The Mandatory Top 10 Horror Films Thread

So many great films, it's hard for me to say...
1. Return of the Living Dead
2. The Hills Have Eyes
3. Suspiria
4. Silent Night, Deadly Night
5. Wizard of Gore

1. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
2. Night of the Living Dead
3. Dawn of the Dead
4. Deep Red
5. Cannibal Holocaust

#5 varies for me between CH and Jodorsky's Santa Sangre

As for me....

1. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2 Halloween
3 Night of the Living Dead
4. Dawn of the Dead
5. Phantasm

(naturally the prefix 'old' goes for the first 4)

Braindead
Bad Taste
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Bloodsucking Freaks
Razorback

No real order but certainly my top 5


Halloween ( original )
Texas Chainsaw ( original )
Night Of The Living Dead ( original )
Silent Night Deadly Night
Zombie 2

Dawn of the Dead
PHANTASM
Halloween
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Last House on Dead-end St.

Dan of the Dead wrote:

Last House on Dead-end St.

Thats a freaking awesome film, that whole hoof scene was a little weird

Street Trash
Phantasm
TCM 2
F13 Part 2
Return of Living Dead

Humanoids from the Deep
Color Me Blood Red
Cannibal Ferox
The Untold Story
Blood Feast

1. Dawn of the Dead
2. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
3. Suspiria
4. Last House on the Left
5. City of the Living Dead

Top 10's are easier... It's difficult to leave out another five films that I feel are just as important.

And Tom - I'm sure you know, Santa Sangre is right on the edge for me, as well.

Burn wrote:

And Tom - I'm sure you know, Santa Sangre is right on the edge for me, as well.

Yup...you are the one that got me into that one...fucking amazing film!!!

Burn wrote:

1. Dawn of the Dead
2. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
3. Suspiria
4. Last House on the Left
5. City of the Living Dead

Top 10's are easier... It's difficult to leave out another five films that I feel are just as important.

And Tom - I'm sure you know, Santa Sangre is right on the edge for me, as well.

Good call Burn, 10 is a more level number for a top 10 list, so everyone feel free to edit your list, this is now a top 10 thread!

Sweet thanks man again in no special order for 6-10


Pieces
What Have You Done To Solange
I Was A Teenage Werewolf
Hitch Hike
City Of The Living Dead

Children Shouldn't play with Dead Things
House by the Cemetary
Last house on Dead End St.
I drink your blood
Slumber Party Massacre
Blood Freak
Critters
Maniac

new to the thread...met tom k. at the Master show in Chicago....true horror fanatic.


1. The Thing
2. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
3. Evil Dead
4. The Mask of Satan/Black Sunday
5. Frankenstein or Bride of Frankenstein (toss up)
6. Day of the Dead
7. Curse of the Devil
8. House by the Cemetery
9. Tombs of the Blind Dead
10. Suspiria

this could change on any single day considering all the horror out there.

I find it perplexing to come up with 10 films, but here's a list of my favorites in no order:

Dracula (1931)
The Mummy (1932)
Horror of Dracula (1958)
Black Sunday (1960)
Psycho (1960)
Black Sabbath (1963)
Matango (1963)
Stay Tuned for Terror (1965)
Blood of the Virgins (1968)
Brides of Blood (1968)
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
The Last House on the Left (1972)
Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)
The Exorcist (1973)
Horror Express (1973)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Jaws (1975)
The Killer Snakes (1975)
The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Halloween (1978)
Mountain of the Cannibal God (1978)
Alien (1979)
Zombi (1979)
Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
Hell of the Living Dead (1980)
The Fog (1980)
The Shining (1980)
The Beyond (1981)
Human Lanterns (1982)
The Thing (1982)
Seeding of a Ghost (1983)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Day of the Dead (1985)
Zuma (1985)
Escapes (1988)
Bad Taste (1987)
Evil Dead II (1987)
Hellraiser (1987)
Lady Terminator (1988)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Dead Alive (1992)
Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)
Jeepers Creepers (2001)
The Descent (2005)
The Host (2007)
Grindhouse (2007)