Top 5 horror movies for each decade...

I'm not big on pre-70s horror, so I'll be starting my list a little later than others might.

70s

- Alien (Scott, 1979)
- Dawn of the Dead (Romero, 1978)
- The Devil (Zulawski, 1972)
- The Exorcist (Friedkin, 1973)
- Halloween (Carpenter, 1978)

80s

- The Evil Dead (Raimi, 1981)
- Possession (Zulawski, 1981)
- Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (McNaughton, 1986)
- The Shining (Kubrick, 1980)
- Videodrome (Cronenberg, 1983)


90s

- Cure (Kurosawa, 1997)
- Funny Games (Haneke, 1997)
- Outer Space (Tscherkassky, 1999)
- Scream (Craven, 1996)
- Tremors (Underwood, 1990)

00s

- Bug (Friedkin, 2006)
- Dawn of the Dead (Snyder, 2004)
- Inside (Bustillo, Maury, 2007)
- Thirst (Park, 2009)
- Trick r' Treat (Dougherty, 2007)

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70s

1. Alien
2. Jaws
3. The Brood
4. Don't Look Now
5. Nosferatu the Vampyre

80s

1. The Thing
2. The Shining
3. An American Werewolf in London
4. Dead Ringers
5. The Fly

90s

1. Man Bites Dog
2. The Silence of the Lambs
3. Se7en
4. Ringu
5. Lost Highway

00s

1. Audition
2. The Orphanage
3. A Tale of Two Sisters
4. The Devil's Backbone
5. 28 Days Later

10s

1. The Witch
2. Berberian Sound Studio
3. The Babadook
4. Black Swan
5. It Follows

I love horror films, but I still haven't seen very many pre-60's horror films. These lists aren't ranked; they are just the five I'd choose from each decade right now. I am leaving a lot of good stuff off, and it kind of hurts.

20s
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- The Phantom Carriage
- The Man Who Laughs
- Nosferatu

30s
- Frankenstein
- The Old Dark House
- The Invisible Man
- King Kong
- Dracula

40s
- The Wolf Man
- Cat People

50s
- Curse of the Demon
- The Blob
- Godzilla

60s
- Psycho
- Night of the Living Dead
- Carnival of Souls
- Peeping Tom
- The Innocents

70s
- Nosferatu the Vampyre
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
- Halloween
- Suspiria
- The Exorcist

80s
- The Beyond
- The Thing
- Angst
- Possession
- The Shining

90s
- Scream
- Dead Alive
- The Blair Witch Project
- Ghostwatch
- Funny Games

00s
- Amer
- Antichrist
- [Rec]
- House of 1000 Corpses
- Wolf Creek

10s
- Tucker and Dale vs Evil
- Excision
- The Babadook
- Under the Skin
- The Sacrament

30s:

The Old Dark House
Frankenstein
Bride of Frankenstein
Freaks
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

40s:

The Leopard Man
Cat People
Dead of Night
I Walked With a Zombie
The Seventh Victim

50s:

Night of the Demon
The Curse of Frankenstein
Dracula
House on Haunted Hill
The Bad Seed

60s:

Black Sunday
The Whip and the Body
The Long Hair of Death
Black Sabbath
Kill, Baby, Kill

70s:

Halloween
Lisa and the Devil
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Suspiria
Alien

80s:

Creepshow
Tenebrae
A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street Part III: Dream Warriors
The Shining

90s:

Wes Craven's New Nightmare
Scream
Body Snatchers
Wishmaster
Mimic

00s:

A Tale of Two Sisters
Trick 'r Treat
Pulse
The Devil's Backbone
Drag Me to Hell

10s:

You're Next
Krampus
The Babadook
Oculus
Absentia

Forgot the 20s.

1. Nosferatu (most enduring take on the vampire)
2. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (German expressionism at its purest)
3. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (love berserker Barrymore)
4. Faust (beautiful and timeless)
5. The Hands of Orlac (a fascinating take on existentialism)

70s

Black Christmas
Halloween
Jaws
The Brood
Alien

80s
Aliens
Fright Night Part II
The Fog
Halloween 2
Link

90s
Scream
The Frighteners
Urban Legend
From Dusk Till Dawn
Silence of the Lambs

00s
Let the Right One In
REC
Shaun of the Dead
Bubba Ho Tep
Darkness

10s
The Conjuring
Ouija: Origin of Evil
Howl
The Conjuring 2
Bone Tomahawk

70s

The Exorcist
Jaws
Carrie
The Omen
Suspiria

80s

The Shining
A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Thing
An American Werewolf in London
Re-Animator

90s

The Sixth Sense
Ring
Dead Alive
The Blair Witch Project
Army of Darkness

00s

Let the Right One In
Orphan
The Others
The Mist
Ginger Snaps

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In no particular order, and displaying inexcusable math skills --


'50s:
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Night of the Hunter
House on Haunted Hill
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Horror of Dracula

'60s:
Psycho
Black Sabbath
Dementia 13
Night of the Living Dead
Carnival of Souls
Blood Feast
Little Shop of Horrors
Billy the Kid vs. Dracula (just kidding -- wanted to see if you were paying attention)

'70s:
Halloween
The Exorcist
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Phantasm
Last House on the Left
Alien
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
Black Christmas

'80s:
Friday the 13th II
American Werewolf in London
Fright Night
Nightmare on Elm Street
Poltergeist
The Lost Boys
Aliens
Evil Dead
Creepshow
Re-Animator

'90s:
Silence of the Lambs
Sixth Sense
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
From Dusk Till Dawn
Scream
Blair Witch Project

'00s:
Let the Right One In
Ginger Snaps
Trick 'r Treat
House of the Devil
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
Bubba Ho Tep
Jeepers Creepers
The Hills Have Eyes




So, looking at my list . . . hmmm . . . well, I usually claim to be all about originality . . . but . . . I'm always ranting against remakes . . . but . . . hmmm . . .


