Milestone Massacre: A Look at 30 Scary Movies Hitting Major Milestones

Written by Erin Maxwell

In today’s content starved culture of instant feel-good articles and nostalgia quick fixes, nothing says click-bait like a good old article or picture gallery celebrating the birthday of a beloved movie.

Last year was a banner year, as it seemed the Internet was deeming with articles calling out milestones of Back to the Future, The Goonies, The Breakfast Club.

I should know. I wrote half of them.

So it should not surprise you that this is yet another article celebrating the fact that another beloved movie from your childhood is moving into yet another decade, noting the turning time as you slowly grow closer to the shroud.

Yeah, you are as old as fuck. And so are these movies.

That said, the best way to note the passing of time is by what a culture deems as terrifying. Every person can understand drama, and humor can hold its own from decade to decade, but will what scares one generation be considered frightening to the next? Will the movies from 20 years ago, 30 years ago, or even 50 years ago still make us sleep with the hall light on?

Here is a master list of scary slasher and haunting horror movies celebrating milestones this year.

Revisit some of the titles and decide if a wronged telepathic teen on prom night or a slime-dripping alien that uses colonists as Legos can still make you cry out for help.

The Silver Anniversary – Released in 1996

• The Frighteners

• From Dusk Til Dawn

• Hellraiser VI: Bloodline

• Scream

• Thinner

Dirty at 30 – Released in 1986

• The Hitcher

• House

• Aliens

• April Fool’s Day

• Chopping Mall

• The Fly

• Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

• Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI

• Little Shop of Horrors

• Manhunter

• Maximum Overdrive

• Night of the Creeps

• Poltergeist II: The Other Side

• Troll

• Witchboard

35 and Counting… – Released in 1981

• Halloween II

• The Evil Dead

• The Burning

• Friday the 13th, Part II

• American Werewolf in London

• Happy Birthday To Me

• The House by the Cemetery

• The Howling

• The Omen III: The Final Conflict 

• Scanners

The Big 4-0 – Released in 1976

• Alice Sweet Alice

• Bloodsucking Freaks

• Carrie

• The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

• Master of the Flying Guillotine

• The Omen

• The Town That Dreaded Sundown

Golden Years – Released in 1966

• Blood Bath

• Chamber of Horrors

• Dracula: Prince of Darkness

• Manos: The Hands of Fate

• The Witches

Diamonds Are Forever – Released in 1956

• The Bad Seed

• The Black Sleep

• The Creature Walks Among Us

• The Fall of the House of Usher

• Godzilla, King of the Monsters

• Invasion of the Body Snatchers

• The Mole People

• Rodan

• The She-Creature

• The Werewolf