by HDHub4uTop 10 Horror Movies of All Time
1. The Exorcist (1973)
Top 10 Horror Movies: The Exorcist is still unmatched when it comes to the horror genre. Directed by William Friedkin and adapted from the novel by William Peter Blatty, it is about a girl possessed by demon and the consequent desperate exorcism. It boasts chilling imagery, groundbreaking effects and unnerving sound design that shocked audiences and earned it 10 Oscars nominations, that’s rare for a horror film.
2. The Shining (1980)
Stephen King’s novel is blended by Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation with the supernatural and psychological horror elements. The descent into madness of Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance is set in snowed in hotel is legendary. Despite ambiguous storytelling and haunted atmosphere, ‘The Shining’ is a horror classic.
3. Psycho (1960)
Alfred Hitchcock’s classic still makes viewers squirm with its now infamous shower scene, and the family getting slaughtered by the woman dressed as the maid. The role of Norman Bates as introduced by Anthony Perkins was new: a character that is both sympathetic and terrifying. Psycho is responsible for helping the birth of the slasher subgenre and is a masterwork in suspense and psychological terror.
4. Halloween (1978)
Top 10 Horror Movies: The introduction to both Michael Myers and the final girl, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), belongs to John Carpenter’s Halloween. Its eerie synth score, minimalist gore and desire not to provide audience catharsis in a moment of cheap 70s horror was what redefined horror on a low budget, inspiring decades of slasher films.
5. Get Out (2017)
Jordan Peele’s clever, socially conscious horror film about a psychologically pitched, multifaceted racial tale that’s also smart. For a Black man who goes to visit his white girlfriend’s family, what is awkward courtesy soon becomes far more sinister. Peele’s Get Out is clever, scary, culturally resonant, and he took home Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
6. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Top 10 Horror Movies: The Tobe Hooper gritty, raw film seems like a nightmare filmed and captured. It’s not graphic but more disturbing because of its documentary style realism. The film and Leatherface eventually became an instant horror icon, and the film’s relentless pace and nihilistic tone may have done as much or more to help define grindhouse horror.
7. Hereditary (2018)
Ari Aster’s debut as a director is a sickening combination of family trauma and supernatural terror. A grieving mother unravelling terrifying secrets gives Toni Collette a career best performance. That sickening dread builds slowly, there are shocking twists, and chilling atmosphere all contribute to a modern horror masterpiece in Hereditary.
8. Alien (1979)
Top 10 Horror Movies: Although Alien is more than just sci-fi, it is pure horror in space. Ridley Scott’s claustrophobic thriller has the crew fight an unknowable, terrifying creature alone. It became one of the most terrifying creature feature ever produced due to H.R. Giger’s alien design and the film’s atmospheric tension.
9. The Babadook (2014)
Top 10 Horror Movies: Jennifer Kent’s first Australian indie gem is not only a monster movie, but a bold allegory for grief and insanity. The Babadook is disturbing, with its visuals, and heartbreakingly human.
10. The Thing (1982)
Carpenter’s paranoia-fueled sci-fi horror is a terrifyingly good horror film in the best way, perfecting the art of suspense and practical effects. The film’s shape shifting creature that lives in an isolated Antarctic outpost makes trust impossible. At its release, The Thing was underrated but today is hailed as one of the greatest horror films of all time.