shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
I had this ranked 12, but as the countdown has gone on and I've had time to rethink, this really should be in the 5-8 range for me.
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FFA Top 200 Horror Movies of All Time: #1 - Alien (8 Viewers)
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I had this ranked 12, but as the countdown has gone on and I've had time to rethink, this really should be in the 5-8 range for me.
dickey moe
Fingerpicker
I had been wondering why no one brought up that movie yet.
dickey moe
Fingerpicker
Rankings are all over the map. Guess I can dig it.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
Not the best movie to watch on a first date.
I would never have thought of Jaws as a horror movie so I am not sure if I would have listed. I do think it probably should be classified as a horror movie (it's no Young Frankenstein) but It wouldn't have entered my thoughts as a horror movie.
It was on my preliminary list, but got bumped.
jamny
Footballguy
I have it at 74...the original, not the remake.
Frostillicus
Footballguy
Jaws is my #1 movie of all-time, so once I decided it was horror it had to be #1 for me.
UncleZen
Footballguy
So what are you trying to say, that Godzilla doesn't exist?
foxco
Footballguy
Lol, the director of the remakes (not the original 70's) was just attached to a horror script I'm hoping to take to Shudder & Netflix where, if it's made, it will eventually be completely left off best of lists like these.
Scoresman
Footballguy
#5 - The Thing
Members of an American scientific research outpost in Antarctica find themselves battling a parasitic alien organism capable of perfectly imitating its victims. They soon discover that this task will be harder than they thought, as they don't know which members of the team have already been assimilated and their paranoia threatens to tear them apart.John Carpenter
1982
Sci-Fi, Body
USA
IMDB: 82
Metacritic: 57
RottenTomatoes: 81
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySvzHdtCiWE
Streaming:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/thing-the
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WVU Alum
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Hell yeah
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
Finally the famous horror icon Wilford Brimley gets his due.
Scoresman
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I'm struggling to understand any opinion that Jaws isn't horror. It evokes the exact responses in audiences that a horror movie sets out to do. If there's a single movie that sparks a fear of the ocean, it's this one. Is it because it;s Speilberg? OR because it made a lot of money? 
WVU Alum
Footballguy
Dye uh beat us
BroncoFreak_2K3
sucker for Orange
Same
BroncoFreak_2K3
sucker for Orange
There’s my #1 hell yeah
Ilov80s
Footballguy
For some reason that's one horror movie that just doesn't click for me. Solid movie, don't hate it like TCM. Don't think it's bad. Quite the opposite. I just find it solid and not spectacular like most do. With 1 exception, I am generally lower on John Carpenter movies than most.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
For me, I hadn't thought about it too much while doing my initial pass, but it wasn't in my top 40. I guess I would just refer back to IK's post and thoughts about SotL. This is the movie I referred to that is in my top 5 all time movies, so it would score quite high on the movie quality line, but for my initial thoughts it wasn't "horror enough", but honestly haven't thought about it much after that. There are a few that I don't really have a great reason for leaving off, love a lot, but still don't feel right putting on a list of horror movies - Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, Jaws are the top ones I was thinking about.I'm struggling to understand any opinion that Jaws isn't horror. It evokes the exact responses in audiences that a horror movie sets out to do. If there's a single movie that sparks a fear of the ocean, it's this one. Is it because it;s Speilberg? OR because it made a lot of money?
It's one of the reasons I struggled with the list. If I admitted it's horror, it should be at the top if it's one of my all time movies, right? But it still didn't feel right having it in my top 5 horror movies list and I didn't want to have movies like that in the 40s-50s either.
It's not that I don't think it fits the horror category, it's just that I don't immediately think of it as a horror movie. I am not sure why that is.I'm struggling to understand any opinion that Jaws isn't horror. It evokes the exact responses in audiences that a horror movie sets out to do. If there's a single movie that sparks a fear of the ocean, it's this one. Is it because it;s Speilberg? OR because it made a lot of money?
I agree. I saw it for the first time maybe 5-10 years ago. It was fine but I didn't think it was the greatest in any way. It was a movie. That's about it.
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
I dunno, man. Admittedly, I got connected to this movie when I was a kid, and I'm sure that has something to do with it. But some of the SFX in this movie still look awesome today, in 2024. Not all of them of course, but that spider-head? Come on -- that's phenomenal!
Edit: And also, the ambiguity of the ending. I don't like that sort of thing most of the time, but it 100% fits the theme of this movie.
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
No surprise that John Carpenter is just killing our Top 200. I wonder if we've heard the last of that guy?
The Gator
Footballguy
Same, never crossed my mind for my list. No imdb horror tag either...It's not that I don't think it fits the horror category, it's just that I don't immediately think of it as a horror movie. I am not sure why that is.I'm struggling to understand any opinion that Jaws isn't horror. It evokes the exact responses in audiences that a horror movie sets out to do. If there's a single movie that sparks a fear of the ocean, it's this one. Is it because it;s Speilberg? OR because it made a lot of money?
simey
Footballguy
I saw it opening weekend, too, and I was 10. I loved the movie, and it did impact my going in the ocean after I saw it. My siblings and I would go far out in the water on our rafts prior to seeing Jaws. My mom used to scream at us to move in closer to land. After seeing the movie, we wouldn't go past where the waves were breaking. I still think about Jaws when I go in the ocean, and I always have an uncomfortable feeling doing any water activities in the ocean or intercoastal waterway where my body is in the water over my head. This movie would be in my top 5.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Maybe part of it with Jaws is that I came to it much later in life, so I didn't experience it at the time and I wasn't scared by it when I first watched it.
