I watched it for the first time last night and the one thing I didn’t like is that we’re supposed to believe that pock marked Tom Atkins is able to nail a prime Jamie Lee Curtis after like two lines of dialogue🤯
Pet Sematary absolutely freaked me out as a teenager, because of Zelda. Can't believe you didn't bring her up. She haunted my dreams! Also, why so many shots of Kiefer Sutherland's David if you're not going to mention Lost Boys?
I am with you... I have seen tons of horror movies the past 40 years and Zelda is the only one who still creeps me out... I believe the character was played by a male actor
One Dark Night and The House By the Cemetery have been stuck in my mind for all these years. Honorable mention goes to Sleepaway Camp, The Changeling, and Ghost Story.
Carpenter was a genius and The Thing would absolutely be at the top of my list as well. I watch it,often. Just want to mention that the original “The Thing” movie was in 1951, and Carpenter followed some of the formula. Of course he amped up the isolation and paranoia as you said. It was all based on a novella called “Who Goes There”. Just fun fact.
For me, it wasn't CreepShow, it was Tales from the Darkside. The Gargoyle transformation stuck with me. The other one is The Changling. The scene with the ball bouncing down the stairs after he threw it off the bridge terrorfied me, why? don't know. I was pretty young, lol.
I was 8 years old in 1982. "Poltergeist" came out that year. The scenes with the clown and tree still haunt me to this day. I blame this movie for my fear of clowns. This film also, supposedly, has a curse on it. There are many deaths from the first two films, and sadly, the little girl (Heather O'Rourke) died right before the 3rd film was released.
American Ware Wolf in London,and Fright Night are my 2 favorite horror movies of all time. And i can not remember if Salems Lot was late 70's or early 80's. But that scared me ,and gave me night mare's when i was a kid.
I was about 4 years old, my mom hired a babysitter and went out, I was sent to bed early because the babysitter wanted to watch a movie. That movie was Evil Dead. Of course I snuck out of my room and watched the movie as I hid behind the couch. I had nightmares for months after that movie. But once I finally recovered, it became my favorite horror movie by far.
One movie that freaked me out was 1981's "The Funhouse"...another movie I was obsessed with but not necessarily scared by (still in the horror genre) was 1982's "Cat People". David Bowie does the theme song "Putting Out the Fire", which is produced by Giorgio Moroder, so had an 80's feel to it but in a kind of haunting way...
I’m surprised you didn’t mention Zelda in Pet Sematary. She was the only part of that movie that freaked me out. Also the movies that unnerved me in the 80s Sleepaway Camp and Pieces.
@katieturner6685 it was super cool back then but then when you get older and everybody you know starts to disappear for real it's sort of sad so it's nice to go back and pretend again
Yeah, that one gave me nightmares! When he was eating the raw meat and the transformation scenes disturbed me, even though I had already seen tons of horror movies by then. I think I was maybe 10 years old and probably shouldn't have been allowed to see that!
“Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things” I saw this when I was 10-11 and it was my first taste of flesh eating zombies. It scared me so badly that I couldn’t sleep without the lights on for months! I had to speak with a therapist! The first few weeks my mother had to sit beside me until I fell asleep. I swear I’m not exaggerating any of that. Even now if I watch it I can still remember how it terrified me. 😱
I'm a nerves of steel diehard horror movie fan. Very few movies or scenes shock the heck out of me. These are the few I can think of: 1. Friday the 13th part1: Mrs Vorhees mimicking a child's voice saying "help me" to draw the girl out of the cabin. 2. Nightmare on Elm St part 1: Freddy walking in alley with outstretched arms which was very abstractly horrific 3. The Shining- Wendy discovers Jack's manuscript is just a bunch nonsense showing how unstable he is 4. Pet Semetary- Zelda 5. The Wickerman (original)- the revelation of the cop's fate and when rewatching, seeing everyone acting normally while knowing I'm sure there's others, but those give me the heeby jeeps every time.
Yeah I was disturbed by most of these films. Being born in 1973 meant I was ripe for 80s cable TV classics such as these. Yeah the first nightmare on elm Street really messed with my head.
Maybe I'm jaded in old age but, the last movie to really scare the bejeebers out of me was The Exorcist, first movie. I saw that movie 14 times, each time I had to be tripping on LSD, each time I'd get just a few scenes farther than the last time before I had to get up and run out of the theater. It wasn't until 78 - 79, while in prison and stone cold sober, I finally saw the full movie, and it was a laugh riot.
