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MY TEN FAVORITE OF ALL TIMESep 05 '02 Write an essay on this topic.The Bottom Line The purpose of a movie, much like other art is to entertain, the purpose of a horror movie is to not only entertain...but scare as well. Simply picking ten great horror movies i thought would be an extremely hard task. What i realized, is when i started doing it, there really were not THAT many great scare/horror movies to mention. HOWEVER, the ones that i do mention i believe are masterful, and really should be watched by anyone that wants to be entertained, scared, or just plain shocked. 10. PSYCHO this movie didnt exactly scare me as much as set an uneasy feeling throughout the scope of it. the way the scenes went from one to the other was very smooth and you have the opprotunity to get that "your there" feeling while watching it. set around a motel and old "house on the hill" it takes you through the dimented life of the main character and has wonderful character development, what it took for those people to be in that situation is easy to understand and somewhat believable. the acting i thought was well done and the direction is amazing. 9. IT First let me say that along with millions of other americans and people world wide, CLOWNS SCARE THE s**t OUT OF ME. What i really enjoyed more than anything else in this movie was the acting. I mean who knew johnboy could be so convincing and john ritter for goodness sake. but they all pull it off not just well but in a way that makes you totally forget they were ever in previous roles at all. The movie is set on a group of friends that dealt with a horrific event when they were very young, and how that event shaped there lives for years to come in ways some of them dont even realize. When the monster from the horrific original event comes back to "finish business" the group of friends must again come together to confront .....IT. 8. DAWN OF THE DEAD O.K., i admit it, i am a huge fan of Romero (director). The way he interlaces society's struggles in the real life with the totally unrealistic life of zombies of all things, is something to behold. This movie shows a hillariously grusome tale of the life of a very small group of people, trying to survive trapped in a mall with...ZOMBIES, FLESH EATING ZOMBIES. The interlacing of realistic news casts and "on scene" reporting makes the viewer feel like they are a part of the movie in some way. the zombie acting in this movie i thought to be right on to what i would imagine zombies would act like, although the makeup was weak, powerful weak. overall this movie kept me into it the whole way through and made me wonder what grusome thing would happen next. 7. THE CELL simply put... this movie was absolutely visual perfection in that it took three watches of it for me to feel like i had seen everything the director intend for the audience to see. the whole movie was simple disturbing and to any one who has gotten the chance to see it, two words "horse seperation". a government funded dream therapy program is being utilized to hopefully bring some very sick children out of there negative state. the main "dream therapist" is inlisted to go into the mind of a captured psychopath in hopes of getting information that will save a caged woman. this is one of those few long movies that feels really short. It's a total attack on your emotions and nearly makes you have pitty on the villian that is simply a very mentally sick human. if you like huge scaped scenes you will deffinitly dig this flick. 6. Army of Darkness This is one of my all time favorite movies period. the cinematagraphy is mind blowing, especially involving a scene with ashe (the main character) running from a never shown beast in the midlle of a forest. this movie is actually a sequal to the evil dead series of movies staring bruce cambel as ashe, a wise cracking, butt kicking, take no guff handless hero that is thrown into the past through a portal and is stuck, with the only escape being finding a book of magic that can set him free. Sam Raime may be directing huge movies now like spiderman, but in my opinion this is his greatest acomplishment. the makeup effects and acting are both awesome and hillarious, and that humor is what seperates the movie from most others in the genre. i wanted to stand up and clap at the end of this movie and if you rent the dvd.. be sure to check out the original ending, it is gut splittingly funny. 5. THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE To date, this is one of the most realistically grusome and horrific movies i have even seen. and the plot makes you realize that it could happen to anybody with the cooks that are out there today. a hitchhiking woman is taken aboard the wrong auto in the wrong time with the wrong people. This movie introduces leatherface, a horrific canable that makes his leathery mask out of human skin, and terrorizes the bejesus out of the poor lead female among others in the movie. This is just plain put a gory scare fest. you could be brain dead and enjoy it, or could analize and still enjoy it, and the way it is filmed nerely makes it feel documentary like, and inspired almost every movie in it's genre after it. it's use of humor and shock is wonderful and the first time i saw it, i was VERY scared. 4. A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET This is the first movie i ever saw that gave me nightmares. if you've seen the movie you know the nightmare. caught in a dark alley with a humanoid figure waving what appear to be 12 feet long arms in your general direction. the movie uses an issue that is made for horror movies, dreams. it tells the tale of a "burned at the stake" child molester that enters blood relatives of the killers dreams and kills them in there sleep, which then intern kills them in real life. To pull it off he uses a 4 knived claw on one hand that has become a staple in horror movie history. forget about Nightmare on elm street 3-whatever, although good for a laugh and shock factor, they cant even compare to the first two. this movie put wes craven on the map. and deservedly so. 3. THE EXCORSIST (DIRECTORS CUT) the original was great, but the directors cut is even better in this child posession gone horribly wrong movie. it tells the story of a young girl that is possesed by a demonic force and requires the demon to be excorsised. along the way it shows how integral religion is to human society. this movie was scary as all get out, and some of the subject matter that was used is still taboo in todays society more than 20 years later. if you like horror movies and dont see this one... what the heck are you waiting for for goodness sake. 2. THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT keep telling yourself "it's only a movie, it's only a movie" thats the catch phrase it started by making you realize that anything can happen to anyone at anytime anywhere, and the struggle of parents to make sure horrible people get horrible outcomes. this is the most realistic horror movie i have ever seen period. and it is the only horror i thought was an amazing movie i have only seen once and will probably only see once. it's use of totally random music only adds to it's scare value, making you wonder who the heck thought that stuff up. two young girls pickup a hitchicker who proceeds to rape and kill, and rape the girls and the consequences from the girls family that end in the perpatrators death. this movie is horrific and shouldn't be watched by the feeble. it borderlines on non enjoyment but the movie is so masterful it needs to be shared with the public. 1. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD to not put this movie in the top five best horror movies of all time on any list is in my opinion stupidity. at the time, it's use of makeup effects coupled with a black lead actor, coupled with other race issues interlaced in the movie made it in my opinion the greatest horror flick of all time. it put genuine freight in me, wanting to open the shades so i didnt have such an uneasy feeling through the whole watching of it. the lighting is masterful, the acting is awesome, the co-ilation between real life events and the movie at the time was simply put, genious. the movie starts with a couples car breaking down in a cemetary and them realizing that the dead had been coming back to like, sustaining themselves on the cunsumption of human brains. to be bitten by is to be infected and the movie shows a very good example of the way life is, in that you may be able to triumph over unstoppable odds, but in the end... there is just too much time. timing in my opinion plays a huge role in the feel of a horror movie. most movies i have seen in the last 5 years have no idea what timing is (other than the sixth sense, which nearly made the top ten). the ability of a director to make you realize something big is gonna happen before it does, and then still jolt you a little in your seat when it happens, is where horror movies seperate themselves from the pack. this one does, BIGTIME. i have been lucky enough to see probably thousands of horror movies over my short 24 year life span, i've viewed the other threads posted here and find it both informative and humorus seeing some of the other peoples favorite movies, usually revolving around the watchers interests in a certain class within the horror drama. maybe someone will see a movie they havent because of this writing and enjoy something we all like to do, see a good movie. HONORABLE MENTIONS, 11.nosfuratu 12.interview with the vampire 13.the blair witch project 14.nightmare on elm street two 15.the sixth sense  |
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