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Favorite Horrors in the past 50yrs.
The most watched horror in the past 50yrs. -
The Exorcist
The Exorcist was released theatrically in the United States by Warner Bros. on December 26, 1973. The film earned 10 The Exorcist is a Academy Award nominations, winning two (Best Sound Mixing and Best Adapted Screenplay), and losing Best Picture to The Sting. It became one of the highest-grossing films of all time, grossing over $441 million worldwide. It is also the first horror film to be nominated for Best Picture. -
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Hooper produced the film for less than $300,000 and used a cast of relatively unknown actors drawn mainly from central Texas, where the film was shot. The limited budget forced Hooper to film for long hours seven days a week, so that he could finish as quickly as possible and reduce equipment rental costs. Due to the film's violent content, Hooper struggled to find a distributor.Although it was marketed as a true story to attract a wider audience the whole thing was based off Ed Gein. -
Halloween
This film is about a psychotic murderer institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets. Thisb most likly ruined halloween for some people. -
Friday The 13th
This film is about camp counselors that are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning. I really enjoy a good Jason movie. -
The Shining
The Shining is a 1980 British-American psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, co-written with novelist Diane Johnson, and starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, and Scatman Crothers. The film is based on Stephen King's novel of the same name. A Masterpiece of Modern Horror -
A Nightmare On Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street was made with an estimated budget of just $1.8 million, A sum the film earned back during its first week. An instant commercial success, the film's total United States box office gross is $25.5 million. A Nightmare on Elm Street was met with rave critical reviews and went on to make a very significant impact on the horror genre, spawning a franchise consisting of a line of sequels, a television series, a crossover with Friday the 13th, beyond various other -
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
Killer Klowns from Outer Space is a 1988 American science fiction horror comedy movie made by The Chiodo Brothers and starring Grant Cramer and Suzanne Snyder. It is the only Chiodo Brothers' directed and written film – they have worked in many other projects in other roles, such as producing and visual effects. The film is about a race of aliens (who resemble evil clowns) that arrive on Earth to capture and harvest people to use as sustenance. A sequel entitled Return of the Killer Klowns from -
Child's Play
This movie is the first movie to Chucky's long history in horror as a psychotic doll that goes around killing anyone he sees fit. -
It
It (also referred to as Stephen King's IT) is a 1990 horror/drama miniseries based on Stephen King's novel of the same name. The story revolves around an inter-dimensional predatory life-form, which has the ability to transform itself into its prey's worst fears, allowing it to exploit the phobias of its victims. It mostly takes the form of a sadistic, wisecracking clown called "Pennywise the Dancing Clown". The protagonists are "The Losers Club", a group of outcast kids who discover Pennywise -
The Signal
This is about a horror film told in three parts, from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission that turns people into killers invades every cell phone, radio, and television all over the world. This movie wasn't the besty in my opinoin but there is a new one coming out sometime this year.
