MoFo Top 100 Horror Movies: The List

Disguised beneath the cunningly virginal title and Victorian era setting featured in The Innocents, a deeper story hides about warnings against intimate repression, containing a tricky reversal in which the spirit-possessed children manipulate, harass, and rape the mind of the naive governess, Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr). About a time when cultural pressure mandated a strict code of etiquette which led to an outward projection of moral purity publicly, while privately this intimate repression caused atrocious consequences in spite of its skin-deep respectability. That doesn't detract from the film, but rather makes it a clever, ambiguous, and layered story and an interesting movie to look at what it's REALLY ABOUT, though it does fail the I'd want to have its movie poster on my wall test. Dawn Of The Dead's to my liking, recall it feeling sort of overlong while viewing, while also being a crowd-pleasing financial success. When the motorcycle gang shows up one night at the mall, that part's super enjoyable, as well as the well-placed humor, zombie splatter, fully on-point music by Goblin, and everything with Roger (Scott Reiniger) and Peter (Ken Foree) the locked-and-loaded SWAT team makes for compelling buddy-film material. While they both deserve their placements, I voted for neither. Could've voted for Dawn Of The Dead as I considered it closely with lots of contenders.

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See, as a kid (and even now I suppose though I enjoy it more now) this bit always annoys me lol. They're all having a nice time and they're safe and then the hooligans show up and **** everything up. Ruins my comfort.

Stoopid hoomans.

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Eh, I would argue that

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I don't like Scream.

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Scream gotta be on the list, however, I did not vote for it. But it's a good film and a lot of fun. I don't love it but I find it to be a fun time...

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Scream was my #8. The best movie of Wes Craven imo and Matthew Lillard is hilarious. Quotable and badass flick.

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I've not seen Scream.


But I seen Night of the Living Dead once at the theater. It was fun.

There coming to get you Baaaarbara. My number 6.

Saw Scream when it was quite new and didn't like it at all. I've tried to rewatch it from TV couple of times but never managed to finish those. Surely not my kind of film. Night of the Living Dead is probably the best zombie film by Romero. For me it's good but definitely not great. Didn't vote either.

Seen: 73/84

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Dawn of the Dead is better, but both are great.

The most pressing matter about Scream drives through in its environment in which the film's main characters have seen all the slasher films, in a way that this pop culture knowledge within the film becomes a matter of life and death. A crucial distinction in the resurrection of the Late-Nineties Teen Slasher Film knowing that the cynical, young, new 1990s teenage audience believed very sincerely that they were smarter than the movies they see. Scream also has a life outside the movies themselves, everyone knows what it is, can recognize the mask on Halloween, and the dialogue within the film encourages lively appreciation for Great Horror Films. It's directed by Wes Craven, a legend of horror who kept slashers vital more than any successful director throughout his life. He's the man. While I don't find Scream (1996) to be better than his film in his prior 80s slasher franchise he created, in a lot of ways, Scream ends up a whole lot more fresh and contemporary by comparison. The way the media clustereffs everything up constantly for ratings, along with modern communication methods exploited by the killer Ghostface, which develops accordingly with sequels, especially the most recent one from 2011. Accept this will be casually read, but throw knives at me and I'll definitely elaborate on my love for all things SCREAM. I put a sequel way ahead of this one too. Wearing the Ghostface mask was my favorite Halloween costume when I donned the mask in 1997 around the time the originals came out to autumn festivals around where the movies were actually filmed (Atlanta). What's YOUR favorite scary movie! Throw knives at me.

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Night of the Living Dead was my #12. Great one!

Here’s a review I did back when I saw it for the first time...

I had the high vote for Night of the Living Dead, all the way at #3. It's far and away my favorite zombie movie, and not just because it set the standard or because it pushed the boundaries of what you could get away with in a horror film, but because it's still a powerful, entertaining, and scary film. The ending is genuinely tragic on multiple levels, while making a social statement that never feels heavy handed.

Personally I think it should have been higher on the list, top 10, but I guess with the sheer number of zombie movies, people spread their votes around. But Night of the Living Dead is still the best in my mind.

My List:

1. The Omen (#35)
3. Night of the Living Dead (#17)
4. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) (#70)
8. Nosferatu (#27)
10. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (#25)
11. Diabolique (#75)
15. Repulsion (#24)
16. Peeping Tom (#54)
17. Bride of Frankenstein (#68)
18. Antichrist (#82)
19. Don’t Look Now (#64)
20. Hausu (#57)
23. Vampyr (#65)
25. Of Unknown Origin (1-pointer)

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Both Scream and Night of the Living Dead were on my list, with Night of the Living Dead being my highest vote yet.

7. Night of the Living Dead
8. Nosferatu (original)
11. The Bride of Frankenstein
12. Peeping Tom
15. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
16. Get Out
19. Saw
20. Scream
21. Freaks
22. A Quiet Place
23. Repulsion
24. The Babadook
25. The Invisible Man

Along with King Kong and Wizard of Oz, The Night of the Living Dead is one of the first movies I can remember watching. I watched it many times, but probably not since I was 10. I know it's great and I should have watched it again for this countdown.

Scream is the first movie my wife and I saw together at the cinema as we met in late 1996. It was the Harvard Square Cinema for the midnight showing, We were both lit up and caused a scene. The police came and our wild night was just beginning. When I watched it again for this countdown, it was like the first time. It's quite a bit of fun but was not a contender for my list.

If it makes you feel any better, I had two 80’s vampire movies on my list. (Which is probably why they won't make the countdown. )

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I watched Scream for this countdown, and it was even on my list for a while, until it got pushed off when I had to cut down my list. It was the only slasher film that I liked enough to not only consider for my list, but I even watched the sequel, Scream 2. I liked the way it played off other slasher movies, and was able to poke fun at itself and the slasher genre.

Night Of The Living Dead was another movie that was temporarily on my list. It's one of the best zombie movies that I watched, but it just got pushed off my list in the final round of cuts.