I took part in Slant Magazine‘s 100 Greatest Horror Films feature. Each contributor was asked to submit a list of their 100 favorite scary movies, which were then aggregated to form the overall list. Here’s what I submitted:
1. The Shining
2. Suspiria
3. I Walked With a Zombie
4. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
5. Halloween
6. A Bucket of Blood
7. Rosemary’s Baby
8. Jaws
9. Who Can Kill a Child?
10. Frankenstein (1931)
11. Blood and Black Lace
12. Vampyr
13. The Birds
14. Nosferatu (1922)
15. Let’s Scare Jessica to Death
16. Freaks
17. Deep Red
18. Don’t Look Now
19. Psycho
20. Possession (1981)
21. Kill, Baby…Kill!
22. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
23. Cat People (1942)
24. Spiderbaby
25. Zombi 2
26. Pin
27. Night of the Demon
28. Scanners
29. Nightmare City
30. Haxan
31. Alien
32. Return of the Living Dead
33. House
34. Sleepaway Camp
35. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
36. Day of the Dead (1985)
37. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
38. The Fly (1986)
39. A Taste of Blood
40. The Devils
41. Jigoku
42. The Exorcist
43. Carrie
44. House on the Edge of the Park
45. Black Christmas
46. They Live
47. Blood Spattered Bride
48. The Night of the Hunter
49. Patrick
50. Sisters
51. Deliverance
52. Le Frisson des Vampires
53. Kuroneko
54. Black Sunday
55. Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
56. Razorback
57. Onibaba
58. Martin
59. The Thing (1982)
60. Tetsuo
61. Don’t Go in the House
62. Kwaidan
63. Repulsion
64. It’s Alive
65. Demons
66. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
67. When a Stranger Calls (1979)
68. Dead and Buried
69. Bride of Frankenstein
70. Intruder
71. Kwaidan
72. Maniac (1980)
73. Dead Ringers
74. Daughter of Dr. Jekyll
75. The Last House on the Left
76. The Evil Dead
77. Cemetery Man
78. La Vampire Nue
79. Driller Killer
80. White Zombie
81. Audition
82. Fanatic
83. Blue Sunshine
84. What’s the Matter with Helen?
85. Tenebre
86. Slumber Party Massacre
87. Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out!
88. Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things
89. Wolf Creek
90. The Devil’s Backbone
91. Near Dark
92. In the Mouth of Madness
93. Daughters of Darkness
94. M
95. Images
96. Leprechaun
97. Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
98. Pontypool
99. Martyrs
100. Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Drew Hunt 