Lists tagged 'Horror'

A list of public domain, classic and cult, horror & science-fiction movies that you can watch right now on IMDb - legally and for free.

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Most Popular 'Public Domain' Horror Titles.
Most Popular 'Public Domain' Science-Fiction Titles.

In reverse chronological order.

I love MONSTERS! This list is for monster and creature movies. Includes Animal attack movies, mutations, aliens and fantasy. There are some SciFi and some Fantasy included. Its not meant to be a list of "the Best" just a list of movies with monsters & creatures.

Please recommend something for me to watch this season.

This was a really hard list to make as there are loads of greats horror movies that I have seen over the years. The 70s, 80s and 00s have some of my favourite horror movies that I have seen. The list is not going to be the most popular horror movies that everyone thinks are the best, but it is my own personal list of best horror movies. (So Psycho will not be no.1). And like my other lists that I have recently made, there will be no thrillers or horror comedies. So enjoy this list and if you have any recommendations, please let me know!!!

HONOURABLE MENTIONS:-
Psycho 1960
The Thing 1982
An American Werewolf In London 1981
The Shining 1980
Dawn Of The Dead 1978
The Omen 1976
Night of the Hunter 1955
Sixth Sense 1999
The Ring 2002
I Saw The Devil 2010

This is a personal top favourite horror movie lists of movies that I have really enjoyed watching in my favourite genre of film. I am being strict with these lists, so they will not include thrillers or horror comedies. I just want the best in the horror genre. If you have any recommendations, please leave a comment!!!

The 00s is another one of my favourite decades in the horror genre. Although there have been countless remakes and terrible movies made, these are my top 10 movies in the modern era of horror.

HONOURABLE MENTIONS:-
Battle Royale 2000
Ginger Snaps 2000
Ju-on 2002
Switchblade Romance 2003
A Tale Of Two Sisters 2003
Eden Lake 2008
Cloverfield 2008
The Orphanage 2007
Orphan 2009
Devils Rejects 2005
Martyrs 2008
Jeepers Creepers 2001
Shutter 2008
The Strangers 2008
Wolf Creek 2003
Hills Have Eyes 2006

This is a personal top favourite horror movie lists of movies that I have really enjoyed watching in my favourite genre of film. I am being strict with these lists, so they will not include thrillers or horror comedies. I just want the best in the horror genre. If you have any recommendations, please leave a comment!!!

HONOURABLE MENTIONS:-
The Fog 1980
The Howling 1981
Tenebre 1982
Inferno 1980
Day Of The Dead 1985
Opera 1987
Henry Portrait Of A Serial Killer 1986
The Stepfather 1987
Childs Play 1988
The Blob 1988
The Changeling 1980

This is a personal top favourite horror movie lists of movies that I have really enjoyed watching in my favourite genre of film. I am being strict with these lists, so they will not include thrillers or horror comedies. I just want the best in the horror genre. If you have any recommendations, please leave a comment!!!

HONOURABLE MENTIONS:-
Kwaidan 1964
Last Man on Earth 1964
Repulsion 1965
Quartermass and the Pit 1967

Don't Watch if you are below 18.

My top rated Horror Feature Films. I've rated these movies with a 7 (Good), 8 (Very Good), 9 (Excellent), or (Perfect) 10.

"Nobody knows anything." - William Goldman

There are countless horror movie remakes, but rarely does one find a remake that die-hard horror fans wholeheartedly accept as a worthy counterpart to the original. And although finding a worthy remake of a classic horror movie are few and far between, there are exceptions to the rule.

Listed below are a number of remakes that I feel do justice to the original film.

In random order and purely subjective.

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Those were the days! The 1980s were the real breakthrough decade for the Horror Movie.

This is the Decade that gave us all our great Horror Icons:
Freddy, Jason, Michael Myers, Pinhead and Chucky!

It was also a great time for Monster Movies, especially little creatures like Gremlins, Critters, Ghoulies, Creeps and Trolls.
But also the Big Ones: Alien and The Predator.


Key Elements of the 80s Horror:

Mainly the 80s Horror was dominated by the Slasher Movie in the vein of Friday the 13th, and a very large number of the 80s Horrormovies were just copying this formula.

