Top 20 Cult Movies

C = Comedy-Horror
G = Extra Gory
S = Genuinely Scary
FX = Awesome Special Effects

(In order of cult status, not best)

1. Mad Max
2. Repo Man
3. Death Race 2000
4. Warriors
5. Dawn of the Dead G
6. Bad Taste GC
7. Blade Runner FX
8. Escape From New York
9. Eraserhead
10. Akira G
11. The Rocky Horror Picture Show C
12. Evil Dead GC
13. Pink Flamingos
14. Braindead GC
15. Shogun Assassin G
16. Toxic Avenger C
17. Natural Born Killers G
18. Suspiria S
19. Hardware
20. Lady Snowblood

Honourable Mentions: Rolling Thunder, Bubba Ho-Tep

Top 25 Bloody Gory

In approximate order of most gory/violent, not the best

1. Guinea Pig: Flowers of Flesh and Blood
2. August Underground's Penance
3. Grotesque Banned in the UK
4. Braindead/Dead Alive
5. Story of Ricky
6. Switchblade Romance
7. Guinea Pig: Mermaid in a Manhole
8. Martyrs
9. Inside (2007/French)
10. Frontier(s)
11. Cannibal Holocaust
12. Tenebrae
13. Shogun Assassin
14. Naked Blood
16. Kill Bill
16. Ichi The Killer
17. From Dusk Till Dawn
18. Suspiria
19. The Descent
20. Tokyo Gore Police
21. Rambo 4
22. Ninja Assassin
23. Hobo With A Shotgun
24. Day of the Dead (original)
25. Robocop

Honourable Mentions: Evil Dead, Nightmare On Elm Street, Dead or Alive (Miike),House of 1000 Corpses, Machete, Hellraiser, Scanners.

Top 10 Death Scenes

C = Comedy-Horror
G = Extra Gory
S = Genuinely Scary
FX = Awesome Special Effects

1. The Thing - Stomach eats arms/alien head grows legs & runs away G/FX
2. Alien - Chestburster/dinner scene
3. Day of the Dead - Torn apart by Zombies scene G
4. Braindead/Dead Alive - Lawnmower versus Zombies scene CG
5. The Omen - Decapitation scene S
6. Suspiria - Trapped in razor wire/throat slit scene GS
7. Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Meat hook scene
8. Nightmare On Elm Street - Tina's ceiling death scene G
9. Scanners - Exploding head scene
10. Robocop - ED209 malfunctions and won't stop shooting scene G

Creature Features: Monsters & Aliens

C = Comedy-Horror
G = Extra Gory
S = Genuinely Scary
FX = Awesome Special Effects

1. Alien
2. The Thing (John Carpenter's) G/FX
3. The Fly (David Cronenberg's) FX
4. The Host (Korean) FX
5. Predator
6. Cloverfield
7. The Descent GS slasher hybrid
8. The Mist
9. Tremors C
10. Slither CG


Honourable Mentions: King Kong (original), Feast, Swamp Thing

Slashers & Psycho Killers

C = Comedy-Horror
G = Extra Gory
S = Genuinely Scary

1. Texas Chainsaw Massacre S
2. I Saw The Devil
3. Halloween
4. Suspiria GS
5. Audition S
6. Silence of the Lambs
7. Switchblade Romance G
8. The Descent GS creature-feature hybrid
9. American Psycho
10. Nightmare on Elm Street G

Special Mentions: Psycho, The Devil's Rejects, Last House on the Left, Friday the 13th, The People Under The Stairs.

Ghosts, Possession and Haunted

C = Comedy-Horror
G = Extra Gory
S = Genuinely Scary

1. The Shining
2. Exorcist S
3. Ringu S
4. Poltergeist
5. Devil's Backbone
6. Dark Water (Original) S
7. The Orphanage S
8. Sixth Sense
9. The Eye (original)
10. Grudge S

Top 5 Werewolf Movies

C = Comedy
G = Extra Gory
S = Genuinely Scary
FX = Awesome Special Effects

1. An American Werewolf in London FX
2. Teen Wolf C
3. Ginger Snaps
4. Dog Soldiers
5. The Howling

Top 10 Vampire Movies

C = Comedy-Horror
G = Extra Gory
FX = Awesome Special Effects

1. Lost Boys C
2. Let the Right One In
3. From Dusk Till Dawn G/FX
4. Fright Night
5. Near Dark
6. Nosferatu
7. Shadow of the Vampire
8. Thirst
9. Cronos
10. Stake Land

Honourable Mentions: Bram Stoker's Dracula, Daybreakers

Top 10 Zombie Movies

C = Comedy-Horror
G = Extra Gory
S = Genuinely Scary
FX = Awesome Special Effects

1. Dawn of the Dead (original) G
2. 28 Days later
3. Shaun of the Dead C
4. Return of the Living Dead C
5. Zombieland C
6. [REC] S
7. Night of the Living Dead (90's Savini remake) FX
8. La Horde G
9. Braindead/Dead Alive CG
10. Dawn of the Dead (remake)

Special mentions: Night of the Living Dead (original), Dead Snow, Planet Terror and The Crazies (original).


Best Death Scene

Day of the Dead

Although not listed on the overall top 10, it's got the best death scene!