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BWdem4life

(2,378 posts)
Sun Oct 6, 2024, 04:33 PM Oct 6

A top-99 list of horror movies

(All-time)

I have not watched them all so this is not a list of my own creation - I compiled it from other lists found on the internet.

Methodology: I chose eleven lists found with a Google search. Most were top-100, a few were top 50-75, one was top-200 and two had more than 200 (i just took the top 200 from each). Then I determined how many lists each movie ended up on, and the average position on each list. To make the final cut, each movie needed to be on at least 4 lists. Played with mathematical formulas a bit plus a few judgment calls to make the final list.

As with all such lists, there will be plenty to quibble with. However, for me this will be a nice starting point to identify what horror movies my fiance and I have not seen that we might want to experience during our traditional month of October horror movie watching.




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A top-99 list of horror movies (Original Post) BWdem4life Oct 6 OP
Totally agree with Alien as #1 Bayard Oct 6 #1
OK I'll list a few changes I would make Shermann Oct 6 #2
I've watched the first 31 movies on this list! How far have y'all gotten up this list? Rustynaerduwell Oct 6 #3
No Bella Legosi Dracula? wryter2000 Oct 6 #4

Bayard

(24,028 posts)
1. Totally agree with Alien as #1
Sun Oct 6, 2024, 04:40 PM
Oct 6

Alien II is up there too.

Blair Witch Project was a joke. A snipe hunt, not scary at all.

Shermann

(8,528 posts)
2. OK I'll list a few changes I would make
Sun Oct 6, 2024, 04:52 PM
Oct 6

Alien is one of my favorite movies of all time but doesn't cleanly fit into the "Horror" category and doesn't belong on the list. This is also true of Silence of the Lambs and The Fly.

That leaves Psycho at #1 which is too generous.

It Chapters 1 and 2 should be together (and frankly higher)

I'd swap Evil Dead 1 and 2, the original was so much better.

Jeepers Creepers has become a classic and should be on the list. Trick 'r Treat as well.

Great lists include underappreciated movies, I submit "Haunted" with Kate Beckinsale.

The "So Bad It's Good" category isn't represented, so "Troll 2" should be included.

Some I haven't seen and will consider, thanks!

Rustynaerduwell

(723 posts)
3. I've watched the first 31 movies on this list! How far have y'all gotten up this list?
Sun Oct 6, 2024, 05:23 PM
Oct 6

I've seen most of what's left. Gonna check out the ones I haven't. Great for Halloween.

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