Thanks to the new market of Home Video Entertainment the underground of B-movies was flourishing, and due to the big success of movies like Dawn of the Dead a new type of movies entered the scene: The Gore Movie.

The most prominent examples of that time were the Italian Zombie and Cannibal Movies like Anthropophagus, Zombi 2, Hell of the Living Dead, Nightmare City, House by the Cemetery and of course Cannibal Holocaust.

The brutal violence and graphic splatter effects of this movies even led to banning in some countries, resulting in the infamous 'Video Nasties' list in the UK.

Besides the already mentioned movies this list contained most notoriously The Evil Dead, which was considered one of the most violent films of its time, but soon became an absolute cult favourite.


The 80s were also the Heyday of the Practical Special Effects.
Movies like The Thing, Scanners, American Werewolf or The Fly were real showcases of this professional craftwork.



The Masters of Horror:

While Stephen King was already established as the King of Horror, a new dark lord entered the scene: Clive Barker. Not only were his books a real treat for the Horror Fans, but also is his movie Hellraiser a very underrated masterpiece and one of the best serious Horror Movies of the Decade.

But regarding Movies there can only be one true Master of 80s Horror: John Carpenter.
To me The Thing is the Best Horror Movie of All Time, but I also fancy The Fog and Prince of Darkness very much. As a Horror Fan you just have to love his atmospheric and stylish Classic Horror Films.

Another great Master of dark cinema who bloomed in the 80s is David Cronenberg. Also known as the King of Venereal Horror, his films have a very unique mood and always deal with some kind of mutation or transformation - Best Example: The Fly.

Further important key figures of Horror cinema in the 80s were:
George A. Romero, Wes Craven, Stuart Gordon, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Tom Holland and Ken Russell.

Not to forget that the 80s also gave us these 2 brilliant directors:
James Cameron and Michael Mann



My personal Top Ten Horror movies from this Decade:

1) The Thing
2) Re-Animator
3) Fright Night
4) The Blob
5) The Fly
6) Prince of Darkness
7) Hellraiser
8) Night of the Creeps
9) Creepshow
10) Evil Dead

Special Nods to: Nightmare, The Hitcher, House 2, Return of the Living Dead, The Keep
and of course ALIENS!

There's just something so creepy about an evil child, isn't there? From demon possessed youngsters to homicidal preteens, this list aims to catalog the spookiest of the spooky ass kids.

my list of 20 top examples of each of horror's sub-genres ... films i have personally seen and not necessarily based on their popularity of IMDB ratings.

The list will be frequently updated if we find another movie BETTER than another.(Personal opinion)
The Films are in order.

A bit early but I was chomping at the bit. Still have not seen a few, so I will adjust accordingly as viewing dictates

It's nearly October and Halloween is slowly creeping upon us. These are the titles I chose for the 2014 Halloween horror movie marathon. I've decided to spice things up a little by adding some theme nights to it.

Zombie Romantic Comedies

Top 100 horror films, where the writer started with a story rather than a list of new ways to kill people.

This is not a list of every horror film that I've ever seen, I'm not a huge fan of slasher, elimination or torture films so I have left them out of this list for example, but I've left on some of the more popular runner-ups as they've fallen out of my top 50 and titles I've seen on other people's lists for comparison, top 250 style. Some might not consider all of these titles as 'horror films' but each to their own.

Let's take a look at the 13 Scariest Horror Movies

help me to complete this list

A list of few of my favorite horror movies. Make sure your room is dark and cold :)

Unarguable...

Here are some horror movies (Including horror comedies)that I've seen given a ranking and a short review. Updated regularly. Enjoy!

Stephen Kings "IT" is about to get a Hollywood makeover. These are my top adult cast picks.

my top 20 horror movies

Vampire movies that appeal to the dark aesthetic sensibilities of theNeoplatonist. In alphabetical order...

Some movies i've watched, from year 2000 to this day.

give or take a couple of shorts...

NOTE: List is upgraded from 200 to 240 movies.

I'm not saying these movies are the best ever, but that I enjoyed watching them more than others.

My all time favorites of horror movies!

horror movies

Horror, sy/fi, thriller, murder,

The true horror art operas, starting from the best horror ever done, prosecuting with the second one and many more, the level is huge even if someone deserves a little bit more than few others.

