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Horror Movies: Top 5s

By Ted Berg

JILLIAN LOVEJOY LOWERY: I love being scared; I love every second of it. There’s nothing like it. (*In controlled situations, of course. Don’t get any funny ideas).

TED BERG: OK, I like a lot of horror movies. But I like a lot of horror movies for a variety of reasons, from ridiculous violence to unintentional comedy. The following list does not include numerous movies I thoroughly loved, perhaps more than the ones I mention below. The Evil Dead series, for example, did not make it for being too self-consciously campy. American Psycho didn’t make it because I feel like it was too good and too funny to be considered a horror movie proper. What follows, in honor of Halloween, are my five favorite horror movies that actually scared me.