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#178 - Evil Dead Rise​

A twisted tale of two estranged sisters whose reunion is cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.

Lee Cronin
2023
Supernatural
USA

IMDB: 65
Metacritic: 69
RottenTomatoes: 72

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smTK_AeAPHs

Streaming:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/evil-dead-rise

Voter Ranks
WVU Alum 16
 

#179 - As Above, So Below

When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.

John Erick Dowdle
2014
Occult, Found Footage
USA

IMDB: 62
Metacritic: 38
RottenTomatoes: 26

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_BaqNzdGXY

Streaming:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/as-above-so-below

Voter Ranks
Frostillicus 69
Scoresman 26
Tick 73
This one does a lot with very little. However, I constantly get it confused with The Pyramid because their visuals and base story are so similar. But The Pyramid is ***, and as such, I didn’t have As Above, So Below on my radar. I also thought it was repetitive and prone to dragging.
 

#178 - Evil Dead Rise​

A twisted tale of two estranged sisters whose reunion is cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.

Lee Cronin
2023
Supernatural
USA

IMDB: 65
Metacritic: 69
RottenTomatoes: 72

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smTK_AeAPHs

Streaming:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/evil-dead-rise

Voter Ranks
WVU Alum 16
This is the closest any of the movies got to the feel of the original 2. Fun, funny, and scary. Loved it.
 

#179 - As Above, So Below

When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.

John Erick Dowdle
2014
Occult, Found Footage
USA

IMDB: 62
Metacritic: 38
RottenTomatoes: 26

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_BaqNzdGXY

Streaming:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/as-above-so-below

Voter Ranks
Frostillicus 69
Scoresman 26
Tick 73

I recommend this to anyone who likes found footage. I'm a sucker for good found footage, and this is one of the better ones. It's part Tomb Raider, The Descent, and National Treasure. It handles a lot of the trappings of found footage well, which is rare.
 

#178 - Evil Dead Rise​

A twisted tale of two estranged sisters whose reunion is cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.

Lee Cronin
2023
Supernatural
USA

IMDB: 65
Metacritic: 69
RottenTomatoes: 72

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smTK_AeAPHs

Streaming:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/evil-dead-rise

Voter Ranks
WVU Alum 16
This is the closest any of the movies got to the feel of the original 2. Fun, funny, and scary. Loved it.
I'm a huge Evil Dead fan and really enjoyed this one. Appreciated the different setting and had some great visuals.
 

#178 - Evil Dead Rise​

A twisted tale of two estranged sisters whose reunion is cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.

Lee Cronin
2023
Supernatural
USA

IMDB: 65
Metacritic: 69
RottenTomatoes: 72

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smTK_AeAPHs

Streaming:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/evil-dead-rise

Voter Ranks
WVU Alum 16
Really liked this, was just off my list. Loved the lead
 

#179 - As Above, So Below

When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.

John Erick Dowdle
2014
Occult, Found Footage
USA

IMDB: 62
Metacritic: 38
RottenTomatoes: 26

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_BaqNzdGXY

Streaming:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/as-above-so-below

Voter Ranks
Frostillicus 69
Scoresman 26
Tick 73
Lots of love for this one I see. Reminds me of one that did make my list and I'm hoping to see later here
 
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I am going to watch Terminator tonight and think more about that one. It feels like a call back to the discussion about movies like Se7en and Silence of the Lambs as to if it crosses over the boundary into horror or not. Btw, after more thought I am rounding on the opinion that Silence of the Lambs is horror and Se7en is about as close as a detective thriller gets to horror without being one.

:popcorn:
I agree about Se7en. Silence of the Lambs is borderline. And while I had never thought of it that way, I fully buy Terminator as horror
My ruling is not horror. More later as to my thoughts on why not.
 
I am going to watch Terminator tonight and think more about that one. It feels like a call back to the discussion about movies like Se7en and Silence of the Lambs as to if it crosses over the boundary into horror or not. Btw, after more thought I am rounding on the opinion that Silence of the Lambs is horror and Se7en is about as close as a detective thriller gets to horror without being one.

