What was I going on about?

Phantasm
Halloween
Dracula
Nosferatu
13 Ghosts
The Fog
Night of the Living Dead

Although that is just a quickie list. But they are all really highly regarded by me for various reasons.

Off the top of my head in no particular order but trying to represent the major categories:

• Night of the Living Dead [1968]
• The Exorcist [1973]
• Halloween [1978]
• The Shining [1980]
• Alien [1979]
• Paranormal Activity [2007]

the last is a tie between

• Carrie [1976] &
• The Omen [1976]