Saturday, November 3, 2007

Days Late, Dollars Short: 50 Scary Movies

For the last few weeks, I had been reading Stephen King and Clive Barker short stories, watching movies like The Innocents and 28 Weeks Later, and generally getting into the mood for Halloween, but I wasn't able to conjure up a suitably thematic blog post.

Instead, I'm just going to rip off Sean Collins (my apologies, Sean), which will also provide a good excuse for me to play around with posting a bunch of images (that's the fun part).

So...

My 50 Favorite Creepy, Scary, and/or Spooky Movies

1. Blow Out


2. Vertigo


3. Shadow of a Doubt


4. Blue Velvet


5. The Exorcist


6. Martin


7. The Night of the Hunter


8. The Innocents


9. The Birds


10. The Saragossa Manuscript


11. Videodrome


12. Deliverance


13. 28 Weeks Later


14. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre


15. Audition


16. Dawn of the Dead (1978)


17. Alien


18. Frankenstein


19. The Fury


20. 28 Days Later


21. Jaws


22. Rosemary's Baby


23. The Thing


24. Bedlam


25. M


26. The Descent


27. Ugetsu


28. Suspiria


29. Night of the Living Dead


30. War of the Worlds (2005)


31. Aliens


32. The Stepfather


33. Scanners


34. Dawn of the Dead (2004)


35. The Dark Half


36. Manhunter


37. The Hills Have Eyes (1977)


38. I Walked with a Zombie


39. The Vanishing


40. Evil Dead II


41. Tenebre


42. The Dead Zone


43. The Evil Dead


44. Scrooged


45. Bram Stoker's Dracula


46. Dead Alive


47. Day of the Dead


48. The Frighteners


49. Re-animator


50. The Shining

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm working on a response post to this awesome Halloween project... but in the meantime... wasn't it really fucking fun finding all those screen-shots? I love that. Raul Julia's my new pet picture project for now.

Jon Hastings said...

Getting to find and choose the screen-shots was really the reason I did this.

I'm hooked, now.

Anonymous said...

Evil Dead is weird. I can't believe you put The Shining at the end! It would be at the top on MY list.