:popcorn:
I agree about Se7en. Silence of the Lambs is borderline. And while I had never thought of it that way, I fully buy Terminator as horror
My ruling is not horror. More later as to my thoughts on why not.

I feel like if you boil it down to it's basic premise:

"A woman is targeted and hunted by an armed killer"

You've just described every slasher film ever. That's enough for me to at least consider it horror as a subgenre.

If you put a hockey mask on Arnold, does it become horror?
 
I am going to watch Terminator tonight and think more about that one. It feels like a call back to the discussion about movies like Se7en and Silence of the Lambs as to if it crosses over the boundary into horror or not. Btw, after more thought I am rounding on the opinion that Silence of the Lambs is horror and Se7en is about as close as a detective thriller gets to horror without being one.

:popcorn:
I agree about Se7en. Silence of the Lambs is borderline. And while I had never thought of it that way, I fully buy Terminator as horror
My ruling is not horror. More later as to my thoughts on why not.
Looking forward to the thoughts as I was the outlier to include it. I def think T1 is more in the realm than T2 (although I also included that one).
 

#177 - Black Christmas​

An escaped maniac returns to his childhood home on Christmas Eve, which is now a sorority house, and begins to murder the sorority sisters one by one.

Bob Clark
1974
Slasher, Christmas
Canada

IMDB: 72
Metacritic: NA
RottenTomatoes: 64

Trailer:


Streaming:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/search?q=black christmas

Voter Ranks

Scoresman 16

 
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#177 - Black Christmas​

An escaped maniac returns to his childhood home on Christmas Eve, which is now a sorority house, and begins to murder the sorority sisters one by one.

Bob Clark
1974
Slasher, Christmas
Canada

IMDB: 72
Metacritic: NA
RottenTomatoes: 64

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF4yRYbo1WE

Streaming:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/search?q=black christmas

Voter Ranks

Scoresman 16

Had I seen this as a kid, I probably would have loved it. But I only saw it for the first time last October and it's obviously been copied many times over and didn't really have much impact. For its time, I'm sure it was great.
 

#179 - As Above, So Below

When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.

John Erick Dowdle
2014
Occult, Found Footage
USA

IMDB: 62
Metacritic: 38
RottenTomatoes: 26

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_BaqNzdGXY

Streaming:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/as-above-so-below

Voter Ranks
Frostillicus 69
Scoresman 26
Tick 73
Just missed the cut last October. Probably one I'll watch myself one day since my wife isn't really into found footage but I love a good one.
 

#177 - Black Christmas​

An escaped maniac returns to his childhood home on Christmas Eve, which is now a sorority house, and begins to murder the sorority sisters one by one.

Bob Clark
1974
Slasher, Christmas
Canada

IMDB: 72
Metacritic: NA
RottenTomatoes: 64

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF4yRYbo1WE

Streaming:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/search?q=black christmas

Voter Ranks

Scoresman 16


Seems like today's going to be full of controversial opinions. Mine is that Black Christmas is a better slasher film than Halloween.

While Halloween and Michael Myers are certainly more iconic, Black Christmas does many things just as well if not better. The cast is more sympathetic and realistic than the Halloween cast (outside of Jamie Lee Curtis). Having the killer be hidden is more frightening to me, and the finale is arguably much more suspenseful. So many other little things that I could point out in a longer post.

Carpenter was heavily influenced by Black Christmas, to the point where he asked the director if he was planning a sequel before making Halloween.

This is the first real movie where I'm shocked to be the only one to list it.
 
Somebody on Reddit put it much better than I could.

"Black Christmas is a hundred times creepier and it’s less “satisfying” in a way that I love. It holds back on the action, it holds back on the answers. It edges you a lot but never to completion and by the time the most unnerving credits in horror film history roll by it’s also let you go “unsatisfied” and without resolution. And the oft-overlooked decision not to have music of any kind apart from the in-movie hymn singing is a stroke of genius. The quiet parts of this film are the scariest, and most of it is the quiet part.

