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Horror Movies which make you Proud to be a Genre Fan (15 titles)

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A Social Commentary revolving around Zombies. What more could one ask for?

Dawn Of The Dead on DVD (1978)
Starring: David Emge, Richard France, Gaylen Ross
Director: George A. Romero
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George A. Romero's sequel to 'Night of the Living Dead' is regarded as one of the great zombie movies. The flesh-eating undead roam the Earth, leaving the living searching for refuge wherever they can. Media types Ross and Emge team up with two burnt-out cops to seek sanctuary in a disused shopping ..read more »
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Not just one of the Best Horror Films ever made but one of the best Films ever made.

The Exorcist on DVD (1973)
Starring: Lee J. Cobb, Max von Sydow, Kitty Winn
Director: William Friedkin
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Actress Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn) has every reason to be content, having just completed a film with director Burke Dennings (Jack MacGowran). However, she becomes disturbed by the changes taking place in her 12-year-old daughter, Regan (Linda Blair). At first sullen and withdrawn, Regan becomes ..read more »
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A Masterpiece in isolation terror

The Thing on DVD (1982)
Starring: T.K. Carter, Kurt Russell, Richard Masur
Director: John Carpenter
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John Carpenter's ice-bound sci-fi horror is a special effects-laden update of the 1951 Howard Hawks classic 'The Thing From Another World'. A research team in the Antarctic discovers a spaceship buried beneath the ice, and becomes terrorised by the shape-changing monster that is housed within.
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David Warner, Patrick Troughton, Gregory Peck. Need I say more?

The Omen on DVD (1976)
Starring: Lee Remick, Billie Whitelaw, David Warner
Director: Richard Donner
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US Ambassador Robert Thorn (Gregory Peck) is persuaded to substitute a newborn baby whose mother has died in childbirth for his own stillborn son. By the age of five the child, Damien, seems to be exerting a malevolent influence on the Thorn household, suffering a violent fit when he is taken to ..read more »
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It takes quite a lot to keep millions of people from not swimming in the Ocean.

Jaws on DVD (1975)
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Susan Backlinie
Director: Steven Spielberg
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Seventies blockbuster movie, directed by Steven Spielberg. A large man-eating shark wreaks havoc off the coast of Long Island whilst local sheriff Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) finds himself caught between a panicking community and a town council eager to play down the reported deaths. However, the ..read more »
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Still the benchmark for Slasher Horrors. Possibly the most influential film of all time.

Halloween on DVD (1978)
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P.J. Soles
Director: John Carpenter
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John Carpenter's highly influential modern horror/suspense film set the trend for two decades of re-makes and sequels. Six-year-old Michael Myers is confined to an insane asylum after stabbing his sexually active teenage sister to death on Halloween night 1963. Exactly fifteen years later Michael ..read more »
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Wonderful surrealism in dystopian film making.

In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
Starring: Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jurgen Prochnow
Director: John Carpenter
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An insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer's books have on his fans, is more than inspirational.
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Perfect fifties film making

Creature From The Black Lagoon on DVD (1954)
Starring: Antonio Moreno, Richard Carlson, Ricou Browning
Director: Jack Arnold
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An expedition exploring the Amazon River discover a 'Gill Man' - half man and half amphibian. Thought by the team to be the missing link in human evolution, the creature is captured and kept under observation. While in captivity it falls in love with the chief scientist's (Richard Carlson) female ..read more »
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The finest British Horror film of all time.

The Wicker Man (2 discs) on DVD (1973)
Starring: Ingrid Pitt, Diane Cilento, Edward Woodward
Director: Robin Hardy
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Director's cut of the cult horror classic in which a devout Christian policeman (Edward Woodward) is summoned to a remote Scottish island to investigate the disappearance of a child. While there he uncovers a bizarre pagan cult, led by Lord Summerisle (Christopher Lee). As preparations for a ..read more »
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You only need one Alien!

Alien on DVD (1979)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt
Director: Ridley Scott
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When Kane (John Hurt) and the crew of the spaceship 'Nostromo' investigate a transmission from a deserted planet, he is attacked by an unknown organism which attaches itself to his face. The crew cut the creature off, but not before it has made Kane the host of a monstrous alien killer, one which ..read more »
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