Classic Horror Movies

In the last few years there have been several successful horror movie parodies, most significant probably being Shaun of the Dead.

Mel Brooks did a great send up of a horror movie classic with his terrific Young Frankenstein

The thing is though, that many of the funniest horrror flicks were not meant to be funny ... they were dead serious about being really scary but they were either so cliche ridden or were the 9th installment of a once successful horror legend that just failed to frighten anyone except producers brain-storming ideas for Halloween 32.

The Wayans Brothers recognized this and made a mockery of many recent horror efforts in Scary Movie and then ironically followed in the footsteps of the genre they were ridiculing with Scary Movies 2,3 and 4 ... I guess as long as the green keeps coming in they'll keep puttin em out.

1. Linda Blair's complete head rotation in "The Exorcist".

2. The Alien breaking out of John Hurt's chest.

3. Jack Nicholson hacking through the door in "The Shining".

4. The Psycho shower scene with Janet Leigh.

5. The hand coming out of the grave in "Carrie"