Basically put, Halloween is a much easier pill to swallow than Black Christmas, but nowhere near as rewarding in terms of sheer thrill and suspense. That’s where Black Christmas shines. It’s the spookiest slasher out there as far as I’m concerned. There are obvious reasons why Halloween endures in the pop culture lexicon more, but Black Christmas is purely a better film to me."
 

#176 - The Dead Zone​

Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.

David Cronenberg
1983
Supernatural, King
USA

IMDB: 72
Metacritic: 69
RottenTomatoes: 90

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxJp_VQ5VUk

Streaming:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-dead-zone-stephen-king

Voter Ranks
IvanKaramazov 61
Todem 31
 
Started Blackwell Ghost Episode 2, hope to finish all 8 by this weekend. So far it's interesting enough but the long interludes of faking mundanity make me glad they are shortish episodes so I can go to something else in between. I'll see where it leads.
 
Started Blackwell Ghost Episode 2, hope to finish all 8 by this weekend. So far it's interesting enough but the long interludes of faking mundanity make me glad they are shortish episodes so I can go to something else in between. I'll see where it leads.

It gets much better/more of an addictive watch starting with 3.
 

#177 - Black Christmas​

An escaped maniac returns to his childhood home on Christmas Eve, which is now a sorority house, and begins to murder the sorority sisters one by one.

Bob Clark
1974
Slasher, Christmas
Canada

IMDB: 72
Metacritic: NA
RottenTomatoes: 64

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF4yRYbo1WE

Streaming:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/search?q=black christmas

Voter Ranks

Scoresman 16

This was literally #76 on my list. Really like this one. And I agree with you @Scoresman and your reasoning for why it’s so good.
 

#176 - The Dead Zone​

Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.

David Cronenberg
1983
Supernatural, King
USA

IMDB: 72
Metacritic: 69
RottenTomatoes: 90

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxJp_VQ5VUk

Streaming:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-dead-zone-stephen-king

Voter Ranks
IvanKaramazov 61
Todem 31
This movie still freaks me out
 

#178 - Evil Dead Rise​

A twisted tale of two estranged sisters whose reunion is cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.

Lee Cronin
2023
Supernatural
USA

IMDB: 65
Metacritic: 69
RottenTomatoes: 72

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smTK_AeAPHs

Streaming:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/evil-dead-rise

Voter Ranks
WVU Alum 16
Didn't care much for the remake - thought it largely substituted gore for actual scares - so I haven't seen this one yet. It been waiting for me on Max for months
 

#174 - Altered States​

A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind.

Ken Russell
1980
Psychological
USA

IMDB: 69
Metacritic: 58
RottenTomatoes: 86

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67lYG7a4YOA

Streaming:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/altered-states

Voter Ranks
shuke 15
 
I am going to watch Terminator tonight and think more about that one. It feels like a call back to the discussion about movies like Se7en and Silence of the Lambs as to if it crosses over the boundary into horror or not. Btw, after more thought I am rounding on the opinion that Silence of the Lambs is horror and Se7en is about as close as a detective thriller gets to horror without being one.

:popcorn:
I agree about Se7en. Silence of the Lambs is borderline. And while I had never thought of it that way, I fully buy Terminator as horror
My ruling is not horror. More later as to my thoughts on why not.

I feel like if you boil it down to it's basic premise:

"A woman is targeted and hunted by an armed killer"

You've just described every slasher film ever. That's enough for me to at least consider it horror as a subgenre.

If you put a hockey mask on Arnold, does it become horror?
If Arnold was just a dude and not a robot, no one would argue against it being horror. My take is that it is horror.
 

#177 - Black Christmas​

An escaped maniac returns to his childhood home on Christmas Eve, which is now a sorority house, and begins to murder the sorority sisters one by one.

Bob Clark
1974
Slasher, Christmas
Canada

IMDB: 72
Metacritic: NA
RottenTomatoes: 64

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF4yRYbo1WE

Streaming:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/search?q=black christmas

Voter Ranks

Scoresman 16


Seems like today's going to be full of controversial opinions. Mine is that Black Christmas is a better slasher film than Halloween.

