Your favorite Horror Movies ever

[DallasEast]

I think it is a difficult formula to follow... Much more so than say "Blair Witch" or "Texas Chainsaw".

"Poltergeist" does a very good job of it. But they had the resources to do it. Many studios probably did not have the funds or access to the same quality of actors to pull it off.

And then you had the "Paranormal Activity" movies that do "The Exorcist" with "Blair Witch".

To this very day, I still believe Steven Spielberg (even thought he did not direct) would have made an even better Poltergeist if it had been made slightly darker. Spielberg's movies were more formulaic back then.

 

[Runwildboys]

Horror Movies Nominated for Academy Awards Best Picture

1973 The Exorcist (The Sting won)
1975 Jaws (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest won)
1992 The Silence of the Lambs (winner)
2000 The Sixth Sense (American Beauty won)
2011 Black Swan (The King's Speech won)
2018 Get Out (The Shape of Water won)

It is just me but I have The Silence of the Lambs as my seventh favorite horror movie, mainly because I have always been hard-pressed not putting it in the suspense/thriller category. It is a truly great movie though.

Even though I was convinced Natalie Portman would win best actress for Black Swan, I do not see the movie as horror but as a suspense/thriller. I highly recommend Black Swan if it has not been seen and a very good suspense movie is a sought after goal.

The genre has taken it on the chin when it comes to the Oscars.

I never considered Silence of the Lambs a horror either, but in retrospect I suppose to climactic scene could be.
As for Black Swan, I love both girls, but found the movie underwhelming, and even a bit boring. I certainly don't consider it a horror movie.

 

[Runwildboys]

I think it is a difficult formula to follow... Much more so than say "Blair Witch" or "Texas Chainsaw".

"Poltergeist" does a very good job of it. But they had the resources to do it. Many studios probably did not have the funds or access to the same quality of actors to pull it off.

And then you had the "Paranormal Activity" movies that do "The Exorcist" with "Blair Witch".

Poorly.

 

[DallasEast]

I never considered Silence of the Lambs a horror either, but in retrospect I suppose to climactic scene could be.
As for Black Swan, I love both girls, but found the movie underwhelming, and even a bit boring. I certainly don't consider it a horror movie.

I can see how anyone would be underwhelmed. The movie is actually meek in its presentation.

On a personal note, I was very glad Portman got the role. I had predicted she would eventually win a Best Actress Oscar after her initial appearance in Leon: The Professional. It just took the right kind of role. I think audiences definitely saw her potential with her small dramatic role in Cold Mountain a few years before Black Swan.

 

[quickccc]

Horror Movies Nominated for Academy Awards Best Picture

1973 The Exorcist (The Sting won)
1975 Jaws (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest won)
1992 The Silence of the Lambs (winner)
2000 The Sixth Sense (American Beauty won)
2011 Black Swan (The King's Speech won)
2018 Get Out (The Shape of Water won)

It is just me but I have The Silence of the Lambs as my seventh favorite horror movie, mainly because I have always been hard-pressed not putting it in the suspense/thriller category. It is a truly great movie though.

Even though I was convinced Natalie Portman would win best actress for Black Swan, I do not see the movie as horror but as a suspense/thriller. I highly recommend Black Swan if it has not been seen and a very good suspense movie is a sought after goal.

The genre has taken it on the chin when it comes to the Oscars.

I believe the Exorcist was the first horror ever in Hollywood history to be nominated for an Best Picture Oscar award. And It was nominated for 10 Oscars

It didn't win Best Picture but it did win Oscar awards for Best adapted screenplay and Music sound editing/score.

Who could ever forget that classic music theme for it ?
Truly amazing even after all these decades and vast advancement of CGI special effects and costume make up effect, that no horror film has surpassed it's popularity and hysteria.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Jaws Bro. I know a lot don't classify it as Horror but I see it in that genre.

 

[Roadtrip635]

No love for the Asian horror movies and there are some great and really good ones?

The Ring/Ringu
Ju On/The Grudge
Bunshinsaba/Witchboard
Tale Of Two Sisters
The Eye
Shutter
Audition
Dark Water

 

[quickccc]

Jaws Bro. I know a lot don't classify it as Horror but I see it in that genre.

Give me the first two Jaws movies,... I love it when it's time for Netflix to stream so I can watch it repeatedly, - the finale ending of Jaws 2 was just as suspenseful, clever and nail biting thrilling
as the original one, imo. ... but anyone else can have the rest/remaining Jaws series, ..as they were absolutely hideous ! .lol

Actually wasn't the Jaws mania that started the big shark movie frenzies that we still see today ?

