Your favorite Horror Movies ever

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Gargoyles


Jaws ( the eyeless, bald head scene !)

good ones...

I'm gonna go a different direction...

Idocracy

 

[MichaelWinicki]

For those familiar with " Texas Chainsaw " movies, I'd wonder if the remakes were better than the original ?

Not necessarily better, but different...

The 2003 remake with R. Lee Ermey as the crooked sheriff is a terrific film. The prequel film they did in 2006, again with R. Lee is just a notch below.

The sequel to the original film (the sequel was done in 1986) is a weird, wacky and fun film.

The 3rd film in the series, Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III is a much darker and brutal film. But it's also a good watch.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation is a dreg that I wouldn't waste my time on.

Texas Chainsaw 3D is on TV all the time (or seems like it). It's an OK film.

And the last film they did, Leatherface, was awful IMO.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Here are two series of movies that are very entertaining... "Feast" (3 movies in the series) and "Hatchet" (4 movies) in the series.

Sort of the new breed of horror films in that they are over-the-top, with comedic elements mixed in with a lot of gore.

Highly recommend both.

 

[quickccc]

Silence of the Lambs not getting any love here? How about Manhunter? Or should films with humans as the monsters be under a different classification?

And I consider Helter Skelter to be a horror, made for TV, movie because that was all too real.

The real horror of these serial killer films is the knowledge that as I am writing this, it is happening and we just don't know about it yet. And that's why I try to avoid those based on actual events. They hang with me too easily.

and I saw Helter Skelter as more of a documentary- movie genre. same as Dahmer. Bundy, Gacy types. and even these types get remakes as the mass hysteria and controversies was
such as I guess studios were intrigued enough with them to invite remakes (made for TV) with Manson.
But it wasn't until I research Wiki in just a couple of years ago that I discovered late actress Sharon Tate was a Dallas native born.
i'm more the supernatural horror/sci fi type fan than the slasher type fan. I like and more intrigued with the CGI special effects and make up effect of the supernatural horror ones.

 

[CouchCoach]

Not necessarily better, but different...

The 2003 remake with R. Lee Ermey as the crooked sheriff is a terrific film. The prequel film they did in 2006, again with R. Lee is just a notch below.

The sequel to the original film (the sequel was done in 1986) is a weird, wacky and fun film.

The 3rd film in the series, Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III is a much darker and brutal film. But it's also a good watch.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation is a dreg that I wouldn't waste my time on.

Texas Chainsaw 3D is on TV all the time (or seems like it). It's an OK film.

And the last film they did, Leatherface, was awful IMO.

The original house that was filmed in is a restaurant in Kingsland, TX.

 

[CouchCoach]

Here are two series of movies that are very entertaining... "Feast" (3 movies in the series) and "Hatchet" (4 movies) in the series.

Sort of the new breed of horror films in that they are over-the-top, with comedic elements mixed in with a lot of gore.

Highly recommend both.

Loved Feast and I'd like to have some of what they were smoking when they wrote it.

 

[CouchCoach]

and I saw Helter Skelter as more of a documentary- movie genre. same as Dahmer. Bundy, Gacy types. and even these types get remakes as the mass hysteria and controversies was
such as I guess studios were intrigued enough with them to invite remakes (made for TV) with Manson.
But it wasn't until I research Wiki in just a couple of years ago that I discovered late actress Sharon Tate was a Dallas native born.
i'm more the supernatural horror/sci fi type fan than the slasher type fan. I like and more intrigued with the CGI special effects and make up effect of the supernatural horror ones.

I want my horror movies to all have one thing in common, "Naaaaah, that couldn't happen". That's why I gravitate to monster flicks but I do prefer the economy sized ones that can hide under the bed or in the closet to the Godzilla sized ones. One of those big honkers sneaks up on you, you're an idiot and deserve to be a snack.

