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Night of the Living Dead (1968)

We watch movies to experience a roller coaster of emotional reactions. Horror films aim to evoke fear, whose family are from tertiary emotions of shock, alarm, mortification, panic, hysteria, horror, fear and terror. Or a horror movie is good or bad is subjective. This short article explores those movies that are generally regarded as the top horror films, the films – for one reason or another – the most powerful working our fears.

Psycho (1960)

Originally a book by Robert Bloch, who later adapted for the screen by Joseph Stefano, famous and directed by the late, great Alfred Hitchcock, this is the basic slasher film that shocked America and set the formula for many future fear horror films. We have a serial killer who dresses in drag to imitate his mother, we have a beautiful heroine, shocking, die third of the way, we see a bloody bathroom scene all that was more jarring for older audiences, who were not accustomed to seeing toilets on cinema screens. But none of this captures what really scared us about Psycho, psycho is an exploration of the madness, a place where – God forbid – could one of us one days trip.

Night Of The Living Dead (1968)

A group of people to be held in a farmhouse and hungry to fight the advance of an approaching zombie army. Written by John A Russo and George A Romero and directed by Romero in 1968, this is The original zombie flick that even today is considered one of the top horror films ever put on film. What makes it so scary? Honestly, I think it's simplicity. We have a lonely farm besieged by the undead and the dead rise not explain why, other than pursuing the line "if there is no more room in hell, the dead walk the earth". We have zombies obsessed by one thing: the food of life, and live obsessed with one goal: to avoid becoming a zombie dinner! Even the movie file is simple: grainy black and white. Sometimes, perhaps when the camera shake and the cracking sound, as we look dead zombies brains tears and chew on their recently dead neighbors, we get the impression from the documentary picture. Simplicity can be frightening.

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

The film proves that prosecution can surpass their originals. Boris Karloff reprises the him famous role, that of The Monster and, also, for James Whale other sinister masterpiece returns immediately. The main theme in both Frankenstein films is not the man to play God, because there are terrible consequences, yes, even the Monster aware that his existence is an abomination. What better than Frankenstein Bride? I would say both Karloff and whales using their experience of their original performance.

Halloween (1978)

In Halloween, we see a crazy murderer escape a mental asylum and return to his hometown, where he kills the local teenagers. The film opens with a scene from the point of view of Michael, a young boy who proceeds to massacre his sister with a kitchen knife. This is a shocking and unpredictable tone for the rest of the film. Again simplicity in disgust appears to be the scary ingredients, easy to make this one of the best horror films ever made. Michael is a simple but efficient killing machine, like the shark in Jaws. What we find so cool about him is his God-like ability to live, but — as they say – you can not kill the bogeyman!

The Exorcist (1973)

The best word to describe The Exorcist? Shocking. A girl is possessed by an evil entity and its parent invokes the help of two priests to save her. Watching this film you get the distinct impression that what you see is real. The public are forced to take both the devil and his demons exist. But what really shocks are the taboos: a weak, alcoholic priest, extensive use of profanity, a young girl pee, curses, slander and begs a priest sexually satisfy her. The Exorcist leave you with a persistent discomfort, in which you believe more in the devil, a being whose evil is certainly not quantifiable.

There are many more top horror films, but find the five above mentioned to be generally regarded as the most frightening.

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Night Of The Living Dead 1968 Trailer