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Here is a list of the "75 Best Horror Movies of All Time". How many have you seen?

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Ten.

And Psycho should be 1.

Two (Phantom of the Opera and The Shining). Horror is not my thing. I tried watching some horror movies, but they either bore me (e.g. Nightmare on Elm Street and the like) or gross me out (the Alien movies especially).

Question: where was M (1931), the psychological thriller by Fritz Lang? It's not a slasher flick - there's hardly any blood - but the careful use of light and shade, and the things you don't see rather than the things you do, makes it even more chilling.

Similarly, where was Citizen X (1995)? I realise it's a made-for-TV movie and therefore not quite in the big league of "Alien", "Nightmare" etc., and that (again) it's a psychological thriller rather than a horror movie. However, the subject of the film (the investigation of the Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo), and especially one particularly gruesome scene, is more than enough horror for me. The fact that it's a true story makes it much the more compelling - and sad. As well as the hunt for the criminal, it deals with the Soviet political forces and propaganda machine at the time, as well as psychology (it was the first time a psychologist was brought in to help solve a case in Russia). Although it carries an R rating for strong, graphic violence and related language, I definitely recommend it - but for adults only.

34. Especially the old, black-and-white ones.

I was glad to see they included Deep Red and Suspiria, but they didn't include one of my very favorites, the first Hellraiser, or the greatest vampire movie of all time, Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula, or even Interview with the Vampire, that - while vastly inferior to the book - is still able to conjure up a wonderful atmosphere.

55.

If they had included those, there would have been three more. I am not much of a horror fan, either, but most of those have been on TV so many times since childhood that I have seen a goodly number. The bulk of those the old black and white classics. There are some of those listed that I would not place in the horror genre, at least not primarily. The Night of the Hunter, while horrifying, is more of a straight drama. Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Fly are science fiction, primarily. I am not sure what you would call Eraserhead.

A couple of notes, Eraserhead was a student film of David Lynch's. The Night of the Hunter was Charles Laughton's only directorial film.

Collector wrote:I am not much of a horror fan, either, but most of those have been on TV so many times since childhood that I have seen a goodly number. The bulk of those the old black and white classics.

Ah... well, I guess I've been deprived (?) - none of these (especially the old black-and-white classics) were on TV when I was a kid, nor were they replayed. So I never got into them.

Not even the likes of Boris Karloff's Frankenstein, Bela Lugosi' Dracula or Lon Chaney, Jr.'s Wolf Man? Not to mention the Expressionist films like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari or Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror.

I counted 23 horror movies. I haven't seen a lot of the older, classic horror films of the 1930s, so that drove the count down.

Horror is a weird genre, because it can vary substantially within itself, going from grotesque and bloody to deeply disturbing and psychological. Most genres don't vary quite as much.

Collector wrote:Not even the likes of Boris Karloff's Frankenstein, Bela Lugosi' Dracula or Lon Chaney, Jr.'s Wolf Man? Not to mention the Expressionist films like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari or Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror.

Hmm... not that I can remember. I didn't get to celebrate Halloween, see, so there was no reason for TV to broadcast horror stuff.

Couple that with the fact that when I was growing up in Israel in the 1980s, there was only one TV channel (two from 1986 onwards, but I emigrated to Australia in 1990). Nowadays, Israeli TV has ten channels... and the kids, of course, still go on and on about how deprived they are.

Collector wrote:55.

I am not sure what you would call Eraserhead.

A masterpiece.

I absolutely adore David Lynch.

3! (Alien, The Slilence of the Lambs, and The Shining). I haven't even seen any other movies that I'd consider 'horror'. I guess I just never 'got into' the genre enough to want to watch more, even though I love the three that I've seen. I seem to mainly gravitate towards dramas and science fiction.