Top 10 Horror Movies...Let's have 'em

[SSC_Nerd]

No love for Carrie?


OOOOO.... The Omen. Original of course.

 

[TOE]

sorry but Cujo will eat up Carrie in a heartbeat

 

[BDboystoys]

some great lists!

heres mine!

The Top Ten

1. Wes Cravens: New Nightmare
2. The Shining
3. Halloween
4. A Nightmare on Elm Street
5. Carrie
6. Shadow of the Vampire - Not exactly horror, more of a homage to a classic.
7. Psycho
8. The Invisible Man
9. The Elephant Man - againg not nessessarily horror 'per say' but the plots and events are so horrific and sad its hard not to find it unbearable(in a good way)
10. A Tale of Two Sisters
11. The Phantom of the Opera
12. American Werewolf in London

Honourable Mentions...
Ringu
Identity (thriller/horror but scary and brilliant too)
The Thing
Day of the Dead
Army of Darkness
The Eye
Dark Water
Nosferatu
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Dawn Of The Dead (original)
Scream
The Lost Boys
The Stepford Wives (original- not that craptacular remake)
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Child’s Play

 

[Anton Phibes]

Okay, to be fair I would have to break this down into decades. Since I am not writing a novella...I'm not going to do that. This next statement will get me killed. I really do not care for very many horror flicks past 1970. There, I said it. That being said, there are honorable mentions, but my thing is vintage. So that is what my list will consist of:

1. The Bride of Frankenstein
2. The Phantom of the Opera (Lon Chaney Sr.)
3. Dracula ( Bela Lugosi)
4. The Wolfman (Lon Chaney Jr.)
5. Psycho
6. The Horror of Dracula (1958, Cushing/Lee)
7. The Curse of the Demon (Dana Andrews)
8. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Fredrich March)
9. The Pit and the Pendulum (Vincent Price, 1960's)
10. The Night of the Living Dead (original)

It's really not fair to ask someone whose collection of favorite horrors is in the double digits to limit it to ten.

The only problem with these lists is that next week after having viewed some other classic film for the upteempth time (like The original Invisible Man or Karloff's "The Ghoul", or the Hammer 1959 Mummy), they are subject to change.:chew :chew :chew :chew

 

[Gruson]

I forgot about Cujo!

That is in my top 10 for sure!

 

[Batty]

I didn't like Cujo and never thought it was scary. It's definitely not one of Stephen King's better stories. He's admitted to not being able to remember writing it because of all the coke he was doing at the time.

 

[Gruson]

I didn't like Cujo and never thought it was scary. It's definitely not one of Stephen King's better stories. He's admitted to not being able to remember writing it because of all the coke he was doing at the time.

Not scary? I guess you've never been chased by a stray dog before.

I cannot even imagine Cujo waiting for me.

Classic.

 

[JSA]

Here is my list of Horror films that ACTUALLY scared me:

1. Salem's Lot
2. The Exorcist
3. The Ring (and Ringu)
4. The Grudge

Other than those, here are other Horror films I enjoy,
but don't scare me - in no particular order:

1. Fright Night
2. The Howling
3. American Werewolf in London
4. Dracula - Frank Langella version
5. The Shining
6. Demons
7. 28 Days Later
8. Squirm
9. The Sixth Sense
10. The Lost Boys
11. Exorcist III
12. Evil Dead
13. Zombie
14. Prince of Darkness
15. Trilogy of Terror

JS

 

[Darth Loki]

If Jaws is considered a horror movie then it's at the top of my list. If not....

Pyshco
The Excorsict
Pet Cemetary
Night of the Living Dead
28 Days Later
Shaun of the Dead
Resident Evil 1 then 2
Halloween
A Nightmare on Elm St. 1
The Ring

 

[BDboystoys]

I never got the whole Exorcist thing. It was a brilliant movie but all the 'scariest movie ever' didnt make sence when I'd watched it. I was prepared for scary but it never happened.
The beauty lies in the filmmaking though...duh!

 

[King Darkness]

I never got the whole Exorcist thing. It was a brilliant movie but all the 'scariest movie ever' didnt make sence when I'd watched it. I was prepared for scary but it never happened.
The beauty lies in the filmmaking though...duh!

You should have watched it when you were 10....This movie scared the holy living **** out of me.....Why my mom subjected me to this movie at such a young age I will never know.....