I LOVED Fright Night and Creepshow! Man, they definitely don't make horror films like this anymore!!!! So many good ones on this list, and of course, anything Steven King is genius.
A few others for me are Hellraiser, Children of the Corn and They Live. I saw so many of these in a theater when I was a kid/teenager. ❤ To this day, some of my favorite movie lines are “Meteor s**t!” and “It’s dead people screamin’!” I watched Fright Night every day for almost a year. lol
I watched an interview with Ted Danson about this movie. He said his daughter was still very young and she happened to be on the set the day he was in full monster makeup. He said he tried to avoid her so as not to share her. He was goofing around and she walked around the corner, saw him in makeup, and just said "Ho Dad,"and kept walking.
THE THING was fighting an uphill battle. It opened the same weekend as BLADE RUNNER, which wasn't a hit but it had a strong opening. It was competing with: E T. POLTERGEIST, ROCKY 3 and STAR TREK 2. Most critics gave the movie scathing reviews which didn't help matters.
To soften Cujo just a little bit, the St Bernards were so sweet and friendly their tails were wagging constantly. They had to somehow bandage them so they wouldn't wag so strongly.
I've seen these all too back in the 80s. They freaked me out. I loved Night of the Comet. & Twilight Zone. The Fly. But the scariest of all films for me as a kid was the Exorcist. I know that's a 70s movie but it did the most damage imo.😅
Thanks for the mention to Night of the Comet. The Omen movies, especially the second one in particular scared me to my core. I was raised Catholic and there was that extra level of evil.
The Twilight Zone movie absolutely WRECKED me as a kid. Specifically the sister without a mouth, causing me to run outside and not come back inside for a good long while 🤣
In terms of 80's horror, the ones that scared me the most were least to most, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Shining, The Fly, and Friday The 13th.Freddy scared me first time I saw him, but then made me burst out laughing, dark humour is what gets me laughing the most and Freddy is a master of it, so that made me feel good about being so scared of him, as I loved that evil bastard. The Shining though, that unnerved me, filled me with dread and over all scared the crap out of me all at once. Jack Nicholson killed it as Jack Torrance, he he was brutal in that film. Now The Fly, that just grossed me out while scarring me beyond all ration thought, yet I could not look away, that film is masterful, and yes Jeff Goldblum is masterful in the role, gotta love him. Friday The 13th, that entire film is filled with a sense of something being off, and a underlying sense of dread. The build up through out the film, and the reveal of Pamela Voorhees as the killer was gold. Betsy Palmer gave one of the greatest performances in horror of all time. Jason I cheer for and love, but Pamela, I fear more than any other horror icon. For one reason, she is the most real out of all of them. She has presence, she has intimidation, cunning, madness and rage, pure unadulterated rage you can feel. To this day Pamela Voorhees scares me far more than Jason ever will.
I know The Thing was based on a short-story/novella written in the late 1930's. And the original author was obliviously inspired by the earlier writing of H.P. Lovecraft. The Thing often shows up on lists of Lovecraftian horror films, and is one of my all-time favorites
The Changeling freaked me out so much I had to sleep with the light on for a week afterwards! When the ball came bouncing down the stairs and when he was chased by the wheelchair. Shudder
Damn good list especially in the lower end. Only others I might include somewhere might be The Blob (ok not so scary, but still pretty effective), The Hidden, Life Force, Day of the Dead, the fog and Exorcist 3.
Movies that scared the sh!t outta me as a kid: "The Exorcist"* "Phantasm" "Scanners" "The Shining" "The Fog" "An American Werewolf in London" "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" "The Howling" "The Beast Within"
The most scared I have ever been in my life, is from Tarman. I can't even describe how terrified I was, that would do it any justice. I had to sleep with all my lights on for at least a month. I don't know what is what about that particular zombie that scared me so bad. But whatever it was, it worked. It took me 20 years before I was able to watch that movie again.
Great list! For me, it was: Ghost Story - 1981 Prince of Darkness - 1987 The Entity - 1982 Amityville Horror - 1979 As a child/teen watching these, my imagination tended to fill in the details where the FX fell short, but really well done movies.
The movie that scared the shit out of me when I was growing up was Friday the 13th and especially Nightmare on Elm Street. When I was a kid Freddy especially scared the shit out of me. Because at least with Jason you can run from him, but when it comes to Freddy you can't avoid sleeping. Thank you for mentioning pet Sematary & Creepshow, and for me the part of Twilight zone that scared the shit out of me was the beginning.
