Top Horror Movies

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1. Psycho (1960)
2. Alien (1979)
3. The Shining (1980)
4. Faust (1926)
5. Aliens (1986)
6. Jaws (1975)
7. Kabinett des Doktor Caligari, Das (1920)
8. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
9. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
10. Onibaba (1964)

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Luminaries of the Genre

• Boris Karloff
• Bela Lugosi
• Lon Chaney
• Vincent Price
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Stephen King
• Christopher Lee
• Terence Fisher
• George A. Romero
• John Carpenter

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The Blair Witch Project provoked strong, and varied, reactions from its audiences. Perhaps because of the sureness of its supporters AND detractors, it created a sensation, appearing on numerous magazine covers and becoming wildly profitable. The movie was purportedly composed of the recovered footage of three student filmmakers who had disappeared into the Maryland woods a year earlier. They were making a documentary about a local legend, the Blair Witch, and were never seen again. The documentary's director, Heather Donahue, continues to film in the midst of the most terrifying of circumstances, attempting to keep a photo-journalist's detachment from the events around her, right up to the last frame. It's this device that ensures that The Blair Witch Project will survive, not only as a great horror film, but also as an organic criticism of a generation raised on television, a generation that seems to only experience reality through a lens piece, screen, or tube. That buried statement is the true legacy of this exceptional movie. (more)