Alright, here's how this thing works. Later on in this post you will see the name of the movies nominated in this specific genre. They are presented in order by how many nominations they received, and then subsequently in order alphabetically when tied with the same number of votes. The number of nominations appears in parenthesis next to the movie title (with those not having a number receiving one nomination). Number of nominations was only the number of mentions the movie received in this specific genre.

 

Now, with that out of the way, here's the process. Simply look at the movie list and post your own list from the list of movies on the nomination list that you believe everyone, no matter what, must see. Feel free to poke fun, argue with, or ask for explanations from other users who may post lists. The point is to draw a general consensus on which movies should be viewed by everyone. If I see a movie that's getting a lot of issue over with more than one poster on each side of the debate, I'll post up a poll and have everyone speak specifically in that topic about that movie. Now, with all that out of the way, here's the list:

 

Horror

Halloween (Original) (3)

The Shining (3)

Jaws (2)

The Exorcist (2)

The Omen (2)

The Omen II: Damien (2)

The Omen III: The Final Conflict (2)

Alien

Army of Darkness

Blair Witch Project 1

Dead Alive

Halloween (The Entire Series)

Halloween H2O

Nightmare on Elm Street

Nosferatu

Poltergeist

Rosemary?s Baby

Saw I

Saw II

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Remake)

The Gate

The Others

The Sixth Sense

The Thing

Halloween (Original) (3)

The Shining (3)

Jaws (2)

Alien

Halloween (The Entire Series)

Nightmare on Elm Street

Poltergeist

Saw I

Saw II

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Remake)

Alien

Shining

Jaws

Army of Darkness

Halloween (Original)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)

 

Anyone who votes for the remake of TCM should be shot. And then bludgeoned. And then mutilated. Then ground into hamburger. Then eaten. Then pooped.

Not a real big fan of this genre

 

But I'd go with

 

Alien

Halloween

Shining

Jaws

The Shining

Alien

Jaws

Army of Darkness

Halloween

Halloween (Original)

The Shining

Jaws

The Exorcist

Alien

Rosemary?s Baby

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original)

The Thing

Halloween (Original)

The Shining

Jaws

The Exorcist

The Omen

The Omen II: Damien

The Omen III: The Final Conflict

Alien

Nightmare on Elm Street

Army of Darkness

 

The Shining (3)

Jaws (2)

Alien

The Shining

Jaws

Exorcist

The Omen

Alien

Poltergeist

This is a tough genre to judge. I don't think you can really tell anyone they HAVE to see Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It's really just not for some people. If that makes it, it should go in with an asterisk or something. I would say the same for The Exorcist. Not only has that movie been known to make people vomit or pass out, but it's also highly offensive if you're deeply religious. On the other hand, a movie like The Shining is more psychological than anything else. There's really not that much nastiness going on. Anyway, these are the movies I've seen in their entirety:

 

The Shining

Jaws

The Exorcist

The Omen

Alien

Blair Witch Project 1

Poltergeist

Rosemary?s Baby

The Others

The Sixth Sense

 

There are five other movies on the big list that I have seen at least half of, but I've elected not to include them.

 

Here are my must sees:

The Shining

Jaws

The Exorcist

Alien

Rosemary's Baby

 

To me, those are 5 no-doubters...not a questionable one in the bunch. I'm narrowly leaving out The Omen and The Others.

 

Question: Have most of you never seen Rosemary's Baby? Or have you seen it and you just don't rate it a must-see? I can't imagine anyone not at least liking it a lot.

The Shining

Alien

Rosemary's Baby

Halloween

The Others

Man, ya'll need to quit hatin' on TCM (Texas Chainsaw Massacre), sahn.

 

For REAL!

 

Vote for it now!!!

 

*resigns self to fact that it won't make the list because a) people didn't see it of b) it's hateable*

The Shining

Jaws

The Exorcist

Alien

Not a popular genre I presume.

 

Day or two more until this genre reaches the home stretch.

Halloween (Original)

The Shining

Jaws

The Exorcist

The Omen

Alien

Army of Darkness

Blair Witch Project 1

Poltergeist

Rosemary?s Baby

The Sixth Sense

I think it's pretty pointless to keep this going anymore.

 

Oh well.