American Warewolf In London scared the absolute crap out of me when I was a kid in the 80's. Ive never been able to watch it since. Fright Night I loved. I saw Gremlins in cinemas, was so good.
Great List Man. But I Wouldn't Classify Aliens As Scary. Dario Argento's DEMONS Was The One That Scared The Shit Out Of Me. Evil Dead Was Definately A Shit Your Pants Moment Too. Especially When Scotty Sits Up.
@@flintforever711 I Started Watching Horror Movies At The Age Of 7. I Wasn't Scared By Stuff Like That. The Friday The 13th Series Is My All Time Favorite. But DEMONS Scared Me Shitless.
@@Thegranster369 , being stuck inside that movie theater with demons and not finding a way out...I kept putting myself in the theater and asking what would I do. 👀👀
Great list! The movies that freaked me out the absolute most were: Nightmare on Elm Street Dream Warriors Something Wicked This Way Comes. Poltergeist was the absolute worst! Hellraiser was a close second. 3rd and absolutely creepy was It the mini series- and that horrible evil clown, and the bathroom that kept spitting up blood.
All these movies scared me as a kid, but i dont remember being scared cuz i'd watch em over and over till they weren't scary anymore. But the one on the list that i can actually remember scaring me was pet cemetery, and the only reason was because i was home alone in the basement with no lights on. Your #1 imo is overrated and not scary at all...but i will admit the trailer scared me...and i would repeat the words to that trailer for my parents friends when they'd throw a party (using that creepy voice that were in all the trailers back in the 80s). And they'd all gather around to watch me do it, creeping them out like i was some kinda chucky doll or something. Thanks for the great video! PS all these movies were great...but there were tons more (maybe do a pt 2?). eg. pin (1988), the pit (1981), prince of darkness (1987), and the brain (1988)...i ended up going to the highschool where they filmed a ton of the movie (years later), and would drive by the Xerox building every second friday that was the home base for the brain
The first 3-4 Friday the 13th movies, when they still took it seriously, scared me as a kid. Also Hell Night, although it was just a basic slasher. If you can get past the first cheesy 15 minutes or so, it's pretty creepy and lots of tense moments! Not too many people seem to know about this one. Salems' Lot was made for tv but is still one of the creepiest vampire movies ever. There were alot of made for tv horror movies back then that were pretty scary. Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark, anyone?
We share the same trauma for The Howling. I remember waking in the middle of the night shaking uncontrollably after having nightmares about this movie. At that age (8), I have only seen the video Thriller and thought I could handle a full movie. Boy was I wrong!!!!
Evil Dead was actually made in 1979 but released 2 years larer because they needed a studio buyer and the original Friday the 13th was released in 1980 not 1989 like qhat qas shown on the screen in this documentary. Other than that and art which includes film, this to me was entertaining and well researched. I enjoyed this and knowing that you're not going to please everyone it was insightful and informative in my opinion and it's always fun for this seasoned guy to go down memory lane (born in 1970, of February) especially when it's genre is Horror and Thriller movies. Good job!! I hope you continue to make different list of certain decades and categories involving Horror movies. You have an endless template at your disposal lol. Again thanks for entertaining myself, much appreciated
I remember watching Creepshow when I was around five or six. My sister had rented it one night and let me watch it with her. It later became one of my favorite horror movies and an inspiration behind some of my scariest horror novels.
I can think of a much bigger list but you had some good ones. I’ve seen most horror movies from the ‘80’s…I’m 49 now, that absolute worst film for me as a kid was the elephant man. So sad and scary. When I first saw him I couldn’t handle it…the makeup they did was spot on . I would probably have a hard time with it now…which the purpose of this video suggests that these movies stay with you when you see them as a kid.
Good list. However, I never thought Aliens or Predator were scary. My number 1 definitely would have been ‘ A Nightmare on Elm Street’ . I remember being scared the first time I saw it ( admittedly wayyyy too young. Probably 7 years old). I’m surprised you don’t have’ The Exorcist’ or ‘ Halloween’ on here. I love ‘ Creepshow’ and ‘ The Thing’.
I love Fright Night, was obsessed as kid and still love watching it today
The Thing
Not only one of the best sci fi / horror movies ever made ,
one of the greatest movies ever made, easily.
