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]

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/johndemetry/favourite_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]Ten Best Horror Films
[B]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=TrueFaith77;1107182]Ten Best Horror Films
[B]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=TrueFaith77;1107182]Ten Best Horror Films
[B]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.

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.

[Jondalar]

[QUOTE=WatchChain;1107392]

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.

It is the most interesting bomb in the history of movies. They went for a bunch of avante grade, new concept and none of it worked.

[shackin'up]

1. The shining.

[madeline]

The shining I didn't like. How many of you saw the remake in 97 with Steven Weber?
That one I did like very much. Also I wanted to mention that I noticed several people put Salem's Lot on their list. Good choice, but how many of you saw the remake in 2004 with Rob Lowe? I liked it because alot of the characters from the book that didn't make it in the first movie were in the remake. I have read that book so many times. And please Hollywood do not cast Rutger Hauer as a vampire ever again. Rutger Hauer and Donald Sutherland did not do it for me at all. And to be honest you are not going to beat James Mason and Reggie Nalder. Your just not.

[paleshadow]

Also I wanted to mention that I noticed several people put Salem's Lot on their list. Good choice, but how many of you saw the remake in 2004 with Rob Lowe? I liked it because alot of the characters from the book that didn't make it in the first movie were in the remake. I have read that book so many times. And please Hollywood do not cast Rutger Hauer as a vampire ever again. Rutger Hauer and Donald Sutherland did not do it for me at all. And to be honest you are not going to beat James Mason and Reggie Nalder. Your just not.

I couldn't stand the remake of Salem's Lot, even though I know it was more faithful to the book. I agree with you about Rutger Hauer and Donald Sutherland. I've always found James Mason kind of sinister, and the Nosferatu like version of Mr. Barlow portrayed by Reggie Nalder gives me nightmares to this day, not to mention the Glick boys scratching at the window!

[The Chain]

in no order:
Halloween, John Carpenter's is a masterpiece, but I actually enjoy the Rob Zombie remake as well.

The Shining. I wish Kubrick had made more horror films. Beautiful, intense, I was truly disturbed when I first watched it.

The Roost & House of the Devil. Both Ti West films, he's the young genre director to keep an eye on, in my opinion. Incredibly crafted horror.

Rosemary's Baby

Sleepy Hollow (Tim Burton)

House of 1000 Corpses/ The Devil's Rejects

The Lords of Salem

The Texas Chainsaw Masacre

28 Days Later

Nosferatu (1979 Herzog adaptation)

[Jondalar]

I'm loving this thread. So many movies I'm reminded of.

[madeline]

PUMKINHEAD! This was deffinately a great little horror movie. One of just a few horror movies even my husband likes. We are also big Lance Henriksen fans also. There were also 3 other movies. Blood Wings, Ashes to Ashes and Blood Feud. None of them really compared to the first one. They were okay though.
Hellraiser. Another great little flick. I think they made like 8 of them. Now I am hearing that Clive Barker is remaking the first one. But this time it will be his vision for the movie instead of someone else.

[WatchChain]

We are also big Lance Henriksen fans also.


LANCE HENRIKSEN appears in one of my favorite B-Grade horror films:

PIRANAH II: THE SPAWNING

You can't go wrong with flying piranha that sail through the sky snacking on their victims!! What cheesy fun !!!

[Jondalar]

PUMKINHEAD! This was deffinately a great little horror movie. One of just a few horror movies even my husband likes. We are also big Lance Henriksen fans also. There were also 3 other movies. Blood Wings, Ashes to Ashes and Blood Feud. None of them really compared to the first one. They were okay though.
Hellraiser. Another great little flick. I think they made like 8 of them. Now I am hearing that Clive Barker is remaking the first one. But this time it will be his vision for the movie instead of someone else.

OMG, I LOVE PUMPKINHEAD!!!!!!!

[Jondalar]

Has anyone seen a great little horror called MAY. You gotta watch it.

