Best In Class: Scary Movies

[Jura]

Got this off Yahoo Movies. What do you think motherfudgers?

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VAMPIRE
Winner: Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

Dreamy, handsome vampires with great clothes and perfect hair are all the rage these days. Yet old-school horror mavens know that vampires should look like death warmed over. F. W. Murnau's 1922 classic featured the seriously spooky Max Schrek as the fearsome bloodsucking count, but he didn't have the freakish intensity of Klaus Kinski in Werner Herzog's remake.

Runner Up: Near Dark (1987)

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BEST HAUNTED HOUSE
Winner: The Shining (1980)

Helpful hint: If you're planning to work as a caretaker for a beautiful, if isolated, hotel over the winter, make sure it wasn't the site of a familial bloodbath the previous season. The ghosts are sure to interfere with marital harmony and that elevator of blood is a real pain to clean up.

Runner Up: Poltergeist (1982)

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KILLER ANIMALS
Winner: Jaws (1975)

Basically, a shark is a razor-sharp set of teeth with fins. It's an animal that looks like it was thought up by some demented Hollywood production designer. So it isn't surprising that tinseltown turned a Great White into one of the scariest bad guys ever to hit the big screen.

Runner Up: The Birds (1963)

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ALIEN
Winner: Alien (1979)

There's been a long history in movies of creatures from outer space freaking out the good citizens of earth -- from Gort, the robotic enforcer in "The Day the Earth Stood Still" to the burger-shilling extra-terrestrial in "Mac and Me." But few creatures have been as terrifying as the snarling, acid-bleeding, astronaut killing machine found in "Alien."

Runner Up: The Thing (1982)

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BEST GIANT MONSTER
Winner: Godzilla

Since World War II, Japan has been plagued by an epidemic of massive rubbery creatures who can flatten a city in less time than it takes to get a pizza delivered. But hands down, the granddaddy of the Tokyo trashers is that fire-breathing lizard from under the sea.

Runner Up: That creature from Cloverfield


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BEST CANNIBAL
Winner: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Cannibalism is generally regarded as only slightly less reprehensible than working as a health insurance executive. But Hannibal Lecter snacks on his fellow man with such aplomb. After all, anyone can eat a liver. Only Lecter would serve it with fava beans and a nice Chianti.

Runner Up: Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

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EVIL CHILD
Winner: Rosemary's Baby (1968)

In today's real estate market, you may have to make a metaphorical "deal with the devil" to get a good deal on a great apartment. Rosemary, on the other hand, found out too late that her husband made a literal one.

Runner Up: The Exorcist (1973)

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WEREWOLF
Winner: An American Werewolf in London (1981)

Think about how much turning into a werewolf would hurt: hands stretching into paws, face contorting into a lupine features, teeth sharpening into fangs. John Landis' "American Werewolf in London" captured the pain of transformation, but also the regret that comes from changing back.

Runner Up: Howling (1981)

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ZOMBIES (Slow)
Winner: Night of the Living Dead (1968)

George Romero's 1968 low-budget masterpiece set the standard for movie zombies. Those slow, shuffling reanimated corpse were frightening because of their relentless thirst for human flesh, not because they could out run Usain Bolt.

Runner Up: Dawn of the Dead (1979)

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ZOMBIES (Fast)
Winner: 28 Days Later (2002)

Though purists might scoff at Danny Boyle's vision of zombies as mindless disease victims with anger management problems, the movie, and its unnervingly realistic vision of the zombie apocalypse, is unquestionably frightening.

Runner Up: Dawn of the Dead (2004)

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MASKED KILLER
Winner: Halloween (1978)

Take a latex Captain Kirk mask, paint it white, mess up the hair, and put it on a silently lumbering maniac. What you've got is both the originator of the "slasher" genre and still the best one ever made.

Runner Up: Scream (1996)

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SUPERNATURAL BOGEYMAN
Winner: Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

A masked chainsaw-wielding psychopath is plenty scary, but with a little planning and forethought -- some mace, a well-hidden weapon, years of kung fu training -- you can, in theory, take them out. But how do you fight against a pizza-faced crazy who lives inside your dreams? A six-pack of Red Bull can keep you awake for only so long.

Runner Up: Candyman (1992)

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BEST HORROR FLICK YOU'VE (PROBABLY) NEVER SEEN
Winner: The Descent (2006)

THE. SCARIEST. MOVIE. EVER. Trust us. It will freak you out.

Runner Up: Let The Right One In (2008)

[The Jayman]

I agree with most of that list.

The only thing is I would have voted Jason Vorhees be the runner up on the Masked Killer or be the winner with Myers being the R-U

[Jura]

Thank you for posting in my thread because I put a lot of effort into copying and pasting when I could have just posted a link.

[Juan]

Scream a runner up for best masked killer? No way

[The Jayman]

Thank you for posting in my thread because I put a lot of effort into copying and pasting when I could have just posted a link.

You are very welcome

[Jura]

Here is my gift to you.

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[thedamndest]

Overall the list is good. Best Cannibal seems like an arbitrary category though. Silence of the Lambs really isn't a horror movie and how many other cannibals make it into the mainstream?

[Jeritron]

Some of the categories are pretty stupid. It's as if some are designed to give certain movies/characters a mention that they couldn't fit in somewhere else.

Like "fast zombies" I mean, without looking at it I could have guessed what the winner and runner up would be. They're basically the only movies that have taken that approach thus far, aside from their sequels.

But for the most part I agree with what they have there. I think Dawn of the Dead is better than Night of the Living Dead, but it usually tops it on lists for reasons of being the original and influence in the genre.

[Jeritron]

Also, how does the original Wolfman not top The Howling? I agree with American Werewolf in London as the best.

Disagree with the Nosferatu remake too

[Droford]

I really dont get all the "scariest movie ever" crap for the Descent. It wasn't scary at all, and to be honest it was boring and predictable.

And Im going to nominate Macaulay Culkin's character from The Good Son for best Evil Child. I mean being possessed is one thing but just being a flatout evil kid is another.






(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaulay_Culkin)

[Verbose Minch]

I agree with most of that list.

The only thing is I would have voted Jason Vorhees be the runner up on the Masked Killer or be the winner with Myers being the R-U

While Halloween is a grade A slasher movie, the Friday the 13th series is trash.

Scream as runner up though? Lame.

[Emperor Smeat]

Did not know Godzilla is considered a "scary movie". Seems more action than legit horror unless your Japanese I suppose.

[mitch_h]

Disagree with the Nosferatu remake too

Yeah, I don't know why they didn't go with the original, much better film. Not a bad list though

[Jeritron]

I really dont get all the "scariest movie ever" crap for the Descent. It wasn't scary at all, and to be honest it was boring and predictable.




I wouldn't call the Descent the scariest movie ever, but I thought it was great. I wish more people would see it. You don't see many horror movies like this anymore.
Unfortunately it seems to have slipped through the cracks. Almost everyone I know that has seen it has loved it, but most people dismiss it as just another tired horror flick akin to The Ruins or Saw. That's what sucks about the genre becoming so low grade. When something legitimate comes along, it's hard to know because nobody in their right mind is going to sift through all the shit to find the rare gem.

Reminded me a lot of the original Alien. I thought the tone and premise was great. It had a few scares, and a creepy/bleak feel to it.
I don't really tend to get scared by movies anymore, but they can make me feel uneasy. This was the right kind of scary/upsetting.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Yeah, The Descent is far from the scariest movie ever, but it was a damn fine piece of chilling filmmaking. Way better than a lot of the crap out there. Let the Right One In is a vampire story done right. It's a shame that Twilight "Hollywood'd" it.