The making of a list of top ten horror films is an art in itself. You have to sift through a lifetime of films, trying to make out whether the head-twisting of the demon in
The Exorcist is superior to the twitching of Anthony Perkins in
Psycho, and you have to leave to the side a host of honorable candidates, as great as
Alien and as good as
The Human Centipede (First Sequence). You can see some fine examples of the list-making art in
Horrorblog.com's top ten archive. Here is my own top ten list:
1.
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
2.
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
3.
The Exorcist (1973)
4.
King Kong (1933)
5.
Jaws (1975)
6.
Psycho (1960)
7.
The Fly (1986)
8.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
9.
Halloween (1978)
10.
The Shining (1980)
George Ochoa
Author
Deformed and Destructive Beings: The Purpose of Horror Films
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