MoFo Top 100 Horror Movies: The List

That said...absolutely argue (respectfully!) about it! That's the good stuff.

People who have a problem with the latter can suck my ass greet my posterior and try to fight me pull up their dukes.

You're an enigma, cat_sidhe.

Yeah, The Ring was my #1, and the logic is really simple: no film has ever scared me more. I decided to prioritize that over any concerns about craft, influence, originality, whatever.

The Ring actually made me, in the theater, instinctively pull my legs up on to my chair. It made it hard to sleep the next few nights, it made me scared of TVs I could hear from other rooms, and it made me particularly scared for a brief period a week after I'd seen it. It made me scared enough that I'd get scared just scrolling through threads or by GIFs or images from it.

I'm at the point where I can see that image in the post above and not be freaked out (thanks to Scary Movie 3 for taking the air out of the scare a little), but for a year or two after seeing it I actively avoided any images from the film because they'd make me cringe and look over my shoulder and just be generally unsettled for awhile after seeing them.

The whole film is unsettling. The film within a film is unsettling. The hair, the walking toward the camera. But really, none of it holds a candle to the moment she crawls out of that screen. That is one of the first things I think of, when I think of the word horror.

The Ring is the scariest movie I've ever seen.

How is The Ring more scarier than Ringu?

Why do you assume he's even seen Ringu?

I really just want you all angry and confused the whole time.

Besides that, there's the possibility that he has seen Ringu but only after seeing The Ring first and having it "spoiled" for him as a result.

Which year was the first Horror list made?

How is The Ring more scarier than Ringu?

That is the only explanation.

That is the only explanation. People who haven't seen Ringu will think The Ring is so terrifying and original...

1980s - 20

Still pretty damning how it only barely beat out the 2010s in terms of quantity, though.

Caught a good throwback horror called We Are Still Here over the weekend. Starts a bit slow, but once it gets going, it's a fine old school haunted house flick set in the 1970s. Definitely worth a watch. Fair warning: This one has quite a bit of gore.

Thank you so much @Nostromo87 for a super well-run and fun tournament. I wanted to hang out and post more and more at-length, but with the wee lass at home producing, directing, and starring in several diaper horror shows per day, I am spread pretty thin.

I have a similar story in regards to The Thing as a few other MoFos. That film, along with Alien, was on a short list of films I wasn't allowed to see. I remember a certain aura of mystique that surrounded these titles, and my group of friends and I tried every angle we could to get our mitts on a copy of one or both VCR tapes when they came out. I didn't even have a VCR at the time, which made it even harder to pull off a clandestine viewing.

Finally, it happened. A friend of mine's parents rented The Thing and left the tape in the VCR. The news spread quickly at school, and as soon as that bell rang, a decent crowd of us beat feet to the kid's house as fast as we could. We did manage to stop at 7-11 on the way to purchase the obligatory snacks and sodas needed to complete the experience.

We all cheered when the logo burned its way across the screen. It was about the time that the dog cracked open that we started to realize what we had gotten our selves into. The room was dead silent as we all stared wide-eyed at the events unfolding on screen. Personally, I was completely ****ing terrified. We had managed to coax two girls along for the viewing, and both of them had their hands over faces with their eyes screwed shut. My friend Cameron was looking a little green around the gills, and some crafty bastard had sneaked over and crapped in my pants.

Some of us did manage to make it through the entire film, but man, I had trouble getting to sleep that night, and several nights after. Here's a picture of me trying to get to sleep that night.



At that point in time, no one had ever seen anything like The Thing, with its terrifying special effects.