BOF Top 25 Greatest Horror Movies of All Time (the countdown has started!!)

[CaptainJackSparrow]

I just found out there's a bit on my profile that shows all the likes I've given out. I gave my first ever like to Fishnets.

Where do I find that?

[CoolioD1]

Where do I find that?

Just go on your profile and click the bit on the side that says likes.

[Films]

I gave my first like to fmpro

[Blankments]

Whoa, I gave my first like to Impact

 

Oh, and btw, good job on the list Stingray!!

[Jack Nevada]

It is. Although I got a lot more from the TV one.Do one and you'll definitely overtake Jack Nevada.

He's gonna overtake me anyway. As I've said, it should happen in less than two months unless all of the sudden the quality of my posts just goes through the roof.

[CoolioD1]

He's gonna overtake me anyway. As I've said, it should happen in less than two months unless all of the sudden the quality of my posts just goes through the roof.

2500 likes is hard to muster up in a couple months man!

 

Chewy's probably gonna pass me soon anyway.

[Jack Nevada]

Yeah its you guys that are threatening my position. I dont mind really, most of my stuff is embarrassing. I've gotten my likes with short, populist statements that are easy to agree with.

Edited November 17, 2013 by Jack Nevada

[baumer]

 

FULL LIST

 

1. Halloween - 104 points

2. The Shining - 78

3. Jaws - 74

4. A Nightmare on Elm Street - 69

5. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre - 64

6. The Ring - 52

7. Psycho - 51

8. The Blair Witch Project - 41

9. Alien - 39

10. Scream - 38

11. The Exorcist - 34

12. The Thing - 32

13. Rosemary's Baby - 27

14. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter - 26

14. Poltergeist - 26

16. Aliens - 25

17. Evil Dead II - 24

18.The Fly - 22

19. Eraserhead - 21

20. The Evil Dead - 20

21. Scream 2 - 17

22. Friday the 13th Part III - 16 (more #1 spots than A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors & Drag Me to Hell)

23. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors - 16

23. Drag Me to Hell - 16

25. Wes Craven's New Nightmare - 15

 

 

Awesome list and fantastic job today Stingray.  I'm actually really happy with the list.  For a list that is devised from 17 of us, all different ages and backgrounds, a lot of my choices made it here.  There are some I don't agree with but that's obviously going to happen with a list of 25.  But having the top 10 shape up the way it did is fantastic.  Halloween is a fantastic choice for number one and films like Nightmare on Elm STreet, Jaws, Texas Chainsaw and The Ring are really nice to see up there.

 

I'm glad a lot of people submitted lists.  

 

Now we need to get cracking on the top 100 movie lines.  

[DAR]

The Exorcist didn't make top 10? 

That's okay. One of the most overrated films ever

[DAR]

#8:

 

The Blair Witch Project (1999) - 41 points

 

 

The Blair Witch Project is a 1999 American horror film written and directed by Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Myrick. Though fictional, it is presented as if it depicted real events, and popularized this style of horror movie. The film relates the story of three student filmmakers who disappeared while hiking in the Black Hills near Burkittsville, Maryland in 1994 to film a documentary about a local legend known as the Blair Witch. The viewers are told the three were never seen or heard from again, although their video and sound equipment (along with most of the footage they shot) was discovered a year later by the police department and that this "recovered footage" is the film the viewer is watching.

 

Production Budget: $60,000

Domestic Total Gross: $140,539,099

Rotten Tomatoes score: 87%

 

Trivia:

Numerous fans were so convinced of the Blair Witch's existence that they flocked to Maryland in hopes of discovering the legend. They apparently didn't read the closing credits of the film.

Words cannot describe my hatred of this movie

[DAR]

#4:

 

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) - 69 points

 

 

A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 1984 American horror slasher film written and directed by Wes Craven, and the first film of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. Set in the fictional Midwestern town of Springwood, Ohio, the plot revolves around several teenagers who are stalked and killed in their dreams by Freddy Krueger. The teenagers are unaware of the cause of this strange phenomenon, but their parents hold a dark secret from long ago.

