1. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
This movie is the greatest horror film of all time. A group of people deal with the living dead in a Pennsylvania farmhouse, but the characters' struggle with each other is much more compelling than the zombies.
2. Evil Dead (1981)
Many people think the second version of this film is better, but the original is a real horror film. A group of friends takes a trip to a Tennessee cabin and unleashes a demon. This movie is very low budget, but with so much love in the plot it is easy to see past its occasional cheesiness.
3. The Thing (1982)
Forget Halloween, this film is John Carpenter's magnum opus. A group of scientists at the North Pole discovers an alien that can take the exact form of any one of them. This film has some of the greatest special effects that you will ever see, but it is more than a monster movie. As paranoia takes hold among the men, this film keeps getting better.
4. Cabin Fever (2002)
A group of college friends visits a cabin for a week where they are infected by a flesh-eating virus that pushes their friendships to the breaking point. With its excellent gore, great music, humor and good acting, this movie is underrated and needs to be seen by more people.
5. Shivers (1975)
This is David Cronenberg's first movie and probably his most accessible. A disease takes hold in a newly built, Canadian high-rise apartment that causes the infected to become sex-crazed zombies. Somehow Cronenberg transcends this cheesy plot and makes a compelling film about a doctor trying to stop the disease's spread.
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Chris Bruce
Horror films to see on Halloween
