This isone of those hyper-rare movies that improves upon an already great book in every conceivable way.
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A young F.B.I.
Giger, this studio-backed B-movie became perhaps the best haunted house movie ever.
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Weaver would be Oscar-nominated forJames Cameron’s action-heavy 1986Aliens.
The franchise these two essential genre pictures jump-started is uneven and weird, endearingly so.
The terror begins when the crew encounters a nest of eggs inside the alien ship.
A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.
Over a decade later, thanks toKevin Williamson’s sharp-as-hell, meta script about serial killers (spoiler!)
who are obsessed with horror movies, Craven had another shot at making a perfect movie.
It’s a pop masterpiece.
A group of friends traveling through rural Texas encounter a family of deranged cannibals, including the terrifying Leatherface.
As they explore an old homestead, they are systematically hunted down in gruesome ways.
With great performances from bothAnthony PerkinsandJanet Leigh, Psycho wasa boundary-pushing assault on the censors.
Among them, the highly influentialPauline Kaeldismissed it as “dumb scariness.”
Here we are, nearly a half-century later, andHalloweenis aging just as well asPsycho.
You’ll never see a more affecting film thanThe Exorcist.
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This isthe most powerful meditation on the struggle between good and evil in cinema.
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In deep space, the crew of the commercial starship Nostromo is awakened from their cryo-sleep capsules halfway through their journey home to investigate a distress call from an alien vessel. The terror begins when the crew encounters a nest of eggs inside the alien ship. An organism from inside an egg leaps out and attaches itself to one of the crew, causing him to fall into a coma.
A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.
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A nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall.
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A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
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A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer’s client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
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When a young girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.
