100 Horror Movies

Okay... They rated "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" 8 places higher than "Dawn of the Dead"..?

It's voted on by users of that website. A bigger travesty is that the Dawn remake even made it onto the list!

Yay, Shaun of the Dead got to 81! ...

The Others got to 74? You've got to be kidding me! That was so not scary!

And the Dawn of the Dead remake got to 27??? What is up with the world? That was actully less scary than The Others!!

But on the bright side, both Dawn of the Dead and Night of the Living Dead made it into the top 10! And of course SOTD is in there, which is nice. Good to see 28 Days Later get into the chart as well

Top 10 for The Thing and Halloween so I'm well chuffed about that, but where the bloody hell was Invasion Of The Body Snatchers?

Did any of the Chucky films make the list, now THOSE were some shit scary films, there's just something horrible about puppets that provokes a natural fear in people. or at least thats what i've found, i also felt the same about that puppet in the first series of Buffy who turned out to be the good guy.

But is it horror or sci-fi?

I'd go for horror, it's certainly less difficult to define than Alien or Aliens which really could be either.

The Wicker Man only made 75? FUCKING TRAVESTY!!!!

How did the remake of The Ring make it on the list and the original didn't ? That is a poo list.

Criminal...and no Dark Water either. There is some real shit on that list.

Yeah, but is that really a horror film? It's a really good film, sure, but aren't horror films supposed to be frightening?

I think that list is rubbish anyway. Bubba Ho-Tepp and Shaun of the Dead are comedies, Cronenberg's re-make of The Fly shits on the original and it's not even featured here, Seven's not a horror flick, and Audition isn't even in the list. Rubbish.

Good to see The Fog in their somewhere, though...

I agree , it would have been great to have seen Audition in there...but it as much a horror film as Wicker Man...the horror element in both only really kicks in at the end.

No. Horror films should instill horror into you. Being burned alive in a pagen-type ritual by an entire island of crazed people is pretty horrible to me.

Horror films don't have to be scary or frightening....well maybe frightening, but that's objective anyway. Things don't have to jump out & scare you in a horror film, but it should chill your blood.

That's exactly the point I was hoping someone would make, rabbit. Granted, it's not so loose that, say, Kazaam could make the list, but I would certainly allow for something along the lines of Silence of the Lambs on the list. Lord knows it's creepier than Child's Play 3.

Pfft. Exorcist. Not scary. Funny, not scary.

What`s scary is that they think Silence of the Lambs is a horror film.

I don't call it a "horror" film by the usual genre definition, but it definitely fits the bill, in my opinion. It can inspire fear, and squeamishenss, and very strong uneasiness, which is what good horror is supposed to do. If you limit it simply to things involving deformed supernatural freaks running around slashing people in a variety of creative ways, you're going to run out of ideas very fast, except perhaps what size drill bit to use.

There was like 10 Wes craven films on that list....
Nice to see someone still remebers Basket case...God I loved that film as a kid!
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Was 'The Others' even a horror?

I thought it mainly revolved around painting small children white and having them leave clues as to whether or not they are ghosts.

By the way, has anybody here seen Bubba Ho tep? And is it good? Because it's a really good idea whose outcome would depend entirely on it's execution.

Its fantastic. Though more comedy than horror

I think you could class it as psychological horror. Kinda like the Ring. (The original, not the overblown Hollywood Watts-ruined-it-trying-to get-a-Sixth-Sense-creepy-kid crap effort. I`m not bitter.)

OK I don't think you could really count this as a horror movie (but it scared the Dickens outta me when I was a wee girl), but I just wondered if anybody else remembers the 50's version of "Invaders from Mars"- I think it was called anyway. I'd really like to get that one on DVD! Ooooh. *shivers down me spine*

Is that the one where there`s a kid and his parents get replaced by aliens?

That's actually a pretty good list. Imagine the shit that would show up if C4 did one.

No. 1 would probably be The Grudge or something.

Or Radiohead.

Just another quick thought. No. 1 would be The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror 13 or something.

Yeah.. the one where the kid sees a UFO crash land and the aliens start taking over the people of his town (you can tell if they've been taken over cos they get this weird lump behind their ear), and there's the whole "trust no one" thang going on. Ooooh! *them damn shivers again*

I know it. Good film. I still say the original Body Snatchers is one of the scariest films I`ve ever seen.

Is that the one with Donald Sutherland?

That was the remake. I`m talking about the 1950s one, with Kevin McCarthy.

dawn of the dead deserved to be higher as did night no way is texas chainsaw massacre better!

Ah OK. I've only seen the DS one. Which was... kinda scary. Not too bad though. Although when the dog with a mans face came on... that was disturbing. Urgh!

Invasion of the Body Snatchers used to scare the shit out of me when I was little.

It`s the bit at the end, where he runs into traffic, warning people about the invaders, and they either think he`s a crank, or have already been turned.

That sense of paranoia and hopelessness just does it for me.

I just don't think they make em quite like they used to. Nowadays they rely heavily on FX and gore. But back in the day, they really screwed about with your mind. *shivers (Again)*

Yep. Take the 50s War of the Worlds. I bet after Spielberg`s effort it`ll still be the best version yet.

You know my opinion on that film, SG... it's gonna be Independence Day 2- just with a different title.

They already have....kind of

http://www.channel4.com/film/newsfeatures/...s_100-91_1.html

Ooo, that one was gooooooood!

Yay! It was wasn't it? It was excellent!

the list was awful,there are a few titles that should be higher and some that shouldnt even be on there.

Dawn should have been no1!!! I mean its sure as hell better than the exorcist!