The Best Horror Films - From 1980 to 1999

Alien Resurrection would not make my list if dong it like this person did.  I like it, but horror or not, I just don't think it's that great.  For another sort of sci-fi meets horror film, not of this Earth angle of that 1997 year, I find Event Horizon way more interesting (and more horror).  That's a nice one to pair with Hellraiser.  It's a sort of cosmic horror that I just find excellent.  

Ah, okay. Well, I just don't see Alien: Resurrection as a horror film. It's SF action (I saw it once, in the theater, and have never had the urge to rewatch it).

I like In the Mouth of Madness, but I like Prince of Darkness (my second favorite John Carpenter film, and overall favorite Carpenter score) a lot more.

On that note: why Alien: Resurrection and not The Thing (1982)?

I love that spiritual quality to the setting.  I love the whole atmosphere, really like the setting and characters Alien 3 is  one of those films that to me, and I know people hate this term, is terribly underrated. Some people just hate the xenomorph in it.  And great soundtrack indeed.  I love City of Lost Children, as well as Delicatessan and Amelie.  I saw his Netflix film not long ago Bigbug, which I quite enjoyed in its way, but didn't really work for me.  The comedy and other things felt forced and so over-the-top.   Farcical. A bit embarrassing.  I have seen other fine and unique directors end up going with I think too broad, over-indulgent, silly farcical comedy, like Bong-Joon Ho with Okja.  I wish they would rein it in.

And suddenly another film pops into my mind which I absolutely should have mentioned before as it is one of my favourites, and probably my fave horror of the 90s, Event Horizon.

I do have issues with "best" lists generally due to the subjective nature of appreciation and that no one person has seen them all. The Silence of the Lambs is a great film, but like with Seven that was mentioned, I tend to think of it as more thriller genre than horror (fine with those who think of it as horror, and it certainly has those qualities).

The Shining is the most obvious omission and I'm on that bandwagon with it being one of my favourite films  (I've been far more positive about it than Stephen King has).  Another that would make my list  is Cronenberg's Videodrome.  And no The Thing on that list (one of my very favourite 80s horror films). Another that I would really, really want to include is An American Werewolf in London (I love that film).  The Hunger is another favourite of mine.  Basket Case is another favourite of mine (what's in the basket?), but I wouldn't expect it, or the Hunger for that matter, on many best lists.  And I love the 80s Cat People remake (not really scary, but...).  From the 90s I like Cube a lot, and I would definitely want to mention Audition.  Misery is another that I liked.

EDIT: I realise it's doing one per year, and I should have thought to add in the years of the films I'm mentioning.  Mine is a list of some of my favourites not on the list rather than criticising the person's list, nor would I necessarily replace one on the list with one I mentioned.  Each year has had various ones considered great by many aficionados as well as ones that I find excellent..