What is your favourite horror movie?
What makes an excellent horror movie? The acting or the theme?
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Alien
Aliens
The Thing
The Birds
Dracula (Lugosi)
Day Of The Triffids
The Silence of the Lambs comes to mind.
The acting as well as the theme are important. When there is a lot of gratuitous gore, I get irritated more than afraid.
That is the reason I usually don’t go for those types of movies.
I like scy fy horror, like Predator, Riddick, Pitch Black, etc…
For scary horror, IT was pretty good. The Shining is probably my favorite, and I loved Cujo.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/top/bestofrt/top_100_horror_movies/
Misery and the Exorcist bothered me as it was too realistic.
I was at the theater watching the Exorcist and my husband and his friend asked me at that precise moment to get the popcorn while snickering at me?
When I returned it was just at that time that the girl that was possessed threw up all over the room! I was just walking up the aisle and shocked to see this huge screen scene..it stayed with me for years!
Jerks!
The Phantom of the Opera in black and white with Lon Chaney.
Yale University owned a copy of the movie and would have an organist/music professor play a pipe organ. I think it was in the Yale Chapel.
I think the original Nightmare on Elm Street is really good; the only slasher/gore film that is actually scary. Freddy Krueger wasn’t seen too much, and was still a mystery. He LOOKED like a nightmare figure, and the story moved so that nightmare and waking was unpredictably but realistically mixed—with actual results.
A seldom mentioned movie that came out about the same time was Dreamscape (1984). Not quite as bloody but some gore, and every bit as nightmarish.
I like the classics, both the Hammer era and the black and white age of Universal Studios’ classics, but don’t find them scary enough for a horror effect.
The movies Insidious (the original) and The Conjuring, and The Ring are the only post-2000 horror movies that were scary imho,
@Yellowdog It was truly amazing, the pipe organ I think had over 1000 pipes.
In Memphis, we have one theater that is truly out of place —it belongs more in the more palacial cities in Europe, I would love to see it used for classic or even modern horror, with its organ. They’ve done orchastras with movies such as Harry Potter but never used their pipe organ for a classic horror,
We have several out-of-place Gothic churches, as well, but nothing that would fit the atmosphere of classic horror.
The Exorcist. BrilIiant atmospheric build-up.
The Ring. Brilliant evil child.
Fright Night. Charlie’s dah man, man!
American Werewolf in London. Stay on the path, dammit!
Salem’s Lot. Get off my window, bro!
Last but not the least, The Star Wars prequels. The horror! The horror!
The 1979 version of Salem’s Lot is sufficiently scary and visually excellent—will rival anything; fear but no gore
A tie between Young Frankenstein (1974) and Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010)!
If funny ones don’t count, then Aliens (1986).
Second choice, Jaws (1975).
Honorable mention:
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978).
The Terminator (1984)
Alien (1979)
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Probably House of 1000 Corpses or Night of the Living Dead.
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