[madeline]

I forgot to mention that I have 2 18" tall Pumpkinhead in my house. And they are awesome. Plus I have a talking 12" Pinhead from Hellraiser and a full size Chucky doll. My son got it for me for Christmas some years back and spent 80.00 on it. I have more monsters in my house than you have in your movie collection. LOL

As for the movie May, yes I have seen it. It came on sattelite one night so I taped it to dvd. My son's girlfriend and I watched it. Pretty cool movie. Anna Faris and Jeremy Sisto. Gotta love it. Speaking of Jeremy Sisto, have any of you seen a little known movie called Population 436. Pretty cool movie. Angela Bettis starred in May, plus the remake of Carrie and Scar. Oh and the Toolbox murders.

[Sapphire Girl]

It wasn't a movie, but does anyone remember seeing a show on tv which had this voodoo doll which came to life and was chasing this woman around with a knife?

[Jondalar]

It wasn't a movie, but does anyone remember seeing a show on tv which had this voodoo doll which came to life and was chasing this woman around with a knife?

That is famous TV film with Karen Black, it's called Trilogy with Terror.
(find the rest on youtube)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1pnFLT_k5A

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[Sapphire Girl]

Yes, that's the one! Thanks!

[SisterNightroad]

1) Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977)
2) Deep Red (Dario Argento, 1975)
3) Bram Stocker's Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992)
4) Salem's lot (Tobe Hooper, 1979)
5) The Haunting (Robert Wise, 1963)
6) Misery (Rob Reiner, 1990)
7) The Sixth Sense (Michael Night Shyamalan, 1999)
8) The Silence of the lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991)
9) Kill, Baby...Kill! aka Operazione Paura (Mario Bava, 1966)
10) Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)


Onorable mentions:

Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton, 2007)
Sleepy Hollow (Tim Burton, 1999)
Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1982)

[FuzzyPlum]

Well, not exactly a horror film but I recently saw a film called Triangle. Wow! I was scratching my head for days afterwards wondering what the hell I'd just watched. Has anyone seen it? If you haven't I'd really recommend it.

[Frankenstein]

1. Halloween (1978)
2. The Silence of the Lambs
3. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
4. Satan's Little Helper
5. The Fog (1980)
6. Tourist Trap
7. Hatchet
8. Maniac (remake and original)
9. Prom Night
10. New Year's Evil

My preference is super cheesy, low-budget slasher flicks. Sue me :laugh:

[SisterNightroad]

1. Halloween (1978)
2. The Silence of the Lambs
3. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
4. Satan's Little Helper
5. The Fog (1980)
6. Tourist Trap
7. Hatchet
8. Maniac (remake and original)
9. Prom Night
10. New Year's Evil

My preference is super cheesy, low-budget slasher flicks. Sue me :laugh:
Horror accepts everyone!

[~*BellaDonna*~]

This is my kind of list!

1. An American Werewolf in London

2. The Omen (1976)

3. Rosemary's Baby

4. The Amityville Horror (1979)

5. House of Dark Shadows

6. Phsyco

7. Halloween (1978)

8. The Fog (1980)

9. The Exorcist

10. Stir Of Echos

[StillOfTheNight]

In no particular order
Halloween - 78
Black Christmas - 74
Psycho - 60
Friday the 13th (which is tomorrow ooh) - 80
Nightmare on Elm Street - 84
The Purge films - 2013-present
My Bloody Valentine - 81
Scream - 96
The Craft - 95
Prom Night - 80
10 Cloverfield Lane - 2016
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - 74
The Amityville Horror - 79
Children of the Corn - 84

[~*BellaDonna*~]

In no particular order
Halloween - 78
Black Christmas - 74
Psycho - 60
Friday the 13th (which is tomorrow ooh) - 80
Nightmare on Elm Street - 84
The Purge films - 2013-present
My Bloody Valentine - 81
Scream - 96
The Craft - 95
Prom Night - 80
10 Cloverfield Lane - 2016
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - 74
The Amityville Horror - 79
Children of the Corn - 84
The Amityville Horror scared the heck out of me the first time I saw it, but the murders that occoured in the house, is even scarier. It still gives me chills when I think about it.
:shocked:

[olive]

Food of the gods

The town that dreaded sundown

Happy Birthday to me

The devil's rain


Rosemary's Baby

Carrie

it's alive


Trilogy of Terror

The red shoes (Japanese)

Bloody Reunion ( Japanese )

[Macfanforever]

Since today is Friday the 13.The movie series was scary too.