While Halloween and Michael Myers are certainly more iconic, Black Christmas does many things just as well if not better. The cast is more sympathetic and realistic than the Halloween cast (outside of Jamie Lee Curtis). Having the killer be hidden is more frightening to me, and the finale is arguably much more suspenseful. So many other little things that I could point out in a longer post.

Carpenter was heavily influenced by Black Christmas, to the point where he asked the director if he was planning a sequel before making Halloween.

This is the first real movie where I'm shocked to be the only one to list it.
I assume we're talking about the 1974 version here, right? The trailer seems to be a much more modern remake or something.
 

#177 - Black Christmas​

An escaped maniac returns to his childhood home on Christmas Eve, which is now a sorority house, and begins to murder the sorority sisters one by one.

Bob Clark
1974
Slasher, Christmas
Canada

IMDB: 72
Metacritic: NA
RottenTomatoes: 64

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF4yRYbo1WE

Streaming:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/search?q=black christmas

Voter Ranks

Scoresman 16

I have fond memories of watching this as a kid. That said, I think the remake is slightly better, and it has been copied by better movies. That said, certainly deserves being on the list.
 

#175 - Nosferatu the Vampyre​

Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror.

Werner Herzog
1978
Vampire
Germany

IMDB: 76
Metacritic: NA
RottenTomatoes: 94

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1Rachk7ipI

Streaming:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/nosferatu-the-vampyre

Voter Ranks

Scoresman 15


This is my favorite Dracula/vampire movie. It's an homage/remake of the original 1922 Nosferatu. I feel like Klaus Kinski's portrayal of Dracula as not only an ugly viscious predator, but a sympathetic figure is the best ever portrayed. The cinematography and location shots are absolutely dreamlike.
 

#177 - Black Christmas​

An escaped maniac returns to his childhood home on Christmas Eve, which is now a sorority house, and begins to murder the sorority sisters one by one.

Bob Clark
1974
Slasher, Christmas
Canada

IMDB: 72
Metacritic: NA
RottenTomatoes: 64

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF4yRYbo1WE

Streaming:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/search?q=black christmas

Voter Ranks

Scoresman 16


Seems like today's going to be full of controversial opinions. Mine is that Black Christmas is a better slasher film than Halloween.

While Halloween and Michael Myers are certainly more iconic, Black Christmas does many things just as well if not better. The cast is more sympathetic and realistic than the Halloween cast (outside of Jamie Lee Curtis). Having the killer be hidden is more frightening to me, and the finale is arguably much more suspenseful. So many other little things that I could point out in a longer post.

Carpenter was heavily influenced by Black Christmas, to the point where he asked the director if he was planning a sequel before making Halloween.

This is the first real movie where I'm shocked to be the only one to list it.
I assume we're talking about the 1974 version here, right? The trailer seems to be a much more modern remake or something.
Yes, the original, I fixed the link.
 
Okay, (a) Black Christmas looks pretty awesome, (b) they really took a different approach to movie trailers back in the 70s, didn't they?, (c) what a random movie for Margot Kidder to make an appearance in.
 

#179 - As Above, So Below

When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.

John Erick Dowdle
2014
Occult, Found Footage
USA

IMDB: 62
Metacritic: 38
RottenTomatoes: 26

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_BaqNzdGXY

Streaming:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/as-above-so-below

Voter Ranks
Frostillicus 69
Scoresman 26
Tick 73

#178 - Evil Dead Rise​

A twisted tale of two estranged sisters whose reunion is cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.

Lee Cronin
2023
Supernatural
USA

IMDB: 65
Metacritic: 69
RottenTomatoes: 72

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smTK_AeAPHs

Streaming:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/evil-dead-rise

Voter Ranks
WVU Alum 16

#177 - Black Christmas​

An escaped maniac returns to his childhood home on Christmas Eve, which is now a sorority house, and begins to murder the sorority sisters one by one.

