favorite horror movie?

[dete]

Doesn't have to be scary.

I like
House of 1000 Corpses
Hellraiser 2

[spyderdog]

most recently..............Hostel

[JBE]

I'm not a big horror movie fan, but the other night I did catch the remake of The Hills Have Eyes...Wasn't really a "scary" movie, but was...for lack of a better word...vile. :eek:

[David Lowry]

Not much into horror movies myself. :)

[Chucula]

I really liked zombie movies until I saw 28 weeks later. That movie has probably scarred me for life. :mad:

I still like zombie movies though :D My two favorite are 28 Days Later and Dawn of the Dead (original). I also have Dead Alive but I havent watched it yet. Supposed to be very cheesy.

I am not really into monster or alien movies. I like to think I could "win" when I watch horror movies (which is probably why i hated 28 weeks later).
I am also not into hyper realistic gore. :r

[Michael Cook]

:spyder: Cannibal holocaust was the most upsetting and offensive.

Land behind the sun was the most outraging.

In a glass cage was the most psychologically numbing.

Zombie has the best splatter gag(9 inch splinter in the eye).

Carpenter's the Thing has the only gag that makes me flinch every time (jumping blood)

Henry: portrait of a serial killer was the most truly frightening the more I thought about it.

I can't bring myself to watch Asian bug barfing or kidnapping/dissection films (such as the guinea pig series of films out of Japan) but they are truly horrifying. :spyder:

[silverback]

"28 days later", "The Shining", "Angel Heart" and "Alien" for starters.
"The Haunting" from 1963 has a special place in my heart as one of the atmospherically densest and truly frightening movies, and a good story too!

Doesn't have to be scary? Then I'll add "Young Frankenstein" and "Dance of the Vampires", of course. :p

It would be hard to choose one favourite movie, and I'm sure I left some truly great ones out, but consider these to be among my top 10.

Uh-oh, I was looking forward to "28 weeks later" - what was so bad about it, Chucula? Do I have to lower my expectations a lot? :confused:

[Firefighter880]

There was one that came out awhile back called "The Descent" that I really liked. Another good one called "Dog Soldiers." "28 Days Later" is always a winner. Kinda liked "Silent Hill" too. Heck, there are way too many to name.

[KSDbass]

Did anyone see those 8 films that Liongate put out that were "too scary" for theaters? I saw "The Gravedancers" and oh my God I almost died. I didn't believe it was that scary, but it's a thousand times scarier than hostel. Also, the website is borderline not safe for work, so just watchout.
Darkness Falls was probably my favorite in theater horror movie.

edit: The Liongate films are called the After Dark Horror Fest, if anyone's interested.

[SonnyD]

For me it's the original 1931 version of DRACULA. The closeups of Bella Lugosi's eyes as he looked over the top of his Caped arm is Terrorfying!!!!
That was one of the first "horror" movies my parents allowed me to watch when I was a kid. I saw it probably for the first time about 1958. While there is no Gore in it, and really nothing scary in general, the Direction, and music orchestration is Awesome, at leat IMO.
It reminds me of the production of the original HALLOWEEN.....really nothing that scary, but the Direction and Production is what made the movie....btw, the Original HALLOWEEN is my 2nd favorite.

Regards Sonny

[Raqudu]

"Abbot & Costello meet Frankenstein" - it's got Abbot & Costello and Frankenstein, of course, but also Bela Lugosi as Dracula, Lon Chaney Jr. as the Wolfman, and a cameo by the Invisible Man. Who could ask for anything more?

[SonnyD]

"Abbot & Costello meet Frankenstein" - it's got Abbot & Costello and Frankenstein, of course, but also Bela Lugosi as Dracula, Lon Chaney Jr. as the Wolfman, and a cameo by the Invisible Man. Who could ask for anything more?

Yeah, that's a Great/Funny movie, I saw it at the Theatre when it came out. Now that really shows my age:D

Regards Sonny

[silverback]

Reading about Bela Lugosi and Dracula reminds me:

In Murnau's "Nosferatu, Symphony of Terror" from 1922, Max Schreck must be the scariest vampire ever. It's black&white, silent and absolutely captivating. :D

Also check out the hommage "Shadow of the Vampire" with John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe, it's brilliant!

[untamed]

When I was a kid, John Carpenter's "Prince of Darkness" (the dream scene with the phantom-like, waving, shadowy figure on the door? Yikes!)

The last "true" horror film that really managed to bug me was the original Japanese version of "The Ring" ("Ringu" in Japanese). Weird and original.

Then again, it takes courage to watch any of these -

http://www.activevideos.com/instructors/richardsimmons.htm

[Jordan]

When I was a kid, I watched the old black and white Night of the Living Dead. I don't think I've ever been the same. At the very least, I have since then spent a substantial amount of time considering how to react to zombie attack. :p

Currently, my favorite horror flick is probably Hitchcock's Rope. Or, if you don't mind stretching the definition of the word movie a bit... the episode of Showtime's Masters of Horror series entitled Incident On and Off a Mountain Road. It is directed by the same guy who directed all the Phantasm movies and it is pretty frightening.

