For the horror genre more than any other, its staples seem inarguable. The classics are almost MORE classic than classic. So instead of rehashing the same, tired praise or just straight up pretending some more obscure movies are better than the faces on Horror’s Mt. Rushmore, we’re creating our alternate-universe best list. Here are the 5 best horror movies of all time (if the REAL 5 best didn’t exist!)
The Picks
Slasher (Texas Chainsaw Massacre) – Blood and Black LaceSci Fi (Alien) – The DescentSerial Killer (The Silence of the Lambs) – Henry: Portrait of a Serial KillerAtmospheric (The Shining) – The InnocentsClassic Thriller (Psycho) – Peeping Tom
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You westerners should check out some Turkey horror films.
Was ready to make fun of this list..but noooo. Phenomenal list. Wow 👌.
The Exorcist as honorable mention?? It's better than Trxas Chainsaw
The decent? You gotta be fucking kidding me
Lol…. Descent….😅😅😅😅😅. I absolutely adore Alien…, one of the great horror movies in so many ways… There is no second …. And John Carpenter The Thing is not some second rated horror film😅😅😅😅😅… Some, see it as The greatest horror film ever made… I'm done… You guys do not know horror
I get it… But make no make… Halloween is the best when it comes to slashers… it is king.
Where's " The Night of the Living Dead?..
no martyrs? 🙁
6 years late watching this. The Descent was the first movie that actually, truly scared me. A true modern classic.
'The Descent' is one of my favorites! I watched 'Blood and Black Lace' and 'Peeping Tom' because of this list and enjoyed them as well!
Where's the thing
Clearly They haven’t watched any of these
And Peeping Tom? You got it!
To pick ONLY 5 , out of so many classic horror films is horrible. This has to be a joke!
Wow. I actually genuinely don’t like all 5 of your picks. What are the odds? Like, non of these films would even make my Top 100 horror films of all time. Among the bad choices, I think Peeping Tom is the worst.
What would make my Top 5?
Off the top of my head, The Exorcist, Black Christmas (1974), Suspiria, Rosemary’s Baby, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
I have never understood the appeal of Henry: Portrait. Perhaps it’s because I’m such a True Crime aficionado and have literally read hundreds of books on real life serial killers. If you want a truly frightening portrait of a genuine serial killer, read Ann Rule’s The Stranger Beside Me, for starters.
Why cant you just list the movies instead of making a 10 min video, Im with a girl tryna Pick a movie
The descent is a bad movie
Henry genuinely scared me.
The alternatives were a good selection. The "original 5" as well, besides Friday the 13th. That´s in no way a good horror film.
I think The Innocents is still too classic; a better alternative to The Shining would’ve been Hereditary
The most terrifying scary movies…1. "Plague 2020" => movie about everybody on the planet forced to stay in their homes and wear dehumanizing masks because of a media hoax about a deadly breathing illness from rural China. 2. "Friday The 13th" 3. "Child's Play"
Feels like Sybil should be on here.
All the movies mentioned in the video (in order of appearance, barring repetitions):
Blood and Black Lace (1964)
The Descent (2005)
Peeping Tom (1960)
Suspiria (1977)
The Shining (1980)
Psycho (1960)
The Exorcist (1973)
Halloween (1978)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Alien (1979)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
The Legend of Hell House (1973)
The Descent (2005)*
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
The Innocents (1961)*
Diabolique (1955)
Friday the 13th (1980)
The Night of the Living Dead (1968)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Friday the 13th Part lll (1982)
Tourist Trap (1979)
The Burning (1981)
Black Christmas (1974)
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
Deep Red (1975)
The Thing (1982)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Event Horizon (1997)
Sunshine (2007)
Cube (1997)
Saw (2004)
Under the Skin (2013)
Frailty (2001)
I Saw the Devil (2010)
Frenzy (1972)
Repulsion (1965)
The Orphange (2007)
Psycho ll (1983)
The Bad Seed (1956)
"The Descent" is actually a way better movie than "Alien".
Boom, I said it, deal with it ;p
A top five list that doesn't include John Carpenter's The Thing?! What the heck is this world coming to?!?
