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With the Halloween season now in full swing, movie fans are relishing the opportunity to confront their unconscious fears directly through the horror that unfolds on screen in genre films. To celebrate on-screen frights taking every form imaginable, from iconic boogeymen to real-world threats, Variety has shared their top 100 best horror movies of all time.<\/p>\n

While compiling its list of the genre’s highest achievements, the trade considered all subgenres and filmmakers from the beginning of cinema. Variety contemplated one of the movie industry’s biggest questions that has been heavily debated over the past century: what constitutes horror?.<\/p>\n

While the discussion over what makes a film a true horror movie continues, Variety’s staff ultimately agreed on their top 100 favorite genre features. First place on the list was taken by the 1974 slasher Texas Chain Saw Massacre<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. The film was produced, co-composed and directed by Tobe Hooper, who also co-wrote the project with Kim Henkel. The movie launched a franchise that includes eight follow-up features, as well as books, comics and video games.<\/p>\n

The second film on the trade’s list is the 1973 supernatural horror feature, The Exorcist<\/strong><\/em>, which was helmed by William Friedkin. The Oscar-winning movie is based on screenwriter William Peter Blatty’s 1971 horror novel of the same name. The screen adaptation was followed by five follow-up films and a television series.<\/p>\n

Rounding out the top three on Variety’s list is the 1960 movie Psycho<\/strong><\/em>, which was produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay, which was penned by Joseph Stefano, was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. The screen adaptation was followed by five follow-up features and a television show.<\/p>\n

Below is the list of the 30 horror films that topped Variety’s list:<\/p>\n

1) Texas Chain Saw Massacre<\/strong><\/em> (1974) Director: Tobe Hooper<\/p>\n

2) The Exorcist<\/em><\/strong> (1973) Director: William Friedkin<\/p>\n

3) Psycho<\/em><\/strong> (1960) Director: Alfred Hitchcock<\/p>\n

4) Jaws<\/em><\/strong> (1975) Steven Spielberg<\/p>\n

5) Rosemary’s Baby<\/strong><\/em> (1968) Director: Roman Polanski<\/p>\n

6) Night of the Living Dead<\/strong><\/em> (1968) Director: George A. Romero<\/p>\n

7) Audition<\/em><\/strong> (1999) Director: Takashi Miike<\/p>\n

8) Frankenstein<\/strong><\/em> (1931) Director: James Whale<\/p>\n

9) Sal\u00f2, or the 120 Days of Sodom<\/strong><\/em> (1975) Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini<\/p>\n

10) Carrie<\/strong><\/em> (1976) Director: Brian De Palma<\/p>\n

11) Alien<\/strong><\/em> (1979) Director: Ridley Scott<\/p>\n

12) King Kong<\/strong><\/em> (1933) Director: Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack<\/p>\n

13) The Silence of the Lambs<\/em><\/strong> (1991) Director: Jonathan Demme<\/p>\n

14) Nosferatu<\/strong><\/em> (1922) Director: F.W. Murnau<\/p>\n

15) Don’t Look Now<\/strong><\/em> (1973) Director: Nicolas Roeg,<\/p>\n

16) Halloween<\/strong><\/em> (1978) Director: John Carpenter<\/p>\n

17) Les Diaboliques<\/strong><\/em> (1955) Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot,<\/p>\n

18) The Shining<\/strong><\/em> Director: Stanley Kubrick<\/p>\n

19) The Mummy<\/strong><\/em> (1932) Director: Karl Freund21) Trap<\/strong><\/em> (2017) Director: Kris Sinioras<\/p>\n

20) Get Out<\/strong><\/em> (2017) Director: Jordan Peele<\/p>\n

22) Black Sunday<\/strong><\/em> (1960) Director: Mario Bava<\/p>\n

23) Carnival of Souls<\/strong><\/em> (1962) Director: Herk Harvey<\/p>\n

24) Dawn of the Dead<\/strong><\/em> (1978) Director: Romero<\/p>\n

25) The Witch of Blair: A Coursework from the Other Side<\/strong><\/em> (1999)<\/p>\n

26) Scream<\/strong><\/em> (1996) Director: Wes Craven<\/p>\n

27) Innocent<\/em><\/strong> (1961) Director: Jack Clayton<\/p>\n

28) Dracula<\/strong><\/em> (1931) Director: Tod Browning<\/p>\n

29) The Wicker Man<\/strong><\/em> (1973) Director: Robin Hardy<\/p>\n

30) The Phantom of the Opera<\/strong><\/em> (1925) Director: Rupert Julian<\/p>\n

For the full list of Variety’s top 100 best horror movies of all time, visit the trade’s official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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