Comments on: 13 Greatest Horror Movies. Ever!

By: Mad Professor

Mad Professor — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:13:58 +0000

This is a half-good half-crap list .. Let’s start with everyone’s kiss-ass fav, ‘The Shining’ .. Stephen King didn’t even like it! Whoopty-f*ckin-doo, it scared u as a kid .. There are WAAAY better Stephen King films including such haunters as ‘Misery’, ‘It’, ‘Cujo’, or ‘Maximum Overdrive’ (King directed and he loves his ACDC!) .. ‘Psycho’? Are you serious? Why don’t we put down ‘Vacancy’ while we’re at it? Or even ‘Motel Hell’? Ha ha anywayz I agree with #3 – #10 (Hey, whether u like ‘Jaws’ or not what do you think of every time YOU get in the ocean hmm?) But ‘Saw’s’ bad casting and over-acting (excluding Tobin Bell) cut the tension several times during the film .. ‘The Omen’ was about as promising as ‘Rosemary’s Baby’, and though BOTH are good horror films, they don’t nearly compare to such raging classics as ‘In the Mouth of Madness’, ‘Event Horizon’, or ‘Last House on the Left’ .. And ‘Zombie’? C’mon!!! With sooo many terrifying zombie films out there (’28 Days Later’, ‘28 Weeks Later’, ‘Dawn of the Dead Remake’, and even the hilarious satirical gory horror of ‘Shaun of the Dead’) surely you could think harder for TOP 13 HORROR FILMS OF ALL TIME!!

I don’t entirely disagree with the films up there, but with surviving tales of the macabre and gore films, such as the 70’s and 80’s exploitation films of ‘I Spit on your Grave’, ‘Cannibal Holocaust’, or ‘Make Them Die Slowly’, or the scare flicks such as the original ‘Hills Have Eyes’, ‘Hell High’, ‘Silence of the Lambs’, or even ‘The Thing’, I wonder if you’ve seen anything past what made Bravo’s ‘Top 100 Scariest Moments’ ha ha ha

I do agree with the ‘Audition’ comments, as well as ‘the Descent’, ‘Seven’, ‘Jacob’s Ladder’, ‘Dog Soldiers’ (ha ha ha ha ha ha that’s awesome)

Not to mention the lovely comedic but grotesque stylings of ‘Evil Dead’, ‘Dead/Alive’, and ‘Blood-Sucking Freaks’

Oh, and for all out gore ‘Faces of Death’ or ‘Traces of Death’ could have at least seen the light of day somewhere in the big Net world.

Also, for the 1930’s horror fan; Grow up.

By: Marion Crane

Marion Crane — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:55:29 +0000

One of the techniques that works best on me in any horror movie is to disarm with a generous dose of comedy and then scare the hell out of ‘em. Therefore horror movies that had some strong comedy elements often worked a lot batter at scaring me that more straightforward films.
An American Werewolf in London
The Howling
Fright Night
All scared the crap out of me as a teen. And all were both funny and scary. I still love all three of those films.
This same technigue is also what worked for this generation with Scream. Not a favorite of mine, but enjoyable.
Night of the Living Dead really should be number one. For shear all out non-stop horror, nothing beats it.
Also, just because a film is older or more bloodless doesn’t mean it has lost any power to scare. Quite the opposite.
I agree with a lot of the posts about Rosemary’s Baby. That’s one scary film. Ditto The Stepford Wives (not the awful remake -Yuk!) Both were written by the same guy (Ira Levin) and have that conspiracy/ paranoia element that (along with the first two versions of Invasion of the Body Snatcher) I also find really, really frightening.
But my all time favorite (and the movie most sadly missing from your list, although it appears on plenty of others) is The Haunting (again, forget the awful remake). Black and white. Bloodless. Subtle and well written with A-list actors. But when that thing pounds on the bedroom door, it’s still one of the scariest moments in any movie.
Happy Halloween Everybody!

By: horrorshow

horrorshow — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:45:53 +0000

I agree with some of them…but…

Saw wasn’t really a good movie. I didn’t find it very sickening or shocking, unlike a lot of others, but it just wasn’t good. The surprise at the end was great, but the rest of the film felt like it had no point. The whole, “he’s teaching them to value life” idea was just there to shock people. Even the movie didn’t try to treat it seriously.

Zombie was blood and guts. Nothing else. If you wanted a movie like that, I would have gone with Cannibal Holocaust.

I like 28 days later as well, but hell, if you want to get technical, it was more of a “drama,” not a true horror film. You could probably say the same about a lot of other films that are often called horror as well though.

Good list overall though.

