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My Best of Horror List

Horror is too subjective to ever really say The Greatest Horror Movies ever made. No, it's nothing more than opinion. Here's my list though. I hate CGI, so nothing too modern makes my cut. Once I got near fifty, I was scraping the bottom of the barrel. The horror genre has fewer excellent movies than any other in film. Lots of fun but mediocre fare once you get past that number. It all depends on your point of view of course. My top five I feel are pretty solid though.

  • The Exorcist

    1

  • The Thing

    2

  • The Shining

    3

  • Halloween

    4

  • Alien

    5

  • Night of the Living Dead

    6

  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers

    7

  • Jaws

    8

  • The Blair Witch Project

    9

  • Psycho

    10

  • Frankenstein

    11

  • Bride of Frankenstein

    12

  • An American Werewolf in London

    13

  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

    14

  • Let the Right One In

    15

  • Rosemary's Baby

    16

  • Poltergeist

    17

  • Dawn of the Dead

    18

  • The Fly

    19

  • The Evil Dead

    20

  • King Kong

    21

  • Nosferatu

    22

  • The Silence of the Lambs

    23

  • Black Sunday

    24

  • The Thing from Another World

    25

  • The Night of the Hunter

    26

  • Day of the Dead

    27

  • The Witch

    28

  • Salem's Lot

    29

  • Phantasm

    30

  • Diabolique

    31

  • Se7en

    32

  • The Birds

    33

  • Creature from the Black Lagoon

    34

  • Friday the 13th Part 2

    35

  • My Bloody Valentine

    36

  • Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

    37

  • Freaks

    38

  • The Wicker Man

    39

  • Kwaidan

    40

  • The Howling

    41

  • Cujo

    42

  • Night of the Demon

    43

  • The Fly

    44

  • Dracula

    45

  • The Curse of Frankenstein

    46

  • 28 Days Later

    47

  • Friday the 13th

    48

  • A Nightmare on Elm Street

    49

  • I Saw the Devil

    50

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