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Eight is tough. First of all I wouldn't limit yourself to only two of these arbitrary types, crazy, funny, gory, etc, because the best tend to overlap in those respects, and also it is a narrows your selection and potentially eliminates some terrific movies that might be more compelling to someone unfamiliar with the genre. Here is a list of eight that I think gives a newbie a good introduction to a nice cross-section of horror and a good reason to seek out more:
Them
Night of the Living Dead (original)
The Reanimator
Evil Dead 2
The Haunting (original)
The Thing (82)
Audition
Black Sunday (Bava)
The classics I selected were the kind I thought would be more palatable to a modern viewer whose attention span might not make them amenable to the Universal classics or the German Expressionist classics. I also tried to avoid movies which are so brutal they might be a turn-off to the uninitiated, but I suppose Audition might be an exception to that, except everyone I have shown that to were blown away by it.
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