exactly what i would call "horror"... how about "Duel" with Dennis Weaver being terrorized by a never seen driver of a tractor trailer. total suspense!

 
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wcwbf said:
not exactly what i would call "horror"... how about "Duel" with Dennis Weaver being terrorized by a never seen driver of a tractor trailer. total suspense!


Yea, people placed in a situation where the reality they know does not explain the problem.
This person/s wants to harm me, why?
A challenge to you reality is scary indeed.
The brainwashed folks in Waco, Jim Jones followers, these are the spooky folks.

There are a few SF films that take away what you knew and replace it with events you did not know, like 'Contact.'
'Contact' is a poor example, but it is all I could dredge up.
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jerry old said:
wcwbf:
You are correct,
Wait until Dark will bring you out of you seat.
Horror films just don't cut it, we watched them in our young years, didn't we?
They scared us, didn't they, can't remember?
Jason will return doesn't matter if you shoot him nine times, he is needed for sequel.

The real life monsters are scary enough: Richard Ramirez-'Night Stalker', Zodiac, Charles Mason ...
The real monsters are among us, they don't identify themselves with peculiar mask..,

(the zombies caught my attention for a hour or so, the best way to kill a zombie is to stab him in the top of his head šŸ„“ :rolleyes:šŸ˜–
all they want to do is eat your brain-right, so we can assume their running with no brainsšŸ˜µ 0 brains)

Addendum: Waco
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Hey JO The Return of the Living Dead was funnier then Reefer Madness. Actually this scene kinda creeped me out. Like if this really happened would I be willing to endure the pain of feeling my dead corpse rotting or throwing up every time I had to eat some poor saps grey matter. I don't relish dying unless I die in my sleep but I really despise hurling but I think I'd have to get used to hurling after dinner.


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Naw, he's not greedy.

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From Hell It Came : Atomic research.....results in a man becoming a walking tree stump" A don't miss film if you like silly.
It was on TCF today, stinky, stinky, stinky rating -3 stars

FastTrax:
You guy that cries out, "More brains," he need more than brains; he needs plastic, lots and lots of plastic, and a surgeon.

Of course, a stab in the top of his head would solve his problems.
No Glob here, just rotting folk.
 
jerry old said:
From Hell It Came : Atomic research.....results in a man becoming a walking tree stump" A don't miss film if you like silly.
It was on TCF today, stinky, stinky, stinky rating -3 stars

FastTrax:
You guy that cries out, "More brains," he need more than brains; he needs plastic, lots and lots of plastic, and a surgeon.

Of course, a stab in the top of his head would solve his problems.
No Glob here, just rotting folk.
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No thank you jo. I have no plans of trying to plunge a knife in the head of a zombie who's crew took out a whole police barricade behind the mortuary. You do remember Captain "I cant hear you" get his head eaten by Trash?
 
jujube said:
Well, I just watched part of one that can definitely go on the Ten Worst list: 1957's "From Hell it Came", in which a jungle prince turns into a walking tree stump and waddles around slowly killing explorers. There, you have the plot and now you don't have to watch it. Lucky you.

Absolutely the worst, scary monster in cinema history-wanted to throw tomatoes at TV-Boo!
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