What’s The Most Important Horror Flick By Decade?

[BXKingPin82]

I gave it love, it's tied for me.



LOL! OMG, I seriously had a flashback. And I would put The Evil Dead in that category too.

One of my homeboys let me hold the VHS of Dead Alive uncut back in the day.
I was
literally in my room like


But it was funny too tho!
When the uncle homie chopped up all them zombies and there was like a pile of limbs and shyt behind him!


The zombie baby scenes!



I can never look at scrambled eggs the same again tho.

 

[MartyMcFly]

I've peeped a few but off the top of my head i'll pick a top 3 cause i'm an indecisive guy

70's Top 3: Carrie , The Exorcist, Omen

80's top 3: Child's Play, Nightmare on Elm St, The Thing

90's Top 3: Blair Witch Project, Candyman, Silence of the lambs

00's Top3: Paranormal Activity, Wolf Creek, [REC]

Bonus: Noroi: The Curse (BREHS THIS shyt RIGHT HERE. Watch dat tonight)

10's Top 3: The Conjuring , The VVitch, The Babadook

Salute Breh

Step into the horror thread on here homie. You’ll get an education. I guarantee it

 

[Doomsday]

Paranormal Activity is just Blair Witch done right. Blair Witch was more potential than execution.

I'd say Nightmare is the most important because it influenced all the "shock" horror that would come after it. No horror before tried to be weird and shocking, even Saw took that formula, but was witter and smarter in it's execution. Even Japanese horror movies took that blueprint from Nightmare. Nightmare arguably influenced the majority of horror flicks just like Hitchcock did for thrillers.

Exorcist for making horror movies mainstream, and Nightmare on Elm Street was the most influential.

 

[OJ Simpsom]

70s The Exorcist - Classic GOAT
80s The Shining - Classic GOAT
90s The Silence of The Lambs/ The Sixth Sense
2000s Final Destination - 1st horror I saw in 3D. The roller coaster one. Love them all and the originality the first one brought to the genre. Also the Saw movies.
2010s Get Out - Most replay value imo. and also The Purge.

 

[Deltron]

70's - Halloween
80's - Nightmare on Elm Street
90's - New Nightmare/Scream
00's - Paranormal Activity
10's - ??? can't tell just yet

 

[Starboy52]

60s: Psycho
70s: Halloween/Exorcist
80s: Nightmare on Elm St.
90s: Candyman/Scream
00s: Paranormal Activity
10s: The Conjuring/Get Out

 

[MartyMcFly]

Paranormal Activity is just Blair Witch done right. Blair Witch was more potential than execution.

I'd say Nightmare is the most important because it influenced all the "shock" horror that would come after it. No horror before tried to be weird and shocking, even Saw took that formula, but was witter and smarter in it's execution. Even Japanese horror movies took that blueprint from Nightmare. Nightmare arguably influenced the majority of horror flicks just like Hitchcock did for thrillers.

Exorcist for making horror movies mainstream, and Nightmare on Elm Street was the most influential.

Disagree that no horror flick tried to shock before nightmare. Texas chain saw, psycho (for the time) and of course even Cravens own last house on the left all tried to shock the audience into paralysis lol

 

[MartyMcFly]

70's - Halloween
80's - Nightmare on Elm Street
90's - New Nightmare/Scream
00's - Paranormal Activity
10's - ??? can't tell just yet

Yeah I was thinking the same thing on the 10s. It’s hard to tell until a few years from now but I took a stab with conjuring

 

[Lootpack]

10s is definitely The Conjuring

 

[MartyMcFly]

70s The Exorcist - Classic GOAT
80s The Shining - Classic GOAT
90s The Silence of The Lambs
2000s Final Destination - 1st horror I saw in 3D. The roller coaster one. Love them all and the originality the first one brought to the genre.
2010s Get Out - Most replay value imo.

So you’re giving it to final destination for the 3D?

 

[Doomsday]

Disagree that no horror flick tried to shock before nightmare. Texas chain saw, psycho (for the time) and of course even Cravens own last house on the left all tried to shock the audience into paralysis lol

Psycho was a smart thriller with a brilliant twist. Texas Chain Saw was typical horror, not really "shock" horror at all.

Also we're including who executed it to point of setting the standard. As I said, Blair Witch did it first but PA set the standard because their movie was actually good.

Nightmare actually blended shock with horror flawlessly and is the most duplicated blueprint for a horror film to date.

 

[Lootpack]

70s The Exorcist - Classic GOAT
80s The Shining - Classic GOAT
90s The Silence of The Lambs
2000s Final Destination - 1st horror I saw in 3D. The roller coaster one. Love them all and the originality the first one brought to the genre.
2010s Get Out - Most replay value imo.

Final Destination 3 was released in 3D?

 

[MartyMcFly]

Psycho was a smart thriller with a brilliant twist. Texas Chain Saw was typical horror, not really "shock" horror at all.

Also we're including who executed it to point of setting the standard. As I said, Blair Witch did it first but PA set the standard because their movie was actually good.

Nightmare actually blended shock with horror flawlessly and is the most duplicated blueprint for a horror film to date.

How do you define shock then? Because Hitchcock himself has said he wanted to shock audiences with psycho. Craven said the same with last house on the left.

So yeah define shock for me cause we may be on two different wavelengths

 

[OJ Simpsom]

So you’re giving it to final destination for the 3D?

Naw. FD series helped reboot the teen horror genre like Scream did in the 90s. Made horror fun again imo. And the concept was original. I think it ties with the Saw series, but I haven't seen all of the Saw movies so I didnt put Saw on my list.

 

[OJ Simpsom]

Also, The Purge for 2010s.