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Horror Flicks, the most anticipated movies of the year. Good quality horror movies are the types that send chills down your whole body and not just your spine. Horror movies are known for providing pure sadistic pleasure. They give a certain kind of high that is peculiar to them. We derive ultimate delight from our own distress. The adrenalin rush that horror flicks cause can never be matched by the happiness given by a comic movie or emotions touched by a tragic movie. Horror movies play upon the most interesting emotion of human psychology that is Fear. They present situations that excite us and make us experience a feeling of anxiety mixed with fear and paranoid that cannot be experienced through anything else but something terrorizing and horrible.

There has been an evident deviation in the way horror movies are made today then they were made earlier in times gone by. Earlier the emphasis was laid on overt and explicit content, gore, blood, scary make-up and a scary story involving supernatural machinery. However, as time progressed and technology got better and better, directors took a leap into psychological thrillers and moved away from run-of-the-mill ghost stories and phantom chronicles. Modern directors did not completely do away with the supernatural and ghost trends but ventured to explore the horrific nature of human beings and dangerous potential of human beings. So we had this influx of movies dealing with the problem of the twisted mind and its devilish inclinations.

Following is a list of horror movies that have been famous for raising impulse rates and increasing heart beats. The list is not based on any sort of hierarchy or preference and the movies are randomly selected.

• The Ring (2002)
• The Exorcist (1973)
• Pet Cemetery (1989)
• Friday the 13th (1980)
• The Evil Dead (1981)
• The Omen (1976/2006)
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
• The Thing (1982)
• Psycho (1960)
• Dawn of the Dead (1978)
• The Haunting (1963)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
• Les Diaboliques (1955)
• The Beyond (1981)
• Hell Raiser (1987)
• The Blair Witch Project (1999)
• Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
• Halloween (1978)
• The Sixth Sense (1999)
• The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
• Shaun of the Dead (2004)

The list mentioned above is by no means complete. There may be numerous other scary movies which have not been mentioned here. So, please free to add any movie that you think deserves mention here.

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