Favorite Horror Movies

[Damocles]

 

[Mathew Gould]

Im not a big horror fan but the few that I do like are:

Evel Dead 2
Evil Dead: Army of Darkness
The Shining
Christine
Sleepwalkers

I like vampire films like Only Lovers Left Alive, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Let Me In or Byzantium, but I don't they count as horror.

Sleepwalkers is awesome.

 

[Damocles]

KRAMPUS (2015)

 

[aura]

 

[Shelbylynn]

I love horror movies, but when asked this I always leave some out!

The Shining
The Excorcist
Rosemarys Baby
Midsommar
Hereditary (I'm excited for Ari Aster's upcoming work)
The VVitch
Suspiria
REC
Sinister (not my fav but a movie that really creeped/scared me somehow, whoever made that soundtrack is absolutely cursed)

 

[danielthor]

I love horror movies, but when asked this I always leave some out!

The Shining
The Excorcist
Rosemarys Baby
Midsommar
Hereditary (I'm excited for Ari Aster's upcoming work)
The VVitch
Suspiria
REC
Sinister (not my fav but a movie that really creeped/scared me somehow, whoever made that soundtrack is absolutely cursed)

Have you seen The Sentinel (1977)? I can highly recommend it based on your picks.

 

[danielthor]

I've got over 3000 movies under my belt, and seen just about every single old school horror movie there is These are my all time faves:

The Birds
Carnival Of Souls
The Fearless Vampire Killers
The Haunting
Burnt Offerings
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956 version)
The Tenant
Psycho
Race With The Devil
Rosemary's Baby
The Shining
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Jigoku

 

[ZFire]

Midsommar

This film creeped me out and made my skin crawl. I couldn't sleep well that night.

 

[Damocles]

This film creeped me out and made my skin crawl. I couldn't sleep well that night.

HA HA! I loved that film! but for the laughs more than the scares.

Funny thing though, I plan on going to Sweden to meet @Stacken77 one day in the future, and he'll probably be living in the middle of nowhere countryside by then.

I sure hope my visit's nothing like that... ( 〇 _〇）

 

[Shelbylynn]

Have you seen The Sentinel (1977)? I can highly recommend it based on your picks.

I have not! I will definitely watch it, thanks for the recommendation! I'm always looking for things to watch.

 

[Shelbylynn]

This film creeped me out and made my skin crawl. I couldn't sleep well that night.

It's really so unsettling! I sort of love those movies that kind of make your stomach feel like a rock and you can't stop thinking about when you're through watching it.

 

[aura]

 

[aura]

 

[Damocles]

 

[Damocles]

Obligated to mention this after my post in the War in Ukraine — Megathread.

DEAD SUSHI (2012)

I love East Asian cinema, and this is hardly the best of it. But it was surprisingly good for being so obviously low-budget. And I'm gonna give props to Noboru Iguchi for creating something so comically bizarre in classic Japanese style.

Would recommend.

 

[ZFire]

The Silence of the Lambs still creeps me out.

 

[aura]

Very similar to what we're going through.

 

[Damocles]

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The Silence of the Lambs still creeps me out.

My favourite of the series was always Red Dragon.



But for sheer creep factor, the worst had to be Hannibal.

 

[Damocles]

Very similar to what we're going through.

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I've seen this 1408 film mentioned here a few times now.

Worth watching then?

 

[Daniel Lion]

Horror Sci-Fi...



Perhaps District 9 could be considered Sci-Fi Horror as well... certainly creepy.

 

[aura]

I've seen this 1408 film mentioned here a few times now.

Worth watching then?

Yes.

"Although not a critically acclaimed horror movie, 1408 (2007) was actually an incredibly enlightening horror movie; this movie, for a lot of people, may have come across as a simple ghost story narrative in a haunted hotel room, when in reality the story was a lot deeper than that. Adapted from a short story written by Stephen King, 1408 is actually a modern-day narrative that parallels Dante's journey into the depths of hell in Dante's Inferno (1427)."

