Your favorite horror icon?

[preeny101]

I saw Nosferatu when I was 19 and Count Orlock still scared the sh#t out of me. Orlock FTW!

 

[Dark Passenger]

The Chalk Faced Idiot for me followed by Hockey Puck and Skin Head.

Why so hurtful? Monsters are people too.

 

[Darth_Fatso]

Why so hurtful? Monsters are people too.

They're not monsters, they're psychpaths

 

[Nacho]

Pinhead (still waiting for a PF SS)
Myers

 

[Crimsonbob]

Jason as i loved the films as a kid.

 

[Dark Passenger]

They're not monsters, they're psychpaths

LOL, point taken.

 

[thenammagazine]

It's nice to see the votes more even now that it's not Halloween and pretty much nobody on the list has a movie currently playing in theaters. The poll that ran over Halloween was ridicuoulsy biased.

 

[fosing]

PINHEAD

freddy and jason can duke it out for second and third place.

 

[The Josh]

Always been a Freddy Fan. Like Jason as well but Freddy comes in first.

 

[jasonv808]

Jason Voorhees is the best
Freddy is second
Pinhead is third
Chucky is fourth
Myers closes it out.

 

[fosing]

Pinhead doesn't scare me I just love his monologues.

so true. he always has the BEST lines.
i like freddy too, but find most of his lines cheeesy.

 

[SilentSurfer]

If I count only Halloween 1978, then Myers is #1, but with how poorly made the sequels were (giving no acknowledgment to the RZ reboot), he actually comes in third behind Jason and Freddy.

I love the look of Jason in part 7, but the REAL story for me ends with part 6. Everything after that was just too hard to suspend disbelief for. Reboot was cool as a stand alone, but wasn't my Jason.

I love Freddy for his complete body of works. I love every incarnation. He's a dream guy, so his changing appearance and character don't bother me. While the dream effects in the reboot look promising, the new guy doesn't look, nor sound like Freddy, so he totally isn't. I'm going to see it anyway.

Then: Chucky, Christine, and Pinhead. Don't f__k with the Chuck. Christine is like the car version of the Terminator. Pinhead would have ranked higher, but those movies are just too random. While Chainsaw 1 was extremely disturbing when I first saw it, I care nothing for the character, the sequels were all lame, and the reboots had no soul. The maze, however, that they did at Universal Studios Horror Nights was one of the best ever.

 

[Voorhees27]

Imo the story ends perfect with part 4. Even director Joseph Zito mentions that the producers had the intention of ending it all after The Final Chapter. I will watch past part 4 but have no real connection to any of them. Parts 5 & 6 are fun campy films but straight silly imo. Everything past that is retarded with Jasons look in part 7 as the only acception.

 

[fantasymaker]

JASON , this guy made me jump of the armchair when I was young..

 

[risingstar]

As a kid growing up in the 70s, I had siblings who appeared to find great joy revelling in my reactions to spooky flicks... Yes, I now, gotta love the pre-PC-conscious - no-need-for seatbealts 70s, right..??

I saw most of the classic spook flicks, some gory horror... but I have to admit, the flick that scared me the most was Alien. That film just freaked me out. I believe the Exorcist was the second scariest for me. Then Salem's Lot, Jaws, Halloween, and Friday the 13th. Mind you, I saw all these films between the ages of 10 and 12.

 

[SilentSurfer]

Imo the story ends perfect with part 4. Even director Joseph Zito mentions that the producers had the intention of ending it all after The Final Chapter. I will watch past part 4 but have no real connection to any of them. Parts 5 & 6 are fun campy films but straight silly imo. Everything past that is retarded with Jasons look in part 7 as the only acception.

I agree with everything you said, with the addition that part 6 makes Jason a truly undead zombie, and that is part of what I love about him. Part 5 is just the bridge to get there. The main reason I include part 6 is that the only person to ever KILL Jason, Tommy Jarvis, comes back to put him away in his "original resting place" at the bottom of Crystal Lake. I thought that was just Greek epic.

 

[samhain88]

Freddy and Mike tied for me. But I voted Freddy because he is more entertaining to watch.

 

[beerninja]

Captain Spaulding (mad clown) from Devil's Rejects (and to a lesser extent 1000 corpses). Sig Haig was BORN to play that role. One of the few movies I've seen that really brings you into the world of the psychopathic family and makes you identify with them if only for a short while.

 

[Balsquat]

How could I forget Leprechaun... Leprechaun 2 specifically was an amazing horror movie.

 

[Sined]