zamboni
Footballguy
These guys fully agree
The Gator
Footballguy
I actually thought it was a shticky thread title when Jaws was added to it.
zamboni
Footballguy
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Dammit I was all set to make the argument that summer school is a horror movie
BTW so is Meatballs II (it has an alien)
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
This one surprises me. I love it because of how well the tension builds up as we don't know who is the thing. I love how it ends, and the practical effects are great. I understand people not wanting to sit through TCM and hating that movie, but ones like this I find more interesting. Like you said though, maybe it's just something with most of Carpenter's work in general.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I think a simpler explanation for me would be what are what scenes are my favorite from the movie and/or why do I love watching it. I was thinking about it during the back and forth about Aliens too. I don't watch that for the face hugger scene or the scares - I have Alien doing that better. I watch mostly because Hudson, Vasquez and the rest are awesome and the action kicks ***. That it has a few good horror scenes is a bonus.It's not that I don't think it fits the horror category, it's just that I don't immediately think of it as a horror movie. I am not sure why that is.I'm struggling to understand any opinion that Jaws isn't horror. It evokes the exact responses in audiences that a horror movie sets out to do. If there's a single movie that sparks a fear of the ocean, it's this one. Is it because it;s Speilberg? OR because it made a lot of money?
Similar to Jaws - the best scenes for me aren't directly about the shark. #1 is the Indianapolis speech. Right after that for me are scenes like the encounter with Mrs. Kintner, the first time Quint and Brody meet, things like that. The attack on the Kintner kid and Quint are awesome example of horror scenes, but again for me it's more the bonus cherry on top not the primary driver for watching.
zamboni
Footballguy
Then we have to include Animal House given the devil on Pinto’s shoulder.
UncleZen
Footballguy
I know for a fact that we have not. My #1.
UncleZen
Footballguy
I'm not even sure Meatballs II qualifies as a movie! Barf!
BrutalPenguin
Footballguy
What about Rocky Horror Picture Show? It's got horror right in the title, the whole meatloaf for dinner thing, and I know if I woke up in bed with Tim Curry, I'd be horrified.
Don Quixote
Footballguy
Escape from LA?
UncleZen
Footballguy
Jaws didn't do that for me but I saw an overhead photo of the coast of New Smyrna, which is a little over an hour north of me. That water showed several sharks just swimming among all the people there.I saw it opening weekend, too, and I was 10. I loved the movie, and it did impact my going in the ocean after I saw it. My siblings and I would go far out in the water on our rafts prior to seeing Jaws. My mom used to scream at us to move in closer to land. After seeing the movie, we wouldn't go past where the waves were breaking. I still think about Jaws when I go in the ocean, and I always have an uncomfortable feeling doing any water activities in the ocean or intercoastal waterway where my body is in the water over my head. This movie would be in my top 5.
simey
Footballguy
Yikes! I used to go to either New Smyrna or Cocoa Beach when I lived in Orlando. This was post-Jaws, so I didn't wander far into the water.Jaws didn't do that for me but I saw an overhead photo of the coast of New Smyrna, which is a little over an hour north of me. That water showed several sharks just swimming among all the people there.I saw it opening weekend, too, and I was 10. I loved the movie, and it did impact my going in the ocean after I saw it. My siblings and I would go far out in the water on our rafts prior to seeing Jaws. My mom used to scream at us to move in closer to land. After seeing the movie, we wouldn't go past where the waves were breaking. I still think about Jaws when I go in the ocean, and I always have an uncomfortable feeling doing any water activities in the ocean or intercoastal waterway where my body is in the water over my head. This movie would be in my top 5.
dickey moe
Fingerpicker
Wow surprised this got ranked so high.
simey
Footballguy
I think those scenes and others are some of the things that make it such a good movie. One of my favorites is when Brody is feeling down (I think Mrs. Kintner slapped him in the face after her son's funeral prior to the scene) and his son starts imitating what he does. The movie took the time to focus on some of the characters, and not just be about trying to catch the shark that was terrorizing the community. It is horror, though. Jaws is a monster shark eating people. The shark really isn't shown that much until the very end. The music is great at building up the suspense of when Jaws is about to attack, and you can feel the fear without seeing the shark chew up a person. Being that it really can happen adds to the fear. I remember jumping when Hooper is underwater searching that man's boat and the man's head rolls out. Good times!
Raging weasel
Footballguy
So Jaws was the first horror movie I ever saw in the theater. That scene scared my Mom so much she almost pulled my arm from its socket and threw popcorn in my face. Saw it at least 3 more times in the theater and that got someone every time.
Good times indeed!
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I get that, but I think the point I and a few others are also making is that some of these debatable movies are also dramas, actions, comedies, etc.. That's a bit what keeps it off my list I think, and the fact that it's the other stuff that I love the most. For me it's just not enough of a horror for a high rating, and it's too good of a movie to be rated #40 of anything so it was left off initially.
The Gator
Footballguy
From my thoughts to your keyboard. Top 10 movie all time for me, but I didn't want to shoehorn it into a horror list.
I don't get to October and think, "time to watch Jaws!"
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Me neither, probably because I'll have watched it 2-3 times over the summer already.
