Ten Best Horror Movies

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  1. Gallileo

    Gallileo Forum Resident

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    Nosferatu (1922)
    Frankenstein (1931)
    Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
    Psycho (1960)
    Rosemary's Baby (1968)
    Night of the Living Dead (1968)
    The Exorcist (1973)
    Jaws (1975)
    Alien (1979)
    The Shining (1980)
     
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  2. Casagrande

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    Some 'more recent' ones I really enjoyed:

    Shutter (2004, original from Thailand)
    Dead End (2003)
    The People Under the Stairs (1991)
    The Exorcist III (1990)

    Not really horror but unsettling nonetheless:

    Shutter Island (2010)
    Zodiac (2007)

    Kubrick's The Shining is my favorite movie of all time.
     
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  3. jupiterboy

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    The original of The Vanishing was pretty great, and a classic sort of premise.
     
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  4. I don't think "The Shinning" was supposed to be scary or even a movie, seeing as it was part of a Simpsons Halloween episode. :D
     
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  5. Ghostworld

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    I greatly admire The Shining: amazing cinematography, wonderful performances, brilliant piece of film. BUT.... it never really scared me the way a great horror film can get under your film. For that reason, it's not a complete success in my mind.

    I actually like the American remake of Let the Right One In better than the original. Maybe because I saw the US version first.

    But that Friday Night Boys list is very good.

    I guess if we're talking the history of the cinema, Vampyr and Nosferatu have to be there. Vampyr is quite evocative, I've never been a Nosferatu fan. It's a bit too clunky for me.

    I see Alien popping up on a lot of list. I have to call that "sci-fi" not horror.

    Quickly... thinking about times I've been scared and quality filmmaking.

    The Exorcist
    Rosemary's Baby
    The Omen
    The Haunting (orig)
    The Birds
    Let the Right One In (remake)
    Eraserhead
    The Thing (Carpenter)
    The Sixth Sense
    Poltergiest
    Hellraiser (quality filmmaking, well..)
     
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  6. babyblue

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    Well, Alien scared me more than just about any other movie on your list, so I'd say it can be considered horror.
     
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  7. Ghostworld

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    I had an uncle who was terrorized by Walt Disney's "Snow White," the first cartoon horror feature.
     
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  8. babyblue

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    The witch IS pretty scary!
     
  9. jupiterboy

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    And speaking of Disney, Something Wicked This Way Comes.
     
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  10. jupiterboy

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    Favorites (not greatest), in order:

    Let’s Scare Jessica to Death
    The Haunting of Julia
    Don’t Look Now
    The Other
    Rituals (The Creeper)
    Audrey Rose
    The Brood
    The Sentinel
    Rosemary’s Baby
    The Omen
     
  11. Toby Benjamin

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    I'd say 'Alien' is a haunted house movie in space. There aren't enough traditional sci-fi elements in it to make it part of that genre.

    My top ten is:

    1 ALIEN
    2 POLTERGEIST
    3 THE CHANGELING
    4 THE GRUDGE (US)
    5 THE THING
    6 SUSPIRIA
    7 THE HAUNTING (1963)
    8 THE EXORCIST
    9 PSYCHO
    10 THE SHINING

    (Not in order)
     
  12. 1. The Haunting
    2. The Innocents
    3. The Exorcist
    4. Let The Right One In
    5. The Devil's Backbone
    6. The Fly (Cronenberg's)
    7. Alien
    8. Horror of Dracula
    9. The Thing (Carpenter's version)
    10. Psycho

    At the moment...I have others of course.
     
  13. Night/Curse of the Demon holds up remarkably well for a 60 year old movie. Bride of Frankenstein is a fav as well.
     
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  14. RexKramer

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    1 The Exorcist
    2 Psycho
    3 Rosemary's Baby
    4 The Grudge (Japanese)

    then in no particular order:

    Poltergeist
    Cat People
    (40s)
    The Wicker Man
    The Mummy
    (32)
    Nosferatu (22)
    The Thing (82)

    For whatever reason I hold The Mummy above all other Universal monster movies and might be alone in that. I believe Freund's experience as a DP shone through in his direction and gave it a creepier vibe.

