Brain-child from Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's second Project: Greenlight, Feast is a funny, gorey, violent delight. A monster movie with Die Hard intensity, Evil Dead laughs and gore, and Pulp Fiction dialog and characters. Starring a very underrated Balthazar Getty, a group of strangers fend off a family of incredibly strong and hungry beasts while trapped in a bar.
9. The Devil's Rejects
Rob Zombie's follow up to the very weird but dissapointing House of 1,000 Corpses takes his murderous Firefly family on the road flipping the killer/killee dynamic with the sheriff finding them. I always appreciate a horror movie that can use comedy and not kill the entire pace and tone.
8. 28 Days Later
The incredible Danny Boyle creates a truly scaring depiction of a post-apocalyptic London devoid of most life. A new twist on the zombie genre turning the normally undead flesh-eaters into rabid, rage-infected violent people.
7. Evil Dead 2
Sam Raimi's middle installment of the Evil Dead series has the perfect combo between Evil Dead's thrills and Army of Darkness's laughs, starring Bruce Campbell as Ash sky-rocketing him to A-Number-1 fanboy cult favorite actor OF ALL TIME!!!!!!! (Yes, it's that dramatic)
6. The Mist
One of the more chilling horror flicks in years, Frank Darabont may in fact be the only person who should be allowed to adapt Stephen King novels anymore. First Shawshank Redemption, than Green Mile, and now The Mist. He captured the feel of each individual book and added upon what King already started.
5. The Dead Zone
And than of course there is this Stephen King adaptation that isn't made by Frank Darabont. It is more of a thriller than a horror, but Christopher Walken is great in it. Much better than Anthony Michael Hall during the tv series based on the same material.
4. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
This is one of the first truly disgusting, graphic, and controversial horror movies. Based loosely on real life serial killer, Ed Gein, and then further warped to the 1,000th degree. 10x better than the remake just because of the nuanced performance of Gunnar Hansen.
3. Halloween
The beginning of the modern slasher flick. It single-handedly made John Carpenter one the greatest masters of horror, and created a cinema icon out of a white William Shatner mask.
2. Jaws
Scared everyone out of the water. Seriously. One of Spielberg's earliest efforts, even then he seemed like he'd be one of the greatest directors of all time.
1. Dawn of the Dead
Greatest zombie movie ever! Actually characterized the victims instead of root for the bad guy slasher flicks that the genre has become desensitized by.
