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favorite horror movies??

cosmic mouse

cosmic mouse

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I guess this is the appropriate area for this since many have fantasy elements at least... plus it's getting on that time of the year (i.e. Halloween).

...favorites anyone? Anyone else a horror fan? I grew up watching them, starting with the gothic/Hammer, kaiju and Toho stuff when I was tiny, progressed to sneaking downstairs in grade school and middle school to watch creepy stuff on late night cable TV, and every year I still partake in an October Horror challenge on a different board.

I love creepy, psychological horror the most, but here is my current top 10:

1. Alien (1979)
2. Psycho (1960)
3. Diabolique (1955)
4. The Thing (1982)
5. Angel Heart (1987)
6. Deep Red (1975)
7. Angst (1983)
8. Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
9. Repulsion (1965)
10. The Wicker Man (1973)

...just missed: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).
According to IMDB I've watched/rated over 1000 horror films... not sure if that's a good thing or not. :lol:

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The Descent
28 Days Later
Friday the 13th I-IV, VI, VII
A Nightmare on Elm Street
It Follows
The Witch
The Orphanage
Alien
The Conjuring
Saw (Saw V is equally entertaining. The rest are garbage)
 
Don't have a list of favorites right now but two that I watched recently, really enjoyed and can recommend for a dark and foggy October evening, The Autopsy of Jane Doe and Trick' r Treat. Tonight I'm gonna give The Sound a try, Rose McGowan, Christopher Lloyd and an abandoned subway station sounds creepy enough.
 
Some, in random order:

Alien (1979)
The Exorcist (1973)
The Evil Dead (1981)
Dead & Buried (1981)
The Fog (1980)
The Shining (1980)
Creepshow (1982)
Cloverfield (2008)
Phase IV (1974)
Resident Evil (2002)
Halloween (1978)
Jaws (1975)
 
Beagleman said:
Don't have a list of favorites right now but two that I watched recently, really enjoyed and can recommend for a dark and foggy October evening, The Autopsy of Jane Doe and Trick' r Treat. Tonight I'm gonna give The Sound a try, Rose McGowan, Christopher Lloyd and an abandoned subway station sounds creepy enough.
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Haven't seen Jane Doe yet, but it's been rec'd to me before by the horror-pundits. ;) Trick r Treat is an excellent seasonal horror... gets you right in the mood for Halloween imho.

Cubic Centimeter said:
Some, in random order:

Alien (1979)
The Exorcist (1973)
The Evil Dead (1981)
Dead & Buried (1981)
The Fog (1980)
The Shining (1980)
Creepshow (1982)
Cloverfield (2008)
Phase IV (1974)
Resident Evil (2002)
Halloween (1978)
Jaws (1975)
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Nice list, CC... Phase IV and Dead & Buried are the bomb, as is Alien, and I love most of those you mentioned. Have you seen the original ending to Phase IV? It's on you tube I believe... the studio drastically changed the ending from Bass's original vision, which apparently pissed him off mightily, as you can imagine. I still lament that was his only theatrical film.
 
Alien (1979)
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Event Horizon (1997)
Evil Dead II (1987)
Halloween (1978)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
Saw IV (2007)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
 
Lots of great films here, like The Thing, Alien, It Follows, Evil Dead123,
so I'll add a few different favorites of mine that haven't been listed yet:

Near Dark
My Bloody Valentine
April Fools Day
 
Back in August, we went to a 5-movie event called Slash-O-Rama in Columbus:

-A Nightmare on Elm St
-Slumber Party Massacre
-Silent Night Deadly Night
-Trick or Treat
-My Bloody Valentine

Tons of fun. Looking forward to the full 24-hour version in a week and a half.
 
Turd Ferguson said:
Alien (1979)
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Event Horizon (1997)
Evil Dead II (1987)
Halloween (1978)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
Saw IV (2007)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
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Nice to see some love for Halloween III... that's the 2nd best n the franchise imho, after the original of course. Tom Atkins was great in it.

kitik said:
Back in August, we went to a 5-movie event called Slash-O-Rama in Columbus:

-A Nightmare on Elm St
-Slumber Party Massacre
-Silent Night Deadly Night
-Trick or Treat
-My Bloody Valentine

Tons of fun. Looking forward to the full 24-hour version in a week and a half.
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That's pretty sweet, kitik... all of those are classics. The original MBV is stellar; I love the characters in particular (they seem more well-defined that the average slasher) and Paul Kelman in particular was good. Your 24 hour marathon sounds great as well. :techman:
 
Honestly, I wouldn't know where to begin. Horror movies are my comfort food. As a kid, I grew up on "Famous Monsters of Filmland" magazine and Nightmare Theater every Friday night. I notice that the lists above seem to be weighing heavily towards modern horror flicks from the last few decades, so let me skew the other way and try breaking it down by categories:

Favorite silent horror movie: The Phantom of the Opera with Lon Chaney, of course.
Favorite Universal classic: The Wolf Man. Honorable mentions: The Bride of Frankenstein, The Mummy, and The Creature from the Black Lagoon.
Favorite Val Lewton movie: The Body Snatcher with Karloff (not to be confused with "Invasion of"). Honorable mention: Curse of the Cat People.
Favorite Hammer Classic: The Brides of Dracula. Honorable mentions: Horror of Dracula, Five Million Years to Earth.
Favorite 70s Horror movie: The Wicker Man (the original, not the remake). Honorable mentions: The Abominable Doctor Phibes, The Night Stalker (the original tv-movie).

