The Rough Guide to Horror Movies: 50 Horror Classics
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The Rough Guide to Horror Movies is a comprehensive guide to the world''s most terrifying films. The guide includes all the icons, from Boris Karloff to Wes Craven and Frankenstein to Freddie Kruger, including classics from Argentina, Pakistan, South Africa and the recent chillers from East Asia. The canon of fifty essential horror movies features The Cabinet of Dr Caligari and Switchblade Romance, via Psycho and The Exorcist. Everything you need to know is covered from festivals, adaptations, magazines and merchandise. The guide tells the stories behind the movies that have scared us throughout the twentieth century.
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The Silence of the Lambs
1991, in 36 top lists Check -
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The Shining
1980, in 28 top lists Check -
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Psycho
1960, in 39 top lists Check -
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The Sixth Sense
1999, in 20 top lists Check -
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Jaws
1975, in 29 top lists Check -
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The Exorcist
1973, in 27 top lists Check -
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Rosemary's Baby
1968, in 21 top lists Check -
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Halloween
1978, in 17 top lists Check -
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The Evil Dead
1981, in 8 top lists Check -
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Dawn of the Dead
1978, in 15 top lists Check -
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Night of the Living Dead
1968, in 20 top lists Check -
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Scream
1996, in 8 top lists Check -
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Carrie
1976, in 11 top lists Check -
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A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984, in 8 top lists Check -
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Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens
1922 — a.k.a. Nosferatu, in 28 top lists Check -
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Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
1920 — a.k.a. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, in 30 top lists Check -
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974, in 15 top lists Check -
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Les diaboliques
1955 — a.k.a. Diabolique, in 21 top lists Check -
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Suspiria
1977, in 17 top lists Check -
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Freaks
1932, in 19 top lists Check -
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An American Werewolf in London
1981, in 12 top lists Check -
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Repulsion
1965, in 17 top lists Check -
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Braindead
1992 — a.k.a. Dead Alive, in 8 top lists Check -
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Frankenstein
1931, in 18 top lists Check -
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Bride of Frankenstein
1935, in 19 top lists Check -
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Peeping Tom
1960, in 20 top lists Check -
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Les yeux sans visage
1960 — a.k.a. Eyes Without a Face, in 14 top lists Check -
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Re-Animator
1985, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Innocents
1961, in 12 top lists Check -
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Ringu
1998, in 12 top lists Check -
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Dracula
1931, in 11 top lists Check -
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The Haunting
1963, in 6 top lists Check -
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Onibaba
1964, in 13 top lists Check -
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Cat People
1942, in 15 top lists Check -
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Haute tension
2003 — a.k.a. High Tension, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Phantom of the Opera
1925, in 10 top lists Check -
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Near Dark
1987, in 9 top lists Check -
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Cannibal Holocaust
1980, in 6 top lists Check -
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I Walked with a Zombie
1943, in 10 top lists Check -
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Dracula
1958 — a.k.a. Horror of Dracula, in 8 top lists Check -
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Night of the Demon
1957 — a.k.a. Curse of the Demon, in 7 top lists Check -
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La maschera del demonio
1960 — a.k.a. Black Sunday, in 8 top lists Check -
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Shivers
1975, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Old Dark House
1932, in 5 top lists Check -
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Witchfinder General
1968, in 8 top lists Check -
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The Pit and the Pendulum
1961, in 1 top list Check -
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The Uninvited
1944, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Curse of Frankenstein
1957, in 1 top list Check -
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The Cat and the Canary
1927, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Plague of the Zombies
1966, in 1 top list Check
Last updated on Apr 18, 2014; source