Essential Horror Movies as Ranked by r/Movies

I asked r/movies what the essential horror movies were. Hundreds of redditors weighed in. The results actually gave a killer list:

1. Alien, 1979, Ridley Scott, 48 mentions
2. Halloween, 1978, John Carpenter, 45 mentions
3. The Exorcist, 1973, William Friedkin, 40 mentions
4. The Thing, 1982, John Carpenter, 36 mentions
5. The Shining, 1980, Stanley Kubrick, 34 mentions
6. Scream, 1996, Wes Craven, 32 mentions
7. A Nightmare on Elm Street, 1984, Wes Craven, 23 Mentions
8. Psycho, 1960, Alfred Hitchcock, 20 mentions
9. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 1974, Tobe Hooper, 19 mentions
10. Hereditary, 2018, Ari Aster, 17 mentions

The 70s reign as king of horror in this list. Alfred Hitchcock makes a showing, but Psycho was his only film with significant votes. John Carpenter and Wes Craven make the list twice, deservedly.

Just missing the top ten were Jaws (15), Rosemary's Baby (15), The Conjuring (14), The Descent (14), and Evil Dead (13)*. I think Rosemary's Baby and Evil Dead are both genre defining flicks and they deserve a mention for sure. The Conjuring and The Descent join Hereditary and the Ari Astor movies as the best of modern horror.

I think the most controversial result is that Freddy whooped Jason's ass. 23 to 10.

There are so many interesting takeaways from the scoring, here is the full list:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DlIjv7LWbBjxLaBT5z3Z-lYDL5s8cdmbj7oDqw4HXPg/edit?usp=sharing

*-- note, the scoring on the Evil Dead films is particularly iffy, due to basically no one being super specific on which version of a film that they mentioned.

Submitted October 31, 2021 at 07:25PM by JackonCableTV https://ift.tt/3btbyXS