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Quick note on the 15 Horror Movies I can’t live without thing.

I’m only listing movies that I keep coming back to. So while I love THE OMEN I can go years without rewatching it and while I saw TEXAS CHAINSAW at the right age (8?) I don’t really enjoy it that much. So the list is a mix of stuff that left a mark when I was younger and newer movies that made my jaw drop.

But It’s a tricky proposition. I grew up on and love the Hammer movies but I don’t think they’ll make the list. 15 isn’t that many. Might squeeze a Universal Monster movie in there. Also I’m trying to not do the posters or the scary gory parts of the movie and also avoid spoilers. That all narrows it down. Also some movies like EXORCIST 3 don’t have a lot of high quality stills online.

Looking back at what I’ve listed so far they’re all (to me) perfect movies. I may really like newer work such as TERRIFIED and WHEN EVIL LURKS, but more for significant scenes within them than the complete movies so I’m not sure they’ll make the cut. Yet films that aren’t nearly as good like THE BEAST MUST DIE almost certainly will because it hit the sweet spot as a kid.

Plus, you know, the werewolf clock.

“Say hello to your Aunt Alicia!”

“You better brace yourself”

“You have 30 seconds to give your answer…”

“There was a girl under the kitchen sink”

“Enough time for one more story”

“Do you want to meet a ghost?”

“Witches!”

Overthinking it as usual

“Oh, you’re the writer. On vacation or vocation?”

“Right, let’s go and kill this MP, then.”