Top Ten Horror Movies

TOP TEN HORROR MOVIES

 

1.  Psycho (1960)

A Phoenix secretary steals $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother. One of Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest (and creepiest) productions.

 

2. The Shining (1980)

A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence. Lots of blood and goddamn terrifying children. Watch out for the bathroom scene.

 

3. Repulsion (1965)

Left alone when her sister goes on vacation, a young beauty finds herself besieged on all sides by the demons of her past.

 

4. The Invisible Man (1933)

A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane. Has amazing graphics for a movie 70 years old and Claude Rains is a perfect mad scientist.

 

5. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

A young couple move into a new apartment, only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbours and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins controlling her life.

 

6. Let The Right One In (2008)

Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl who turns out to be a vampire. A haunting love story that takes creepy-children horror to a new level.

 

7. The Exorcist (1973)

When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter. That movie no one wants to talk about because they get the shivers.

 

8. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

In the dreams of his victims, a spectral child murderer stalks the children of the members of the lynch mob that killed him. Helen Bonham Carters is perfectly cast for this classic horror.

 

9. Alien (1979)

In space no one can hear you scream. It needs no other explanation.

 

10.  Frankenstein (1931)

Horror classic in which an obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses. This is seen as the best representation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel.

- Phoebe Davis