After ages of deliberation here is my list. Films were graded on three criteria – Quality, legacy and personal enjoyment. In addition, with me being something of a purist, films were downgraded if they weren’t true Horror films.

So for example a film like Silence Of The Lambs which is more of a Thriller with minor horror elements but often makes Horror lists was down marked despite scoring well in the initial three criteria.

On the flip side some films like Threads and Idi I Smotri aren’t Horror films either but are so full of horrorific elements they had to be included.

Re-makes were downgraded also but after consideration the only 3 that mightt make the list were Nosferatu, The Ring and Let me In. They were banned due to the presence of the originals (except Nosferatu, because Werner Herzog).

Fantastic list Severin and a fair few cross overs with my big favourites too. Many more that I need to check out too, so I will be referring back to your list over time :P

 

The Orphanage

Halloween

The Shining

Scream

Nightmare On Elm Street

The Blair Witch

The Exorcist

Psycho

Jaws

[REC]

Funny Games '97

Suspiria

A Clockwork Orange

The Grudge

Scream 3

 

top 4 are all11/10 films tbh

Yes :wub:

 

Need to watch soooo many more, there's too much horror-comedy in my list as well as sequels! There's so many other shit ones I've seen that are not even worth mentioning though. The Exorcist is the hardest one to place for me though because I appreciate it but I did find it a little dull. I probably shouldn't have watched Scary Movie 2 before I watched that either as now I just find it funny :lol:

 

I prefer the book to the film version of 'The Shining' too.

I am glad you still have The Exorcist top 20. I really would not be able to sit with you though during the film, people that laugh at such a horrifying, gruesome, damning film really would ruin the whole experience of the film for me. I can not in any world or at any time find the events of the film funny and it always baffles me that others can do. It's so haunting and disturbing, perhaps the laughter is a sign of release and light-relief because it's too horrible to accept it as a reality? Idk but yeah please stay away from me on film nights ~~

Fantastic list Severin and a fair few cross overs with my big favourites too. Many more that I need to check out too, so I will be referring back to your list over time :P

 

 

Yes I remember thinking the same during your countdown. I'd love to know if you discover a new favourite from somewhere on my list!

'The Exorcist' is still the only film to ever make me lose several nights of sleep! It's a pretty slow build, but that's all a part of it's body of work. It gets progressively worse as we're following the family from the start. For the fact it's a decent film and the fact it's scared me so much that I refuse to watch it in it's entirety again, it's gonna be #1 on my list I think! It's horror at it's finest for me (doesn't help that I think I was about 10 when I first watched it!!)

Chez plz can you clarify if a couple of films on your list (Texas Chainsaw Massacre and a couple of others I can't remember!) are the originals or the remakes!

 

Is your #1 the original or the US remake?

 

And I forgot about Sinister. That might just sneak in on mine too

The remake, never seen the original!

All the films listed are the originals, no remakes!

But the 2003 (?) Texas Chainsaw is miles better than the original! :o I find the original to be boring. :(

Chez plz can you clarify if a couple of films on your list (Texas Chainsaw Massacre and a couple of others I can't remember!) are the originals or the remakes!

The remake, never seen the original!

Oh you really should. The US version is good but everything feels sanitised a bit. Same with Dark Water & The Grudge if you ask me

 

But the 2003 (?) Texas Chainsaw is miles better than the original! :o I find the original to be boring. :(

Interestingly, I find the reverse to be the case. The original is an exercise in slow burning suspense before unrelenting terror whereas I can't remember a thing about the remake except that R. Lee Ermey might be in it

Oh you really should. The US version is good but everything feels sanitised a bit. Same with Dark Water & The Grudge if you ask me

Yeah I really need to watch more of the originals/classic horrors! I'd never seen a horror film till about 3 years ago so its easily the genre I've seen the least films from! :lol:

 

Not sure if some of these count as "horror" but they're close enough

 

