100 Horror Movies From the 70’s. If you are old enough, you might remember growing up and watching some of the old horror movies from the 1970’s.Hollywood insiders were asked to pick their favorite movies of all time, providing us with a ranked list of 100 of the best movies ever made. Hey there Horror Fans! Got a inkling for a scary clown movie? Do creepy clowns freak you out? How about just plain haunting face paint that rubs you the wrong way. The Scariest Movies Ever Made Found Footage Best of the '70s The Best Horror Films Ever Made Best of the '80s Best Remakes Worst Horror Movie Heroes Psycho Thrillers. ![]() The Top 25 (Other) Best Fantasy Movies Ever Made (Part 1) Take a look at the best magical adventures that weren't directed by Peter Jackson and don't have the words. The 1. 00 Best Horror Movies of the 1. Everybody likes horror movies, but not everybody has the time to really delve into them and explore the genre. There are just too many, and unless you’re actively making your living as a film critic, it is entirely understandable if you don’t have the time. But that’s how misconceptions get started, those misleading observations based only on the most visible motion pictures in a genre, like the frequently expressed belief that the 1. That’s not really fair. ![]() The 1. 99. 0s were, if we take a serious look at it, an exceptionally interesting time for the horror movie genre, although that does perhaps have something to do with the fact that it was going through an identity crisis. The 1. 98. 0s were easily defined as an era of slasher thrillers and ambitious gore films, but those trends were already dying out by the time the 1. The late 1. 99. 0s would eventually be defined by Scream and the ironic genre commentaries that emerged in its wake, but the majority of the decade was an amorphous time period in which filmmakers experimented with new ideas, toyed around with the old ones, and produced a lot of exciting movies as a result. Of course not every horror movie from the 1. A couple of the most popular ones didn’t even make this list, and we’ve already produced an entire downloadable commentary track, available free of charge, that explains why Event Horizon is one of them. But despite their absence it still wasn’t difficult to compile this list of one hundred great – and if not great then at least entertaining (or at least extremely interesting) – horror movies from throughout the decade. These films reveal just how diverse and fascinating the genre really was in the 1. So the next time someone tells you that horror movies sucked in the 1. Even some of the so- called “bad” horror movies of the era are worthy of new eyes twenty years later, and it may surprise you to learn that they play a lot better now than they did the first time. Let’s get rolling with. The Burning Moon (1. Intervision. German filmmaker Olaf Ittenbach didn’t just make The Burning Moon, he got away with it. It’s the sort of film makes you want to call the police. Shot on home video, Ittenbach’s movie is the sick tale of a demented teen telling his little sister bedtime stories, but they are completely unacceptable for children or even adults of any age, detailing detestable murders and finally a descent into one of the most gruesome Hells ever conceived. It doesn’t belong in your home video library, it belongs in evidence locker. But there’s a market for that sort of thing. Let’s take a look at the best horror movies of 2014. The scary list features the usual mix of sequels ( Man’s Best Friend (1. New Line Cinema. Can a film have multiple personality disorder? John Lafia’s killer dog movie doesn’t quite know if it wants to be Air Bud or Cujo, and it races back and forth between family- friendly jokes and horrifying imagery like a dog repeatedly catching a stick. It’s the story of a newspaper reporter who liberates a dog from a shady laboratory, only to discover that it’s a dangerous, genetically enhanced organism that can turn invisible, eat cats whole and even cut her boyfriend’s brakes. Man’s Best Friend is definitely ridiculous, but it’s also entertaining from start to finish. Popcorn (1. 99. 1)Studio Three Film Corporation. ![]() ![]() A group of film students rents out a movie theater for an all- night horror film festival, complete with William Castle gimmicks like Smellovision and electrified seats, but in all the crowd- pleasing commotion nobody seems to notice that a maniac is murdering everyone offstage. Clever deaths and an unexpected, charismatic villain make Popcorn one of the better slashers you’ve probably never heard of. My Boyfriend’s Back (1. Touchstone Pictures. Bob Balaban directed one of the scariest horror comedies in history, but that was Parents, back in 1. In the 1. 99. 