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Top 10 Horror Films Of All Time

Horror never made my top ten favourite movie list (comedy didn't really make it either) and I decided since it's nearly Halloween to do a super scary horror list as I'm a big fan of the genre
10 - Theatre Of Blood (1973) - Not that I'm screaming for remakes of every film, but why hasn't this been remade yet (starring Ian McKellen to give you ideas), this movie sees Vincent Price faking his death and taking revenge on a number of critics and killing them in the style of Shakespeare. Doesn't take itself too seriously and is a lot of fun.
9 - Braindead (1992) - I have turned away recently from the zombie genre and with the expectations of iZombie haven't really seen anything zombie related since Zombieland (and that includes The Walking Dead). Braindead is a brilliant funny and gory movie from Peter Jackson with karate priests, a zombie baby and so much, much more I have no problem calling this my favourite zombie movie of all time.
8 - Scream (1996) - came around at the right time for me as I was changing from enjoying cinema to appreciating cinema (did I say a similar thing about Pulp Fiction), loved the self referential of all the films I loved growing up (I was allowed to watch a lot of crazy stuff)
7 - Halloween (1978) - of course it's one of the most iconic slasher movies of all time that has had 7 sequels (including a Michael Myers-less one and there is talk of a new one) plus the Rob Zombie remake and it's sequel, but there's a reason it's so iconic, builds up it's suspense to bloody well.
6 - A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984) - I was allowed to watch this (and it's sequel) so much as a kid, and the first movie (thought 3 and New Nightmare are strong movies, none-shockingly Wes Craven was again involved in both), this is the sort of film that felt like it came so iconic from day one.
5 - Carrie (1976) - the first Stephen King book and Stephen King adaptation (that's had 2 further inferior versions) I think captures teenage years really well even if we weren't all a girl with overbearing religious Mothers, of course there is so much iconic about the last portion of the movie but it's a film that possesses so much more
4 - Frankenstein / Bride Of Frankenstein (1931 / 1935) - I picked these as one just because I think of them together, BOF might be slightly better but I don't think Frankenstein's Monster has even been portrayed so good as it by Boris Karloff here.
3 - The Wicker Man (1973) - it's almost a musical in some ways and that is one of the many brilliant things about this movie, a movie they was crazy to try and remake it as it would never live up to this and the ending is still absolutely brilliant. 
2 - The Shining (1980) - shoddy as a Stephen King adaption but a brilliant film that left me with such an uneasy feeling when I first ever saw this. Jack Nicholson maybe OTT but he is brilliant at it.
1 - Psycho (1960) - a film that feels well before it's time even though the 1998 shot for shot remake failed, even if you know the twists it's still a brilliant journey to go on.

Misery I decided to count as a thriller or it could have made the list and Gremlins I never saw as a horror so I decided not to include it. also Alien films would be on a sci-fi list

some films that could of made it at one point - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), The Burning, An American Werewolf In London (so close!), The Fly (I haven't watched it in years but a rewatch might put it back on the list).
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