Best Horror Movies

[Black Sunday]

Let's see a list of your favorite horror movies ever. I'm hoping to see some new ones I have never seen and I want some reccomendations.

[Black Sunday]

Here are some of my favorites, granted some are closer to sci-fi than horror:

Suspiria

Cemetery Man

El Espinazo del diablo (the devil's backbone)

Nosferatu

Ringu (the japanese movie of which 'the ring' was based)

Spoorloos

La Maschera del demonio (black sunday - the inspiration for my username)

Blood Simple

Dark City

The Dead Zone

Scanners

[Black Sunday]

I'm not sure that this counts exactly as a horror film, but "Salò" o le 120 giornate di Sodoma is the scariest movie I ever saw.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I don't think that one is quite in the horror genre, but yes it's pedophiliac tone is quite disturbing.

[phee]

Susperia

Tenebre

Let Sleeping Corpses Lie

Necromatic

The Shining

Shivers

Creepshow

Dawn of the Dead

The Beyond

Jacobs Ladder

Twighlight Circus

The Thing (John Carpenters)

The Fog

Mimic

Devils Backbone

The Oman

The Excorcist (1 & 3)

Event Horizon

Alien

Near Dark...

(pant pant)

OK that's enough for now... will get back to you if need be...

(I love horror movies, goddamn)

[Black Sunday]

Ok I'll comment on your list:

Susperia...it's on my above list too. Influential and visually nice and I liked it quite a bit but I still think it's over-rated. Argento goes a little too far with his murder scenes sometimes.

Tenebre....never saw it, will look into it.

Let Sleeping Corpses Lie.......never saw it, thanks for another suggestion.

Necromatic....never saw it.

The Shining...much like Suspiria it is good but over rated in my opinion.

Shivers....it's on my 'too see' list.

Creepshow.....excellent chouce.

Dawn of the Dead....not really into survival/zombie movies.

The Beyond......never saw it.

Jacobs Ladder......good movie, not sure If I consider it horror, but I can see how someone else could.

Twighlight Circus....never saw it.

The Thing (John Carpenters)......excellent movie, especially when the monster comes out of the dog's head and turns into a spider.

The Fog......another Carpernter classic. He made some great movies in the 80's.

Mimic.....good movie but not in my top 100.

Devils Backbone....I have this listed above too, fantastic movie. I think everyone should see it. I find it hard describing the story to people though. It's sort of like Goonies (minus the comedy) meets the 6th sense during a war.

The Oman......excellent. All of the Omen movies were good actually.

The Excorcist (1 & 3)....the first one was one of the best movies ever, part 3 was also quite good even though it was only loosely tied to the first one. George C Scott was great and the movie had some great scenes, though it does seem a bit dated now.

Event Horizon....another decent movie.

Alien....I'm not a fan, though I like Ridley Scott.

Near Dark......never saw it.

Here are some more:

the changeling

pitch black

lifeforce

the lady in white

the grudge

and of course I will be first in line to see 'White Noise'.

[phee]

I like your comments....

Also check out "The Woman in Black"

[Ginevra]

One of the scariest movies I've seen is called Bone Daddy and stars Rutger Hauer. Now, no, he's not your typical horror/scary movie actor, but because of the way the movie was set up, it's very realistic and makes it very believable in a "real life/it could really happen" sort of way.

[Dubh Aingeal]

The Fog

First time I saw this movie was when I was 13... I wouldn't go outside if it was foggy, and hated getting in a car and driving thru it... This is the first and pretty much the only movie that has ever done that too me...

[Hermine]

Not much into horror, so my criterion mostly is pretty or fun.

the original silent Phantom of the Opera

If Dark City qualifies does City of Lost Children?

Battle Royale

Cemetary Man

The Seventh Sign

Bram Stoker's Dracula

And that one with the little girl who was the Antichrist and when her horse freaked out, they thought it was because she got her period early. And they took her to a psychic fair and her aura was black. I saw that one and it was pretty good.

From Hell (highly underrated that one)

The Fiancee of Dracula (this one is pure camp value. I mean, it's bad. So bad it's funny. So funny-bad it's hysterical

That's actually practically all the ones I've seen, apart from lame slasher films.

Ones I won't see because they'd be too scary. This may be a recommendation to others:

Juan (the one they based The Grudge on. Supposed to be the scariest ever)

Arachnaphobia (I have this thing about spiders, you see)

Anything about a serial killer.

[Shade Everdark]

The Pit & the Pendulum (Vincent Price; need I say more?)

Seven

The Seventh Seal (not horror per se, but playing Death for your right to live longer? I'd say that's pretty horrific)

Psycho (cliche, perhaps, but when I finally did watch this, the build of tension was absolutely wonderful)

[bav]

(in no particular order)

Shaun of the Dead

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Hellraiser

The Exorcist

Zombie!

