Which is your favourite horror movie and why?
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Freddy vs. Jason. Its funny and cool at the same time.
The Ring and its sequel. Psychological horror, inability of protagonist to fight back, hide and run scenario, creepy and panic-inducing music, and last but not least the traditional Asian-type apparition that’s always more frightening than Western supernatural creature such vampires, werewolf, poltergeist, etc.
As always, impossible for me to name just one fave movie in any film genre.
For me, true horror is not necessarily what you see but what you are forced to _imagine, a horror-invoking technique more common in older movies than newer ones that too often use elaborate special effects to make you jump.
THE THING (1951) still has great horror elements that still work for me, as does the original INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956). Others include: the original Frankenstein, The Bad Seed, Babadook, Silence of the Lambs, Psycho, Alien, and countless many others. And no list is complete without Rosemary’s Baby—a true horror movie by my personal definition.
‘The Curse of Frankenstein’ (1957) had the most profound effect on me, probably because I saw it at such a young, impressionable age. When that monster approached the camera until his face filled the screen, then tore off those bandages, I came close to….(well, you know…..)
Later that evening, my mother asked me to go get something in the kitchen. It was dark in there, with the light switch not very close.
Sorry, Mom…..nope…...that monster could be…...(no, make that probably is) in there waiting for me…..
I don’t usually see horror movies now. They’re too scary, which sounds like a joke but I really feel like I can’t take the suspense and I don’t want to get nightmares.
When I was younger, I used to like the “Friday the 13th” movies. I also saw one once called “Terror Train” which I remember was good and my teenage brain thought it had a good story, too. There was one I saw as a teenager which was something about a babysitter and the phone ringing, saying “have you checked the children?” Then she called 911 and the operator told her “the calls are coming from within the house” and that was a really scary thing, for me, at the time.
I remember the newer version of “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” being very scary, I thought. I saw the beginning of “The Hills Have Eyes” but I shut it off.
One that was creepy but not terribly scary (so really hota horror movie) was “The Others” with Nicole Kidman.
“The Stuff” and “The Blob” I am still scared of.
Utterly impossible to answer. I’m a big fan of the genre.
I recently saw a great Korean flick on Netflix (Korea is doing wonderful things in film. Truly). Train to Busan. It’s a Hyper-Zombie type thing, in the vein of 28 Days Later, but with more character development in a 1:45 movie than in the entire damn series of The Walking Dead.
I despise horror movies.
But if I had to pick, it would be “Shaun of the Dead”.
Love the old ” The Shining” with Jack Nicholson and also campy, comedy horror like ‘Otis” and ” Tucker and Dale vs, evil.” Also “Slither” , “Shaun of the Dead” and many others whose titles escape me in the moment. Just recently watched a Netflix British horror flick, super campy, hilarious and right up there with new cult classic potential.
Called ” Stitches” look it up on netflix. Good fun!
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@Coloma: I love love love the original “Shining.”
@jca me too, I just watched it again for the first time in years a few months ago, so spooky.
@Coloma: And great scenery. I like the scene when they’r driving to the hotel and the camera pulls away (probably on a helicopter or low flying plane). I googled the set locations. Makes me want to go there. I think the one when they’re driving to the hotel was filmed in Colorado.
@jca Yes, that lodge is amazing and the crazy maze garden, love it!
The Crawling Eye (1958) (a.k.a (The Trollenberg Terror)
I saw that movie as a child and it scared the crap out of me. The scenes with the tentacles moving across the ground gave me nightmares. i was afraid to step out of my bed for fear of having one grab me!
Warning! Watching it as an adult will make you laugh. But I still enjoy it.
The Shining
Alien
The Thing
Day Of The Triffids
Whistle and I’ll Come to You is my favourite. I saw it as a kid and it still sends shivers down my spine. The horror is not overt but the sense of an undefined malevolent presence is made all the more real as a result.
Although I’m not a big fan of the horror genre as a rule, I think my favorite in this line is Hitchcock’s “The Birds”.
I like it because most of the horror is implied, rather than explicit – although there is a fair amount of that, too, such as when the Tippi Hedren character is trapped in a room that the birds have taken over, and another scene of people being attacked by birds in the town while she is in a phone booth. But still, for a horror movie, not a great deal of explicit blood and gore. (The Daphne du Maurier short story was actually somewhat more explicit.)
