Your favorite Halloween movie genres?

[quickccc]

In the spirit of Halloween, Here's my listing of the Best of the Best Horror Genre Films:
i wonder if and how many other good ones i may have overlooked......

What do you think ..??

VAMPIRES
Fright Night 2 (julie carmen)
John Carpenters Vampires
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Killer
Fright Night
Let the Right one In
30 days of Night
Queen of the Damned
From Dusk til Dawn
Underworld
Interview with a Vampire
Dracula (Gary Oldman)
the Lost Boys
Count Yorga vampire
Blade 2
Salems Lot
Scream Blacula Scream
Innocent Blood
Blacula
Vampire Circus
Blade
Van Helsing
Vampire's Apprentice
Return of Count Yorga
Scars of Dracula (Lee/Cushing)

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls026145207/


WEREWOLF
the Howling
An American Werewolf in London
Dog Soldiers
Silver Bullet
Full Eclipse (mario van peeples)
An American Werewolf in Paris
the Wolf Man 2010
Beast of Bray Road
Ginger Snaps
Red Riding Hood
Boy who Cried Werewolf
Bad Moon

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls005779864/


DEMONS
the Exorcist
the Conjuring
Gates of Hell aka city of dead
Evil Dead 1 &2
Lights Out
Jeepers Creepers 1 & 2
The Omen
Hellraiser series
Night of the Demons
Pumpkin Head

https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=demonic-possession

SLASHER
Saw
A nightmare on Elm Street
Friday13th
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Scream
Halloween
Psycho
Candy Man
Pieces
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/essential-slasher-movies/


GHOST
the Sixth Sense
the Shining
Poltergeist
Childs' play
Sleepy Hollow
The Nun
Amityville Horror
Pet Cemetary
The Ring
Paranormal Activty
the Grudge

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/movies/g23781249/best-ghost-movies-scariest/


ZOMBIES
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Resident Evil
Return of the Living Dead II
Day of the Dead
Land of the Dead
Reboot- Dawn of the Dead 2004
Serpent and the Rainbow
Dead Alive (aka Brain Dead)
Tomb of the Blind Dead
World War Z
Zombie 1972
Shaun of the dead
Fido
Train to Busan

https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/essential-zombie-movies/


WITCHES
Maleficent
Hansel and Gretel
the Seventh Son
Harry Potter series
Snow White and the Huntsmen
Witches of Eastwick
Warlock series
Thinner
Drag Me to Hell
The Last Witch Hunter
Into the Woods
Sorcerors' Apprentice
Season of the Witch
Snow White a tale of terror
Solomon Kane

https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword...moviemeter,asc&mode=detail&page=3&ref_=kw_nxt

 

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[cowboyec]

my favorites are still...
•frankenstein(boris karloff)
•bride of frankenstein(boris karloff)
•dracula(bela lagosi)
•the wolfman
•the mummy(boris karloff)
•creature from the black lagoon
•the body snatcher(karloff and lagosi)
•the pit and the pendulem(vincent price)
•house of usher(vincent price)
•house on haunted hill(vincent price)
•the raven(vincent price)
•house of wax(vincent price)
•the oblong box(vincent price)

 

[quickccc]

my favorites are still...
•frankenstein(boris karloff)
•bride of frankenstein(boris karloff)
•dracula(bela lagosi)
•the wolfman
•the mummy(boris karloff)
•creature from the black lagoon
•the body snatcher(karloff and lagosi)
•the pit and the pendulem(vincent price)
•house of usher(vincent price)
•house on haunted hill(vincent price)
•the raven(vincent price)
•house of wax(vincent price)
•the oblong box(vincent price)

wow, .. all super old schoolers classics ..

 

[cowboyec]

wow, .. all super old schoolers classics ..

my favorite halloween genre...Boris Karloff.
close 2nd...Bela Lagosi.
and i do love Vincent Price.

 

[Tabascocat]

I watched the original Friday the 13th last night. I have seen it a few times over the years yet I never realized that Kevin Bacon was in it. Not sure how I missed that but it has been awhile since I saw the first one.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

A good list...

You sort of covered them all! lol

 

[quickccc]

A good list...

You sort of covered them all! lol

What Horror Genre would you consider one of your favs . " Carnival of Souls " ? ..

i couldn't determined if The Shining is a Ghost movie .. or is it a Slasher movie ?.

Ditto with A Nightmare on Elm Street

 

[MichaelWinicki]

What Horror Genre would you consider one of your favs . " Carnival of Souls " ? ..

i couldn't determined if The Shining is a Ghost movie .. or is it a Slasher movie ?.

Ditto with A Nightmare on Elm Street

"Carnival of Souls" is a zombie movie in my eyes... As a matter of fact it influenced George Romero.

