Films Watched: 54 out of 95
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#2 Carrie #45)
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#4 Ringu (#31)
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#8 Dawn of the Dead (#8)
#9 Freaks (#55)
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#11 Hellraiser (#53)
#12 Mama (2013) Didn't Make It
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#16 Sinister (#76)
#17 The Omen (#35)
#18 The Evil Dead (#13)
#19 An American Werewolf in London (#16)
#20 The Devil's Backbone (#89)
#21 Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (#84)
#22 Theatre of Blood (#103)
#23 Re-Animator (#88)
#24 Final Destination (2000) Didn't Make It.
#25 28 Days Later (#23)
I do have a couple of old-time horrors that should've, but I'll wait till the end --- just in case
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Here's my movies that should have made the countdown!!!! But didn't
#3 Carnival of Souls (1962)
#4 Homicidal (1961)
#8 Island of Lost Souls (1932)
#11 X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)
#12 The Last Man on Earth (1964)
#13 The Fly (1958)
#14 The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
#15 The Body Snatcher (1945)
#16 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
#18 The Tingler (1959)
#23 Frankenstein (1931)
#25 Strait-Jacket (1964)
The Fly and Suspiria were both films I considered for my list but didn't vote for. I've never seen or particularly wanted to see Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Rosemary's Baby.
Halloween (1978) Runtime: 1 Hr 31 Mins Production Company: Compass International Pictures Distributed by Compass International Pictures Production Budget: $300,000 Box Office: $47,000,000 Thirty Two Votes 559 Points (25, 25, 24, 24, 23, 23, 23, 23, 22, 22, 22, 21, 21, 21, 20, 19, 19, 19, 17, 16, 16, 15, 14, 14, 14, 13, 12, 10, 7, 7, 6, 2) High Voter: @Fabulous , @rauldc14
Hi Annie, Laurie. Hi Dad, what happened? What? WHAT HAPPENED?!?! Oh, uh, somebody broke into the hardware store. Probably kids. You blame everything on kids!! Well all they took was some Halloween masks, rope, and a couple of knifes. Who do you think it was?
I'll have a write-up for this one, but it will have to wait til tomorrow as getting that post to a place that satisfied me took me a LOT longer than expected. Not very easy to resurrect a movie that's been imitated so many times!
Considering how often I've said that I don't like slashers it shouldn't be a surprise that I didn't vote for Halloween either. Maybe I should give it another go because many Carpenter films have felt better recently.
Halloweenwas cliched and ridiculous, and I saw it at the theatre when it came out too. I'd already seen Silent Night, Bloody Night and Black Christmas and hundreds of other horrors where someone was trying to get away from a mad killer. But I will give Halloween credit.for being intense enough in the last half hour that you could forget about logic. I think nowadays people prefer their horrors to not have any logic, whether universal or internal. They just want a visceral experience like a nightmare. They'll complain about logic in rom coms or musicals - if they watch any.
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Production Budget: $300,000
Box Office: $47,000,000
Halloween is my # 2. The score on it's own is better than some of the movies on this list.
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2. Halloween (# 6)
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4. A Nightmare on Elm Street (# 12)
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6. The Others (# 38)
7. Rosemary's Baby (# 7)
8. Scream (# 18)
9. Bram Stoker's Dracula (# 50)
10. The Omen (# 35)
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12. Event Horizon (# 49)
13. Train to Busan (Did not place)
14. Get Out ( # 39)
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16. Interview With The Vampire (# 44)
17. 28 Days Later… (# 23)
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22. Poltergeist (# 15)
23. The Babadook (# 63)
24. The Birds (# 41)
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#12 Martin - Is he a vampire or deluded? This underrated George Romero film should be more widely seen.
#13. Raw Meat (aka Death Line) - Mutants are living beneath London. An underseen classic from 1972.
#14 The Hills Have Eyes (2006) - Is the original the better film? I don’t know, but I really liked the remake and think it holds up well against a lot of the more gory horror films of this century.
#21 The Phantom Carriage - An amazing film from 1921. I believe it was Ingmar Bergman’s favorite film and the score by Matti Bye is fantastic. I’m not sure how much it really qualifies as horror in the modern age, as it strikes me more as a dark fantasy, but then it does have the scene starting at the 1:20 mark in the trailer below that influenced Kubrick in The Shining.
#22 A Bucket of Blood - Here you see Roger Corman poking fun at the beatniks and the pretensions of the art world in this fun little classic. Watch it now, daddy-o.
#24 The Abominable Dr. Phibes - Surprised this didn’t make it. Stars Vincent Price with Joseph Cotton. Again, another one that’s just a whole of fun to watch.
#25 Of Unknown Origin - My 1-pointer. A creature moves into a man’s house while his wife is away and he’ll resort to any means necessary to get rid of it, even if he loses his mind in the process. It borders on silly, maybe even crosses over that line a few times, but it’s fun and thematically rich and fairly suspenseful.
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1. Pet Sematary Didn't make list
2. The Shining
3. Interview with the Vampire
4. Psycho (1960)
5. Warm Bodies Didn't make list
6. World War Z Didn't make list
7. Blade Didn't make list
8. Silver Bullet (1985) Didn't make list
9. Graveyard Shift (1990) Didn't make list
10. Little Shop of Horrors (1986) Didn't make list
11. Gremlins
12. Psycho II Didn't make list
13. Psycho III Didn't make list
14. Saw
15. Wishmaster Didn't make list
16. Exorcist
17. Friday the Thirteenth Part 1
18. Friday the Thirteenth Part 2 Didn't make list
19. House of 1000 Corpses Didn't make list
20. The Others (2001)
21. The Thing (1982) pending?
22. Poltergeist (1982)
23. Alien
24. Bram Stoker’s Dracula
25. Cujo Didn't make list?
If I had to do it over, I'd change the order somewhat.
As you can tell, I am a big Stephen King fan. I'm surprised that Cujo didn't make it. And "It" with how recent it is.
I forgot to include Cabin in the Woods.
I originally had Jaws, Sixth Sense, and Needful Things on the list, but apparently imdb doesn't consider them horror. Go figure.
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