Yes and American werewolf in London
The Thing is so overrated. Boring characters, never really get to know them!
They are scientists in Antarctica. What did you want? A love triangle or something?
@@TheKrazyKajeevieShow perhaps you should stick too watching Elmo 👍😊🏴
Dude, Elmo is so fricken scary
The 80's....the best decade for movies and music. Especially 1982!
@@Jett371
Khannnnnnnn!!!!! Being my favorite from 82’ 🖖
Also Conan , and The Thing
What a lineup
Raw headed rex 😊
You missed THE FOG 1980, which scares the crap out of me to this day, and I'm 59.
I watched it for the first time last night and the one thing I didn’t like is that we’re supposed to believe that pock marked Tom Atkins is able to nail a prime Jamie Lee Curtis after like two lines of dialogue🤯
@@bassman8144she likes older men: John Cleese, Kevin Kline, Christopher Guest...to name a few.
Oh yes I remembered the fog! It had the best horror soundtrack
He didn’t miss it. 😂
Why, what was so scary ?
Phantasm was so creepy! Came out in 1979 but I watched it on cable in the 80’s 😮
LOVE IT! AND THE THEME SONG 🤌
Boooooy!!!
Great list....some good classics.....honorable mention....SILVER BULLET
@@Avalon620 the werewolf looked terrible
Great movie!
@@Avalon620 the werewolf looked terrible
Silver Bullet is one of the best 80's horror movies for sure
Pet Sematary absolutely freaked me out as a teenager, because of Zelda. Can't believe you didn't bring her up. She haunted my dreams!
Also, why so many shots of Kiefer Sutherland's David if you're not going to mention Lost Boys?
I am with you... I have seen tons of horror movies the past 40 years and Zelda is the only one who still creeps me out... I believe the character was played by a male actor
One Dark Night and The House By the Cemetery have been stuck in my mind for all these years. Honorable mention goes to Sleepaway Camp, The Changeling, and Ghost Story.
Was looking for one dark night mention 👌
All good choices but also loved Christine and The Fog! There were endless 80s horror films! Best decade by far :)
Man it must have been such a cool experience to watch these movies for the first time back then with no internet to spoil things.
Carpenter was a genius and The Thing would absolutely be at the top of my list as well. I watch it,often. Just want to mention that the original “The Thing” movie was in 1951, and Carpenter followed some of the formula. Of course he amped up the isolation and paranoia as you said. It was all based on a novella called “Who Goes There”. Just fun fact.
For me, it wasn't CreepShow, it was Tales from the Darkside. The Gargoyle transformation stuck with me. The other one is The Changling. The scene with the ball bouncing down the stairs after he threw it off the bridge terrorfied me, why? don't know. I was pretty young, lol.
I was 8 years old in 1982. "Poltergeist" came out that year. The scenes with the clown and tree still haunt me to this day. I blame this movie for my fear of clowns. This film also, supposedly, has a curse on it. There are many deaths from the first two films, and sadly, the little girl (Heather O'Rourke) died right before the 3rd film was released.
The guy that rips his face off in the mirror traumatized me.
@@pringals420 the hands doing the flesh tearing were apparently Speilberg's
This list is legit! We definitely watched these movies too young, but they were oh so awesome!
American Ware Wolf in London,and Fright Night are my 2 favorite horror movies of all time. And i can not remember if Salems Lot was late 70's or early 80's. But that scared me ,and gave me night mare's when i was a kid.
Salems lot was 79 and it's my favorite movie of all time. Def scared the heck outta me as a 7 year old kid lol
@@louhutchinson5980 I bought the dvd...had to!!!
I was about 4 years old, my mom hired a babysitter and went out, I was sent to bed early because the babysitter wanted to watch a movie.
That movie was Evil Dead. Of course I snuck out of my room and watched the movie as I hid behind the couch.
I had nightmares for months after that movie. But once I finally recovered, it became my favorite horror movie by far.
One movie that freaked me out was 1981's "The Funhouse"...another movie I was obsessed with but not necessarily scared by (still in the horror genre) was 1982's "Cat People". David Bowie does the theme song "Putting Out the Fire", which is produced by Giorgio Moroder, so had an 80's feel to it but in a kind of haunting way...
I’m surprised you didn’t mention Zelda in Pet Sematary. She was the only part of that movie that freaked me out.
