Years for Fear the greatest horror movies

80s - You’re missing: The Beyond (Fulci, 1981), The Evil Dead (Raimi, 1981), Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (Zito, 1984), Day of the Dead (Romero, 1985), Fright Night (Holland, 1985), Demons 2 (Bava, 1986), The Hitcher (Harmon, 1986), Angel Heart (Parker, 1987), Evil Dead 2 (Raimi, 1987), Near Dark (Bigelow, 1987) and Tetsuo: The Iron Man (Tsukamoto, 1989).

90s - You’re missing: The Exorcist III (Blatty, 1990), Hardware (Stanley, 1990), Cube (Natalie, 1997), Event Horizon (Anderson, 1997) and Audition (Miike, 1999).

IMHO :+1:

More my territory Aldo! Peter Wyngarde was was great in Night of the Eagle!

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00s - You’re missing: American Psycho (Harron, 2000), Final Destination (Wong, 2000), Frailty (Paxton, 2001), Hannibal (Scott, 2001), Pulse (Kurosawa, 2001), Dog Soldiers (Marshall, 2002), My Little Eye (Evans, 2002), The Ring (Verbinski, 2002), Freddy vs Jason (Yu, 2003), Switchblade Romance (Aja, 2003), A Tale of Two Sisters (Kim, 2003), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Nispel, 2003), Cube Zero (Barbarash, 2004), Dawn of the Dead (Snyder, 2004), The Grudge (Shimizu, 2004), R-Point (Kong, 2004), Shaun of the Dead (Wright, 2004), Three… Extremes (Chan/Park/Miike, 2004), The Descent (Marshall, 2005), The Devil’s Rejects (Zombie, 2005), Hostel (Roth, 2005), Noroi: The Curse (Shiraichi, 2005), Wolf Creek (McLean, 2005), Altered (Sánchez, 2006), The Hills Have Eyes (Aja, 2006), 1408 (Håfström, 2007), Frontiers (Gens, 2007), Halloween (Zombie, 2007), Inside (Maury/Bustillo, 2007), The Mist (Darabont, 2007), [REC] (Balagueró/Plaza, 2007), Dead Space: Downfall (Patton, 2008), Martyrs (Laugier, 2008), The Midnight Meat Train (Kitamura, 2008), The Ruins (Smith, 2008), Seventh Moon (Sánchez, 2008), Splinter (Wilkins, 2008), Trick 'r Treat (Dougherty, 2008), Dead Snow (Wirkola, 2009), Drag Me to Hell (Raimi, 2009), The House of the Devil (West, 2009) and Thirst (Park, 2009).

10s - You’re missing: The Last Exorcism (Stamm, 2010), The Reef (Traucki, 2010), YellowBrickRoad (Mitton/Holland, 2010), Grave Encounters (Vicious Brothers, 2011), Kill List (Wheatley, 2011), Lovely Molly (Sánchez, 2011), Paranormal Activity 3 (Joost/Schulman, 2011), The Thing (van Heijningen, 2011), You’re Next (Wingard, 2011), The ABCs of Death (Various, 2012), The Cabin in the Woods (Goddard, 2012), The Lords of Salem (Zombie, 2012), Maniac (Khalfoun, 2012), Sinister (Derrickson, 2012), V/H/S (Various, 2012), Banshee Chapter (Erickson, 2013), The Borderlands (Goldner, 2013), Evil Dead (Álvarez, 2013), Under the Skin (Glazer, 2013), V/H/S/2 (Various, 2013), As Above So Below (Dowdle, 2014), Exists (Sánchez, 2014), A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Amirpour, 2014), Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (Langdon, 2014), The Blackcoat’s Daughter (aka February) (Perkins, 2015), Bone Tomahawk (Zahler, 2015), It Follows (Mitchell, 2015), Southbound (Various, 2015), Tales of Halloween (Various, 2015), The Autopsy of Jane Doe (Øvredal, 2016), Blair Witch (Wingard, 2016), Don’t Breathe (Álvarez, 2016), The Girl With All the Gifts (McCarthy, 2016), The Neon Demon (Refn, 2016), Seoul Station (Yeon, 2016), The Shallows (Collet-Serra, 2016), Train to Busan (Yeon, 2016), Under the Shadow (Anvari, 2016), The Untamed (Escalante, 2016), The Void (Gillespie/Kostanski, 2016), The Wailing (Na, 2016), Annabelle: Creation (Sandberg, 2017), The Endless (Benson/Moorhead, 2018), Hereditary (Aster, 2018), Suspiria (Guadagnino, 2018), Midsommar (Aster, 2019) and The Lighthouse (Eggers, 2019).

