When it comes to good horror movies, I may know a thing or two. Growing up as a kid, my dad and I never watched the classics: Disney and Pixar. My dad and I spent a lot of time going to the theaters, or renting horror movies since I was 7 years-old. Although horror movies aren’t everyone’s cup of tea, they’ve really grown on me.
Everyone has their reasons on why they don’t enjoy watching horror movies. I’ve heard many reasons as to why people don’t like watching horror movies, but my favorite excuse of all time is, “Horror movies are too cheesy, there isn’t any good plot lines!”
There are so many amazing horror movies with plot lines that will have you at the edge of your seat, wondering what just happened, and how the hell did it happen?
Here are my top 10 horror movies of all time:
10. 28 Days Later (2002)
“28 Days Later,” is a post-apocalyptic horror film directed by Danny Boyle. I remember watching this movie as a kid and being horrified of the thought of a highly contagious virus spreading all over the country after an experiment gone wrong. It’s an amazing science fiction movie, but with a disappointing ending.
9. Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
“The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,” is a movie that is based on a true story, and directed by Tobe Hooper. Nothing is quite as horrifying as a movie based on real events. This movie was horrifying without it being a blood bath. “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” is considered to be one of the greatest and most controversial horror films of all time, and set a new standard for “slasher films.”
8. Evil Dead (2013)
“Evil Dead,” is a classic movie that was remade in 2013, directed by Fede Alvarez, and produced by the original creator, Sam Raimi. Although the original was original written to be a comedic horror movie, this remake is a blood bath that you’ll want to see. The “Evil Dead” remake may lack the absurd humor that the original gave, the new “Evil Dead” compensates with brutal terror, gory scares, and gleefully bloody violence.
7. The Conjuring (2013)
“The Conjuring,” is another movies based on a true story, directed by James Wan. if that doesn’t give you enough incentive to watch, then maybe the the strange things that happen at the Rhode Island farm house will. To stop the evil terrorizing them, the Warrens will need all their spiritual strength to beat the evil. This movie actually had me sleeping with the lights on after it. I usually never fall for jump scares either, but this movie had me jumping, and at the edge of my seat the whole time.
6. The Ring (2002)
“The Ring,” is an American remake of the Japanese movie “Ringu” directed by Gore Verbinski. This movie was a classic in my house hold, and will forever have a special place in my heart. Rachel Keller is a journalist investigating a videotape that may have killed four teens, but there is an urban legend behind the tape: the viewer will die in seven days after watching it. I remember watching this movie as a young girl and thinking that I too would possibly be a victim to this tape.
5. Sinister (2012)
“Sinister,” isn’t as scary as everyone makes it out to be, but it does rank higher because of its creepy factor. “Sinister”, directed by Scott Derrickson is a story about a true-crime writer, who finds a box of super 8 home movies that suggest the murder he is currently researching is the work of a serial killed whose work dates back to the 1960’s, but what he doesn’t know is that there is something more terrifying behind these home films.
4. Sinister 2 (2015)
“Sinister 2,” is the sequel to “Sinister”, directed by Ciaran Foy. This movie follows the events from the first film, but with different family. A mother and her 2 sons move into a rural house that’s marked for death. I remember sitting in the theaters with my dad last year watching this movie, it really did give me some kind of hope for horror movies in the future because it was very chilling, and a bit hard to watch when the super 8 portions of the film came on. Those murders that were shown in the film really hit me because of how gruesome they were. I don’t know what it was about this movie, but I felt like I had to close my eyes watching this movie.
3. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
“Rosemary’s Baby,” is a psychological horror film, directed by Roman Polanski. It’s about a couple who move into an opulent but gothic building in Manhattan. Rosemary learns that she is pregnant and her due date is on June 28, 1966. For the first three months of her pregnancy, Rosemary suffers severe abdominal pain, loses weight, becomes unusually pale, and craves raw meat and chicken liver. When she gives birth to her new born child, is the spawn of satan. I didn’t stumble upon “Rosemary’s Baby” until I got a lot older, maybe when I was 16 or 17 years-old. I was looking for a movie to watch and saw the cheesy movie poster and thought that this movie would just be another laugh, but it really had me thinking throughout the whole movie. It gave me an “American Horror Story: Murder House” kind of vibe, and I was always so curious to see what happened next. This movie kept me wanting more, and at the end, it left me hanging with so many other questions.
2. The Exorcist (1973)
“The Exorcist,” is a classic horror film, directed by William Friedkin, and is about a teen girl who is possessed by a mysterious entity. “The Exorcist” was one of those movies I grew up watching with my dad. Although the scare factor isn’t there for me anymore, this movie, for it’s time was something like I’ve never seen as a kid. I was horrified of the little girl who was possessed, and had someone sleep in my room with me after watching it with my cousins.
1. The Shining (1980)
“The Shining,” was originally a novel written by Stephen King, then produced into a movie directed by Stanley Kubrick. This movie is about a family that heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and future. From the creepy twins, to the bloody elevator, I was hanging onto the edge of my seat, wondering if the events that I was being show were actually true, or if what was happening was all going on in his head. Similar to “Rosemary’s Baby” I didn’t watch “The Shining” until I was a lot older. I’ve heard so much about the film that I had to go and watch it. “The Shining” will be an American classic, and will always be my number one horror film.