When I saw Alien, I was one of the few people to have read the paperback by Dan O'Bannon, taken from his screenplay. The film didn't do justice to the real horror that the alien was more intelligent than the 7 on the ship and one of the real gutsier scenes was left out of the theatrical version and further character development of what made Ripley. It was in his book but left out what happened to Dallas and the propose of the alien. I have no idea why they left that out but it is in the Director's Cut and to me, intrinsic to the story.

 

[DallasEast]

October 7, 2017:

William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist. I have seen many horror movies and this still remains the best of the genre in my book.
John Carpenter's The Thing
Alien
Jaws
The Shining

I have caught a few so-called horror movies since then. My opinion has not been changed yet.

PS: There was no "Aliens 2'. Just Aliens.

 

[CouchCoach]

October 7, 2017:


I have caught a few so-called horror movies since then. My opinion has not been changed yet.

PS: There was no "Aliens 2'. Just Aliens.

There should have been an Aliens 2 instead of the sequels or prequels. Although AVP was a fine popcorn movie and anything with Lance Henriksen is a kick in the pants to me. But they would have had to have saved Hudson for Aliens 2 because that's the only comic relief ever provided with any Alien film.

 

[quickccc]

I want my horror movies to all have one thing in common, "Naaaaah, that couldn't happen". That's why I gravitate to monster flicks but I do prefer the economy sized ones that can hide under the bed or in the closet to the Godzilla sized ones. One of those big honkers sneaks up on you, you're an idiot and deserve to be a snack.

When I saw Alien, I was one of the few people to have read the paperback by Dan O'Bannon, taken from his screenplay. The film didn't do justice to the real horror that the alien was more intelligent than the 7 on the ship and one of the real gutsier scenes was left out of the theatrical version and further character development of what made Ripley. It was in his book but left out what happened to Dallas and the propose of the alien. I have no idea why they left that out but it is in the Director's Cut and to me, intrinsic to the story.

Thanks, and I was unaware that Aliens was a novel at first, until I Wiki it a few years back. and I thought it all started with director Ridley Scott, .lol
Interesting to find out the difference between novel vs directors film and if Scott brought anything new and different ideas to the film.

But the originality, story plot, cinematography and creature characteristics of Alien creature is absolutely brilliant !
Corrosive acid for blood.
Even if you shoot and destroyed them their acid-blood explosion can still create devastating harm upon you.
And an attaching emybrid that spawns egg host within it’s victims ‘ physical body and after the internal implosion, becomes a rapid fully grown, slimy-juicy, menacing alien creature being.

Because of Alien sequences it lead to the comic book and eventual movie – Aliens vs Predator, which I vastly enjoyed the first, ..and it was all downhill after with sequels.
Ditto with Predator after Arnold/Glover, after the first two ..all downhill afterwards.. and yes, they try a remake Predator (with Adrien Brody and Tobey McGuire) but doesn’t seem like it set the tone
but it was a far cry from the original and it just did not equal the Arnold led one. Felt more like a homeage tribute to the original.

 

[CouchCoach]

yeh, I'm very familiar with the Relic with former actor Tom Sizemore's version. Quite a gore-fest movie, Didn't know if there was an original relic.
For those familiar with " Texas Chainsaw " movies, I'd wonder if the remakes were better than the original ?

Wasn't mentioning The Relic as a remake, just popped into my head and the book was excellent.

 

[OmerV]

I imagine most replying in this thread watch more horror movies than I do, but the one that stuck in my mind both then and now was the Exorcist. Still the top horror movie for me of the ones I've seen.

As a kid I loved the old black and white Dracula and Frankenstein movies (and no, I wasn't watching when they were originally released). Jaws was really great for it's time, and it's still entertaining, but the special effects and the amount of gore is so ordinary or behind the times at this point that the horror element is pretty much gone.

Some of the slasher movies lose some of their luster because of the stupidity of the characters. Knowing there is a murder on the loose, they go out in the woods in the dark to have sex, or walk through a dark house alone … and it doesn't matter how many times the slasher comes back after apparently being hurt badly or killed, the characters will still turn their back on them. I start rooting for the mad man at that point. Those people are too stupid to live.

