These movies are the 10 best horror movies of all times. They are as follows:
King Kong(1933) - Rank 1Starring - Fay Wray,Robert Armstrong,Bruce Cabot
Directed and Produced By - Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Runtime - 5 hrs 9 mins
Genre - Horror/Suspense
Story - The film begins with Denham and his crew shooting a jungle movie on the remote Skull Island. They stumble upon a prehistoric world populated by dinosaurs and giant snakes. The most dangerous and magnificent of all the unusual and exotic creatures is "King Kong," a fifty-foot gorilla. Using gas bombs, Denham subdues the beast and brings him to New York City, where Kong goes on a rampage, destroying everything in his past and kidnapping a beautiful young actress.
Critics views - The movie King Kong makes the audiences scream and cry throughout the film, with the help of its breath taking special effects.
Screenwriter: Ruth Rose,James Creelman
Composer: Max Steiner
Repulsion(1965) - Rank 2Starring - Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, Yvonne Furneaux, Patrick Wymark, James Villiers, John Fraser, Renee Houston, Valerie Taylor
Directed by - Roman Polanski
Produced by - Gene Gutowski
Runtime - 1 hrs 45 mins
Genre - Horror/Suspense
Story - REPULSION, was director Roman Polanski's first movie filmed in English. It is the story about the descent of a sexually confused young woman Carol, into schizophrenia. The woman named Carol ( Catherine Deneuve) works at a beauty parlor and shares an apartment with her sister Helen (Yvonne Furneaux). One day Helen and her boyfriend, Michael (Ian Hendry), go off on vacation together leaving Carol alone in the empty apartment. At the apartment the sounds of the constant ticking of a clock, faucets dripping, and the invasive ringing of a telephone makes Carol extremely paranoid, and Carol refuses to let anyone in and never leaves the building herself, in effect breaking off all contact with the outside world. In such an environment, she begins to lose her grip on reality, suffering from hallucinations of being attacked by a phantom rapist and hands reaching out from the walls to grab her. Highly acclaimed and extremely gripping, Polanski's film can be seen as an introduction to his later work in the field of psychological horror with ROSEMARY'S BABY and, especially, THE TENANT.
Critics Views - Polanski's first English film makes the audience feel as claustrophobic as the character.
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The Bride of Frankenstein(1935) - Rank 3
Starring - Elsa Lanchester, Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Ernest Thesiger, Gavin Gordon, Douglas Walton, Una O'Connor, E. E. Clive, Lucien Prival, O.P. Heggie, Dwight Frye
Directed by - James Whale
Produced by - Carl Laemmle Jr.
Runtime - 75 mins
Genre - Horror/Suspense
Story - THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN is a masterly mix of horror and black comedy and is the first in a series of sequels to FRANKENSTEIN. In the begining,Mary Shelley (Elsa Lanchester) resumes her tale after the face-off in a burning windmill between Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) and his horrific creation, the Monster (Boris Karloff). The monster who was presumed dead in the end of the original movie FRANKENSTEIN, rises again and kills two villagers and runs into the forest. Meanwhile, at chez Frankenstein, the archly villainous Dr. Pretorius (Ernest Thesiger) arrives, demanding to see Henry "on a secret grave matter." In a touching scene, the Monster is chased by countless angry mobs untill he finds brief respite with a blind hermit (O.P. Heggie) who befriends him and teaches him to speak. Mad-as-a-hatter Pretorius forces Henry to create a female monster, resulting in another gorgeously filmed laboratory scene of lightning, flying kites, and whirring gizmos. Once the lightning-streaked, big-haired, white-robed Bride (Elsa Lanchester again) walks, how will the Monster react now; who will live and who will die? Horror fans will delighted to see the movies because of Whale's superb camera work of sweeping crane shots and canted angles, the cavernous, shadowy sets, and the atmospheric Franz Waxman score.
Critics Views - James Whale has made Bride of Frankenstein remarkably well in an eccentric, campy, technically impressive, and frightening way.
