21 Films That Fans Chose As The Most Perfect Horror Movies To Ever Exist In Cinematic History
Spooky season is officially here, which means there's obviously no better time than now for a scary movie marathon.
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When Reddit user u/Motor_Variety_4091 asked, "Which horror movie is perfect?" an endless amount of recs came through from film fanatics.
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We've rounded up the best movies worth adding to your watch list this Halloween season. Check them out below:
1."For whatever reason, I never get tired of watching Poltergeist."
"This was the movie of my persisting childhood nightmares. But I loved and kept wanting to watch it."
2."The concepts in A Nightmare on Elm Street terrify me to even contemplate. None of the old slasher types instilled real-life fear in me."
3."The original Carrie (1976) captures the horrors of teenage girlhood brilliantly."
4."The first Scream was a great mix of horror and comedy while also being a parody of horror movie tropes."
5."Halloween. It’s a suspense masterpiece."
6."Psycho (1960). It gave audiences of the day quite a scare and set the bar for horror and suspense thrillers for decades to come. Perfect."
7."The Exorcist. Still the scariest."
8."Candyman (1992)."
9."The Thing."
10."The Blair Witch Project."
"I know the whole 'found footage' genre has been done to death now, but this was one of the first movies to adopt this method, and it worked beautifully. You have to remember that this movie came out before the internet/social media...so when the marketing material claimed it was real, there really wasn’t much of a way to disprove it.
I still remember leaving the cinema as a 15-year-old shaking with fear. A superbly made, suspenseful horror movie, which still holds up to this day."
11."The Shining."
"Not only one of the scariest movies ever made, it is technically perfect as well. Every camera zoom, even scene, every edit, the sound editing, music, the sets, and the camerawork. Even the performances Kubrick got out of the actors were perfect."
12."The Others."
"This is one of my favorite movies of all time, regardless of genre. The ambiance is so palpable. All of the actors deliver so hard. And the plot keeps you on your toes the whole damn time. SUCH a good movie."
13."Hellraiser scared me so much when I was a kid that I still don't watch it."
14."The Conjuring. It has some terrifying scenes, like the basement scenes, and the wardrobe scene. It's just terrifying.
15."Army of Darkness."
16."Hereditary."
17."Cabin in the Woods."
"This is one that stands out as the only horror-ish movie that I never would’ve been able to predict the outcome in a million years."
18."First movie that came to mind was Signs. A slow build from crop circles to full-scale alien invasion. As far as psych horror goes, that’s my favorite."
19."The Strangers."
"That scared the bejeezus out of me. I haven’t watched it a second time, but I want to."
20."Trick 'r Treat."
21."Saw."
"We actually checked closets and our basement when we got home after watching that at the movies. It scared us that badly."