The hell is in our mind. And that's the scariest thing.

 

[sakrt]

Pan's Labyrinth
The Cave
The Mist
https://sustainablepulse.com/2022/0...e-of-billions-of-gmo-mosquitoes/#.Yn_rwcbLfbw ...aaannnd where the alligators are.

 

[ZFire]

Pan's Labyrinth

Pan's Labyrinth is a masterful film period.

 

[Rockman]

 

[ZFire]

 

[Winsongs]

Not a big horror fan as I'm a bit of a chicken, but comedy horror works.
Tucker and Dale V Evil was 10/10 - hilarious and awful at the same time.

Check out Peter Jackson's film "Dead Alive". One of the best horror comedy's you'll see. "Stand back boy, this calls for divine intervention!"

 

[Winsongs]

Great thread.

Alien
Dead Alive (comedy horror)
Poltergeist
The Babadook
House on Haunted Hill
The Mothman Prophecies
The Exorcist
The Ring

...a few of my favorites.

 

[tpj]

While I know it is, I've never really classed The Fly as a "horror"; it's just too goddamn sad.

The story draws it' inspiration from Kafka's "Metamorphosis" I believe; a story which all of us here, can unfortunately relate to, all too easily.

I've always liked the beginning, when just after his incorporation of the Fly's DNA, he essentially develops superpowers, and becomes FLY MAN. It parallels the whole Super-Hero trope of some medical accident (usually involving radiation) making the subject superior to how they once were, but then makes a sharp deviation by showcasing the negative consequence of screwing around with the genetic blueprint.

If you read much MARVEL, you'll see they have touched on this, but only briefly. In Spider-Man, there's a saga where his spider DNA starts becoming dominant and eventually he mutates into "Man-Spider". But the writers gloss over this issue by making everything repairable, so that he can go back to being your friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man. The reason why this is, is because MARVEL I suspect, were effectively lobbying for Nuclear Power at a time when there was a strong suspicion of and opposition to, it. Kind of like how Super-Man is now a bi-sexual vaccine that can fly, and people who don't want to be saved by him are stupid, homophobic "anti-savers".

But yeah, the final third of The Fly always breaks my heart. I can hardly bear to watch it anymore when it's on.

Just read this. @Damocles, I thought I was the only one who felt this way about The Fly. I've seen that movie many times and towards the end, I am sobbing, totally bawling my eyes out. It is heartbreaking.

 

[tpj]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned John Carpenter's The Thing. Practical effects are still out of this world and Kurt Russell's glorious hair can make any man feel lesser...

@ZFire, your comment about Kurt Russell's glorious hair made me laugh. Hell, I'd be jealous of that hair.

 

[Damocles]

Got you all covered for the 31st.

See my recommends from last Halloween (if you haven't already), then add these:

(Seeing as I've already mentioned it).

Best zombie horror film series (made to date). ▼

Train to Busan (2016)

Seoul Station (2016)

Peninsula (2020)

Best Halloween slasher made to date. ▼

Haunt (2019)

Best ghost horror film series (made to date). ▼

Ju-On: The Grudge (2002)

Ju-On: The Grudge 2 (2003)

Wildcards. ▼

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010)

Gehenna: Where Death Lives (2016)

(Hell House LLC (2015) was mentioned last Halloween, but it would be in this category if it hadn't).

Best demonic horror film series (made to date). ▼

The Conjuring (2013)

The Nun (2018)

Best Irish horror film (made to date). ▼

From the Dark (2014)
No, Leprechaun is not Irish, and even if it was, it wouldn't so much as make it into my "so bad it's good" list.

Best modern British horror films (made to date). ▼

28 Days Later (2002)

28 Weeks Later (2007)

The Woman in Black (2012)

The Ritual (2017)

(Creep (2004) was also already mentioned last Halloween, but it would fit this category if it hadn't been).

Not an exhaustive list by any means, so same time next year (should we make it through this one).