So many friends doing posts on naming the horror films (a few doing other genres) that influenced them, and such for the past 20-years, with a tie limited between to films. However, I’m upping it by a little – the challenge name a horror film each year from birth to now. Here’s my list:
1973 – The Exorcist
1974 – Black Christmas/ Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
1975 – Jaws
1976 – Carrie
1977 – Suspiria
1978 – Dawn of the Dead/ Halloween
1979 – Phantasm/ Zombie
1980 – Friday the 13th/ The Fog
1981 – The Evil Dead/The Beyond
1982 – The Thing
1983 – Sleepaway Camp
1984 – A Nightmare on Elm Street
1985 – Re-Animator / The Return of the Living Dead
1986 – Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
1987 – Hellraiser/ Near Dark
1988 – The Serpent and the Rainbow
1989 – Pet Sematary/ Puppet Master
1990 – The Exorcist III
1991 – The Silence of the Lambs
1992 – Candyman
1993 – Cronos
1994 – Cemetery Man
1995 – Lord of Illusions
1996 – Scream
1997 – Mimic/ Funny Games
1998 – Strangeland
1999 – Stir of Echoes
2000 – American Psycho
2001 – The Others
2002 – Cabin Fever
2003 – Wrong Turn
2004 – Shaun of the Dead/ Dawn of the Dead
2005 – The Descent
2006 – Slither
2007 – Trick ‘r Treat
2008 – Pontypool/ The Strangers
2009 – Dead Snow
2010 – Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
2011 – The Cabin in the Woods
2012 – Excision
2013 – The Conjuring
2014 – It Follows
2015 – Deathgasm/ The Witch
2016 – Train to Busan
2017 – IT
2018 – Hereditary/ Summer of ’84
If you want to try, either leave a comment or better yet onto Facebook and tag The Horror Times.