Name your TOP 10 Horror Films

[Jondalar]

Just in time for Halloween... name your favorites

1. The Exorcist
2. Salem's Lot
3. Carrie
4. Alien
5. Midnight Offerings
6. Black Christmas
7. Jaws
8. The Descent
9. Rosemary's Baby
10. May

[WatchChain]

10. Hell Night (1981)
9. The Exorcist (1973)
8. The Children (1980)
7. 28 Days Later (2002)
6. Carrie (1976)
5. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
4. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
3. Psycho (1960)
2. Silence of the Lambs (1991)
1. Halloween (1978)

HONORABLE MENTION: Sleepaway Camp (1983), Friday the 13th Part II (1981), The Shining (1980), Motel Hell (1980), Dawn of the Dead (2004),
The Final Terror (1983), Scream (1986)

[madeline]

I just love threads about horror movies. My favorite genre. Here's mine.

1. The Exorcist
2. The Omen
3. Prince of darkness
4. The Entity
5. Race with the devil
6. The Mist
7. 100 feet
8. 30 days of night
9. The Manitou
10. In the mouth of madness

Although I never considered Jaws a horror movie, it is an awesome movie and I spent last week watching as many shark movies that I could find on Netflix. I just love a good shark movie.

[Jondalar]

Originally Posted by madeline

I just love threads about horror movies. My favorite genre. Here's mine.

1. The Exorcist
2. The Omen
3. Prince of darkness
4. The Entity
5. Race with the devil
6. The Mist
7. 100 feet
8. 30 days of night
9. The Manitou
10. In the mouth of madness

Although I never considered Jaws a horror movie, it is an awesome movie and I spent last week watching as many shark movies that I could find on Netflix. I just love a good shark movie.

The Manitou gave me the creeps. I almost mentioned that. Glad you did. I own all three Omen movies too. The Entity was great.

[TrueFaith77]

Ten Best Horror Films
1. The Fury (Brian De Palma, 1978)
2. Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976)
3. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963)
4. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
5. Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932)
6. Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922)
7. Exorcist II: The Heretic (John Boorman, 1977)
8. Byzantium (Neil Jordan, 2013)
9. The Company of Wolves (Neil Jordan, 1984)
10. Ganja & Hess (Bill Gunn, 1973)


Also, here's a list I put together of Horror films I like:
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/johnde..._horror_films/

[becca]

I guess I'm more oldschool...

Nosferatu
Dracula (1931)
I Walked With A Zombie
Carnival Of Souls
Cat People
Eyes Without A Face
Daughter Of Dracula

but also liked
The Ring
The Amittyville Horror
The Grudge

and does
The Wicker Man (1973) count?

[starshine]

I'm not much of a horror movie watcher but there are a couple I do like more for suspense than blood and guts , anyway, here they are:

No special order really:

Halloween 78 original the best
A Shadow of a Doubt old Hitchcock b & w film, great
Carnival of Souls original '63? b & w version
The Haunting original b & w version
Carrie
The Haunting of Sara (TV movie , 78/9?) original not remake
Psycho
There might be others, but like stated I don't like scary or blood & guts movies much
just the suspenseful one's .

[Macfanforever]

Yes anything old as mentioned are awesome and keep me up all night.LOL..

Halloween is coming up .Is Elvia still on TV.

I always enjoyed her show.

[KarmaContestant]

My favorite, in no particular order:

*Prince of Darkness
*Candyman
*The Conjuring
*Blair Witch Project
*Amityville Horror
*The Strangers
*30 Days of Night
*The Fourth Kind
*Midnight Meat Train (not really a very good movie storywise, but it disturbed me so much that I had to turn off the TV and take an hour break before I could finish it)
*The Shining

Special mention to Phantasm II, The Ring and The Exorcism of Emily Rose.

I don't generally like older horror movies (1960s and earlier). I used to stay up late with my step-dad and watch Creature Feature on Friday nights when I was 6 and 7 years old, and I saw a great many of those old movies. They didn't scare me as a 6 year old kid, and they don't scare me now.

