In a few weeks, I'll be starting the 4-6 week horror movie binge I enjoy every year. In the meantime, I made this list of my favorite horror films for posterity, to see if anything has changed by the end of October. My definition of "horror" is rather broad in order to increase the quality of the movies on the list.
1. Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
2. The Shining (Kubrick, 1980)
3. Repulsion (Polanski, 1965)
4. The Innocents (Clayton, 1961)
5. The Thing (Carpenter, 1982)
6. The Sixth Sense (Shyamalan, 1999)
7. Audition (Miike, 1999)
8. Diabolique (Clouzot, 1955)
9. Alien (Scott, 1979)
10. The Omen (Donner, 1976)
11. The Evil Dead (Raimi, 1981)
12. Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)
13. House (Obayashi, 1977)
14. Shaun of the Dead (Wright, 2004)
15. Jacob's Ladder (Lyne, 1990)
16. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Aldrich, 1962)
17. The Exorcist (Friedkin, 1973)
18. The Others (Amenábar, 2001)
19. The Haunting (Wise, 1963)
20. Don't Look Now (Roeg, 1973)
21. Let the Right One In (Alfredson, 2008)
22. The Wicker Man (Hardy, 1973)
23. Rosemary's Baby (Polanski, 1968)
24. Peeping Tom (Powell, 1960)
25. Eyes Without a Face (Franju, 1960)
1960 and 1973 dominate this list. Awesome years.