IMHO :+1: :slightly_smiling_face:

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There are quite a few movies you have put forward Asa that we wanted to put forward but didn’t just to keep it shorter and focused.
A new one based on the contributions of yourself the members is needed I think. :cowboy_hat_face:
I mainly take issue with Rob Zombie remakes and Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake. I a big fan of THE LAST EXORCISM but I did include it because I wasn’t sure what it really did for the genre. I should have been brave and PUT FINAL DESTINATION on too. :sweat_smile:

The EVIL DEAD lost it’s allure with me. ARMY OF DARKNESS is the only one I have now. Oh and the series.

That’s fair enough and, obviously, if you were simply compiling a list of your personal favourites, then it would be understandable for you to omit them. But when attempting to compile a consensus for the greatest horror movies then I don’t think a list of that type would be complete without the first two movies. They are genuine genre classics. For me personally, Army of Darkness is the one I like the least, although I like them all. The TV show was a lot of fun, I thought.

Do be honest with you I didn’t omit EVIL DEAD. Andy suggested I put it on and I forgot, my bad (Sorry Andy). Even though I am not really a fan anymore it is an all time great. I will pop it on. If it was a personal favourites that list would be different…
I put poltergeist on the list. It was a game changing movie but I am not a fan. And it’s great to know someone appreciates EXORCIST III.

Some more
Cannibal Holocaust
Bloodsucking Freaks
Hellraiser II
Malabimba the Malicious Whore
Dracula

Cannibal Holocaust is a blast.
Not familiar with the others. Which version on Dracula? The Coppola one?

Lugosi as Dracula of course, classic stuff.

Btw, I forgot to mention Phantasm, one of my favorites.

Another 1960s one which I found scary

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On post 4/50 I did the first part of my and Andy’s list. I put 1931 DRACULA on with the concurrently produced Spanish language version. If you have not seen it I recommend it. Visually superior to the Lugosi one. But Lugosi isn’t in it! What a shame.
Forgot PHANTASM.

I like this one, a prototype DEVIL RIDES OUT. Only the horror and witchcraft seems very much in Joan Fontaine head. I was kind of disappointed when the witches did show up.

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That’s true … and their dancing and chanting is a bit annoying and goes on too long - but the build up and paranoia in the earlier scenes is great … and as you say proto ‘Devil Rides Out’, and earlier than ‘Rosemary’s Baby’

… I was amazed that this was on afternoon TV last year on the Horror Channel - at primary school age I wasn’t allowed to see any of these films. :frowning:

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Yeah!! But films from this era are my bag. TWISTED NERVE 1968ish is top shocker. Forgotten it seems.

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These three Hammer Films are classics. Well not Hysteria it just falls behind. The urban isolation and decay is very relevant at the moment.

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Got myself going on the the Hammer psycho thrillers. I am going to work through them starting tonight.
STOP ME BEFORE I KILL (1960) is First up, along with TASTE OF FEAR (1961) stop-me-before-i-kill-poster-1960-550 Taste_of_Fear_poster
I think these two films represent the evolution of the company outside the gothic horror that they were having great success with. The success of TASTE OF FEAR helped launch their psycho subgenre. TOF was also voted in the top ten Hammer Films.

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Watched it for the first time recently … kind of reminded me of the format ‘Tales of the Unexpected’ was to adopt years later. Pretty good movie, but it may not have aged so well, only because it’s been ripped off zillions of time since. :grinning:

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‘sting in the tail’ story telling. Scorpion tales TV show. Yeah the rips offs are endless.
In that respect it may look dated, taken as the original. It remains fresher.
It is a superior reworking of the LES DIABOLIQUES. In my opinion.

Haven’t seen that in decades … must check it out again - I remember it being pretty creepy at the time :grinning: