A top-99 list of horror movies

[BWdem4life]

(All-time)

I have not watched them all so this is not a list of my own creation - I compiled it from other lists found on the internet.

Methodology: I chose eleven lists found with a Google search. Most were top-100, a few were top 50-75, one was top-200 and two had more than 200 (i just took the top 200 from each). Then I determined how many lists each movie ended up on, and the average position on each list. To make the final cut, each movie needed to be on at least 4 lists. Played with mathematical formulas a bit plus a few judgment calls to make the final list.

As with all such lists, there will be plenty to quibble with. However, for me this will be a nice starting point to identify what horror movies my fiance and I have not seen that we might want to experience during our traditional month of October horror movie watching.





(Cross-posted in Movies)

[BOSSHOG]

1. The Original Friday the 13th tops my list

And the 1986 Fly was pretty damned startling.

[Tarzanrock]

2. The black and white film which has the crucifix at the top of the staircase?

What is the name of the black and white film which has the crucifix at the top of the staircase? It's from the late 1950's or very early 1960's. I've never forgotten that scene since I first saw it as a small boy in a theater with my parents in the very early 1960's. I've never seen that movie again since I watched it in that theater. There's a scene in The Blues Brothers movie where the director, Landis, similarly depicts a crucifix at the top of the staircase when Joliet Jake and Elwood go and visit the Nun prior to their "mission."

[TrunKated]

3. I don't find any horror film scary any more ...

After living through the Pandemic .... with idiots pulling their masks down to cough and sneeze, for example

[chouchou]

4. No body's fault but, I dispise "The Blair Witch Project"

Terrible actors, script and just about everything sucked.
Especially toward the end, when the group was terrified that something was "Out there".
..and the group had this brilliant idea >> "Let us all go to sleep" I wanted to throw a drink at the screen..(No, I wouldn't do that)
I GOT what they wanted to do but..they had the talent of a clone regarding Donnie Trump..but more stupid..

On Edit "An American werewolf in London" should have been much higher. So there..

[Shermann]

6. The soundtrack was an important part of that

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I watched it on my 5.1 system shortly after I installed it, and the cracking sounds in the woods really got to me. There was sort of a hole there because it was a "found footage" film that was supposed to have been recorded on a camcorder, yet you had surround sound. So, you had to sort of let that go. The realistic acting really sold the found footage concept and led to many imitations.

[rsdsharp]

5. Not really a horror movie fan, but I've seen 15 of them.