 

Production Budget: $1,800,000

Domestic Total Gross: $25,504,513

Rotten Tomatoes score: 96%

 

Trivia:

Wes Craven first came up with the basic idea for the movie from several newspaper articles printed in the LA Times over a three year period about a group of Cambodian refugees from the Hmong tribe, several of whom died in the throes of horrific nightmares. The group had come to America to escape the reign of Pol Pot, and within a year of arriving, three men had died, with the situation the same in each cases; the young, otherwise healthy, man would have a nightmare, then refuse to sleep for as long as possible. Upon finally falling asleep from exhaustion, the man awoke screaming, then died. Autopsy results revealed that they had not died because of heart failure, they had simply died. It was this lack of cause which intrigued Craven so much. Medical authorities have since called the phenomenon Asian Death Syndrome, a variant of Sudden Unexpected Death Syndrome (SUDS) and Brugada Syndrome.

Such a creepy film

[DAR]

#3: The Stingray's favorite movie of all time!

 

Jaws (1975) - 74 points

 

 

Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name. In the story, a giant man-eating great white shark attacks beachgoers on Amity Island, a fictional summer resort town, prompting the local police chief to hunt it with the help of a marine biologist and a professional shark hunter.

 

Production Budget: $7 million

Domestic Total Gross: $260,000,000

Domestic Total Gross, Adjusted for Inflation: $1,031,034,500  

Academy Award Nominations/Wins: 4/3

Rotten Tomatoes score: 98%

 

Trivia:

With the schedule ballooning from 52 to 155 days, Steven Spielberg had to juggle Universal's impossible deadlines, an unfinished script, chaotic conditions off Martha's Vineyard and a belligerent actor in Robert Shaw. On the last day of shooting, Spielberg wore his most expensive clothes to deter a dunking from the mutinous crew. As soon as the shot was captured, he jumped in a speedboat and sped shoreward yelling, "I shall not return."

 

On the DVD documentary, Steven Spielberg states that his original idea for introducing the shark was going to be a scene that took place at the dock at night: The harbor master would be watching TV, and through the window behind him the audience would see a row of boats rising and falling as the shark swam underneath them. Spielberg believed that the swell of the boats would help indicate the huge size of the shark; however, the logistics involved (for example, getting all the boats to go up and down at the correct intervals) proved too difficult to coordinate properly. Additionally, the constantly malfunctioning shark would not allow the scene to be filmed. Much to Spielberg's disappointment, the scene had to be shelved.

I probably would have voted it number one, but I look at Jaws not as straight horror but more an adventure thriller

[DAR]

The Shining and Halloween are my two favorite horror films so very happy with that top two

Edited November 17, 2013 by DAR

[chasmmi]

Halloween is great. But seriously, no the Birds?

 

 

Oh the Birds!!! That epic horror film where seagulls sit around on the roof of a hourse for 2 hours and then at the end we have that huge memorable climax when our intrepid heroes - now prepare yourself, as this is truly one of the most action packed, suspense-filled, thrill rides of horror cinema - open their front door and walk away.  

[The Stingray]

I probably would have voted it number one, but I look at Jaws not as straight horror but more an adventure thriller

 

I feel the same way.

 

The Shining and Halloween are my two favorite horror films so very happy with that top two

 

Yep, same here.

[luna]

lol, this was in this forum? i didn't see it until now.

 

surprised eraserhead actually made it in, that's pretty cool.

[The Stingray]

An interesting thing is that the top 5 films in the 'Best horror films post 2000'-list didn't make the cut here, but the #6 film (The Ring) did.

[CaptainJackSparrow]

I gave my first like to CoolioD1.

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Biggestgeekever gave me my first like.

[Goffe]

I gave my first like to Dexter and RichWS gave me my first like. 50 pages of likes received and 316 pages of likes given

Edited November 18, 2013 by Goffe