50 Greatest Horror Movies You’ve Never Seen (2014)
Directed by Anthony Masi
A little different approach today. This recently popped up on Amazon Prime, and I was intrigued because I’m an asshole and I wanted to prove this countdown wrong and that I’ve seen ALL of these movies. Surprisingly that wasn’t the case. I have seen many of these, but there are a bunch I haven’t. Also, I was surprised with some inclusions and exclusions. Here is the list, so I can save you watching some dbags talking about these movies like they’re incredible for over an hour.
- Basket Case
- When A Stranger Calls
- Silent Night, Deadly Night
- The Slumber Party Massacre
- Valentine
- Grace
- The Hunger
- Prophecy
- The Dentist
- Food of the Gods
- Motel Hell
- Wrong Turn
- The Fury
- April Fool’s Day
- Humanoids From the Deep
- Hatchet
- May
- Lemora
- Brides of Dracula
- The Exorcist III
- Burnt Offerings
- The Funhouse
- Halloween III: Season of the Witch
- Hard Candy
- Castle Freak
- Feast
- Slither
- Inside
- Tourist Trap
- Trilogy of Terror
- Splinter
- Session 9
- Ginger Snaps
- Alice Sweet Alice
- Visiting Hours
- Repulsion
- Alone with Her
- Near Dark
- Joshua
- Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
- Audition
- Let the Right One in
- Reanimator
- Wishmaster
- The Descent
- Alone in the Dark
- The Night of the Hunter
- The Beast Within
- Pumpkinhead
- Black Christmas
Not a bad list honestly. I questioned Pumpkinhead being so high on the list, while I enjoyed that movie it doesn’t match up with a few that are under it like The Descent which is great. Black Christmas is a great #1, many have seen it but it doesn’t get the widespread recognition that it deserves. There are a few that I have never even heard of on this list like Lemora and The Night of the Hunter. It is funny there are 28 movies on this list that I haven’t seen, but the ones I have seen I own most of them.
The biggest exclusion, in my humble opinion is The Burning. It is possibly the best one-off slasher movie ever and not many people outside of the slasher movie lovers have seen it. It has a great killer, great effects, and was written off as a Friday the 13th rip off back in the day, even though it predates all but the original Friday and was actually written before. A few more exclusions I had were: The Prowler, My Bloody Valentine, Event Horizon, and Sleepaway Camp (CMON!). I really appreciated the recognition they give The Funhouse and Tourist Trap because those are great classic slashers. Tourist Trap might be the most overlooked and forgotten slasher movie of all time, even Black Christmas gets more recognition. If you have a chance to watch Tourist Trap, by all means jump on it.
I enjoyed the countdown, even though most of the people they had talking I had no idea who they were. Some of them were annoying, especially the guy with the giant voice that works for bloody disgusting, man he annoyed me. For an hour and a half it was worth it and gave me a look at some films I haven’t paid attention to or heard of.
