Since it is Halloween, list your fave Horror movies

[CouchCoach]

I gotta say the horror movie that impacted me the most was the original “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” and I checked under my bed for months to make sure my parents hadn’t put a pod there.

If I’d had me a a kid, I would have put one there so it all made sense to me. Later, when I got married, I had to start checking again.

 

[CouchCoach]

There are just way too many to list. It depends on the mood really. There have been a ton of greats listed already. Anything Lovecraft inspired is usually entertaining. The classic monsters are entertaining. Event Horizon wasn't listed yet, but I like it.

As cheesy as it was, as a kid the TV version of Salem's Lot freaked me out...especially the younger brother scratching at the window....so that one holds a fond place in my heart. I'm not sure I have an absolute favorite.

They did a great job on that vampire as well, that’s the stuff nightmares are made of and that was a ground breaker for kid vampires.

 

[CouchCoach]

Watched “Nightmare” last night and had forgotten just how bad an acting job the girl playing the heroine did.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Watched “Nightmare” last night and had forgotten just how bad an acting job the girl playing the heroine did.

That movie hasn't aged well... Not like "Halloween", "The Shining" or "The Thing".

 

[MichaelWinicki]

There are just way too many to list. It depends on the mood really. There have been a ton of greats listed already. Anything Lovecraft inspired is usually entertaining. The classic monsters are entertaining. Event Horizon wasn't listed yet, but I like it.

As cheesy as it was, as a kid the TV version of Salem's Lot freaked me out...especially the younger brother scratching at the window....so that one holds a fond place in my heart. I'm not sure I have an absolute favorite.

Yeah, don't get this guy, @BrAinPaiNt going about that scene in "Salem's Lot"...

 

[JD_KaPow]

There are just way too many to list. It depends on the mood really. There have been a ton of greats listed already. Anything Lovecraft inspired is usually entertaining. The classic monsters are entertaining. Event Horizon wasn't listed yet, but I like it.

As cheesy as it was, as a kid the TV version of Salem's Lot freaked me out...especially the younger brother scratching at the window....so that one holds a fond place in my heart. I'm not sure I have an absolute favorite.

That scene exactly. I remember my roommate and I years ago talking about how much that scared us, so we rented it (on VHS; this was a long time ago). And...it's unwatchably cheesy. But it's amazing how many of us were freaked out by that scene.

One that hasn't been mentioned: Ginger Snaps. It's one of the greatest feminist teenage werewolf movies ever to come out of Canada.

 

[BigStar]

"The Relic" is a very good movie. Don't hear a lot about it today, but combined a good story with some decent frights and very good special affects.

Have posted about "Jeepers Creepers" before... Maybe the best first 45-minutes of any horror film. The last half of the film robs it from being a classic, but still a very good film.

I really liked Jeepers Creepers too...you're right in that it went from a thriller to a cartoon by the end. But the first half is very well paced, don't show too much/little (him dropping the body down the drain was enough "meat" to keep you tensed). I still enjoyed it but agree that it felt like it was building up to something classic, only to fall to the stereotypes (boogeyman).

 

[darthseinfeld]

Im not good at listing lol. But ill say....

-Original TCM had a certain quality to it that is kind of untouchable. Alot of other films have tried to mimic that type of creepiness, and some have made it work. But the TCM is just out of reach.

- The original Halloween scarred my childhood. Slasher films to me are more high end horror than people either realize or give them credit for IMO. This is film is the prime example. It takes alot subtlety and attention to detail to pull of what this film does. Carpenter did a great job of keeping his viewer in a state of tension and unease throughout this film

- Blair Witch Project. I joke that this film was 90 minutes of three people bickering in the woods. But it really was. And they made terrifying. Alot of it was that found footage was a brand new genre, and when you see it, it seems so real and and relateable. However, Ive rewatched this several and still find it very effective. I think what they did was really nailed what a found footage film should be. The film really needs to mimic real life. Everyday looking actors interacting with each other in the same way the viewer would act with the people in there life. I think that identitication is what you need to pull off a found footage film, and the Blair Witch nailed it

 

[darthseinfeld]

A couple Netflix gems Ive watched that I really enjoy are The Ritual and Creep

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

There are just way too many to list. It depends on the mood really. There have been a ton of greats listed already. Anything Lovecraft inspired is usually entertaining. The classic monsters are entertaining. Event Horizon wasn't listed yet, but I like it.

