Best Horror Movies of All Time - Top Ten List. The Top Ten. 1The Exorcist. By far best of this genre ever. Even if you ignore the gruesome special effects, the movie was still superbly acted and directed. Everything else is distant second. By far the one that stands out. I watched it ONE time and have never watched it again and I'm 4. Other movies about possession don't bother me, to a point, as much as this one did. Deservedly so, Aliens is in the top 1. Poltergeist (the clown scene) is the still the reason I can't STAND clowns to this day. The next most disgusting websites is one that features one of the grossest objects on earth – the human body. The website is titled.IT should be higher as well. Paranormal Activity (1) deserves it's spot as that movie kept me on the edge of my seat and my wife afraid to sleep at night! JAWS needs to be higher on the list.. Great directing, acting, etc. Plus I was afraid to go in the ocean for years after seeing it in the theater! Awesome one. Overrated - lolsy. V 1. 34 Comments. Halloween. Come on people Halloween is the best one out of all the others because Michael Myers is pure evil! You'll all see what I'm talking about after 0. Halloween indeed is the creator of all slasher films, if it wasn't 4 this movie.. Nightmare on elm street, friday the 1. So think again and vote for Halloween. The slasher genre wouldn't exist if not for this John Carpenter masterpiece. Watch the original before you judge. By far the best, honestly I think it surpasses the horror list and goes straight to the list of greatest films of all time. Don't let the all the sequels and spin- offs tarnish this classic. Amazing. V 3. 9 Comments. The Shining. This movie is great! People are voting for other movies because there scarier but this is not about being scary, its about being good. And this movie tops the whole list! Other great horror movies are The Exorcist, Black Christmas, High Tension, Halloween, Alien, Evil Dead, A nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, Poltergeist, Misery, The Cabin In The Woods, REC, Jaws, Dead Alive, Carrie, An American Werewolf in London and Psycho. What people don't realize how great The Shining is looking at the pure horror outlook of it or just looking at how incredible it is nonetheless. People will rip on it and say it was nothing like the book, but every time I watch the shining it just brings me back, it's like a journey. Not only did it have a suspensive intriguing story, but it had incredible directing by my all time favorite director, Stanley Kubrick, was shot at a really interesting setting; The Timberline Lodge known as the Overlook hotel, and had some incredible actors in it that all did great such as Jack Nicholson, Scatman Crothers, Joe Turkel, and Philip Stone. Now beside from it being in the Horror genre (my favorite), the movie is still one of my all time favorites without question, and when you look at it, all these supernatural and Slasher films don't stand a chance.
This movie is the type that after you watch it you're thinking it's bad but then all of a sudden you're too afraid to move! Now. Heeres Johnny! V 6. 0 Comments. 4A Nightmare on Elm Street. Silence of the Lambs wasn't even scary to me. Kill List is a 2011 British crime drama psychological horror film directed by Ben Wheatley, co-written and co-edited with Amy Jump, and starring Neil Maskell, MyAnna. The Exorcist. The seminal possession film to end all possession films is a no-brainer for any horror list with “memorable” in the title, right? I actually laughed at one point. THIS will scare you. You won't be able to sleep. I had a nightmare with him in it when I LEAST expected. That's why I'm typing this as a ghost. Or something. T. What's wrong with this top 1. Straight to DVD films and remakes? And let's not forget a certain over- appreciated gore franchise that spawned 7 agonizing sequels.. Oh yeah Alien is awesome. Best movie monster ever conjured and one of the most suspenseful movies ever made with imagery that haunts to this day. This list has seem to have forgotten there's a difference between being the greatest and being the scariest. This movie is great AND it is scary. That is a big enough accomplishment to earn it top five status. That's a problem. Greatest Horror Movie Of All Time How Could You Question Its Greatness? This Is Greatest Horror Movies Right? No horror movie compares to this. The movie itself doesn't throw countless buckets of gore at you, so when the movie actually does use gore, they use it very effectively and it can scare you much more. This movie also never had a dull moment in my opinion. The movie is one of the few movies that I can say never gets a bit uninteresting. With the help of genius characters and dialogue, the movie boils a slowly growing feeling of suspense, and that feeling stays for the whole movie. On top of all of this, it doesn't feel the need to drench you with horror cliches and unoriginal plot points. This movie is a true original. Not only are the plot and characters very twisted and disturbing, but you can also clearly tell the plot was very carefully mapped out and must have took an extreme amount of effort. All these