Also the movies that unnerved me in the 80s Sleepaway Camp and Pieces.
Yes, Zelda was freaking terrifying, but that scene where Gage cuts the Achilles tendon made me stop walking by beds for years…
Didn’t pet sematary come out in 90? I may be wrong
@@alextrevino7304 U R '89.
@@80sVault To this day when I watch it, I pull my legs up on the couch when that scene comes on :D
Thanks for mentioning night of the Comet it's one of my favorites
It's so good!
Me too!
@katieturner6685 it was super cool back then but then when you get older and everybody you know starts to disappear for real it's sort of sad so it's nice to go back and pretend again
@katieturner6685 and Weird Science is super helpful when I'm down
That’s one movie I’ve not seen yet.
Does Anyone remember The Beast Within? From 1981,it gave me nightmares,and I was 18.it was SCARY.
Yes that movie is scared the hell out of me. I slept next to my parents bed for like three nights
Yeah, that one gave me nightmares! When he was eating the raw meat and the transformation scenes disturbed me, even though I had already seen tons of horror movies by then. I think I was maybe 10 years old and probably shouldn't have been allowed to see that!
Weird sex scenes
Yeah, my stepdad took me to the movies to see it...sh*t had me terrified...i was only like 5 or 6...lol
Born in '75. I agree with a lot of these. What a time❤
“Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things” I saw this when I was 10-11 and it was my first taste of flesh eating zombies. It scared me so badly that I couldn’t sleep without the lights on for months! I had to speak with a therapist! The first few weeks my mother had to sit beside me until I fell asleep. I swear I’m not exaggerating any of that. Even now if I watch it I can still remember how it terrified me. 😱
All work and no play make Jack a dull boy...still sends chills up my spine to this day❤🎉
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Night of the Demons scared me to a new level. I saw it after Hurricane Hugo hit Florence, SC
The Howling's freakiest scene is the arcade scene. The serial killer meeting was the one that got me the most.
Great list. Nightmare on Elm Street is my personal favorite of them all.
Same. Just watched the 4K release. Fantastic!
I'm a nerves of steel diehard horror movie fan. Very few movies or scenes shock the heck out of me.
These are the few I can think of:
1. Friday the 13th part1: Mrs Vorhees mimicking a child's voice saying "help me" to draw the girl out of the cabin.
2. Nightmare on Elm St part 1: Freddy walking in alley with outstretched arms which was very abstractly horrific
3. The Shining- Wendy discovers Jack's manuscript is just a bunch nonsense showing how unstable he is
4. Pet Semetary- Zelda
5. The Wickerman (original)- the revelation of the cop's fate and when rewatching, seeing everyone acting normally while knowing
I'm sure there's others, but those give me the heeby jeeps every time.
Zelda
1976 Burnt Offerings still scares me today 😳 😢
I remember burnt offerings (I Been waiting for you Ben) that line was scary towards the end of that movie 😅
The background music is creepy.
Flowers in the Attic '86!
Yes, it is the original! So much better, than recent remakes!
Yeah I was disturbed by most of these films. Being born in 1973 meant I was ripe for 80s cable TV classics such as these. Yeah the first nightmare on elm Street really messed with my head.
Confirmed 👍🏻
Good video ❤
A 55
80's was my best time ever
Twilight Zone The Movie freaked me out. The bit where the girl didn’t have a mouth!!! THAT freaked me out 🙈🙈
The rabbit had me terrified...lol
Maybe I'm jaded in old age but, the last movie to really scare the bejeebers out of me was The Exorcist, first movie. I saw that movie 14 times, each time I had to be tripping on LSD, each time I'd get just a few scenes farther than the last time before I had to get up and run out of the theater.
It wasn't until 78 - 79, while in prison and stone cold sober, I finally saw the full movie, and it was a laugh riot.
@@lawrencestellwagen5724 this may be my favorite comment I have received so far!!!
Ghost Story (1981) really scared me.😊
I still think about that movie that’s so funny you remembered that
A great one!
I LOVED Fright Night and Creepshow! Man, they definitely don't make horror films like this anymore!!!! So many good ones on this list, and of course, anything Steven King is genius.
One of my all time favorites...and scariest...was in 1979. Phantasm. I can still hear the Tall Man saying "Boy!!!"
Absolutely SPOT ON!!!! All of these films shaped my childhood for horror! Return of the Living Dead is all my time favourite zombie movie!!
