Essential Horror Movies

Land of the Dead – DVD 2005
George Romero movie about zombies. DVD has lots of extras too. This is the unrated version.

The Plot Outline: The zombies have taken over the world, and the last humans now live in a walled city to protect themselves as they come to grips with the situation.
Halloween – 1978
Probably the BEST horror movie.
Not too much gore, but lots of dark and eerie settings.		 Dawn of the Dead – 1979
The new remake of Dawn of the Dead (2004) is out now. This 1979 version rules; the new version is not very good. Typical of new horror movies – Metal soundtrack and ‘modern film effects’.
Halloween II – 1981
Continues where the 1st one left off. Great!
 Day of the Dead – 1985
Third in the ‘of the dead’ series:
Night of the Living Dead, and then Dawn of the Dead.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Halloween IV – 1988
Forget Part III, it wasn’t really part of this series – Part 4 has even more eerie late october settings.		 City of the Living Dead – 1983
Zombies and Gore. This is pretty old and has very little plot. Not scary either. The cover image look cool though. Not scary!
Halloween H20 -1998
Really good except that there is a rap star in the movie. What’s up with that?? Otherwise a prefect sequal.		 Zombie – 1980
Yeah, zombies rule! Not too bad, not too good either. You won’t be on the edge of your seat watching this – zombies are cool, but there is nothing to make you jump.
Sleepaway Camp – 1983
Actually, this belongs in the VERY unessentail horror movie list. Not sure why so many people like this one – not scary!		 Suspiria – 1977
Eerie and freaky! Not a scary high-paced movie. Cool to watch, once, but nothing that makes you really scared. Slow.
The Beyond – 1983
Slow horror gore.		 Nightmare on Elm Street – 1984
Probably the 3rd best in the long running horror sequals (Halloween and Friday the 13th)
Friday the 13th, Part 1 – 1980
The Essential slasher film!		 Black Christmas – 1974
Old, not too scary, but was probably one of the scariest movies in the 70′s.
Friday the 13th, Part 2 – 1981
Similar to the Halloween sequal in that it maintains the same quality.		 Evil Dead – 1983
Evil Dead II isn’t as good as the first one – the third one, ‘Army of Darkness’, is even less scary.
Friday the 13th: Jason Lives – 1986
Most of the other sequals were not that good – this one has high quality picture and a pretty good story. The beginning is awesome!		 My Bloody Valentine – 1981
Another UNESSENTIAL horror movie.
Not sure why I see this on other horror lists. Bad ‘made for TV’ quality style. Low impact ‘scare’. Seems like it would be good
- it aint!