Bob Clark
1974
Slasher, Christmas
Canada

IMDB: 72
Metacritic: NA
RottenTomatoes: 64

Trailer:


Streaming:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/search?q=black christmas

Voter Ranks

Scoresman 16


#177 - Black Christmas​

An escaped maniac returns to his childhood home on Christmas Eve, which is now a sorority house, and begins to murder the sorority sisters one by one.

Bob Clark
1974
Slasher, Christmas
Canada

IMDB: 72
Metacritic: NA
RottenTomatoes: 64

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF4yRYbo1WE

Streaming:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/search?q=black christmas

Voter Ranks

Scoresman 16


Seems like today's going to be full of controversial opinions. Mine is that Black Christmas is a better slasher film than Halloween.

While Halloween and Michael Myers are certainly more iconic, Black Christmas does many things just as well if not better. The cast is more sympathetic and realistic than the Halloween cast (outside of Jamie Lee Curtis). Having the killer be hidden is more frightening to me, and the finale is arguably much more suspenseful. So many other little things that I could point out in a longer post.

Carpenter was heavily influenced by Black Christmas, to the point where he asked the director if he was planning a sequel before making Halloween.

This is the first real movie where I'm shocked to be the only one to list it.

#176 - The Dead Zone​

Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.

David Cronenberg
1983
Supernatural, King
USA

IMDB: 72
Metacritic: 69
RottenTomatoes: 90

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxJp_VQ5VUk

Streaming:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-dead-zone-stephen-king

Voter Ranks
IvanKaramazov 61
Todem 31

#175 - Nosferatu the Vampyre​

Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror.

Werner Herzog
1978
Vampire
Germany

IMDB: 76
Metacritic: NA
RottenTomatoes: 94

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1Rachk7ipI

Streaming:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/nosferatu-the-vampyre

Voter Ranks

Scoresman 15


#174 - Altered States​

A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind.

Ken Russell
1980
Psychological
USA

IMDB: 69
Metacritic: 58
RottenTomatoes: 86

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67lYG7a4YOA

Streaming:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/altered-states

Voter Ranks
shuke 15
As Above So Below - I had this just outside my top 100. It is a great found footage horror film. I am not a huge fan of found footage overall.....I just don’t like the whole camera shake....it bothers me after a while. But for the really good ones in the genre...I deal. And this is easily one of them that I can deal with. It is a creepy, dark and claustrophobic ride. I highly recommend this one. Very believable characters and an outstanding historic location.

Evil Dead Rise - So I love the original trilogy and my votes for a couple of those films will reflect that. I did not like the remake of the original. I thought it was a poor attempt. However this second of the new reboot of this legendary series was a damn good movie. It definitely as mentioned by @WVU Alum harkens back to the style of Evil Dead 1 and 2 big time. The setting is very creepy, the intro to the movie......I don’t want to ruin it so I won’t. It is a strong effort, great characters, strong acting and it combines horror and some elements of comedy beautifully. A worthy entry into the series indeed. It did not make my top 75 but it is easily in my top 200.

Black Christmas - This movie literally just missed the cut in my top 75. Is it worthy? Absolutely. But I was quite young when I saw it the first time and did not remember it too well. I did watch it again 2 years ago and it is a very creepy and unusual horror film in terms of a lot of decisions that @Scoresman points out that were made that make it so creepy yet no real payoff. It is the godfather of the slasher genre if you ask John Carpenter. Do I agree it is better than Halloween? Hell no. No way. But that’s my opinion. Halloween is far more “accessible” and relatable. But Black Christmas is a very good movie. Highly recommended. Don’t even bother with the pathetic remake.....utter hot garbage.

The Dead Zone - Oh man....this movie still holds up incredibly well. A fine film with the great Christopher Walken as the man who can see the future just by holding your hand. Martin Sheen plays a fantastic “villain”. This is a light Cronenberg affair compared to other works I ranked (yeah I have 3 of his films in my top 75). A pretty straightforward film for him. But it works and is a chilling and tragic film. One of the best King adaptions every made IMO. It was such a great story they made a great TV series out of it with Anthony Michael Hall (great show BTW).

