Saying that there area lotof horror moviesout there is an understatement.

The genre continuously sees expansion, with filmmakers with all sorts of budgets and ideas creating something for themselves.

For anyone just getting into horror, these are themovies that won’t disappoint you.

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Its reputation lives up today, as the originalScreamis still considered the best of all its sequels.

With one of the greatest killer reveals,Screamis still as good as the first time you see it.

When people startedwatching J-horror,Ringuwas one of the first movies they got into.

Damien (Harvey Spencer Stephens) in the foreground looking angered as Robert (Gregory Peck) and Katherine (Lee Remick) sit behind.

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It works today, too, and holds up well even after so many copies and parodies.

Someone who instills terror and fear into the viewer without sometimes moving an inch.

Halloweenfollows Myers, an escaped prisoner of a psychiatric hospital.

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The suspense and fear thatHalloweeninstills into viewers hasn’t faltered to this day.

Ripley is the horror hero everyone loves, and one of the firstfemale action heroeson par with most men.

When the crew realizes what’s happening, they become paranoid and terrified, quickly turning on each other.

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It sinks its teeth under one’s skin, and it’s brilliantly directed.

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Rosemary holding up a piece of jewelry, in ‘Rosemary’s Baby’

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Scream

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Rie Ino as Sadako, a young woman in white with black hair over her face in the woods, from ‘Ringu’

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The shark approaching a swimmer in the poster for Jaws.

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The xenomorph coming out of the smoke in Alien.

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McCready looking ahead in John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982)

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Linda Blair as Regan floats up from the bed as two priests perform an exorcism in ‘The Exorcist

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