I also don't care much for gore films. They aren't scary at all, just bloody celebrations of violence - I'd rather watch surgury documentaries, like excess skin removal from the formerly morbidly obese if I want to see blood, guts and gore.

I've never seen The Manitou, but will watch it after seeing it mentioned here. Also, have not yet seen Byzantium. I was excited about it at first, but honestly most vampire movies kinda suck. I'll give it a try, though.

[becca]

I guess Alien is a horror film at heart, I loved it! I never would've thought of the Bela Lugosi Dracula seriously but was extremely impressed by it recently, it has more detail and logic than I remember and he was an unknown at the time in America. He definitely made the count into a bit of a cornball later with the Ed Wood things and so on.

[paleshadow]

I mostly like suspenseful scary movies, with little gore, and definitely have a preference horror films from the 80's. The original Halloween will always be at the top of my list.

1. John Carpenter's "Halloween"
2. "Friday the 13th" 1980
3. "A Nightmare on Elm St." 1984
4. "The Shining"
5. "Salem's Lot" 1979
6. John Carpenter's "The Fog"
7. "Silver Bullet"
8. "Something Wicked This Way Comes"
9. "Poltergeist"
10. "The Lady in White"

[chiliD]

The Birds
The Shining
The Ring
The Exorcist (the 25th Anniversary re-edit with the previously unseen scenes...like where she does the spiderwalk down the stairs....yeeeeesh...gives me the creeps just thinking about it)
The Omen
Blair Witch Project
The Entity
The Amityville Horror (book scared me more than the movie...and I read it while sitting in the sun on the beach)
and, all grouped together, those old B&W ones with Karloff, Lugosi & Lon Chaney (Wolfman, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Creature From The Black Lagoon, The Mummy, etc). Those all creeped me out when I was a kid, but now they're almost comedy.

[WatchChain]

[QUOTE=TrueFaith77;1107182][B]Ten Best Horror Films
7. Exorcist II: The Heretic (John Boorman, 1977)
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VERY interesting that your #8 pick is John Boorman's production of
Exorcist II: The Heretic. This film was widely panned by fans and critics alike. BUT, I LOVE your choice. It's making me think I need to go back and give it another look. You certainly can't go wrong with Academy Award nominees/winners like Linda Blair, Richard Burton and Louise Fletcher.

[Jondalar]

[QUOTE=WatchChain;1107392]

Originally Posted by TrueFaith77

[B]Ten Best Horror Films
7. Exorcist II: The Heretic (John Boorman, 1977)
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VERY interesting that your #8 pick is John Boorman's production of
Exorcist II: The Heretic. This film was widely panned by fans and critics alike. BUT, I LOVE your choice. It's making me think I need to go back and give it another look. You certainly can't go wrong with Academy Award nominees/winners like Linda Blair, Richard Burton and Louise Fletcher.

I am the good locust. I will break the chain reaction.

[madeline]

[QUOTE=WatchChain;1107392]

Originally Posted by TrueFaith77

[B]Ten Best Horror Films
7. Exorcist II: The Heretic (John Boorman, 1977)
[

VERY interesting that your #8 pick is John Boorman's production of
Exorcist II: The Heretic. This film was widely panned by fans and critics alike. BUT, I LOVE your choice. It's making me think I need to go back and give it another look. You certainly can't go wrong with Academy Award nominees/winners like Linda Blair, Richard Burton and Louise Fletcher.

Yes you can go wrong. They were running the excorsist movies on sattelite a month or two ago. I watched Excorsist 2 and it is just not good. I really wish it had been. The Exorsist 3 was awesome though. I read the book about a week before it hit the theatre, my husband and I went to see it. I was deffinately impressed. Alot of people weren't though. They went into it thinking it was going to be like the first Excorsist movie and it wasn't. But it was intense to say the least.