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Essential Horror Movies · 7:54pm Oct 23rd, 2019

Put simply, I'm a horror buff and a fan of cinema history. The following is a more or less chronological rundown of horror/genre films that are popular/important. If I miss any you really like, post them in the comments below. (Getting all synopsi off of IMDB).

The Silent Film Era
"The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari" (1920) - Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders. (Not the first feature-ish length horror film, but it is the first important horror film. The German Expressionism style visuals would influence many films going forward).

"Nosferatu" (1922) - Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife. (Everything I said about influence with Caligari, it applies double for this film. Arguably the most well-known vampire movie).

"Haxan: Witchcraft Through The Ages" (1922) - Fictionalized documentary showing the evolution of witchcraft, from its pagan roots to its confusion with hysteria in modern Europe.

"Phantom Of The Opera" (1925) - A mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer. (The original and part of the Universal Horror Classics. The sets and style in this film are groovy).

The Universal Monsters Era
"Dracula" (1931) - The ancient vampire Count Dracula arrives in England and begins to prey upon the virtuous young Mina. (Bela Lugosi sets the Dracula archetype in this film).

"Frankenstein" (1931) - An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses. (The film that made Boris Karloff a star).

"The Mummy" (1932) - A resurrected Egyptian mummy stalks a beautiful woman he believes to be the reincarnation of his lover and bride.

"The Invisible Man" (1933) - A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.

"Bride Of Frankenstein" (1935) - Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Dr. Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.

"The Wolf Man" (1941) - A practical man returns to his homeland, is attacked by a creature of folklore, and infected with a horrific disease his disciplined mind tells him can not possibly exist. (Poor Larry Talbot).

RKO Classics
"Cat People" (1942) - An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together. (Tragic love story and sympathetic characters).

"I Walked With A Zombie" (1943) - A nurse is hired to care for the wife of a sugar plantation owner, who has been acting strangely, on a Caribbean island. (Voodoo style zombies. Very atmospheric film).

"The Body Snatcher" (1945) - A ruthless doctor and his young prize student find themselves continually harassed by their murderous supplier of illegal cadavers.

And a film that isn't part of the Universal Monsters orRKO.

"Freaks" (1932) - A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance. (This film would never be made today. The cast were real sideshow acts.

The 1950's
Alien invaders, giant bugs, and the power of the atom! So many classic sci-fi flicks from this era.

"The Thing From Another World" (1951) - Scientists and American Air Force officials fend off a bloodthirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost.

"House Of Wax" (1953) - An associate burns down a wax museum with the owner inside, but he survives only to become vengeful and murderous.

"Them!" (1954) - The earliest atomic tests in New Mexico cause common ants to mutate into giant man-eating monsters that threaten civilization. (The best of all the giant mutation movies).

"The Night Of The Hunter" (1955) - A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery. (More of a thriller, but damn Robert Mitchum plays a great villain).

"Invasion Of The Body Snatchers" (1956) - A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

"The Fly" (1958) - A scientist has a horrific accident when he tries to use his newly invented teleportation device.

"The Blob" (1958) - An alien lifeform consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows.

"House On Haunted Hill" (1959) - A millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife. (Vincent Price is great).

The 1960s
"Psycho" (1960) - A Phoenix secretary embezzles forty thousand dollars from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother. (This is a must see film for everyone. Even if you don't like horror films, Psycho is a must. It changed all of cinema forever).

"The City Of The Dead aka Horror Hotel" (1960) - A young college student arrives in a sleepy Massachusetts town to research witchcraft; during her stay at an eerie inn, she discovers a startling secret about the town and its inhabitants.

"Carnival Of Souls" (1962) - After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival.

"The Haunting" (1963) - A scientist doing research on the paranormal invites two women to a haunted mansion. One of the participants soon starts losing her mind.

"The Last Man On Earth" (1964) - When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.

"Blood And Black Lace" (1964) - A masked, shadowy killer brutally murders the models of a scandalous fashion house in Rome. (Directed by Mario Bava. One of the first giallo films).