Nosferatu The Vampire (1978) - Oh yes.....we remember this one well. I watched this on that old pay per view service we had back in the 70’s called “On TV”. It was a box you had for monthly subscription that you simply turned on and set your TV set to channel 3 and you had a schedule (A TV Guide for it) of when big screen films would be on. It was HBO before HBO and cable hit the nation. This is a gritty, grimy, vampire movie. And it is extremely stylistic with just this pure feeling of dread, death and disease. It is one of the better vampire movies ever made. It is in my top 200 for sure.

Altered States - This just missed my top 75 cut. This is a wild movie. It has not aged great but is still highly watchable. If you have never seen it...it is a whacky watch. It’s quite disturbing and partaking is highly encouraged prior to viewing.
 
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One stark contrast between Black Christmas and Halloween is that Black Christmas has almost no music playing throughout the film, whereas Halloween has one of the most iconic soundtrack in horror. Both use each approach extremely effectively.
 
I know we had Death Proof on its own, but I decided to allow both the individual movies and this to co-exist.
I saw The Grindhouse on opening night and from the gate, it captured the essence of the over-the-top 1970's-style double feature. From the Machete trailer, we get into the very non-CGI Planet Terror by Robert Rodriguez. A very entertaining romp on a whole lot of levels. After that, some more fun fake trailers from a who's who of horror directors (Eli Roth, Rob Zombie and Edgar Wright) then we close with Tarantino's Death proof. I can't remember a crowd bursting into applause at the end of a movie as enthusiastically as the crowd I experienced this with. Much MUCH more than the sum of its parts, this was an all-time moviegoing event that I wish more could have experienced in its proper form.
 
I know we had Death Proof on its own, but I decided to allow both the individual movies and this to co-exist.
I saw The Grindhouse on opening night and from the gate, it captured the essence of the over-the-top 1970's-style double feature. From the Machete trailer, we get into the very non-CGI Planet Terror by Robert Rodriguez. A very entertaining romp on a whole lot of levels. After that, some more fun fake trailers from a who's who of horror directors (Eli Roth, Rob Zombie and Edgar Wright) then we close with Tarantino's Death proof. I can't remember a crowd bursting into applause at the end of a movie as enthusiastically as the crowd I experienced this with. Much MUCH more than the sum of its parts, this was an all-time moviegoing event that I wish more could have experienced in its proper form.
I very strongly considered listing Grindhouse instead of just Death Proof. Not complaining, because I didn't ask for clarification and it's NBD anyway. This was just a flat-out fun cinema experience made by people who really want folks to enjoy being in a cinema. I'm sure I had some stupid smile on my face through the entire thing, especially the fake "reel played out of order" segment of Planet Terror. Great experience.
 

#177 - Black Christmas​

An escaped maniac returns to his childhood home on Christmas Eve, which is now a sorority house, and begins to murder the sorority sisters one by one.

Bob Clark
1974
Slasher, Christmas
Canada

IMDB: 72
Metacritic: NA
RottenTomatoes: 64

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF4yRYbo1WE

Streaming:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/search?q=black christmas

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Seems like today's going to be full of controversial opinions. Mine is that Black Christmas is a better slasher film than Halloween.

While Halloween and Michael Myers are certainly more iconic, Black Christmas does many things just as well if not better. The cast is more sympathetic and realistic than the Halloween cast (outside of Jamie Lee Curtis). Having the killer be hidden is more frightening to me, and the finale is arguably much more suspenseful. So many other little things that I could point out in a longer post.

Carpenter was heavily influenced by Black Christmas, to the point where he asked the director if he was planning a sequel before making Halloween.

This is the first real movie where I'm shocked to be the only one to list it.
This is the first one that I noticed on the countdown where my list would have come in to change the 200 a bit. I am quite surprised that you were the only one, my first pass through had it at #12, so I am right there with you. The phone calls are creepy AF.
 

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