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<\/a>By Geoffrey Huchel<\/strong><\/p>\nHorror is my absolute favorite movie genre- zombie movies, monster movies, slasher flicks, home invasion, psychological, supernatural thrillers\u2026I love them all. Each one has their own \u201cjump out of your seat\u201d moments. I relish in the idea of sitting in the dark being completely engrossed in a good horror story. Historically, horror films are often criticized for having too much gore, not enough gore, being too predictable, or not being scary enough. True horror fans have high expectations of what they want to see. This goes back to the amount of gore and the scare factor. When I watch a horror movie, I want goose bumps. I want to be torn between looking away and not wanting to take my eyes off the screen. I also enjoy a little humor mixed in, whereas other horror movie fans wouldn\u2019t. I have no preference with the amount of blood and gore; some movies can still be scary without it. Most of all, I am looking for a well written story with interesting characters. <\/p>\n
I put together a collection of some of the most popular horror flicks throughout film history. Narrowing down the list was an extremely difficult task, but I did my best to include the ones I felt are the most popular with viewers and have made an impact on the genre.<\/p>\n
The 1930s:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n THE INVISIBLE MAN (1933) Running Time: 1 hour 11 minutes The 1940s:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n THE WOLF MAN (1941) Running Time: 1 hour 10 minutes The 1950s:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n HOUSE OF WAX (1953) Running Time 1 hour 28 minutes INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956) Running Time: 1 hr 20 mins The 1960s:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n PSYCHO (1960) Running Time: 1 hour 49 minutes ROSEMARY\u2019S BABY (1968) Running Time: 2 hours 7 minutes NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) Running Time: 1 hour 36 minutes The 1970s:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n THE EXORCIST (1973) Running Time 2 hours 2 minutes THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974) Running Time: 1 hour 23 minutes JAWS (1975) Running Time: 2 hours 4 minutes THE OMEN (1976) Running Time: 1 hour 51 minutes CARRIE (1976) Running Time: 1 hour 38 minutes HALLOWEEN (1978) Running Time: 1 hour 31 minutes The 1980s:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n THE SHINING (1980) Running Time 2 hours 26 minutes FRIDAY THE 13th (1980) Running Time: 1 hour 35 minutes THE FOG (1980) Running Time: 1 hour 29 minutes POLTERGEIST (1982) Running Time 1 hour 54 minutes CUJO (1983) Running Time: 1 hour 33 minutes A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984) Running Time: 1 hour 31 minutes CHILD\u2019S PLAY (1988) Running Time: 1 hour 27 minutes The 1990s:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n MISERY (1990) Running Time: 1 hour 47 minutes THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) Running Time: 1 hour 58 minutes CANDYMAN (1992) Running Time: 1 hour 39 minutes BRAM STOKER\u2019S DRACULA (1992) Running Time: 2 hours 8 minutes SCREAM (1996) Running Time 1 hour 51 minutes SLEEPY HOLLOW (1999) Running Time: 1 hour 45 minutes The 2000s:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n WHAT LIES BENEATH (2000) Running Time 2 hours 10 minutes THE OTHERS (2001) Running Time: 1 hour 41 minutes THE RING (2002) Running Time 1 hour 55 minutes THE STRANGERS (2008) Running Time: 1 hour 26 minutes The 2010s (so far):<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n INSIDIOUS (2010) Running Time: 1 hour 43 minutes THE CONJURING (2013) Running Time: 1 hour 52 minutes GET OUT (2017) Running Time: 1 hour 44 minutes A QUIET PLACE (2018) Running Time: HALLOWEEN (2018) Running Time: 1 hour 46 minutes [si-contact-form form=’2′]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [AdSense-A] By Geoffrey Huchel Horror is my absolute favorite movie genre- zombie movies, monster movies, slasher flicks, home invasion, psychological, supernatural thrillers\u2026I love them all. Each one has their own \u201cjump out of your seat\u201d moments. I relish in the idea of sitting in the dark being completely engrossed in a good horror story. Historically, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17984],"tags":[19062],"class_list":["post-75822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-ringside-report-looks-back-at-classic-horror-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75822"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDirected by: James Whale
\nStarring: Claude Rains
\nGloria Stuart
\nPlot: A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doinf so, he becomes murderously insane.<\/p>\n
\nDirected by: George Waggner
\nStarring: Claude Rains
\nWarren William
\nLon Chaney Jr.