Composer - Franz Waxman
Aliens(1986) - Rank 4
Starring - Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, William Hope, Jenette Goldstein, Al Matthews, Mark Rolston, Ricco Ross, Colette Hiller
Directed by - James Cameron
Screen-writer - James Cameron
Story-writer - David Giler, Walter Hill, James Cameron
Produced by - Gale Anne Hurd
Runtime - 2 hrs 34 mins
Genre - Science Fiction/Fantasy
Story - Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) who was the only survivor from the original ALIEN, awakens after 57 years of drifting through space. She tells her stories to Company executives who disbelieve in her stories and tell her that the alien's planet is now inhabited and colonized. But just then suddenly contact is lost with the colonists and Ripley has to return to the planet with a squad of marines, an android (Lance Henriksen), and a Company executive (Paul Reiser) with a mission of his own. Once on the planet, they find no survivors except for Newt, a little girl who awakens motherly instincts in Ripley just in time for the acid-blooded aliens to attack. Considered by many to be the best of the series, ALIENS is a fast-paced, high-intensity thrill ride that set a new standard for action films and sets director James Cameron's status as one of Hollywood's leading directors following the success of THE TERMINATOR. Weaver received an Academy Award nomination and became a feminist hero for her strong, sensitive performance as the survivor Ripley, while costars Reiser, Henriksen, and Bill Paxton all give career-making performances in this landmark sci-fi extravaganza.
Critics View - While Alien the first film of the series was a slow-paced,atmospheric tension, Aliens is a fast track film with some power packed performances.
Composer - James Horner
Evil Dead(1979) - Rank 5
Starring - Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Betsy Baker, Theresa Tilly, Hal Delrich
Directed by - Sam Raimi
Produced by - Rob Tapert
Screen-writer - Sam Raimi
Runtime - 2 hrs 6 mins
Genre - Horror/Suspense
Story - THE EVIL DEAD,EVIL DEAD 2 and ARMY OF DARKNESS are the three movies that make one of the well known series of horror films. THE EVIL DEAD was the first in the series and was he best of the three.It is the story of five college-age friends who travel to a cabin in rural Tennesse. There they stumble upon the Book of the Dead and an ancient tomb bound in human flesh and inked in blood. After unwittingly awakening the unspeakable terror told of in the book, each of the friends is transformed into the evil dead, one by one, except for Ash (Bruce Campbell). So, Ash is left with no other way to survive than to dismember the living corpses of his sister, girlfriend, and two of his friends. The film is shot on a shoestring budget,still the film has some impressive camera work and extremely over-the-top gore effects as well as a sense of humor much more subtle than the tongue-in-cheek aesthetic of the two sequels.
Critics Views - This is a classic low budget horror film that has an equal amount of thrill and laugh.
Frankenstein(1931) - Rank 6
Starring - Colin Clive, Boris Karloff, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Edward Van Sloan, Frederick Kerr, Dwight Frye, Lionel Belmore, Marilyn Harris, Michael Mark, Arletta Duncan, Pauline Moore, Francis Ford
Directed by - James Whale
Screenwriter - Francis Edward Faragoh, Garrett Fort
Produced by - Carl Laemmle
Runtime - 71 mins
Genre - Horror/Suspense
Story - FRANKENSTEIN is James Whale's first stylish, expressionist film to grace the Universal horror cycle of the 1930s and 1940s. The story is that Scientist Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) and his hunchbacked assistant, Fritz (Dwight Frye), undertake an unholy mission by stealing a body from a graveyard and a human brain from a medical college. But Fritz takes a violent and murderous abnormal brain, that Frankenstein does not know. Henry's strange letters about his experiments worry his fiancée, Elizabeth (Mae Clark), and friends Victor (John Boles) and Dr. Waldman (Edward Van Sloan). They arrive at Frankenstein's laboratory to find the spectacular scene of creation under way--and Frankenstein intoxicated with his own godlike power. FRANKENSTEIN is in many ways the original horror classic, virtually creating the genre itself, leading to numerous sequels and myriad imitators. Whale's ability to give humanity to the Monster is one of the film's most stunning successes.
Critics Views - Frankenstein is a movie that clearly explains that there is a very thin line that separates a genius from a mad person.
Composer - Bernhard Kaun
Jaws(1975) - Rank 7
Starring - Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert
Directed by - Steven Spielberg
Produced by - Richard D. Zanuck, David Brown
Runtime - 2 hrs 5 mins
Genre - Horror/Suspense
Story - This film is based on the best-selling novel by Peter Benchley and Steven Spielberg has directed this thrill ride of terror remarkably well in the most appropriate manner. According to the story the Massachusetts resort town of Amity Island is terrorized one summer by surprise attacks by a white shark. The new chief of police from New York (Roy Scheider), a young university-educated oceanographer (Richard Dreyfuss), and a crusty old-time fisherman (Robert Shaw), the three unlikely partners team up to hunt down the wild mammal. The film shoot was notoriously difficult for the young Spielberg, who had directed only one feature film before JAWS. The mechanical shark seldom operated correctly, and Spielberg was frequently forced to create the idea of terror without actually showing the shark. However, after the film premiered it went on to become the highest-grossing film of all time becoming the first film to gross more than a hundred million dollars. Composer John Williams who created the score to JAWS, which has since become a well-known theme of impending doom became famous. Ron and Valerie Taylor were responsible for filming live sharks in Australia; their sequences were later mixed with footage of the mechanical shark.