A few others for me are Hellraiser, Children of the Corn and They Live.
I saw so many of these in a theater when I was a kid/teenager. ❤ To this day, some of my favorite movie lines are “Meteor s**t!” and “It’s dead people screamin’!” I watched Fright Night every day for almost a year. lol
I watched an interview with Ted Danson about this movie. He said his daughter was still very young and she happened to be on the set the day he was in full monster makeup. He said he tried to avoid her so as not to share her. He was goofing around and she walked around the corner, saw him in makeup, and just said "Ho Dad,"and kept walking.
THE THING was fighting an uphill battle. It opened the same weekend as BLADE RUNNER, which wasn't a hit but it had a strong opening. It was competing with: E T. POLTERGEIST, ROCKY 3 and STAR TREK 2. Most critics gave the movie scathing reviews which didn't help matters.
To soften Cujo just a little bit, the St Bernards were so sweet and friendly their tails were wagging constantly. They had to somehow bandage them so they wouldn't wag so strongly.
I can’t watch this movie now as an adult. I love dogs too much. And St. Bernard’s are big fluffy bears.
I've seen these all too back in the 80s. They freaked me out. I loved Night of the Comet. & Twilight Zone. The Fly.
But the scariest of all films for me as a kid was the Exorcist. I know that's a 70s movie but it did the most damage imo.😅
Thanks for the mention to Night of the Comet. The Omen movies, especially the second one in particular scared me to my core. I was raised Catholic and there was that extra level of evil.
"Deadly Friend," 1986: the ending was the only case of a horror movie ever giving me nightmares.
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Silver Bullet scared me as a kid. That and the exorcist. Saw both as a very young child, and I couldn't sleep without a light on for a long time.
You NAILED IT! All of these are great, groundbreaking movies. Except for maybe Child’s Play… that was just kind of hilarious and ridiculous…
Yep swap that out for Hellraiser
Hellraiser was the one that freaked me out
That one was never one of my favorites. It did nothing for me.
I was born in 86, so I caught all of these in the 90's on reruns on TV. The Raft still gets me lol
I love just about all of these movies. The only one which gave me actual nightmares was The Fly ! I was 17 and saw it alone in the cinema ! xx
I saw the fly at age 8 and couldn't sleep for months after watching
I was 9 when that movie came out, it just grossed me out that's all.
@@daniellemaroney2931 totally agree with you. Not a good movie, just a gross one.
These were awesome picks from the 80s.
Am I the only one that loved Alligator? The Alligator that resides in the sewer, so realistic lol
Salems lot still creeps me out 40 years later
Yes! Some creepy scenes! Floating outside the window and the crawling in the background in the basement!
The Twilight Zone movie absolutely WRECKED me as a kid. Specifically the sister without a mouth, causing me to run outside and not come back inside for a good long while 🤣
The Shinning and Nightmare on Elm Street are the two that made a huge impression on me as a kid.
I'd say Night of the Demons should have been on here, but you ended the list with a bang
One of my all time favorites
I agree with The Shining in the #1 spot. Jack's performance was brilliant and terrifying. And the cinematography was stunning, Kubrick nailed it.
In terms of 80's horror, the ones that scared me the most were least to most, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Shining, The Fly, and Friday The 13th.Freddy scared me first time I saw him, but then made me burst out laughing, dark humour is what gets me laughing the most and Freddy is a master of it, so that made me feel good about being so scared of him, as I loved that evil bastard. The Shining though, that unnerved me, filled me with dread and over all scared the crap out of me all at once. Jack Nicholson killed it as Jack Torrance, he he was brutal in that film. Now The Fly, that just grossed me out while scarring me beyond all ration thought, yet I could not look away, that film is masterful, and yes Jeff Goldblum is masterful in the role, gotta love him. Friday The 13th, that entire film is filled with a sense of something being off, and a underlying sense of dread. The build up through out the film, and the reveal of Pamela Voorhees as the killer was gold. Betsy Palmer gave one of the greatest performances in horror of all time. Jason I cheer for and love, but Pamela, I fear more than any other horror icon. For one reason, she is the most real out of all of them. She has presence, she has intimidation, cunning, madness and rage, pure unadulterated rage you can feel. To this day Pamela Voorhees scares me far more than Jason ever will.
This is what makes horror movies great, because I guarantee no one else will have this same take as you!
@@NoleFan74 Not exactly the same no, but there could be some who might have a similar take, but yes, not exactly the same.