Maybe not the best, but the scariest in my opinion. I do like 'em all!

Films that I have watched. (work in progress)

Update:My Top Horror/Thriller of 2014


Start your horror/thriller/disturbing watching here.

I left out many classic horror movies because adding them seems redundant, and honestly, if you need IMDB to help you discover Friday the 13th or Dawn of the Dead, you have bigger issues.

Sort by "Date Added" to see my latest additions

Out of the collection of horror movies I have seen throughout the last two decades, these have stood out as the most terrifying films to ever hit the big screen. Be forewarned... this is not a list of the best Horror films, but rather the scariest... it also does not contain any movies in another language. English ONLY.

Real Art

movie ideas for october viewings

The list m gonna update is on the basis of the horror or moments that skipped my heartbeat. These movies are the real horror movies you would like to see rather than those pathetic gore movies or movies listed in some jerk's horror list n turning just about a mediocre thriller movie..

Just a random list of , what I feel, are horror films everyone must see.

Thanks to everyone who helped with recommendations! Here are the final films that we saw, with a rating for each one.

The overall rating for the blitz was a record breaking 7.25! Had we had more time to watch more of the films we wanted, it probably would have been higher. I think I'll add the films that we had rented for this blitz and didn't get to once I see them.

My two favorite genres.

Here are my favorites, from a broad range of styles and years and ranked to my taste. Mini reviews included.

Use the filters to narrow down the list. Links include relevant films and extra info. I'll be constantly editing this list, as I watch new films or to include classics.

[Feb. 2016 Note: I'm still updating this list - just not as often, because of work and not seeing as many horror that I love. I will try to make more frequent updates]

Also, I highly recommend the NoSleep Podcast. There are some truly creepy stories to listen to! I've been binging on the show.

Disclaimer:
Horror films get criticized to death (Define scary). This list only includes films I've seen, and the rankings are from a combo of mainly my preferences in style, production quality, creativity, and acting.

An objective list of horror movie series, sequels, franchises and related crossovers.

Please note: Information regarding unreleased and in-development titles is subject to change.

For a more comprehensive list of movie series: : "click here"

My favorites throughout the years

Like the title says.

I know there must be lots that I'm forgetting, but this is a good start.

Best Horror I've seen from the 2000s.

Of the four different Phantasm films here's my take on the order of quality in these films and hopes that we'll see a part 5...

This list is a list of some of the best horror movies ever made.

Test your knowledge... Play the Special Game for this List.

Check out these lists also...
--200 Top Rated Mini-Series,
--Top 250 TV Series, HBO, Showtime...,
--All Worth Seeing, 1300 Films,
--Amazon Prime Instant Video, 2000 Titles,
--800 Netflix Titles (Watch Instantly) Online,
--Every U.S. Released Movie, 1970 to 2013,
--1900 Titles, Top TV Series, 1970-2013,
--150 Super Hero Titles,
--650 Best Films, w/Few Ratings,
--Genre: Adventure, 1250 Films, 1970-2013,
--Genre: Animation, 500 Films, 1970-2013,
--Genre: Crime, 1600 Films, 1970-2013,
--Genre: Documentary, 1500 Titles,
--Genre: Drama, 4700 Films, 1970-2013,
--Genre: Fantasy, 1000 Films, 1970-2013,
--Genre: Mystery, 1000 Films, 1970-2013,
--Genre: Sport, 1000 Films, 1970-2013,
--Genre: Thriller, 2600 Films, 1970-2013,
--Genre: War, 1000 Films, 1950-2013,
--All Lists: ForPeopleNotSheeple,

Question:“What is the point of large lists?” Lists like this have a "Refine list" feature (located in the right hand side of the page), which is a powerful filtering tool. With this tool one can exclude all of the films that one has already "rated"(seen), or that are in the >>>>> "watchlist", or exclude films that have been rated below lets say 6/10 stars, etc. With this list you get the ability to filter the list any way you like... to drill down on the exact content that you are looking for. All filters can be used at the same time, in any combination.

the ones i like n think are the best

Horror movie jump scares.
Check out my list of Top 100 horror movies 2000-2013

Here are some more off the shelf movies to dine on. Enjoy.

