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More Must-See Horror Movies

Carrie 1976 The Exorcist 1973 The Fly 1986 Halloween 1978 Jaws 1975 A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 Psycho 1960 Rosemary’s Baby 1968 The Shining 1980 28 Days Later 2002

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
1974
None of the countless teens-versus-cannibals ripoffs can match the indie audacity and nerve-jangling trauma of Tobe Hooper’s original gorefest. It may be the only horror movie for which the audio alone would scare you stupid.
Rewind: The infamous “meat hook” scene is edited so well, viewers rarely notice that they never actually see hook pierce flesh.

Night of the Living Dead/Dawn of the Dead
1968/1978
George A. Romero combined politics and apocalypse to invent the zombie genre as we know it in his still-terrifying no-budget B&W classic, Night—then topped it with the splatter-tastic Dawn.

Three Must-See Horror Clips

Night of the Living Dead The original trailer for (still) one of the hands-down creepiest movies ever made. They've tried to remake it, retool it, and rip it off, but none have come close.

Carrie One of the best shocker endings of all time.

28 Days Later Normally, there's nothing all that unsettling about London. But, what if you remove all the Londoners? Man, that car alarm gets us every time.

More Must-See Sci-Fi Movies

Alien/Aliens 1979, 1986 Back to the Future 1985 Blade Runner 1982 Children of Men 2006 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 E.T. 1982 King Kong 1933 Planet of the Apes 1968 Star Wars 1977 Terminator/T2 1984, 1991

The Empire Strikes Back
1980
It takes a lot to trump an immor­tal classic. But damn if this funnier, smarter, darker sequel, featuring an AT-AT battle, Han Solo in carbonite, and Yoda, doesn’t pull it off.

2001: A Space Odyssey
1968
Who needs drugs when you have the Blu-ray of this cosmic magnum opus? Stanley Kubrick combines a classical soundtrack with then-advanced FX to tackle no less a theme than the eons-spanning evolution of humankind.
Extra: To nail HAL 9000’s creepily relaxed computer voice, actor Douglas Rain spoke his lines with his bare feet resting on a pillow.

Starship Troopers
1997
In the future, soldiers will look like models. They will wage war against alien bugs. And a current of fascism will turn a B-movie into a dissertation-worthy classic. 

Three Must-See Sci-Fi Clips

2001: A Space Odyssey There are many classic moments from this Stanley Kubrick masterpiece, but none are as memorable as a creepily calm and thoroughly insane computer named HAL. For more on 2001's vision of the future, check this out.

The Empire Strikes Back The original trailer didn't need any long-winded voiceovers, just music and clips. Imagine being a kid and seeing that for the first time: "Luke! Leia! Han! Um…That guy from The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings!" For a more detailed analysis of the Empire Strikes Back trailer, check this out.

The Terminator We could show you car chases or battle sequences from the future…but instead, how about a nice little shopping spree? For more on The Terminator and its failed predictions, check this out.

A Clockwork Orange
1971
The swinging ’60s meet dystopian future in Stanley Kubrick’s daring provocation, in which proto-punk Malcolm McDowell somehow gets our sympathy when brain­washed by the big, bad government.
Rewind: McDowell mimics Singin’ in the Rain while engaging in a bit of ultraviolence.

More Must-See Art House

Badlands 1973 The Bicycle Thief 1948 The Conversation 1974 Do the Right Thing 1989 Elephant Man 1980 The Last Picture Show 1971 Repo Man 1984 Rushmore 1998 Short Cuts 1993 There Will Be Blood 2007

Withnail and I 
1987
Take two drug-addled on-the-dole actors from 1969 London, throw them into a dilapidated country house, take away any modern conveniences, add a touchy-feely gay uncle and—voilà!—you have a sardonic cult classic. Cheers!

City of God
2002
Imagine the best gangster bits from The Wire, mix in doc-style cinematography, then set the whole thing in the slums of Rio, and you might have something approaching Fernando Meirelles gritty, intoxicating epic.

Annie Hall
1977
Relationships suck—and yet everybody wants one. No film better explains that paradox than Woody Allen’s lone Best Director winner, whose title character (Diane Keaton) makes Allen equal parts miserable and happy(ish).

Midnight Cowboy
1969
Never has a fish-out-of-water tale been so subversive as when Texas cowboy poser Jon Voight steps off the bus in Manhattan naively looking to become a gigolo and makes unlikely friends with scuzzy swindler Dustin Hoffman.

Three Must-See Art House Clips

A Clockwork Orange Warning: This trailer may cause seizures and a deep mistrust of authority.

Rushmore "What's the secret, Max?" Wes Anderson's greatest creation gives us all a valuable life lesson.

There Will Be Blood This is for all of you who already think that this whole movie is about milkshakes, anyway.

More Must-See Mindbenders

Beetlejuice 1988 Blue Velvet 1986 Brazil 1985 Donnie Darko 2001 Edward Scissorhands 1990 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Fight Club 1999 Memento 2000 Pink Floyd: The Wall 1982 The Manchurian Candidate 1962

The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1975
Obscene chants, trashy lingerie, perversion—and that’s just the audience! No wonder it’s been a midnight staple for decades.

Akira
1988
This anime tour de force makes no sense unless viewed un­der heavy sedation, but the postapoca­lyptic Tokyo overrun with biker gangs and fascist police is gorgeous.

Three Must-See Mindbender Clips

Akira Post-Apocalyptic Neo-Tokyo looks like an awesome place to call home. Super-bikes, clown gangs, bongo music—what's not to love?

The Rocky Horror Picture Show Ever wonder where your Dad goes every Friday night at midnight wearing your Mom's fishnets? Wonder no more.

Fight Club "I'd fight William Shatner."

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