Let Sleeping Corpses Lie

Alien

Dark City

Split Second

Strangeland

[phee]

Once again... are you sure your not me bav?

[SomeDanGuy]

Yes, Bav's list is quite good.

I loooove horror movies, so it's going to take some investment to make my list, but for the time being I have some advice:

DO NOT SEE DARKNESS.

You probably weren't planning on it, but if I can save anyone 8 bucks and 2 hours from this steaming pile, I think it's worth it.

[Black Sunday]

wendingo

the thing (john carpentar)

serpeant and the rainbow

lair of the white worm

halloween 1 and 2

hellraiser 2

[Fierce Critter]

Geore Romero's "Night of the Living Dead - the original.

Hellraiser

Rosemary's Baby - sometimes being disturbed by a film is worse than being scared

The 1979 Dracula with Frank Langella - first time a vampire made me horny (this version is easily more "romance" than horror)

A whole slew of Hammer films, including (and starring):

Night Creatures - Peter Cushing & Oliver Reed;

The Horror of Dracula - Peter Cushing & Christopher Lee;

The Skull - Peter Cushing;

Night of the Creatures - Peter Cushing (known by a half dozen other names);

There was one that had Peter Cushing battling a disembodied hand, but I can't remember the name...

House of Wax - Vincent Price (Saw this on the big-screen in a re-release of the original 3D format - VERY cool)

The Fly - The original with Vincent Price & David Hedison

The Pit & The Pendulum - Vincent Price

The Brain that Wouldn't Die - ROFLMAO

The Thing With Two Heads - ROFLMAO - with Roey Grier

Halloween - the original, not the sequels

The Car - I have seen this movie since growing up, and though I can laugh at it now, when I saw it as a kid at the drive-in in it's original release, it scared the living shit out of me.

The Bride - I didn't care for the Jennifer Beals part, but the scenes with Viktor & Rinaldo are, imho, some of the best tellings of the story I've ever seen

Frankenstein - the 1994 version with Robert Deniro

Frankenstein - the 1931 version with Boris Karloff

Bride of Frankenstein

The Mummy - 1932 with Boris Karloff

The Terror - w/Jack Nicholson - EARLY Jack

The Phantom of the Opera - the Lon Chaney version

Andy Warhol's Dracula & Frankenstein movies

The Hitcher - Technically, not a horror movie. But Rutger Hauer is one scary mf in this film.

I'll agree with The Fog, and stop there.

:grin:

[SomeDanGuy]

Aliens

Battle Royale is great, but not sure if it's horror

The Cell

City of Lost Children

Dark City

Dawn of the Dead (2004)

Dead Alive

Event Horizon

Evil Dead Trilogy

Fallen

Frailty

From Dusk Till Dawn

The Grudge

Hellraiser

Jason X

Nightmare on Elm Streets

Phantoms

Pitch Black

Prophecy

Resident Evil

The Ring

The Thing (best creature effects ever!)

Wishmaster (funny!)

That's all I've got for now. Half of these I like because they're funny and the other half because they're good.

[gothicmom]

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.

[gothicmom]

I am now watching the end of Carrie!!!

[Black Sunday]

what was that one movie where the babysitter is getting creepy phone calls and then the police call her and tell her that they traced the calls and that the person is calling her from inside the house!

that one scared me when I was a little kid.

[TearSandrille]

I know it's not a good horror movie persay. But, I absolutely love to watch the original Phantasm. I'm really more of a fan of the cheesy horror movies than the actual good horror movies. Besides, you can't not have a good time when you are laughing your ass off at Blood Suckers from Outerspace.

[SomeDanGuy]

Ohhh, I forgot Phantasm! I think it's actually Phantasm 2 that I like the most, where the ice cream guy makes the quadruple-barrelled shotgun. All those flying death-balls and Angus Scrim as the Tall Man are great though!

[Black Sunday]

I know it's not a good horror movie persay.  But, I absolutely love to watch the original Phantasm.  I'm really more of a fan of the cheesy horror movies than the actual good horror movies.  Besides, you can't not have a good time when you are laughing your ass off at Blood Suckers from Outerspace.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yeah Phantasm was good......did you ever see 'Basket Case' ? That's a pretty funy one too but I can't tell if the comedy was intentional or not. The plot is awesome and very realistic. There are cojoined twins who have an operation and one half does not live (or so the doctors think) so they throw the dead half in the dumpster. Well it's not dead and the half that did live fishes his brother out of the dumpster and keeps him in a basket. And then the brother in the basket goes on a murder spree.

Apparently the movie was so good they made a 2nd and 3rd movie.

[Vater Araignee]

im going bye bye

[fallennon]

All of my favs are already up there. I do have to say though that Jacob's Ladder (where I got my son's name) and the Shining really had imagery that scared the shit out of me. I'm big on imagery and music.

[gothicmom]

I saw Jacob's laddar a long time ago. I don't remember anything about it. I guess I'll have to get that next time I'm at the video store.