elements put together and you have a cinematic gen and a horror classic that will be remembered for all of eternity. It won film of the year, no other horror has done that, therefore this is the best. Scary for all the right reasons and a story that has quality, who could ask for more. Gore and lots of blood is nice, like Evil Dead, Saw, Friday the 1. The best horror movies are those with fewer blood and no gore, like The Shining, It, Alien, Psycho, Rosemary's Baby.. Silence of the Lambs is upper- class. Levine and Hopkins. Best role of those 2. Lecter is downright scary, while Bill is.. Also scary. Jodie Foster and the rest of the cast were near perfection. To conclude, the dialogue was excellent. Silence of the Lambs deserves a top 3 spot. Anthony Hopkins had completed this movie. This is the best physiological thrillers of all time and it should be in the top five instead of 7! V 2. 5 Comments. 8Scream. This movie totally gave the slasher genre (and really all horror) new life and started a new trend of smart suspense- driven horror movies. The entire franchise is classic! Amazing movie, much suspense. Way better than friday the thirteenth. This is my best movie at all bit I don't think that's a horror movie but it's still best than friday 1. Overrated - lolsy. V 2. 8 Comments. 9Saw. It's ah- may- zing! Who doesn't want to watch a lot of torture in one movie that has such a great plot if you take the time to watch it?! Saw is not necessarily the scariest movie, but it is a GREAT movie if you want to see some gore. The story is also very good for it being 7 movies long. The end was such a twist, I loved it. The reverse bear trap was the BEST, its too bad we don't see it actually work until the second time. This movie deserves to be on the top ten. Original, Creative, Entertaining, Full of Suspense, Intriguing, Well Acted, Shocking.. What else can you ask for in a movie? Also, has one of the greatest villains of all time, and not only villain but character (the amazing Jigsaw). In short, A MASTERPIECE! I have to agree best movie ever but saw 6 is better. V 6. 0 Comments. 10. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1. Okay, most films in the top ten deserve to be there but I'm sorry, this is THE best horror film. It works outside of the horror genre as a film itself. Maybe some films are scarier, but this was revolutionary in it's time. The makers of this films were daring, this film pushed boundaries and is an absolutely iconic piece of art. Horror movies don't scare me, I have a dark sense of humour so I usually laugh at them. Voting Chainsaw Massacre because Leather face was inspired by real life killer, Edward Gein. I think you mean WILL be the scariest experience of your entire life! Especially when that guys head comes of and starts crawling like a spider that was amazing. Should be number 2 on this list just most people don't know how gory this film is. The movie gives off a strong sense of paranoia because they don't know who has been infected with the thing/alien life form at any given moment. This paranoia is demonstrated by phenomenal and realistic acting. Not to mention the special effects for this movie is off the charts, especially considering it was released in 1. The greatest film of all time! The special effects are great! I personally think that there isn't a horror film like it. No one is safe because they don't trust each other! Definitely watch this! The best - lolsy. V 2. 6 Comments. 12. Paranormal Activity. PA1 scared you, whether you admit it or not. Now PA2, PA3, PA4 and I'm sure the uneagerly expected PA5 are quite different stories. They were pumped out as fast as Mel B pumps out kids. No thought to the story & terrible, terrible acting.. Now the acting in the first WAS sub- par, but it didn't affect the overall movie in such a huge way it was unwatchable, unlike the other three. Please dear god. But back to the point, great movie. Kept most of us up googling demonology and eye witness accounts of ghosts, I think. This was scary as hell doors slamming lights turning on footprints in the talcum powder and the guy thrown at the camera at the end it is scary as hell! Very good movie, its pretty scary : =)This movie was good happy they made the sequels. V 3. 0 Comments. 13. Jaws. So sharks don't really kill a lot of people but you probably thought twice about jumping in the water. It wasn't that scary, besides the fact you didn't want to go in the ocean, but this list is about the best horror movies not the scariest and this was a great movie and should be higher on the list. This movie had a very high budget when it came out and many people liked it. It definitely made a lot of people afraid to go into the water. It has a 9. 7% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It wasn't scary but still fits in to horror- and the best of them. V 2. 1 Comments. 14. Friday the 1. 3th. I grow up watching scary movies and Friday the 1. I seen I never wanted to go to summer camp after watching these movies. Far scarier than half of the films above it. I'd think it twice before going on a camp now. I think the key elements of this movie was the fact that you don't know what or who the hell is Jason till the end of the film. And then you kinda regret finding out. Its brilliance, magnificent piece of horror film- making. Should be on the top 5. THIS IS A CLASSIC I RECOMMEND THE 2. VERSION KILLER CUT.. It left me shaking. Great 8. 