47 Meters under? .. Deep Blue Sea (another one of my shark favorites)
...the Meg...Sharknado ? (uggh..!) ..the Reef.. Open Waters ..the Shallows...Shark Night 3D......Ghost Shark ...Bait,..etc.

 

[quickccc]

No love for the Asian horror movies and there are some great and really good ones?

The Ring/Ringu
Ju On/The Grudge
Bunshinsaba/Witchboard
Tale Of Two Sisters
The Eye
Shutter
Audition
Dark Water

" I saw the Devil " .. was the very popular Asian horror film I kept hearing raves about, .. and still very much talked about even in the States over here.
Besides I saw the devil, the other ones I end up having to be drawn to seeing because I was so hearing much about was Itchi the Killer and Audition. but I didn't get to finish
seeing Audition all the way thru though.

I've seen " Oh Boy " which has a Korean version as well as an American version (James Brolin) but I've listed in some genres as a horror movie, but I never thought of it like that, but
more of a action genre.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Give me the first two Jaws movies,... I love it when it's time for Netflix to stream so I can watch it repeatedly, - the finale ending of Jaws 2 was just as suspenseful, clever and nail biting thrilling
as the original one, imo. ... but anyone else can have the rest/remaining Jaws series, ..as they were absolutely hideous ! .lol

Actually wasn't the Jaws mania that started the big shark movie frenzies that we still see today ?

47 Meters under? .. Deep Blue Sea (another one of my shark favorites)
...the Meg...Sharknado ? (uggh..!) ..the Reef.. Open Waters ..the Shallows...Shark Night 3D......Ghost Shark ...Bait,..etc.

For me, the original is it. I mean, I was a kid in 1975, living across the road from the Gulf Of Mexico. Literally, the Gulf and a pumping station, then the Road, which was higher then the roof of our House and then our House. I spent hours fishing and gigging and clam digging and in a single day, that went from never really giving it a second thought to an uncomfortable feeling doing all the same things I had done since the time I was able to walk. Nothing against the Shark movies but Jaws was like your first kiss. You never ever forget it, there will be lots of others that come along but none of those kisses will ever be quit the same.

 

[Roadtrip635]

" I saw the Devil " .. was the very popular Asian horror film I kept hearing raves about, .. and still very much talked about even in the States over here.
Besides I saw the devil, the other ones I end up having to be drawn to seeing because I was so hearing much about was Itchi the Killer and Audition. but I didn't get to finish
seeing Audition all the way thru though.

I've seen " Oh Boy " which has a Korean version as well as an American version (James Brolin) but I've listed in some genres as a horror movie, but I never thought of it like that, but
more of a action genre.

I've seen I Saw the Devil and Itchi The Killer, they were pretty good. The Asian version of OldBoy is so much better than the American version, doesn't even compare. I don't know if I would classify those as horror movies though, more thrillers than horror. The others that I listed are real horror movies. When you get the chance, watch the Asian originals than any of the American remakes, they are always better.

 

[quickccc]

I can see how anyone would be underwhelmed. The movie is actually meek in its presentation.

On a personal note, I was very glad Portman got the role. I had predicted she would eventually win a Best Actress Oscar after her initial appearance in Leon: The Professional. It just took the right kind of role. I think audiences definitely saw her potential with her small dramatic role in Cold Mountain a few years before Black Swan.

Jaws
Sixth Sense
Get out
Blair Witch Project

All of these mentioned movies had legs and hysteria as well.
Dunno If I heard the Omen and Get Out quite in the same mentions and the same high hysteria mania as Jaws and Sixth Sense. I can appreciate Get out because it was such a unique twist and a type of “ horror” movie I had not experienced before. Even though I am another that puts Get Out in among the Mystery-Thriller than a Horror film. i feel the same way with the likes of " Unbreakable. "

The problem with Blair Witch Project was …. This was a complete rip off of a movie and to this very day I don’t understand how the studio and producers (amateur producers at that) were able to influence the critics to highly review and promote this film into mainstream audience such that it was given legs and word of mouth to others as a must-see. lol . .How I felt so ripped ! ..so suckered !
" Black Swan " was another bear trap too, (and another with the weird science ending !) but nothing near the luring trap Blair Witch was. - A homemade video camera holder with it’s shaky camera work and people tearing, screaming and snotting around camp area forest site ..and to the most ridiculous ending of a film I have EVER experienced !! lol

I mean at the end of the film with the lights popping on, I was standing and starting at a black theater screen and stunned how I could be so dumb enough to fall for this dumb movie. To this day it remains the Heist job of all horro films, imo. ...I was shaking my head all the way home. lol

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Jaws Bro. I know a lot don't classify it as Horror but I see it in that genre.

