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Scoops
10-26-2003, 10:45 AM
For Halloween (FYI from AFI)....thought it was interesting that a couple of these are on the most romantic list also. lol I will follow up with a strictly horror list, but they didn't have that on AFI. Gotta get it from a less respected site.
1 PSYCHO 1960
2 JAWS 1975
3 THE EXORCIST 1973
4 NORTH BY NORTHWEST 1959
5 THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS 1991
6 ALIEN 1979
7 THE BIRDS 1963
8 THE FRENCH CONNECTION 1971
9 ROSEMARY'S BABY 1968
10 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK 1981
11 THE GODFATHER 1972
12 KING KONG 1933
13 BONNIE AND CLYDE 1967
14 REAR WINDOW 1954
15 DELIVERANCE 1972
16 CHINATOWN 1974
17 THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE 1962
18 VERTIGO 1958
19 THE GREAT ESCAPE 1963
20 HIGH NOON 1952
21 A CLOCKWORK ORANGE 1971
22 TAXI DRIVER 1976
23 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA 1962
24 DOUBLE INDEMNITY 1944
25 TITANIC 1997
26 THE MALTESE FALCON 1941
27 STAR WARS 1977
28 FATAL ATTRACTION 1987
29 THE SHINING 1980
30 THE DEER HUNTER 1978
31 CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND 1977
32 STRANGERS ON A TRAIN 1951
33 THE FUGITIVE 1993
34 THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER 1955
35 JURASSIC PARK 1993
36 BULLITT 1968
37 CASABLANCA 1942
38 NOTORIOUS 1946
39 DIE HARD 1988
40 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY 1968
41 DIRTY HARRY 1971
42 THE TERMINATOR 1984
43 THE WIZARD OF OZ 1939
44 E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL 1982
45 SAVING PRIVATE RYAN 1998
46 CARRIE 1976
47 INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS 1956
48 DIAL M FOR MURDER 1954
49 BEN-HUR 1959
50 MARATHON MAN 1976
Scoops
10-26-2003, 10:48 AM
51 RAGING BULL 1980
52 ROCKY 1976
53 PULP FICTION 1994
54 BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID 1969
55 WAIT UNTIL DARK 1967
56 FRANKENSTEIN 1931
57 ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN 1976
58 THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI 1957
59 PLANET OF THE APES 1968
60 THE SIXTH SENSE 1999
61 CAPE FEAR 1962
62 SPARTACUS 1960
63 WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? 1962
64 TOUCH OF EVIL 1958
65 THE DIRTY DOZEN 1967
66 THE MATRIX 1999
67 THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE 1948
68 HALLOWEEN 1978
69 THE WILD BUNCH 1969
70 DOG DAY AFTERNOON 1975
71 GOLDFINGER 1964
72 PLATOON 1986
73 LAURA 1944
74 BLADE RUNNER 1982
75 THE THIRD MAN 1949
76 THELMA & LOUISE 1991
77 TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY 1991
78 GASLIGHT 1944
79 THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN 1960
80 REBECCA 1940
81 THE OMEN 1976
82 THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL 1951
83 THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 1925
84 POLTERGEIST 1982
85 DRACULA 1931
86 THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY 1945
87 THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD 1951
88 12 ANGRY MEN 1957
89 THE GUNS OF NAVARONE 1961
90 THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE 1972
91 BRAVEHEART 1995
92 BODY HEAT 1981
93 NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD 1968
94 THE CHINA SYNDROME 1979
95 FULL METAL JACKET 1987
96 BLUE VELVET 1986
97 SAFETY LAST 1923
98 BLOOD SIMPLE 1984
99 SPEED 1994
100 THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD 1938
Scoops
10-26-2003, 11:08 AM
Top ten Horror flicks from E!Online's top ten files
1.The Exorcist-1973
2.Dawn of The Dead-1978
3.The Changeling-1980
4.A Nightmare On Elm St.-1984
5.The Shining-1980
6.The Evil Dead-1982
7.The Haunting-1963
8.The Exorcist III-1990
9.Frankenstein-1931
10.Phantasm-1979
and a very different list from Box Office Prophets.....
1.The Shining
2.The Evil Dead
3.Nightmare on Elm St.
4.The Haunting (63 version)
5.Halloween
6.Alien
7.Dawn of The Dead
8.Dawn of The Dead/Evil Dead 2
9.Psycho
10.The Exorcist
Not a real horror fan myself, but since it's almost Halloween...let me know what any of you real fright flick fans think of the lists.
Cindyloo
10-26-2003, 12:44 PM
Great list Scoops!
Seen most of them. I love scary movies, but haven't seen any as of late.
"Rear Window" was a goody, and "The Shining" and "Carrie"...OMG! Carrie was one scary movie for me. The old one with Sissy Spacek. I think there was a new one also, a couple or so years ago, wasn't as good to me, as the older version.
YIKES!..Me sceered!..lol
It's funny that "The Ring" isn't on these lists...one of the scariest movies I've ever seen!
"Alien" - still love that one (well all of them actually).
"The Shining"...but I thought the book was scarier...