[Axlis]

Evil Dead 2, no doubt about it.

[CopilotATS-55]

28 days later, thumbs in the eyes :eek:
that scene freaked me out alot

[Hannibal Lecter]

My Dear Friends,

Not really much the fan of horror anymore - of course, my definition of horror is probably quite a bit different from most. :D

I findly recall a movie from late childhood - "Gargoyles" (1972) that I have always remembered. I really need to round up a copy and watch it again. Low-budget and a bit corny, but still dear to my heart.

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Hannibal

[SonnyD]

My Dear Friends,

Not really much the fan of horror anymore - of course, my definition of horror is probably quite a bit different from most. :D

I findly recall a movie from late childhood - "Gargoyles" (1972) that I have always remembered. I really need to round up a copy and watch it again. Low-budget and a bit corny, but still dear to my heart.

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Hannibal

In the early 60's when I was about 10-11 my parents would let me go to the movies on Friday or Saturday night, and I saw a movie that had a Gargoyle in it. It was really a strange movie. I don't really remember the premise of the movie, but I remember people would be out walking, or their car might have broken down, and they would hear a "bubbling" sound, and when they turned around there would be a bubbling cloud in the sky and a Gargoyle would swoop down on them! It was a black and white movie, as most low budget movies were back then. That movie scared the heck out of me! It's a wonder I made it home, every noise I heard I turned and looked over my shoulder......I ran almost the entire way home:D
I can't for the life of me remember the name of it.
Regards Sonny

[dete]

I really like the diversity of replies here, thanx for posting,

one thing I like to mention though is
Dracula is not a true horror movie to me.

Dracula to me has been a romantic tragedy much like
Shakespear's work....

[Michael Cook]

one thing I like to mention though is
Dracula is not a true horror movie to me.

Dracula to me has been a romantic tragedy much like
Shakespear's work....


:spyder: unless yer afraid of vampires. :spyder:

[Ray.Hood]

Good flick, Resident Evil as well.

[Argento]

Hi,

Its my first post in this message board and i want to say hi to everyone.
I really wondering that none of you mentioned Suspiria, i bought it on dvd a few years ago and it scared me a lot. Dario Argento was back then a true master of Horror.
Also pretty good horror flicks are:
Dawn of the dead (original)
Audition (Takashi Miike) freaked me out a lot, very bad movie :eek:
Tenebrae
The classic Universal Horror movies are pretty good too, especialy Dracula Frankenstein The Wolfman and the Mummy are movies that i like a lot.

Best Regards from Germany
Robert

[cjgrad23]

nightmare on elm street creeped me out bad the first time I saw it. I Spit on your grave was pretty creepy too. HIGH TENSION is probably the one that weirded me out the most, but schizophrenic french lesbian slasher films tend to have that effect.:o

[dete]

:spyder: unless yer afraid of vampires. :spyder:

wait wait wait... what if your afraid of Matt Damon, does that make
every movie he's in a horror movie just because it is one to this person?

hmmmmm, some food for thought :)

[SonnyD]

WELCOME Robert!:)
I havn't heard of most of the movies you mentioned, but yeah, it's really hard to beat those Classics!
Regards Sonny

[Argento]

I got a good collection at home, i like more the old movies from the 80ies mostly the italian horror flicks or some old Fung Fu movies from the Shaw Brothers ;) I wanted to post some pictures to the Dvd Collection tread, but i couldn´t upload the pics. You should watch Suspiria, if you like this old Classics. Its not so bloody, although there are some gory scenes in it.
Maybe this may interest you in the movie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspiria

Regards Robert

[tx_outlaw]

I like anything with ZOMBIES(Dawn of the Dead, 28 days later, etc.).....

[Big footed nick]

Hot Fuzz gotta be the best....kinda a Horror movie. but i'm not really into horror movies either.

[dedguy]

Probably Audition. I watch a lot of horror both foreign and domestic and this is pretty much the only movie to ever thoroughly disturb the hell out of me.

The guinea pig flicks are way over rated for how horrific they are. Cannibal Holocaust is far worse (and disgusted the hell out of me even). Hell I'd even say Devil's Rejects is worse. The motel scene in that flick is among the more disturbing things I have seen on film. I was amazed when I saw that film in a theater.

Ichi the Killer is good for just wholesale gore, although I don't think it's all that disgusting or horrific. The gore is all very cartoony, great, but cartoony. There's also great atmosphere flicks like Suspiria, Cronos, Alien. I also really enjoy comedy horror flicks like Evil Dead (particularly 2), Slither, Feast, Sean of the Dead, Braindead, Undead, etc.