And to throw in a modern flick, The Descent is probably the scariest movie I've seen in years.
 
Greg Cox said:
Honestly, I wouldn't know where to begin. Horror movies are my comfort food. As a kid, I grew up on "Famous Monsters of Filmland" magazine and Nightmare Theater every Friday night. I notice that the lists above seem to be weighing heavily towards modern horror flicks from the last few decades, so let me skew the other way and try breaking it down by categories:

Favorite silent horror movie: The Phantom of the Opera with Lon Chaney, of course.
Favorite Universal classic: The Wolf Man. Honorable mentions: The Bride of Frankenstein, The Mummy, and The Creature from the Black Lagoon.
Favorite Val Lewton movie: The Body Snatcher with Karloff (not to be confused with "Invasion of"). Honorable mention: Curse of the Cat People.
Favorite Hammer Classic: The Brides of Dracula. Honorable mentions: Horror of Dracula, Five Million Years to Earth.
Favorite 70s Horror movie: The Wicker Man (the original, not the remake). Honorable mentions: The Abominable Doctor Phibes, The Night Stalker (the original tv-movie).

And to throw in a modern flick, The Descent is probably the scariest movie I've seen in years.
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Rock and roll, Greg... I love Val Lewton and some of the others you mentioned (namely The Wicker Man). Body Snatcher is indeed fantastic, although I still think Cat People is my favorite of Lewton's. And the 70s are my favorite decade for film, regardless of genre. 70s horrors are great though... from the giallo to the start of the American slasher sub-genre (Black Christmas maybe), plus all the cult films (the aforementioned Wicker Man, Brotherhood of Satan, etc)... love that decade!

I just watched a good film last night (from the 80s though) called Spider Labyrinth: it was like a giallo-supernatural cult mash up, with some great effects during the finale.
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Lots of great films listed but I will list a few others:

1 Tusks: I still can't get the ending out my head and it's been awhile since I saw it.
2 Buried: I think that is what it is called. It has Ryan Reynolds buried underground in Iraq and nobody knows where he is.
3 House of a 1000 Corpses and The Devils Rejects: The first one is more potential than great but The Devils Rejects is simply a great movie.
4 Freaks: If their was ever a movie that couldn't be made today this would be one of them.
5 Blair Witch Project: I can't believe so many people dislike this movie nowadays. The found footage stuff makes it feel real along with never seeing the actual witch. I know it's a stretch, like in any movie like this, they would keep filming but I am willing to overlook that one issue in the sake of drama.


Jason
 
Jayson1 said:
Lots of great films listed but I will list a few others:

1 Tusks: I still can't get the ending out my head and it's been awhile since I saw it.
2 Buried: I think that is what it is called. It has Ryan Reynolds buried underground in Iraq and nobody knows where he is.
3 House of a 1000 Corpses and The Devils Rejects: The first one is more potential than great but The Devils Rejects is simply a great movie.
4 Freaks: If their was ever a movie that couldn't be made today this would be one of them.
5 Blair Witch Project: I can't believe so many people dislike this movie nowadays. The found footage stuff makes it feel real along with never seeing the actual witch. I know it's a stretch, like in any movie like this, they would keep filming but I am willing to overlook that one issue in the sake of drama.


Jason
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Do you mean Tusk the Kevin Smith film? Not a fan of that one, sorry. Body horror generally is one of my least fav horror sub-genres, mainly because I can't stand dismemberment and/or torture sequences. It's kind of where I draw the line, with a few exceptions (I love Cronenberg for example, but his films don't typically involve torture). I'm also one who doesn't like Blair Witch, but I saw it about 20 years ago near its initial release. I didn't find it scary at all, not in the least... shakycam/found footage is also hit or miss for me (more miss normally). Cannibal Holocaust is still the best imho (and possibly also the very first one, at least in horror).
 
I appreciate The Blair Witch Project more for its pop-culture significance than as an effective film on its own, it is an example for something that came out at the exact perfect moment for the zeitgeist of it's time. While only scary for the first watch (to me at least), I think it is one of the better found footage movies.
 
-I'll agree that the Descent has to be the scariest film I've seen in many many years.
-Devils Rejects was deeply disturbing, so for that a huge thumbs up as an extremely effective horror film.
-And I'll also mention that The Mist, while a decent film, had the GOAT ending.

cosmic mouse said:
Your 24 hour marathon sounds great as well. :techman:
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If anyone on this board is in Ohio (or near enough), tickets are still available.
October 14-15, noon to noon.
Drexel Theater, Columbus, OH.


Cat People (1942)
Creepshow (1982)
Eraserhead (1977)
The Funhouse (1981)
The Gate (1987)
Martin (1978)
Near Dark (1987)
Phenomena (1985)
Replace (2017)
Sequence Break (2017)
Society (1989)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)


www.horrormarathon.com

It's an absolute blast, tons of fun filled with old trailers.
Everyone who goes says they wish they would have started going a few years sooner.
 
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