My Top 100 Horror Movies of All Time

Halloween is right around the corner and to celebrate I have made a list of the the top 100 horror movies of all time, in my opinion. Here’s the list, if you have thoughts comment below.

1. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
2. Jaws (1975)
3. Black Christmas (1974)
4. King Kong (1933)
5. Psycho (1960)
6. Halloween (1978)
7. The Exorcist (1973)
8. Poltergeist (1982)
9. Black Swan (2010)
10. Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn (1987)
11. Seven (1995)
12. The Amityville Horror (1979)
13. The Sixth Sense (1999)
14. American Psycho (2000)
15. The Shining (1980)
16. Aliens (1979)
17. Scream (1996)
18. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
19. Suspiria (1977)
20. Alien (1979)
21. Fatal Attraction (1987)
22. Wait Until Dark (1967)
23. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
24. The Omen (1976)
25. The Descent (2005)
26. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
27. Frankenstein (1931)
28. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
29. Misery (1990)
30. The Thing (1982)
31. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
32. The Last House on the Left (1972)
33. Friday the 13^th (1980)
34. The Ring (2002)
35. Videodrome (1983)
36. Don’t Breathe (2016)
37. The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
38. Halloween II (1981)
39. Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
40. Army of Darkness (1992)
41. Carrie (1976)
42. The Birds (1963)
43. Children of the Corn (1984)
44. 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
45. An American Werewolf in London (1981)
46. The Babadook (2015)
47. Cape Fear (1991)
48. Van Helsing (2003)
49. The Mummy (1999)
50. The Wicker Man (1973)
51. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
52. Child’s Play (1988)
53. Saw (2004)
54. Cloverfield (2008)
55. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1990)
56. Fright Night (1985)
57. The Dead Zone (1983)
58. The Evil Dead (1981)
59. Beetlejuice (1988)
60. Planet Terror (2007)
61. Hush (2016)
62. Death Proof (2007)
63. Open Water (2003)
64. Hellraiser (1987)
65. Hostel (2005)
66. 28 Days Later (2002)
67. Shutter Island (2010)
68. Drag Me to Hell (2009)
69. The Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954)
70. Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
71. The Fly (1986)
72. Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
73. You’re Next (2013)
74. Gremlins (1984)
75. The Crazies (2010)
76. Cabin Fever (2002)
77. Re-Animator (1985)
78. Don’t Look Now (1973)
79. Crimson Peak (2015)
80. Sleepy Hollow (1999)
81. The Conjuring (2013)
82. I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
83. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
84. Paranormal Activity (2009)
85. From Dusk Til Dawn (1996)
86. Dawn of the Dead (2004)
87. Candyman (1992)
88. Darkness Falls (2003)
89. The Devil’s Rejects (2005)
90. Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)
91. The Village (2003)
92. The Others (2001)
93. Final Destination (2000)
94. The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
95. Quarantine (2008)
96. Creepshow (1982)
97. Insidious (2011)
98. House of Wax (2005)
99. 1408 (2007)
100. The Visit (2015)

Supporting Smaller Films

Summer is coming to an end, where big budget films fade away for a minor time. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t go out and enjoy these films. In fact some if not most of the films are even better than these big budget and marketed films.

Check out the link below on why smaller films must share the spotlight with big budget blockbusters

Check it out here: Supporting Smaller Films

Carnage: Human Brutality Reflected in Film

Fans wanting an R-rated Suicide Squad. Sausage Party showcasing violence of an every day occurrence such as grocery shopping and eating. And War Dogs being released, which is the story of cashing in on violence during war time.

Violence in film is always a controversial subject, but in reality, violence in films must be showcased, and without it, the subject of films would be a very dull and useless form of entertainment.

Below is my article on why violence needs to be in films.

Click Here: Carnage: Human Brutality Reflected in Film

The Killing Joke- Batman and Joker Relationship

In honor of the new animated movie being released, The Killing Joke, a story about the bond between Batman and the Joker, I have written a critical analysis on my favorite scene from both the movie and graphic novel.

Check it out here: The Killing Joker- Batman and Joker Relationship

Top 5 Steven Spielberg Films

The BFG is being released worldwide today so here are my top 5 favorite films directed by Steven Spielberg.

5. Schindler’s List

We start off this list with maybe one of the saddest and possibly one of the most disturbing films ever. The story about Oskar Schindler who hired and saved over 1,000 Jews from Nazi concentration camps during WWII, is one of the most heroic stories ever put on film. The way that Spielberg directs the film is personal, and doesn’t feel like a history film in middle school, and instead delivers a raw look at the horrors of mankind, holding nothing back. Not one of his most re watchable films, but definitely one of his best films in general.

