Slant Magazine's 100 Greatest Horror Films Of All Time
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so "The Accused" is a horror movie?! ..... I can go on if you want to play this game
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Also Last House on the Left might be important in the history of exploitation, but it's a pretty dumb movie.
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Pretty poor list
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That was what I was trying to explain in my response which I should of typed better if I wasn't half asleep.
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One of the most underrated movies of the past 20 years, IMO. A terrifically intelligent deconstruction of the horror genre, fandom, and culture, although the third act is a bit by-the-numbers action. I can't understand how the same person made that film and the god-awful My Soul To Take.
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Ahh where is The Haunting (1962) !!!! #1 for me.
And "Yellow Wallpaper" deserves mention. Not sure if Jaws is actually a 'horror' film per se. IMHO
And "Yellow Wallpaper" deserves mention. Not sure if Jaws is actually a 'horror' film per se. IMHO
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Sorry, I shouldn't have written "in fact". I just feel very strongly about The Exorcist being not scary. I know many people love the film and find it terrifying, and I don't wish to gainsay their very real feelings.
Excluding Spoorlos (The Vanishing), which I feel is not horror but would be #1 if it were, my top three are not very surprising:
1. Black Christmas (1974) 10/10 - It's not without small flaws, namely the otiose comedic sidelines involving the boozing housemother and the inept cop, but no other horror film is as downright atmospheric. One can feel every bone-chilling shiver of the wintry cold outside and the contrasting woozy comfort of the fireplace-warmed house...where the killer lurks. Reg Morris's panning, dollying, zooming, slinking camerawork is virtuosic, and Carl Zittrer's foreboding rumble of a piano score is one of the very best in horror.
2. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) 9.5/10 - It's also not perfect: I feel the opening hitchhiker scene is too protracted, and so is the manic closing dinner scene, but there's so much gritty, grimy greatness throughout, it's hard to complain. The very beginning, with the radio news report, abrupt photo flash-cuts to rotting effluvia accompanied by disturbing discordant music tones, and the credits sequence of solar flares set to Hooper's phenomenal music, is nothing short of masterful.
The film's strongest section is almost irrefutably its extended middle, when the youngsters, having arrived at their relatives' dilapidated farmhouse, head out unawares in pairs to the charnel house nearby looking for help, only to be grotesquely despatched. Then, as night falls, Sally and her invalid brother, Franklin, are on their own, calling out frantically to their friends, with Leatherface and his fuming chainsaw prowling nearby. The chase sequence with Sally seeing Franklin slaughtered, running to the house and upstairs only to face cadaverous Grandma and Grandpa, jumping from the second floor, running injured, and finally ending up at Jim Siedow's gas station/meat-smoker, is in the running for best single passage in the horror canon.
3. Halloween (1978) 9.5/10 - I consider this the scariest movie I have seen in terms of the number and quality of jump-scares and the generation of dread. Dean Cundey's cinematography cannot go unrecognized, nor can Carpenter's iconic music and terrifying sound effects.
I would prefer not to do a runners-up list, though there are so many great horror films, especially much lesser-known ones, that are in the same league as the above and deserve a mention.
Excluding Spoorlos (The Vanishing), which I feel is not horror but would be #1 if it were, my top three are not very surprising:
1. Black Christmas (1974) 10/10 - It's not without small flaws, namely the otiose comedic sidelines involving the boozing housemother and the inept cop, but no other horror film is as downright atmospheric. One can feel every bone-chilling shiver of the wintry cold outside and the contrasting woozy comfort of the fireplace-warmed house...where the killer lurks. Reg Morris's panning, dollying, zooming, slinking camerawork is virtuosic, and Carl Zittrer's foreboding rumble of a piano score is one of the very best in horror.
2. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) 9.5/10 - It's also not perfect: I feel the opening hitchhiker scene is too protracted, and so is the manic closing dinner scene, but there's so much gritty, grimy greatness throughout, it's hard to complain. The very beginning, with the radio news report, abrupt photo flash-cuts to rotting effluvia accompanied by disturbing discordant music tones, and the credits sequence of solar flares set to Hooper's phenomenal music, is nothing short of masterful.
The film's strongest section is almost irrefutably its extended middle, when the youngsters, having arrived at their relatives' dilapidated farmhouse, head out unawares in pairs to the charnel house nearby looking for help, only to be grotesquely despatched. Then, as night falls, Sally and her invalid brother, Franklin, are on their own, calling out frantically to their friends, with Leatherface and his fuming chainsaw prowling nearby. The chase sequence with Sally seeing Franklin slaughtered, running to the house and upstairs only to face cadaverous Grandma and Grandpa, jumping from the second floor, running injured, and finally ending up at Jim Siedow's gas station/meat-smoker, is in the running for best single passage in the horror canon.
3. Halloween (1978) 9.5/10 - I consider this the scariest movie I have seen in terms of the number and quality of jump-scares and the generation of dread. Dean Cundey's cinematography cannot go unrecognized, nor can Carpenter's iconic music and terrifying sound effects.