0s the Close Encounters of the Third Kind co- star returned to the director’s chair for a goofier but still very likable zombie rom- com, about a teen who asks the hottest girl in school to the prom just before he dies. The thing is, when she says yes, out of pity, he refuses to stay dead. Can he still be the good- natured John Hughes underdog when he needs to eat his fellow classmates to survive? Boasting an eccentric sense of humor and weird early performances by Matthew Mc. Conaughey and Philip Seymour Hoffman, My Boyfriend’s Back is an oddball treat. Giggles (1. 99. 2)Universal Pictures. Dr. Giggles was marketed like it was going to be the next great slasher franchise, but nobody saw the danged thing. That’s a pity, because they probably would have liked it just fine. Larry Drake plays a homicidal doctor who metes out violence on his patients while uncontrollably giggling to himself, in a performance that’s campy, but creepy nevertheless. It may not have broken the mold, and it may not have broken into the public consciousness, but it’s gradually finding a cult audience who recognize that it’s one of the most underrated late- era slashers. Thinner (1. 99. 6)Paramount Pictures. Based on a novel by Stephen King, published under his pseudonym “Richard Bachman,” Thinner is a cynical morality tale that probably would have made for a classic Tales from the Crypt episode. As a movie it’s a little longer than it needs to be, but it’s engagingly directed by Tom Holland (Fright Night) and features one of Robert John Burke’s best performances. Burke plays an obese lawyer who uses his political connections to avoid a prison sentence after he accidentally kills a gypsy with his car. The gypsy’s husband curses him to lose weight, uncontrollably, until he dies. It’s a solid “be careful what you wish for” nightmare, with a vicious anti- moral streak. Nobody wants to become a better person in Thinner. They’ll do damn near anything to save themselves. Alien: Resurrection (1. Century Fox. Alien: Resurrection is not a great movie, but it’s an extremely interesting one, and the first Alien sequel to truly revel in the perverse psychosexual imagery that H. R. Giger originally envisioned for the series way back in 1. Ripley, played by a strong and sensual Sigourney Weaver, has been cloned in the future but her DNA has been mingled with the alien xenomorphs she died trying to exterminate in the first place. The action scenes are a mess and the supporting cast is too kooky for their own good, but when Alien: Resurrection focuses on the strange new relationship between Ripley and her enemy – closer than ever, both familial and sexual – it’s a twisted and oddly enjoyable entry in the franchise. Bad Moon (1. 99. 6)Warner Bros. Bad Moon might have been more popular if the title was more honest. Let’s face it: Eric Red’s under- appreciated thriller should have been called Lassie vs. A single mom invites her estranged brother back home, but he’s not just distant, he’s cursed, and only the family dog knows that good ol’ Uncle Ted (played particularly well by Michael Par. Sure enough, their faithful pooch gets blamed for all the maulings, and eventually there’s a scene where the little boy screams as the Humane Society drags the dog away, while the dog barks its head off trying to warn his ungrateful masters of the danger in their midst. The special effects aren’t great – in fact, sometimes they’re just terrible – but Bad Moon still knows how to hit you in the gut. Anaconda (1. 99. 7)Columbia Pictures. Good old- fashioned monster movie nonsense. A documentary film crew treks their way through the Amazon and runs across a Paraguayan trapper played, with absolute scenery- chewing glee, by Jon Voight. He tricks them into helping him hunt a rare and gigantic anaconda, a quest which eventually gets practically everybody killed. A silly premise, filmed well, featuring an unusually great ensemble cast that includes Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson, Ice Cube, Danny Trejo and Eric Stoltz. Wishmaster (1. 99. Live Entertainment. An unironic monster movie released in the height of the post- Scream irony boom, it is perhaps no surprise that Wishmaster didn’t find an enormous audience. This clever supernatural thriller, directed by makeup effects maestro Robert Kurtzman, stars Andrew Divoff as an ageless djinn who has unlimited power, but he can’t use it unless somebody else makes a wish. So Wishmaster is full of amusing wordplay – one woman wishes she could be beautiful forever, so the djinn turns her into a mannequin, etc. It spawned three straight- to- video sequels, but only the first one, Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies, is also worth seeking out. Idle Hands (1. 