90's~ Compilation of horror films.

all sorts

some of the flicks here don't look like they fit this list
i did some research and yes...those flicks belong here


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hong_Kong_Category_III_films

Here is my Top 10 horror films pre 2000's. I've added my review for each entry. Classic horror like Halloween and Friday the 13th fall just outside my Top 10.
Updated January 2015.

These are the ones that are in the "disturbed" category. Not necessarily good, but ones that will make you say "What the hell?" I'll add my ratings out of 10. List order is in order of most disturbing to least, in my opinion.

These are some of my favorites :)

Horror movies I've seen. Some I've liked and some are just here cause I had seen them. There is no particular order.

Zombie films set in the past, as opposed to just old zombie films because you can bring modern takes on the genre to older settings.

See also: My Zombie Nazi / Nazi zombie list, as a number are set during WWII.

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I love horror movies!! And some spookie thriller/drama movies!

These are some of my favorites :)

List is alphabetical. My rating on them is given afterwards. There are many films I really really liked, and plenty of them I didn't. If the film is rated above an 8, I loved it, 7 is a very good film, 6 is okay, 5 is bearable, 4 is not good at all, and below a 3 is complete garbage.

List of some of the best horror movies ever made. Not in rank order though many of my all time favorites tend to be toward the top.

"Who Says Horror Can Not Be Art?" My favorite modern horror films are some examples which I think fit the description of "Beautifully Brutal Horror" The best horror films recently rated and recommended are both beautiful and terrifying at the same time. There are truly shocking moments which disturbingly can suddenly engross you with stunning visuals or an elegant, overwhelming atmosphere. Horror fans will appreciate the extraordinary camera work and the many talented film makers who continue to create art with this beautifully brutal combination. These are films the Horror Genre should be proud of.

A list of those pre-WWII writers of horror stories adapted into film or TV.

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Well this title says it all. Let me know what you think and check out my other lists!

My top 10 personal favourite horrors of 2009

My personal top 10 favourite horrors of 2011

Updated December 31 2015.
A list of horror films I've seen from 2000 to the present with a mini review.
Not in any particular order. Films added as viewed.
Click on "sort by : list order" to see most recently added.

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In space no one can hear you scream

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... unless you are in a spaceship or you've left your suit mike open or the filmmakers don't give a damn about physics and decide it'd make a cool scene.

Basically horror films that take place onboard spaceships or on alien (and often hostile) planets - a sub-genre of the sci-fi horror cross-genre. It does see to grade into sci-fi action or thrillers at the edges (especially where people are being hunted down and killed off one-by-one, for example).

Obviously Alien had a big impact on the scene, leading to numerous cheap rip-offs, but there is another phenomena which About.com highlight: "In horror movies, going into space seems to be the equivalent of a sitcom adding a cute little kid to the cast in a last-ditch effort to revitalize the series" and you can see plenty of examples here - once you've jumped the shark in your horror franchise where do you go? Space, that's where. I expect Final Destination 8 to be sub-titled: "Final Frontier".

I do love such films - many moons ago when I was a much smaller Emperor for a birthday treat I asked to watch a couple of videos - Alien and Dark Star. However, this was back when VCRs were just appearing - they were as big as a medium-sized herbivore and there were only a few thousand in the country, so my Dad had to haul home the one from his school and then we had to venture out to the dark and seedy video rental shop (that managed to cling on even after a large video rental store opened up down the road, just because of the atmosphere and selection of movies).

Also-rans: There are some that didn't quite make the list: Lifeforce, as not much of the horror elements are set in space, and Dark City, as the space angle is the twist ending and doesn't influence the rest of the film.

Further reading: In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream: Outer Space Horror Movies, The curse of outer space horror movies, The Astro-Horror! The Astro-Horror! Apollo 18 and Its Cinematic Kin, and Galaxy of Gore: 10 Must-See Horror Flicks Set in Space

See also: Military science-fiction as there is plenty of crossover where space marines have to take on the terrors of the spaceways.

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This are the movies i consider to be the best horror movies, in order, not the scarier, not the ones i liked the most, but the ones that have more quality. I hope you like it.

Films I can watch, over and over...

