Yes it's that time of year again, the time where we shove our faces with candy corn, die our hair, put on a mask and becoming the ghoulish creatures we really are. This personally is my favorite time of year. I've grown up on horror movies watching one almost every Saturday night for the past few years back home with my brother and best friends. I've also collected an obscene amount of Halloween decorations back home where I created a yearly haunted house or Halloween display.
An example can be seen down here:
Anyways, aside that...I am a horror movie enthusiast and have created a list of some of the scariest horror movies and some of the most entertaining ones in the last 50 years...(I tried to avoid things on the syllabus because I haven't seen them yet) All of which are MUST sees and brilliant for what they are. The following list was composed by myself and several horror movie fiend friends and have been assembled into the collection because they have a strong: original story, cinematography/artistic value, they may conform to the classic clichés, they’ve pushed the genre forward, and/or they have a good scare value to them.
Enjoy and Happy Haunting! :D
Serial Killers:
Halloween – 1978
Halloween II – 1981
Halloween H20 – 1998
(We pretend the others never happened okay?)
Se7en – 1995
Friday the 13th – 1980
Nightmare on Elm Street - 1984
Scream – 1996
The Silence of the Lambs – 1991
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - 2003
Demons:
The Excorcist - 1973
Psycho/Psychological:
The Shinning – 1980
Misery – 1990
Psycho – 1960
Gothika – 2003
Saw – 2004
Carrie – 1976
The Sixth Sense - 1999
Vampires:
Let the Right One In – 2008
The Lost Boys - 1987
30 Days of Night – 2007
Fright Night – 1985
Monsters:
Trick R' Treat – 2007
Jaws – 1975 (yes it’s also an adventure movie but it’s a classic so work with me here!)
Hellraiser - 1987
Werewolves:
An American Werewolf in London - 1981
Silver Bullet - 1985
Cursed – 2003
Zombie Movies:
Dawn of the Dead – 1978 / 2004
Night of the Living Dead - 1968
28 Days Later – 2002
The Crazies – 2010
Haunted House:
Poltergeist – 1982
Amityville Horror - 2005
Haunting in Conneticut - 2009
Other:
Children of the Corn - 1984
Mirrors – 2008
Dead Silence - 2007
House - 2008
The Ring – 2002
Pet Semetary - 1989
The Human Centipede – 2009 (I was forced to put this on but I’m too squeamish and afraid to watch lol)
A few classic not-so-scary movies that I couldn’t pass bringing up! ;D
These are for the faint of heart…just classics that I like to curl up on my couch with a bag of candy corn to every year. J
Sleepy Hollow – 1999
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice! - 1988
The Addams Family – 1991
Special Thanks to: My brother Nick, and second family: Alyssa, Kyle, Nancy and Dylan for their help on this! :D
What do you think? Comment below! :D
Wow there are a lot of scary movie that I never knew existed! I think what makes a good thriller are scary movie is not just the plot and characters but the sound play a huge part. I think this is because when sound is put into a scary movie they put the suspenseful music right before something bad is going to happen or sound effects of every floor board creaking when someone is walking. Since I think I prefer not to watch scary movies for that reason alone.
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