OT Your Top Five Favorite Horror Movies

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crandc said:
Psycho
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1, The Last House On the Left Left (original)
2. Suspiria
3. The Exorcist
4. The Thing (though technically sci-fi)
5. The Devil Rejects

I never really liked Psycho that much. It was too psychological. I mean, to me, real horror should be horrible. If there is a film based on Ed Gein then I want to see the Lampshades. But its ironic, for all the reason I don't like Psycho..... I love Vertigo. Go re-watch that film sometime. If that isn't pure evil I don't know what is. Hitchcock basically turns almost Jimmy Stewart into an unhinged predator.
 
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ripcityboy said:
for all the reason I don't like Psycho..... I love Vertigo. Go re-watch that film sometime. If that isn't pure evil I don't know what is. Hitchcock basically turns almost Jimmy Steward into an unhinged predator.
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And then in Rear Window he's a peeping Tom. (Incidentally, Peeping Tom is a horror movie that pretty much ended the career of the greatest directing partnership in British Film history.)
 
Okay, any horror movies that really disturbed you to your core? That filled you with creeping dread? Romero's Dawn of the Dead did that for me - I was bummed out for weeks. Amazingly powerful for such a cheaply-made, mediocre acted film.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
And then in Rear Window he's a peeping Tom. (Incidentally, Peeping Tom is a horror movie that pretty much ended the career of the greatest directing partnership in British Film history.)
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Yeah. Powell and Pressburger. I think the Red Shoes is probably the best use of color and choreography ever. Amazing what they were able to accomplish around the war with the lack of funds and materials. Another English film that I really like is The Innocents. It's more a gothic horror but the production and camera work is first rate. Try to find the Criterion collection version with the extras.
 
Surprised no one has mentioned Black Christmas. That is one of the better early slasher films. And Elizabeth Hussey.... :smiley-bouncing:
 
Rastapopoulos said:
Okay, any horror movies that really disturbed you to your core? That filled you with creeping dread? Romero's Dawn of the Dead did that for me - I was bummed out for weeks. Amazingly powerful for such a cheaply-made, mediocre acted film.
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Hostel and the exorcist were disturbing. The most disturbing for my tastes...the human centipede
 
ripcityboy said:
Yeah. Powell and Pressburger. I think the Red Shoes is probably the best use of color and choreography ever. Amazing what they were able to accomplish around the war with the lack of funds and materials. Another English film that I really like is The Innocents. It's more a gothic horror but the production and camera work is first rate. Try to find the Criterion collection version with the extras.
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Based on Turn of the Screw, the only piece of writing by Henry James that is readable. Another one of around that era is Night of the Demon. Scary until you actually see it.
 
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
Don't Look Now
Saving Private Ryan
Minority Report
The soon-to-be filmed "What Happened" from the book of the same name.
 
I like psychological thrillers best. I just don't believe in "monsters from the deep" or supernatural so they won't scare me. That's why I liked Psycho. Rear Window was really more mystery than horror. I also liked Hands of Orloc. And The Little Girl Who Lived Down the Lane, especially because the end was ambiguous - what, exactly, was said in the phone call she received? Who did she kill? It's left unsaid....
 
crandc said:
I like psychological thrillers best. I just don't believe in "monsters from the deep" or supernatural so they won't scare me. That's why I liked Psycho. Rear Window was really more mystery than horror. I also liked Hands of Orloc. And The Little Girl Who Lived Down the Lane, especially because the end was ambiguous - what, exactly, was said in the phone call she received? Who did she kill? It's left unsaid....
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Nothing more scarier than humans at their worst
 
Best black and white horror:

Night of the Living Dead (obvs)
Cat People (that swimming pool scene)
Eyes Without a Face (VERY creepy French horror movie)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (so good they've remade it at least twice, but original is awesome)
Diabolique (not really horror, but the one movie Hitchcock said he wished he'd made)

Oh, and The Thing from Another World (you knew The Thing was a remake, right?) is surprisingly good
 
The Thing (Kurt Russell)
Aliens
The Day the Earth Stood Still (both versions)
The Fly (Goldblum version)
War of the Worlds (Cruise)
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crandc said:
I like psychological thrillers best. I just don't believe in "monsters from the deep" or supernatural so they won't scare me. That's why I liked Psycho. Rear Window was really more mystery than horror. I also liked Hands of Orloc. And The Little Girl Who Lived Down the Lane, especially because the end was ambiguous - what, exactly, was said in the phone call she received? Who did she kill? It's left unsaid....
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Looks like a have another film to add to my Netflix queue.
 
The cabinet of dr. Caligari
Nosferatu
Freaks
House of wax
Halloween

If they are horror movies
Jaws
Silence of the Lambs

And for cool people only
Dr. Tongue's 3d house of stewardesses.

In fact any of the dr. Tongue series
 
MARIS61 said:
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
Don't Look Now
Saving Private Ryan
Minority Report
The soon-to-be filmed "What Happened" from the book of the same name.
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The ghost and mr. Chicken is a great one.
 
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is great, I also am not sure if I'd call Silence of the Lambs a horror flick, but it's a good movie.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
Best black and white horror:

Night of the Living Dead (obvs)
Cat People (that swimming pool scene)
Eyes Without a Face (VERY creepy French horror movie)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (so good they've remade it at least twice, but original is awesome)
Diabolique (not really horror, but the one movie Hitchcock said he wished he'd made)

Oh, and The Thing from Another World (you knew The Thing was a remake, right?) is surprisingly good
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D'oh! How could I forget Carnival of Souls? Not to mention Island of Lost Souls. Freaks is also essential but I don't think of it as a horror film.
 
Nosferatu
Alien
Exorcist
Hannibal Rising
Dracula
Bride of Frankenstein
Original King Kong (1933)
Wolf Creek..(Australian based on a true story...so frightening I could not watch some scenes)
Seven
The Invisible Man
The Birds
Misery
Predator
Jurassic Park
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Fly
Original Jason and the Argonauts (1963 version)
5 choices is just too few
 
Thought of some more recent/obscure ones I would suggest you check out:
Slither. I assume most people have heard of this one because it was directed by James Gunn and has Elizabeth Banks in it. But if you haven't, it's awesome! Some people suggest it's a remake of Night of the Creeps, because both of them feature the plot that alien slugs turn people into zombies, but Gunn denies it. However, watch them as a double feature!


More obscure: Splinter. Another alien body-horror. Great creature feature, with an awesome arm-removal scene, and the best "possessed hand" scene since Evil Dead II.

Most obscure: Pontypool. Even more than Splinter, it's a micro-budget movie that manages to be gripping because of a great plot. Zombiesque, although with a very original cause of the zombie plague.
 
I'd add Cape Fear with DeNiro
Frankenstein with Karloff
Eraserhead
Tales of Terror....Peter Lorre..Vincent Price, Basil Rathbone and Boris Karloff.....great film
 
riverman said:
I'd add Cape Fear with DeNiro
Frankenstein with Karloff
Eraserhead
Tales of Terror....Peter Lorre..Vincent Price, Basil Rathbone and Boris Karloff.....great film
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I want to see this - just been restored after long being thought lost. James Whale's middle movie between Frankenstein and Bride:

 
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