0s B- Horror Movies That Are Worth Your Time « Taste of Cinema. The term B movie was first coined in Hollywood’s Golden Age which ran from the 1. Double features were the norm, showing a main feature, usually a big budget studio picture with star names, and a B movie afterwards. The B movie would usually have a much smaller budget and no star names. The films were usually genre pictures: westerns, science- fiction and horror being the most popular. At the end of the 1. B movies, nevertheless, the term B movie stuck and is still used today. Generally referring to a low- budget film that lacks artistic ambition, instead trying to please its audience with spectacle, titillation and violence. In the 1. 96. 0’s and 7. B movie. When the Hollywood Production Code was abolished, filmmakers were free to push the boundaries of decency and good taste to the limit. These films were shown in what’s became known as Grindhouse cinemas across America. These cinemas were generally in the rough part of town and had no inhibitions to the type of films they showed, giving B moviemakers the freedom to make anything their deranged imaginations could come up with. By the 1. 98. 0’s, home video and cable movie channels had arrived, this spelt the death of the Grindhouse cinema. The explosion of the video rental market meant the B horror movies flourished like never before or since. The films reflected the times, in the 7. B horror movies were grim and nihilistic, like “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (1. The Hills Have Eyes” (1. In the 8. 0’s they were bright, colourful and a lot more fun. They featured heaps of neon lights, over the top particle effects and musical scores filled with synthesises and rock music. The most notable change was the inclusion of comedy, especially among the lower budgeted films, this might have been done to appeal to a larger audience, or perhaps to compensate for cheap special effects that couldn’t be taken seriously anyway. The phenomenal success of “Jaws” (1. Star Wars” (1. 97. B movie subject matter. A film about a giant murderous shark and a space opera were traditionally B movie subjects. In the eighties science fiction and horror became mainstream, B movies had to offer something different, so their subject matter and plots became more extreme and more bizarre. The definition of a B movie remains ambiguous. Some people might consider all horror films to be B movies. For a horror film to be classified as a B movie, it needs to be produced on a low- budget, by an independent studio, and it also needs a unique concept. A concept so outrageous or grotesque that the major studios would never dare attempt to produce it. We have sifted through a large mountain of old VHS tapes to find some unpolished gems that are waiting to be rediscovered. Killer Klowns from Outer Space (Stephen Chiodo, 1. Tagline: In space no one can eat ice- cream. A brilliantly original concept that is efficiently summed up in the film’s title. A race of aliens who happen to resemble clowns, and travel across the galaxy in a spaceship that looks like a giant big top. They arrive in a small sleepy town intent on harvesting its inhabitants for sustenance. The film is essentially a string of visual circus gags connected by a thin thread of a story. The gags involve cotton candy cocoons, acid pies and lethal puppet shows. All ending with the demise of unwitting town folk. The films is made by The Chiodo Brothers, special effects artists who made their name working on films such as “Critters” (1. This was their first and last directorial effort. The Klown puppets are marvellously done, they are cheerfully creepy and deeply sinister. They have gritty worn pockmarked faces and evil grins that make them the stuff of nightmares. Despite this the Klowns are engaging and entertaining. The human cast are pretty forgettable with the exception of John Vernon, who plays a grumpy cynical police officer, who believes the entire invasion is one big practical joke being played on him. The film has a gleefully surreal tone, a pitch black sense of humour, and is mostly played for laughs. The plot is a homage to the B movies of the fifties, only instead of pod people you’ve got psychotic alien clowns. Chopping Mall (Jim Wynorski, 1. Tagline: Where shopping costs you an arm and a leg. A large shopping mall decides it’s a good idea to invest in a new state of the art security system. The system is comprised of gigantic steel security shutters and three high- tech robots that can patrol the mall, and shoot laser beams to stun or kill would- be thieves. Eight teenagers who work in the mall decide to have an after- hours party in a furniture store. Outside there’s a massive thunder storm, the mall is stuck by lightening, short circuiting the new security system and sending the robot security guards into kill mode. The group of teenagers, who have been drinking and partying in the furniture