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List added by 350125g0 on 30 October 2009 01:24
Best In Class: Horror Films |
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 187  7.8  7.5  Winner: Nosferatu the Vampyre Dreamy, handsome vampires with great clothes and perfect hair are all the rage these days. Yet old-school horror fans know that vampires should look like death warmed over. F. W. Murnau's 1922 classic featured the seriously spooky Max Schrek as the fearsome bloodsucking count, but he didn't have the intensity of Klaus Kinski in Werner Herzog's remake. Runner-up: Near Dark 350125g0's rating:
 
1747 8.2 8.5  Winner: The Shining Helpful hint: If you're planning to work as a caretaker for a beautiful, if isolated, hotel over the winter, make sure it wasn't the site of a familial bloodbath the previous season. The ghosts are sure to interfere with marital harmony and that elevator of blood is a real pain to clean up. Runner-up: Poltergeist 350125g0's rating:
1442 7.1 8.3  Winner: Jaws Basically, a shark is a razor-sharp set of teeth with fins. It's an animal that looks like it was thought up by some demented Hollywood production designer. So it isn't surprising that Tinseltown turned a Great White into one of the scariest creatures ever to hit the big screen. Runner-up: The Birds 350125g0's rating:
 
1317 7.8 8.5  Winner: Alien There's been a long history in movies of creatures from outer space freaking out the good citizens of earth - from Gort, the robotic enforcer in The Day the Earth Stood Still to the burger-shilling extra-terrestrial in Mac and Me. But few creatures have been as terrifying as the snarling, acid-bleeding, astronaut killing machine found in Alien. Runner-up: The Thing 350125g0's rating:
83 7.1 7.3  Winner: Godzilla Since World War II, Japan has been plagued by an epidemic of massive rubbery creatures who can flatten a city in less time than it takes to get a pizza delivered. But hands down, the granddaddy of the Tokyo trashers is that fire-breathing lizard from under the sea. Runner-up: That creature from Cloverfield or King Kong 
2004 8 8.7  Winner: The Silence of the Lambs Cannibalism is generally regarded as only slightly less reprehensible than working as a health insurance executive. But Hannibal Lecter snacks on his fellow man with such aplomb. After all, anyone can eat a liver. Only Lecter would serve it with fava beans and a nice Chianti. Runner-up: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 350125g0's rating:
577 7.6 8.1  Winner: Rosemary's Baby In today's real estate market, you may have to make a metaphorical "deal with the devil" to get a good deal on a great apartment. Rosemary, on the other hand, found out too late that her husband made a literal one. Runner-up: The Exorcist or The Omen 350125g0's rating:
 
338 6.9 7.5  Winner: An American Werewolf in London Think about how much turning into a werewolf would hurt: hands stretching into paws, face contorting into lupine features, teeth sharpening into fangs. John Landis' An American Werewolf in London captured the pain of transformation, but also the regret that comes from changing back. Runner-up: The Howling 
448 7.9 8  Winner: Night of the Living Dead George Romero's 1968 low-budget masterpiece set the standard for movie zombies. Those slow, shuffling reanimated corpses were frightening because of their relentless thirst for human flesh, not because they could outrun an Olympic sprinter. Runner-up: Dawn of the Dead (1978) 350125g0's rating:
1100 7.2 7.6  Winner: 28 Days Later Though purists might scoff at Danny Boyle's vision of zombies as mindless disease victims with anger management problems, the movie, and its unnervingly realistic vision of the zombie apocalypse, is unquestionably frightening. Runner-up: Dawn of the Dead (2004) 350125g0's rating:
 
594 7.1 8  Winner: Halloween (1978) Take a latex Captain Kirk mask, paint it white, mess up the hair, and put it on a silently lumbering maniac. What you've got is both the originator of the slasher genre and still one of the best ever made. Runner-up: Friday the 13th 350125g0's rating:
 
680 6.7 7.4  Winner: A Nightmare on Elm Street A masked chainsaw-wielding psychopath is plenty scary, but with a little planning and forethought - some mace, a well-hidden weapon, years of kung fu training - you can, in theory, take them out. But how do you fight against a pizza-faced crazy who lives inside your dreams? A six-pack of Red Bull can keep you awake for only so long... Runner-up: Candyman 350125g0's rating:
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Beech
Posted : 1 week, 5 days ago at Nov 9 12:40
Nice breakdown. What about the unknown or hidden presence for another category? I don't know my horrors as well as you do but I expect that you could think of several in this category. If you do add another category, then your list could have 13 categories too! (somehow appropriate)
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In any class, cadre, group or genre, there are those who sink to the middle - or bottom - and those who through hard work and talent rise to the top. Here are some of horror's finest undead ghouls, psychotic slashers and freakish monsters. From Yahoo! Movies.
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