In no particular order
1. High Tension - Uncut
2. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Original
3. Evil Dead
4. August Underground Mordum
5. The Grudge
6. Suspiria
7. Seven (if it counts)
8. The crow
9. 28 days later
10. Dawn of the dead

apologies for the incredibly predictable list. at least i can't be accused of showing off with my taste for obscure horror by directors nobodys heard of. 1, the exorcist 2,event horizon 3,suspiria 4,creep 5,the omen 6,in the mouth of madness 7,hellraiser3 8,jacobs ladder 9,old boy 10,exorcist3......and an honourable mention to candyman, candyman, candyman...........

1.texas chainsaw massacre(1974)
thats the only movie that really is the number 1

1,Dawn of the Dead(1978).
2,Evil Dead II.
3,Halloween.
4,A Nightmare on Elm Street.
5,Night of the Living Dead(1968)
6,The Evil Dead.
7,Saw.
8,The Haunting(1963).
9,Dog Soldiers.
10,Cube.

10. The Fog
9. Demon Knight
8. The Hazing
7. Evil Dead II
6. Black Christmas
5. Night of the Demons
4. Return of the Living Dead
3. Sleepaway Camp
2. Dead Alive
1. Hell Night

It amazes me how you guys manage to put up a top 10 list. There are too many films I love, and for too many different reasons. I can say that for typical slashers, I highly enjoy the Sleepaway Camp trilogy. For modern films, The Descent, High Tension, The Hills Have Eyes, House of 1000 Corpses, and The Devil's Rejects are ones I adore. For horror-comedies, Evil Dead I & II, and for horror anthologies, the Creepshow trio. I highly respect the original Night of the Living Dead for what it entailed message-wise (I watched a doc. commenting on all of this, and how the events in the film pertained to the time period). For foreign horror, The Sympathy Trilogy from Park-Chan is among my favorite, and much from Takashi Miike. For real-scares, The Blair Witch Project. I could go on and on, there's no way someone as indecisive as myself could make a definitive top 10 list.

HA you just dont know good horror.

these are all great lists

I had to search for this, quite an old thread, seemed like the "longest" top 10 thread so I read through this one over the ones with 15-20 posts in them.

1. The Shining
2. Hellraiser
3. Scream
4. A Nightmare on Elm Street
5. Sleepaway Camp
6. Alien
7. Ju- On
8. Dawn of the Dead (either)
9. Fright Night (My first vampire movie I ever watched!)
10. Halloween/ The Omen (tied)

umm... this is going to be hard.

1. texas chain saw massicare
2. friday the thirteenth
3. hellraiser
4. freddy crouger nightmare on elm street. ( all the dvds on that.)
5. halloween
6. chucky
7. residant evil.
8. nightmare before christmas
9. blade
10. jeepers creepers

marianne