Best horror movie ever?
Roach-Busters
22-08-2004, 01:07
I don't have one, but the following are among my favorites (in no particular order):
1.Psycho (the original one, of course, not the crappy remake)
2.Night of the Living Dead (the original)
3.Jaws (but the sequels suck, in my opinion)
4.Halloween (same as Jaws)
5.The Stepfather
6.Frankenstein
7.Bride of Frankenstein
8.The Wolf Man
9.Dracula (the Bela Lugosi one, of course ;))
10.The Thing (the John Carpenter remake)
11.The Fog
12.A Nightmare on Elm Street (the entire series; cheesy, but entertaining)
13.Child's Play (the sequels are amusing, but not exactly grade-A)
14.Jurassic Park (okay, technically it's not horror, but it scared the hell out of me when I was seven)
15.Pet Sematary
16.Hollow Man
17.The Exorcist
18.Psycho II
19.Silence of the Lambs
20.The Omen
Of these movies, the only two which came remotely close to almost frightening me were Jaws and Night of the Living Dead. (Jurassic Park doesn't count, 'cause I was only seven)
Feminine Daves
22-08-2004, 01:09
The Exorcist without a doubt for the brown-trouser factor, and any Hammer Horror for a laugh.
Recent: the Japanese "Ring" trilogy.
Roach-Busters
22-08-2004, 01:10
The Exorcist without a doubt for the brown-trouser factor, and any Hammer Horror for a laugh.
Recent: the Japanese "Ring" trilogy.
Exorcist. Damn it. I knew I was forgetting one. Hang on, lemme edit my first post...
Roach-Busters
22-08-2004, 01:12
The Exorcist without a doubt for the brown-trouser factor, and any Hammer Horror for a laugh.
Recent: the Japanese "Ring" trilogy.
Really? I never saw any of the Hammer films. I heard pretty good things about them, though. I'll have to check 'em out.
Cyberous
22-08-2004, 01:12
I dont find that I'm scared by typically 'scary' horror movies though. Apart from 'The Shining'.
My fears come from useless human phobias, hence I found 'Final Destination' and Arachnophobia particularly scary.
Sure that would have included 'Eight legged Freaks' too... if I'd ever got past peeking at the trailer...
The Golden Simatar
22-08-2004, 01:12
1. John Carpenter's The Thing
2. John Carpenter's The Fog
3. John Carpenter's Halloween
4. ALIEN VS PREDATOR
5. The Alien Saga
6. The Evil Dead
7. Army of Darkness
Good choices all round - especially choices 1,2 and 9. I'll add "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" and "Dawn of the Living Dead".
The Jurassic Park films were fairly food, but are more of a sci-terror gendre in my opinion.
Wowcha wowcha land
22-08-2004, 01:13
The exorcist, not the movie itself, that was funny, but the thoughts it provokes are disturbing.
The Golden Simatar
22-08-2004, 01:13
Oh, I fogot "DAWN OF THE DEAD" and "DAY OF THE DEAD"
Roach-Busters
22-08-2004, 01:14
"The Texas Chain Saw Massacre"
The original, or the remake? Or both?
The Jurassic Park films were fairly food, but are more of a sci-terror gendre in my opinion.
Agreed, but JP sure as hell scared me when I was seven! :eek:
Roach-Busters
22-08-2004, 01:17
Psycho II is pretty good as well, in my opinion. No, it doesn't hold a candle to the original, but it's smartly-written, blackly humorous, suspenseful, unpredictable(sp?) and has sympathetic characters.
The original, or the remake? Or both?
The original.
Agreed, but JP sure as hell scared me when I was seven! :eek:
Well, I'm a evolutionary biologist and "digger" - so yes, I guess I can sympathize with that. The scene with The T.rex about to eat the lawyer was priceless ;)
Roach-Busters
22-08-2004, 01:21
The scene with The T.rex about to eat the lawyer was priceless ;)
:p Indeed it was...
Greater Valia
22-08-2004, 02:03
Silence of the Lambs, The Omen, The Exorcist, The Shining, The Thing.
Roach-Busters
22-08-2004, 02:05
Silence of the Lambs! The Omen!
Damn it. Gotta go update my list again...
Suicidal Librarians
22-08-2004, 02:24
17.The Exorcist
I don't know why so many people like this horror film. It was stupid, and it actually caused me to burst out laughing on many occasions.
Roach-Busters
22-08-2004, 02:28
I don't know why so many people like this horror film. It was stupid, and it actually caused me to burst out laughing on many occasions.
I thought it was well-written. I liked the characters. The pace started out agonizingly slow, and it definitely wasn't scary, but I still thought it was a damn good flick.
Demented Hamsters
22-08-2004, 02:31
Has anyone mentioned 'The Shining'? The Stanley Kubrick version that is. For suspenseful terror, it doesn't get any better.
Though at present, it's the Japanese who are making the best Horror movies out. A few of my favourites:
A Japanese movie 'Audition' had some good (read scary) moments, and could have been absolutely horrifc if it was a bit better written and plotted-out (IMHO).
Another good one is....Damn! Can't think what it's called, but there's been two of them. It's about a haunted house where anyone who stays there disappears, so of course they send a tv crew in to film. Pretty damn spooky.
They also made a good movie called 'Battle Royale' about a psycho teacher who wires all his students up so he can blow their heads off, and tells them that the last one surviving gets off the island. Cool and funny.
Um, what else? Oh 'Kairo' pretty spooky. It's (partly) about a guy who tries to get onto the internet and instead the computer dials into a weird site that asks him 'Do you want to see a ghost?'. For there things get weird.
'Dark water' is another one in the mode of 'The Ring' (unsurprising as it's made by the same people). No gore, just lots and lots and lots of ultra-creepy moments that'll have you hiding behind a cushion.
A very good one coming out is called 'Ju-on' Watch the trailer and tell me if you don't feel a shiver:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/ju-on.html
Roach-Busters
22-08-2004, 02:33
Someone on page 1 mentioned The Shining.