I would prefer not to do a runners-up list, though there are so many great horror films, especially much lesser-known ones, that are in the same league as the above and deserve a mention.
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No, it isn't. I don't get the love for this film at all. I've seen it maybe three times now, and each time I walk away from it wondering what it was that I'd just seen. And it's not that I don't love Japanese horror movies, because I do--RINGU and DARK WATER are two of my favorite films. I think that PULSE is obtuse, and I think it's that way purposefully because Kurosawa had a great idea for the setup of a film but absolutely no idea what to do with it after that.
I feel you should check it out for yourself, however. I haven't met many people who are ambivalent about the film--either you'll feel the way I do about it, or you'll feel the way DaveyJoe does about it (see his opinion a few posts above).
I feel you should check it out for yourself, however. I haven't met many people who are ambivalent about the film--either you'll feel the way I do about it, or you'll feel the way DaveyJoe does about it (see his opinion a few posts above).
As you said, I might have to check it out on my own. I'm a bit surprised that I haven't seen it yet.
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'Trouble Every Day' was a spectacular gem of art-horror. its inclusion alone gives this list some weight.
i would've expected the same list-maker to include Zulawski's 'Possession' (1981) and 'In A Glass Cage', and maybe even Almoldovar's 'The Skin I Live In'.. but the list is pretty god-damned solid anyway.
though... i never saw this 'Halloween 2' remake that everyone keeps booing about.
i would've expected the same list-maker to include Zulawski's 'Possession' (1981) and 'In A Glass Cage', and maybe even Almoldovar's 'The Skin I Live In'.. but the list is pretty god-damned solid anyway.
though... i never saw this 'Halloween 2' remake that everyone keeps booing about.
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It's #21
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I equate horror with crazed lunatics or the supernatural. I'd never put Jaws on the list (though its should be in the top 10 if it's going to be there at all).
The most frightening movie I've ever seen is Miracle Mile. A day like any other and suddenly you find out it's going to end in a nuclear holocaust in just a few hours. Very plausible and extremely frightening.
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@ Halloween II (2009) and Sleepaway Camp. Terrible horror films.
They Live I guess is horror film, but I thought it was more horror action comedy. And Deliverance is considered a horror film?
Halloween is way to low on this list, but at least it's on there. I'm glad Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer made the list, that one seems to get overlooked a lot.
Hellraiser makes it but not A Nightmare on Elm Street?
I know no list is perfect, but this is just a strange one to say the least.
They Live I guess is horror film, but I thought it was more horror action comedy. And Deliverance is considered a horror film?
Halloween is way to low on this list, but at least it's on there. I'm glad Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer made the list, that one seems to get overlooked a lot.
Hellraiser makes it but not A Nightmare on Elm Street?
I know no list is perfect, but this is just a strange one to say the least.
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In the traditional sense, no, it doesn't have any elements of the supernatural or even that much explicit violence. But I think that in a sense, it is a film about that most fundamental of fears: the unknown. I also ties into a number of other horror films from the period-The Last House On the Left, Straw Dogs, The Hills Have Eyes-which deal with a darker, more fundamental fear about what kind of darkness lurks beneath the surface of seemingly civilized members of society and within people, that raw animal instinct.
I was a hipster before it was cool.
Suspiria is unique. Love it or hate it, I do think it's genuinely one-of-a-kind.
It's supposed to be a genuine masterpiece, although some asshole spoiled the twist for me.
Film critic and horror nut Mark Kermode has batted for it for many years.
Who pays you to watch movies?
Really? I think it's one of the best films of the 1980s, and one of Cronenberg's finest.
Let the Right One In is fairly new, it's reputation might still be appreciating.
I think Cronenberg is one of the cinema's best right, IMO.
I was a hipster before it was cool.
Suspiria is unique. Love it or hate it, I do think it's genuinely one-of-a-kind.
It's supposed to be a genuine masterpiece, although some asshole spoiled the twist for me.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me is an interesting inclusion, I agree the movie has enough frightening/creepy moments to call it horror. I wish they had jettisoned the awful first half-hour (the mirror image Twin Peaks stuff with Chris Issak and Jack Bauer) and had the movie start right with Laura.
No Omen, Let The Right One In?
I think Cronenberg is one of the cinema's best right, IMO.
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Deliverance was a suspense thriller, not a horror film. Just because some horrific things happened in that movie doesn't make it a horror film. Otherwise Tarantino flicks would be considered horror movies.
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You have no concept of how much I hate you right now .
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Fuck Rob Zombie. Fuck Halloween II. What a godawful shit film. I'd like to see "The Descent" on there. And even though it's more of a mystery/horror film, I always loved "Angel Heart."
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90 The Blair Witch Project (1999)
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It basically kicked off the "found footage" genre in the US, so you can extra hate it!
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