99. Columbia Pictures. Do you remember that scene from Evil Dead II where Bruce Campbell’s hand became possessed and tried to kill him? Idle Hands is that scene, but as an entire movie. It works better than you might think. Devon Sawa plays a pothead who’s so slothful that his hand literally becomes the devil’s plaything. His hand kills his best friends, Seth Green (Robot Chicken) and Elden Henson (Daredevil), but it’s cool. They come back as zombies to help him find a way out of the curse. Very funny stuff from prolific TV director Rodman Flender (Scream: The Series). House on Haunted Hill (1. Warner Bros. It’s no coincidence that the remake of William Castle’s beloved fright flick opens at an amusement park. After all, this all- star spook house thriller works more like a carnival ride than a movie. Geoffrey Rush hams it up as a millionaire who invites a group of weirdos to spend the night in – gasp! But to everybody’s surprise, the place really is haunted, and soon they’re all backstabbing each other to survive. House on Haunted Hill is the kind of madcap fright flick that’s perfect for slumber parties. The Devil’s Advocate (1. Warner Bros. And to think, Al Pacino used to be considered a pretty subtle actor. But by the 1. 99. The Godfather and Serpico was going WAY over the top in genre flicks like Dick Tracy and, more to the point, The Devil’s Advocate, playing Lucifer himself as a wealthy and oversexed head of a prestigious New York law firm. Top 1. 0 Best Ghost Movies (Horror Movie List) - With Clips. It is fast approaching that unique portion of the year when all true matters arcane and diabolical are given the festive treatment, as Halloween prompts folks to deploy their broomsticks for something other than sweeping up after the household pet. Although we have recently seen cinematic quotas of the supernatural gobbled up by vampire and zombie flicks, it would be remiss to overlook the genuine chills instilled by the most successful exponents of the ghost movie genre. So here are ten of the scariest ghost movies to put the frighteners on us poor, trembling cinema- goers. Dark Water (2. 00. Leaky plumbing becomes an unlikely source of spine- tingling terror in this J- Horror offering from director Hideo Nakata, the man who had previously attached creepy connotations onto video cassettes and cold- calling in the first two Ringu films. Sharing some narrative ground with his earlier horror hits, Dark Water finds Nakata once again casting a supernatural child as his primary wellspring of unsettlement, as the spirit of Mitsuko (Mirei Oguchi) seeks some redress for her premature demise. The red of Mitsuko’s lost bag and the prevalence of water in the movie both establish a link to Nicholas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now, and the blend served up on this occasion by Nakata was beguiling enough to inspire Hollywood to deliver an unexceptional 2. Jennifer Connolly. Spectral seadogs resurface to wreak vengeance upon the small coastal town of Antonio Bay, as Jamie Lee Curtis collaborates with director John Carpenter on a more expansive chiller than their earlier Halloween. The Fog sees Curtis cast alongside her mother, Janet Leigh, and although the shock ending of Carpenter’s movie is certainly not up to Psycho standard, the enveloping mist of the title provides an effectively eerie shroud under which the succession of revenge killings can be enacted. And, as ever with horror aficionado Carpenter, there some teasing little genre nods too – such as a twosome of characters turning up bearing tributary monikers to Robert Fuests’s Abominable Dr. Phibes and Great God Pan writer Arthur Machen. The Devil’s Backbone (2. Better known for the bizarre, tactile mutant bodies that inhabited his Pan’s Labyrinth and Hellboy movies, The Devil’s Backbone saw Guillermo del Toro adopting a rather less- outr. Death looms large over the film’s scenario, with the Spanish Civil War- era action taking place in an orphanage in which roams the restless spirit of deceased young resident Santi (Junio Valverde). A sense of unease stalks The Devil’s Backbone throughout, as the darkest facets of human behaviour overshadow Santi’s baleful haunting – although del Toro himself might have felt like he was the one coming back from the dead, as he fully grasped the opportunity to rebuild following the production difficulties and poor reception of Mimic. Poltergeist (1. 98. And we reach the first haunted house movie of the list. Tempted as I was to include The Legend of Hell House (which sees the astral presence of Michael Gough’s devilish Emeric Belasco spreading misery as an expression of the resentment he harboured about his titchy little legs), I decided to plump for this successful collaboration between writer- producer Steven Spielberg and director Tobe Hooper. The sense of wonder one has come to typically associate with The Beard’s output is given a darker tint here, with Carol Anne Freeling (Heather O’Rourke) being ripped away from her family and subsumed by the static of the television set. Meanwhile, Texas Chainsaw Massacre helmer Hooper keeps the schlock coming; as evinced by Martin Casella’s psychic researcher clawing his own face to shreds, and some slightly bathetic final revelations about a defiled burial ground. The Haunting (1. 