This October I watched 31 horror movies as a part of my 31 Nights of Horror marathon. On Twitter the @Goretorium sujested I should make it a year long endevor so im going to try and make it happen and am doing 365 days! Some i will see in theaters or at advanced screenings, others ill watch on netflix or rent on dvd. Im going to include a wide variety of genre films from all different time peroids! Suggestions are welcome :)

The strangest horror movies out there. The kind where you get genuinely worried for the sanity of the film-makers, then you start worrying you've gone mad and imagined it all. Or you might question the wisdom of their going for an unlikely monster - a pinata? Is that wise? Apparently not.

Further reading: 25 Strange and Ridiculous Horror Movie Villains:
http://horror.about.com/od/horrortoppicklists/tp/25strangevillains.htm

See also: Bonkers, crazy kung fu horror films, New Japanese Gore, witches with flying heads and monstrous births.

The removed: Angel Above - The Devil Below, another "killer vagina" film, this one flagged as porn so it can't be added to the list.

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What do people see in these? Here's a few "horror" movies that seem to be highly recommended/regarded from several of my sources, but didn't deliver the goods in my opinion. Comments to explain why they are rated so high are welcomed!
*** Obviously these are my own opinions. If you disagree feel free to leave a message. If you can think of other overrated horror please leave a comment as well! Thanks for looking either way!

Films that contain Nazi occultism, although this may grade into Nazi superscience or the supernatural where the dividing line is tricky to discern (the latter because the pseudoscience required is so extreme it almost conforms to Clarke's Third Law about science and magic), so it can touch on secret Third Reich bases in Antractica, Nazi UFOs and associated craziness.

Thanks to publications like Morning of the Magicians, there is an undercurrent of suspicion that the Nazis were up to all sorts of occult hi-jinks (beyond the well-known activities of the Ahnenerbe) and these films take that ball and run with it.

In his study of James Herbert's novel The Spear, Nick Freeman looks at the history of our interest in the Nazis, from the relative tame in the post-War years to the lurid in the 60s, with the occult aspects rising in popularity in the 70s:

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Nazi occult experimentation may not have offered the same opportunities for pornographers as death camps and military brothels, but this did not mean that its treatment was any less sensational. Works such as Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier’s Le Matin des Magiciens (1960), Trevor Ravenscroft’s The Spear of Destiny (1972), and J. H. Brennan’s still more outlandish Occult Reich (1974) captured the popular imagination. Ravenscroft’s book is still in print, as is its sequel, The Mark of the Beast (1990), and a paperback reprint of Le Matin des Magiciens claimed a million copies had been sold by 1971 alone. All were fixated by supposedly secret or suppressed histories: the 1976 reprint of Brennan’s book boasts that it deals ‘in facts – but facts that orthodox historians ignore.’ Since the appearance of Nicholas Goodrich-Clark’s The Occult Roots of Nazism (1985), such works seem poorly researched and hysterically argued, but they were accorded considerable popular interest in the mid-1970s when Herbert was writing The Spear.

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However, he does point out that the Nazi/occult mix can be dated back to Dennis Wheatley's 1941 novel Strange Conflict, the same date as the first film on this list.

References: Nick Freeman "'A decadent appetite for the lurid'?: James Herbert, The Spear and 'Nazi Gothic'"

Further reading: The Occult Roots of Nazism, as mentioned in the quote, this is one of the best researched and takes a level-headed approach to the topic as does Arktos: The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism, and Nazi Survival. Raymond Sickinger's "Hitler and the Occult: The Magical Thinking of Adolf Hitler" is a good quick overview of the debate. Adam Shreve's "'Beunos Noches, Mein Fuhrer': A Look at Nazism in Popular Culture" is a pretty broad look at the influence of the Third Reich on our media. Why the Nazis and the Occult Plotlines in 'The Devil's Rock' Work so Well, a short piece on Nazi occultism in movies and why it is so effective.

See also: My Horrors of War and Nazi zombies/zombie Nazis lists, the latter in particular, as there is nothing Nazi occultists like to more than raise the dead for their nefarious purposes.

Links: TV Tropes have a number of pages that cover this: Those Wacky Nazis, Stupid Jetpack Hitler and most relevantly Ghostapo.

Others: Hardkor '44 still seems to be in the pipeline.

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Inspired by this piece from the Garudian:

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Interest in homegrown horror was rekindled by Danny Boyle's film 28 Days Later in 2002 and grew with the success of Shaun of the Dead, Neil Marshall's The Descent and Christopher Smith's two films Creep and Severance.

