F&T's Top 100 Horror Movies

[hydroazuanacaine]

i was checking out another film message board yesterday, and they had a pretty cool thing going on. an bunch of threads titled "Top 100 Blank Movies." "blank" could be anything that at least 100 great examples of exist.

we should steal this game. i figured horror movies is a nice general category that we can get a 100 of without too much trouble.

so you just number the title you are contributing, counting down from a hundred. can't go out of order. and then you add anything else you want. poster art. why you think it deserves its rank on the list. a screenshot or gif from your favorite scene. nothing more at all. or whatever else.

so it would go like:

100. Night of the Living Dead ('68)

because it is kind of boring but has a few classic scenes that legitimized and set the tone for a booming sub-genre of horror films.

and then #99 is next...

 

[L2R]

99 Eraserhead ('77)
David Lynch's seminal abstract work plays magical tricks of both sound and image. The incessant industrial noise, the crying baby, the radiator whistles and the suckling puppies.... *head explodes*. He's got a knack of combining both horror and hilarity, like no one else has.

 

[debaser]

98. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974 - Tobe Hooper)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072271/

 

[Rasclatt]

This is a fun idea

 

[Rasclatt]

The Shining (1980, Kubrick)

 

[Bardeaux]

96. Nosferatu (1922 - F. W. Murnau)

Still creepy after all these years. The image of Count Orlok freaked me out like no other as a kid.

 

[debaser]

95. Dawn of the Dead (1978 - George A. Romero)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077402/

 

[Rasclatt]

I'm going to put this in as it is the only horror film that really shook me up (as in a week of nightmares), admittedly I was quite young when I saw it. Still amazing achievement to make a horror film entirely based on an incredibley slow moving ball of slime.

94. The Blob (1958, Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr)

 

[Bardeaux]

^That would be 94

 

[Rasclatt]

Oops, still working on my counting skills there 8(

 

[Bardeaux]

Counting backwards is harder than it looks!

93. Silence of the Lambs (1991 - Jonathan Demme)

Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter. That is all.

 

[HeWhoHowls]

92.
Hellraiser-1987
cuz cenobites are scary mothafuckas...

 

[hydroazuanacaine]

yay, i was hoping we'd like this.

91. Shadow of the Vampire

an ode to a great movie--that i believe surpasses its inspiration.

 

[debaser]

90. Rosemary's Baby (1968 - Roman Polanski)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063522/

The book is great too.

 

[hydroazuanacaine]

^i was totally in love with mia during that movie. especially before she cuts her hair.

 

[debaser]

89. The Exorcist (William Friedkin - 1973)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070047/

And the book is a masterpiece too.

 

[Rasclatt]

88. The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

 

[NeighborhoodThreat]

I'm loving these gifs guys

 

[Max Power]

Thread makes me feel like I'm viewing a Tumblr acct. So, just to make sure I'm on the same page, the 'rankings' are essentially arbitrary?

 

[hydroazuanacaine]

87. Girly ('70)

follows a formula created by far better horror classics, but not a bad presentation of the psychopath family--especially the pseudo-lolita.

So, just to make sure I'm on the same page, the 'rankings' are essentially arbitrary?

^not necessarily. more just to be taken with a grain of salt. it is up to participants to decide how much emphasis they want to put on 'em, but i'm definitely saving some favorites for further down the list.