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#1.
Alien
On what should have been a trip back to Earth, the Nostromo, a mining freighter, is automatically re-routed to a desolate planet after receiving an SOS coming from it.
After the crew is awakened, they investigate the source of t... |
96.67% Approval
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#2.
Jaws
Based on Peter Benchley's best-selling novel, Steven Spielberg's 1975 shark saga set the standard for the New Hollywood popcorn blockbuster while frightening millions of moviegoers out of the water. One early summer night on ficti... |
96% Approval
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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... |
96% Approval
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#4.
Dawn of the Dead
George Romero's 1978 follow-up to his classic Night of the Living Dead is quite terrifying and gory (those zombies do like the taste of living flesh). But in its own way, it is just as comically satiric as the first film in its ta... |
95.24% Approval
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#5.
The Wicker Man (1973)
When a young girl mysteriously disappears, Police Sergeant Howie (Edward Woodward of "The Equalizer") travels to a remote Scottish island to investigate. But this pastoral community, led by the strange Lord Summerisle (a bril... |
95% Approval
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#6.
The Thing
John Carpenter's The Thing is both a remake of Howard Hawks' 1951 film of the same name and a re-adaptation of the John W. Campbell Jr. story "Who Goes There?" on which it was based. Carpenter's film is more faithful to Campbell's... |
94% Approval
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#7.
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 ... |
94% Approval
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#8.
Pans Labyrinth
Award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro delivers a unique, richly imagined epic with PAN’S LABYRINTH, a gothic fairy tale set against the postwar repression of Franco’s Spain. Del Toro’s sixth and most ambitio... |
94% Approval
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#9.
Seven
A film about two homicide detectives' desperate hunt for a serial killer who justifies his crimes as absolution for the world's ignorance of the Seven Deadly Sins. The movie takes us from the tortured remains of one victim to the ... |
93.33% Approval
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#10.
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... |
92.86% Approval
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#11.
An American Werewolf in London
In John Landis' (THE BLUES BROTHERS, ANIMAL HOUSE) dripping black comedy, two American students (David Naughton and Griffin Dunne) on a European vacation wander into a creepy local pub in Northern England and are quickly thrown ou... |
92.73% Approval
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#12.
Cannibal Holocaust
While Umberto Lenzi began the Italian-made cycle of brutal Amazonian cannibal horrors with Il Paese del Sesso Selvaggio and effectively ended it with the nauseating Cannibal Ferox, it was Ruggero Deodato who directed the subgenre'... |
92.5% Approval
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#13.
Night of the Living Dead
It's hard to imagine how shocking this film was when it first broke on the film scene in 1968. There's never been anything quite like it, though it's inspired numerous pale imitations. Part of the terror lies in the fact that this... |
92% Approval
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#14.
Aliens
Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), the sole survivor from the original ALIEN, is awakened after 57 years of drifting through space, her stories disbelieved by Company executives who tell her that the alien?s planet is now inhabited and co... |
92% Approval
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#15.
Shaun of the Dead
Shaun is in a rut. He’s 29 and coasting through life, never threatening to fulfil his potential. He lives with Ed (Good name! Er, Ed the Ed) his best friend from junior school and Pete, his lesser friend from college. Pete a... |
91.88% Approval
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#16.
Battle Royale
One of the most shocking and controversial films in recent Japanese cinema. A high school class has been chosen to be in a "Battle Royale," a fatal game, because of their disrespect, sloth and violence. Thinking they are about to ... |
91.67% Approval
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#17.
The Evil Dead
This auspicious feature debut from Sam Raimi — shot on 16mm in the woods of Tennesse for around $350,000 — secured the young director's cult status as a creative force to be reckoned with. The nominal plot in... |
91.43% Approval
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#18.
Zodiac
Jake Gyllenhaal portrays Robert Graysmith, the journalist and author of the two books, "Zodiac" and "Zodiac Unmasked," upon which the film is based. Robert Downey Jr. plays fellow reporter Paul Avery, and Mark Ruffalo th... |
91.43% Approval
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#19.
Halloween (1978)
It was "The Night HE Came Home," warned the posters for John Carpenter's career-making horror smash.
In Haddonfield, Ilinois, on Halloween night 1963, 6-year-old Michael Myers inexplicably slaughters his teenage sister. His psych... |
91% Approval
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#20.
Grindhouse
Grind House – noun – A downtown movie theater - in disrepair since its glory days as a movie palace of the '30s and '40s - known for "grinding out" non-stop double-bill programs of B-movies.
From groundbreaking direc... |
90.83% Approval
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#21.
The Exorcist
Novelist William Peter Blatty based his best-seller on the last known Catholic-sanctioned exorcism in the United States. Blatty transformed the little boy in the 1949 incident into a little girl named Regan, played by 14-year-old ... |
90.83% Approval
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#22.
The Return of the Living Dead
Two employees of a medical supply company accidentally release a toxic gas that raises up the dead. Soon the town is overun with flesh-eating residents of the local cemetary who are hungry...for human brains.
"Do ya wanna party?... |
90.77% Approval
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#23.
Feast (2005)
Directed by Project Greenlight winner and first time filmmaker John Gulager, "Feast" is the terrifying tale of a motley crew of strangers who find themselves trapped in an isolated tavern and must band together in a battle for sur... |
90% Approval
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#24.
Black Christmas (1974)
Mysterious phone calls ensue as the caller repeats, “It’s Me, Billy” which are soon followed by a series of grisly murders. One by one, members of the house are tormented and killed.
Faced with her own pe... |
88.89% Approval
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#25.
Evil Dead 2
A sequel/remake of the film The Evil Dead. A young man named Ash takes his girlfriend Linda to a secluded cabin, and plays back a professor's tape recorded recitation of passages from the Book of the Dead.
The spell calls... |
88.75% Approval
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#26.
Misery
Romance author Paul Sheldon (James Caan) longs for parting with Misery. Sheldon's plucky heroine of seven novels has delivered Sheldon fame and fortune and recognition beyond the average writer's dreams, but she is also interminab... |
88.75% Approval
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#27.
Fright Night
Jerry Dandridge is sweet, sexy and likes to sleep in late.
He may seem like the perfect neighbor, but before inviting Jerry in, there's just one thing you should know; Jerry prefers his drinks warm, red and straight from th... |
88.75% Approval
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#28.
Day of the Dead
The "walking dead" have taken over the world. Only a small band of scientists and soldiers are definitely known to remain, and they have taken refuge in an underground missile silo. The only hope for survival of the human race hin... |
88.4% Approval
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#29.
Psycho (1960)
Alfred Hitchcock's landmark masterpiece of the macabre stars Anthony Perkins as the troubled Norman Bates, whose old dark house and adjoining motel are not the place to spend a quiet evening.
No one knows that better than Marion... |
88.33% Approval
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#30.
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 ... |
88.33% Approval
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