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Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Scariest Horror Movies Of All Time


Happy Halloween! I’m actually running out of horror movies to watch these days because there’s just too many of them  yet only 2 out 10 is scary enough most of the time to cause me sleepless nights. Anyways as promised, here goes my random list of the most scary movies I’ve seen so far and I’m looking forward to add more titles to this list.

  1. The Haunted (1991) - It was mid 1980’s when the Smurl family moved to their Victorian family home in Pittston, Pennsylvania and found it is home to many poltergeists. I first watched this movie when I was in grade school or early high school as far as I recall and it scared me to my wits. 
  2. The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) - a failed exorcism resulted to the death of a young lady from a devout Catholic family named Emily Rose.  The movie delved on whether or not Emily died because she wasn’t given the appropriate medical treatment she required or if she was really possessed by demonic spirits. 
  3. The Exorcist (1973) - The movie that made Linda Blair famous. The Exorcist is all about a nice young girl who suddenly started  acting strange and manifested behaviors similar to that of being possessed by demonic spirits. 
  4. The Others (2001) - A woman and her two kids is being haunted by ghosts in their massive mansion. 
  5. The Sixth Sense (1999) - The movie is all about a little boy’s scary encounters with ghosts. 
  6. 13 Ghosts (2001) - A man lost his wife from a fire inherited riches from his estranged wealthy uncle. One of which is a huge glass house with trapped souls of the most demented ghosts. 
  7. The Eye (2002) HK - 20 year old violinist named Mun from Hong Kong after an eye transplant started seeing ghosts and inexplicable figures tasked to accompany the spirits of those who are about to die. 
  8. Crimson Peak (2015) - “beware of Crimson Peak” a warning from Edith’s ghost mother which only made sense many years later after she married a man his father isn’t very fond of. 
  9. The Conjuring 1 (2013); The Conjuring 2 (2016) - The Perrons and their five daughters moved into a desolate farmhouse inhabited by poltergeists. 
  10. Annabelle (2014) -  This is a subtle version of Chucky. Mia received a porcelain doll as present from his husband because they’re expecting a baby, little did they know the doll is inhabited by an evil spirit. 
  11. It (2017) - Pennywise, a bloodthirsty, shape-shifting clown/demon that sprouts from the sewer every 27 years to terrorize the town's children. 
  12. Insidious (2010); Insidious Chapter 2 (2013); Insidious Chapter 3 (2015) - it’s a movie sequel about different cases and encounters with poltergeists. 
  13. The Crucifixion (2017) - a failed exorcism resulted to a death of a nun. 
  14. Yoga (2009) S. Korea - a group of women went to a yoga institute longing to find inner peace or achieve “Kundalini” but they all found something dreadful in the end. 
  15. Muoi (2007) S. Korea - a Korean journalist flew to Vietnam to write a book about “Muoi” little did she know Muoi’s portrait is cursed. 
  16. Alone/Fad (2007) Thai - Ploy is being haunted by the vengeful spirit of her twin sister Pim. 
  17. Dark Water (2002) Japanese - a woman in the middle of divorce rented a ramshackle apartment with her little girl. They found out the apartment is being haunted by a little girl's ghost. 
  18. Ring (1998) Japanese - Who doesn’t know Sadako right? a videotape filled with nightmarish images leads to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. (wikipedia)
  19. Phone/Hanggul (2002) S. Korea - A successful family man had an affair with a high school girl, his wife found out and killed her husband’s young mistress. The murdered school girl became an angry ghost and began haunting their daughter.
  20. Constantine (2005) - John, a man who vanquishes demons helped in the investigation of a woman’s identical twin's suicide and later on became immersed in the supernatural world.
  21. Drag Me To hell (2009) - a young woman who works at the bank is squeamish to get promoted declined an old woman another extension to her loan, she was cursed by the old lady for putting her to shame.
  22. The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016) - A body of a young woman was taken to a man and his son’s funeral home and they found out that the corpse cannot be disemboweled because the woman’s body is protected by a curse.
  23. Shutter (2004) Thai - a photographer is being haunted by a ghost of his former fling. 
  24. The Other Side of The Door (2016) - A couple who owns an antique business in India lost their son to a car accident. The mother, guilty over the death of her son resorted to black magic to be able to communicate with him.
  25. The Boy (2016) - an old couple hired a young woman as nanny, the nanny found out that the boy she’ll be caring for is not actually human but a doll. 
  26. Train to Busan (2016) S. Korea - Seoul was infected by a virus which turns every one who gets bitten into a zombie. Unfortunately, an infected individual snuck into the train headed to Busan and all hell broke lose. 
  27. 4bia/Phobia (2008) Thai - The movie is divided into 4 parts: Loneliness, Deadly Charm, The Man in the Middle & Flight 244.
  28. Dek Hor/ The Dorm (2006) Thai - a middle school boy was sent to a dormitory by her cheating father and later on became friends with a ghost of a former student. 
  29. Interview with the Vampire (2004) - A bicentennial vampire recounts his story to a biographer. 
  30. Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) - vampire couple named Eve and Adam (yes indeed) are rich vampires who often travels from one country to another and thrives with the living. 
  31. Thirst (2009) S. Korea  - A priest died after he was infected with Emmanuel Virus (EV) and a blood transfusion sent him back to life as a vampire. 
  32. Let the Right One In (2009) | Swedish romantic horror film - a vampire young girl became friends with a little boy who’s being bullied in school. 
  33. Pride and Prejudice & Zombies (2016) - a plague turned vast number of human population to zombies. Zombie slayers Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth set their differences aside to combat the living dead. 
  34. Warm Bodies (2013) - A plague turned majority of the human population to zombies. A zombie named “R” fell in love (at first sight) with a human. R was cured along with many others and turned human again. 
  35. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) | British-American musical period horror film directed by Tim Burton - Sweeney Todd’s wife and baby daughter were taken by a powerful Judge, fifteen years later he came back to get his revenge. The film is very gothic with a lot of singing involved.
  36. Beetlejuice (1988) -  a comedy/horror/gothic/musical film about a mischievous ghost named Beetlejuice. Lydia, a teenage girl and her family moved in to the house still inhabited by the spirits of a couple who died prematurely. This movie isn’t really scary, I just added it to this list because it’s a pretty cool movie with quirky supernatural creatures.
  37. The Corpse Bride (2005) | British-American stop-motion-animated musical fantasy film - Victoria, a murdered ghost bride in a tattered wedding gown is persistent to marry Victor (who’s due to marry Victoria through an arranged marriage) because she was killed before she got to marry her beloved after they eloped.  
  38. Coraline (2009) | American 3D stop-motion dark fantasy horror film by Henry Selick - Coraline and her old parents recently moved to the Pink Apartments. While roaming around the house Coraline discovered a small door which leads to an alternate world where everything is pretty much the same except it’s a lot more colorful and her parents have button eyes. The movie is an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s book of the same title. 
  39. Sleepy Hallow (1999) | American Gothic supernatural horror film directed by Tim Burton - a headless horseman sends a bloody rampage on Sleepy Hollow. 
  40. Frankenweenie (2012) American 3D stop-motion-animated fantasy horror comedy film directed by Tim Burton - A little boy lost his dog Sparky after it was hit by a car. A Science experiment though successfully revived the dog but it’s never the same anymore. 



Moving on, since today is Halloween, my sibs and I decided to deck our house for the occasion to give it that horror house vibe. I even created a Spotify playlists to complete the whole ensemble lol. Happy trick or treating folks!





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