1.) Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn (1987) Detroit’s Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell & co.!
2.) Cemetery Man (1994) bizarre Italian zombie movie
3.) The Beyond (1981) Lucio Fulci Italian zombie
4.) Dead Alive (1992) Peter Jackson (before he did Lord of the Rings) made the goriest movie of all time!
5.) Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things (1972) excellent zombie movie made Bob Clark (the same guy who did ‘A Christmas Story’!)
6.) The Thing (1982) Kurt Russell battles aliens at Antarctic research station!
7.) Brain Dead (1990) bizarre horror-thriller starring Bill Pullman
8.) Dead and Buried (1981) Stan Winston makeup
9.) Re-Animator (1985) HP Lovecraft’s story on the big screen
10.) Hard Rock Zombies (1985) one of the strangest movies ever made
11.) Burial Ground (1981) Italian zombie flick
12.) Return of the Living Dead (1985) excellent 80s zombie movie shot in Louisville
13.) Bad Taste (1987) Peter Jackson was into some weird shit!
14.) April Fools Day (1986) excellent murder mystery at island mansion
15.) Intruder (1989) excellent indie horror from Detroit’s own Scott Spiegel! While living in Los Angeles, a young Quentin Tarantino used to crash on Spiegel’s couch!
16.) The Ninth Gate (1999) unscrupulous book dealer Johnny Depp becomes entangled in a spooky Satanic web of treachery
17.) Return to Horror High (1987) witness a young George Clooney and a great murder mystery!
18.) Motel Hell (1980) “it takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent’s tasty fritters”
19.) Curse of the Demon (1957) excellent B&W horror
20.) Hausu (1977) Japanese horror; one of the weirdest films of all time
21.) Biozombie (1998) excellent Chinese zombie movie!
22.) Death Bed: the Bed That Eats (1977) bizarre horror shot on Detroit’s Lower Eastside at the Gar Wood Mansion!
23.) I, Madman (1989) excellent psychological horror; when books become real
24.) The Stuff (1985) sci-fi horror fro Larry Cohen
25.) Night of the Creeps (1986) great horror comedy
26.) From Hell (2001) Johnny Depp in Whitechapel London, 1888, hunting Jack the Ripper
27.) Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (1971) superb psychological horror
28.) Dead Heat (1988) largely unknown horror comedy starring Joe Piscopo!
29.) From Beyond (1986) another crazy Lovecraft tale brought to the big screen
30.) The Changeling (1980) excellent ghost story starring Detroit’s own George C. Scott. Fun Fact: George C. Scott used to be an usher at Detroit’s Old Redford Theatre on Lasher & Grand River!
31.) Haunter (2013) creepy little chiller
32.) Rabid Grannies (1988) hilarious horror from those sickos at Troma
33.) The Asphyx (1973) photographing Victorian death spirits
34.) V/H/S (2012) one of the best from the found footage horror genre; also check out the sequel V/H/S/ 2 (2013)
35.) Rec (2007) well-done found footage zombie movie from Barcelona, Spain
36.) Sinister (2012) excellent horror about true crime writer tracking an otherworldly serial killer
37.) The Thing (1951) excellent B&W sci-fi horror from Howard Hawks
38.) Phantasm (1979) the Tall Man comes for you!
39.) The Haunting (1963) possibly the best ghost movie ever made
40.) Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) classic 80s horror-comedy
41.) Dog Soldiers (2002) creepy unusual British horror movie
42.) The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) bizarre true story of Harvard anthropologist Wade Davis encountering voodoo in Haiti
43.) House (1986) surreal haunted house flick
44.) The Gate (1987) two kids dig up ‘the gate to hell’ in their backyard
45.) The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014) found footage pseudo-doc worth a watch
46.) Paperhouse (1988) dark psychological horror
47.) Fright Night (1985) when vampires move in next door!
48.) Beast of Yucca Flats (1961) hilariously bad atomic sci-fi horror starring Tor Johnson
49.) Popcorn (1991) killer who wears others faces
50.) Mr. Boogedy (1985) hard-to-find Disney horror movie
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