"Psycho" for sure and "The Birds" never forget watching both of those for the first time!
Oh, another one that scared me was "What Lies Beneath"
Jinh
Skeeter
10-26-2003, 01:01 PM
I'm trying to figure out how the "Titanic" got on this list....it's not scarey, as in Boo! scarey!!!!!
Is scarey spelled "scarey" or "scary"? I think the second one looks better.....
Skeeter
Cindyloo
10-26-2003, 01:05 PM
Oh Lord, "The Birds" scared me too death!
Another one I seen years and years ago was called "Straight Jacket" with Joan Crawford...OMG!
"The Exorcist"...the one that was out in the 70's sure was a scary one.
Oh, and if you want the wits scared out of you, try "Phantasm" Yikes!
Oh,lol another good one, that has great special effects is "American Werewolf In London"...it's a good flick!
Jinh
Cindyloo -
I don't think I've seen "Straight Jacket"hmmm .. I'll have to look for that...
Hey, how about "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane" with Joan Crawford and Bette Davis...
Jinh
Mxyzptlk
10-26-2003, 01:41 PM
Phnatasm is one of the scariest I've ever seen... The "Tall Man" character used to give me nightmares...
There's been quite a few recent horror movies I've really liked... The Ring, Cabin Fever, and Jeepers Creepers were all really good...
Cindyloo
10-26-2003, 01:49 PM
I've gotta see that Phantasm, sounds like a good one!
Jinh, I seen Straight Jacket in the theater in the 60's. I was young then, let me say, I was young-ER then..lol..was trying to think, if it was in Black and white or color. I'd like to see THAT one again.
Oh yes, "Whatever happen to Baby Jane"...another good one!
ivory
10-26-2003, 02:04 PM
Forget the 'movie' "The Exorcist"...try reading it! I left ALL of the lights on every night in the house for weeks. Just got over it in time for the movie to come out. Passed on that one! Now I read nothing more than Dr. Seuss after 10pm.
nightsky
10-26-2003, 04:42 PM
When EXORCIST came out my parents went to see it and my mom passed out in the theater,I have never seen it,I have always avoided it.My favorite is the old DRACULA.It is scary with out any blood and guts.
Scoops
10-27-2003, 04:51 AM
These are from Access Hollywood...they have a poll for the ten scariest movies of all time. These are the choices and how they are doing.
Now this is a whole different newer group of films...very interesting.
"The Blair Witch Project"
3%
"Carrie"
4%
"Halloween"
11%
"Friday the 13th"
4%
"The Others"
5%
"Psycho"
6%
"An American Werewolf in London"
2%
"Scream" Triology
7%
"The Exorcist"
25%
"Nightmare on Elm Street"
11%
"The Sixth Sense"
15%
"The Omen"
4%
Sillyou
10-27-2003, 05:02 AM
"Psycho" was enough to scare me for years until I was brave enough to go see another scary movie....Jaws! lol.....Now I just don't watch them unless they are the old ones without all the gore.
Sillyou
10-27-2003, 05:04 AM
"When EXORCIST came out my parents went to see it and my mom passed out in the theater" too funny Nightsky....my mom was pregnant with my sis and passed out in the theater as well!
Ghost
10-27-2003, 08:15 AM
The Haunting and Phantasm are one of my favorites.
However Scoops, you omitted the movies Ben and Willard from the top 100 list, that is just unacceptable. Lol
ledhead
10-27-2003, 09:49 AM
I'm surprised 'Dressed to Kill' and 'Play Misty for Me' weren't mentioned. I'm not one to like the begeebies scared out of me. Psycho did just that, because it seemed like it could be true, or could happen somehow. My cousin talked me into seeing Psycho with her. I was terrified for weeks, and that shower scene music!!! It even sent chills down my spine when they used that music on a mildew cleaning commercial. I think I shut my mind off to what cleaning product they were even advertising just because of that music!!!
And what about Frenzy or the one where several in a high school French class cheated death (can't think of the name of that one)?
I don't see some of them listed as horror films at all, and can't understand that they were ever intended to be scary. Titanic was about as scary as the villains in Disney's animated films.
ledhead -
I think Scoops original list of top 100 was for "thrillers" of all time = not horror.
I had to take a second look at it when I saw "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" listed LOL
Jinh
ledhead
10-27-2003, 10:33 AM
I wondered if perhaps I wasn't missing something Jinh. Anyway, thanks for telling me.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
amber
06-22-2005, 11:59 AM
oh god...here we go again !!
Trivia;
do you know was AFI was called before it was named AFI?
amber
06-22-2005, 04:52 PM
I dunno.......
Susan
06-22-2005, 08:26 PM
Thanks Scoops, you know I was just planning my Halloween viewing.....<wink>
amber
06-23-2005, 05:58 AM
thanks...I would have never known that.
Scoops
06-23-2005, 06:03 AM
How did this thread come around again? lol
amber
06-23-2005, 06:15 AM
xxxx bumped it cause he was being stupid again.
Scoops
06-23-2005, 06:21 AM
OOPs..I missed that amber....now I see. lol
amber
06-23-2005, 06:29 AM
oh ok lolololol
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