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So this list deals with the last decade (and counting) revival in the fortunes of the British horror movie (you can monitor new releases here, and there is one for short films), I'm sure the creative people were out there but it was 28 Days Later than got the purse strings loosened. Defining "British" is always going to be subjective, Hammer, for example, made a return in 2007 but some of the films they've produced have been co-productions filmed abroad (like Let Me In), but we'll include them as this this list is partly to show the strength of the British film industry when it comes to horror films. For that reason I will also include movies filmed in the UK as it all helps bolster the home-grown efforts (like World War Z).

Of course, that isn't to say that all these films are great, some of them are awful, but the level of quality is higher than I've found on most of my other lists.

Also making 2002 a cut-off is pretty arbitrary as it includes Dog Soldiers and Deathwatch that can't have benefited much from the 28 Days Later effect, and it excludes many interesting films that pre-date it, like The Bunker and Lighthouse, but it is still a good line in the sand if we want to look at recent British horror films and it does seem to be a genuine phenomena.

See also: Contagious violence, it shouldn't be a surprise, given the film that kickstarted everything that a lot of the films here also feature over there but the sub-genre (and zombie films) are easy to do with simple make-up and effects, and there is also an explosion in them in general. Also hoodie horror films feature strongly as a reflection of modern concerns. In addition there are quite a few films that fit into the backwoods horror and folk horror, both of which are undergoing a resurgence too (both of which can also be done on a limited budget). In fact, in most sub-genres I've been tracking, a big hit film has combined with improved distribution and cheaper technology to give a spike in the number of films produced.

Links: British horror revival blog from MJ Simpson, the co-founder of SFX magazine and the author of the upcoming book Urban Terrors: New British Horror Cinema 1997-2008, a guide to the 114 key films of that period. I only found it part-way through making the list but it has proved invaluable for filling in the gaps here (it also helped confirm I was on the right lines with the list name), so if you like this list follow his blog and be sure to pick up his book (if it goes well there is chance of a sequel - there are clearly going to be more films in the few years after 2008 than in the decade before). He has also provided round-ups of the releases in 2010 and 2011, noting that in 2001 there were 3 British horror films but in 2010 there were 48 (the 2010 round-up only includes 32 because he discovered more afterwards) and in 2011 there were 41 (not counting further revisions), my count below is different but the proportions are similar. There were more again in 2012, 14 of them zombie films, more than one a month and more than the annual total for most years (in fact so many I made a list for British zombie films). Which does flag up that something is going on here. Frightfest is also worth keeping an eye on, it is the UK's leading horror film festival (I have yet to attend but I will one day) with a strong focus on British movies and, even if you can't make it, because it is run in conjunction Film4, they run a week's worth of films and interviews on their TV channel (it is where I first heard about Kill List, for example).

The count: I have gone through and counted all the full length British horror films and put them into a spreadsheet and graph.

Which really does show an upwards trend, from less than one a month to one ever 3 days, just in the noughties - rapidly passing the levels of the boom period for British horror: the 60s and 70s. If you look back further you'll see that horror film production in the 90s were often down to similar levels to the early 50s when we were shaking off the effects of a world war (the chilling effect of the video nasty era? after all hardline BBFC chief James Ferman retired in 1999 and it was only then that a lot of the banned movies started to be passed uncut). A really impressive upswing , although it makes it impossible to keep up with all of them even if you wanted to. However, the number do suggest the renaissance was under way before 28DL, even if the success of films like it (Shaun of the Dead, etc.) have inspired film-makers and made financiers take British horror films seriously, helping to build momentum. I'd also flag up my comments above, as the growth in some horror sub-genres parallels what we see here, suggesting that the ease of film-making and distribution now means there will be more films but there is also clear evidence for successful films have an important effect on the types of films being made (the best example of zombie films - the first 3 Romero films created a spike in zombie movies with a lag of a year or two - I have rather a fine graph to prove my point).

I did also stumble across this piece about horror fiction and Tory governments:

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A cursory glance at the points where horror fiction did enjoy periods of resurgence do tend to follow an upward graph with Tory fortunes.

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Now, after two years of government by coalition of the Conservatives and the Lib Dems, horror is on the rise again.

