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Best horror film...

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  • #32
    theoldbreed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 405 ✭✭theoldbreed


    Halloween - it scared the bejaysus out of me when I was younger and sparked my interest for all things scary and well, Halloweeny.

    Sinister- the only film to have genuinely creeped me out in a long time


  • #33
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,904 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    28 Days Later,
    Dawn of the Dead (2004 remake),
    It.


  • #34
    Sam Hain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,319 ✭✭✭Sam Hain


    Let the right one in
    The vanishing
    Both the original versions


  • #35
    Mike Guide 69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,546 ✭✭✭Mike Guide 69


    Not so much a post on best horror film but about a mockumentary that I think was aired in the early 90s,I think on BBC,does anyone remember “Ghostwatch” and the hysteria it created? Apparently it is still banned from been aired on the telly as viewers thought it was real and that an actual poltergeist was taking place live in front of the cameras ,Michael Aspel was presenting the programme


  • #36
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 22,384 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Atoms for Peace wrote: »
    Anything from Michael Haneke is utterly unnerving.

    I thought a lot about including Funny Games...the original as opposed to the scene for scene remake, not that it was bad, just puzzling as to why he did it.

    Still the coldest, rawest depiction of evil as matter of fact on film. The horror was not gore or shock but the opposite, how very mundane it is for the protagonists.


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  • #37
    Xaracatz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 702 ✭✭✭Xaracatz


    Xaracatz wrote: »
    Thirteen Ghosts.

    It's on Netflix. I'd watch it again, except I'd like to sleep tonight.

    Just watched it. >.<


  • #38
    omega man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,698 ✭✭✭omega man


    theoldbreed wrote: »
    Halloween - it scared the bejaysus out of me when I was younger and sparked my interest for all things scary and well, Halloweeny.

    Sinister- the only film to have genuinely creeped me out in a long time

    Sinister is a good shout. The tapes he watches back.....so so unnervingly creepy.


  • #39
    namenotavailablE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,003 ✭✭✭✭namenotavailablE


    I haven't watched it but the 2014 Australian movie 'The Babadook' URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Babadook"]Wikipedia info[/URL was highly rated.

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  • #40
    Tigger
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    Ipso wrote: »
    how?

    ill informed


  • #41
    yerwanthere123
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,248 Mod ✭✭✭✭yerwanthere123


    namenotavailabl wrote: »
    I haven't watched it but the 2014 Australian movie 'The Babadook' URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Babadook"]Wikipedia info[/URL was highly rated.

    It got unanimous praise alright, but I'll never understand it. It was, in my opinion, a terrible, terrible film. Same with The Witch, I don't understand the acclaim at all.


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  • #42
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    ...for the night that's in it, your favourite and the rest of the top 5.

    1. A Tale of Two Sisters

    Next 4, in no order...
    The Wicker Man
    Ringu
    Audition
    Texas Chainsaw Massacre

    Love the original wickerman, the original subtitled Japanese Ring gave me nightmares. If comedy horror is your thing, try dig up a film called 2000 maniacs. It was made in late 50s early sixties long before the slashers became the rigeur.


  • #43
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    namenotavailabl wrote: »
    I haven't watched it but the 2014 Australian movie 'The Babadook' URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Babadook"]Wikipedia info[/URL was highly rated.

    Watched it on Saturday. Garbage.


  • #44
    Hammer89
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    Xaracatz wrote: »
    Just watched it. >.<

    It's not on my Netflix :(


  • #45
    DrPhilG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,451 ✭✭✭✭DrPhilG


    The 2011 version of The Thing was not a remake, it was a prequel.


  • #46
    Hammer89
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,004 ✭✭✭Hammer89


    Scream is great. That Rose McGowan is something else. I don't think she'd mind me saying she's got fantastic tits.


  • #47
    MadDog76
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    The Thing

    The Omen

    An American Werewolf In London

    Fright Night

    Poltergeist

    Misery

    The Dead Zone

    The Exorcist

    A Nightmare On Elm Street

    Halloween

    Carrie

    The Evil Dead

    The Silence Of The Lambs

    The Birds

    Freaks

    Psycho

    Some of my favourites .........


  • #48
    Beanntraigheach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 801 ✭✭✭Beanntraigheach


    'Ernest Scared Stupid'

    Simply horrifying. I was so scared I lost control of my bowels!:(


  • #49
    gormdubhgorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,464 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    No horror films scare me at all.
    They either annoy me, or make me laugh, or both, these days

    I saw Gremlins when I was 8 it must have been the last time a horror film scared me.

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



  • #50
    KungPao
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    Return of the Living Dead.

    The_Return_of_the_Living_Dead_%28film%29.jpg

    Wonderfully ridiculous and it invented the Braiiiiins braiiiiins thing for zombies.


  • #51
    smilerf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,633 ✭✭✭smilerf


    Read how It follows is a modern day classic so watched it tonight. Biggest heap of dog poo I've seen for ages


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  • #52
    Are Am Eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Are Am Eye


    The Poughkeepsie Tapes.


  • #53
    johnny_adidas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,977 ✭✭✭johnny_adidas


    Event horizon

    Deliver us from evil


  • #54
    longshanks
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    Darby O'Gill and the Little People.
    That banshee still gets between me and a good nights sleep.


  • #55
    JupiterKid
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    Most of the best horror films were made in the 1970s and 80s.

    The Exorcist
    The Shining
    Psycho
    Carrie
    The Fog

    Honourable mentions to:
    Hellraiser
    Aliens
    Nightmare On Elm Street
    Cannibal Holocaust
    Prince Of Darkness
    It
    The Wicker Man
    The Eye (Japanese Version)
    Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    Salem's Lot

    Practically all the remakes are utter sh*te. Nearly all the sequels too, with honourable exceptions being Aliens, Halloween 2, Halloween 3 and Hellraiser 2.


  • #56
    brilou23
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    I love watching the last exorcism


  • #57
    Doctor Nick
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    1. Cannibal Holocaust
    2. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    3. A Nightmare on Elm Street
    4. The Exorcist
    5. I Drink your Blood.


  • #58
    sydthebeat
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    The entity


  • #59
    md23040
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 524 ✭✭✭md23040


    Vincent Price was both funny and chilling in the 1973 horror "Theatre of Blood". The best Shakespearean inspired death was the victim being force fed their pet poodles in a pie. Was totally squirming and so well acted.


  • #60
    Sephiroth_dude
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    The Grudge western version and Japanese original.

    "The robin in the garden,

    That was me,

    I'm still here, Loving you..

    Until we meet again. "



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  • #61
    Doctor Nick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,506 ✭✭✭Doctor Nick


    sydthebeat wrote: »
    The entity

    Forgot about this. Agree it's brilliant. The 80's and to a lesser extent the 70's (IMO) were definitely the best times for horror.

    Audition is another great film.


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