Critics Views - Jaws create intense fearful atmosphere for people as it remains tense by not showing audiences the shark for the majority of the film, and when it does, viewers jump out of their seats.
Composer - John Williams
The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari(1919) - Rank 8
Starring - Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss
Directed by - Robert Wiene
Runtime - 1 hrs 31 mins
Genre - Horror/Suspense
Story - This movies is a silent, classic example of early German expressionism. It is a stylized tale of a Dr. Caligari, a fairground showman who hypnotizes an innocent villager and turns him into a sleepwalking "zombie" who he compels to carry out diabolically cruel murders. Inarguably a landmark in world cinema, Robert Weine's one-of-a-kind thriller features fantastical, heavily stylized sets, anti realist acting, and evocative subjective camera work.
Critics Views - This German Expressionist masterpiece makes great use of its chilling premise and stylized set design.
Rosemary's Baby(1968) - Rank 9Starring - Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Ralph Bellamy, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans, Victoria Vetri, Patsy Kelly, Charles Grodin, Elisha Cook
Directed by - Roman Polanski
Screen-Writer - Roman Polanski
Produced by - William Castle
Runtime - 2 hrs 16 mins
Genre - Horror/Suspense
Story - It is Roman Polanski's stylish occult thriller and is possibly the director's most famous film and was a big box-office success. This was Polanski's first American feature film, following his frightening 1965 REPULSION, which was made in England. The use of producer William Castle who was famous for popular low-budget horror, helped Polanski to go forward into a long and rigorous career as one of the masters of this genre. The terrifying satanic story forever haunts fans of this cult film, the setting of which is done in Manhattan's Dakota building that carries a ghost story of its own as it was the location of John Lennon's assassination. The story is that a young, happily married couple, waif-like Rosemary (Mia Farrow) and struggling actor Guy (John Cassavetes), move into a spacious apartment in a venerable old building off Central Park. There they meet the elderly couple next door, Roman (Sidney Blackmer) and Minnie Castavet (Ruth Gordon in an Oscar-winning performance), who seem to take a special interest in Rosemary's well-being. Shortly after another young woman in the building commits suicide by jumping out a window, Rosemary begins to be plagued by disturbing dreams, including a hallucinogenic black mass sequence in which she is raped by something "inhuman" while surrounded by a host of unlikely spectators. Rosemary discovers she is pregnant and soon falls violently ill. Guy her husband takes her to a new doctor too. But when the young couple's friend Hutch (Maurice Evans) exposes her eccentric but seemingly well-meaning neighbors as members of a witches' coven, Rosemary realizes that she is the victim of a deeply evil conspiracy and that no one can be trusted not even her own husband.
Critics Views - A frightening tale of Satanism and pregnancy that is even more disturbing than it sounds thanks to convincing and committed performances by Mia Farrow and Ruth Gordon.
Composer - Krzysztof Komeda
Nosferatu(1922) - Rank 10Starring - #Max Schreck, Gustave Von Wagenheim, Greta Schroeder, Alexander Granach
Directed by - W. Murnau
Runtime - 1 hr 33 mins
Genre - Horror/Suspense
Story - F.W. Murnau's German silent classic is the original, and some say most frightening DRACULA adaptation. It is based on Bram Stoker's novel and ha been made into a haunting, shadowy dream full of dread. Names had to be changed from the novel because Stoker's wife charged that his novel was being filmed without proper permission. Count Orlok, the rodent like vampire frighteningly portrayed by Max Schreck, is perhaps the most wildest and animal like screen portrayal of a vampire ever filmed. The design was copied by Werner Herzog in his 1979 remake and by Tobe Hooper for his tele-film of Stephen King's SALEM'S LOT that same year. NOSFERATU is an eerie, menacing film that should not be missed.
Critics Views - Nosferatu's gothic feel and creepy vision of Dracula remains influential among vampire films to this day.
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