4. Raiders of the Lost Ark

Probably one of the best action films of all time, Raiders of the Lost Ark shows how much fun Spielberg can have making a film. With outstanding set pieces, practical action, and a masterful performance by Harrison Ford playing the iconic archaeologist wielding his whip in his fedora while searching for the ark of the covenant. I really can’t say a lot more other than go watch it.

3. Jurassic Park

The first film to successfully master special effects, that are even better than most of today’s special effects in films today. Spielberg delivers a film that really does take you to another world. Even though there are plot holes, it doesn’t matter because well paced action, and fantastic looking dinosaurs, it is no doubt this franchise is still going strong today.

2. ET: The Extra-Terrestrial

ET always had a place in my heart, being one of the first films I have seen. As a child I was really scared by this film by the design of the alien. But as I got older, I appreciated the film more. The story is about a boy who befriends a lost alien, and tries to get him back home. This is maybe the only film that made me cry. The emotion from this film makes you fall in love with this friendship. It is hard to see ET as a puppet but instead see it as a real alien. The film also has a cast that is almost all children, where in other films can destroy it. But with ET it just adds on to the film, and having you feel great to be a kid again when watching this film.

1. Jaws

A film that had everything gone wrong. Start of shooting without a script, long days shooting, members of the cast didn’t like each other, and the mechanical shark barely even worked. But yet this film went on to becoming one of the greatest films of all time and deservingly so. Jaws in my opinion is a perfect film. The cast is the one of the best cast, with Roy Scheider as a brave but yet caring sheriff, Richard Dreyfus as the witty marine biologist, and Robert Shaw delivering one of the best performances ever as the crazy old fisherman. The iconic score by John Williams keeps you at the edge of your feet with just two beats. The fact the the shark isn’t really show until the second half of the movie shows that the less you show the more terrifying it is builds on the fear. Where ET expresses happiness and magic, Jaws expresses fear and excitement, and it is fantastic.

Image by: Sam Howzit

The Underrated- Black Christmas

When reading my story last week about my thoughts on the slasher film I posted, I was very surprised that I didn’t say anything about the 1976 slasher film, Black Christmas. The best slasher film in my opinion and the most underrated horror film.

The film is about a serial killer who hides in the attic of a sorority house, and kills off the sorority girls one by one during their stay at the house during Christmas break.

The story is a very simple one and filmmaker, Bob Clark, knows that, but what he does with the direction of the film makes it unique. Black Christmas was the first to use the point of view of the killer technique five years before Friday the 13th made it a common technique. Most of the film is shot from the killer’s point of view, making it more intense and feeling more scared for the girls.

Clark also directs the house in small areas, making it closterphobic, feeling that you can easily get away from the killer, who is hiding and taunting with in the house, but can not be located.

To me that is terrifying, this film was the first to really scare me and that is the strongest part of this film, the emotion and the fear. Olivia Hussey, who plays the heroin is very chilling and is very convincing as a terrified woman in peril, but is smart, making no stupid decisions, and really selling the scenes of crying and being absolutely terried, making me feel disturbed and horrible for this fictional character.

The film is also big on the whole idea of less is more, never showing the killer, apart from his eyes and hands. The film never tells you who this killer is and why he is doing it, and that’s all you need to do to really sell a true horrifying film. Nothing is more terrifying than someone that wants to hurt you just because he can. 

My opinion on why the film didn’t do well is because this was two years before Halloween, which made the slasher film popular, and was released to early to get part of that success the slasher film was getting at that time. Also the fact that it is a horror movie set during the happiest part of the year, Christmas, made it a really hard sell because no one wants to feel horrified, we interacting with Christmas.  

But should we really ignored a good movie because it just happens to be during Christmas? Of course not, it worked for Die Hard, now why can’t it work for this horror classic?

Cinema Blood-Defending the Slasher Film

The horror film, The Conjuring, is being released today, directed by James Wan and is the latest in the paranormal and supernatural horror movies that have recently been taking over.

The horror genre is one of my favorite genres of film if not my favorite. But by far my favorite types of horror films, are the slasher films, that are kind of forgotten now by audiences, despite being very popular throughout the 1980’s and the early 1990’s.

I absolutely love slasher films, and in light of my appreciation for this horror sub genre, I have written an article expressing why I love slasher films, and how they are more than just gory nonsense, and instead film classics. Going in-depth of some of the most famous slasher films that have changed the world of cinema.

Read it here: Cinema Blood- Defending the Slasher Film 

Images by: Double Feature

 

The Underrated- Shame

 

Shame, is one of the most underrated films that I know of, I feel like I am the only one who knows this movie exist. When I ask or tell people about this film they never know what I am talking about. And I don’t know how because it is, in my opinion the best best drama film in the last 10 years.