\nPlot: A practical man returns to his homeland, is attacked by a creature of folklore, and infected with a horrific disease his disciplined mind tells him can not possibly exist.<\/p>\n
\nDirected by: Andre DeToth
\nStarring: Vincent Price
\nFrank Lovejoy
\nPhyllis Kirk
\nPlot: An associate burns down a wax museum with the owner inside but he survives only to become vengeful and murderous.<\/p>\n
\nDirected by: Don Siegel
\nStarring: Kevin McCarthy
\nDana Wynter
\nPlot: A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.<\/p>\n
\nDirected by: Alfred Hitchcock
\nStarring: Anthony Perkins
\nJanet Leigh
\nVera Miles
\nPlot: A Phoenix secretary embezzles 40,000 from her employer\u2019s client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.<\/p>\n
\nDirected by: Roman Polanski
\nStarring: Mia Farrow
\nJohn Cassavetes
\nPlot: A young couple moves in to an apartment only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins to control her life.<\/p>\n
\nDirected by: George A. Romero
\nStarring: Duane Jones
\nJudith O\u2019Dea
\nPlot: There is panic throughout the nation as the dead suddenly come back to life. The film follows a group of characters who barricade themselves in a farmhouse in an attempt to remain safe from these bloodthirsty, flesh-eating monsters.<\/p>\n
\nDirected by: William Friedkin
\nStarring: Ellen Burstyn
\nMax Von Sydow
\nLinda Blair
\nPlot: When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.<\/p>\n
\nDirected by: Tobe Hooper
\nStarring: Marilyn Burns
\nAllen Danziger
\nGunnar Hansen
\nPlot: Two siblings and three of their friends en route to visit their grandfather\u2019s grave in Texas end up falling victim to a family of cannibalistic psychopaths.<\/p>\n
\nDirected by: Steven Spiielberg
\nStarring: Roy Scheider
\nRobert Shaw
\nRichard Dreyfuss
\nPlot: A local sheriff, a marine biologist and an old seafarer team up to hunt down a Great White shark wreaking havoc in a beach resort.<\/p>\n
\nDirected by: Richard Donner
\nStarring: Gregory Peck
\nLee Remick
\nHarvey Stephens
\nPlot: Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child he is raising actually be the Antichrist?<\/p>\n
\nDirected by: Brian DePalma
\nStarring: Sissy Spacek
\nPiper Laurie
\nJohn Travolta
\nPlot: Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.<\/p>\n
\nDirected by: John Carpenter
\nStarring: Donald Pleasance
\nJamie Lee Curtis
\nPlot: Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night in 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental institution and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, to kill again.<\/p>\n
\nDirected by: Stanley Kubrick
\nStarring: Jack Nicholson
\nShelley Duvall
\nPlot: A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific
\nforebodings from the past and of the future.<\/p>\n
\nDirected by: Sean S. Cunningham
\nStarring: Betsy Palmer
\nAdrienne King
\nPlot: A group of camp counselors are staled and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp which, years before, was the site of a child\u2019s drowning.<\/p>\n
\nDirected by: John Carpenter
\nStarring: Adrienne Barbeau
\nJamie lee Curtis
\nJanet Leigh
\nPlot: An unearthly fog rolls into a small coastal town exactly 100 years after a ship mysteriously sank in its waters.<\/p>\n
\nDirected by: Tobe Hooper
\nStarring; JoBeth Williams
\nCraig T. Nelson
\nHeather O\u2019Rourke
\nPlot: A family\u2019s home is haunted by a host of ghosts.<\/p>\n
\nDirected by: Lewis Teague
\nStarring: Dee Wallace
\nDanny Pintauro
\nPlot: Cujo, a friendly St. Bernard, contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.<\/p>\n