I had to watch Peeping Tom for a film class and I legit have never been so jumpy or uncomfortable watching a movie. I wanted so badly for somebody to turn the lights on or somebody to crack a joke in class or just to get up or leave or ANYTHING, but it was just silence and darkness and I really did feel like the movie was going to turn itself on me and get me. It was so disturbing to have to watch other women watch themselves get murdered. Geez!
In the intro I would actually make a replacement, I know that was mainly just a quick joke to set up the actual video but the thing makes my top 5 (not the prequel obviously)
Great list, but you barely scraped the surface. Not mentioned were films like Night of the Living Dead, Rosemary's Baby, Angel Heart, and The Changling to name a few.
Loved Peeping Tom, a portrait of serial killer Harvey Glatman. Thx for the vid. I missed The Changeling on my top #1. On the other side, "the Shining" is a joke: All the audience at the Cinema were non stop laughing at Jack & Wendy. I detest it.
The Descent is a great movie, from start to end.. Watched Descent 2 but for me Descent 1's ending is the end. Just a brilliant movie
Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer is one of the best movies I've ever seen. Henry is never portrayed as larger-than-life in a Hannibal way, in fact at the end of the day he doesn't really seem like he has any better of an idea of what's going on than anyone else. He's not dumb but he's not really astonishingly smart either, so he gets away with what he does just because no one cares about people like him (which is something he does understand intimately, and is also probably part of why he does it in the first place), and no one cares about the people he kills. And that's mostly what serial killers are actually like. They're not monsters, not really, they're not inhuman, they're not some biological underclass of scheming archvillains, they're just gross, sad people who are fucked up and do horrible, horrible things. The movie never loses sight of the fact that Henry is human, and it never loses sight of how bad his actions are. Which makes it scary, sure, in fact to me it's maybe the most effectively horrifying horror film I've ever seen, but it also makes it deeply honest and revealing of a part of the real world no one seems to want to look at.
I personally think The Wailing should get a mention as a slow burn, although it's really nothing like Alien or The Descent and is unique in its own way. That movie had everything: suspense, horror, and drama. Also, The Changeling from 1980 is a highly underrated horror movie because its ending is pretty terrible, but despite its weak moments it also has many moments that are terrifying.
absolute garbage list
I find that human villains are generally more disturbing than vampires, werewolves( my favorite) and witches. The exceptions are the 1982 The Thing and the original Night of the Living Dead. ( also the 1st two Alien movies). Some of my horror movies are Carnival of Souls, the Haunting (60's) , Black Sunday ( Mario Bava's b/w creepy movie of supernatural revenger.) , Bride of Frankenstein and Theatre of Blood with Vincent Price and Diana Rigg.
As a replacement for Silence of The Lambs, I'd actually put Gerald Kargl's "Angst", which was one of the main sorces of inspiration for "Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer", and it's one of the most disturbing movies I've seen. It's an amazing horror movie that leaves almost no space for air. The score is paranoic, the acting is a bit too realistic, the camera movement makes your head vibrate and it's thrilling as hell. It sets out to show what a true horror movie can be in its limit, and it succeeds. It's a great movie that I reccomend watching if you are a fan of Henry, or other movies like that one.
Really surprised that they choose "The Innocents" as a replace for "The Shinning" since The Innocents already have the status of being a classic.
Great list; however, I think that you overlooked one good category: religious horror. I'm talking about Rosemary's Baby, the Exorcist, and the Omen. I think that there would be enough films out there for this to be a fertile field.
This list is wickity wickity wack lol. Idk how y’all manage to stay putting shit lists together. Two of these is some shit that nobody ever heard of .
I’ve always found the descent to be overrated
That’s amazing that the top 5 are pretty definitive as Clint points out
Happy Halloween y'all! Man, I love Halloween. It should really be a federal holiday, it's just as viable as Christmas or Labor Day IMO and we should be able to celebrate with an off day. Cheers!
Great list though I would have thought "The Innocents" would have been in the barrel with the common list makers as most everyone who knows such things would have put it high on their list.
CineFix give us a list of best foreign horror movies.
Great idea. Great list.
Hereditary is a modern classic. I just know this movie is going down as one of best horror movies
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