Great list! After the Howling, any growl like noise at night would send us running!
The Shining is my number one all time favorite and scariest horror movies ever! Good choice for no.1
Duvall and Nicholson should have both walked away with best actor/actress awards in 1981; no question.
I really liked Terror Train with Jamie Lee Curtis
This is the most underrated horror movie of all time
I know The Thing was based on a short-story/novella written in the late 1930's. And the original author was obliviously inspired by the earlier writing of H.P. Lovecraft. The Thing often shows up on lists of Lovecraftian horror films, and is one of my all-time favorites
Also a remake of a 1950s movie, The Thing from Another World, also wonderful film.
The Changeling freaked me out so much I had to sleep with the light on for a week afterwards! When the ball came bouncing down the stairs and when he was chased by the wheelchair. Shudder
Damn good list especially in the lower end. Only others I might include somewhere might be The Blob (ok not so scary, but still pretty effective),
The Hidden, Life Force, Day of the Dead, the fog and Exorcist 3.
Good to see Life Force has gotten somewhat of a cult following now; check out the bluray director's cut if you haven't already done so!
Ted Danson buried to his head always stuck with me. Will never forget.
Movies that scared the sh!t outta me as a kid:
"The Exorcist"*
"Phantasm"
"Scanners"
"The Shining"
"The Fog"
"An American Werewolf in London"
"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"
"The Howling"
"The Beast Within"
The most scared I have ever been in my life, is from Tarman. I can't even describe how terrified I was, that would do it any justice. I had to sleep with all my lights on for at least a month. I don't know what is what about that particular zombie that scared me so bad. But whatever it was, it worked. It took me 20 years before I was able to watch that movie again.
Great list! For me, it was:
Ghost Story - 1981
Prince of Darkness - 1987
The Entity - 1982
Amityville Horror - 1979
As a child/teen watching these, my imagination tended to fill in the details where the FX fell short, but really well done movies.
The movie that scared the shit out of me when I was growing up was Friday the 13th and especially Nightmare on Elm Street. When I was a kid Freddy especially scared the shit out of me. Because at least with Jason you can run from him, but when it comes to Freddy you can't avoid sleeping. Thank you for mentioning pet Sematary & Creepshow, and for me the part of Twilight zone that scared the shit out of me was the beginning.
I absolutely love Night of the Comet
Me too! The cheerleader inspired BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER.
Night of the Comet is a fantastic film!
Phantasm and Hellraiser should be on your list
American Warewolf In London scared the absolute crap out of me when I was a kid in the 80's. Ive never been able to watch it since.
Fright Night I loved.
I saw Gremlins in cinemas, was so good.
Great list!! I couldn’t look out a window at night for about a decade after watching Salem’s Lot!
Great List Man. But I Wouldn't Classify Aliens As Scary. Dario Argento's DEMONS Was The One That Scared The Shit Out Of Me. Evil Dead Was Definately A Shit Your Pants Moment Too. Especially When Scotty Sits Up.
Demons, YES!!!
@@flintforever711 I Started Watching Horror Movies At The Age Of 7. I Wasn't Scared By Stuff Like That. The Friday The 13th Series Is My All Time Favorite. But DEMONS Scared Me Shitless.
@@Thegranster369 , being stuck inside that movie theater with demons and not finding a way out...I kept putting myself in the theater and asking what would I do. 👀👀
@@flintforever711 Well Brother. I Know What I Would Do..........Shit My Pants, Then Look For A Way Out. But Pants Shittin Is Definitely On The List.
@@Thegranster369 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Good list! Glad you included the underrated Night of the Comet
Great list!
The movies that freaked me out the absolute most were:
Nightmare on Elm Street
Dream Warriors
Something Wicked This Way Comes.
Poltergeist was the absolute worst!
Hellraiser was a close second.
3rd and absolutely creepy was It the mini series- and that horrible evil clown, and the bathroom that kept spitting up blood.
Friday the 13th came out in ‘80 not ‘89, but forgivable since 9 and 0 😂are next to each other
Thank you I was going to remind him of that. I'm a stickler for dates and times. 🕛📅
I was gonna say I thought that one was 1980 but I figured someone else already probably noticed
Great video bro.
Lots of Classics
My mom took me to see Poltergeist when I was five. It terrified me and left me sleepless for months. Now it's one of my favorites.
