25 June 2011

Chicago Film Critics Association: 100 Scariest Films

I'm not a HUGE scary-movie-fan, but I will admit to craving a fright on certain evenings when it's windy out or I'm all alone and feeling rash. Also, it's always fun to collect a few friends and go down to the basement telly for a bit of classic cinematic horror.

Recently, I've discovered that I am shamelessly BEHIND as far as scary movies are concerned [that is, if the Chicago Film Critics Association knows what they're talking about, as the following list is what they reckon to be the 100 Scariest Films] so I think I ought to set it right.

* I've seen all the titles in bold and what I've italicized I actually plan to see. Anything I haven't bold'ed or italicized you can consider either bollocks or too scary for me to handle. *

1. Psycho
2. The Exorcist
3. Halloween
4. Alien
5. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
6. Jaws
7. The Shining
8. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
9. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
10. Rosemary’s Baby
11. The Silence of the Lambs
12. The Blair Witch Project
13. Nosferatu
14. Frankenstein (1931)
15. Nightmare on Elm Street
16. Carrie (1976)

17. The Thing (1982)
18. Bride of Frankenstein

19. The Haunting (1963)
20. Poltergeist
21. Suspiria
22. Wait Until Dark
23. The Birds
24. Don’t Look Now
25. Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn

26. The Innocents
27. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
28. Freaks
29. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
30. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, (1921)

31. The Omen (1976)
32. The Fly (1986)
33. Se7en
34. The Re-Animator
35. The Sixth Sense
36. The Ring (2002)
37. The Evil Dead
38. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1932)
39. The Hitcher

40. Near Dark
41. Dracula (1931)
42. Vampyr (1932)
43. Onibaba
44. Scream
45. Aliens
46. Creature from the Black Lagoon
47. Session 9
48. Nosferatu the Vampyre
49. Black Christmas
50. When a Stranger Calls
51. Repulsion
52. Misery
53. Horror of Dracula
54. The Others
55. Jurassic Park
56. The Seventh Victim
57. Peeping Tom
58. 28 Days Later
59. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
60. The Hidden
61. May
62. Shaun of the Dead
63. Last House on the Left
64. 10 Rillington Place
65. Salo
66. Cat People (1942)
67. Frailty
68. The Howling
69. Trilogy of Terror
70. Blue Velvet
71. I Walked with a Zombie
72. Bram Stoker’s Dracula
73. Martin
74. Deliverance
75. Carnival of Souls
76. The Vanishing (1988)
77. Masque of the Red Death
78. The Night of the Hunter
79. Salem’s Lot
80. Fright Night
81. Black Sunday (1960)
82. Scream 2
83. Dressed To Kill
84. The Stepfather
85. Friday the 13th
86. The Exorcism of Emily Rose
87. Let’s Scare Jessica to Death
88. The Brood
89. Dead-Alive
90. Open Water
91. The Mummy (1932)
92. Requiem for a Dream
93. Signs
94. The Wolf Man

95. Phantasm
96. The Night Stalker
97. Brides of Dracula
98. “M”
99. God Told Me To
100. Eyes without a Face

30/100, not bad.

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