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Top 40 favorite horror movies

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Decade: Rating: List Type:

1663

7.5

7.8

Evil Dead II (1987)

"Groovy"
"I'll swallow your soul!" ... "Swallow this!"

ranna's rating:

4797

8.1

8.5

Alien (1979)

"So, um, we think we should discuss the bonus situation..."

ranna's rating:

1645

7.8

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

"One-stop shopping; everything you need, right at your fingertips."

ranna's rating:

2605

7.9

8.2

The Thing (1982)

"You gotta be fucking kidding."

ranna's rating:

1841

7.5

7.4

Eraserhead (1977)

"In Heaven, everything is fine. In Heaven, everything is fine. You've got your good things. And I've got mine."

ranna's rating:

1233

7.8

7.3

Suspiria (1977)

"Susie, do you know anything about... witches?"

ranna's rating:

819

7.3

Possession (1981) (1981)

"I can't exist by myself because I'm afraid of myself. I create my own evil."

ranna's rating:

545

7.8

7.6

Eyes Without a Face (1962)

"The future, Madame, is something we should have started on a long time ago."

ranna's rating:

1062

7.9

Freaks (1932)

"We accept you, one of us! Gooble Gobble!"

ranna's rating:

6535

8.2

8.4

The Shining (1980)

"Some places are like people: some shine and some don't."

ranna's rating:

1249

8.2

8.1

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

"I must know everything. I must penetrate the heart of his secret! I must become Caligari!"

ranna's rating:

2498

7.4

7.7

Halloween (1978)

"It was the boogeyman."
"As a matter of fact, it was."

ranna's rating:

777

7.6

7.2

Don't Look Now (1973)

"One of your children has posed a curious question: if the world is round, why is a frozen lake flat?"

ranna's rating:

2266

7.8

7.9

Let the Right One In (2008)

"Are you really twelve?"
"Yes. It's just I've been twelve for a very long time."

ranna's rating:

1480

Hellraiser (1987)

"Jesus wept."

ranna's rating:

817

7.3

7.1

Re-Animator (1985) (1985)

"You killed him!"
"No, I did not. I gave him life."

ranna's rating:

1346

7.5

7.4

Jacob's Ladder (1990)

"If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. If you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth."

ranna's rating:

1311

7.2

7.1

Audition (1999)

"Words create lies. Pain can be trusted."

ranna's rating:

2893

7.2

7.5

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

"I'm your boyfriend now, Nancy."

ranna's rating:

1137

7.6

7.5

Dead Alive (1992)

"I kick arse for the Lord!"

ranna's rating:

739

7.3

The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

"See? You made me hurt myself again! I broke my hand off completely at the wrist this time, Tina! But that's okay, Darlin', because I love you, and that's why you have to let me EAT YOUR BRAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIINS!"

ranna's rating:

2246

7.3

7.6

The Fly (1986)

"Are you a body builder, or something?"
"Yeah, I build bodies. I take them apart, and put them back together again."

ranna's rating:

1059

7.7

Repulsion (1965)

"there's only one way to get along with men – treat them like you don't give a damn about them"

ranna's rating:

1744

7.9

7.8

Nosferatu (1922)

"Is this your wife? What a lovely throat."

ranna's rating:

427

7.3

6.8

Zombi 2 (aka Zombie) (1979)

"The boat can leave now. Tell the crew."

ranna's rating:

453

7.4

7.2

The Changeling (1980)

"That house is not fit to live in. No one's been able to live in it. It doesn't want people."

ranna's rating:

416

6.9

6.6

Phantasm (1979)

"You play a good game boy, but the game is finished, now you die."

ranna's rating:

813

6.1

5.8

Cannibal Holocaust

"Would you like people to make money off your misery?"

ranna's rating:

827

7.3

7.4

The Devil's Backbone (2001)

"What is a ghost? A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again? An instant of pain, perhaps. Something dead which still seems to be alive. An emotion suspended in time. Like a blurred photograph. Like an insect trapped in amber."

ranna's rating:

3661

7.3

7.5

28 Days Later (2002)

"Oh, great. Valium. Not only will we be able to go to sleep, if we get attacked in the middle of the night, we won't even care."

ranna's rating:

1940

7.4

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

"That's the last goddamn hitchhiker I ever pick up."

ranna's rating:

459

7.8

The Innocents (1961)

"But above anything else, I love the children."

ranna's rating:

563

7.8

7.6

Hour of the Wolf (1968)

"Now you are yourself, but not yourself; an ideal state for a meeting between lovers."

ranna's rating:

696

7.1

Fright Night (1985)

"You shouldn't lose your temper, Charley. It isn't polite."

ranna's rating:

168

6.5

Brain Damage (1988)

"This is the start of your new life Brian, a life full of colors, music,light and euphoria. A life without pain, or hurt or suffering."

ranna's rating:

358

7.4

7.1

Black Sunday (1960)

"You have no reason to fear the dead. They sleep very soundly."

ranna's rating:

2588

7.8

Rosemary's Baby (1968)

"Awful things happen in every apartment house."

ranna's rating:

511

7.6

7.5

Santa Sangre

"With your hands and my body, we'll have an act that will be sensational."

ranna's rating:

881

7.3

7.1

Day of the Dead (1985)

"Choke on 'em!"

ranna's rating:

Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue)

160

7.5

6.8

Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue)... (1974)

"I wish the dead could come back to life, you bastard, so then I could kill you again."

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This is a top 40 list of my all time favorite horror movies.
They're not necessarily the best one out there, but they're the ones I love the most.