"Shining"? Ghost story. The book paints that picture even more so than the movie.

"Nightmare"? I'm going with slasher. I can see the ghost-story connection, but for me it's not strong enough to over-ride the clear slasher aspect.

 

[Tabascocat]

I watched the original Friday the 13th last night. I have seen it a few times over the years yet I never realized that Kevin Bacon was in it. Not sure how I missed that but it has been awhile since I saw the first one.

I also didn’t know that Corey Feldman and ‘George McFly’ were in part 4-The Final Chapter

 

[Creeper]

I hate horror movies, but I watch them because my wife loves them. Today's horror movies are all about gore and violence and less about fright.

 

[BigStar]

I watched the original Friday the 13th last night. I have seen it a few times over the years yet I never realized that Kevin Bacon was in it. Not sure how I missed that but it has been awhile since I saw the first one.

Johnny Depp is in first Nightmare on Elm Street. Kind of cool seeing him back then. Dwight from the Office was in House of 1000 Corpses (just watched it) Still looked like Dwight

 

[MichaelWinicki]

What Horror Genre would you consider one of your favs . " Carnival of Souls " ? ..

i couldn't determined if The Shining is a Ghost movie .. or is it a Slasher movie ?.

Ditto with A Nightmare on Elm Street

Thinking about this... Stanley Kubrick, the famous director of "The Shining" would have been mortified to think he made a "slasher" flick. lol

 

[MichaelWinicki]

I hate horror movies, but I watch them because my wife loves them. Today's horror movies are all about gore and violence and less about fright.

Yeah, there's a delicate balance there.

There are a few post-2000 films that, while they have gore and violence are scary...

"30 Days of Night" and "Abominable" are two.

 

[BigStar]

Ghosts:
6th Sense
The Ring
Conjuring (isn't it kid Ghosts leading the kids to watch the movies?)
1408

Slasher:
Cabin in the Woods (horror comedy but it is great)
Terrifier
Nightmare on Elm Street (The new one was Ok but that makeup job sucked)
Green Room
You're Next

Demon:
Insidious
Babadook
Sinister

Vampires:
This is Us
30 Days of Night

Witches:
Drag me to Hell

Zombies:
The Crazies

 

[CouchCoach]

One thing that affects me is whether I have memories of those films. We saw the original Halloween and Scream in the theater and the audience reaction comes back to me. When Michael sits up, I can still hear the girls screaming in the theater and actually yelling "behind you, BEHIND YOU!!!'.

Scream has one of the best opening scenes of horror movies ever.

The producers of The Tingler had taken that to the extreme before those movies when they wired some of the seats in specific theaters to vibrate signaling a Tingler was on your seat getting ready to get on your spine/neck and the only way to kill them? Screaming. At one point in the movie, Vincent Price actually calls on the audience to scream in the theaters to rid it of Tinglers. Yep, I screamed, we all screamed and guess what? No Tinglers.

The problem I have with slasher films now is they lack imagination in letting me use mine. In Psycho, Hitchcock showed just enough of that shower scene to engage the viewer's imagination without getting too graphic and he chose to shoot that in black and white for economic reasons as well as he thought in color, the film might be too alarming and disturbing, this was, after all, 1960. His studio didn't even want to make the film.

I will, as we did every Halloween, watch Halloween and Scream and enjoy the hell out of them. Donald Pleasance really made Halloween for me and hearing that score, done by Carpenter himself, sets the tone perfectly.

 

[quickccc]

I hate horror movies, but I watch them because my wife loves them. Today's horror movies are all about gore and violence and less about fright.

unless you deal with James Han ..who seems to have specialized Jump-scare scenes with
the likes of "the Conjuring" and Lights Out " ...

i've seen " Get Out " being listed as a Horror ,.. but i thought of it much more as a mystery suspense movie.
i think it would be one more of your taste as it pertains to plot, twist- turns and curiousity suspense than gore violence
you don't care for.

 

[Creeper]

unless you deal with James Han ..who seems to have specialized Jump-scare scenes with
the likes of "the Conjuring" and Lights Out " ...

i've seen " Get Out " being listed as a Horror ,.. but i thought of it much more as a mystery suspense movie.
i think it would be one more of your taste as it pertains to plot, twist- turns and curiousity suspense than gore violence
you don't care for.

I saw it. Not a fan but it just my taste. I prefer science fiction to horror. I can see why others would like it though.

 

[CouchCoach]

Ya want a horror movie, check out that game last night. The Cowboys had Michael at RB, Freddy at WR and the Night of the Living Dead on defense and they flat out murdered the team.

 

[jsb357]

Constantine ( devil / demons)

Stir of Echos ( ghost / paranormal )