The Top 50 Greatest Horror Films of All Time
Horror is my favorite cinematic genre, yet has the least to show for it. Emerging from screening the mountains of insipid waste that this genre has to its name, here I pay respect to the better angels of the spooky content we subject ourselves to out of radical self-love. This isn't to be confused with the 'scariest movies of all time' or what have you, just the good stuff we call horror, scream queens and final girls and all. If you're looking for scary, objectively the scariest scene ever made public was that one dream sequence in David Lynch's masterpiece non-horror in "Mulholland Dr." where the guy recounts his dream of that ghastly woman outside the restaurant. Scary stuff.
According to the advanced search engine offered here, I've watched 400+ horror films -- feature-length movies classified by the IMDb hierarchy as containing elements compatible with the horror movie genre -- in my benevolent servitude to humanity. There, there's my bona-fides.
Directors with multiple entries in the rankings (organized in alphabetical order of last name):
T-1.) John Carpenter: 3 films (The Thing; Halloween; They Live)
T-1.) David Cronenberg: 3 films (Videodrome; The Fly; Dead Ringers)
T-1.) David Lynch: 3 films (Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me; Eraserhead; Twin Peaks: The Return)
T-4.) Dario Argento: 2 films (Suspiria; Deep Red)
T-4.) Brian De Palma: 2 films (Carrie; Phantom of the Paradise)
T-4.) Robert Eggers: 2 films (The Lighthouse; The Witch)
T-4.) Alfred Hitchcock: 2 films (Psycho; The Birds)
T-4.) Roman Polanski: 2 films (Rosemary's Baby; Repulsion)
T-4.) George A. Romero: 2 films (Night of the Living Dead; Dawn of the Dead)
According to the advanced search engine offered here, I've watched 400+ horror films -- feature-length movies classified by the IMDb hierarchy as containing elements compatible with the horror movie genre -- in my benevolent servitude to humanity. There, there's my bona-fides.
Directors with multiple entries in the rankings (organized in alphabetical order of last name):
T-1.) John Carpenter: 3 films (The Thing; Halloween; They Live)
T-1.) David Cronenberg: 3 films (Videodrome; The Fly; Dead Ringers)
T-1.) David Lynch: 3 films (Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me; Eraserhead; Twin Peaks: The Return)
T-4.) Dario Argento: 2 films (Suspiria; Deep Red)
T-4.) Brian De Palma: 2 films (Carrie; Phantom of the Paradise)
T-4.) Robert Eggers: 2 films (The Lighthouse; The Witch)
T-4.) Alfred Hitchcock: 2 films (Psycho; The Birds)
T-4.) Roman Polanski: 2 films (Rosemary's Baby; Repulsion)
T-4.) George A. Romero: 2 films (Night of the Living Dead; Dawn of the Dead)
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