Best Horror Movies

[Rivet_HeadINC]

Here we go...

1. Hellraiser 1 & 2 (watched those by myself for the first time)

2. The Exorcist 1 & 3, along with the Prequal

3. Fright Night

4. The Ring

5. The Grudge

6. Night of the Living Dead (B & W version)

7. The Blob

8. C.H.U.D

9. Darkness Falls

10. Troll

11. Dolls

12. Saw

13. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original and New Versions)

14. Poltergist

15. Halloween

16. Waxworks

17. Willard

18. Dawn Of The Dead

19. Friday the 13th (It's a must)

and last but not least,

20. In The Mouth of Madness

and I'm spent...

forgot one,

21. The Prophacy (Vigo Mortenson as Lucifer, IMO his best role)

christ, I'm an idot to have forgotten these three

22. The Evil Dead Trilogy (Bruce Campbell is a god)

[paradox]

the ring didnt do anything for me. didnt even bother to see the grudge.

id have to put lugosi's white zombie up there somewhere, but i like old B&W horror flicks best.

plan 9 from outer space?

[Brenda Starrr]

The Shining.

OMG...The Amityville Horror

Edited because I totally forgot about The Amityville Horror!

[Daniel]

I'm such a toss up with horror movies. I love them, but I either like really surreal, twisted shit, or heavy camp value. So as to not be redundant, I won't include "zombie" movies, because I generally like them all, regardless of how shitty they might be.

"Eraserhead" - While maybe not technically a horror movie... fucking disturbs the shit out me.

"Shadown of the Vampire" - More of a comedy, yet fantastic in every way. Defoe gets major props for this role.

"Kwaidan" - A set of short Japanese ghost stories. All constructed sets, and while not scary, they are all very moody, very pretty and engaging. Highly recommended.

"Bubba Hotep" - How can anyone not go for Elvis in a nursing home combatting an Egyptian mummy?

"The Village" - Again, I'm not sure this qualifies as real horror, but I loved the tension and mood in this movie. I'm not a big fan of that guy's "twist in the ending" gimmick, but I loved how this film played out.

"The Ring" - Just creepy. Seriously, that shit was creepy. I didn't like "Ringu" at all, btw. Usually, remakes are crap, but in this case, I felt the remake was superior.

[Rivet_HeadINC]

I totally forgot Amittyville, I'm such a jerk. Have any of you heard that the guy who did the new version of Texas Chainsaw Massacre is reduxing The Amittyville Horror?

I saw the trailer for it on Quick Time and it looks great. It follows the original to a "T".

[Fierce Critter]

"Eraserhead" - ditto the disturbed factor. I didn't know what in hell I was watching, and I still don't know what the hell that was.

Amityville Horror - for some reason, I can't take those movies seriously. Perhaps it's because I read the books about it when they first came out, and what I envisioned was a lot more terryfying than what they portrayed in the films.

I'm still on the fence over whether I believe any of it. When I lean toward the "believe" side, the stuff scares me. When I lean toward the "it's BS" side, it's just another horror film to me.

I think I lost faith when they came out with sequels.

[Saephyr]

The first time I saw Rosemarry's Baby I was pregnant with my first child.  The neighbors accross the street used to have a lit up, inverted pentegram on the front door!!!!

The Exorcist

Amityville Horror-I read the book in high  school and it scared the crap outta me!!

Evil Dead trilogy

Bram Stokers Dracula-the part at the end when Nina is trying to  decide between Johnathan Harker and Dracula makes me cry sometimes-cheezy!

Seven

Lost Boys-swoons

Nightmere on Elm St 2-first horror movie i ever saw

Night Breed

Some are not real horrific but really good to me.

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DAmn! That would freak you out!

I knew I loved Phee in secret. What a great list he had!

[Saephyr]

OK now that you all have me hanging for a huge horror film that doesn't exist...I want all the ones listed topped by some unexpected young director and screenplay just like the infamous EVIL DEAD! That is so much fun and yet it's gross and gives you the heebie jeebies to boot!

My fav of all time is TCM Texas Chainsaw Massacre the 1st and only version a person should see...but I'm kinda bias since I'm one of Leatherfaces unofficial wives...he's such a BIG cuddle maniac! He drives me nuts! Grrrrr

[Saephyr]

I am now watching the end of Carrie!!!

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When a Stranger Calls terrifying!

[mandelbrotjulia]

Cube trilogy (the new one rocks!)

The Thing

Poltergeist

The Grudge

Aliens Quadrilogy

Evil Dead 2

Phantasm

House on Haunted Hill (gotta love Geoffery Rush)

Wes Craven's New Nightmare

Freddy vs. Jason

The Eye

Tetsuo the Iron Man

[lullaby1031]

If you guys love horror - then you should seriously check out the film from August Ungerground Mordem - The most offensive, most shocking film ever!

[Daniel]

If you guys love horror - then you should seriously check out the film from August Ungerground Mordem - The most offensive, most shocking film ever!

