The Best Horror Movies
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a 2003 American slasher film, directed and produced by Tobe Hooper, who cowrote it with Kim Henkel.
The film follows a group of friends who fall victim to a family of cannibals while on their way to visit an old homestead.
Although it was marketed as a true story to attract a wider audience and as a subtle commentary on the era’s political climate, its plot is entirely fictional; however, the character of Leatherface and minor plot details were inspired by the crimes of real-life murderer Ed Gein.
Plot:
A group of young adults are on their way to a Lynard Skynard concert in Dallas.
They cross through a small, isolated town called Travis County.
They pick up a disturbed woman who then shoots herself with a gun.
Looking for the local authorities, the group travels through the town, meeting the locals.
The group seeks help from the locals, but their situation becomes even more surreal when they are picked off by a strange man with a demented face.
The five friends find themselves hunted by a deformed chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.
Psycho
Psycho is an American psychological thriller-horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. 
The film centers on the encounter between a secretary, Marion Crane , who ends up at a secluded Marion Crane is a Phoenix, Arizona working girl fed up with having to sneak away during lunch breaks to meet her lover, Sam Loomis, who cannot get married because most of his money goes towards alimony.
One Friday, Marion’s employer asks her to take $40,000 in cash to a local bank for deposit. Desperate to make a change in her life, she impulsively leaves town with the money, determined to start a new life with Sam in California.
As night falls and a torrential rain obscures the road ahead of her, Marion turns off the main highway. Exhausted from the long drive and the stress of her criminal act, she decides to spend the night at the desolate Bates Motel.
The motel is run by Norman Bates, a peculiar young man dominated by his invalid mother.
After Norman fixes her a light dinner, Marion goes back to her room for a shower…A week later Marion’s sister arrives at Sam’s store in Fairvale to tell him Marion has disappeared. Together with a private detective, Milton Arbogast, they begin searching the area and eventually come across the Bates Motel.
It is now considered one of Hitchcock’s best films . Ranked among the greatest films of all time, it set a new level of acceptability for violence, deviant behavior and sexuality in American films, and is widely considered to be the earliest example of the slasher film genre. After Hitchcock’s death in 1980, Universal Studios began producing follow-ups: three sequels, a remake, a television film spin-off, and a TV series.
Saw
Saw is a 2004 American horror film, directed by James Wan. The screenplay, written by Leigh Whannell, is based on a story by Wan and Whannell. The film stars Cary Elwes and Leigh Whannell as two men who find themselves chained in a dilapidated subterranean bathroom, with one being ordered to kill the other or his family will die. It is the first installment of the seven-part Saw franchise.
After waking up in a tiny cell, two men find themselves victim of a serial killer who plays 
games with his victims and gives them one last chance to survive.
If they wish to live, they each have to play their own game as the killer has told them on an audio script.
As the film goes on, connections between the victims and the true identity of the never-showed-up killer are revealed.
The film series as a whole has received mostly mixed to negative reviews by critics, but has been a financial success at the box office .
While the films are often compared to Hostel and classified as torture porn by critics, the creators of Saw disagree with the term “torture porn”.
Writer Luke Y. Thompson of OC Weekly argued that, unlike Hostel, the Saw films actually have less torture than most in the sense of sadism or masochism, as Jigsaw believes that those who survive his methods will be stronger people for it. He called him a kind of a “(deranged) philanthropist”.
‘The Exorcist’
The movie tells the story about Regan, a little girl that something changed in the way shelooks and the way she acts, she becomes violent to everyone who comes in contact with her.
Her worried mother gets in contact with a priest who comes to the conclusion that Regan is possessed.
It’s difficult for those who weren’t around in 1973 to fully understand what happened when The Exorcist opened in theaters across America. Paramedics were called into some cinema because people were literally passing out. Nobody has ever seen anything this freaky, and everybody couldn’t get enough of it.
‘The Shining’
The Shining is a 1980 British-American psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick,
In the film, Jack Torrance, a writer and recovering alcoholic, takes a job as an off-season caretaker at the isolated Overlook Hotel, where Danny, the son, has a mysterious power known as “The Shining” that shows him things from the past and future of the hotel.
The father, Jack Torrance was convinced by a ghost to kill his family, Jack goes completely insane and the only thing that can save Danny and his mother is “The Shining”.
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