My favorite genres are probably vampire flicks, Near Dark being my favorite vampire movie of all time.

I could go on and on, there's a lot of great horror flicks out there and they span all genres from, drama, action, comedy, romance, etc.

[JD Spydo]

The Creme De Le Creme of the terror/horror movies without a doubt is Stephen King's PET SEMETARY :eek: And there was a super horror classic that is somewhat tough to find now a days but back when I was youngster there was a movie called "ASYLUM" ( 1972). IT was way ahead of it's time in special effects and the shock value is even good by today's standards.

Not to mention some of the old Vincent Price movies from back in the 50s and 60s that I like to rent and watch occasionally.

I still see that cat in PET SEMETARY when I close my eyes sometimes to this day :eek: :D :D

[jaislandboy]

"Dracula: Dead and Loving It" by Mel Brooks is one of my favorites....it had me laughing so hard I started crying.... :p

[JT]

Stehpen King IS da man, I'm with You on this JD Spydo.. I have almost all of his books.

But movies, I think Those Dracula's with Cristopher Lee in them.. man I was scared as a kid, when I saw those. Still gives me the creeps, but in a good way :)

[Agent Starling]

Don't really go for horror fims, but on TV there used to be this great horror program called "Night Gallery" when I was a kid; the host was pretty creepy too.

Starling

[tglahn17]

:spyder: Cannibal holocaust was the most upsetting and offensive.

Land behind the sun was the most outraging.

In a glass cage was the most psychologically numbing.

Zombie has the best splatter gag(9 inch splinter in the eye).

Carpenter's the Thing has the only gag that makes me flinch every time (jumping blood)

Henry: portrait of a serial killer was the most truly frightening the more I thought about it.

I can't bring myself to watch Asian bug barfing or kidnapping/dissection films (such as the guinea pig series of films out of Japan) but they are truly horrifying. :spyder:


Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is totally disturbing. The scariest movies I've seen are The Exorcist and Open Water.

[Tank]

A movie that really disturbed me was Open Water. Jaws was entertaining but Open Water is just wrong to the point that I can not bring myself to watch the sequel.

[dete]

I am guilty of enjoying the fullmoon stuff...

puppet master series and a few others.

also enjoyed the Phantasm series quite a bit.

[dedguy]

Fullmoon? Yeah I love that stuff. I'm a big fan of the Subspecies films. I like that most of Fullmoon's stuff feels like old Castle films or something.

And on the subject of Vincent Price... I think The Abominable Dr. Phibes is probably one of his best if not the best he's been in. Great weird 70s horror. Kind of similar I think in tone to the also great Phantom of the Paradise.

[girlyMANN]

Slasher movies aren't horror movies.
So I'm going to skip those and vote top spot for the 1980 Stanley Kubrick classic - "The Shining", starring Jack Nicholson as the demented reincarnation of a long dead murderer doom to repeat his past action. Talk about bad karma. Care for some "red rum"?
The pure horror is in seeing so many slasher movies being made and remade to the same old storyline of the "hunter and the hunted". BORING!

[JD Spydo]

Don't really go for horror fims, but on TV there used to be this great horror program called "Night Gallery" when I was a kid; the host was pretty creepy too.

Starling

You remember NIGHT GALLERY!!! That was a really cool show. If my memory hasn't gone to dust yet I do believe that Rod Serling who created the TWILIGHT ZONE was the creator of NIGHT GALLERY. I thought it is even more intriguing than the ZONE :cool:

Also back in those days Alfred Hitchcock had a really cool show too. Glad you remembered that one Starling :)

[JD Spydo]

Slasher movies aren't horror movies.
So I'm going to skip those and vote top spot for the 1980 Stanley Kubrick classic - "The Shining", starring Jack Nicholson as the demented reincarnation of a long dead murderer doom to repeat his past action. Talk about bad karma. Care for some "red rum"?
The pure horror is in seeing so many slasher movies being made and remade to the same old storyline of the "hunter and the hunted". BORING!

I hadn't even thought of that little boy writing "RED RUM" on that mirror in a long time :D :D You forgot to tell everyone when you spell "RED RUM" backwards it spells MURDER :eek: Jack Nicholson really outdid himself in that movie. That was even funnier than his performance in Easy Rider :rolleyes:

I like the part of the movie when his mother ( Shelly Duvall) went up to him and he said "Danny's NOT HERE MRS TORRANCE" :eek: :eek:

Jack Nicholson is truly the "Clark Gable" or our era :rolleyes: :D

[Bluntrauma]

By far "The Exorcist" in its day. I snuck into see it because I was underage. It scared the living **** out of me.

The original (black and white)Night of the living dead.

The Evil Dead.

Stigmata was pretty creepy.

The Ring was pretty scary too.

I am far more impressed by the older movies. We are so desensitized by violence these days that the shock value has lost its shock to me.