Team Experience’s October Top 10, part two: following last week’s list of the best pre-1973 horror films, the inevitable list of post-1973 horror.
Last week’s list was hard for me; this one was goddamn impossible, and the final list is a bizarre hybrid of personal favorites, canonical classics, and a few “well, I’d feel like a jackass not to count that…” titles. I will share with you my ballot, as long as we can all agree not to hold me to it at any point in the future, outside of maybe the titles (but not the ranking) of the Top 3
1. Suspiria (1977)
2. The Shining (1980) [on the TFE list]
3. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) [on the TFE list]
4. The Beyond (1981)
5. Halloween (1978) [on the TFE list]
6. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
7. Evil Dead II (1987)
8. Alien (1979) [on the TFE list]
9. The Descent (2005) [on the TFE list]
10. StageFright: Aquarius (1987)
Runners-up (six, because this was a pigfucker of a list to whittle down even to 15)
Deep Red (1975)
The Burning (1981)
The Evil Dead (1981)
The Thing (1982)
Cemetery Man (1994)
Audition (1999)