Current Events > What are your top 10 favorite horror movies of all-time?

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Off the top of my head, my top ten would probably be the following (also worth noting that Im focusing on official horror movies here, meaning I left out movies like Silence of the Lambs, which I feel qualify more as thrillers than actual horror movies, as well as a number of David Lynch films, which are somewhat divisive as to whether they truly qualify as horror movies):
10. 28 Days Later (2002)
9. The Fly (1986)
8. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
7. The Evil Dead (1981)
6. Videodrome (1983)
5. The Exorcist (1973)
4. Psycho (1960)
3. The Shining (1980)
2. Alien (1979)
1. The Thing (1981)

Theres a bunch of classics I still need to watch, but the following are the ones Im most interested in seeing right now:
Perfect Blue (1997) [This is for sure the next horror film Im watching, since I ordered it online last Thursday & it should be in the mail by the time I get home from Chicago]
Suspiria (1977)
Phantasm (1979)
Dead Ringers (1988)
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Damn idk about 10 but

3. The Shining
2. Psycho
1. The Witch
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1.) Get Out
2.) Cabin in the Woods

Only two horror movies I've ever seen because the rest are boring jumpscare shit
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I don't like horror movies, but the best I've seen is Identity with John Cusack.

This topic has been done before, and that was almost verbatim my answer then.
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@Muffinz0rz posted...

1.) Get Out
2.) Cabin in the Woods

Only two horror movies I've ever seen because the rest are boring jumpscare shit

Maybe if youre talking movies made in the 90s & later, but even then theres definitely more exceptions than that.
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Ugh I really can't name just 10 :\ Gonna cheat here >_>

4th Kind
Phantasm series
Silent Hill
28 Days Later
Andre the Butcher
Evil Dead series
Anything by Dario Argento (especially Demons and The Church)
The Romero "of the Dead" series
The Return of the Living Dead series
They Live
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(If you cant do a top ten, top five/top three/etc. is ok too)
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Halloween
Tucker and Dale vs Evil
House of 1000 Corpses
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Off the top of my head

Jacob's Ladder
Insidious
Cabin in the Woods
Green Room
Saw
Dawn of the dead (2006)
The shining
Blair witch project
VHS (not scary but I like the concepts in each part)
Saw 2
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I'll list what I can think of in no order:
Dee Snider's Strangeland
Halloween
It (1990)
Redneck Zombies
Evil Dead
Leprechaun
See No Evil
Freddy Vs. Jason
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Bump
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Damn I totally forgot Cube! I watched the crsp out of that in university
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I have watched more horror movies that 99% of the population but I have never taken the time to make a Top 10 list before. I will get to it soon. Until then, Top 5

[rec]
The Descent
Friday the 13th Part IV
Halloween (1978)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
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No real order

The strangers (seconds trash)
Identity
Cube series
Living dead series
Scream series (1 and 4 mostly)
You're next
It miniseries
Darkness falls
30 days of night
Village of the damned

Plenty of honorable mentions though from read window to psycho (and slashers like Halloween/TCM) and such.
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Id never even heard of Cube prior to making this topic, but the series sounds interesting! I mean, the first one at least...
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Child's Play 2
The Babadook
Evil Dead (2013)
Silent Hill
Child's Play
The Blair Witch Project
Halloween (2007)
The Thing (1982)
Insidious

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Prince of Darkness
Vampyr
Pulse (2001)
The Sixth Sense
Day of the Dead
I Walked With a Zombie
From Beyond

This:

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The Thing
Insidious
Blair Witch
Sinister
Poltergeist
REC
Hellraiser
It
The Babadook
Silent Hill
The Descent
The Fly
Let the Right One In
Phantoms
The Predator
The Terminator

So I did more than 10 and the last two are borderline horror, sue me!

Side note: The second half of Phantoms is kinda garbage but the first half or so it was on pace to be an all time great :-(
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Last bump for the night
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28 Days Later
Get Out
Hellraiser
Interview With a Vampire, if it counts
It (2016)
Kill List
Let the Right One In
The Orphanage
Seven
The Witch
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It's hard for me to come up with 10.

