I think, I think I've talked to you all, I want to for this list will be looking at the films that have transcended their era.

Thanks to well structured plots, iconic performances and innovative filmmaking techniques.

There will be some spoilers ahead.

So a spoiler warning is in effect.

Do you think these movies are timeless or are they starting to show their age?

Let us know in the comments below Number 10 Psycho.

Alfred Hitchcock is one of the greatest directors in film history and he crafted what could be the greatest horror movie ever made and you go out with friends.

Well, a boy's best friend is his mother.

Even the fact that its iconic twists are well known does not distract from the movies overall quality.

The plot is superbly structured and it remains innovative and unorthodox.

Its exploration of human evil remains fascinating and of course the performances remain uniformly excellent across the board after the murder, norman returned as if from a deep sleep and like a dutiful son covered up all traces of the crime.

He was convinced his mother had committed Anthony Perkins gives one of the all time best villain performances and norman Bates remains a tantalizing bad guy.

Even the black and white photography fails to date the movie.

Instead, it adds to the foreboding atmosphere.

All told psycho is as mesmerizing today as it was in 1960 which is really saying something.

She just goes a little mad.

Sometimes we all go a little mad sometimes.

Number nine jaws only in his late twenties, steven Spielberg crafted the blockbuster to end all blockbusters.

I'll catch this bird for you, but it ain't gonna be easy bad fish.

The concept of jaws is beautifully simple.

A hungry shark is terrorizing a popular tourist beach and the local police chief hopes to stop it.

The simplicity has allowed jaws to remain universal.

People still like beaches and they're still scared of sharks.

We've got a panic on our hands.

On the 4th of July, Spielberg's filmmaking has also transcended the generation as he employs a less is more approach that suggests rather than shows, but even when it does come to the show, Spielberg pulls it off in magnificent fashion with some mechanical sharks.

Nobody does summer blockbusters quite like Spielberg and he solidified the notion back in 1975.

Number eight Halloween with just $300,000 and a cheap captain Kirk mask, john Carpenter changed the very trajectory of movie history Halloween, I guess everyone's entitled to one good scare.

And if this movie didn't certify him as an all timer, then the thing says did like jaws Halloween has a very simple premise that remains both possible and horrifying to this day, a killer escapes from a mental institution and goes on a killing spree In the sleepy community of Haddonfield Illinois.

Death has come to your little town sheriff.

You can either ignore it or you can help me to stop it.

Carpenter transcends his tiny budget and does a lot with a little like employing the then revolutionary technique of the panna glide, allowing him to shoot smooth shots from Michael's point of view.

And yes, the silent Michael Myers is every bit as creepy today as he was in the late seventies.

I met him 15 years ago.

I was told there was nothing left, no reason, no conscience, no understanding.

And even the most rudimentary sense of life or death.

Number seven, an american werewolf in London, A naked american man stole my balloons.

What suffice to say?

This is not what people were expecting from director john Landis after Animal House and the Blues brothers.

In fact, Landis had this idea long before he directed those two films.

Having written the script back in the late 60s, his passion for the project is clearly evident.

It's both horrifying and hilarious, employing that famous landis charm while also scaring the pants on viewers with some truly mesmerizing special effects.

And speaking of the Oscar winning effects, they still look extraordinary and extraordinarily disgusting.

Today artist Rick Baker is an undeniable genius and his record seven Oscar wins can attest to that.

Stay on the road, keep clear of the moors.

Yeah, thank you.

Number six scream.

The slasher genre owes a major debt to scream.

I'm getting ready to watch a video.

Just some scary movie.

The movie gave a much needed jolt to the dying genre thanks to a terrifically structured plot, an iconic villain or two.

And fresh tongue in cheek humor that satirized the genre with knowing winks to the audience.

The movie's famous meta tone still works well, even though it inspired dozens of copycats throughout the years.

Oh you wanna play psycho killer, can I be the helpless victim?

Okay, let's see, no, please don't kill me Mr Ghostface.

I want to be in the sequel.

The cast is excellent.

The famous twist of having two killers is still interesting and best of all that opening sequence still goes hard.