1. Scream 2

2. Scream

3. Scream 4

4. Scream 3

5. The Covenant (:kink:)

6. The Boy Next Door

7. Carrie (original)

8. The Ruins

9. The Apparition

10. Scary Movie

11. Black Swan

12. When A Stranger Calls

13.Scary Movie 2

14. Alien

15. Scary Movie 3

1. The Exorcist (1973)

2. Psycho (1960)

3. Rosemary's Baby (1968)

4. Aliens (1986)

5. The Birds (1963)

6. Halloween (1978)

7. Shaun Of the Dead (2004)

8. The Fly (1986)

9. The Wicker Man (1973)

10. Nightmare on Elm Street

11. The Shining

12. A Clockwork Orange

13. Scream

14. Child's Play

15. Carrie

 

 

All originals

01. 'The Exorcist' (1973)

02. '[REC]' (2007)

03. 'SAW' (2004)

04. '[REC] 2' (2009)

05. 'The Birds' (1963)

06. 'Carrie' (1976)

07. 'An American Werewolf In London' (1981)

08. 'The Fly' (1986)

09. 'Martyrs' (2008)

10. 'Scream' (1996)

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11. 'Psycho' (1960)

12. 'Gremlins' (1984)

13. 'Shaun Of the Dead' (2004)

14. 'Conjuring' (2013)

15. 'Final Destination' (2000)

16. 'Battle Royale' (2000)

17. 'Conjuring 2' (2016)

18. 'Sinister' (2012)

19. 'Scream 2' (1997)

20. 'Poltergeist' (1982)

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21. 'The Evil Dead' (1981)

22. 'Eden Lake' (2008)

23. 'Saw III' (2006)

24. 'What We Do In The Shadows' (2014)

25. 'Gremlins 2: The New Batch' (1990)

26. 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' (2003)

27. 'Blair Witch Project' (1999)

28. 'Paranormal Activity' (2007)

29. 'Wolf Creek' (2005)

30. 'Final Destination 3' (2006)

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31. 'Saw II' (2005)

32. 'Jeepers Creepers' (2001)

33. 'From Dusk Till Dawn' (1996)

34. 'Salem's Lot' (1979)

35. 'The Cabin In The Woods' (2012)

36. 'Thirteen Ghosts' (2001)

37. 'The Orphanage' (2007)

38. 'Evil Dead' (2013)

39. 'Hostel' (2005)

40. 'Don't Breathe' (2016)

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41. 'Halloween III: Season Of The Witch' (1982)

42. '28 Days Later' (2002)

43. 'Amityville Horror' (1979)

44. 'Final Destination 2' (2003)

45. 'Paranormal Activity 2' (2010)

46. 'Piranha' (1969)

47. 'Insidious' (2010)

48. 'The Lost Boys' (1987)

49. '28 Weeks Later' (2007)

50. 'World War Z' (2013)

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51. 'Creep' (1999)

52. 'The Final Girls' (2015)

53. 'Christine' (1983)

54. 'Jaws' (1975)

55. 'Halloween' (1978)

56. 'A Nightmare On Elm Street' (1984)

57. 'Scream 4' (2011)

58. 'Halloween 2' (1981)

59. 'Maniac' (2012)

60. 'The Crazies' (2010)

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61. 'Paranormal Activity 4' (2012)

62. 'Krampus' (2015)

63. 'The Omen' (1976)

64. 'Evil Dead 2' (1987)

65. 'The Babadook' (2014)

66. 'The Witch' (2015)

67. 'The Shining' (1980)

68. 'The Rage: Carrie 2' (1999)

69. 'Paranormal Activity 3' (2011)

70. 'The Ring' (2002)

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71. 'See No Evil' (2006)

72. 'Army Of Darkness' (1992)

73. 'Saw VI' (2009)

74. 'The Strangers' (2008)

75. 'Insidious 2' (2012)

76. 'The Grudge' (2004)

77. 'Lights Out' (2016)

78. 'The Midnight Meat Train' (2008)

79. 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' (1974)

80. 'The Hills Have Eyes' (1977)

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81. 'Hostel: Part II' (2007)

