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As we get closer to Friday the 13th and the start of our game (and in an effort to keep this thread towards the top of the forums so more people see and join) it's time to definitely not steal anything from @Tegan pilots a chicken and present Dark PerGron's Top 5 Showcase. Each day leading up to Friday we'll count down some top 5 relevant topics to our game. Do feel free to share your list down below as well!

Today's topic is horror movies. Horror is one of my favorite genres and since we're in the spooky season, I figured it was time to honor this genre with my top 5. I totally understand it's not everyone's cup of tea, so if you're not a horror fan, feel free to share your favorite movies that scared you in some way, be it a Hocus Pocus or Nightmare Before Christmas or whatever else it may be. As for me, here is my top 5.

#5-Evil Dead 2 (1987)
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I'm notoriously hard on comedies and it may just be my least favorite genre, so when I sit down to watch a "horror-comedy" there is usually a lot of hesitation on my part. This movie, however, beautifully captures both the horror and the comedy in the most perfect way possible. Ash is an iconic movie character and I really think that this movie is what made the franchise what it is today. I loved this year's Evil Dead Rise, but I know that without this movie, that movie would've never been made. While the original film is good, Evil Dead 2 is easily the best of the series and probably in the top five movie sequels ever.

#4- Talk to Me (2023)
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A brand new movie to add to the list, but few horror movies have stuck with me the way Talk to Me has. I saw it at a midnight showing in a theater by myself and I was genuinely terrified throughout most of it. For a pair of first-time directors who were YouTubers before this film, they made something that not only stands out amongst horror this year, but horror in general, for me at least.

#3- The Shining (1980)
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An absolute classic by one of the greatest directors in history. I think I appreciate The Shining more than I actually enjoy it. I've seen it countless times but I'm not really ever in the mood to watch it just because of how absolutely heavy the material is here. It's as close to a perfect horror film as one can get so it has to earn its spot here. I may not be as enamored as many others are, but it's still my number 3.

#2- Alien (1979)
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My sister gave me **** for putting this one, claiming "that's Sci-Fi not horror." But I absolutely stand by not only is it a horror classic, but it's one of the greatest horror films of all time. The use of suspense in here is bar-none and the creature design is phenomenal as well. I miss great creature features as a genre, but really I don't know that there could ever be one that tops the OG Alien.

#1- The Lighthouse (2019)
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This isn't just my favorite horror film, it's my third favorite film of all time. I saw this at a special theater where there is a dress code and everything and they only show A24 and other small studio pictures. I saw it at a midnight screening and I fell in love immediately. This movie is everything I want in a psychological horror and it cemented Robert Eggers as a director who's career should be watched closely. Unlike Ari Aster who barely missed this list with Hereditary (probably my number 6 or 7) who's other two films I felt were misses, the Egg-man has only made bangers.

So what are your top five? Share them below. Plus, if you haven't already, sign-ups are still going on, so please please join!​
 
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Lord Fozzinator

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My top five
I admit I don’t really watch horror movies but I sure have some favorites.​
5th: Us
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Even tho I have not personally watched it, it sounds like a very good movie and I have read a lot of reviews and even a dead meat episode. I really like the story of duplicates of ourselves living somewhere and that twist really got me.
4th: Scream
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I have not watched the original but I have watched the sequels and the TV show. I just above the design of scream itself, I do admit it’s not very scary looking.
3rd: Friday the 13th
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When I mean Friday the 13th, I mean the 2010s remake. I remember when I was a kid playing the Friday the 13th video game, I just love Jason the design and everything.
2nd: haunted mansion
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I know some people are going to argue with me, but I can’t help it. I love the ride so much that I just can’t hate the movie. I do wish they used grim grinning ghosts more at the end.
1st: Five Nights At Freddy’s
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I know, I know the movie hasn’t come out yet. But FNAF was always a big part of my childhood( especially my boy foxy). I already know that I will love the movie, I can’t help it I’m a sucker for nostalgia.
 
Disney Warrior

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Dark PerGron said:
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As we get closer to Friday the 13th and the start of our game (and in an effort to keep this thread towards the top of the forums so more people see and join) it's time to definitely not steal anything from @Tegan pilots a chicken and present Dark PerGron's Top 5 Showcase. Each day leading up to Friday we'll count down some top 5 relevant topics to our game. Do feel free to share your list down below as well!

