Horror doesn’t always have to horrify.

Somehorror movies are as funnyas they are scary, while others are just deliriously entertaining.

Indeed, the genre is remarkably versatile, meaning there are plenty of movies to choose from.

Promotional image for ‘Jaws’ featuring a great white shark swimming up from the depths of an ocean as a swimmer moves across the top

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Decades later, it would receive a reappraisal as a classic of its genre and Browning’s masterpiece.

Even in its truncated form,Freaksstill holds the power to shock and entertainover ninety years since its release.

Their classic routines like “Who’s on First?”

The sideshow performers in ‘Freaks’

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Monsters also came from the skies as aliens made landfall in tons of great sci-fi horror films.

His girlfriend quickly loses her head, thoughthat doesn’t stop her from coming at Ash with a chainsaw.

It’s a wonderfulB-movie premise elevated by a talented cast and a clever script.

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Abbot and Costello with Frankenstein, the Wolfman, and Dracula.

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The alien arm shoves through a door in ‘The Thing from Another World’

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A masked figure in Blood-and-Black-Lace-1964

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The shark emerges from the sea to attack Brody (Roy Scheider) on a boat in ‘Jaws’.

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A man in a lab coat looks down at a human head on a table with scientific jars nearby in Re-animator.

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Ash fights off deadites with an axe in Evil Dead II

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Fred Ward in Tremors

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The Headless Horseman in the woods wielding a sword in front of a tree in Sleepy Hollow

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