The film is directed by Steve McQueen (12 Years A Slave), starring Micheal Fassbender (X-Men: First Class) and Carey Mulligan (Drive) released in 2011. The film is about Brandon, played by Michael Fassbender who is a sex addict who lives in New York working as a successful ad executive, who’s sexual life gets interrupted when his sister Sissy, played by Carey Mulligan, unexpectedly moves in with him.

The best part of this film is the way that they depict the sex. Brandon is a sex addict, and has no actual feelings for the women he seduces. So when the sex scenes are happening, it isn’t passionate or loving, its more like watching a heroin addict taking a hit. And the way the director films these scenes, they are elegant, and not to raunchy, with long shots and smooth transitions, McQueen can really make the worse of areas and situations look artistic and beautiful.

Michael Fassbender delivers the best performance that I have seen in years. Showing two sides of his character, with the public confident ladies man, and the private broken down  and helpless man. He give complexity to the character having the audience care for a man who we shouldn’t want anything to do with, having us happy when he gets better looking for love, and sad when we relapses when he calls for a call girl, having us wanting him to succeed in being good man that can solve this problem. And when we see him interact with his sister, it shows more of a relationship that is mainly fighting and negativity, but when either one gets hurt the other is there to help and care for them. Showing me one of the most realistic sibling relationships on film.

The reason why the film is very unknown is because the film is rated NC-17. And when it comes to marketing, it is almost nonexistent when it comes to a film like that, with a small population of audiences that can actually see it. And I am hoping that it can get a R-rated re-release like other X-rated films such as, A Clockwork Orange, or Midnight Cowboy and becoming a classic and a successful to future audiences like those films have, because Shame definitely is film everyone must check out.

 

The Underrated- Mighty Joe Young

I want to start bringing more themes and ideas to my website. So I decided to have a weekly issue to my site called The Underrated. Every week I will write a post about films that I feel are heavily underrated and are worth checking out. This week’s movie is Disney’s Mighty Joe Young.

When it comes to Disney live action movies, the track record isn’t really good. Lately they have been consistently getting better. But Mighty Joe Young was released in 1998 when live action Disney films were not as big as they would become like the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, and was unfortunately made in the middle of the Disney animation renaissance, where the company focused more on their animated films than there live action ones.

A remake of the 1949 film of the same name, Mighty Joe Young is story of a gorilla with a genetic disorder that causes him to grow abnormally to 15 feet tall. He is protected by Jill Young, played by Charlize Theron, who is overwhelmed with protecting him from poachers, and is forced to take him to an animal sanctuary located in California, with the help of scientist,Gregg O’Hara, played by Bill Paxton.

When I was younger I loved this movie, and as an adult I love it even more. First lets start with the main characters Jill and Joe because they are what makes this movie. Joe looks amazing with some of the best special effects that I have ever seen. Even with the suite that they used they made a moving face instead of just a stiff costume head. The acting and emotion in this gorilla’s face acting is absolutely amazing, making you feel for him, and at some points make you hate humanity, for what has happened to him. When in danger he will fight back, but is just a lovable gorilla with a lot of love. There is actually a scene when he escapes from the sanctuary, where the people are acting out violently and he is just wandering around, amused and confused, and that is just awesome watching.

Jill is a great heroin. She is strong and confident, but does have fears and doubts. The film actually follows her most of the time in California. And the film shows cleverly that Joe isn’t the one having trouble adapting to a new environment, but its actually Jill. And that is really complex for a Disney film.

The setting of Africa looks amazing, there is a chase scene in the film on the African plains between Joe and poachers, that is worth checking the film out just for that scene alone. Now there are flaws in this film. The villain is too cartoonish, he even has a henchman. And Bill Paxton places the same guy he always play, and some of the dialogue can get a little cheesy. But those are minor, but the film doesn’t really focus on that too much, and instead focuses on should, and that is the relationship between Jill and Joe, and how they deal with their situations together.

I think the reason why the film is unheard of is because we weren’t allowed to hear about it. It didn’t do well on its opening weekend, so after that Disney cut off all marketing to the film. The film was also released the same year as the new Godzilla film, and after the failure of that film, audiences just didn’t want to see another monster film and those who did want to see that didn’t want to see one produced by Disney. Also, the original film was a forgotten film, and not a classic marvel compared to Godzilla and King Kong.

But by god, the effort and heart put into this film with such little potential is impressive. And is a film that was released way to early, and willing to bet that if this film was released to it would be more successful and remembered than it was. But we will never know. It doesn’t even have a blu ray release! But it should and everybody should check it out, it will be an hour and a half heartwarming movie worth every minute.

New Video Game Movie Renaissance?

Sorry about the lack of posts in the last couple of weeks, but I am back with new content coming out constantly.

New web story about my thoughts on these new video game films being made and released this year, and what it could possibly mean for the film world as a whole.

Read it in the link below:

New Video Game Movie Renaissance?