All these movies scared me as a kid, but i dont remember being scared cuz i'd watch em over and over till they weren't scary anymore. But the one on the list that i can actually remember scaring me was pet cemetery, and the only reason was because i was home alone in the basement with no lights on. Your #1 imo is overrated and not scary at all...but i will admit the trailer scared me...and i would repeat the words to that trailer for my parents friends when they'd throw a party (using that creepy voice that were in all the trailers back in the 80s). And they'd all gather around to watch me do it, creeping them out like i was some kinda chucky doll or something. Thanks for the great video!
PS all these movies were great...but there were tons more (maybe do a pt 2?). eg. pin (1988), the pit (1981), prince of darkness (1987), and the brain (1988)...i ended up going to the highschool where they filmed a ton of the movie (years later), and would drive by the Xerox building every second friday that was the home base for the brain
What a great list that includes a lot of my all-time favorite movies
I can really relate to all the movies on your list! Thanks for your contribution.
The first 3-4 Friday the 13th movies, when they still took it seriously, scared me as a kid. Also Hell Night, although it was just a basic slasher. If you can get past the first cheesy 15 minutes or so, it's pretty creepy and lots of tense moments! Not too many people seem to know about this one. Salems' Lot was made for tv but is still one of the creepiest vampire movies ever. There were alot of made for tv horror movies back then that were pretty scary. Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark, anyone?
Love Hell Night! Great movie.
One dark night 1982 gave me nightmares. Being trapped in a mausoleum with the dead coming back. A must see.
We share the same trauma for The Howling. I remember waking in the middle of the night shaking uncontrollably after having nightmares about this movie. At that age (8), I have only seen the video Thriller and thought I could handle a full movie. Boy was I wrong!!!!
Evil Dead was actually made in 1979 but released 2 years larer because they needed a studio buyer and the original Friday the 13th was released in 1980 not 1989 like qhat qas shown on the screen in this documentary. Other than that and art which includes film, this to me was entertaining and well researched. I enjoyed this and knowing that you're not going to please everyone it was insightful and informative in my opinion and it's always fun for this seasoned guy to go down memory lane (born in 1970, of February) especially when it's genre is Horror and Thriller movies. Good job!! I hope you continue to make different list of certain decades and categories involving Horror movies. You have an endless template at your disposal lol. Again thanks for entertaining myself, much appreciated
I remember watching Creepshow when I was around five or six. My sister had rented it one night and let me watch it with her. It later became one of my favorite horror movies and an inspiration behind some of my scariest horror novels.
LOL, I still watch “The Shining” and “The Thing” to this day.
...great list...I am proud to say I have seen most of them in my teens...
I love Night of the Comet! Thanks for including it here.
It's so good!
This was a great reminder of my teens loved these movies. My number one was The Thing...I'd add Hellraiser and The Burning to your list
The Shining is the best movie EVER! Masterpiece 🎉🎉🎉
Love it! Seen them all... the '80's was so cool 😎
@@SteveHulkUK it was so lame
@@randallslinker3775 hardly. That's why there's been a huge 80's revival... so many great/iconic movies, TV shows and music 😏
I can think of a much bigger list but you had some good ones.
I’ve seen most horror movies from the ‘80’s…I’m 49 now, that absolute worst film for me as a kid was the elephant man. So sad and scary. When I first saw him I couldn’t handle it…the makeup they did was spot on . I would probably have a hard time with it now…which the purpose of this video suggests that these movies stay with you when you see them as a kid.
The gate always scared me
the gate was a serious beauty
Yes! Something about the monster falling into a bunch of little monsters scared me! 😂
@@ghoulgoil5029 we knew it was play doe...but thats what made it trippy
Happy Birthday To Me was pretty scary it came out in ‘81 Starring Glenn Ford and Melissa Sue Anderson.
Saw all of these on cable when I was kid. No way I should have been watching any of this so young.
Good list. However, I never thought Aliens or Predator were scary. My number 1 definitely would have been ‘ A Nightmare on Elm Street’ . I remember being scared the first time I saw it ( admittedly wayyyy too young. Probably 7 years old). I’m surprised you don’t have’ The Exorcist’ or ‘ Halloween’ on here.
I love ‘ Creepshow’ and ‘ The Thing’.
Great video!!!
Great list
James Arness from Gunsmoke was the creature in the original The Thing from Another World, which the movie was based on.
A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Shining and The Howling still scare me to this day!