SciFi Pulse Top Ten Horror Movies
Written by Ian Cullen on October 30, 2009 – 1:21 pm -
With Halloween just around the corner. We here at SciFiPulse figured it would be good fun to do another of our top ten list, and given the season we thought what better top ten list could there be than our top ten favourite horror movies.
To compile this list Will Stape, Marx Pyle and myself talked much on Skype and through e-mail, and while our choices may not be everyones taste. We do hope that it encourages some of you guys to leave us you own top tens in the comments section.
Ten: At number ten we went with the original 1984 version of Nightmare On Elm Street. Our reasons for this choice was we enjoyed the twisted streak of humour, which ran through all the Elm Street movies, which is something we feel that the new remake will most likely lack.
Nine: At nine we went with the original 1974 movie Black Christmas, which though it doesn’t enjoy the same frenzied cult following than Nightmare and movies like Halloween. It has the destination of probably being the slasher movie that started it all.
Eight: At number eight we went with the original Saw movie, which is largely responsible for having started the torture porn sub genre in horror movies, which trail blazed a path for movies such as hostel that came later on.
Seven: For number seven we opted for the original 1978 version of Halloween, which a leaf from the 1974 movie Black Christmas and took it much further.
Six: At six we opted for The Ring, which was the first American adaptation of a japanese horror movie and started another sub genre, which would later bring us more adaptations of japanese horror such as Pulse.
Five: Bram Stokers: Dracula was the movie we chose for five. Despite some very suspect acting from Keanu Reeves. The movie did provide a certain scare factor and was a fairly faithful adaptation to the book to boot. Add to this that it was more frightening than your average Tom Cruise movie. Well your definitely onto a winner.
Four: Infestation was our choice for number four. Released earlier this year and directed by Kyle Rankin. The movie pays homage to many of the classic B – Movies of the 50’s and brings a whole new meaning to the term bug busting.
Three: Night Of The Living Dead. We here at SciFi Pulse are total suckers when it comes to Zombi movies, and as far as we’re concerned George A. Romero’s 1968 classic is still the gold standard in zombi movies.
Two: Psycho. For us this 1960 classic, which was directed by the late great Alfred Hitchcock surpasses most other horror movies when it comes to manipulating the audience and ramping up the tension. Not to mention the iconic much imitated shower scene.
One: Our choice for number one was tough. We went through a great many movies to get to this point, and eventually settled for the classic 1973 movie The Exorcist, which was thought of as so bad that it was banned in cinemas. For us the Exorcist was one of the earliest examples of an exorcism being simulated in a movie. Not to mention some brilliant performances from Linda Blair and Max Von Sydow.
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Tags: Black Christmas, Dracula, Halloween, Nightmare On Elm Street, Saw, The Ring
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