The Best Horror For A Classic Movies Night

In case you are looking out for a movie that actually brings in chills along your spine, you really need to start off with the horror classics. Yes, there are some best modern Hollywood horror movies out there, but to be true there is something great about classics and their ability to scare generations after generation especially without the help of any CGI monsters. Over the past few years, our definition of Hollywood horror classic movies has evolved and changed from universal old-school creature features to completely different psychological and social horror movies. In case you consider yourself to be a true aficionado of anything that is horror, you are really going to appreciate each and everything that this genre has to offer. Here in this article, we are going to discuss the top ten best horror classic movies that every scary movie buff must watch. Read on to know more.

1. The Exorcist: The movie Exorcist is an American supernatural horror movie released in 1973 and directed by Willian Friedkin. The movie follows a demonic possession of a twelve-year-old girl named Regan and her mother’s overall attempt to rescue her especially with the help of exorcism conducted by two different catholic priests. This movie, in particular, has received several influences especially on pop culture and has also got different accolades regarding this movie to be one of the top horror movies ever made.

2. Saw: Saw is an American horror movie released in 2004 and directed by James Wan. This movie was first screened on 19^th January 2004, especially before getting released in North America on 29^th October 2004. The movie is known to receive mixed reviews from different critics but it performed very well in the box office, grossing approximately $100 million worldwide. Furthermore, this movie became one of the most profitable horror films ever made. Also, the first sequence of the movie was released in the year 2005.

3. Nosferatu: The movie Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror is a German silent expressionist horror movie released in 1922. The movie was directed by FW. Murnau and starred actors such as Maz Schreck as a vampire having an interest in both a new resident and the wife of his old estate agent named Gustav Von Wangernheim. The movie was first produced by Prana Films and it is an unofficial and unauthorized adaptation of a novel called Dracula written by Bram Stoker in 1897. Currently, only a few original prints of the movie are into existence and it is also regarded as one of the most influential masterpieces of world cinema.

4. The Grudge: The movie Grudge was a 2004 release, a supernatural horror movie directed by Takashi Shimizu. The overall plot of the movie is told with the help of several nonlinear sequences of events, which further include different intersecting subplots. The movie was released in North America on 22^nd October 2004 and grossed approximately $187million against its $10million budget. The movie Grudge was also followed by two sequels, that were theatrically released as The Grudge 2 in 2006 and Grudge 3 in 2009.

5. The Evil Dead: The movie Evil Dead was released in the year 1981 and is an American supernatural movie that was directed and written by Sam Raimi. The key plot of the movie focuses on five different college students who went for a vacation in an isolated cabin situated in a remote wooded area. Once they went there they got to find an old audiotape that contained sounds of spirits and demons. Four members of the group got to suffer from demonic possession thereby forcing the fifth member to survive an onslaught.

6. Poltergeist: Poltergeist was released in 1982 and is an American horror movie directed by Tobe Hooper. The key plot of the movie focuses on a suburban family whose home seems invaded by different malevolent ghost abducting their daughter. Released by MGM on the 4^th of June,1982, this movie was a major commercial and critical success thereby becoming the 8^th highest-grossing film for the year 1982.

7. The Blair Witch Project:This American Horror film was released in the year 1999 and was directed and edited by Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick. The plot of the movie is about three filmmakers named Joshua Leonard, Heather Donahue, and Michael C. Williams who went on a hike near the Black Hills at Burkittsville, Maryland in the year 1994 in order to film a documentary about a legend called Blair Witch. The movie got a net box office collection of $250 million worldwide and today it is considered to be one of the most successful independent films of all time.

8. The Fly: The movie Fly was released in the year 1986 and is an American sci-fi psychological horror movie co-written and directed by David Cronenberg. The movie Fly tells us a story of an scientist, who after one of his wrong experiments, slowly turns into a fly hybrid creature. The movie was released on 15^th August 1996 and it even received major acclaim by the audiences as well as the critics. Overall the movie grossed $60.6 million at the box office against its $9 million budget.

9. Friday The 13^th: This movie is a 2009 release, American slasher film written by Mark Swift and Damian Shannon. Also, the movie is known to star actors like Danielle Panabaker, Derek Mears, Aaron Yoo, Travis Van Winkle, and Derek Mears. Friday the 13^th was theatrically released in the US on 13^th of Feb, 2009 by New Line Cinema in the Northern US territories and by Paramount pictures across the globe.

10. Childs Play: Child’s play was released in the year 2019, and is a horror film directed by Lars Kleberg. This movie serves as a remake of a film released in 1988 having the same title and is a reboot of the same Child’s Play franchise. The plot of the movie follows a terrorized family especially by a high-tech doll who becomes subsequently murderous and self-aware. Also, the movie is known to cast actors like Gabriel Bateman, Mark Hamill, Aubrey Plaza, and Mark Hamili as the main voice of Chucky.