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Davie Pirie: Top Ten Horror Films

Dave Pirie is a screenwriter, novelist, and critic, and the author of A Heritage of Horror, a classic account of British horror cinema. His list, which appears on pages 398 of The Encyclopedia of Horror Movies edited by Phil Hardy (Harper & Row, 1985) is skewed toward fifties and sixties films but admits that Brian De Palma's Carrie was a close contendor. He vehemently defends his inclusion of A Nightmare on Elm Street, calling Wes Craven "quite the most tenacious and consistent of the last wave of horror movie makers.... Nightmare manages to move that whole dreary subgenre [teenage massacre] on light years by its use of dreams, and raises high hopes that Craven could yet be the most important exponent of horror since [Roman] Polanski."
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Psycho (1960)
Psycho (1960)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
3
Halloween (1978)
Halloween (1978)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
4
The Devil Rides Out (1968)
The Devil Rides Out (1968)
Rotten Tomatoes®   95%
5
Quatermass II (1957)
Quatermass II (1957)
Rotten Tomatoes®   78%
6
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
7
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
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Peeping Tom (1960)
Peeping Tom (1960)
Rotten Tomatoes®   95%
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Rotten Tomatoes®   95%
10
Night of the Eagle (1962)
Night of the Eagle (1962)
Rotten Tomatoes®   80%
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