The Dissolve's "The 30 Best American Independent Horror Films"
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"From independent professional producers like Roger Corman to intrepid first-timers (and sometimes only-timers) assembling a small crew and making a movie on their own terms, American independent filmmaking has a long, honorable tradition of low-budget scares. In time for Halloween and in conjunction with a month devoted to American independent horror, The Dissolve decided to determine the 30 best examples of this tradition. Some are clever, some scary, some unpredictable; most are some combination of all three. That’s what happens when a genre that values the bizarre finds filmmakers forced by limited resources to get imaginative." - Noel Murray, Keith Phipps, Nathan Rabin, Tasha Robinson, Matt Singer, Scott Tobias
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5 new
The Blair Witch Project
1999, in 14 top lists Check -
15 new
The Cabin in the Woods
2011, in 4 top lists Check -
13 new
Carnival of Souls
1962, in 5 top lists Check -
9 new
Dawn of the Dead
1978, in 15 top lists Check -
25 new
The Devil's Rejects
2005, in 2 top lists Check -
7 new
Eraserhead
1977, in 20 top lists Check -
4 new
Evil Dead II
1987, in 9 top lists Check -
20 new
Friday the 13th
1980, in 3 top lists Check -
27 new
Ganja & Hess
1973 — a.k.a. Black Evil, in 3 top lists Check -
2 new
Halloween
1978, in 17 top lists Check -
26 new
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
1986, in 7 top lists Check -
19 new
The House of the Devil
2009, in 2 top lists Check -
18 new
The Howling
1981, in 1 top list Check -
24 new
Insidious
2010, in 1 top list Check -
12 new
It Follows
2014, in 5 top lists Check -
8 new
Martin
1977, in 4 top lists Check -
21 new
The Masque of the Red Death
1964, in 3 top lists Check -
22 new
May
2002, in 2 top lists Check -
29 new
Nadja
1994, in 0 top lists Check -
6 new
Near Dark
1987, in 9 top lists Check -
3 new
Night of the Living Dead
1968, in 20 top lists Check -
10 new
A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984, in 8 top lists Check -
23 new
Phantasm
1979, in 2 top lists Check -
11 new
Re-Animator
1985, in 7 top lists Check -
28 new
Session 9
2001, in 2 top lists Check -
14 new
Sisters
1972, in 2 top lists Check -
30 new
Sleepaway Camp
1983, in 1 top list Check -
16 new
Spider Baby or, the Maddest Story Ever Told
1967, in 2 top lists Check -
17 new
The Stepfather
1987, in 2 top lists Check -
1 new
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974, in 15 top lists Check
Last updated on Oct 27, 2014; source