Top 10 Favorite Horror Films

1: The Shining (1980)
2: Halloween (1979)
3: A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
4: Child's Play 2 (1990)
5: Black Christmas (1974)
6: Child's Play (1988)
7: Nosferatu (1922)
8: A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
9: Jaws (1975)
10: Night Of The Living Dead (1968)

1. The Omen (1976)
2. Dark Water (2002)
3. Ringu (1998)
4. The Descent (2005)
5. Halloween (1978)
6. Occulus (2014)
7. The Thing (1982)
8. Cassandra (1986)
9. Stage Fright (1987)
10. One Missed Call (2003)

I didn't quite get to squeeze Scream on the list.

(all titles with remakes are the originals)

1 Black Christmas
2 Halloween
3 A Nightmare on Elm Street
4 Scream
5 Stagefright
6 Child's Play
7 Damien Omen II
8 Poltergeist
9 Warlock
10 Link

In no particular order.... And leaving Hammer and Amicus films out of it, because I could easily list 10 of each of those....

The Exorcist
Salem's Lot (1979)
Ringu
Nosferatu (1979)
The Eye
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Let the Right One In
Dark Water
The Omen
The Ring (the only good American remake of an Asian horror)

PS.... Somehow I never thought of Jaws as a horror film. I suppose it's borderline.

Ludders wrote:PS.... Somehow I never thought of Jaws as a horror film. I suppose it's borderline.

To be fair, in the sequels he does seem to become the Michael Myers of sharks.

I always see it as a monster movie, but I suppose it's the gore factor that makes it more horror than anything.
Yeah, I'd had enough of the sequels by Jaws 2. Sometimes it's a case of 'What more can you do with it? Nothing much except more of the same but sillier.

I usually prefer comedy horror films.

The Lost Boys (1987)
Sleepaway Camp (1983)
The Howling (1981)
Slaughter High (1986)
Frankenhooker (1990)
Link (1986)
Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988)
Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf (1985)
Jaws: the Revenge (1987)

At the moment they'd be......
....in no particular order....


1. Psycho (1960 version obviously!)
THE breakthrough movie links the old black and white classics with the modern slasher era, Perkins well creepy and Hitchcock arguably at his best...

2. Dracula (1958)
Hammer horror was never better with Lee and Cushing dynamically redefining the postwar genre...

3. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Universal's masterpiece, still unsurpassed with Whale and Karloff et al on top form...

4. The Thing (1982)
A chilling remake that's better than the fine original, the effects are still outrageously good too but it's often subtler than given credit for...

5. Dead of Night (1945)
Love this spooky anthology, a real ghostly mood and still scary...

6. Cat People (1942)
All the Lewtons are great for developing psychological approaches to the genre but this may well be the most stylish example...

7. Nosferatu (1922)
That rare beast: a scary Dracula film, there's still nothing quite like it (ok except the Werner Herzog remake!)...

8. The Exorcist (1973)
for its stunning, revolutionary and horrifying impact...

9. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
A sweaty, very deranged classic...

10. Theatre of Blood (1973)
Must have this definitive Vincent in here though of course his Poe and Phibes films are bloody good too!

Halloween
Black Christmas
The Fog
The Thing
Alien
The Omen
The Shining
Dog Soldiers
The Ritual
Dracula with Lee and Cushing
Frankenstein with Boris Karloff.