96. Blimey, wait for one haunted house movie and then a pair of the blighters show up at once. Well, probably significantly better than finding someone who prefers the Jan de Bont- directed remake of The Haunting to the 1. Coming as it did between his work on West Side Story and The Sound of Music, The Haunting perhaps represents a slightly unlikely interjection in the production schedule of the period for its director Robert Wise. However Wise brings the kind of intelligence to proceedings that you might expect from the man who cut Citizen Kane, delivering a disquieting thriller that is high on aesthetic quality and psychological sophistication. The 1. 00 Best Movies Ever Made by Movieline Magazine. Movieline. Magazine selected The 1. Best Movies Ever Made (from silents. Spielberg) in their December 1. English- language films - actually 1. The semi- serious article was written by Virginia Campbell and Edward Margulies, who admitted that they included one by Martin Scorsese and one by D. W. Griffith. but they compensated for that by not including any films by David Lean. Mike Nichols. Facts and Commentary About The List: Since the list was presented alphabetically, there were no ranking issues or problems. This was the first list that Filmsite. Movieline's descriptions were often too glib or cute. The list was developed and issued way back in 1. AFI began to rank the 1. Greatest American Films, and just before Filmsite. Greatest Films and created its own website. Filmsite. org's . The list was fairly balanced in terms of decades, directors, genre types, and the number of UK and Hollywood films, although it still had some unusual choices (The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1. True Lies (1. 99. The earliest film on the list was Intolerance. True Lies (1. 99. Films from the UK or from foreign directors included: Hitchcock's British film The 3. Steps (1. 93. 5), The Third Man (1. Paths of Glory (1. Peeping Tom (1. 96. The Innocents (1. The Haunting (1. 96. A Hard Day's Night (1. Blowup (1. 96. 6), Petulia (1. Sunday, Bloody Sunday (1. Gallipoli (1. 98. The Road Warrior (1. The Year of Living Dangerously (1. Witness (1. 98. 5). Noted and memorable films not often found on . Miller (1. 97. 1), Badlands (1. Don't. Look Now (1. The Conversation (1. Shampoo (1. 97. 5), Being There (1. Manhattan (1. 97. The Elephant Man (1. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1. Blue Velvet (1. 98. Miller's Crossing (1. There were five films from the silent era: D. W. Griffith's Intolerance (1. Buster Keaton's Sherlock, Jr. Murnau's exquisite Sunrise (1. The Wind (1. 92. 8), and Charlie Chaplin's City Lights (1. Talkie films from the decade of the 3. Trouble. in Paradise (1. King Kong (1. 93. Queen Christina (1. John Ford's The Informer (1. Hitchcock's. The 3. Steps (1. 93. 5), Dodsworth. My Man Godfrey (1. Swing. Time (1. 93. Disney's animated. Snow. White and the Seven Dwarfs (1. The. Adventures of Robin Hood (1. Gone With the Wind (1. Love. Affair (1. 93. The. Wizard of Oz (1. There were 2. 1 films from the decade of the 4. His Girl Friday (1. The Philadelphia Story (1. Rebecca (1. 94. 0), Citizen Kane (1. The Lady Eve (1. 94. Casablanca (1. 94. Double Indemnity (1. Meet Me in St. Louis (1. The Best Years of Our Lives (1. It's A Wonderful Life (1. Notorious (1. 94. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1. There were 1. 9 films from the decade of the 5. All About Eve (1. Sunset Blvd. In between were such classics as: The African Queen (1. Singin' in the Rain (1. Rear Window (1. 95. The Searchers (1. Touch of Evil (1. Vertigo (1. 95. 8). There were only 1. Psycho (1. 96. 0), West Side Story (1. To Kill a Mockingbird (1. Stanley Kubrick: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying. Love the Bomb (1. A Space Odyssey (1. There were also 1. Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1. The Godfather, Part II (1. Cabaret (1. 97. 2), Chinatown (1. Annie Hall (1. 97. In the 1. 98. 0s, there were only 1. The. Empire Strikes Back (1. Raging Bull (1. 98. Blade Runner (1. 98. Director's Cut), and E. T. The Extra- Terrestrial (1. The short 9. 0s decade had only three films - - the Coen Brothers' Miller's Crossing (1. Spielberg's Schindler's List (1. True Lies (1. 99. See also Movieline Magazine's 1. Greatest. Foreign Films selections. Note: The films that are marked with a yellow star.
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