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What are your top 5 horror movies?

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My top 5:

  1. Alien
  2. The Shining
  3. The Thing
  4. Evil Dead 2
  5. Hereditary
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lud@lemm.ee
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I don’t like horror movies but Shawn of the Dead is brilliant.

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Lemmeenym@lemm.ee
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Try Tucker and Dale Vs Evil. It’s a similar kind of horror comedy.

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SSTF@lemmy.world
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Movies that actually left me feeling unnerved:

The Witch

Bone Tomahawk

The Babadook

XTRO

The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

Top “fun” or interesting but not haunting horror movies:

Alien

The Thing

Friday The 13th Part 6

Evil Dead 2

House (1985)

(A lot of runner ups in the fun category, including basically all of the Jeffery Combs catalog, but I’m not even sure those can be considered “horror” instead of comedy with horror trappings. Similar to Dead Heat and the like.)

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jpreston2005@lemmy.world
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The Witch and Bone Tomahawk are absolute classics. now I guess I’ll have to watch your other recommendations

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Moriarty@startrek.websiteOP
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I had to look up House, I was only familiar with the Japanese one. I’ll check it out.

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aviation_hydrated@infosec.pub
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House and House II are classics, nice to see a human with some taste

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Rei@piefed.social
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  1. The Thing
  2. Alien
  3. Braindead / Dead Alive
  4. Possession (1981)
  5. The Wolf House

This was so hard to narrow down

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Earth Walker@lemmy.world
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  1. Nosferatu (1922)
  2. Cat People (1942)
  3. Alien (1979)
  4. Under The Skin (2014)
  5. It Follows (2014)
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rezz@lemmy.world
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The only valid list as it includes It Follows.

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Moriarty@startrek.websiteOP
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Under the Skin is great.

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graymess@lemmy.world
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Good ass list. Cat People rocks.

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niktemadur@lemmy.world
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The Wicker Man is at the very top for me, I never seek out horror films as any sort of fan of the genre, and this one transcends it.
So does Evil Dead 2. As well as The Shining.
So that’s three. Alien also belongs up there. Four down, one to go…

I’ll round it out with The Exorcist. And you know why that film was so shocking for the time? Because it wasn’t filmed as a horror film, but as a family drama. That dry context is what made it feel so immediate for seventies audiences, and it’s still effective today, as it’s not a conceit nor gimmick, it’s an artistic statement of intent.

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