store, start being hunted down and picked off by the new security guards. The film is undeniably goofy and while it’s never meant to be taken too seriously, it’s made with real focus and purpose. It tries its best to entertain and thrill its audience and never resorts to mocking itself like so many modern horror films. The robots themselves look like beefed up militarised versions of Johnny 5 from “Short Circuit” (1. Although most of the time the robots come across as comical, there are moments when they are genuinely menacing. Once again, the human cast are pretty forgettable and are only memorable for the manner of their deaths. An exploding head being the one that sticks in the mind. The film is produced by B movie legend Rodger Corman. The energy and invention associated with his films are undeniably present in this production. Strange Behaviour (Michael Laughlin, 1. Tageline: Good kids turned killers. Set in small town American. The local high school students have found a quick and easy way of making some money, they volunteer as test subjects for the local universities psychology department. Unfortunately, the treatment appears to turn them into machine like killers that can be programmed on demand. The local sheriff (Michael Murphy) has a vendetta against the universities psychology department, who he blames for the death of his wife. The latest students to be turned into a brainwashed killer just so happens to be the sheriff’s son. Director Michael Laughlin intended this as a homage to fifties B movie horror. It was meant to be part of a trilogy, which was never completed. The film successfully combines the eighties slasher with the mad scientist films of the fifties. The cast is surprisingly competent, Fiona Lewis stands out as the, equally alluring and terrifying, head of research, who lobotomises and brainwashes teenage boys for fun. The film has some genuinely surreal and creepy moments that are reminiscent of the early work of David Cronenberg. There are other little touches that set it apart from its contemporaries, like a killer who wanders around in a Tor Johnson mask, a murder scene shown entirely through shadow- play, and an impromptu dance sequence at a teenage costume party. Class of Nuke’ Em High (Richard W. Haines, Lloyd Kaufman, 1. Tagline: Readin’ Writin’ and Radiation. Troma Pictures is a legendary B movie studio founded in the middle of the sixties exploitation era. Although their most successful period was in the eighties, with their best known film being “The Toxic Avenger” (1. They took B movies to the next level of automatism and absurdity. Tromoville High School is situated right next door to a nuclear power plant. Needless to say the students have been acting strangely. The school honour society has transformed into a gang of punk rock thugs, who terrorise their fellow students with impunity and sell them radioactive drugs. These drugs are grown in the yard of the nuclear plant. The toxic drugs have radical effects on the student population, giving them heavy- duty hallucinations and radioactive super strength. There is also a creature growing in a vat of nuclear waste in the schools basement. There was an idea at the time that punk rock signalled a terminal stage in the decline of western civilisation. The films punk rocker thugs seem to embody this idea, a cautionary example of what exposure to toxic chemicals might do to the youth of America. Although, nothing in the film should be taken seriously. The film is a farcical take on the high school experience and radioactive contamination. The performances in the film are so over the top they transform form just being bad to almost becoming performance art. The film has a manic energy, loads of over the top gore, and a light touch that keeps it humorous and entertaining. Ghost Town (Richard Governor, 1. Tagline: The good. The satanic. The film is an interesting fusion of genres and concepts, a horror western with some time- travel thrown in. A runaway bride’s car breaks down in the desert. She is abducted in a mysterious and supernatural sand storm. A local lawman (Franc Luz) finds her abandon car, as he continues to search for her in the desert he comes across an abandoned ghost town. Although it’s not really abandon, is populated by dozens of ghosts. A curse was put on the town, a hundred years ago, when its sheriff was brutally murdered by a wicked outlaw named Devlin (Jimmie F Skaggs). The outlaw and his gang still hold the townspeople hostage in a cycle of fear. This is a forgotten B movie gem with a unique concept. Horror westerns are rare and seldom work, but in this instance they are able to find the right balance. The film is notable for its excellent cinematography that combines a Sergio Leone feel with an unworldly haunting atmosphere. There are some great eerie scenes where the dead town folk wander the desert wasteland lost in limbo. The plot is that of a familiar western, where an evil tyrant terrorises a small town, only in this case he’s dead with supernatural powers. There are a few decent scares infused with plenty of gun slinging action. I, Madman (Tibor Takacs, 1.
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