Horror Movies Top 10... Almost!
MehEvery wondered what almost made the Top 10 Horror Movies? As you know each month we do a Top 10 list as of that month since every single day the Top 10 list changes as you the readers and the real genre experts submit your reviews. Today I wanted to share a new list. This list is films that ALMOST made the Top 10 Horror Movies as of July.... but fell just short.
This list like all our lists will change so check it out below, and submit your own reviews to either promote these films or bump them down the list where they belong. Its got some pretty good flicks on it including two favs of mine OldBoy and Silence of the Lambs.
| #1. OldBoy Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik) is a husband and father whose reputation for womanizing is well known. One day, for reasons he doesn't understand, Oh Dae-su finds himself locked up in a prison cell, with no idea of what his crime was or ... |
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#2. The Silence of the Lambs Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins deliver sensational, Oscar-winning performances in this shockingly powerful Thriller, that garnered five Academy Awards, including Best Picture! At the behest of the FBI, agent-in-training Clarice... |
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| #3. A Tale of Two Sisters Once upon a time, two little girls were sent to live with their wicked stepmother in the country. Su-Mi and Su-Yeon have had to go away for a little while because they've been sick, but now they're back in the family home, deep in... |
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| #4. The Sixth Sense In this tense tale of psychological terror, Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) is a child psychologist whose new patient has a problem far outside his usual area of expertise. Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment) is six-years-old and cla... |
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| #5. Freaks The film stars Harry Earles as Hans, a suave midget who belongs to the sideshow of a seedy circus and who makes the mistake of falling in love with the beautiful Cleopatra, one of the "normal" circus performers. Learning th... |
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#6. Masters of Horror: John Carpenter -... Kirby Sweetman (Norman Reedus) knows how to find rare film prints. However, nothing could prepare him for the daunting search for "Le Fin Absolue du Monde," a film allegedly shown only once and rumored to have driven its audi... |
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| #7. District 9 Thirty years ago, aliens made first contact with Earth. Humans waited for the hostile attack, or the giant advances in technology. Neither came. Instead, the aliens were refugees, the last survivors of their home world. The creatu... |
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| #8. The Fly (1986) David Cronenberg's 1986 remake of the 1958 SciFi classic about a scientist who has a horrific accident when he tries to use his newly invented teleportation device. Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum), a brilliant but eccentric ... |
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| #9. The Howling This groundbreaking, darkly-comic horror film from director Joe Dante changed the look and feel of werewolf movies in ways light-years distant from Universal's horror classic The Wolf Man. The story begins with television reporter... |
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| #10. Gremlins "Don't expose him to bright light. Don't ever get him wet. And don't ever, ever feed him after midnight." This sage advice is ignored midway through Gremlins, with devastating results. This comic Joe Dante effort is set in a N... |
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#11. Masters of Horror - Family The Fullers, a young married couple, move to a new town and discovers that their neighbor, Harold Thompson, is not what he seems. He putters away at his hobbies; however, his passion is anything but innocent. The Fullers will soon... |
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| #12. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (197... Jack Finney's classic science fiction novel has been the basis of three big-screen adaptations, beginning with the 1956 chiller Invasion of the Body Snatchers and most recently as 1994's underrated Body Snatchers. This acclaimed ... |
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| #13. Frailty The FBI must track down a Texas serial killer who goes by the self-given nickname God's Hands; Matthew McConaughey plays Fenton Meeks, a man who realizes through a series of disturbing flashbacks about his childhood that it might ... |
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| #14. The Others In this psychological thriller, Nicole Kidman plays a mother (Grace) who moves into a remote island mansion to await her husband's return from World War II. Her two sons become very ill and can't be exposed to sunlight, cau... |
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| #15. The Craft For Sarah (Robin Tunney), moving to Los Angeles is just another chance to be an outsider. She is all alone among the tightly-knit student body of St. Benedict's Academy ... until she meets three young women who also have found the... |
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#16. The Dead Next Door THE DEAD NEXT DOOR is a zombie lover's dream come true! An inventive scientist has created the ultimate virus: it takes over and replaces a corpse's cells, using it as a slave to keep supplying its favorite dish...humans! When the... |
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#17. Session 9 Brad Anderson's SESSION 9 is a thrilling psychological horror film that uses a haunting backdrop to weave a tale of deep terror. Called in to remove asbestos from the imposing, soon-to-be-renovated Danvers State Mental Hospital, t... |
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| #18. Hellraiser 2: Hellbound The story picks up immediately after the events of the original, with the mentally-unbalanced Kirsty (Ashley Laurence) confined to a mental hospital after her experiences in the hellish domain of the grotesque Cenobites, which... |
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| #19. Marebito Masuoka is a cameraman possessed by the craving to understand fear--what it is and where it ultimately leads. He wanders the Tokyo streets, a voyeur, hungrily looking for clues. Obsessing over the haunted expressions o... |
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| #20. Death Note The story follows the mysterious "L" and others as they try to catch cool and brainy high school student Raito Yagami (Fujiwara), who has come into possession of a notebook that allows him to summon a murderous demon simply by wri... |
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| #21. Sheitan On Christmas Eve, a group of young guys meet two gorgeous girls who invite them to spend the weekend in the country, where they meet Joseph (Vincent Cassel, Ocean’s Twelve, Irreversible), a creepy, unkempt man whose pregnant... |
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| #22. Gimme Skelter GIMME SKELTER follows a group of characters in a small, sleepy New Mexico town, particularly Todd Aherne and his girlfriend Jonda. Through a terrible mistake, Todd puts his relationship with Jonda in jeopardy -- and when the town ... |
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| #23. Evil (To Kako) It all begins when some workmen discover a mysterious cave beneath the streets of Athens; those who venture into it become stricken by a plague that turns them into raving, flesh-hungry ghouls. Soon only a small group of... |
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| #24. Masters of Horror: Tobe Hooper - Da... Based on his father's celebrated short story, "Dance of the Dead" depicts a post-apocalyptic dystopia wherein re-animated corpses of former friends and enemies dance on stage at "The Doom Room" for the entertainment of a few that ... |
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| #25. PontyPool Film is getting a limited release through IFC. Helmed by renowned Director Bruce McDonald, PONTYPOOL marks the filmmaker’s first venture into the horror genre. The film is adapted from the novel “Pontypool Changes Ever... |
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| #26. Alien Raiders Fresh veggies on Aisle 1. Fresh kills throughout the store. Something terrible is happening at Hastings Market. Something bloody. Something deadly. Something inhuman. And caught up in the grisly horror inside the market are shoppe... |
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#27. Pulse (Kairo) A leader of the so-called Japanese New Wave, Kiyoshi Kurosawa once again wraps a lowbrow, much-maligned genre -- in this case horror flicks, which are the rage in Japan -- around some decidedly highbrow philosophical concepts. At ... |
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| #28. Scream 2 A year after the monstrous success of 1996's neo-slasher flick Scream, director Wes Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson reunited for this follow-up. Since viewers last saw the characters, nosy newswoman Gale Weathers has writ... |
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#29. The Card Player The Card Player is going to test Dario Argento’s fan base like no other thriller in his giallo back catalogue: The Italian maestro has directed his most atypical serial killer study ever. It clearly isn’t enough for hi... |
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| #30. Slashers $LA$HER$, Japan’s number one reality show, is having its first all-American special! Six lucky contestants, chosen from thousands of applicants, will have a chance to win millions of dollars. All they have to do is stay aliv... |






