Favourite horror film

[Malice]

Texas Chainsaw Massacre
ALIEN
aliens
demons
suspiria
in the mouth of madness
pet cementary
carry
cujo
stockers dracula
shellys frankenstien
ring gu
yo-on
evil dead trap
art of the devil 2
hostel1
saw1
el orfanato
grave dancers
it
them
The Silence of the Lambs
Friday the 13th III
The Evil Dead
The Shining
Exorcist
Nightmare on Elm Street
Hellraiser
JAWS
An American Werewolf in London
The Thing
Halloween
Poltergeist
Dawn of the Dead (original)
fright night
house of a thousand corpses

not in any order.

shet i have so many but im lady to get up..................

 

[jungle jom]

Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein.
The Exorcist.
Fright Night.
Lost Boys.
The Frighteners.

Interesting first choice Anzik.

"Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" is also my favorite horror film. It was the first Horror offering I saw as a child and still holds up after about a thousand viewings by me.

It is probably the best mix of comedy and horror ever made. The lighter moments made the horror elements even more frightening. The lighting and photography are just superb. The great part is that the monsters all played their parts straight and became even more menacing next to A&C.

Take away Bud and Lou and keep the film strictly horror and the story line would still hold together.

 

[RoboDad]

My fave is Cat People, the 1942 original directed by Jacques Tourneur. 2 scenes freak me out every time I see them: when Alice is walking to the bus at night, and when she is going swimming in the pool.

That's another great film. And another, perhaps less well known, is the 1944 film, The Uninvited. I love the atmosphere in this film.

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[Sonic The MadHOG]

Any horror movie that has ever made me so scared that I can't go to the bathroom alone, during or after watching it, I love those ones

 

[madeboxer]

Night of the Living Dead was my first real scary movie. Attack of the Tree Monster was my first horror movie (comical now but scary when I was 10) and then there is Day the Earth Stood Still which was my favorite SciFi movie

The Uninvited was also a favorite of late as I first viewed it last year

 

[winter]

John Carpenter's The Thing. I've seen it more times than I can count and I never get tired of it. And as an added bonus, the the special effects are timeless.

 

[freddysnightmares]

mine are not in any order i like them all the same
nightmare on elm street part 1
friday the 13th part 3
the texas chainsaw massacre the remake
halloween h2o

 

[8th wonder]

The Lost Boys

 

[BadMoon]

Exorcist
Poltergeist
Poltergeist 2
Lost boys
Hellraiser
Texas Chainsaw

These are also in no order.


Oh and if anyone, and I mean anyone puts Blair Witch on their list I may have to come and pee on you.

 

[nsmpls]

well blair witch was differnt.
It was one of those movies you watch once and never again do to it wasent the same.

 

[madeboxer]

Bring on the urine!!!! I actually liked Blair Witch because it had that essence of forboding that wouldn't have been there if it was done any other way. Only one other movie IMO had that effect and that was "The Haunting" (original of course) where only sounds and the environment was all that was necessary to scare the pants off you. Even as lame as the ending was for Blair Witch, we were still chilled by it. And flattery is the best when imitated. The concept of Blair Witch was fodder to the realtime camera shots and narrating witness account done as discovered footage is being used everywhere hince "Cloverfield" and "Diary of the Dead"

Now mind you BWP should not be seen twice because the effect is lost when the element of forboding and surprise is removed.

 

[Sonic The MadHOG]

Bring on the urine!!!! I actually liked Blair Witch because it had that essence of forboding that wouldn't have been there if it was done any other way.

Any horror movie that has ever made me so scared that I can't go to the bathroom alone, during or after watching it, I love those ones

The Blair Witch Project was one that made me scared to go to the bathroom alone, especially cause I thought the dude at the end was killed while taking a piss

 

[Darth_Fatso]

Halloween
Psycho
Jaws
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Dawn of the Dead
Night of the Living Dead
Phantasim
Saw
A Nightmare on Elm Street

 

[Blake]

1. JAWS
2. An American Werewolf in London
3. John Carpenter's The Thing
4. ALIEN
5. Halloween
6. Poltergeist
7. Dawn of the Dead (original)
8. The Shining
9. The Silence of the Lambs
10. The Evil Dead

Hostel could one day break it's way into the top 10. I know this film is not to everyones taste but I am finding that I love this film more and more every time I watch it.

That's a very strong list. I would probably have the same movies, in different order, in my top ten as well. My only substitutions would be Black Christmas and Texas Chainsaw for Jaws and Werewolf in London. Jaws is my overall second favorite movie of all time, I just really don't think it is horror.

 

[Blake]

Even as lame as the ending was for Blair Witch, we were still chilled by it.

Wow, I completely disagree. I think BWP turned it up to eleven in the last 5 minutes of the movie, starting when heather found the house.

 

[uscmhicks]

wow this is a hard one.
Well ... my favorite horror. Its hard to decide what your fave horror is .
Alot of horrors can have so many different effects.

I will have to say the shining. Simply because it scares the crap out of me without the need for huge monsters or parts that make you jump.
t freaks me out so much at parts. When hes talking to ghosts about his family just overall creepy and has you looking over your shoulder. The score to the movie is one my favorites too. Its makes the atmosphere even more tense.

For overall fave movies that I can watch again and again I would have to say.

Silence of the lambs /Hannibal.
The thing.
Friday 13th part 3.
Halloween ( original )
Freddys new nightmare.
Original texas chainsaw massacre

 

[Voorhees27]

For me it was The Shining and it's not even close.

Those twin little girls telling Danny to come play with them.... Jesus....

Also when Shelly Duvall finds the writing and it's page after page of the same thing.... Jesus...

Over the long haul, I have to give Kubrick credit, it was a pretty scary movie.

GG

It was just a GREAT film.

 

[usswanker]

A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Thing
Evil Dead
Event Horizon
Dawn of the Dead (orginal)
Aliens
Predator

 

[wofford29]

That's a very strong list. I would probably have the same movies, in different order, in my top ten as well. My only substitutions would be Black Christmas and Texas Chainsaw for Jaws and Werewolf in London. Jaws is my overall second favorite movie of all time, I just really don't think it is horror.

I wouldn't consider Jaws horror either, but oddly enough it was the scariest movie I've ever seen, but here's why...

The first time I ever saw this film was at a White Water amusement park. Every Saturday night during the summer they'd have a huge drive in screen at the end of their huge wavepool. The wavepool was essentially a simulated ocean pool. My parents decided they'd take me and my brothers to go see Jaws. So everyone gets a life vest and an inner tube and we just floated out in the middle of a pitch black simulated ocean watching Jaws on a screen the size of an Imax picture. Truly one of the most horrifying movies of my life.

 

[Mr ?]

Wow, I completely disagree. I think BWP turned it up to eleven in the last 5 minutes of the movie, starting when heather found the house.

Agreed. When those two found the house, the audience freaked! And for some reason seeing that guy in the corner in the basement freaked me out. My wife maintains it was the first guy to disappear who attacked them in the house; the Blair Witch got in his head like the man from the 40's who said the witch got to him (it was in the Blair Witch documentary on Sci Fi before the film was released).