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My Top 10 Suspense/Horror
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1. The Shining (1980)
Jack Torrance (Jack
Nicholson), becomes the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in up
in the secluded mountains of Colorado. Jack takes his wife (Shelley
Duvall) and son (Danny
Lloyd) to the hotel to keep him company throughout the long,
isolated nights. During their stay, strange things occur when Jack's
son Danny sees gruesome images. Along with writer's block and the
demons of the hotel haunting him, Jack has a complete mental breakdown
and the situation takes a sinister turn for the worse.
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2. Army of Darkness (1993)
In this sequel to "Evil Dead 2", Ash (Bruce
Campbell) finds himself stranded in the 13th Century with his
car, shotgun, and chainsaw. Initially mistaken for an enemy, he
is soon revealed as the prophesied savior who can quest for the
Necronomicon, a book which can dispel the evil. If only it were
that easy...
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3. An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Two American tourists, David (David
Naughton) and Jack (Griffin
Dunne) while in England, are attacked by a werewolf that none
of the locals will admit exists.
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5. Jaws (1975) 
A police chief (Roy
Scheider), a scientist (Richard
Dreyfuss), and a grizzled sailor (Robert
Shaw) set out to kill a shark (Bruce) that is menacing the seaside
community of Amity Island.
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6. Silence of the Lambs (1991) 
Clarice Starling (Jodie
Foster), a young FBI agent, is assigned to help find a missing
woman, and save her from a psychopathic killer with the help of
another killer, Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony
Hopkins).
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7. Polertgeist (1982)
The Freeling family, Steve (Craig
T. Nelson) and Diane (JoBeth
Williams) have ghosts in their home. At first the ghosts appear
friendly, then they turn nasty and start to terrorize the family
before they "kidnap" their youngest daughter, Carol Anne (Heather
O`Rourke).
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8. John Carpenter's Vampires (1998)
The church has long known that vampires exist. So has Jack Crow
(James
Woods), it's head Vampire hunter and his assistant Montoya (Daniel
Baldwin). Together with Katrina (Sheryl
Lee) they hunt for the Master Vampire, Jan Valek (Thomas
Ian Griffith).
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9. The Evil Dead (1981)
Five friends go up to a cabin in the woods where they find unspeakable
evil lurking in the forest. They find the Necronomicon and the taped
translation of the text. Once the tape is played, the evil is released.
One by one, the teens become deadly zombies. With only one remaining
(Bruce
Campbell), it is up to him to survive the night and battle the
evil dead.
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10. Frankenstein : The True Story (1973)
A more psychological telling of the Mary Wolfstonecraft Shelley
story has a different kind of monster...Made for TV. Michael
Sarrazin stars as "The Creature/Legion", Leonard
Whiting is convincing as Dr. Victor Frankenstien.
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