My Top 10 Favorite Horror Movies (This list doesn't include horror comedies)

At first, I didn't like this movie until recently. I saw clips of the film and the clips turned me off, pea soup and a foul mouth demon yelling at a priest, what's to like. Then, I finally watched it, and oh my God. The atmosphere,the build up, and the suspense got me hook, line, and sinker. Although I do believe in demons, this film gave me the oppurtunity to almost see what an actual demon possessed person looks like.

Ok, let me start of by saying that I do not think that there is life on other planets. However, this movie scared the living crap out of me as a kid. Now, before anyone asks, no my parents didn't let me watch horror or even R rated films as a child. I would always be at a friends' house or my older brother watched them with. From the get go with this film, I was hooked. I thought the hatchlings were the main aliens and thought, "That wasn't that scary." Then $#@^ got real when the xenomorph (yes, that's what the species is called for those who don't know) popped out of the guys chest a grew. I hid under anything to keep from seeing the thing, and was the main reason I was scared of the dark until I was 12.

The only thing I can say about this film is this, it was my introduction to werewolves.

All I can say about this film, BEST TWIST ENDING EVER!!! M. Night could learn a thing or two from this film.

This film was a godsend for me. When I first saw this, the only horror movies I was watching were the craptastic sequals of The Howling and cheesy vampire comedies. This movie rocked. The characters were enjoyable, the plot made sense, and the ending of film causes me a laugh. The story behind that is I was watching the film with my dad, who had never seen it before, and he just got out of his mouth, "I guess she's safe now." And then BOOM! Jason grapped her, my dad screams and jumps,and I have a perfect memory of my dad.

My introduction to zombies, and how social commentary can be built into a film. That is why George A. Romero is a genius when it comes to zombie movies.

This movie made me afraid to fall alseep. That's the main reason reason I have problems with some of the sequals to this film. THEY WEREN'T SCARY!!! When you turn your main villain into a clown, and then expect people to scream and instead they laugh. Don't say that the people are desensitized to violence, cause we're not It's just hard to find something scary about a person being beheaded and then the killer saying "He shoulda stopped while he was a head." and then proceed to cackle like he said something funny. If you want people to take something serious, take it serious yourself.

In my opinion (which this list is pretty much consisted of) this one film that needs to be looked at if you want to know how to build up tension. this film gets write what most other creature features get wrong. the more you see the creature the less the shock value you have. Also, although CGI is cheaper and sometimes looks better, most of the time you can tell that the creature isn't really there. You can use animatronics and models more to help with scenes where actors are face-to-face with the creature. To get back on topic, I took a writing class in college and did a paper on what I thought the three types of villains are in a horror movie. I gathered that you have Brute villains, who just regular people who use brutalmethods to kill people, like Ghostface and other one-shot Slashers, Mystical villains who rely on magic and spells like Freddy Kruger and Ma'Jin from Wishmaster, and Beast villains, who do what they do because it's their nature, like the xenomorph aliens and *Bruce from Jaws. In the paper I said the Beast were the scariest based on the fact that they don't have a motive other than nature.

*Bruce was the nickname given to the shark robot by Steven Spielberg, who named it after his lawyer.

I like this movie for two reasons: 1. Vincent, 2. Price. This was my introduction to Vincent Price. He will always be the King of the Macbre in my book. This movie had good atmosphere to it. Without it, the film would just be a scareless version of itself, you know the remake of the film*.

*Note: I like the most of the actors in the remake, and it was the only reason I saw the original film.

The last three are a tie because either due to laziness or just great film makingI could descide between the three of these films. Carpenter is the King of Tension. With tension, these films would suck. Carpenter also doesn't have to rely on jump scares to make people jump. That's something Platinum Dune needs to learn before they do anymore horror remakes. Also, Vampires was my intro into...well vampires.