Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD was a game-changer, kids. Released in 1968, it changed the face of horror movies forever. It was low-budget, bleak, and violent- NOTLD told audiences that "safe" horror movies of the past were forever gone. Horror was now dangerous, dark, and gritty. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD is a perfect time capsule of the tumultuous 60's as America was smack dab in the middle of the Vietnam War, racial tensions, the counterculture, and so forth.

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, with its low-budget and grainy filmstock, almost seemed like a documentary to audiences of 1968, and completely shocked the world with its graphic depictions of corpses rising from the dead to devour the living. Audiences had never seen anything like NIGHT OF THE LIVINGDEAD before, and it quickly and rightly so became a cult classic and a Halloween staple. This weird, low-budget fright flick would pave the way for another nightmare that would become just as infamous in its own right. That film was called THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE...

Released in 1974, Tobe Hooper's masterpiece of horror, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, hit theaters. I can absolutely say that this is hands down the scariest movie I have ever seen in my life. It's just so twisted and disturbing- like NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, it seemed as if we were watching a documentary or a snuff film. Both movies had completely unknown actors, both shot on cheap film, and both told simple yet absolutely terrifying stories. Based on the story of Ed