OUR top 100(or more) thrillers

[Bloodybitch13]

!!!!!ATTENTION!!!!!ATENTION!!!!!!

Now we all know how dissapointed we were with the AFI show a few days ago.Someone suggested that we try our own top 100 so let's give it a go! (I'd like to hear from you,Arrow) #1 for me would have to be "Exorcist" How did they get her head to spin around like that? What would you like to add to the list?

[SteveSzyk]

It was me who suggested it and thanks for making it a topic! My heart was pounding during...

...The Exorcist
...The Changeling
...The Evil Dead
...Scream
...The Blair Witch
...Memento
...The Silence of the Lambs
...Jurassic Park
...Halloween
...The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
...A Nightmare on Elm Street

[SteveSzyk]

...Pet Sematary (I always forget about that one)
...The Matrix
...Requiem for a Dream
...The Original Haunting
...The Shining
...Pi
...Alien
...The Bone Collector
...Carrie
...Friday the 13th
...What Lies Beneath
...The Omen

[Seph]

Is it just horror movies we're looking for?

[The Rob]

Silence of the Lambs
Hannibal
Terminator 1
Terminator 2
Final Destination
Hellraiser
Halloween
Alien
The Cell

(will post more when I am less sleep deprived)

[CAPTAIN BLAKE]

Okay, here are my faves. Not "the best" necessarily; I'm not the scholar to make that call, and I'm the first to admit that many of the films toward the bottom of the list are just as worthy, maybe more so, than some of those up top. Some "important" films don't make the top 50 at all. THE EXORCIST IS a good movie, but I always found it to be too pretentious and full of itself to truly fall in love with it. And it never scared me...I'll also seperate "horror" from the too general "thriller"....
1) HALLOWEEN
2) PSYCHO
3) THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
4) DON'T LOOK NOW
5) NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
6) THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
7) BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN
8) THE FOG
9) BLACK CHRISTMAS
10) JOHN CARPENTER'S THE THING
11) THE HAUNTING
12) THE TENANT
13) CURSE OF THE DEMON
14) BLACK SUNDAY
15) HOUR OF THE WOLF
16) REAR WINDOW (borderline, but I think it counts; it's scary enough...)
17) PHANTASM
18) SUSPIRIA
19) PRINCE OF DARKNESS
20) KWAIDAN
21) BLACK SABBATH
22) JAWS
23) THE HOWLING
24) REPULSION
25) DEAD OF NIGHT ('45)
26) THE WOMAN IN BLACK
27) VIDEODROME
28) ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13
29) DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE aka CEMETARY MAN
30) A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET
31) THE SEVENTH VICTIM
32) HORROR HOTEL
33) THE HILLS HAVE EYES
34) CARRIE
35) HAXAN : WITCHCRAFT THROUGH THE AGES
36) CARNIVAL OF SOULS
37) HALLOWEEN III : SEASON OF THE WITCH
38) KILL, BABY, KILL
39) THE BIRDS
40) RITUALS
41) ALICE, SWEET ALICE
42) HALLOWEEN II
43) VAMPYR
44) THE LEOPARD MAN
45) CHRISTINE
46) DEEP RED
47) NOSFERATU ('22)
48) DELIVERANCE
49) DERANGED
50) WHEN A STRANGER CALLS (For the opening and closing scenes alone, one of the scariest movies ever made...)


The top 50 is as far as I can go. I'm sure I've left off a few, and this list is subject to change with the weather...But not too much. I'll post my favorite "thrillers" later, after I recover.

[AntonioDelLago]

1. PSYCHO (1960) Alfred Hitchcock
2. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) Jonathan Demme
3. ALIEN (1979) Ridley Scott
4. THE SHINING (1980) Stanley Kubrick
5. THE BIRDS (1963) Alfred Hitchcock
6. INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978) Phil Kaufman
7. HALLOWEEN (1978) John Carpenter
8. THE INNOCENTS (1961) Jack Clayton
9. THE EXORCIST (1973) William Friedkin
10. THE OMEN (1976) Richard Donner
11. ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968) Roman Polanski
12. ALIENS (1986) James Cameron
13. THE CHANGELING (1980) Peter Medak
14. CARRIE (1976) Brian DePalma
15. HANNIBAL (2001) Ridley Scott
16,17,18. The SCREAM Trilogy (1996,1997,2000) Wes Craven
19. JAWS (1975) Steven Spielberg
20. THE SIXTH SENSE (1999) M. Night Shyamalan
21. PROM NIGHT (1980) Paul Lynch
22. MISERY (1990) Rob Reiner
23. BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974) Bob Clark
24. THE HAUNTING (1963) Robert Wise
25. CANDYMAN (1992) Bernard Rose
26. ALICE, SWEET ALICE (1977) Alfred Sole
27. ANGEL HEART (1987) Alan Parker
28. THE BELIEVERS (1987) John Schlesinger
29. THE NANNY (1965) Seth Holt
30. INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956) Don Siegel
31. HUSH...HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE (1965) Robert Aldrich
32. JACOB'S LADDER (1990) Adrian Lyne
33. FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980) Sean Cunningham
34. THE OTHER (1972) Robert Mulligan
35. THE LADY IN WHITE (1988) Frank LaLoggia

I only included the 35 films that received an "A" in my gradebook. The order is subject to change daily.

[This message has been edited by AntonioDelLago (edited 06-15-2001).]

[SteveSzyk]

Add...

...The Cell
...Childs Play
...Cherry Falls

[jason13th]

If for you thriller means: with no fantastic elements than I would say :
1.The Nameless
2. Seven
3. The Sixth Sense ( Red Dragon )
4. Hitcher
5. Next Of Kin ( australian film from Tony William(s)
6. Scream
7. Frenzzy
8. don't know more maybe later

[SteveSzyk]

All of the ones I listed before plus a few more....

...The Cell
...Childs Play
...Cherry Falls
...The Exorcist
...The Changeling
...The Evil Dead
...Scream
...The Blair Witch
...Memento
...The Silence of the Lambs
...Jurassic Park
...Halloween
...The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
...A Nightmare on Elm Street
...Pet Sematary
...The Matrix
...Requiem for a Dream
...The Original Haunting
...The Shining
...Pi
...Alien
...The Bone Collector
...Carrie
...Friday the 13th
...What Lies Beneath
...The Omen
...Candyman
...Dawn of the Dead
...Night of the Living Dead
...Night of the Living Dead Remake
...Hannibal
...Hellraiser
...The House on Haunted Hill
...Speed (Not horror, but we are refering to movies that made our hearts pound)
...The Sixth Sense
...It
...Jaws
...Lost Souls (Leave me alone, it had it's moments)
...Manhunter
...Prom Night
...Seven