Saw The Witch a few months back and it was indeed pretty creepy and unsettling. Not surprised to see it on so many lists here.

Gafemage posted...

Id never even heard of Cube prior to making this topic, but the series sounds interesting! I mean, the first one at least...

The first one is definitely the only one worth checking out lol
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My number 1 will always be Night Of The Living Dead.
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16-BITTER posted...

Stewman_Magoo posted...

Gafemage posted...

Id never even heard of Cube prior to making this topic, but the series sounds interesting! I mean, the first one at least...

The first one is definitely the only one worth checking out lol

Agreed. Really great from a technical perspective too, once you realize they create such an interesting set piece with the most minimal actual set possible. Clever cinematography.

The second one butchers everything about the concept, the environment, the atmosphere, the character interactions, and stands as one of the worst movies I've seen in general, with some hilariously bad CGI. The third one is a prequel and manages to recapture a bit of what made the first one interesting, but it's forced and unnecessary and loses the sense of mystery the original had by revealing too much.

You know I've always wondered what was off about the second Cube (I didn't think it was terrible, just not as .. suspenseful?), but you describe the missteps well. I *did* like that it went a bit further into history without describing too much.

I don't think I've ever even seen ten horror movies. There are some ok entries in the suspense genre but I've never cared for horror.

They're not really scary--mostly just gross--and without that there's not a whole lot going for them.
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Sariana21 posted...

I don't like horror movies, but the best I've seen is Identity with John Cusack.

I'd say that's more of a thriller.
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Most people here are confusing psychological suspense thrillers with horror movies. Horror is a very different genre.
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In no particular order:

It Follows
Sinister
The Evil Dead
Alien
The Shining (even though I hate how it was adapted, as the book is way better, I gotta give it credit)
Friday the 13th: Part 3
Witching and Bitching (horror comedy)
Apollo 18
The Fly
The Thing (I said no order, but this is my favourite of all time).
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Gafemage posted...

1. The Thing (1981)

1982* SMH
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10. They Live
9. Dracula: Prince of Darkness
8. The Mummy (1932)
7. Deep Red
6. The Brides of Dracula
5. Dawn of the Dead
4. The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
3. Let the Right One In
2. King Kong (1933)
1. Psycho

Something like that. Some of the Hammer movies are a bit of a blur though.
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16-BITTER posted...

Ruvan22 posted...

(I didn't think it was terrible, just not as .. suspenseful?),

It's not offensively bad, minus a few cringey scenes (abstract CGI geometry of death), but it was boring and undermined a movie I liked, which are worse sins in my book.

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Good point - what do you think they could have done to improve this? I *liked* that they expanded the universe a bit while still remaining vague.. trying to think of what a better approach would have been :)

can't think of an order for these

The Neon Demon
Possession (Andrzej uawski)
Noroi: The Curse
The Wicker Man
Red Spirit Lake
Videodrome
Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Le Secret de la chambre noire (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
The Blackcoat's Daughter
The Beyond (Lucio Fulci)

Nightly bump.
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Not going to try and figure ou a top ten, but my for favorites are, in no particular order;

The Thing
30 Days of Night
Event Horizon
Sunshine
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Morning bump. Heading home from Chicago now; hoping Perfect Blue is in the mail when I get back!
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"Bad" ones, mostly.
Manos: The Hands of Fate
Incubus (1966)
Bubba Ho-Tep
Evil Dead franchise

Gafemage posted...

Morning bump. Heading home from Chicago now; hoping Perfect Blue is in the mail when I get back!

It came!

https://imgur.com/R8ZRbZQ

Gonna watch it tonight; might watch Suspiria tomorrow.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

Bubba Ho-Tep

That's not a bad movie its a BRUCE CAMPBELL movie and funny as fuck.

Here's a few of mine in no order.

Hellraiser
Oculus
Cube 2: Hypercube
The thing
Insidious
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