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

[The Stingray]

Top 5 coming up soon...

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Another great film. Too bad the sequel sucked.

[Jake Gittes]

The Ring is good and all, but it's kind of a shame Psycho ended up behind it by just 1 point

[Dementeleus]

BOOOO at PSYCHO on the list.

[The Stingray]

#5:

 

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) - 64 points

 

 

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a 1974 American slasher film, directed and produced by Tobe Hooper, who cowrote it with Kim Henkel. The film follows a group of friends who fall victim to a family of cannibals while on their way to visit an old homestead. Although it was marketed as a true story to attract a wider audience and as a subtle commentary on the era's political climate, its plot is entirely fictional; however the character of Leatherface and minor plot details were inspired by the crimes of real-life murderer Ed Gein.

 

Production Budget: <$300,000

Domestic Total Gross: $30,859,000

Domestic Total Gross, Adjusted for Inflation: $132,842,200

Rotten Tomatoes score: 91%

 

Trivia:

Director Tobe Hooper claims to have got the idea for the film while standing in the hardware section of a crowded store. While thinking of a way to get out through the crowd, he spotted the chainsaws.

[The Stingray]

BOOOO at PSYCHO on the list.

I'm not a fan either.

[Dementeleus]

I'm not a fan either.

[The Stingray]

#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.

[#ED]

Top 5 looks good so far...

[CaptainJackSparrow]

I have yet to see Texas Chainsaw Massacre or A Nightmare on Elm Street.

[The Stingray]

 

I have yet to see Texas Chainsaw Massacre or A Nightmare on Elm Street.

You're too young to watch those movies.

 

[Dementeleus]

[The Stingray]

#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.

[Goffe]

only 4 films of my list made the top 25 so far 

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Sad Halloween H20 isn't on the list.

[CaptainJackSparrow]

While Jaws is great, I always feel really bad when that boy dies.

[CaptainJackSparrow]

I do love Jaws 2, one of the best sequels ever.

[#ED]

I forget Jaws is a horror movie.

[Dementeleus]

Sad Halloween H20 isn't on the list.

[The Stingray]

#2:

 

The Shining (1980) - 78 points

 

 

The Shining is a 1980 British-American psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The film is based on Stephen King's novel of the same name, though there are significant changes. In the film, a writer, Jack Torrance, takes a job as an off-season caretaker at an isolated hotel. His young son possesses psychic abilities and is able to see things from the past and future, such as the ghosts who inhabit the hotel. Soon after settling in, the family is trapped in the hotel by a snowstorm, and Jack gradually becomes influenced by a supernatural presence; he descends into madness and attempts to murder his wife and son.

 

Production Budget: $19 million

Domestic Total Gross: $44,017,374

Rotten Tomatoes score: 92%

 

Trivia:

The book that Jack was writing contained one sentence, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy", repeated over and over. Stanley Kubrick had each page individually typed.