Your Top 10 Mainstream Fright Fests-Horror Films of All Time
What scares you in the real world does not apply in films. This is because filmmakers has been practically creating more and more hideous monsters from creepy little spiders in your book shelves to the most horrifying gigantic spiders running after you.
However, there are films that scared your soul off and even haunt you in your dreams. If you sum up all the high grossing and terrifying horror films from the past until now, it will give you goose bumps and make you scream to death.
Here are top 10 of your sold out hair raising horror films of all time:
1. Psycho (1960)
This is the horror film that changed the way horror movies are perceived in film making. The film created intrigue and thus making it demandable by the public. Alfred Hitchcock, the director, intended to shift the sympathy of the audience to kill the main character.
2. Repulsion (1965)
Catherine Denueve personifies a young woman with sexual repression left alone in her own apartment and to her deceiving fantasies for the weekend. The film shows the decent woman's madness. Never watch the movie alone while the lights are off.
3. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
A group of kids were trapped inside a farm house without knowing the existence of the flesh-eating zombies. The increasing level of hysteria and claustrophobic tension made the movie one with a blurry happy ending.
4. Suspiria (1977)
A poor ballet American student arrives in Europe, scolded with the weather, a gruesome murder, a coven of witches, his own virtuosic camera and the freakiest film score ever made. This film is terrorizing with anxiety attack aftereffect.
5. Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Before Freddy Krueger became the reference for pop culture, he represented the twisted monster ever set free in Michael Myers' Halloween. He's slicing and dicing the parents of the children who murdered him, scared the audience terrifyingly.
6. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Texas, with its home liens for sale, frightened the Cineplex audiences through its plot of inhuman slaughter, spilling bloods and torture of a group of infuriating teens who made a wrong turn while on a road trip in Texas. Encounter the most dysfunctional family you will ever see.
7. Don't Look Now (1973)
When Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie went to Venice to forget the tragic accident of their child, they had the hard time to efface the memory when the dead child keeps on reappearing. It is disoriented, frustrating and with horrible climax; a reminder that memories can never be forgotten.
8. The Exorcist (1973)
The real terror on this film is not the devils possession but on the helplessness of the parents in saving their child. The disturbing special effects and the director's supernatural theme made the movie a horror for adults only.
9. Eraser head (1977)
It is a cult classic film to be trapped inside a person's nightmare. The film became deafening due to its slow surreal rhythm. There is the unimaginable intense of instinctive nightmares. This is a film that personifies sins in all of its levels.
10. The Amity ville Horror (1979)
The film was based on a true story, where the Lutz family transferred in Amity ville, which is currently under the list of real estate listings and not a tax deed auctions, and then realized that they are haunted by a paranormal phenomenon inside the house. Before they had moved in, a murder took place in the house - a definite terror-stricken finale.
However, there are films that scared your soul off and even haunt you in your dreams. If you sum up all the high grossing and terrifying horror films from the past until now, it will give you goose bumps and make you scream to death.
Here are top 10 of your sold out hair raising horror films of all time:
1. Psycho (1960)
This is the horror film that changed the way horror movies are perceived in film making. The film created intrigue and thus making it demandable by the public. Alfred Hitchcock, the director, intended to shift the sympathy of the audience to kill the main character.
2. Repulsion (1965)
Catherine Denueve personifies a young woman with sexual repression left alone in her own apartment and to her deceiving fantasies for the weekend. The film shows the decent woman's madness. Never watch the movie alone while the lights are off.
3. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
A group of kids were trapped inside a farm house without knowing the existence of the flesh-eating zombies. The increasing level of hysteria and claustrophobic tension made the movie one with a blurry happy ending.
4. Suspiria (1977)
A poor ballet American student arrives in Europe, scolded with the weather, a gruesome murder, a coven of witches, his own virtuosic camera and the freakiest film score ever made. This film is terrorizing with anxiety attack aftereffect.
5. Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Before Freddy Krueger became the reference for pop culture, he represented the twisted monster ever set free in Michael Myers' Halloween. He's slicing and dicing the parents of the children who murdered him, scared the audience terrifyingly.
6. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Texas, with its home liens for sale, frightened the Cineplex audiences through its plot of inhuman slaughter, spilling bloods and torture of a group of infuriating teens who made a wrong turn while on a road trip in Texas. Encounter the most dysfunctional family you will ever see.
7. Don't Look Now (1973)
When Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie went to Venice to forget the tragic accident of their child, they had the hard time to efface the memory when the dead child keeps on reappearing. It is disoriented, frustrating and with horrible climax; a reminder that memories can never be forgotten.
8. The Exorcist (1973)
The real terror on this film is not the devils possession but on the helplessness of the parents in saving their child. The disturbing special effects and the director's supernatural theme made the movie a horror for adults only.
9. Eraser head (1977)
It is a cult classic film to be trapped inside a person's nightmare. The film became deafening due to its slow surreal rhythm. There is the unimaginable intense of instinctive nightmares. This is a film that personifies sins in all of its levels.
10. The Amity ville Horror (1979)
The film was based on a true story, where the Lutz family transferred in Amity ville, which is currently under the list of real estate listings and not a tax deed auctions, and then realized that they are haunted by a paranormal phenomenon inside the house. Before they had moved in, a murder took place in the house - a definite terror-stricken finale.
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