Top Ten Best Horror Movies Of All Time

        Now I have decided that in the second and forth (last) week of each month, I will give a video and blog (one on second, one on forth) that is about movies that match the tone of the month. Since this month (October) has Halloween, I will make a blog and video about the top ten best horror movies of all time (in my opinion) and top ten worst horror movies of all time (in my opinion). The second week (this week) will be the top ten best week, and the forth week (two weeks from now) will be the top ten worst week. Here we go:

NUMBER 10 - The Shining

            The Shining is one of the longest horror movies I have ever seen and sustains momentum through all of its two and a half hours from nearly beginning to end. It is not very scary, due to the fact that it is dated, but it contains intensity throughout the exhilarating sequences of rage and attempted murder.

NUMBER 9 – Halloween

            Halloween, being a very low budget motion picture, depicts murderers at many different perspectives through many peoples’ points of view through several underlying tones that add up to thrilling sequences and a great ending to a prevailed thriller of which there are little true jump scares and many attempts at true scares.

NUMBER 8 – The Ring

            

            The Ring, using the right imagery and trauma, chooses the correct path to go down to scare the audience using subliminal imagery and an original plot they are not familiar with creating fear of the unknown. It keeps a very interesting story throughout, and even has a few scares that got me.

NUMBER 7 – Devil

            

           Devil, a strong film with the tones of mystery and suspense, kept me on the edge of my seat, completely unaware of who was the Devil and what was going on. The film succeeded in not being predictable and surprising the audience with the shocking outcome. It does what it sets out to do.

NUMBER 6 – Alien

        

            Alien, which is now a classic, was a horror film back in ’79. Though, it still sustains the high momentum of suspense today and creates a tone of violation through the activity on the spaceship. It is not considered a horror movie today, but it was set out to be a horror movie, and succeeded when it came out. Then, becoming a classic over thirty years later, it does more than what it sets out to do.

NUMBER 5 – The Thing

            

            The Thing, being possibly the most well done horror film of the ‘80s and ‘90s, brings thrills to the audience with the tone of mystery and mood of “no escape”. It creates tension for the audience, and, like other horror films on this list, keeps them guessing on who is infected now, and who will strike next.

NUMBER 4 – Psycho

            

            Psycho, my favorite “murderer” horror movie, is the reason several horror movies happened. Even though there have been few horror movies to have nearly as great as a story and plot of this one, this film basically created horror movies itself. Everything has layers and a background in this movie. Nothing is there to be there. It also has great dialogue and an amazing screenplay, making this movie a great movie.

NUMBER 3 – Insidious: Chapter 2

            

            Insidious: Chapter 2 is a fun horror movie that probably and should influence more fun horror movies. We need more horror movies like this, because nowadays serious horror movies mostly are not scary. This film has action sequences, scares, and laughs. Most of the scares hit in this one, and it was very thrilling. These aspects of the film make it a great movie.

NUMBER 2 – The Conjuring            

          

            The Conjuring sustains the great mood of horror throughout the whole movie as it is one of the most well done, mature, prestigious, and professional horror movies in a long time. Its R rating is not from being scary, and it has little language, no nudity, and no graphic blood. It is an excellent movie.

NUMBER 1 – Sinister

 

            Sinister is a great depiction of fright and abduction that creates a huge disturbance with many scares, but also sustains a feeling of “awesome” from shot one to the end. The film is thrilling and has not one dull moment throughout the whole film. It brings very good scares with no true jump scares there to be jump scares. It is another example of a prestigious horror movie and has incredible imagery, making this movie an excellent movie.

            

            

            

            Those are my picks of the top ten best horror movies of all time. You may think some films are missing from the list, because I probably have not seen them. For example, I have not seen The Exorcist. Some of them, I may just not like them as much as other people. For example, I am not a big fan of Friday the 13^th and I could not fit A Nightmare on Elm Street into the list. Anyway, I will be back in two weeks with my picks of the top ten worst horror movies of all time.