Horror movies - Your favorites?

[bhjazz]

I'd put in another vote for The Shining. Also, honorable mention to Poltergeist. Something about that one stuck with me for days.

I remember seeing Conqueror Worm (aka, Witchfinder General) at the ripe age of eleven. It's more gore than horror, but was a one of a kind film at the time. Gah!

 

[amphead]

The Wolfman - "Lon Chaney"
Frankenstein - "Boris Karloff"

 

[PhaedrusX]

Juwon - the original Japanese film that later became The Grudge.

I'm under the suspicion that the folks in Hollywood have long ago run out of their own ideas.

 

[GlendaleViper]

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Originally Posted by floydenheimer /img/forum/go_quote.gif Frailty

This was an amazing movie. Amazing.

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Originally Posted by Bluetick /img/forum/go_quote.gif Anyone remember Prince of Darkness?

"Prince of Darkness" is a John Carpenter CLASSIC. I've only seen it once, but I really never forgotten it. Also, as Superpredator mentioned, "In the Mouth of Madness" is incredibly frightening and yet another display of Carpenter's keen eye for truly scary subject matter.

Let's recap for a second and give the man his props for his best horror work:

The Thing (80s)
In the Mouth of Madness
Prince of Darkness
Halloween

Self-professed Carpenter fanboy here... I even managed to derive great enjoyment from Escape from L.A. and Vampires!

 

[sinus1982]

It's more a thriller ... but: ALIEN

 

[EyeAmEye]

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Originally Posted by GlendaleViper /img/forum/go_quote.gif This was an amazing movie. Amazing. "Prince of Darkness" is a John Carpenter CLASSIC. I've only seen it once, but I really never forgotten it. Also, as Superpredator mentioned, "In the Mouth of Madness" is incredibly frightening and yet another display of Carpenter's keen eye for truly scary subject matter. Let's recap for a second and give the man his props for his best horror work: The Thing (80s) In the Mouth of Madness Prince of Darkness Halloween Self-professed Carpenter fanboy here... I even managed to derive great enjoyment from Escape from L.A. and Vampires!

Hey, don't knock Vampires!!! I love that film, and it had one of the best head vampires in horror history, that dude was imposing.

There is no enjoyment to be had from Escape From LA. Carpenter should be ashamed of himself. Snake Plissken surfing a tsunami is wrong on every possible level.

Some other recommendations, not great films but interesting:
Pumpkinhead (first one was unique, forget the rest)
Wishmaster (first one, maybe even second, forget the rest)
The Prophecy (Christopher Walken, not the 70's movie with mutant bear

, I & IV are the best, all are fairly interesting)

 

[Rock&Roll Ninja]

The Vanishing (original truley great film)
Deathwatch (not great cinema but better than Grudge-type movies)
Gingersnaps/Gingersnaps 3
Below
Exorcist
Event Horizon (a horror retelling of The Black Hole)
Tales From The Darkside
Bram Stoker's Dracula
High Tension
In The Mouth Of Madness


Tomb Of The Blind Dead (1971/spanish) is an pretty bad horror movie, but fans of The Fellowship Of The Ring should watch it

 

[EyeAmEye]

Alone In The Dark
House Of The Dead
Bloodrayne

Rock&Roll Ninja,

 

[Rock&Roll Ninja]

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Originally Posted by EyeAmEye /img/forum/go_quote.gif Alone In The Dark House Of The Dead Bloodrayne Rock&Roll Ninja,

I must admit Uwe 'nazi gold' Boll is getting better. At his current rate his 5th movie will be just plain ho-hum. Bloodrayne wasn't even in the same atmosphere as House of the Dead in terms of movie crapt*ness.

I'd still rather watch Jorg Buttgereit's Nekromantik at my mother's funeral than Bloodrayne. (which may have been better if only Kristanna Loken was naked for 98% of the movie.)

 

[warubozu]

There are 3 horror movies that comes to mind for me which I had watched when I was a kid:

Exorcist
Phantasm
Friday the 13th

The above 3 movies gave me nightmares for days after I had watched it when I was a kid.

 

[skullguise]

I have loved thriller and horror movies since I was a wee lad. The ONLY one that ever scared me - just for the movie - was the original black and white version of The Thing. Lousy and virtually campy by today's standards, it gave me nightmares fr 3 nights ina row after I saw it.

I saw the Excorcist when it first came out, i was around 13. LOVED it, but it didn't leave me scared.

As for my other faves, Evil Dead ranks up there, but I have always had a soft spot for B-Grade Campy Horror. So I liked the 2nd and third in the trilogy, liked movies like Basket Case, Bad Taste, Return of the Living Dead (especially the music; love the Cramps singing The Surfin' Dead), etc etc etc.

Repetitive scare-fests like Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street did/do little for me.

 

[Rock&Roll Ninja]

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Originally Posted by skullguise /img/forum/go_quote.gif I saw the Excorcist when it first came out, i was around 13. LOVED it, but it didn't leave me scared.

+1, I was 17. While clearly the Citizen Cane of horror films, the movie just wasn't scary by that point. It had just been built up tto much and couldn't live upto it expectation.

 

[amphead]

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Originally Posted by EyeAmEye /img/forum/go_quote.gif Have you seen The Descent? Similar to The Cave, and generally regarded as a better film.

I totally agree! The descent is quite a thriller! Does a good job of getting under your skin.

 

[milkweg]

You can always tell when Halloween' is near because people start discussing horror movies. I saw that Japanese version of the Grudge for ten bucks the other day. Is it worth buying? My favourite horror movie of all time is the Excorsist. Read the book twice and have seen the movie ump-teen times but the effect of it has worn off now. Also like the original Omen with Gregory Peck. I'm a fan of Vampire movies too and just recently added Coppola's Dracula to my collection. Most stylish version of Dracula ever made so far and follows the book fairly closely. Not a perfect movie but still quite good as far as vampire movies go. Near Dark is pretty good too but falls apart a bit towards the end.

 

[sinisterm]

Event Horizon here too.

"Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see." *chills*

Have to check that new movie called Sunshine, many people have compared it to Event Horizon, so could be really good too.