Top 10 horror films

[frye666]

The last two are old, and tv movies, but scary as hell. (if you can get by their age anyways)

 

[Doomer]

No order:

Saw
Dead Silence
The Conjuring 2
The Exorcist
Halloween
The Thing
The Conjuring
Sinister
Silent Hill
I Spit on Your Grave
The Shining
The Descent
The Ring
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Dead End

 

[ghoul]

I didnt like It Follows tbh, dont know why everyone loved it.

 

[Turtlejuice]

Hard to narrow down a top 10. No particular order.

The Thing
The Shining
Nightmare on Elm street
Friday 13th
Halloween
Blair Witch Project
Dawn of the Dead
The Fly
Alien
Evil Dead 2

Honourable mentions.
The Ring
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Birds
Poltergeist

And probably a bunch more I've forgotten.

 

[boris the hobo]

...in no particular order and not including foreign (although Hellraiser is British) or gore:

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Hellraiser
Hellrasier 2
Friday the 13th Part 2
Friday the 13th Part 3
Friday the 13th Part 4
Alien (1979)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Phantasm
Phantasm 2

 

[moreorless87]

Say whaaaaaat?

It's definitely a horror movie. How would you classify it?

Another hard to categorise one for me is the original Terminator, the sequel I think pushes more towards action/drama but you could argue really the original is mostly a sci fi monster chasing the heroes with a very horror like atmosphere.

 

[TAK47]

Kill List
Martyrs
Dawn of the Dead 2004
Serbian Film
It Follows
Cabin in the Woods
Insidious
28 Day Later
The Thing
I Spit on Your Grave
The Cell
The Collector

Too many good ones so I had to list 12...

 

[Winter-John]

Salem's Lot (don't open the fuckin curtains is the lesson)
Horror Of Dracula (Man time with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing )
The Wolfman ( Lon Chaney, Bela Lugosi and a ratty old gypsy pissing about on the moors)
Near Dark (vampires in cars and bars)
The Shining (Nicholson in a calm, reflective mood)
Let the right one in (definitely not pedo)
Alien (No, you go down the fuckin hatch, I'm staying right here behind the couch.)
Fright Night (medallion man moves in next door)
The Witch (a nervous goat discovers what happens when pikeys run out of tarmac)
The Wicker Man (Trip Advisor totally fails Ewar Woowar)

 

[BEER]

If Maniac Cop isn't on your list, you fucked up.

 

[BAM]

In addition to the above, I really like Session 9 and A Tale of Two Sisters (Korean). Just creepy.

 

[moreorless87]

The Thing
Alien
The Orphanage
Angel Heart
The Shining
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Terminator
Jaws
Invasion of the Body Snatchers(70's version)
The Fly

Modern hollywood horror is almost uniformly utter shite for me, endless crap slasher jump scares and gore porn. A lot of far eastern stuff that gets acclaim for me isn't actually much better either.

 

[Philo-Publius]

I can’t order mine but I’ll do top 10

Wes Cravens A Nightmare On Elm st
It Follows
Fright Night (2011)
Insidious
SCREAM
The House Of The Devil
Oculus
The Babadook
The Conjuring
Jeepers Creepers


Honorable mentions

Evil dead (original and remake), It Comes at Night, Fright Night (original), The Collector, 13 Ghosts, Don’t Breathe, The Cabin in the woods, Sinister


I’m still probably forgetting a bunch

What are your top favorite horror films?

10. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
9. Return of the Living Dead
8. Poltergeist (1982)
7. Hellbound: Hellraiser 2
6. House on Haunted Hill (1999)
5. Evil Dead 2
4. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
3. The Exorcism of Emily Rose
2. The Conjuring
1. The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen (2000)

Honorable mentions:
Halloween (1978), Friday The 13th (2009), Freddy vs. Jason, Insidious, Evil Dead (1981), Hellraiser, Poltergeist 2, Dawn of the Dead (2004), Creep Show, The Hills Have Eyes (2006), The Fly (1986), Pet Semetary, Halloween 2 (1981), The Rite

 

[Guestx]

I didn't view it as intended to be scary or a thriller since it has very little aspects of it, more so just a "hey, this is my buddy eunuch vampire, he/she occasionally kills peeps and had her former lover do it until he got tired of doing it, by the way, we took the train"
Maybe, sci fi drama?

It may not have jump scares and the like, but there's a lot of unsettling shit in that movie, enough so that I would definitely put it in the horror category.

 

[bubbleboyjones]

30 Days of night

Underrated movie. Almost exactly 10 years since it came out; October 19, 2007.

 

[moreorless87]

Underrated movie. Almost exactly 10 years since it came out; October 19, 2007.

That and Daybreakers are quiet rare examples of good modern vampire films although I spose you could argue the latter is more action/drama than horror.

 

[HenryFlower]

Santa Sangre
Hour of the Wolf
Rubber
Repulsion
Vampyr
Rosemary’s Baby
The Shining
The Witch
Night of the Living Dead
Alien

in no particular order

 

[Co-Co Zola]

My list changes daily, so hard to rank so many great films. I must say I do like a lot of your lists...simply because there is some variety at least. Many top Horror movie lists are essentially the same 20-25 movies over and over again.



1. The Shining (1980)
2. The Thing (1982)
3. Alien (1979)
4. The Fly (1986)
5. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
6. Halloween (1978)
7. Lifeforce (1985)
8. The Mask of Satan / Black Sunday (1960)
9. Videodrome (1983)
10. Eyes Without a Face (1960)



Runners up include (among others):

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Rosemarys Baby (1968), Psycho (1960), The Beyond (1981), Zombi II (1979), From Beyond (1986), Fright Night (1985), Night of the Creeps (1986), Re-Animator (1985), The Innocents (1961), Let The Right One In (2008), Martyrs (2008), Inside (2007), The Descent (2005), Slither (2006), Bride of Frankenstein (1935).

 

[MikeMcMann]

What we should do is have everyone list 10 movies, and then add up the totals and average them, then we can have a consensus Mayberry Top 10

there is an easier way to do that you know.

We use this thread and pull all the top nominees and then someone create a poll with the top 25 of which everyone can only vote for their top 10.

 

[BJ@LW&WW]

man, i guess i really dont like horror movies. the only ones i ever seem to enjoy are horromedies.

alien 1, saw 1 and 28 days later were pretty good.

trick r treat and warm bodies are probably my two favorite comedy horrors.


most these flicks people put up as their favorite horror films i think are cringeworthingly teerrible.

 

[rocketskates]

A serbian film
Salo

Never watched a Serbian film for obvious reasons. Salo was just a boundary pushfest. Didn't find it particularly scary.