1. Sleepaway camp
2.Identity
3.The Hitcher
4.Rosemary's Baby
5.The sixth Sense (Not really a horror flick, but shocking)
SAW
FRIDAY THE 13TH
SLEEPAWAY CAMP
THE SHORTCUT
A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET
Here are a few unmentioned so far (I think), and I've stretched the definition of "horror flick" pretty close to its limits to include them:
(1) FREAKS (even close to eighty years later, the final scene before the tacked-on "happy ending" is heart-chilling);
(2) THE STRANGER LEFT NO CARD (a British short film that plays mostly as a comedy before veering into revenge horror in the end);
(3) THE HAUNTING (the original);
(4) DEAD OF NIGHT (somewhat cliched now, as so many lesser films have ripped it off, the mad whirl of screeching, terrifying images revealed to be a repeating dream is overwhelming if you haven't become jaded by those lesser films);
(5) MATANGA, FUNGUS OF TERROR/ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE (I'm not kidding -- if you can get beyond the title((s)) and simply watch the movie, it contains a powerful ending). Steve V.
No particular order:
Unhinged
Society
Who Can Kill a Child?
Dead & Buried
Someone's Knocking at the Door
Sleepaway Camp probably would've been on there, but the ending was ruined for me before I saw it.
1. The Mist. Absolutely has to go to the top and this is purely because of the ending written entirely for the MOVIE that wasn't in the novella itself. The ending was so pure genius that even Stephen King himself wished he had written it which REALLY says something for it.
2. Sleepaway Camp. Alot of us saw it coming, but we didn't expect to see 'it' on screen in such a way. I'm actually surprised they got away with this.
3. Blair Witch Project. People hate it, but it's still one of my all time favourites and the ending leaving on such an odd note deserves a mention.
4. An American Haunting. Who saw this ending coming? Did any of you jump?
5. An American Werewolf in London. End was so very final and very quick. I loved it, and it is an absolute classic.
and if there was a 6. Drag me to Hell. Excellent. Very vivid and vicious, regardless of the predictability.
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We've become a race of peeping toms.
2 more excellent ones:
The Baby
Buddy Boy
Jaywalking is RAMPANT!!!
~ Barney Fife
The Beast Within - the transformation scene scary im surprised noone mention this flick
Woodrow...You came here with teeth...Do you wanna leave here with teeth!-Aunt Esther
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Sleepaway Camp (of coarse)
The Mist
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
The Howling
Martyrs (which I will never watch again!)
The Shining (1980)
Cannibal Holocaust
We Need To Talk About Kevin (not a horror movie but it may as well be one)
Eden Lake
Saw
http://youtu.be/dJ6fjGS1lRg
Eden Lake, yes.
And it may not be horror, but Funny Games.
"You don't want bumpers. Life doesn't give you bumpers"
To this very day, the ending to Sleepaway Camp still creeps me the Hell out. I will carry that image to the grave I swear.
+++ Jason http://www.youtube.com/user/HaligonianType1
The Sixth Sense end was not "shocking", surprising, nor a twist.
The ruined it with the ad campaign they ran ALL THE DAMN TIME back before it was released. EVERYTHING was based around the line "I see dead people", the ads ran it, it was in EVERY SINGLE trailer.
We all knew it was a film about a kid that sees dead people...and the main character is shot in the opening 5 mins.
I recall watching this in the cinema with my then girlfriend (now wife) and after 5 mins saying to her "Bruce Willis is a ghost." She turned to me and said "Yeah, obvious isn't it?"
Anyone with an IQ over 2 knew what was going to happen in this film. It was not a "shock" at all. Other than the shock of the production company thinking we are idiots.
And so, God came forth and proclaimed widescreen is the best.
Sony 16:9