NAME YOUR TEN FAVORITE HORROR FILMS OF ALL TIME!

I love his performance in They Live. Even "Hell Comes to Frogtown" was great for a late late night movie (at least if your fourteen).

Espinazo del diablo (Devil's Backbone)
Session 9
Darkwater
The Shining
Evil Dead
Jacob's Ladder
Prince of Darkness
Unnamable
Salem's Lot
and any cheesy B-Horror movie I can watch hanging on the guy I love.

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Side-bit.ch: Carpenter's The Thing was a boring movie. Love, love, love The Thing From Another World!, though.

A Tale of Two Sisters
The Woman in Black
Halloween
Ringu
Session 9
Candyman
Black Christmas
Suspiria
Alien

can't think of a tenth.

Fantasia! I thought I was going in to see Phantasm, but I got confused and went into the wrong theater. That mouse in the wizard's hat was freaky though.

Okay...back on topic:

Halloween
Alien
Dawn of the dead

A list of ten would fluctuate too much for me, but the following is where I stand today, in chronological order (asterisked films would probably always make the list):

1. Nosferatu (1922)*
2. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932--Fredric March)
3. The Wolf Man (1941)*
4. House of Frankenstein (1947)--saw it first as a teenager. Fun 'creature feature.'

5. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
6. The Conqueror Worm (aka Witchfinder General) (1968)
7. The Night Stalker (1972, made for TV)*--I was five years old (during a 1974 rerun) when I saw this

8. The Exorcist (1973)*
9. The Funhouse (1981)
10. The Howling (1981)

1) Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (AkA LIVING DEAD AT MANCHESTER MORGUE)
2) The Wicker Man
3) Night of the Living Dead (Original)
4) Day of the Dead (Original)
5) Dawn of the Dead (Original)
6) Zeder
7) Zombie Flesh Eaters (AKA ZOMBIE)
8) Frightmare (Pete Walker's British effort)
9) Excorcist III
10) The Beyond

These are ten of my favourites - I don't watch much contemporary horror, as I find most of it pretty crap apart from The Descent.

in no particular order...

1)The Ring
2)Lord of Illusions
3)Amityville Horror (the second one: first movie didn't scare me at all)
4)Poltergeist (because I loved the tree coming through the window!)
5)Carrie
6)The Wicker Man (the original version)
7)The Ninth Gate
8)The Silence of the Lambs
9)Dawn of the Dead (ABSOLUTELY the newer version)
10)Stigmata (ok, to me, that's freaky)

I agree with whoever it was said the best part of Blair Witch Project was that last bit, with the kid standing in the corner. Great concept, I hope someone does a remake someday that is better.

I liked "Ring II" pretty well, but it wasn't as coherent as the first one to me, so I don't have it on this list.

*g*and if I'm in the mood for really stupid humor, "Scary Movie" works for me - but only if I'm in that mood! (I love Death in that)

Jcomp said:

A Tale of Two Sisters

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Man, I just saw this recently. What a freaky movie. I was expecting one of the twists, but not the other one.

The Japanese know how to mess with your head.

Anybody seen the original Japanese version of The Ring? I'm wondering if it's better or worse than the American one.

(I really want to get a copy of Exorcism of Emily Rose sometime).

7. The Night Stalker (1972, made for TV)*--I was five years old (during a 1974 rerun) when I saw this

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Classic television from back in the day. I've got the collection on dvd.

There has not been a real horror movie made in very long time, most are too predictable.

1) When a stranger calls ( the original)
2) Joyride
3) Breakdown
4) Killer Bees ( I have a tremendous fear of these things)
5) Cujo
6) The Shining
7) The Exorsict
8) Open Waters
9) The Deep
10) Fargo ( not scary,, but absolutely horrible movie)

All time, hmmmmmmm
This is not in a particular order:
In The Mouth of Madness
The Shining
Night Breed
The Stand
Carrie
The Silence of the Lambs
Manhunter (Original movie on The Red Dragon)
Salem's Lot
Pitch Black
The Ghost in the Darkness (was it horror? It was pretty scary! Awesome, awesome movie.)

C.bronco said:

All time, hmmmmmmm
This is not in a particular order:
In The Mouth of Madness
The Shining
Night Breed
The Stand
Carrie
The Silence of the Lambs
Manhunter (Original movie on The Red Dragon)
Salem's Lot
Pitch Black
The Ghost in the Darkness (was it horror? It was pretty scary! Awesome, awesome movie.)

