NAME YOUR TEN FAVORITE HORROR FILMS OF ALL TIME!

I'm not sure it's actually considered a horror flick (or even that good of a movie), but Ghost with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore gives me the creeps . . . especially when the bad guy gets it in the end.

By the way, Damon Knight wrote a pretty good book about writing: Creating Short Fiction. It's well worth reading.

Hmm, scary movies? The two scariest I've seen were The Lizzie McGuire Movie and Pokemon 4... *shudder*

Oh, wait, you mean horror genre? I haven't been a horror fan up to now, so I don't have a very big list. I'd give Poltergeist a nod. Does The Abyss count? It's more sci-fi. Tremors was another one. I saw one of the Exorcist sequels that I thought was pretty good. I liked The Mummy (the recent remake) but not the sequel.

Too bad you didn't ask about books. I'm reading The Stand right now, and it's blowing me away. I'm only up to about Psalms though. (If you don't get the joke, go to your library and look up The Stand...it's about the size of an old-fashioned family Bible). Also read Dan Simmons' The Summer of Night which was awesome.

Top-tens are usually protean, so the following would probably be different if you asked me the same question next month… But here goes:

• The Thing (John Carpenter)
• Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
• Poltergeist (Steven Spielberg… oops, sorry, Tobe Hooper)
• The Omen (Richard Donner)
• Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright)
• Candyman (Bernard Rose)
• Hellraiser (Clive Barker)
• Masque of the Red Death (Roger Corman)
• Alien (Ridley Scott)
• The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)

A bit of a mixed back, but I guess no surprises. Dario Argento would just miss out on the above, and apart from Candyman (which I guess is an urban ghost story anyway), I wouldn’t put any slasher films up there

My top ten of scary movies would be:

The Shining
Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Others
Frankenstein
The Mummy (old b/w version)
Blair Witch
Poltergeist
Psycho
The Omen
The Sentinel

TYhis thread actually ran recently in office party and mine's on there somewhere.

http://absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41856&highlight=horror+movies

1. The Grudge (this movie scared the crap outta me)
2. The original 1968 version of "the Haunting"
3. Christopher Lee's "dracula"
4. The Ring
5. Poltergeist
6. The Omen
7. An episode of "In search of" about a big bottomless black hole in a field that scared the crap out of me. If anyone knows what episode PLEASE let me know!


To be honest, as a true horror fan, I find that rarely are things truly scary anymore. I was totally disappointed in Blair Witch. For some reason bloody is associated with scary BLEH...

I think you should list the top ten scary books...now books can scare ya!

The Thing (Carpenter)
Alien
The Omen
Jeepers Creepers
The Cave
Dawn of the Dead
Funhouse
Interview w/the Vampire
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Resident Evil - Apocalypse

no particular order cuz I just love 'em all so much:

The Exorcist
Poltergeist
Zombi 2
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Dellamorte Dellamore
Hellraiser
The Thing
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Saw
The Amityville Horror
Night of the Lepus (just kidding. Well not really)

Jacob's Ladder (will mess you up, be warned, not fun)
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
The Prince of Darkness
Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th: Part 2
Phantasm
Phantasm 2
Dawn of the Dead (the recent remake)
The Nest (you will never like cockroaches again)
Halloween

note: forgot about Phantasm!

Yeah, P.O.D. is more than just some movie about the devil, it is really sci-fi with a heavy and much appreciated dose of horror.
Some of that stuff just blew me away, the concepts were very original.

I like Carpenter's "They Live" for much the same reasons, but P.O.D. is more horror than that one.

Lets see:

Pet Cemetary
The Ring
Saw
Night of the Living Dead
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Nosferatu
Poltergeist
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Childs Play
The Exorcist

no one's mentioned the original version of The Fly (in black and white) - it was soooo funny when the fly-guy started saying, "Help me, help me..." in that high thin pathetic little whiny voice...anyboby else remember it - please!? Anyone????

Geez, 10?

in no order:

Freaks
Alien
Silence of the Lambs
Hellraiser
Body Snatchers, '78 version
American Werewolf in Londo
Dawn of the Dead
Evil Dead
Suspiria
The Hitcher

kikonie said:

no one's mentioned the original version of The Fly (in black and white) - it was soooo funny when the fly-guy started saying, "Help me, help me..." in that high thin pathetic little whiny voice...anyboby else remember it - please!? Anyone????

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Oh yeah... I remember.... "Help me, help me..." creeped me out as a kid.

How about The Gates of Hell? The drill scene.

Eyeball scenes really bother me too.

SMG said:

Yeah, P.O.D. is more than just some movie about the devil, it is really sci-fi with a heavy and much appreciated dose of horror.
Some of that stuff just blew me away, the concepts were very original.

I like Carpenter's "They Live" for much the same reasons, but P.O.D. is more horror than that one.

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I like They Live but Roddy Pipers acting... well you know... it was pretty bad.

WackAMole said:

1. The Grudge (this movie scared the crap outta me)
2. The original 1968 version of "the Haunting"
3. Christopher Lee's "dracula"
4. The Ring
5. Poltergeist
6. The Omen
7. An episode of "In search of" about a big bottomless black hole in a field that scared the crap out of me. If anyone knows what episode PLEASE let me know!


To be honest, as a true horror fan, I find that rarely are things truly scary anymore. I was totally disappointed in Blair Witch. For some reason bloody is associated with scary BLEH...

I think you should list the top ten scary books...now books can scare ya!

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I'm not sure you're around anymore, Wack. In case you still read the threads, here's a episode list for In Search Of:

http://www.tv.com/in-search-of...../show/13149/episode_listings.html?tag=episodes;more

I like horror movies that go easy on the glitzy gimmicks and uber special effects, and heavy on suspense and storytelling. Not to say I don't like some of the splatter stuff, but I hate it when a director sacrifices suspense for smoke and mirrors. When a director combines both elements to a high degree, I buy the dvd. )

In no particular order:

1. Halloween- Not a lot of story but loaded with suspense
2. The Exorcist- The best split-pea soup projectile vomiting of all time
3. Serpent and the Rainbow- Some serious mind freaking
4. Silence of the Lambs
5. Mothman Prophecies
6. Jacob's Ladder- Another seriously derranged movie. Gotta love it.
7. Night of the Living Dead
8. Ju-on
9. The Thing- 1982 version
10. Night of the Living Dead- The ultimate example of making something from nothing)

Runner-ups
11. The Ring
12. Jaws- Not exactly horror, but it made me spill the popcorn a couple of times
13. Nosferatu- This was a bad boy back in the day
14. Seven
15. Rosemary's Baby
16. Poltergeist
17. The Omen
18. The Shining
19. Carrie
20. Blair Witch Project- Concept was great. Delivery was lacking. The poor schmuck standing in the corner at the end was a great touch

Andre_Laurent said:

I like They Live but Roddy Pipers acting... well you know... it was pretty bad.

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Roddy was acting? Who knew?!

Liam Jackson said:

Roddy was acting? Who knew?!

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That's what I was told anyway.