Fave Horror Flicks?

Heartboy · #1 05-13-2011, 01:27 AM

What's your three all time Fave Horror Films?

I'm talking slasher type movies like the Jason, Freddie & Michael kind!

The 80's era was the best!

1) Halloween
2) A Nightmare on Elm Street
3) The Fog

CreepingDeath · #2 05-13-2011, 03:14 AM

1. Halloween
2. Halloween II
3. A Nightmare On Elm Street

APerfectLie · #3 05-13-2011, 03:32 AM

I ****ing love horror movies! I watch all kinds of horror movies, and my favorites usually end up being the B-rated ones. It is hard to pick three all time favorites tho, but here goes:

1. Halloween
2. When A Stranger Calls Back
3. The Strangers

Speaking of horror movies, has anyone seen any recent horror movies that are good? It seems like most current horror movies just aren't that great, but I every once in a while I will stumble upon one that is rather original and somewhat scary. There was this one called Amusement that came out in 2008 or 2009 I believe and it is has become one of my favorites! Also that movie Trick-r-Treat turned out pretty good. I also hear Insidious is supposed to be amazing, but I have yet to see it.

Heartboy · #4 05-13-2011, 03:47 AM

I love horror flicks & I haven't even seen any of the remakes that have came out in recent years like Halloween, Friday The 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street & My Bloody Valentine!!

Oh & Amityville! (I read that a guy that lived in that house in the 90's died on 9/11 in the Twin Towers) Talk about crappy luck!

CreepingDeath · #5 05-13-2011, 04:48 AM

A few good 'newer' horror movies-

The Orphanage
The Decent
Audition
Martyrs
The Devil's Rejects
28 Days Later
Dawn of the Dead (remake)

Silver Springs · #6 05-13-2011, 05:27 AM

I've never been very big on Horror movies. To me they bulk up the gore and effects to the detriment of the story, thus alienating me. Though I suppose a couple I like, though I don't think they'd fall into the category of Slasher.

* Ginger Snaps
* House Of Wax (Original)
* Theatre Of Blood
* Thir13en Ghosts

McTrouble · #7 05-13-2011, 06:41 AM

Cursed
The Amytiville Horror (original version)
The Wolfman (original Lon Chaney Jr version)
The Wolfman (latest Anthony Hopkins version)
Halloween H20
Nightmare on Elm Street
Ginger Snaps
Shaun of the Dead (OK its a comedy but it's still zombies!)

RickRobert · #8 05-13-2011, 08:27 AM

Grease 2
ten

fumidesigns · #9 05-13-2011, 09:07 AM

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Grease 2
ten

TRUE STORY!!!!!!!!!! lawd that was a horrible story!

TrueFaith77 · #10 05-13-2011, 09:28 AM

Listed by Category, then alphabetical by Director/auteur

I
The Masters

The Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman)

Exorcist II: The Heretic (John Boorman)

The Fury (Brian De Palma)
Blow Out (Brian De Palma)
Carrie (Brian De Palma)
Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma)
Raising Cain (Brian De Palma)
Body Double (Brian De Palma)
Sisters (Brian De Palma)

Vampyr (Carl Dreyer)

Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)

Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau)

Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini)

Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg)
Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World (Steven Spielberg)

The Hearts of Age (Orson Welles)

II
The Auteurs

Resident Evil (Paul W.S. Anderson)
Alien vs. Predator (Paul W.S. Anderson)
Resident Evil: Afterlife (Paul W.S. Anderson)

Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow)

It's Alive (Larry Cohen)
God Told Me To (Larry Cohen)
Q (Larry Cohen)
Full Moon High (Larry Cohen)
Special Effects (Larry Cohen)
The Stuff (Larry Cohen)
Masters of Horror: Pick Me Up (Larry Cohen)
Maniac Cop (written by Larry Cohen)
Uncle Sam (written by Larry Cohen)
Captivity (written by Larry Cohen)

The Howling (Joe Dante)
Gremlins (Joe Dante)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Joe Dante)

Ganja & Hess (Bill Gunn)

Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke)

The Company of Wolves (Neil Jordan)
In Dreams (Neil Jordan)

The Eyes of Laura Mars (Irvin Kershner)

See the Sea (Francois Ozon)

Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski)

Pitch Black (David Twohy)
Below (David Twohy)

Cape Fear (Martin Scorsese)

Hollowman (Paul Verhoeven)

Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright)
Don't (Edgar Wright)

IIIa
Classic Genre Films

The Innocents (Jack Clayton)

Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi)

The Haunting (Robert Wise)

IIIb
Modern Classic Genre Films

Black Christmas (Bob Clark)

Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon)

Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper)

The Legend of Hell House (John Hough)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman)

Evil Dead 2 (Sam Raimi)

Don't Look Now (Nicholas Roeg)

IIIc
Contemporary Genre Films

Vampire In Brooklyn (Wes Craven)

The Crazies (Breck Eisner)

The Covenant (Renny Harlin)

Willard (Glen Morgan)

Candyman (Bernard Rose)

Final Destination 3 (James Wong)

Maxd9 · #11 05-13-2011, 09:37 AM

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Off the top of my head:

The Fury
Carrie
Dressed to Kill
Raising Cain
Sisters

PsychoThe Birds

Vampyr

Nosferatu

The Innocents

The Haunting

The Company of Wolves
In Dreams

It's Alive
God Told Me To
Q
Special Effects
The Stuff

The Howling
Gremlins 2: The New Batch

The Crazies (2010)

Yes yes yes!! 'The Company of Wolves' is such a fantastic movie. Not enough people have seen it.

I LOVE horror films, although I'm not a huge fan of slasher films. I'd say my favourites are 'Suspiria', 'The Exorcist', 'Rosemary's Baby' and 'Night of the Demon'.

'Hocus Pocus' too, although I guess that's not technically a horror film...

TrueFaith77 · #12 05-13-2011, 09:48 AM

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Yes yes yes!! 'The Company of Wolves' is such a fantastic movie. Not enough people have seen it.

I LOVE horror films, although I'm not a huge fan of slasher films. I'd say my favourites are 'Suspiria', 'The Exorcist', 'Rosemary's Baby' and 'Night of the Demon'.

'Hocus Pocus' too, although I guess that's not technically a horror film...

Thank you. My list keeps getting bigger, but I feel I'm missing something major. hmmm...

eta: something major now added

I think those spielberg films count.

ETA: Also, I had totally forgotten one of the true horror masterpieces: Bill Gunn's Ganja & Hess. A mighty film and the dvd restoration is terrific. (though nothing beats seeing it on the big screen)

ETA: omg i forgot NEAR DARK!?!?

Maxd9 · #13 05-13-2011, 09:51 AM

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Thank you. My list keeps getting bigger, but I feel I'm missing something major. hmmm...

Have you seen any of Dario Argento movies? He's my favourite horror director, although he's certainly an acquired taste. If you haven't seen Suspiria though, you are missing out on a treat!

TrueFaith77 · #14 05-13-2011, 09:57 AM

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Have you seen any of Dario Argento movies? He's my favourite horror director, although he's certainly an acquired taste. If you haven't seen Suspiria though, you are missing out on a treat!

I have seen Suspiria. (I used to loooooove Jessica Harper.) But I don't really care for Argento's work.

KarmaContestant · #15 05-13-2011, 10:01 AM

I love horror movies, but not slasher films which aren't really scary anyway. I don't know if I can pick my three favorites, but three I loved watching are:

The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Fourth Kind
The Strangers

When I was a kid, I remember being horrified by The Prince of Darkness - so corny now but it sure did scare me then.