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, because it is a funny on-point parody of slasher films with it’s own consistent style and a sense of humor that I like, rather than a farcical parody.
Young Frankenstein, though it’s more of a farcical comedy.
Jaws, because it is well done.
The Babadook. Because it blends horror with a genuinely moving story about family
1. Silence of the Lambs – exceptionally well done film based on one of the scariest novels I’ve read.
2. Night of the Living Dead (original) – Zombies vs. the living…who will win?
The Shining.
Another vote for Silence of the Lambs.
I like Zombie films too. For instance, 28 Days Later.
I avoid horror movies now but I sure remember The Legend of Bogey Creek.
The Amityville Horror. Sure, it’s long since been exposed as total BS, but still – a house with walls that drip blood, windows that look like spooky eyeballs, and a family murderer and demons involved in it all, as well? What’s not to like?
I was about 12 when I read the book. Scared the shit out of me! Of course it was touted as a True Story so I didn’t question it.
The family made most of it up, and made millions. The part about the kid who killed his family is true I have heard, but the rest was bull crap. And people who have lived in the house since then, have had no problems other than thrill seeking teens peeing in the yard.
Peeing in peoples yards is thrill seeking? LOL
Well I thought it was. I mean, how often do you..ooppps. I mean dang nab teens, you know how they are!
@Pied_Pfeffer, could not agree more about Silence of Lambs novel. One of the most riviting and scariest books I ever read. Ditto the movie.
“What was it, Clarice ?.....What was it…..??.....
…....was it a dream…...??”
An Inconvenient truth. Very scary.
No one has listed “The Exorcist” which is one of favourite horror movie. I’m bit surprised by that. Have you guys seen it?
Thanks for the reminder, @imrainmaker. The Excorsit was and still is very scary!
After we saw The Exorcist in the movies, my wife trembled under the covers all night, every 10 minutes or so whispering….“Are you awake….??
I kept responding ”Please….PLEASE….I have to go to work in the morning….”
The next day, she said she was afraid to open her eyes, because that little girl might be standing at the foot of our bed…..
Quatermass and the Pit was shown on British television in the late 50’s and is still the scariest thing I have seen.
It’s really awful to watch this stuff at an age where you think that just might be possible! It could be TRUE!
I watched it at a drive in with my date. Don’t know what he was thinking!
Impossible to choose from so many being a huge horror fan, just go with a fave of recent years.
I love the Sinister movies, brilliant use of fucked up kids, always a winner.
Both Conjuring films are good too & the Insidious trilogy.
I have to add The Road (and the book was 10x worse). Not technically a ‘horror’ film, but it scared the living shit out of me!
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. I do think the book was better than the film, and it played on my mind for days and days afterwards. It’s a tiny book. See if you can get hold of a copy @Berserker. It’s well worth reading. And I like McCarthy’s writing too.
I’m hoping to see the new IT this weekend. Although my husband is balking at taking me since he knows I’ll spend most of the film sitting with my hands over my face, or my coat over my head!
@Berserker Tiptoe through the tulips with meèeeeeeeee :D
To me the best horror movies don’t involve chainsaws and bloody massacres. They involve things that could happen in real life, to real people, like Sleeping With the Enemy.
The Changeling with George C. Scott.
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It is an understated thriller that I watch every October.
I have a good friend from Japan. She showed me “Audition” starring Eihi Shiina whom she tells me is Japan’s horror movie queen. she showed me some other movies in which Miss Shiina stars, and I like most of them, but I think “Audition” is my favorite. Most horror movies are more silly than scary. This one starts innocently and gradually builds in horror. It begins with a man’s wife dying. A few years later, his adolescent son wants a mother, so the man goes to a movie audition held by his friend to try to find a new wife. There, he falls in love with one of the girls who auditions. She seems quite sweet and innocent, but strange things begin to occur. At her home, we catch a f glimpse of a man with no tongue or feet. The hero of the film eventually risks that same fate from his seeming sweet lover.
Oh dear…how could I forget this one? Old Boy. The original one. To say why would ruin your way too many of the movie scenes.
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