5. "Pet Sematary": I know, I know. It didn't exactly age well and yes, the book was much better. However, it's worthy to note that this may be the last horror movie where they not only kill a toddler in a visible and violent fashion, but kill the same toddler twice! Fred Gwynn puts up his second-best performance ever (first, of course, being "My Cousin Vinny") and I'm still haunted by Churchill the cat, Zelda the ghost sister and the returned monster/boy who burns his father's house down in Gwynn's flashback.
4. "House of a Thousand Corpses": Rob Zombie massacre flick that preceded "Hostel," "Saw," and all the other torture-for-the-sake-of-torture movies that modern the horror genre has embraced.
3. "Dawn of the Dead": While not necessarily scary, "Dawn" (the new one with Ving Rhames) is — without a reasonable argument to the contrary — the greatest zombie movie ever and arguably the greatest monster movie ever. Mixes comedy, shock, great special effects and, for once, quality acting in a horror movie.
2. "The Blair Witch Project": Shaky camera realism that captures the terrifying sensation of being lost in the woods with unreliable partners — all while being hunted by an unseen monster.
1. "The Shining": Korin got it right ... Stephen King's writing, Stanley Kubrick's directing, Jack Nicholson's acting. REDRUM!!!
— Andrew