The Shining is definitely my favorite horror film of all time

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:52:30 +0000

Good list, but I’ve got to agree with many of the previous respondee’s. Evil dead scared the @#$@ out of me when I was younger. They got sillier (and less scary) in later versions, but the first, was definately scary then, and still is today.
‘28 days later’ should be on the list, as should ‘The Ring’, and ‘The Thing’.

By: punkoid

punkoid — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 14:04:41 +0000

PS I think Italians make the best Horror movies (as my list shows) followed by the yanks. The whole Asian horror thing kind of goes over my head.

By: punkoid

punkoid — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 14:02:32 +0000

What is it with people knocking Zombie? Its better than virtually all the other movies on this list (as a horror, I can’t include Jaws, but it is a magnificent movie) and suggesting 28 Days later!? The majority of modern horror movies are junk (and I watch alot of them) Wolf Creek and Hostel being the only noteable modern horrors to have any impact.

Anyway, my list (and its only MY opinion)

1 Cannibal Holocaust
2 The Exorcist
3 Susperia
4 Dawn of the Dead
5 The Beyond
6 Alien
7 The Shining
8 Tenebrae
9 Zombie
10 Wolf Creek

By: DeWayne(FilmFreak)

DeWayne(FilmFreak) — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:26:18 +0000

The list is not bad. Each of us will have a different opinion of what horror means to us.

You might like seeing a guy pick up a
lawn mower and run it through a group of people, scattering their body parts all over the place.

Which horror movie gave you a nightmare?

I actually had a horrific nightmare about the exorcist after seeing it. Not many movies leave a dark indelible stain on the brain like that one! Granted, I enjoy most of them with dark red fine wine.

DeWayne(FilmFreak)

By: Flameboy

Flameboy — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:31:45 +0000

Little Nicky! ^.^

By: Sly

Sly — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:12:24 +0000

A true horror should have the impact of realism. The list should have included the thing, spit on your grave, dawn of the dead 2004 and 28 days later. These left me with that spine tingling uncomfortable feelings of possibility, which i just love to savour.

By: Pule

Pule — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:36:29 +0000

Where is House of Wax?

By: Aimee

Aimee — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 05:22:44 +0000

WOW…I never understood how those movies are so scary….my top thirteen is Texas chainsaw massacre(2003), Wait until Dark, Halloween, Hostel, SAW I II III, Nightmare on Elm Street, When a stranger calls..the OLD one, Wrong Turn, Amityville Horror(2005), ok so that is all I have…

By: the fool

the fool — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:25:55 +0000

this is off topic completely but does anyone know what the first scifi/horror movie was?

By: Seb

Seb — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 05:02:00 +0000

Should Last House on The Left get a run??

By: beemer

beemer — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:09:14 +0000

mmmm … usual suspects!!

as creepiness goes…how about THE FOG?
and no-one metioned DAWN OF THE DEAD! also I would like to add ROSEMARYS KILLER and POLTERGEIST

By: marchingboner

marchingboner — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 00:48:21 +0000

The Omen wasnt that good should b replaced with house of 1000 corpses or devils rejects. evil dead should also be included. for all those who dont find them scary its because ur desensitized to the horror back when all of the movies premered they freaked the hell out of ppl hell i remember whatching these when i was young and was scared shitless cuz they are that good. movies now arent scary cuz everything that could be done has been every thing now is gore and gore(dont get me rong i love the gore). another good movie for the list is Ju-on. u watch the grudge and laugh watch juon ull b lookin over ur shoulder i guarantee it

By: curtis

curtis — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 21:36:15 +0000

I think you made a good choice puting holloween on the list but it should of been number1 on the list.I think you should put all of the hollowween movies on the list along with saw.

By: max

max — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:27:12 +0000

hello where is stephen Kings CUJO and mary shellys frankenstein,these movies was so scary the first time isaw them. also Fright Night was good

By: Jen

Jen — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:47:20 +0000

Wheres Carrie?\

By: carmen

carmen — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:15:00 +0000

Alien 1979

By: Brandy

Brandy — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 01:25:42 +0000

Why is it that originals or first’s are always necesities on lists like these? Just because something is the first or an original doesn’t necessarily make it the best and certainly not the scariest (It just makes those who saw it originally very biased)! Everyone shuns movies like Saw because it’s modern and more graphic? Every movie on this list was originally the favorite of a bunch of teenagers and a lot of the oldie favs were really graphic for their time!

I think the list was a good one and Saw belongs here. Any movie that forces you to put yourself in that situation and stays with you long after you leave the theaters is a good one.

I was a little surprised that Silence of the Lambs or Poltergeist weren’t on there. (Also surprised that Jaws and Zombie were on there)