- Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Director: Tobe Hooper
Overview: Teenagers driving through the backroads of Texas, get chased after y a man with a chainsaw, making sure the family secret doesn’t get out
2. Poltergeist (1982) 
Director: Tobe Hooper
Overview: Family in California gets contacted by a ghost through the television set. Originally friendly turned into a malicious ghost.
3. Alien (1979) 
Director: Ridley Scott
Overview: Deep into space, the crew of the starship receives a distress call from an alien spacecraft. When the crew finds an alien egg, that’s when all the terror starts.
4. The Shining (1980) 
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Overview: Based on the Stephen King book, a family become caretakers of a hotel isolated in the mountains of Colorado. While there, the family goes through psychological torture, with a gruesome history.
5. Trick r Treat (2007) 
Director: Michael Dougherty
Overview: Traditions are forgotten in this town, when they come face to face with real ghosts. The horror of not following traditions comes back to haunt them.
6. The Exorcist (1973) 
Director: William Friedkin
Overview: Loosely based around a true story, when the young girl starts to act weird. They contact the local priest and soon find out they have to do an exorcism.
7. Halloween (1978) 
Director: John Carpenter
Overview: Halloween of 1963 when Michael Myers became a murder at 6. Locked away until Halloween of 1978, he comes back for revenge.
8. Psycho (1960) 
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Overview: A Phoenix secretary is on the run after stealing $40,000. She finds a backroad motel where she meets the owner and her maker.
9. Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) 
Director: Wes Craven
Overview: Teenagers become prey to Freddy Kruger, who only goes after teenagers in their sleep. When in real life it kills them.
10. Scream (1996) 
Director: Wes Craven
Overview: Ghost masked killer stalks high school students, it’s considered to be a comedy-slasher horror film.
