Top 10 horror films of all time....

My number one pick would have to be JAWS. What an amazing film, although The Shining is very good. I think I would put Night before Day and Dawn not only because of the impact it had on horror filmmaking but because it is still effective today. Also, because it's a personal favorite of mine, I'd throw Evil Dead II up there.

My top 10 changes a lot too (so does the order), but here's one off the top of my head:

1.) Dracula
2.) Psycho
3.) Rosemary's Baby
4.) Jaws
5.) Bride of Frankenstein
6.) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
7.) Night of the Living Dead
8.) Dawn of the Dead
9.) Black Sunday
10.) Frankenstein

1) Dawn of the Dead (1978)
2) The Bride of Frankenstein
3) Suspiria
4) The Phantom of the Opera (1921)
5) The Last House on the Left
6) Night of the Living Dead (1968)
7) The Thing (1982)
8) The Fly (1986)
9) Frankenstein (1931)
10) Creepshow

Do you mean Takashi Miike's Audition, or is this a whole other film?

Actually, you don't I think. After some quick research, it appears that there was a Korean film made 2 years earlier (1997). Reading the description makes Miike's version sound like a remake. I never knew that.

I'll add my list. These may not necessarily be scary, or still have the same effect on me that they had when I first saw them. In no particular order:

Poltergeist
The Thing (Carpenter's)
An American Werewolf in London
Halloween
Audition
Ringu
Kairo
Jaws
Dawn of the Dead (original)
The Sixth Sense

Honorable mentions:
The Eye
Frailty
The Howling

At a glance:

1. AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON
2. JAWS
3. KING KONG
4. THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
5. THE THING
6. DAWN OF THE DEAD
7. THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN
8. GREMLINS
9. THE EXORCIST
10. SUSPIRIA

This is always tough, I feel like I could name 100 movies to my top ten list!

1. Alien
2. The Exorcist
3. Nosferatu
4. Night of the Living Dead
5. Repulsion
6. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)
7. Halloween
8. Evil Dead
9. M
10. The Shining

1) The Shining
2) The Changeling
3) The Haunting (1963)
4) Dawn of the Dead
5) Exorcist 3
6) Alien
7) Audition
8) Zombie
9) Poltergiest
10) Sleepaway Camp (HAHA)

Man, this is hard to do; there are so many horror films I love for so many different reasons. These are my picks based on the movies that actually scared me the most. As stated by Floydian_Trip this changes almost daily. None listed are the remakes.

In no particular order: Scariest horror films

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Night of the Living Dead
The Eye
The Evil Dead
Black Sunday
Phantasm
Halloween
The Haunting
Hellraiser
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer


Most well made horror films:

Suspiria
Black Sunday
The Shining
The Devil's Backbone
The Reflecting Skin
Psycho
Night of the Living Dead
Frailty
The Haunting
Nosferatu

Best Special effects in a horror film:

The Thing
The Howling
American Werewolf in London
Scanners
Videodrome
Hellraiser 2
Tremors
Hellraiser
Pumpkinhead
Maniac

Most ambitious story in a horror film:

Videodrome
The Brood
Ginger Snaps
The Company of Wolves
The Fly (remake)
Frailty
Donnie Darko (borderline horror at least)
They Came from Within (SHIVERS)
Dawn of the Dead (especially the director's cut)
Bubba Ho-Tep

I don't not which is more difficult: deciding which films to leave off, or deciding if a film is actually considered "horror" ... IMHOBATTLE ROYALE is not horror, eventhough it would make my list ...

ok, ok, enough of that ... here's my list, which is subject to change at any moment:


1 PSYCHO

2 TALE OF TWO SISTERS

3 SUICIDE CLUB

4 SUSPIRIA

5 THE SHINING

6 TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE

7 DAWN OF THE DEAD

8 THE TENANT

9 NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

10 BLAIR WITCH PROJECT




( oh, the horror of leaving AUDITION, FRIDAY THE 13TH, PHANTASM, BEYOND THE DOOR and THE WICKER MAN off my list

The only film I've ever seen which I found scary was Fire in the Sky. I love horror, but rarely ever do I find myself scared by it. That being said, 10 'horror' flicks I love:

-Evil Dead
-The Brood
-Day of the Dead
-American Werewolf in London
-The Devil's Backbone
-Videodrome
-Dagon
-Reanimator
-The Thing
-Dead Alive

I'm dying to see zombie, suspiria, audition, dead ringers, bride of reanimator, and shitloads more.

