“Yes, there could be a great Dead Teenager Movie.  Please send me a list of the 100 greatest.” 

—Roger Ebert, “AFI 100: ‘Kane’ Still Number One”

Here you go Roger, compliments of Michael “Egregious” Gurnow and Horror Bob of The Horror Review and Nate Yapp from Classic-Horror.  Admittedly, we found ourselves prematurely chuckling as we worked our way down the list for, indeed, even those of us within the horror genre would feign stating that a work such as Jack Sholder’s A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge is a great film.  However, as par your request and in lieu of the confines within which we were establishing the catalogue being innately prohibitive atop the fact that we did not necessarily concur with your implied sentiment that there exists a significant motive to fashion a division between the Dead Teenager Movie and the Stalker medium (analogous to being asked to gather 100—not comedies, or even screwball comedies—but the 100 greatest screwball comedies set in the Midwest), we present to you what we believe to be the greatest which the DTM subgenre has to offer.  Hope you enjoy.  

100 Greatest Dead Teenager Movies

  1. Scream (1996) dir. Craven

  2. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) dir. Craven

  3. Behind the Mask:  The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006) dir. Glosserman 

  4. Sleepaway Camp (1983) dir. Hiltzik

  5. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) dir. Hooper

  6. Halloween (1978) dir. Carpenter

  7. Ginger Snaps (2000) dir. Fawcett

  8. Final Destination (2000) dir. Wong

  9. Idle Hands (1999) dir. Flender

  10. Battle Royale (2000) dir. Fukasaku

  11. Suspiria (1977) dir. Argento

  12. Evil Dead (1981) dir. Raimi

  13. Black Christmas (1974) dir. Clark

  14. Suicide Club (2002) dir. Sono

  15. Friday the 13th (1980) dir. Cunningham

  16. Carrie (1976) dir. De Palma

  17. Scream 2 (1997) dir. Craven

  18. Ringu (1998) dir. Nakata

  19. Jeepers Creepers II (2003) dir. Salva

  20. The Woods (2006) dir. McKee

  21. Strange Behavior (1981) dir. Laughlin

  22. Stay Alive (2006) dir. Bell

  23. The Lost Boys (1987) dir. Schumacher

  24. The Faculty (1998) dir. Rodriguez

  25. Evil Dead 2 (1987) dir. Raimi

  26. May (2002) dir. McKee

  27. Evilspeak (1981) dir. Weston

  28. Happy Birthday to Me (1981) dir. Thompson

  29. Fright Night (1985) dir. Holland

  30. Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) dir. Miner

  31. Jeepers Creepers (2001) dir. Salva

  32. Popcorn (1991) dir. Herrier

  33. April Fool’s Day (1986) dir. Walton

  34. Prom Night (1980) dir. Lynch

  35. Jack Frost (1996) dir. Cooney

  36. Freddy vs. Jason (2003) dir. Yu

  37. The Craft (1996) dir. Fleming

  38. Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987) dir. Pittman

  39. I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) dir. Cannon

  40. Birth Rite (2003) dir. Hamilton

  41. Jaws (1975) dir. Spielberg

  42. The Blair Witch Project (1999) dir. Myrick

  43. Dr. Giggles (1992) dir. Coto

  44. I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) dir. Gillespie

  45. Final Destination 2 (2003) dir. Ellis

  46. Christine (1983) dir. Carpenter

  47. Dark Harvest (2004) dir. Moore

  48. Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) dir. Miner

  49. Night of the Demons (1988) dir. Tenney

  50. Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) dir. Buechler

  51. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) dir. Nispel

  52. Urban Legend (1998) dir. Blanks

  53. The Prowler (1981) dir. Zito

  54. Hell Night (1981) dir. DeSimone

  55. Cherry Falls (2000) dir. Wright

  56. A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989) dir. Hopkins

  57. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) dir. Russell

  58. House of Wax (2005) dir. Collet-Serra

  59. Wrong Turn (2003) dir. Schmidt

  60. The Funhouse (1981) dir. Hooper

  61. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) dir. Zito

  62. House of 1000 Corpses (2003) dir. Zombie

  63. Just Before Dawn (1981) dir. Lieberman

  64. Psycho Beach Party (2000) dir. King

  65. Night of the Demons 2 (1994) dir. Trenchard-Smith

  66. Dark Ride (2006) dir. Singer

  67. The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) dir. Jones

  68. Final Stab (2001) dir. DeCoteau

  69. Soul Survivors (2001) dir. Carpenter

  70. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) dir. Harlin

  71. Jason X (2001) dir. Isaac

  72. Halloween II (1981) dir. Rosenthal

  73. Wolf Creek (2005) dir. Mclean

  74. A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) dir. Kim

  75. Final Destination 3 (2006) dir. Wong

  76. Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI (1986) dir. McLoughlin

  77. My Bloody Valentine (1981) dir. Mihalka

  78. Frightmare (1983) dir. Vane

  79. Campfire Stories (2001) dir. Cea

  80. Bloody Murder (2000) dir. Portillo

  81. Slaughter High (1986) dir. Dugdale

  82. The Initiation (1984) dir. Stewart

  83. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) dir. Hedden

  84. Friday the 13th Part III (1982) dir. Miner

  85. The Hitcher (2007) dir. Meyers

  86. The House on Sorority Row (1983) dir. Rosman

  87. The Convent (2000) dir. Mendez

  88. 976-EVIL (1989) dir. Englund

  89. Sorority House Massacre (1986) dir. Frank

  90. Cannibal Campout (1988) dir. Fisher

  91. Uninvited (1988) dir. Clark

  92. Scary Movie (2000) dir. Wayans

  93. Joy Ride (2001) dir. Dahl

  94. Cabin Fever (2002) dir. Roth

  95. A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985) dir. Sholder

  96. Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985) dir. Steinmann

  97. Swimfan (2002) dir. Polson

  98. Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993) dir. Marcus

  99. Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) dir. Sellier

  100. Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988) dir. Simpson

Read about the genesis, entomology, and creation of the 100 Greatest Dead Teenager Movies in Nate Yapp’s “Ebert, AFI, and the Dead Teenager Movie” or Michael “Egregious” Gurnow’s companion article, “Roger Ebert’s Bloody Ax:  An Examination of the Film Critic’s Elitist Dismissal of the Horror Film.” 

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