    It's a tough list. I had Jaws and Alien on the list but decided not to exclude other, more traditional, horror films. And Re-Animator should bump one of them off but I usually think of the black comedy in it, not the horror aspect.

    Mark
     
  15. babyblue

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    I almost included Re-Animator. It's one of my favorite movies, whatever the genre.
     
  16. Karnak

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    Nice to see another fan of the 'Queen Of Spades'. I thought the scenes of the young countess selling her soul were the most 'horrific' of the film-only matched by the swish of her skirts later.
    We were treated to a reel screening of 'Nosferatu' in grade 5 (around 1970) by our public school librarian. It did make an impression.
    It's probably nostalgia, but after watching some of the 'Cry Of The Banshee' on late night tv as a teen and never having seen the rest until when I was an adult, I think I can include it on my list.
    It gave me the chills then and still does, despite the slapdash nature of it.
     
  17. The Hole Got Fixed

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    Let's Scare Jessica To Death :righton:
     
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  18. progrocker

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    Staunchly disagree. Strangelove, Clockwork, 2001??? He's the man!
     
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  19. Ghostworld

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    And dont' forget half of Full Metal Jacket.
     
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  20. Wmacky

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    I name just one, because it was the only one that caused me real issues as a little kid. I'm not alone either as you'll see If you google "Don't be afraid of the dark 1973" . It was a weekday night in 1973 when this "ABC movie of the week", caused serious brain damage to many unexpecting small children. I didn't have good sleeping patterns again, until years after this movie. It was every small childs worse nightmare. Something's under your bed!

    Have a look!

    http://www.braineater.com/dbaotd.html


     
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  21. Ghostworld

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    Yep. I never forgot THAT one! Kim Darby getting....well, you know how it ends!


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    My other favorite scary/horror ABC MOW "Gargoyles.' I loved that one. And another ending that made me go "Nooooooooooo......"

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  22. lechiffre

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    My top ten

    The White Zombie
    Dracula
    The Mummy
    Island of Lost Souls
    King Kong
    Cat People
    Night of the Living Dead
    Horror Express
    Phantasam
    Shadow of the Vampire
     
  23. GregK

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    The Pact, from last year. Had no idea what to expect going in. Riveting movie and quite scary.
     
  24. jwoverho

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    The trailers for HALLOWEEN, PHANTASM, and ALIEN scared the deal out of me as a kid!
     
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  25. Vidiot

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    I'd consider Alien to be a hybrid science fiction/horror film. Not completely one or the other. And I don't think Jaws is a horror film at all; it's an action/suspense film with occasional moments of intense horror and violence. To me, a horror movie has to be a supernatural horror story with a mythological creature, a ghost, a vampire, a demon, whatever. Some films like Psycho, I give a pass to because psychological horror is a legitimate branch. Hitchcock objected to people calling Psycho a "horror movie" because to him, that denoted cheap shock films of the 1940s and 1950s; he used the term "suspense thriller" (or words like that) instead.

    My list:

    Bride of Frankenstein
    The Mummy's Hand
    Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
    Psycho
    (psychological horror)
    The Exorcist
    Poltergeist
    King Kong
    (kind of a fantasy/horror hybrid)
    House on Haunted Hill (the William Castle original; the remake is unwatchable by humans)
    13 Ghosts (ditto)
    The Haunting

    I'd give honorable mentions to Carrie, the original Fright Night, The Shining, Invisible Man, Village of the Damned (also part SF), The Dead Zone, The Haunting of Hell House, The Thing (a rare case where I prefer the later '82 remake, also part SF), Halloween, Silence of the Lambs (also psychological horror), House of Wax, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (both the 1950s and 1970s versions, though both have SF overtones), Phantasm, Sixth Sense, and Aliens (straight SF with some bone-chilling horrific moments). All classics in their own way.

    You know, I left out Phantom of the Paradise, which is a huge favorite of mine. I'll have to mull over where that one would appear, but it would absolutely be in my top 10. Probably swap that out for The Haunting, which is an acquired taste -- not a movie I could watch a dozen times, like I have Phantom.

    An old theater owner I once met told me that a lot of those early Disney films had one hazard: "not a dry seat in the house," as he put it. Pinocchio is arguably the most frightening of those films, at least in that era.
     
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