Rayzor’s Top 10 Horror Films (1950s – 1960s)

This is the second installment of Rayzor’s Top 10 Horror Films.  This list will cover the 1950s and the 1960s.  You may ask why I decided to cover two decades.  If you do research in horror films produced by decade you will see that it grows every year.  The 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s were more about quality over quantity.  In the 10 years between 1950 – 1959 there were 119 horror films made, in 2010 – 2013 214 were released.  Not to mention the 1970s and the 1980s horror films really took off, check out these charts thanks to www.popmatters.com.  These are really interesting numbers.  It must be easy to make a horror film these days.

Rayzor’s Top 100 Horror Films #2 Dawn of the Dead

When there’s no more room in HELL, the dead will walk the EARTH

This is it, number two on the countdown.  If you were wondering if this was left out, hopefully you were not let down.  This is the ultimate zombie movie.  George Romero put one of the goriest films ever made, at the time anyway.  Back in the day the US theatrical cut of the film earned the taboo rating of X from the association because of its graphic violence and the gore.  I wonder if it had anything to do with people eating other people.  Against todays standards, Dawn of the Dead is pretty tame, but everyone now is totally desensatized.

Rayzor’s Top 100 Horror Films #7 Day of the Dead

This may not be my favorite zombie movie made, but I do think it is the best zombie film ever made.  With this, it seemed at the time effects and make-up design really reached new heights.  Every single death in the film was extremely violent and elborate.  The story was great and you really felt the world was falling apart.

31 Days of Horror: Land of the Dead

Zombie!  If you have a bad day, watch a zombie flick.  You know why, becuase no matter what happens, nothing could be as bad as a zombie apocolypse.  No way, nothing could ever be that bad.  But when you watch this film if feels like everything is ok.  Fiddler’s Green is an upscale location gated off from the zombies.  Sure there are the lower levels that are rough and have under ground zombie fights.  The set up is very cool, but it doesn’t matter, zombies do not stop and there is always more of them then the alive.

31 Days of Horror: Night of the Living Dead

Originally titled Night of the Flesh Eaters, this is the grandaddy of all modern zombie films.  This is the big one, if not for Night of the Living Dead we would not have a saturated market full of bull crap zombie movies.  Yeah I said it there are so many bad zombie films, it seems like if you wanna make a horror film, make it a zombie romp.  Movies with no story, bad acting and bad effects, we should make one!  To be honest I, like many, am a sucker for zombie movies and stories.