As cheesy as it was, as a kid the TV version of Salem's Lot freaked me out...especially the younger brother scratching at the window....so that one holds a fond place in my heart. I'm not sure I have an absolute favorite.

Yep...that kid floating in front of the window and scratching...scary as a kid.

Watch it now and it is not scary at all but back at that time it sure was lol.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Im not good at listing lol. But ill say....

-Original TCM had a certain quality to it that is kind of untouchable. Alot of other films have tried to mimic that type of creepiness, and some have made it work. But the TCM is just out of reach.

- The original Halloween scarred my childhood. Slasher films to me are more high end horror than people either realize or give them credit for IMO. This is film is the prime example. It takes alot subtlety and attention to detail to pull of what this film does. Carpenter did a great job of keeping his viewer in a state of tension and unease throughout this film

- Blair Witch Project. I joke that this film was 90 minutes of three people bickering in the woods. But it really was. And they made terrifying. Alot of it was that found footage was a brand new genre, and when you see it, it seems so real and and relateable. However, Ive rewatched this several and still find it very effective. I think what they did was really nailed what a found footage film should be. The film really needs to mimic real life. Everyday looking actors interacting with each other in the same way the viewer would act with the people in there life. I think that identitication is what you need to pull off a found footage film, and the Blair Witch nailed it

I really like the original "Texas Chainsaw Massacre". But I just don't have the warm feelings for it to say it's a classic in my book... Not sure why not, but whatever. I know it's held in high regard my many.

Personally I feel "Black Christmas" is a far scarier film than "TCM".

"Blair Witch". Seems like it's in vogue to knock "Blair Witch" today, but I still consider it a great film. I think many dislike it simply because it did usher in the "found footage" era, in which most of the entries were trash (but there were a few good ones like "Troll Hunter".

 

[Tabascocat]

Watching Hotel Transylvania right now

 

[Corso]

Watching Hotel Transylvania right now

Lol...

 

[YosemiteSam]

In the Mouth of Madness

I'm not a huge horror fan, but In the Mouth of Maddness is definitely on my list! I love that movie. It has the best ending!

The only real slasher movie that I ever liked was the original Nightmare on Elm Street. I preferred Halloween 3 to all the others because it isn't a slasher movie.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

I'm not a huge horror fan, but In the Mouth of Maddness is definitely on my list! I love that movie. It has the best ending!

The only real slasher movie that I ever liked was the original Nightmare on Elm Street. I preferred Halloween 3 to all the others because it isn't a slasher movie.

"In the Mouth of Madness" is a good flick... Weird as hell, but a good watch.

I never got into "Nightmare"... Don't know why. It just didn't click with me.

"Halloween 3-Season of the Witch" was another film that over the years has gained a lot of fans. It was originally panned because it didn't have anything to do with the Michael Myers arc. I enjoy it. It has a good story to it.

 

[lukin2006]

Scream, Saw and Purge are my top 3
Halloween
Friday The 13th

 

[lukin2006]

Way back’s
Dracula
Frankenstein
The Wolfman
The Thing
Creature from the Black Lagoon
House of Wax

Later
Halloween
Scream
Nightmare on Elm Street
Jeeper Creepers
The Thing
The Conjuring
The Reaping
The Relic
The Exorcist
It

Nice list

 

[OmerV]

I rarely watch horror movies anymore, but to me to me the horror movies rooted in the supernatural are much scarier than the ones based on a psycho killer. And by that I don't mean Poltergeist or any of the bubble gum level of the genre. In my mind the top one of all time is still The Exorcist. That one freaked my out back in the day, and it still has an effect on me. I also loved the old black & white Dracula movies as a kid. I read the book when I was about 13 or 14 and I was mesmerized was by it.

I don't bother much with the slasher movies. I remember spending a lot of the time during the original Halloween movie irritated at Jamie Lee Curtis for having so many opportunities to finish off Michael Myers, and every time she would just assumed it was over and turn her back on him while he got up and tried to kill her again.

 

[Xelda]

Little Shop of Horrors
Young Frankenstein

 

[Khartun]

I love a lot of the old horror movies. A couple that haven't been mentioned:

Motel Hell
Prophecy (Bear, not Walken)
The Car
The Frighteners
The Entity
The Fog
Reanimator
Basket Case
Trilogy of Terror
They Live (maybe not horror)
Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein (big Abbott and Costello fan)
It Lives

Of course my all time favorite is the Alien franchise.

Do y'all remember the Night Gallery TV series? Rod Serling. I loved it. Also, The Night Stalker.