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I thought of The Ghost in the Darkness and Silence of the Lambs as well but I thought maybe more suspense than horror. However they were true stories, what is scarier than that

I tend more towards suspense and not so much boogie man modern day horror. Though there are people who actually found some of this scary, so I guess it counts.

The Sixth Sense. Sppoky and thought-provoking. I loved the part where the dead girl gave the kid the video and we find out later than she'd been murdered. That broke my heart.

The Eye. Again, thought-provoking and powerful. I felt just horrible for the dead girl whose eye the star got. The ending made me burst out sobbing. I'm such a sap.

Psycho. Now THAT is how you make a horror film. Dramatic without being flashy.

Carrie. I guess this was more modern horror than the others but I love it to death. Carrie was the most sympathetic villain I'd seen since Norman Bates. No wonder she snapped, her life was hell. The end part with the hand coming out of the grave makes me gasp every time, despite knowing it's coming.

The Others. It dragged on a bit, but I still enjoy analizing it all. It seems I notice more everytime I watch it.

Dark City. I guess that's more sci-fi, but it was creepy. The idea of someone going and changing everyone's lives and mind's around is such an unnerving concept. I found that so intriguing. It's a shame almost no one saw that movie.

My favorite is "Near Dark". It's partly good, and partly just outrageously bad enough to be good fun. The "subtle" oil derek+biting vampire imagery, OMG

Some of the older movies I loved are:

The Creature from the Black Lagoon
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Fly
Trilogy of Terror
The Gate
The Old Dark House
The Ghoul
The Birds
The Shining
The Haunting 1963
The Exorcist
Silence of the Lambs
Psycho

More recent flicks:

Boogeyman
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (There’s a new one coming out. )
Saw 1 & 2 (Also a new one coming out)
Seven
Wrong Turn
Jeepers Creepers
Jeepers Creepers II
Phantom

veinglory said:

My favorite is "Near Dark". It's partly good, and partly just outrageously bad enough to be good fun. The "subtle" oil derek+biting vampire imagery, OMG

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I forgot about Near Dark! It's a fun movie on several levels. Another is Creepers Jeepers.

Someone mentioned the Wolfman flick with Lon Chaney Jr. I love that movie. All though it's classified "horror," as a kid I saw it as a sympathetic vehicle for the misfits of the world who are what they are through no fault of their own. Loved the story and loved Chaney's performance.

Jeepers Creepers? I'm awake. *points at avatar*

I've only seen the first one, not any of the other ones. Are the other ones any good?

I just recently saw Session 9 on one of the digital channels. I must have been passed over very quickly when it came out, but I thought it was really creepy. I'm not a great fan of black and white, but there is an old movie from the 1950's called The Tingler that really freaked me out when I was younger. The Entity also was freaky. The first horror movie I saw was The Car from the late 70's. Not very scary now, but at the time I was terrified! Oh, and The Wicker Man, while not scary to me, is one of my favorite movies of all time.

Halloween
The Exorsist
The Blaire Witch Project
The Ring
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Entity
Dark Water
Suspiria
Event Horizon
The Fog (the original)

Angel Heart

Man, I was a sucker reeled in by this one. Mickey Rourke and Robert DeNiro in a private-detective story set in voodoo-worshiping Lousiana at the end of WWII, hot on the heels of a missing crooner. Black magic and fans, those ever so ubiquitous twirling fans.

1. Prince of Darkness
2. Dawn of the Dead (2004)
3. Alien
4. Waxwork (the very acme of '80s B-movies)
5. Near Dark
6. The Mummy (1930ish)
7. In the Mouth of Madness
8. Texas Chainsaw Massacre Pt. IV*
9. The Hunger
10. Nomads (John McTiernan + Pierce Brosnan + evil = yay!)

Honorable Mentions:
a. The Sentinel
b. Dagon (~2004ish? director Stuart Gordon's take on "The Shadow Over Innsmouth")
c. all the Phantasms. Anybody in Region II got the DVD box set?

* Admittedly not everyone's cup of tea. But Kim Henkel, the original TCM writer, turned in a fine & surreal screenplay and the direction was competent. Plus I just loved watching Matthew McConaghey chase Bridget Jones around with a Poulan.