1. The Omen
The story follows Ambassador Robert Thorn (Peck), who agrees to a suggestion that he surreptitiously adopt a child after his wife (:Remick) gives birth a stillborn baby. As little Damien grows up, a series of ghastly incidents haunt the Thorn family (a nanny hangs herself; monkeys in a zoo go wild at the sight of the child, etc). A priest (Troughton) warns Ambassador Thorn that his adoptive child is actually the Antichrist, born not of a woman but a jackal (the word "jackal" is cut off in the editing, but Seltzer's novelization of his own screenplay states it clearly)...
2. Psycho
The film depicts the encounter between a secretary, Marion Crane (Leigh), hiding at a secluded motel after embezzling money from her employer, and the motel's disturbed owner and manager, Norman Bates (Perkins), and the aftermath of their encounter.
3. The Amityvile Horror
"In The Amityville Horror, the ghost told them to get out of the house. White people stayed in there...a ghost say get the fuck out I would just tip the fuck out the door. They looked in the toilet bowl with the blood in the toilet and said, "That's peculiar." I woulda been in the house and said, "Oh baby, this is beautiful. We got a chandelier hanging up there, kids outside playing, it's a beautiful neighbourhood. This is really nice."
4. Rosemary's Baby
The story follows a young couple who move into a gothic New York apartment, where they are befriended by their elderly neighbors. After the woman becomes mysteriously pregnant, she discovers that the neighbors actually are part of a coven of witches and that her husband has allowed her to be impregnated by the devil in exchange for a successful career.
5. The Exorcist
Is this the scariest film for Halloween? Possibly. Since its first UK release in 1974, the original "Exorcist" has acquired a near legendary status among horror buffs. A fact proved recently when this new version of the 27 year-old fright-fest slammed into the number two spot at the US box office. It is horrifying in every sense of the word but is beautifully made. It is certainly the best horror movie ever made and in a rare occurrence for that genre.
6. Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th is to many a Halloween clone, but I argue that it is it's own beast entirely. Cunningham's film uses a completely different backdrop, albeit to the same ends. Summer camp, a place most of America's youth were familiar with, especially in the 70s and 80s. It was a safe place, but a place wrought with tales of killers in the woods and grisly secrets. Whereas Carpenter made us afraid of Anywhere, USA, Cunningham made us afraid to go to camp.
7. Poltergeis
The story idea for 'Poltergeist' came from Steven Spielberg (who also executive produced), and he ensures that the heart of the film is not the scares or the effects but our protagonists the Freelings, as all-American a family as any seen in a Spielberg movie. They live in the epicenter of suburbia, with dad Steve (Craig T. Nelson) making a killing in real estate, while Diane (JoBeth Williams) stays home with their three perfectly precious children, including little Carol Anne (the late Heather O'Rourke). That's what's so effective about the opening scenes of 'Poltergeist'
8. A Nightmare on Elm Street
Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter (Heather Langenkamp) traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger (Robert Englund), who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge.
9. The Shining
In the hotel, the Torrances find dozens of empty rooms, ominously huge windows, knives all over the kitchen, and a maze on the front lawn. As it later turns out, there are ghosts and more ghosts, and one of the elevators is full of blood. The Overlook would undoubtedly amount to one of the screen's scarier haunted houses even without its special feature, a feature that gives The Shining its richness and its unexpected intimacy. The Overlook is something far more fearsome than a haunted house--it's a home.
10. Halloween
A full year passes and as Halloween once again rolls around, the ripples of Michael Myers' violence start to eat away at the peace of the survivors, even as the killer himself appears once again to finish what he started. The killing scenes in this film are undoubtedly the high point. It's definitely a worth watching Halloween movie.
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