Halloween is just around the corner and today I got to thinking about some of my favorite horror films. This list is in no way complete but rather a product of today's fond memories as I tried to remember the films that scared the crap out of me over the years. I grew up on horror films with Chiller Theater and they are usually my first genre of choice. I sorted them a bit but please do not get on my case about what is deemed "classic" or not...Many of the films are interchangeable between categories and I have simply categorized them as how I thought of them tonight. My opinion is always subject to change. :-)
Slashers
Psycho (1960)
Black Christmas (1974)
Trilogy of Terror (1975)
Carrie (1976)
Halloween (1978)
Prom Night (1980)
Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
April Fool’s Day (1986)
Candyman (1992)
Scream (1996)
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
High Tension (2003)
The Descent (2005)
Ruins (2008)
Vampires and Werewolves
Salem’s Lot (1979)
The Howling (1981)
The Hunger (1983)
30 Days of Night (2007)
Aliens, the undead and other creature features
The Thing From Another World (1951)
Tarantula (1955)
The Blob (1958) and also the remake (1988)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Frogs (1972)
Jaws (1975)
Piranha (1978)
Alien Anthology (1979) (1986) (1992) (1997)
The Fog (1980)
The Thing (1982) (proving that some remakes really are worth it)
Pitch Black (2000)
Resident Evil (2002)
28 Days Later (2002)
Dreamcatcher (2003)
Just plain creepy
The Omen (1976)
The Car (1977)
When A Stranger Calls (1979)
Cujo (1983)
Children of the Corn (1984)
The Hitcher (1986)
Dead of Winter (1987)
Village of the Damned (1995)
Saw (2004)
The New Daughter (2009)
Haunted Houses / Ghost stories
House on Haunted Hill (1959)
The Haunting (1963)
The Legend of Hell House (1973)
Burnt Offerings (1976)
Amityville Horror (1979)
Poltergeist (1982)
Thir13en Ghosts (2001)
The Grudge (2004)
Classic Horror films
Dracula (1931)
Frankenstein (1931)
The Mummy (1932)
The Wolf Man (1941)
The Canterville Ghost (1944)
The Uninvited (1944)
The Beast With Five Fingers (1946)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Beginning of the End (1957)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1960)
The Birds (1963)
I Saw What You Did (1965)
Sisters (1973)
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976) (this movie titled eluded me for damn near 20 years until a friend of mine finally solved the riddle for me…Thank you Eric!)
Comedic Horror films
Fright Night (1985)
The Goonies (1985)
House (1986)
Beetlejuice (1988)
Lake Placid (1999)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Zombieland (2009)
Sadly this was only on TV…
Apology (1986)
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