Great Movies With Greater Monsters
AMC Movie List

Great Movies With Greater Monsters

Clothes make the man and monsters make the movies. (At least for horror fans.) Which fright flick is your favorite, taking into account how good its monster is?

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1 The Silence of the Lambs
Anthony Hopkins introduces the singularly terrifying Hannibal Lecter, a briliant psychiatrist who doubles as a canniablistic serial killer. 803 1745
2 Psycho
Hitchcock's masterpiece sets the standard for suspense and terror with the famous shower murder and Norman Bates's "mother." 695 1605
3 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The infamous monster Leatherface, with his trademark chainsaw, and his cannibalistic family terrorizes a group of teens on a road trip. 512 1666
4 Carrie
Bullied by her peers and her religious fanatic mother, Carrie is pushed to her limit at the prom and lashes out with telekinetic powers. 351 1473
5 The Omen
A father (Gregory Peck) must kill his murderous adopted son, who turns out to be none other than the son of Satan. 334 1516
6 The Evil Dead
Sam Raimi's debut may have a bunch of teens in the woods, but it's anything but typical as Ash must kill his demon-posessed friends. 328 1522
7 Jeepers Creepers
Two travelers find themselves the target of a mythical, unkillable creature who feasts on human body parts. 239 1559
8 Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The paranoid '50s classic sees a small town subsumed by aliens capable of taking human form and determined to overun earth. 101 1365
9 The Blob
Steve McQueen's first starring role pits him against an blob of goo that can devour a whole block at once. 99 1437
10 Children of the Corn
Travelers stumble upon a town of children who have murdered the adults and worship a god named "He Who Walks Behind the Rows." 42 1452