Today's topic is horror movies. Horror is one of my favorite genres and since we're in the spooky season, I figured it was time to honor this genre with my top 5. I totally understand it's not everyone's cup of tea, so if you're not a horror fan, feel free to share your favorite movies that scared you in some way, be it a Hocus Pocus or Nightmare Before Christmas or whatever else it may be. As for me, here is my top 5.

#5-Evil Dead 2 (1987)
I'm notoriously hard on comedies and it may just be my least favorite genre, so when I sit down to watch a "horror-comedy" there is usually a lot of hesitation on my part. This movie, however, beautifully captures both the horror and the comedy in the most perfect way possible. Ash is an iconic movie character and I really think that this movie is what made the franchise what it is today. I loved this year's Evil Dead Rise, but I know that without this movie, that movie would've never been made. While the original film is good, Evil Dead 2 is easily the best of the series and probably in the top five movie sequels ever.

#4- Talk to Me (2023)
A brand new movie to add to the list, but few horror movies have stuck with me the way Talk to Me has. I saw it at a midnight showing in a theater by myself and I was genuinely terrified throughout most of it. For a pair of first-time directors who were YouTubers before this film, they made something that not only stands out amongst horror this year, but horror in general, for me at least.

#3- The Shining (1980)
An absolute classic by one of the greatest directors in history. I think I appreciate The Shining more than I actually enjoy it. I've seen it countless times but I'm not really ever in the mood to watch it just because of how absolutely heavy the material is here. It's as close to a perfect horror film as one can get so it has to earn its spot here. I may not be as enamored as many others are, but it's still my number 3.

#2- Alien (1979)
My sister gave me **** for putting this one, claiming "that's Sci-Fi not horror." But I absolutely stand by not only is it a horror classic, but it's one of the greatest horror films of all time. The use of suspense in here is bar-none and the creature design is phenomenal as well. I miss great creature features as a genre, but really I don't know that there could ever be one that tops the OG Alien.

#1- The Lighthouse (2019)
This isn't just my favorite horror film, it's my third favorite film of all time. I saw this at a special theater where there is a dress code and everything and they only show A24 and other small studio pictures. I saw it at a midnight screening and I fell in love immediately. This movie is everything I want in a psychological horror and it cemented Robert Eggers as a director who's career should be watched closely. Unlike Ari Aster who barely missed this list with Hereditary (probably my number 6 or 7) who's other two films I felt were misses, the Egg-man has only made bangers.

So what are your top five? Share them below. Plus, if you haven't already, sign-ups are still going on, so please please join!​
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I have a confession to make: I’m a bit of a wuss when it comes to scary stuff, as sometimes I tend to get scared (my tolerance isn’t the highest) and they aren’t my cup of tea. I don’t really remember any movies that scared me but I remember theme park attractions that have, those being curse of darkastle at BGW (I think I was scared by it, but my memories aren’t exactly clear because I was 5 when I rode it in 2012 and the ride is now defunct, I don’t remember if Verbolten scared me but it could’ve) and mummy at Uni (rode last year, was scared because I knew nothing about the ride beforehand (also HPFJ gave me a slight scare but Hagrid wasn’t really scary to me, though maybe it was very slightly, I don’t remember)
 
Lord Fozzinator

Lord Fozzinator

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Disney Warrior said:
I have a confession to make: I’m a bit of a wuss when it comes to scary stuff, as sometimes I tend to get scared (my tolerance isn’t the highest) and they aren’t my cup of tea. I don’t really remember any movies that scared me but I remember theme park attractions that have, those being curse of darkastle at BGW (I think I was scared by it, but my memories aren’t exactly clear because I was 5 when I rode it in 2012 and the ride is now defunct, I don’t remember if Verbolten scared me but it could’ve) and mummy at Uni (rode last year, was scared because I knew nothing about the ride beforehand (also HPFJ gave me a slight scare but Hagrid wasn’t really scary to me, though maybe it was very slightly, I don’t remember)
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I can understand your reasoning for being a wuss, never really went to universal, only once when I was a baby. I have heard good things about the mummy ride.
 
TheOriginalTiki

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Man, it's really hard to pick just five. I will admit I'm pretty partial to the A24 "Elevated Horror" of it all, even though "trauma in the form of horror" is starting to get just a bit old. I decided to go with one film from each decade I've been alive, plus a stone cold classic. These are in no particular order.

