The top 10 Scary Movies List
Mar 28 '01
The Bottom Line My 10 favorite Horror films, plus a few honorable mentions.
Grab a bag of popcorn, a big gulp of soda, and an easily-scared girl (or guy, be that your preference), and don't forget the anti-nausea liquid. With that said, allow me to share with you my personal list of the top 10 greatest Horror flicks of all time. Forget that "I know what you did..." and "Scream" junk, we're talking the true horror here, kiddies.
1. John Carpenter's THE THING. A true experience into the realm of psychological horror, isolation horror, and gore. Who do you trust? Absolutely no one. This movie has everything a horror fan could want: a great story (based on the short story "Who Goes There?"), gore, believable characters, and a downright frightening environment.
2. EVIL DEAD TRILOGY. Okay, not one film here, but I think this is okay considering how closely related they all are. This is the definition of slapstick horror, mixing elements of gruesomness and hilarity, which combine perfectly in all three flicks to create one of the most original storylines to grace horror.
3. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, DAWN OF THE DEAD, DAY OF THE DEAD. Another trilogy worth combining. Enter George A. Romero's terrifying world where the dead walk amongst the living. These flicks re-defined gore in a time when gore was barely beyond the norm of taboo. Isolation horror in an utterly hopeless world. DAY is probably the weakest of the three, DAWN probably the strongest, with NIGHT somewhere between.
4. DEAD ALIVE. One of the new "great horror" flicks from the early 90's. A funny, realistic approach to the zombie genre with a great storyline, though a few scenes COULD be shortened in the beginning. Easily the goriest film of all time.
5. HELLRAISER. He11 or Heaven, or both? Clive Barker outdid himself with this one, creating an entirely new world of horror that no other movie can even touch, and a new cast of scary monsters to invade our dreams.
6. THE BEYOND. Italian Horror at its best. Lucio Fulci creates an epic masterpiece dealing with everything from zombies to Hell itself. Some of the best make-up and gore effects of all time can be found here.
7. RE-ANIMATOR. Based on H.P. Lovecraft's story? Eh, not really. Set in our present time, this is one of the most original "zombie" flicks available, adding humor and introducing a great, humorous actor: Jeffrey Combes.
8. HALLOWEEN. Forget the new-age sequels. The original was scary enough focusing again on FEAR rather than gore. John Carpenter uses the night to his advantage to set the scary setting, and the freaky music puts this one over the top. I try to shy away from the slasher flicks, but this one is too good NOT to include.
9. THE EXORCIST. Frightening, realistic, based on a true story? No, not REALLY based on a true story. But even without that element, this is one of the better horror flicks out there that doesn't focus on gore so much as FEAR.
10. PET SEMATARY. Stephen King's best book-to-movie flick. Excellent acting, great scary music, and a great storyline makes this one clip the other close ones to nudge its way into my top 10.
HONORABLE MENTIONS: Zombie, Friday the 13th part 6, The Howling, Phantasm, Cemetary Man, the Dead next Door.
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