 

[Agent23]

In no particular order...

Night of the Living Dead (the original)

Psycho (the original)

Faces of Death

Bad Ronald

The Birds

The Shining

The Exorcist

Candyman

Halloween

The Shining

 

[CAhobbit]

I never got the whole Exorcist thing. It was a brilliant movie but all the 'scariest movie ever' didnt make sence when I'd watched it. I was prepared for scary but it never happened.
The beauty lies in the filmmaking though...duh!

I agree. But I think by the time I saw the film (in my mid 20s) and had already seen hundreds and hundreds of horror films before then jaded me ultimately to the film. Good premise (though not a very scary one IMO) but it came off a bit cheesy to me by the time I happened upon it.

 

[King Darkness]

I agree. But I think by the time I saw the film (in my mid 20s) and had already seen hundreds and hundreds of horror films before then jaded me ultimately to the film. Good premise (though not a very scary one IMO) but it came off a bit cheesy to me by the time I happened upon it.

Its a shame you and BD didnt get to see the Exorcist as children....If I watch it now I have to admit it doesn't scare me(as much), but at the age of 10 this movie F'ed me up for awhile.....

 

[Blake]

Here is my list:

1) Halloween
2) The Thing
3) Texas Chain Saw Massacre
4) Psycho
5) The Fog
6) Night, Dawn, Day of the Dead
7) Evil Dead 1 & 2
8) Re-Animator
9) The Blair Witch Project
10) Black Christmas

 

[Badism]

Not scary? I guess you've never been chased by a stray dog before.

I cannot even imagine Cujo waiting for me.

Classic.

My god was I scared of Cujo when I was a kid. I had nightmares for weeks of that monster of a dog coming after me. I still get chills watching that film.

I also love the novel. Must have read it 5 or six times over the years.

 

[Poelzig]

ten best,
1.Onibaba
2.Black Sabbath
3.Night of the Demon
4.The Wolf Man
5.The Unknown
6.Bride of Frankenstein
7.Suspiria
8.Masque of the Red Death
9.The Wicker Man
10.Black Sunday


...and my picks for ten most frightening,
1.The House with Laughing Windows
2.Black Christmas
3.A Tale of Two Sisters
4.A Bell From Hell
5.The Descent
6.Deep Red
7.Suspiria
8.Nosferatu
9.The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
10.Cat People

 

[BDboystoys]

Its a shame you and BD didnt get to see the Exorcist as children....If I watch it now I have to admit it doesn't scare me(as much), but at the age of 10 this movie F'ed me up for awhile.....

yeh I guess it all depends on how old you were, how much you'd already seen etc.
For example one movie that scared the crap outta me was Ringu.
I watched it about 10 as well, I was home alone it was pitch black and the blinds were up. Basically I sat there for about 15minutes after it was finished because I was scared to move.
Funny when I think about it now, but Sadako was one scary girl(sucks its been ripped off countless times)

 

[JSA]

Yep, when I watched Salem's Lot I was 8 or 8 years old, so the age at
which you first watched these films makes a big difference on what type
of impact they had on you. If I watch Salem's Lot today, I still get chills
and then am a bit jumpy afterwards. The Ring/Ringu scared me even as
an adult, and it was only rated PG13! I applaud films that are rated PG
(poltergeist?) and PG13 that can SCARE better than the hack-and-slashers
that are pushing the boundaries of the R rating.
Scares are always better than blatant excessive gore in my opinion.
That is why the "slasher" type films just don't have much impact on me.
I went to see the remake of "The Hills Have Eyes" and it didn't scare me
at all, but "Silent Hill" actually creeped me out with it's atmosphere.

Here is part of what scared me so badly as a kid:

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I still get chills every time I watch it.

Here is a link where I mentioned Count Barlow and Salem's Lot previously: BARLOW

JS

 

[moonlightdrive21]

The Exorcist
Nightmare on Elm Street
The Others
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Halloween
The Shining
The Omen
Poltergeist
Hellraiser

Classics:
Christopher Lee Draculas (all of them!)
Bride of Frankenstein
The Creature from the Black Lagoon
Abbot & Costello Meet Frankenstein
The Wolfman
Frankenstein
Dracula
Psycho
Phantom of the Opera
Nosferatu