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My Top 100 Horror Movies:
1.Night of the Living Dead (1968)
2.The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
3.Carrie (1976)
4.Dawn of the Dead (1978)
5.Eyes Without a Face (1960)
6.The Exterminating Angel (1962)
7.Dead Alive (1992)
8.The Fly (1986)
9.Rosemary's Baby (1968)
10.Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
11.The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
12.The Beyond (1981)
13.Candyman (1992)
14.Alien (1979)
15.Phenomena (1985)
16.Hellraiser (1987)
17.The Evil Dead (1981)/Evil Dead II (1987)
18.Halloween (1978)
19.Psycho (1960)
20.Who Can Kill a Child? (1976)
21.From Beyond (1986)
22.The Shining (1980)
23.The Last House on the Left (1972)
24.Suspiria (1977)
25.The Thing (1982)
26.Videodrome (1983)
27.Freaks (1932)
28.Grindhouse (2007)
29.Nosferatu (1922)
30.The Blob (1958)
31.Child's Play (1988)
32.Santa Sangre (1989)
33.Basket Case (1982)
34.Peeping Tom (1960)
35.Shivers (1975)
36.Diabolique (1955)
37.Friday the 13th (1980)
38.The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
39.A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
40.Deep Red (1975)
41.The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
42.Frankenstein (1931)
43.The Blair Witch Project (1999)
44.Let the Right One In (2008)
45.Day of the Dead (1985)
46.Cannibal Holocaust (1979)
47.Gremlins (1984)
48.Haxan (1922)
49.I Spit on Your Grave (1978)
50.Scream (1996)
51.The Wicker Man (1973)
52.The Devil's Rejects (2005)
53.Phantasm (1979)
54.The Hitcher (1986)
55.Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
56.The Mist (2007)
57.The Dead Zone (1983)
58.King Kong (1933)/King Kong (2005)
59.Bad Ronald (1974)
60.Re-Animator (1985)
61.Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
62.Black Christmas (1974)
63.Q: The Winged Serpent (1982)
64.Eraserhead (1977)
65.White Dog (1982)
66.Begotten (1991)
67.The Descent (2005)
68.American Psycho (2000)
69.Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
70.The Omen (1976)
71.Shaun of the Dead (2004)
72.Dressed to Kill (1980)
73.Maniac (1980)
74.Onibaba (1964)
75.Blood Feast (1963)
76.Audition (1999)
77.The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
78.Funny Games (1997)/Funny Games (2008)
79.The Burning (1981)
80.Street Trash (1987)
81.Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)
82.Open Your Eyes (1997)
83.From Dusk till Dawn (1996)
84.The Birds (1963)
85.Zombi 2 (1979)
86.Inside (2007)
87.The Cell (2000)
88.The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
89.Duel (1971)
90.The Stepfather (1987)
91.Pin... (1988)
92.Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)
93.Pet Sematary (1989)
94.The Sender (1982)
95.Frailty (2001)
96.Motel Hell (1980)
97.God Told Me To (1976)
98.Cabin Fever (2003)
99.Wolf Creek (2005)
100.Dead Calm (1989)
Reviews
Slaughter High (1986)
Better-than-average slasher flick
"Slaughter High" is, perhaps, the most underrated slasher flick of the 1980s. It is one of the few films in the genre that is enthralling throughout. That being said, it also relies heavily on the standard slasher formula: A group of young men and women get killed one by one gruesomely until the final showdown.
The reason why "Slaughter High" stands above most movies in its genre is that it goes more over-the-top. Marty, the killer, has good reason to hold a grudge against his former classmates. They electrocuted him as he stood naked in a girl's locker room shower, jabbed at his crotch with a javelin, and, to top it off, rigged his science lab experiment so it could disfigure him.
So, the victims in this movie are about as unlikeable as you get. When they reunite years later -- at a high school reunion put on by Marty himself -- you realize they haven't matured all that much. They're a bunch of sociopaths.
It is mind-boggling why they would not wonder why they were the only ones to show up to the reunion, which, by the way, is held at a school that has since fell into disrepair. And who would think it's a good idea to drink beer and liquor found in the abandoned building in a room that happens to have their old lockers -- as well as Marty's -- on display? There are many leaps of faith the viewer needs to take to enjoy this film. The ending makes little or no sense. And the screenwriters have a strange understanding of how April Fool's Day works: The movie claims that pranks are no longer allowed after noon.
In all, the movie is one of the best examples of the slasher genre, despite all of its flaws. It is hard to understand why it hasn't yet found its way to DVD, when so many other run-of-the-mill slasher flicks are graced with special editions.