"horror...the horror"

[deslicher]

Best Horror movies of all-time, Let's have it:

1) Exorcist
2) Psycho
3)Halloween(original)
4( The Mist 2007
5( Bram stokers Dracula

I should have done this earlier....forgive me for my disobedience.
I'm sure there are more.....

 

[Harmony-bc]

Evil Dead 2- Dead by dawn. It is more funny than scary.

 

[HankQuinlan]

Audition -- japanese movie about a lonely middle-aged guy that pretends to be auditioning actesses. The one he chooses is not what she seems. First hour is very realistic, just some odd events that do not set off the alarms they should in his mind. Last bit has some of the most scary scenes ever: "kiri, kiri, kiri."

Alien. one of the best ever haunted house/slasher movies...even if it is on a spaceship.

Slither -- funniest b-movie horror in recent years. The beautiful and funny Elizabeth Banks in one of her first starring roles....and filmed in Vancouver.

 

[Very Veronica]

the shining

 

[rampart]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!

1. Sisters(1973) Margot Kidder at her creepiest. Brian De Palma Director

2. Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Wes Craven Director

3. Freaks (1932) Todd Browning (Dracula 1931) Director

4. Alien (1979) Ridley Scott Director

5. Jaws(1975) Steven Spielberg Director

 

[rampart]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!

1. Sisters(1973) Margot Kidder at her creepiest. Brian De Palma Director

2. Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Wes Craven Director

3. Freaks (1932) Todd Browning (Dracula 1931) Director

4. Alien (1979) Ridley Scott Director

5. Jaws(1975) Steven Spielberg Director

Horronable Mentions

Wickerman (1973) Robin Hardy Director Anthony Shaffer(Sleuth) Screenplay

Rec(2007) Jaume Balaguero Director

Eraserhead(1977) David Lynch

 

[wilde]

The Thing kept me up for a few nights as well as making me really uncomfortable in social situations where you are tied up with a group of people.

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[Thatotherguy]

I'm definitely going to agree with the people who said Alien. One of the best horror/suspense movies ever IMO.

 

[CODe333]

I agree about Alien, it is one of the best. Two you seldom hear about but which rank among my favourites are:

Nomads
Rosemary's Baby

Nomads is not well known, possibly because no one thinks a gothic or horror film with Pierce Brosnan is likely to be very good. In the opening scene Pierce Brosnan's French anthrpologist character dies of terror in a hospital emergency room. The story unfolds as his wife uncovers why he went mad.

Rosemary's Baby, with a very young Mia Farrow along with Frank Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon and Sidney Blackmer. Only one or two deaths as I recall and no blood or gore but an amazing use of mood and atmosphere to create a truly weird and horrifying story with a rather odd climax. I'm not sure that's actually Mia Farrow naked in the scene where Satan knocks up his bride but in 1967 it really stood out.

 

[blazejowski]

The Shining is one of the worst movies out there, imho... boooooring...

I'm not a huge fan of horror movies, I prefer to read horror novels than see the movies, but I've always enjoyed The Thing and both versions of Dawn Of The Dead...

 

[Rammstein69]

For me:

Aliens
Alien
The Thing
The Hidden
Christine
The Changeling

 

[trackstar]

 

[Fletch]

Anything with Sarah Jessica Parker

How she managed to have a career is beyond me. She is truly frightening to look at.

 

[Mr Blonde]

1) Haute Tension
2) Wolf Creek
3) The Shining
4) Suspiria
5) Alien

 

[Thatotherguy]

For me:

Aliens
Alien

OK, as I said earlier in this thread, I agree about Alien, but Aliens? I wouldn't consider that to be a horror/scary movie at all. Don't get me wrong, I really like Aliens, but I consider it to be a straight-up action movie where the horror is incidental. IMO Alien is the opposite: it's a straight-up horror movie where the action is incidental. I love both movies, but they're very different.