No love for Carrie?

For what it's worth my list, in no particular order, would look something like...

A Nightmare on Elm Street
Carrie
The Evil Dead
The Shining
Society
Near Dark
Candyman
The Thing
Rosemary's Baby
Hellraiser

Though that's mostly just off the top of me head. So don't quote me on it...

Personal top 10 horror films

In no particular order (except The Thing, whihc has been #1 for many, many years):

The Thing - Carpenter
Jaws - Spielberg
Silence of the Lambs - Demme
The Exorcist - Friedkin
Alien - Scott
An American Werewolf in London - Landis
Night of the Living Dead - Romero
Dawn of the Dead - Romero
Ghostwatch - Manning
The Shining - Kubrick

Honorable mention: The Blair Witch Project, Peeping Tom, Return of the Living Dead, Exorcist 3.

Top ten (objectively):

Jaws
The Exorcist
Alien
The Thing
Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead
Psycho
Blair Witch Project
Last House on the Left
The Haunting

"Accepted" Top Ten:
Alien
Carrie (1976)
The Exorcist
Halloween
Jaws
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Psycho (1960)
Rosemary's Baby
The Shining (1980)
The Silence of the Lambs



Personal Top Ten:
Alien
An American Werewolf in London
Day of the Dead
Evil Dead II
The Exorcist
Halloween
Jaws
The Omen
Phantasm
The Thing


Honorable Mention: Dawn of the Dead (1978), The Howling, Hellraiser, Nightmare On Elm Street, The Hitcher, Prince of Darkness, Scanners, The Wicker Man, Re-Animator, and Bram Stoker's Dracula (I'm sorry, I just love it for some reason).


Personal Top Ten "Classics":
Bride of Frankenstein
Creature From the Black Lagoon
Curse of Frankenstein
Horror of Dracula
The Mummy (1959)
The Mummy's Hand
Nosferatu (1922)
Plague of the Zombies
Son of Frankenstein
The Wolf Man

My list is going to be torn apart, but alas.

1. The Exorcist
2. Halloween
3. The Thing
4. The Shining
5. Wes Craven's New Nightmare
6. Dawn of the Dead
7. The Silence of the Lambs
8. Hellbound: Hellraiser II
9. Day of the Dead
10. Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn

Jeez-- are we like twin bothers that never met each other or something? We have many similarities in our lists.

1. Kubrick's The Shining
2. Day of the Dead
3. Jaws
4. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)
5. A Nightmare on Elm Street
6. An American Werewolf in London
7. Night of the Living Dead
8. Hellraiser
9. The Thing
10. Cronenberg's The Fly

1. Psycho (original)
2. Nosferatu (original)
3. Jaws
4. Night of the Living Dead (original)
5. King Kong (original)
6. Frankenstein
7. Halloween
8. Dawn of the Dead
9. The Silence of the Lambs
10. Audition
11. Videodrome
12. May
13. The Birds
14. Dracula
15. Bride of Frankenstein
16. Suspiria
17. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
18. The Wolf Man
19. A Nightmare on Elm Street
20. The Wicker Man
21. The Evil Dead
22. Frailty
23. The Masque of the Red Death
24. Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn
25. Wes Craven's New Nightmare

I know the list is long, but I had to do it. There were far too many films I wanted to metion. In fact, here are a few more: Nosferatu (Herzog), Carrie, Ginger Snaps, Dracula (w/ Frank Langella), The Cell, The Phantom of the Opera (Chaney), The Phantom of the Opera (Englund), Creature from the Black Lagoon, Opera, Tenebre, Hellraiser, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, The Thing From Another Planet, The Thing, Friday the 13th, Stir of Echoes, The Sixth Sense, Martin, Black Sunday, Captain Cronos: Vampire Hunter, Asylum, Tales from the Crypt, The Brood, The Fly (Cronenberg), The Fly (Price), Laura (this one wold make it, but I don't think it can be categorized as "horror"), many other Vincet Price films and many others.

And I know The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is sort of down there on the list, but I really do like that film. I just happen to believe that there are 16 better horror films.

And I just remembered The Innocents, which should have made the top 25.

1-3 Romero's Dead Trilogy (Favorite changes with my mood)
4 The Thing (Carpenter)
5 Carrie
6 Phantasm
7 The Exorcist
8 Return of the Living Dead
9 Dawn of the Dead '04 (Gotta give credit where credit's due)
10 Creepshow

Not really in any particular order, but these are the movies I always seem to watch more than others.