\nDirected by: Wes Craven
\nStarring: Heather Langenkamp
\nJohnny Depp
\nRobert Englund
\nPlot: This monstrous spirit of a slain janitor seeks revenge by invading the dreams of teenagers whose parents were responsible for his untimely death.<\/p>\n
\nDirected by: Tom Holland
\nStarring: Catherine Hicks
\nChris Sarandon
\nPlot: A single mother gives her son a much sought-after doll for his birthday, only to discover that its possessed by the soul of a serial killer.<\/p>\n
\nDirected by: Rob Reiner
\nStarring: James Caan
\nKathy Bates
\nPlot: After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.<\/p>\n
\nDirected by: Jonathan Demme
\nStarring: Anthony Hopkins
\nJodie Foster
\nPlot: A young FBI cadet must receive the help of am incarcerated and manipulative cannibal to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.<\/p>\n
\nDirected by: Bernard Rose
\nStarring: Virginia Madsen
\nXander Berkeley
\nTony Todd
\nPlot: The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster\u2019s myth.<\/p>\n
\nDirected by: Francis Ford Coppola
\nStarring: Gary Oldman
\nWinona Ryder
\nAnthony Hopkins
\nPlot: The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker\u2019s fianc\u00e9e Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.<\/p>\n
\nDirected by: Wes Caven
\nStarring: Neve Campbell
\nCourteney Cox
\nDavid Arquette
\nPlot: A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a new killer, who targets the girl and her friends by using horror films as part of a deadly game.<\/p>\n
\nDirected by: Tim Burton
\nStarring: Johnny Depp
\nChristina Ricci
\nPlot: Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy hollow to investigate the decapitations of 3 people with the culprit being the legendary apparition, the Headless Horseman.<\/p>\n
\nDirected by: Robert Zemeckis
\nStarring: Michelle Pfeiffer
\nHarrison Ford
\nDiana Scarwid
\nPlot: The wife of a university research scientist believes that her lakeside Vermont home is haunted by a ghost-or that she is losing her mind.<\/p>\n
\nDirected by: Alejandro Amenabar
\nStarring: Nicole Kidman
\nChristopher Eccleston
\nFionnula Flanagan
\nPlot: A woman who lives in her darkened old family house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that the home is haunted.<\/p>\n
\nDirected by: Gore Verbinski
\nStarring: Naomi Watts
\nMartin Henderson
\nPlot: A journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone one week to the day after they view it.<\/p>\n
\nDirected by: Bryan Bertino
\nStarring: Scott Speedman
\nLiv Tyler
\nPlot: A young couple staying in an isolated vacation home is terrorized by three unknown assailants.<\/p>\n
\nDirected by: James Wan
\nStarring: Patrick Wilson
\nRose Byrne
\nPlot: A family looks to prevent evil spirits from trapping their comatose child in a realm called The Further.<\/p>\n
\nDirected by: James Wan
\nStarring: Vera Farmiga
\nPatrick Wilson
\nPlot: Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse.<\/p>\n
\nDirected by: Jordan Peele
\nStarring: Daniel Kaluuya
\nAllison Williams
\nBradley Whitford
\nPlot: A young African-American visits his white girlfriend\u2019s parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point.<\/p>\n
\nDirected By: John Krazinski
\nStarring: Emily Blunt
\nJohn Krazinski
\nPlot: In a post-apocalyptic world, a family is forced to live in silence while hiding from monsters with ultra-sensitive hearing.<\/p>\n
\nDirected by: David Gordon Green
\nStarring: Jamie Lee Curtis
\nJudy Greer
\nAndi Matichak
\nPlot: Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.<\/p>\n