 

[CouchCoach]

Alien really wasn't a novel, it was a paperback taken from the screenplay O'Bannon and his partner wrote for Scott. The part with the resolution about the missing Dallas was left on the editing room floor and I am surprised Scott allowed that to happen. It answered the question and why it didn't kill him the first chance it got like it did the others. That also helped develop Ripley's psyche and further establish the horror in her mind. When you watch Aliens again, watch Ripley's reaction when she sees the first one cocooned, she'd seen that before but at that time the Director's Cut wasn't available so if you hadn't read the book, you missed the connection.

While she'd been through hell with the first alien, she knew there was something worse because she'd been the one to find Dallas and that had to haunt her as much as anything else. That's why she had to go back.

 

[CouchCoach]

I imagine most replying in this thread watch more horror movies than I do, but the one that stuck in my mind both then and now was the Exorcist. Still the top horror movie for me of the ones I've seen.

As a kid I loved the old black and white Dracula and Frankenstein movies (and no, I wasn't watching when they were originally released). Jaws was really great for it's time, and it's still entertaining, but the special effects and the amount of gore is so ordinary or behind the times at this point that the horror element is pretty much gone.

Some of the slasher movies lose some of their luster because of the stupidity of the characters. Knowing there is a murder on the loose, they go out in the woods in the dark to have sex, or walk through a dark house alone … and it doesn't matter how many times the slasher comes back after apparently being hurt badly or killed, the characters will still turn their back on them. I start rooting for the mad man at that point. Those people are too stupid to live.

That dear Omer, is the true horror. The sheer number of stupid people on the planet and to jack that horror even more, they're making more of them in some secret lab. We're never going to run out no matter how many horror movies they make.

 

[Runwildboys]

In the spirit of Halloween - what are your top, favorite HORROR movie films ever.. !

this is MY top list:

1- The Exorcist
2- The City of the Living Dead (aka Gates of Hell)
3 - Evil Dead
4 - The Conjuring
5 - Lights Out
6 - Dawn of the Dead
7 - Dog Soldiers
8 - Fright Night 2
9 - Aliens 2
10 - Let the Right One in
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11- 30 days of Night
12 - Underworld 2: Rise of the Lycans
13 -From Dusk til Dawn
14 - Carrie
15 - the Howling
16 - Arachnidphobia
17 - 28 weeks Later
18 - Dead Alive
19 - Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn
20 - John Carpenters Vampires

Wait a minute. Underworld? Aliens is close enough to a horror movie to say, that's my favorite, but Underworld is just an excuse to watch Kate Beckinsale run around in painted on leather, hoping for a major wardrobe malfunction.

 

[ctrous25]

Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th movies, the lost boys, silver bullet, Fright Night

 

[Runwildboys]

Silence of the Lambs not getting any love here? How about Manhunter? Or should films with humans as the monsters be under a different classification?

And I consider Helter Skelter to be a horror, made for TV, movie because that was all too real.

The real horror of these serial killer films is the knowledge that as I am writing this, it is happening and we just don't know about it yet. And that's why I try to avoid those based on actual events. They hang with me too easily.

If Silence of the Lambs counts, that's my 2nd choice. Great flick!

 

[CouchCoach]

Wait a minute. Underworld? Aliens is close enough to a horror movie to say, that's my favorite, but Underworld is just an excuse to watch Kate Beckinsale run around in painted on leather, hoping for a major wardrobe malfunction.

Could have been great if they hadn't CGI'd the movie to death as I liked the premise. Same with Resident Evil but I liked it anyway.

 

[bigdnlaca]

Exorcist, Nightmare on Elm Street 1 and 3, Phantasm, The Fly, Drag Me to Hell, Texas Chainsaw

 

[CouchCoach]

If Silence of the Lambs counts, that's my 2nd choice. Great flick!

You can count that, if a doctor eating patients isn't horror, I don't want to know what is.