82. 'Aliens' (1986)

83. 'Scream 3' (2000)

84. 'Saw V' (2008)

85. 'Dawn Of The Dead' (2004)

86. 'Purge: Election Year' (2016)

87. 'Saw 3D' (2010)

88. 'Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension' (2015)

89. 'Scouts Guide To the Zombie Apocalypse' (2015)

90. 'Deep Blue Sea' (1999)

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91. 'The Hills Have Eyes' (2006)

92. 'Goodnight Mommy' (2016)

93. 'The Collector' (2010)

94. 'Saw IV' (2007)

95. 'Purge: Anarchy' (2014)

96. 'Paranormal Entity' (2009)

97. 'The Amityville Horror' (2005)

98. 'Grave Encounters' (2011)

99. 'The Descent' (2005)

100. 'I Spit On Your Grave' (2010)

 

 

 

99. 'The Last House On The Left' (2009)

100. 'Frozen' (2010)

 

Fiiiinalllyyyyy! Lmao. It's something, anyway! Haha.

I'll do this over weekend if the thread is still open then.

I'll do this over weekend if the thread is still open then.

This & the animation one will be open till Sunday evening!

Ahhh I forgot two! So I've edited my list to include...

 

16. 'Battle Royale' (2000)

24. 'What We Do In The Shadows' (2014)

 

:wub:

These are really in somewhat random order because I cannot really rank movies, most are just equally great.

 

1. Nightmare on Elm Street 4 - Dream Master

2. Deep Red - Profondo Rosso

3. Fritt Vilt

4. Dawn of the Dead remake

5. Stage Fright

6. High Tension

7. Train to Busan

8. Nightmare on Elm Street 3 - Dream Warriors

9. Tenebre

10. Nightmare on Elm Street

 

11. Night of the Demons

12. Friday the 13th - The Final Chapter

13. From Dusk Till Dawn

14. You're Next

15. Scream

16. Demons

17. Cabin in the Woods

18. Battle Royale

19. The Others

20. Fritt Vilt 2

 

21. Identity

22. REC

23. My Little Eye

24. Martyrs

25. Sinister

26. My Bloody Valentine remake

27. Aliens

28. Dead & Buried

29. Hellraiser 2 - Hellbound

30. The Collector

 

31. The Guest

32. Piranha 3D

33. Opera

34. Maniac Cop

35. The Hills Have Eyes remake

36. Near dark

37. Friday the 13th 3D

38. Sinister

39. I Know What you Did Last Summer

40. Final Destination

 

41. Don't Torture the Duckling

42. Pitch Black

43. Halloween 2 - original 2, not the Rob Zombie film that is one of the worst horror films ever

44. Scream 2

45. Gremlins

46. Friday the 13th

47. Dawn of the Dead

47. Don't Breathe

48. Nightmare on Elm Street 2 - Freddys Revenge

49. The Lost Boys

50. Cabin Fever

 

LOL at the Lost Boys at 49 and so on but how can you rank equally good films. As long as tedious crap such as TCM (original), the Exorcist and so on won't win because of my votes it is fine.

Edited October 22, 20168 yr by JackJones

Can I just alter it to in Zombieland at #51 (oversight) and Lake Mungo at #94 (just watched) pushing the bottom two out?

 

Many thanks

24 Hours Remaining!

1. Shaun Of The Dead

2. Zombeavers

3. Chronical

4. Carrie

5. Jespers Creepers

6. House At The End Of The Street

7. Arachnophobia

8. Jaws

9. Carry On Screaming

10. Jeepers Creepers 2

11. Edward Scissorhands

12. Dead Space

13. Alien

14. Mars Attack

15. Dream House

 

I don't know/ like many horrors and the ones I do like are mostly comedy crossovers or TV shows so that's why this list is pretty minimal, even getting towards the lower part of this list I was scraping the barrel tbh. Some of these may also stretch 'horror' a little so let me know if anything's invalid UV.

Jacob, are Carrie and House At The End Of The Street and Dream House the originals or remakes?!