Hereditary
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A modern day classic. Probably the closest thing we have to a 21st century horror movie that's as effective and disturbing as The Exorcist. While I don't love the ending, it's a hell of a ride to get there. So many little details hidden in the corners of the shots that make this thing just harrowing on a rewatch. Probably THE best first act of a horror movie ever in my opinion, with the "peanut allergies" scene being an absolute all timer. The scene of the son laying in bed all night after the event and having to hear his mother's cries of anguish will always stick with me. It makes me genuinely sick to my stomach every time. Much like The Exorcist, the horror of Hereditary lies in how realistic it is. You KNOW these people.

Jeepers Creepers
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The director is a horrible person. I'll get that out of the way right now so there's no controversy. I do think the original Jeepers Creepers deserves more attention than it gets though, in spite of that. It introduced the horror community to Justin Long for one, who has absolutely been a treasure. I absolutely ADORE the build-up of the creature throughout this movie. How he starts as a shady looking truck driver and ends as a genuinely crazy monster design. The sibling road trip also gives the film a lot of room for some pretty decent character development with the two leads. The "where'd you get those eyes?" ending is an all time great one and should be more iconic than it actually is. Again, totally acknowledge the creator of this franchise as human garbage, but since this was one of the first "Adult" horror movies I ever really got into it's very much a "separating the art from the artist" situation.

The Blair Witch Project
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Still to this day, this is probably THE most effective found footage horror movie. Whenever people criticize it for being uneventful, I always say the same thing. The Blair Witch Project is NOT a movie about a witch, it's a movie about some in over their heads kids getting lost in the woods and spiraling into madness. If you look at it from that angle I think the film is extremely effective. I absolutely adore the faux-documentary scenes at the start, genuinely some of the all time best delivered movie exposition that really sets you up for the scares to come. The way the film was shot with the kids just out in the woods improving and the crew messing with them makes for some genuinely harrowing performances. You can just FEEL the fear in these situations in a way that can simply never be replicated. A true lightning in a bottle gem.

Frankenstein
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The crown jewel of the Universal Monsters catalogue. I adore Frankenstein for a number of reasons. The atmosphere is a BIG selling point. Everything in the movie just feels so gothic and intimidating. The movie pulls you in right from the jump with the graveyard scene and never lets go. As far as pacing goes I think it's miles better than its contemporaries. Tons of scenes and images that are just burned into the collective conscious of the horror genre. Karloff's monster being equal parts genuinely scary, disturbing, and sympathetic is just a tour de force of performance mixed with writing and makeup.

Skinamarink
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Much like the original Paranormal Activity, I truly think this is one of those rare movie experiences where seeing it on the big screen ISN'T the optimal way to do it. When I saw it in theaters I thought it was fine. A very interesting filmmaking experience that ultimately kind of fizzled out because I felt like the gap between the scares was too long and it ultimately got bogged down under the weight of its own style. Watching it a second time on my laptop with headphones in my pitch black room after midnight? Totally different story. In that environment, I think Skinamarink is absolutely transcendent and is one of the very few horror movies to recapture that Blair Witch sense of absolute real world dread. It's got some of the all time most effective and freaky jump scares mixed with a wildly unique style and a "story" that's borderline impossible to get a clear picture of, leading to the film becoming a bit of a Rorschach test of totally different interpretations.​
 
Miru

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Ah. Welcome.
For the list…

5. Jurassic Park (Yeah, the first one can be considered a horror film at least)
4. Faces of Death
3. Gojira
2. Sausage Party (this is one of the few movies that still gives me annual nightmares)
1. Technocracy by Mr Enter. (It’s a series but they’re all feature length)
 
cdunlap

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My friend Darby LOVES that film and showed it to the class! Anyways, here are the few horror films I have been exposed to, not including if I've seen the whole thing, and the reasons why I like them. I could only think of 3 ones I've been exposed to directly and one honorable mention because I have never seen the film.
3. The Haunted Mansion (2003): I find it good, but in a so bad, it's good way.
2. The Exorcist: I just kinda like the song Tubular Bells and THAT is how I found The Exorcist as a kid and it TRAUMATIZED me.
1. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: Yes, I know it's an action-adventure but seriously when a person gets their heart ripped out by an evil priest in a skull hat before being lowered into a magma pit and it traumatizes this 15 year old boy, it's a horror film in my books!
The Honorable Mention goes to Beetlejuice, which I have only been exposed to by my brother forcing me to sit through the whole cast recording of the musical, which was an experience!
 
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