The horror movie: you either love it or hate it. For fans, a scary movie means heart-pounding, edge-of-your-seat thrills, while non-fans equate a horror movie with hands over the eyes and an "I can't wait for this thing to be over" feeling. One thing's for certain: you don't want to watch a scary movie alone.
The Classics
The horror movie genre is filled with classics, but these are our favorites for scary movies that never get old:
1. Frankenstein - This 1931 classic with Boris Karloff as The Monster and Colin Clive as the obsessed scientist Dr. Henry Frankenstein will forever be cited as the best scary movie ever made. Best line from the movie? Frankenstein's bone-tingling cry of, "Look! It's moving.... It's alive. It's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's ALIVE!"
2. Dracula - Another scary movie classic released in 1931, Bela Lugosi starred as Count Dracula in the movie, "Dracula." It is Bela Lugosi's chilling performance as the title character that makes this movie timeless. Best line from the movie? "I am Dracula. I bid you welcome."
3. Psycho - The shower scene with Janet Leigh is forever burned into the mind of anyone who watches this 1960 Alfred Hitchcock classic. Even today, Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates and Vera Miles as Lila Crane make your skin crawl. Best line from the movie? Janet Leigh's scream, of course. Second best line? Norman Bates saying, "Mother...What is the phrase? She isn't quite herself today."
4. Peter Cushing Movies - Some say that Peter Cushing is the best actor the horror movie genre has ever seen. Having appeared in almost 60 horror movies, his credits include, "Dr. Terror's House of Horrors," "The Evil of Frankenstein," "Scream and Scream Again," and "The House the Dripped Blood."
5. Christopher Lee Movies - With over 90 scary movies to his credit, for some people Christopher Lee defines the genre. From "The Curse of Frankenstein" and "Dracula" to "The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll" and "Theatre of Death," Christopher Lee has frightened generations of moviegoers.
The Next Generation
The next generation of scary movies ranges from gruesome gore to nail-biting suspense to that sick feeling in the bottom of your stomach to wanting to scream at the screen, "Don't open that door!" Here are a few of our favorites:
1. Halloween - Babysitters will never feel safe again after watching this John Carpenter classic. Noted by some as the best slasher movie of all time, "Halloween" marked the film debut of Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode. Best line from the movie? "Two roadblocks and an all points bulletin wouldn't stop a five-year-old."
2. Stephen King Movies - Stephen King's books are sometimes so scary that you can't bear to turn the page (but you can't bear not to!). The film adaptations of his books bring the horror to life. Whether it's Sissy Spacek as Carrie White getting the ultimate revenge at the prom or Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes stalking James Caan as Paul Sheldon in "Misery," horror movies based on Stephen King books are heart-in-your-throat scary. And some, like "The Shining," pair a gripping storyline with the artistry of director Stanley Kubric to produce possibly the scariest movie ever made.
3. Friday the 13th - Although some would dispute the quality of the film - and certainly its sequels, "Friday the 13th" remains a classic. Released in 1980, this scary movie set the bar for slasher films. Best line from the movie? Betsy Palmer as Pamela Voorhees saying, "You let him down. You never paid any attention. Look what you did to him. Look what you did to him."
The horror movie - or scary movies in general - are enormously popular. From early classics to "The Amityville Horror" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," the genre truly has something for everyone. Or at least anyone who enjoys the adrenaline roller coaster ride that a great horror movie provides.
The Most Horror Movie
Some people loves to see horror movies and many amongst them loves horror movies in different style and the people who do not like horror may be because of you will be very terrified after watching it and have trouble sleeping. I am also the one who always have trouble sleeping after watch a horror movie but still love to see them (must be a good one). So I am writing this article about what a good horror movie should be like. I have to tell that I am not a horror movie critic expert but I have seen almost ten thousand of horror movie, so here is the guideline based on my own opinion.
Ghost is the legend of horror movie, do not separate them.
I think that this is the first rule of thumb. There are many style of horror movie that made from different plot stories. A lot of horror movie producer may try to produce many style of movie, sometime they do not have ghost in their movie. If they miss this rules you are able to know exactly what is going to happened throughout the movie and this is kind of boring. But if they have ghosts in the movie watcher will always have questions about the movie and this is the critical point to judge whether the movie fail or success. The good example of this kind of movie in my opinion are The Blair Witch Project and The Sixth Sense.
Simplicity is the king.
I have seen many of horror movie try to create the story plot to be very mysterious and complicated by use many of characters and tricks. I'd like to tell you that the selling point and main objective of horror movie is to make people fun by being terrified not to get them deep down to very complicated quiz. So the good horror movie should stick with that rule and should focus on special effects and plot of story. However, effects, sometimes less is more when it comes to the horror movie there should not be loads of special effect to make people feel terrified but they can use sounds and visualization to make the movie exciting and scary.
Gory or Scary : Don't be confused
Some movies has nothing but only bloodbath scene, full of guts spread around, vomiting and tons of decapitation. Wait wait wait, don't be confused. If you think that these thing will make you feel terrified, you are completely wrong. These bloody scenes do not generate fear, they do generate disgust. If you are looking for a good horror to make you feel fear and scare, make sure that you do not choose the movie that has loads of these disgusting scene.
The mystery of costume.
This is quite difficult and not practical to explain and you may think that it may not important.
It may a bit hard for you know which movie you which style of costume for characters, but one thing is for sure that using flashy and dirty ragged costume, especially for ghosts may help on inspire fear but should not be overwhelm by them.
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