If you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go feel bad about myself.

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Nice idea for a thread. Also nice layout.

No nightmare on elm street is bs tho.

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1920's
1.) Sunrise
2.) Phantom of the Opera
3.) The Unknown
4.) Pandora's Box
5.) The Lodger

1930's
1.) Mad Love
2.) The Black Cat
3.) The Most Dangerous Game
4.) The Invisible Man
5.) Frankenstein

1940's
1.) The Undying Monster
2.) Rope
3.) I Walked with a Zombie
4.) Gaslight
5.) Rebecca

1950's
1.) House on Haunted Hill
2.) Rear Window
3.) Invasion of the Body Snatchers
4.) The Abominable Snow Man
5.) The Mummy

1960's
1.) Wait Until Dark
2.) Kwaidan
3.) Seance on a Wet Afternoon
4.) The Innocents
5.) The Collector

1970's
1.) Deep Red
2.) Alien
3.) Jaws
4.) The Exorcist
5.) Halloween

1980's
1.) The Thing
2.) The Shining
3.) The Changeling
4.) The Return of the Living Dead
5.) The Hitcher

1990's
1.) Seven
2.) The Silence of the Lambs
3.) Scream
4.) The Exorcist III
5.) It

2000's
1.) Session 9
2.) 28 Days Later
3.) The Others
4.) Battle Royale
5.) Cold Prey 2

2010's
1.) The Awakening
2.) The Skin I Live In
3.) And Then There Were None
4.) The Witch
5.) We Need to Talk About Kevin

I know everyone defines horror differently but Rear Window is not a horror. C'mon now?

Edit: Rope too? Christ.

Going off the Horror List i posted here and adding others for the decades that weren't completed.

60s:

01.Psycho
02.Rosemary's Baby
03.The Innocents
04.Night of the Living Dead
05.Black Sunday

70s:

01.The Exorcist
02.Eraserhead
03.Nosferatu The Vampyre
04.Halloween
05.The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

80s:

01.The Shining
02.The Fly
03.The Thing
04.Poltergeist
05.Maniac

90s:

01.Bram Stoker's Dracula
02.Scream
03.Interview With The Vampire
04.The Exorcist III
05.Army of Darkness

00s:

01.Let The Right One In
02.The Descent
03.Trick r' Treat
04.The House of the Devil
05.Ginger Snaps

10s:

01.The Witch
02.It Follows
03.The Babadook
04.The Eyes of My Mother
05.Maniac

Pretty generic. Haven't really explored horror that much. The 10's in particular was hard coz i haven't seen much at all, i much prefer the Maniac original to the remake but both ended up fifth in their decades. Also struggled with the 90's for some reason. Guess i just have to see more horror.

It surprises me that Babadook gets so much love yet Under The Shadow another horror movie about a mother and child being haunted by a supernatural force is totally ignored. Yet I personally found Under The Shadow to be a vastly superior film in every single way.

and Rebecca and Gaslight and A Most Dangerous Game and Sunrise and Wait Untill Dark...

Thriller is a sub-genre of horror, Hitchcock, Powell, and Wyler redefined horror in the early 60's with The Collector, Psycho, and Peeping Tom. If you are going into the earlier decades you need to acknowledge differing standards.

Since when? Can you cite something that refers to thrillers as a sub-genre of horror? Every definition i've seen has them as different things that sometimes overlap which isn't the same thing.

No you don't, unless you haven't seen enough good horrors from the earlier decades in which case you shouldn't be including the earlier decades like the majority of the thread didn't.

I don't care about this but Rear Window is not a horror.

Okay...name one thriller movie that couldn't also be classified as something else(Horror or Action).

look at the IMDB thriller list
http://www.imdb.com/search/title?gen...dv_explore_rhs

80-90% of those films are also classified as "horror"

So you retract your claim that Thriller is a sub-genre of horror? Cool.

No I asked you to name me one film that's a Thriller and just a Thriller. Because if a genre can't stand on it's own then it's not really a genre it's a sub-genre.

Or you can be curt.

Look this is getting tedious. You used IMDB as evidence for your claim. IMDB doesn't have Rear Window listed as a Horror, not even on its extra sub-genres that usually include some questionable genres. That should tell you what you need to know using the site you used.

I asked you for something that cites thriller as a sub-genre of horror as you made that claim and you ignored it which is why i didn't answer your question.

Rear Window is not a horror film but keep it listed i don't care, this discussion really shouldn't have lasted this long.