My Top 10 Favorite Horror Movies
Keeping the list trend going again, this time with my favorite horror movies!
1. The Shining
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Year: 1980
Summary: A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter, where a sinister presence influences the father into violence. At the same time, his psychic son sees horrifying forebodings from both the past and the future.
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2. Psycho
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
2. Year: 1960
Summary: A secretary on the run for embezzlement takes refuge at a secluded California motel owned by a repressed man and his overbearing mother.
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3. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Director: 1974
Year: 1974
Summary: Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.
4. The Witch
Director: Robert Eggers
Year: Robert Eggers
Summary: An isolated Puritan family in 1630s New England comes unraveled by the forces of witchcraft and possession.
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5. Midsommar
Director: Ari Aster
Year: 2019
Summary: A couple travels to Northern Europe to visit a rural hometown's fabled Swedish mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
6. Halloween
Director: John Carpenter
Year: 1978
Summary: Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois, to kill again
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7. The Silence of the Lambs
Director: Jonathan Demme
Year: 1991
Summary: A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.
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8. The Exorcist
Director: William Friedkin
Year: 1973
Summary: When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.
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9. Black Swan
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Year: 2010
Summary: Nina is a talented but unstable ballerina on the verge of stardom. Pushed to the breaking point by her artistic director and a seductive rival, Nina's grip on reality slips, plunging her into a waking nightmare.
10. The Wolf Man
Director: George Waggner
Year: 1941
Summary: Upon his return to his father's estate, aristocrat Larry Talbot meets a beautiful woman, attends a mystical carnival and uncovers a horrifying curse.
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