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I actually get kind of bored of shocking/offensive films. Mostly because I'm not offended or shocked by much (anything?), and these films usually lack much else. I don't get into a lot of Takashi Miike because of the emphasis on splatter, but at least some of his stuff is otherwise interesting.

[Onyx]

Susperia - I'd watch this just for the visual effects (he plays with color and lighting and a lot of it is very arty and breath-taking) but there's also suspense and some very strange happenings.

Alien - action, science fiction, horror, some of my favorite actors

Event Horizon - yes! Classic. Somehow I particularly like horror when it's set in space and also has Hell or supernatural forces.

Chronicles of Riddick - more scifi than horror I suppose but something about the undead and the cleaners really creeped me out.

Resident Evil - Zombies, lots of pseudoscience, an evil corporation and eyecandy carrying guns. What more could I want? I liked the sequel too.

[Onyx]

"Eraserhead" - ditto the disturbed factor. I didn't know what in hell I was watching, and I still don't know what the hell that was.

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My brother got all excited about Eraserhead when he went to film school, as if it were some sort of profound work of art. I just don't get it.

[Scary Guy]

Stop saying Dracula...

It's a love story not a horror movie

[Daniel]

My brother got all excited about Eraserhead when he went to film school, as if it were some sort of profound work of art.  I just don't get it.

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I always think it is silly to call movies profound works of art, but... Eraserhead was executed very well if you are extremely sensitive to details, moods, timing and general effect. I'm not really a very articulate movie critic, and generally think things are either "cool" or they "suck", but, there is something special and unique about Eraserhead. To me, a piece of art is successful if it draws out your emotions. Eraserhead genuinely stressed me out. While watching it, I was extremely on edge, and felt... stressed... like all the weight of the world was on my shoulders. Certain events in the movie startled me, and broke the weird tension only to introduce new elements of weirdness and tension.

If you judge movies by cohesive plot, dialogue, realism,and other traditional traits, Eraserhead probably fails on all levels. But if you watch it on a big screen, with a hype audio system, and get absorbed into it... whew... stressful! Disturbing!

[paradox]

dracula!

[Daniel]

Yeah, come on ScaryGuy... back to the genres! Bela Lugosi's Dracula was clearly a "monster movie", which is a subgenre of horror. tsk. =)

[Fierce Critter]

I felt exactly as you described, Daniel, when watching Eraserhead.

I did get all that from the film, and can appreciate that it made me feel that way.

But I STILL DON'T GET IT. :

And that adds to the disturbance.

Which may be all Lynch was going for, who knows?

[Saephyr]

Dracula-Agreed the FILM version was indeed portrayed as love/lust.

Onyx!-My girl naturally I can understand why you liked Riddick, he's HOT!

Daniel-Agreed again, I don't get shitn out of SHOCk films, no value.

Lullaby-No offense meant dear honest.

So can we all agree that THE EXORCIST scared us ALL???

[Fierce Critter]

Ummm... no. I was in no way scared by the Exorcist.

I was a "good Catholic girl" when that came out, and believed wholeheartedly in the power of the church to save that poor girl.

I believed fully in demonic possession, and my faith in all things Church was so deep, I wasn't afraid of what was happening.

Whereas the movie "The Car" scared the living shit out of me.

I was a very, very weird child. :

[lullaby1031]

I get bored with the traditional type of horror so what if I need a bit more gore every now and then?? : The only offensive thing I seen in that was the "little girl" at the end - eww other than that, I thought it was a rather well done on the effects anyway - the blood could have been a bit thicker, but you can't expect miracles. So has anyone eles seen the movie Satan's Little Helper?? I thought it was ok - but the story was pretty funny. Is anyone looking forward to the Devils rejects movie??

[Daniel]

But I STILL DON'T GET IT. :

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Something David Lynch said:

"In Hollywood, more often than not, they're making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire story is understood. And they become worried if even for one small moment something happens that is not understood by everyone. But what's so fantastic is to get down into areas where things are abstract and where things are felt, or understood in an intuitive way that, you can't, you know, put a microphone to somebody at the theatre and say 'Did you understand that?' but they come out with a strange, fantastic feeling and they can carry that, and it opens some little door or something that's magical and that's the power that film has."

"Film can do amazing things with abstraction, but it rarely gets a chance. People are treated like idiots, and people are not idiots. We're hip to the human condition, the human experience, and we love mysteries."

"I keep hoping people will like abstractions, space to dream, consider things that don't necessarily add up."

[phee]

I love Lynch

I mean think about it, what is more scary to you.... Something predictable, or something unpredictable; Something known, or something unknown; something understood, or something you can't understand?

[Fierce Critter]

Well, then DL should be happy, Daniel. He got just that sort of thing from me.

I both can and can't handle that. I like my music very typical - verse verse chorus bridge chorus, etc. And I prefer movies with happy endings.

But once in a while, I like a curve thrown my way. DL is a master of that. Twin Peaks is one of the only shows in TV history that was an absolute must-see for me.