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So we can see a big spike in British horror films after 2010 (a jump of 50%) but there is usually a lag of a few years between inspiration and realisation, plus the Thatcher/Major years (1979-1997) saw a real dip in output between high points of the 60s/70s and the current upswing. So I'm not buying this when it comes to films, and if we are talking about fiction then... show me your numbers - I've shown you mine after all.

Caveats: There could be a recentist bias to an internet movie data base but IMDB has been going since 1990, so you'd imagine that'd be smoothed out by now and the British horror film industry isn't that large, but does attract a lot of rabid fans, so you'd imagine it'd be difficult for too many films to fall through the gaps. The opposite might also be a problem - there might be a bias against more recent movies as it can take a while for information to trickle through. However, this seems to largely apply to tagging and working out what sub-genres films fit into which are user added features and can be a bit arbitrary and subjective, while the location of production company is going to be a well-defined fact and much more likely to be properly registered here when the film is added (I have found a couple of examples so far when compiling this list, but not many). So I suspect neither is so serious to make a mockery of the numbers, as is a big enough sample that a few films won't make any difference (famous last words, I'm sure). One factor I do think might have an impact on the current year peak is that I've already seen some unreleased films shifted back to the following year or just whenever. So I expect the patter of each year is the peak will grow, as the full slate of films in production becomes clear, and then it will drop a bit as some get rescheduled or disappear into development hell, never to be seen again. Which means the current year is always going to be provisional until we reach the end and perhaps do a little tidy up too, so there might be a drop off of a dozen or so, but that might be compensated for after the inclusion of some films that might not get listed here until they're released.

Other films: There are some adult films that I'm wary of listing as they seem to cause problems for the list: Cathula 2: Vampires of Sex.

Length: Sorry it is a long list and this might be a little off-putting but you can use the filters to break it down if you don't want to browse through all the pages (even if I recommend you do it at least once). So you can, for example, rank only the feature films by quality if you were perhaps looking some of the better movies on the list to watch (even then you should do your homework, because some obscure films don't have many votes which can lead to people gaming the system).

Videos: I've tried to provide links to online videos of films where they appear to be official, if you want me to add a video or remove/swap a link then leave a note in the comments.

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Horror and thrillers involving Satanism, demonic possessions and exorcisms, and old-time religion.

Related list: Ghost Stories: Haunted Horror

This list is about horror, thriller and sci-fi movies, in which telephones are featured prominently.

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Zombie films with a title using the format "X of the Dead" (as well as "X of the Living Dead").

There is also a Porn of the Dead, which I can't add here, because it'd reduce list visibility, but it is on my zombie porn list.

Although most of the later films are riffs on Romero's first two films (Dorm of the Dead, Night of the Little Dead, etc.) this form of film name predates them, first appearing with 1965's Orgy of the Dead.

See also: vs Zombies and Night of the Living two more lists of mine that deal with other popular forms of zombie movie title. Someone else has an X Zombies list where X = ninjas, cowboys, etc.

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Films from the zombie's perspective or, at a push, where they are a sympathetic, leading protagonist who is fighting their baser urges. It is time to stick up for the rights of undead Americans and their decaying brethren worldwide.

There were a few precursors to this type of film but it really seems to have taken off from 2004 onwards, possibly because of the glut of recent zombie movies which has caused film-makers to cast around for another angle of attack.

Drawing the line is always going to be tricky here - Bud from Day of the Dead might count as could Big Daddy from Land of the Dead, but this seems to be part of Romero's exploration of the evolution of the zombie, re-learning lost tasks but, to my mind anyway, there seems to be a line lying between them and Fido. However, I'm open to being persuaded on this point.

See also: The vengeful dead, where the dead are returned with one thing on their mind (and it isn't cannibalism - the clues in the title) and they tend to be more compos mentis, where in this list they can often find themselves struggling with diminishing mental abilities and an increasing taste for human flesh. Also contagious violence films sometimes have a similar angle to this as they are infected, rather than being reanimated, so may try and hold off the effects of the virus as long as possible or try and cope with it (as in, for example, The Defiled).

Further reading: 12 Zombie Movies that Root for the Zombies:
http://io9.com/5943647/12-zombie-movies-that-root-for-the-zombies

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