Greatest Horror Movies of All Time...
The Exorcist
Alien
Friday the 13th part 2
Based on imdb's classifications of horror, my top 10 horror films are:
Psycho (1960)
The Birds (1963)
King Kong (1933)
Freaks (1932)
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
The Shining (1980)
House (1977)
The Exorcist (1973)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Videodrome (1983)
Good list!
I love Videodrome, Cronenberg is a terrific director and may have created the whole 'body horror' genre...I might be off on that but he's always the first guy I think of in the 'body horror' category
Salo...jeez, I can't believe any of us even sat through that one
Very tough movie, I did not like it at all but I have some horror/thriller fans and friends that all saw it so I had to
The Director Passolini was killed under very strange circumstances...weird story right there:/
I have not yet seen Freaks but it's certainly on my list
House was wild. Interesting choice.
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The exorcist
Alien
The 70s was the bomb for horror
the exorcist
the thing
alien
village of the damned
dracula
frankenstein
the omen
the changeling
burnt offering
invasion of the body snatchers
Curse of the Demon
I’m a firm believer that during Burnt Offerings Karen Black was at the height of her sexiness.
shareShe really was very sexy
She was never 'movie star hot' but more like 'the hot lady next door'
I get you!
Great movie btw...
‘The hot lady next door'
Exactly!!!
While on the subject, I am now proudly displaying this poster of Karen Black on my wall except mine is German.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/c/1605494064
And yes, I only bought it because she’s on it. :)
Careful lads...those are maneaters!
*I mean the fish of course...
I love horror and I have many favorites but these are some of my most watched ones that really stand out:
The Shining (1980)
The Woman in Black (1989)
Suspiria (1977)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
The Thing (1982)
I've not seen The Woman in Black, I'll look it up
Your list is excellent
evil dead
kill list
alien
rosemary's baby
invasion of the body snathers
videodrome
last house on the left
A fine list damo👍I saw and really liked them all except one
Kill List was a great Thrill ride and I've turned my friends onto it!
The ones that have watched it on my word have all loved it
I have a thing about Polanski...I wont watch his pictures, that man should be shot right in the face on sight
I have heard that Rosemary's Baby is a great horror/drama but I'll likely never see it
i certainly understand your response to polanski.
if you're at all interested, here is a link to a podcast i recently listened to that featured a short interview with samantha geimer, polanski's victim. i was quite amazed at how forgiving & accepting of polanski she is. it's a fascinating listen, i thought.
https://quillette.com/2019/09/26/podcast-55-samantha-geimer-raped-by-roman-polanski-at-13-on-her-rejection-of-victimhood/
Here's mine, with a few classic popular choices and a few personal favs I know aren't typically on lists:
Dawn of the Dead
Return of the Living Dead
Day of the Dead
Night Of The Living Dead (1990)
The Gate
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Alien
Poltergeist
Dead Alive
28 Days Later
The Void
Night of The Demons
Creepshow
Jeepers Creepers
Cannibal Holocaust
Fire In The Sky
Honorable Mention: The final tale from Necronomican: Book Of the Dead titled "The Butcher". The rest of the movie sucks but that specific portion is terrifying imo.
Also Fire in the Sky is obviously more sci fi then horror but isn't Alien also kinda sci fi? And ftr, I don't think Fire In The Sky is scary beginning to end but that abduction scene makes it all worth it.
I know there are a BUNCH I am forgetting about. And yes I am definitely a George Romero fan. And I'm definitely not picking purely scary movies but my personal favorites. Night of the Demons isn't too scary but it's fun and I like it so there.
I'm your huckleberry...I love all of them (with the exception of Necronomicon: Book of the Dead which I read in High school but never saw the movie...the book was allegedly cursed and my dopey 16 year old friends were too scared to lay hands on it but c'mon, I picked it up at Barnes and Noble for 6 bucks...I tried explaining to them that anything with a barcode on it is not an actual cursed tome
I have idiots for friends
I took a very sweet and shy little Puerto Rican girl to Fire in the Sky...she held my hand for most of the movie and I drove a large, shitty truck just like they did in the film...she made funny jokes about ugly trucks and ugly white boys at my expense, we held hands and had 2 fine years together...I fell a bit in love during Fire in the Sky:)
Cannibal Holocaust...how about that beautiful music by Riz Ortolani?!?
I've played the opening theme with guests over and they loved it...they had no idea I was having them over for dinner😬
For the most part I thought Necronomicon the movie was lousy but as I said the last story was excellent. Being trapped with weird alien flying creatures that will eat your...bone marrow...by sucking it out of you is pretty dire!
Great story about Fire In the Sky. I was only 10 when it came out but my brother was in high school and had just gotten his license so that year he would take me to the movies a lot on Friday nights and I'm sure that would have been a great date movie if u wanted your date to be grabbing onto you the whole time.
I remember everyone in the theater being scared AF during the infamous abduction. I thought the opening 20 minutes were great and the abduction the first time seeing it, but over the years I've rewatched it many times and really love the whole thing now.
The music in Cannibal Holocaust is great and really gives the movie different feels. The light melodic stuff with the overhead jungle scenes and of course the twisted macabre for the nasty scenes.
Necronomicon sounds good, if I happen across it I'm giving it a go!
Movies like Fire in the Sky were always great for dates!
Forgive me for sounding like a piggy but whatever gets the girl cuddling up to you is serious box office action;)
I once took a pretty girl from The Bronx to a movie called Medicine Man...It had Connery in it and he was in the jungle looking for some plant that could cure something or other...Ughh, boring as hell and I didn't even get a kiss!
That was a shitty date movie!
Go with horror movies on dates I say...cuddling and hand holding are sure to happen😍