"Repulsion" (1965) - A sex-repulsed woman who disapproves of her sister's boyfriend sinks into depression and has horrific visions of rape and violence. (Directed by Roman Polanski).

"Kill Baby Kill" (1966) - A Carpathian village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl, prompting a coroner and a medical student to uncover her secrets while a witch attempts to protect the villagers. (Directed by Mario Bava).

"Rosemary's Baby" (1968) - A young couple moves in to an apartment only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins to control her life. (Also directed by Roman Polanski).

"Night Of The Living Dead" (1968) - A ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a bloodthirsty, flesh-eating breed of monsters who are ravaging the East Coast of the United States. (Directed by George Romero. This gave us our modern-day zombies).

The 1970's
"Twitch Of The Death Nerve aka Bay Of Blood" (1971) - The murder of a wealthy heiress by her husband triggers a series of brutal killings in the surrounding bay area. (More Mario Bava).

"The Exorcist" (1973) - When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.

"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1974) - Two siblings and three of their friends en route to visit their grandfather's grave in Texas end up falling victim to a family of cannibalistic psychopaths And must survive the terrors of leatherface and his family.

"Black Christmas" (1974) - During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.

"Deep Red" (1975) - A jazz pianist and a wisecracking journalist are pulled into a complex web of mystery after the former witnesses the brutal murder of a psychic. (Directed by Dario Argento).

"Jaws" (1975) - When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.

"Carrie" (1976) - Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.

"The Omen" (1976) - Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?

"Hausu aka House" (1977) - A schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which turns out to be haunted. (This is one of the most batcrap insane films I've ever seen).

"Halloween" (1978) - Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

"Dawn Of The Dead" (1978) - Following an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia S.W.A.T. team members, a traffic reporter, and his television executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.

"Alien" (1979) - After a space merchant vessel perceives an unknown transmission as a distress call, its landing on the source moon finds one of the crew attacked by a mysterious lifeform, and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.

"Phantasm" (1979) - A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a lethal arsenal of terrible weapons with him.

The 1980's
"The Shining" (1980) - A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.

"Friday The 13th" (1980) - A group of camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp which, years before, was the site of a child's drowning.

"The Fog" (1980) - An unearthly fog rolls into a small coastal town exactly 100 years after a ship mysteriously sank in its waters.

"The Evil Dead" (1981) - Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.

"The Thing" (1982) - A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

"A Nightmare On Elm Street" (1984) - The monstrous spirit of a slain child murderer seeks revenge by invading the dreams of teenagers whose parents were responsible for his untimely death.

"Day Of The Dead" (1985) - A small group of military officers and scientists dwell in an underground bunker as the world above is overrun by zombies.

"The Return Of The Living Dead" (1985) - When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.

"Re-Animator" (1985) - After an odd new medical student arrives on campus, a dedicated local and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue.

"The Fly" (1986) - A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.

"Evil Dead II" (1987) - The lone survivor of an onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.

"Hellraiser" (1987) - An unfaithful wife encounters the zombie of her dead lover; the demonic cenobites are pursuing him after he escaped their sadomasochistic underworld.

The 1990s
"Tremors" (1990) - Natives of a small isolated town defend themselves against strange underground creatures which are killing them one by one.

"Scream" (1996) - A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a new killer, who targets the girl and her friends by using horror films as part of a deadly game.

"The Blair Witch Project" (1999) - Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.

And a few recent ones (I'll mention more in the honorable mentions in the comments)
"Tucker & Dale Vs Evil" (2010) - Affable hillbillies Tucker and Dale are on vacation at their dilapidated mountain cabin when they are mistaken for murderers by a group of preppy college students.

"The Cabin In The Woods" (2011) - Five friends go for a break at a remote cabin, where they get more than they bargained for, discovering the truth behind the cabin in the woods.

"It Follows" (2014) - A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.

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Some stuff considered but not put in

Night Tide, Matango aka Attack Of The Mushroom People, Blob remake, Onibaba, Eyes Without A Face, Prince Of Darkness, The Innocents, Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes, The Birds, and several newer films I was too lazy to look up the years on on IMDB.

Thanks for the list, might use these as inspiration for, somwething. Cause I've never written in a while

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