{"id":28365,"date":"2021-10-20T07:34:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T11:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28365"},"modified":"2026-01-23T16:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:32:11","slug":"the-all-time-most-influential-horror-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28365","title":{"rendered":"The All-Time Most Influential Horror Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kevin Delsignore at CBR.com came up with his list of The All-Time Most Influential Horror Movies.\u00a0<\/em> (Sadly, although it was an interesting list, it is no longer available.)\u00a0 I decided to play along and using Delsignore’s films, came up with my top two.\u00a0 Interestingly enough, my #1 pick didn’t make his list.<\/p>\n

#3.\u00a0 Jaws<\/em>:<\/strong>\u00a0 While some may argue that Jaws<\/em> isn’t really a horror film, it made Delsignore’s list, so for our purposes here it is.\u00a0 Jaws<\/em> not only spawned 3 sequels but also inspired countless other shark, octopus, orca, alligator, piranha… well, you get the idea, movies.<\/p>\n

#2.\u00a0 Halloween<\/em>:<\/strong>\u00a0 John Carpenter’s Halloween<\/em> spawned 11 sequels with a 12th on the way.\u00a0 It also opened the door for low-budget unstoppable serial killer movies where the victims were usually teenage kids (Friday the 13th<\/em>, Nightmare on Elm Street<\/em>, Scream<\/em>, etc.)..<\/p>\n

#1\u00a0 Night of the Living Dead<\/em>:<\/strong>\u00a0 My choice for the top spot is Night of the Living Dead<\/em> and surprisingly it didn’t even make Delsignore’s list!\u00a0 Not only did George Romero re-invent the “rules” for zombies, but he kickstarted a genre that has expanded from movies to tv to comics to video games and more.\u00a0 What’s just as crazy is that the zombie craze is still going strong over 50 years later!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kevin Delsignore at CBR.com came up with his list of The All-Time Most Influential Horror Movies.\u00a0 (Sadly, although it was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-movies","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41018,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28365\/revisions\/41018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}