Many movies have tried to do what Scream did, including its many Sequels, but none have quite captured that bottled magic.

That's the beauty of it.

All simplicity.

Besides if it gets too complicated, you lose your target audience.

Number five, The Blair Witch Project.

The entire found footage genre was popularized thanks to the Blair Witch project and like Scream, it's countless imitators have been largely unable to reach its cultural shattering heights regardless of what you personally think of the Blair Witch project, there's no denying a its legacy and be how well it's aged simplicity is the key here.

We never see the titular witch.

So things like visual effects haven't had the chance to age, scared to close my eyes, scared to open them.

Furthermore, the found footage Gimmick remains effective.

The footage could just as easily have come from a smartphone instead of a hand held camera and it has allowed this little movie from 1999 to transcend the major technological leaps that have occurred since its release.

We walked for 15 hours today.

We ended up in the same place.

There's no one here to help you.

That's your motivation.

Number four Rosemary's Baby while featuring satanic cults and the spawn of the devil.

Rosemary's baby is really about the experience of protagonist Rosemary Woodhouse hail satan hail satan is his father and his name is Adrian.

He shall overthrow the mighty and lay waste their temples.

He shall redeem the despised and wreak vengeance in the name of the burned and the tortured.

The movie deals with many still president themes regarding women's liberation and personal freedoms.

Rosemary is constantly gas lit and told what to do and those around her don't have her best interest at heart.

I don't know sometimes.

I think they're too friendly and helpful.

Her agency is constantly stolen by those who want something from her, including her own husband.

Of course, the movie also works extraordinarily well as a straightforward horror movie about creepy devil worship filled with fantastic performances and a palpable sense of paranoia and impending doom.

Rosemary's Baby is a timeless classic of the genre.

What have you done to it?

What have you done to its eyes?

Number three alien.

This movie has the same premise as countless B movies and alien stalks the inhabitants of a spaceship and cuts them down one by one.

Its structural perfection.

But thanks to director Ridley scott and his team of talented filmmakers, Alien far transcends its B.

Movie premise.

The alien itself is a timeless creature both in physical design and motive.

It's a predator and it wants to hunt and kill that alone will forever remain scary to us.

The movie is also a masterpiece of visual design, featuring some spectacular sets, still convincing visual effects and the nightmarish concoctions of artist H.

R.

Geiger.

There is absolutely zero indication that this movie was made in the late seventies Kane, Lambert Parker, Brett Ash and Captain Dallas are dead.

Number two Night of the Living Dead.

There's just something about little known directors working on shoestring budgets that generates timeless masterpieces.

They're coming to get you.

Barbara, Stop It.

You're ignorant knights of the living dead.

Not only started the whole Zombie movie Craze, but it also remains one of the scariest films in the Genre's history.

The onscreen violence is shockingly graphic and macabre and we can only imagine the terror it inspired in 1968.

There is an epidemic of mass murder being committed by a virtual army of unidentified assassins.

And while Romero would later expand his post apocalyptic vision.

We love the smaller scale of this movie.

It's both more personal and more realistic.

Even after all these years and countless imitators.

Night of the living dead has never been matched are they slow moving chief?

Yeah, they're dead.

They're all messed up.

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Number one.

The Shining Stanley Kubrick is considered one of the greatest directors ever for a reason.

Ah The caretaker, you've always been the caretaker.

His seminal horror film is an undisputed classic, transcending not only years, but also the very haunted house sub genre to which it belongs.

The film perfectly toes the line between serial paranormal scares and grounded horror regarding the loss of sanity.

I'm not going to hurt you.

You didn't let me finish my sentence.

I said, I'm not going to hurt you.

I'm just going to bash your brains.

Jack Nicholson sells his character's descent with remarkable skill and Shelley Duvall plays off him tremendously.

The movies ambiguities also remained tantalizing.

Having generated decades worth of interesting debate and discussion.

The shining can be viewed through an academic lens or simply as a straightforward haunted house thriller.

Either way, it's a masterpiece and it's remained as such for decades.

Then I'm off and I'll pass and I'll blow your house here.

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