Oh I do.

 

[Runwildboys]

Jaws
Sixth Sense
Get out
Blair Witch Project

All of these mentioned movies had legs and hysteria as well.
Dunno If I heard the Omen and Get Out quite in the same mentions and the same high hysteria mania as Jaws and Sixth Sense. I can appreciate Get out because it was such a unique twist and a type of “ horror” movie I had not experienced before. Even though I am another that puts Get Out in among the Mystery-Thriller than a Horror film. i feel the same way with the likes of " Unbreakable. "

The problem with Blair Witch Project was …. This was a complete rip off of a movie and to this very day I don’t understand how the studio and producers (amateur producers at that) were able to influence the critics to highly review and promote this film into mainstream audience such that it was given legs and word of mouth to others as a must-see. lol . .How I felt so ripped ! ..so suckered !
" Black Swan " was another bear trap too, (and another with the weird science ending !) but nothing near the luring trap Blair Witch was. - A homemade video camera holder with it’s shaky camera work and people tearing, screaming and snotting around camp area forest site ..and to the most ridiculous ending of a film I have EVER experienced !! lol

I mean at the end of the film with the lights popping on, I was standing and starting at a black theater screen and stunned how I could be so dumb enough to fall for this dumb movie. To this day it remains the Heist job of all horro films, imo. ...I was shaking my head all the way home. lol

When people started the rumors that it was a video someone had found in the woods, everyone fell for it. That's where its popularity came from. It wasn't long before word got out that it was a sham.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

The problem with Blair Witch Project was …. This was a complete rip off of a movie and to this very day I don’t understand how the studio and producers (amateur producers at that) were able to influence the critics to highly review and promote this film into mainstream audience such that it was given legs and word of mouth to others as a must-see. lol . .How I felt so ripped ! ..so suckered !
" Black Swan " was another bear trap too, (and another with the weird science ending !) but nothing near the luring trap Blair Witch was. - A homemade video camera holder with it’s shaky camera work and people tearing, screaming and snotting around camp area forest site ..and to the most ridiculous ending of a film I have EVER experienced !! lol

I really enjoyed "Blair Witch" but I could see where they had "borrowed" from "The Legend of Boggy Creek", which I hold in high horror film regard.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Watched the 1933 version of "The Invisible Man" with Claude Rains today...

Gotta say that is one fine film... And of course Universal was cranking out great horror films in the early 30's.

I would have to think the sequence of Claude Rains in his "invisibleness" getting into the railroad switch tower, knocking out the switch and sending the train over the cliff killing all aboard just made the audience gasp at the awfulness of the event.

In 1933 you simply didn't see that kind of carnage in films.

 

[Fredbeard]

aah, ..Van Helsing (Beckinsale, Hugh Jackman) was one of my favorite " Guilty Pleasures " flicks. Vastly CGI cartoonish and over the top, but it was so much fun and I admit I adored all of
Dracula's brides. they were gorgeously hot, and they had just the perfect big teeth fangs for eating Barbeque !! ..lol

I really wanted a sequel to Van Helsing so badly, and Jackman was supposedly signed up for a sequel.... but the green light never materialized (sigh)

I liked van helsing .it had a similar atmosphere as the mummy (1999).you're right about dracula's brides. That movie was loaded with eye candy.

 

[Fredbeard]

"Carnival of Souls" (1962)

It has only been in the last 10 years that I first watched this gem.

Definitely a "B grade" horror film but there's a depth to it that many horror films (both new & old) fail to reach.

Low budget film that used several local actors, it's the story that's the real winner here. Also the actress that is the main character did a decent job.

The film supposedly influenced George Romero and how he developed "Night of the Living Dead" 5 years later.

I used to have carnival of souls and the feast trilogy but donated them to goodwill earlier this year. I really enjoyed them

 

[quickccc]

E: Hollywood produced this doc. better explains on how huge the mass hysteria and craze this Exorcist movie brought into the culture world. the spiritual taboo, outstanding special effects, dark room, corner macabre, gravely voices, paranormal movements (bed rocking) gross scenes, identities,the screenplay and plot, music theme It was so extremely uinque and still in a class of it's own...even to this day in the cinema world.

 

[RodeoJake]

dracula
frankenstein
bride of frankenstein
wolfman
the mummy
creature from the black lagoon

To your list, I'd add:

Dracula's Daughter
Dr Phibes
Werewolf of London
Them
Freaks