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People have always enjoyed a good scary story, something that keeps them on the edge on their seat. Whether it be a ghost story around a fire, horror movies, or a thrilling book by the likes of Stephen King or Dean Koontz, people have always found getting scared by a story perversely satisfying.

Of course when it comes to films, the genre is wide and diverse, with horrors ranging from the wacky and silly, to gory blood feasts, to psychological thrillers and so much more.

Comparing horror movies is always going to be tough. Alfred Hitchcock for example made some of the great classics, films like Psycho and The Birds, but they are very difficult to compare to a movie like A Nightmare on Elm Street for example. But these five films perhaps best define the genre in a whole, the films that inspired thousands more just like them.

Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, who was a master of thriller and suspense, remains one of the greatest movies of all time. Made in 1960 and with a freakishly great performance by Anthony Perkins as the psychopathic Norman Bates, the movie may not be as shocking as it was back then, but it still is as nerve-wracking as ever, and Hitchcock’s mastery of tension is still as strong as ever. The theme music and shower scene remain as iconic as ever.

Another oldie is William Friedkin’s The Exorcist, made in 1973, but beware, this oldie is going to make you have sleepless nights. Dealing with the possession of a young girl, and the attempts by priests to rid her of this demon, it is the kind of scary movie that will leave a lasting impression. With stellar performances from Ellyn Burstyn, Max Von Sydow and Linda Blair as the possessed girl, Regan, do not watch this alone.

While not the most traditional of all horror movies, there is no doubt that Steven Spielberg’s Jaws scared more people out of swimming in the sea than anything before it. It also inspired hundreds of other movies with a similar story, of a real life creature demonizing ordinary people. Still to this day almost four decades later, humming a few bars of the theme at the beach will scare enough people to believe a shark is nearby.

While there are many to contend with when it comes to the slasher genre of horror movies, the original Halloween, made in 1978, stands out from the rest, perhaps because it was directed by the legendary John Carpenter. Michael Myers has had his fair share of competition from the likes of Friday the Thirteenth’s Jason or Elm Street’s Freddie Kruger. Jamie Lee Curtis and the eerie Donald Pleasance were the stars of that first film.

Finally, and to show Steven Spielberg’s influence on horror movies, is a movie produced by him, and directed by Toby Hooper, the one and only Poltergeist. Released in 1982, the film revolves around a haunted home, and the family these ghosts decide to terrorize, eventually even taking the youngest child, memorably into the television set. Leading the cast were Craig T. Nelson and JoBeth Williams.

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