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Man to produce a truly horrifying flick for its time. The vision of a horribly burned man coming to teens in their dreams and killing them was just the beginning of his legacy. Movies like The Serpent and the Rainbow, The People Under the Stairs, The Hills Have Eyes, and most recently the Scream Trilogy have catapulted Wes Craven to the top of the Masters of Horror.

John Carpenter's movie Halloween invented the term "scream queen" by casting a young little known actress Jamie Lee Curtis. A man escapes a mental institution where he was placed for murdering his sister as a young boy and makes his way home to his town just in time for Halloween. Throughout the movie he stalks teenagers and eventually finds his way to Jamie Lee Curtis's character Laurie Strode. It made every babysitter everywhere scared to be with children alone. Halloween gave true meaning to the night of Halloween by scaring us half to death. Although Carpenter went on to make the rest of the Halloween series none was as scary as the original. Carpenter is also known for his other movies Escape From LA, Big Trouble in Little China, The Fog, and The Life of David Gale.

Night of the Living Dead is one of my all time favorite horror movies. In black and white and made in 1968 by George A. Romero is the quintessential horror movie. With nothing but make-up, eerie farm locations, and lighting tricks the movie has created fear in all those who have watched. The idea of the dead coming back to life to eat the living and turn them into walking zombies is perfection at its best. Judith O'Dea who plays a young Barbara trusted into this mess after she visits her father's grave with her brother Johnny finds herself at the forefront of a fight between the living and the dead. Known as the unlikely her, Ben played by Duane Jones is paired with Barbara held up in a house on a farm where they are swarmed with hundreds of zombies and have to fight to keep alive until day breaks. It's a simple movie with a simple concept that works well because of that. George Romero uses black and white photography to create a feeling of helplessness and this also accentuates the make-up used on the zombies he can use a little and allow lighting to do the rest. He is so well respected that movies have followed to try and recreate the magic he made with Night of the Living Dead, Return of the Living Dead, and later with Dawn of the Dead for which a remake was made. His latest movie in this series was Land of the Dead in which the

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