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    #62
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Alien


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    #63
    xzanti
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    The Conjuring 1 and 2.


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    #64
    branie2
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    Happy Death Day

    I only saw it yesterday at the cinema, but I thought it was very good


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    #65
    B0jangles
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    I really love ghost/horror films, but not slasher-type films that I just find a bit boring and grubby.

    Some favourites (in no particular order)

    The Changeling
    Grave Encounters
    Session 9
    Lake Mungo
    Last Shift
    Noroi
    The Haunting (1963 version)
    The Legend of Hell House (deedle-dee-dee)
    Dead of Night
    Night of the Demon
    Rorschach (low-budget and free on youtube)
    The Shining
    In the Mouth of Madness
    The Tunnel
    Entity (2012)
    The Dead Room
    Black Mountain Side
    The Thing (Carpenter's of course)
    The Fog (Ditto)
    Prince of Darkness

    I'm not claiming they are all great films but I enjoyed them all for one reason or another :)


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    #66
    beans
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    B0jangles wrote: »
    Noroi

    I've seen many of the J- and K-horror type films, and this one really stood out for me. The world they build is immersive enough to really have drawn me in, and some of the more 'scary' set-pieces are so subtle and almost mundane that they just got under my skin. The pacing and tension/release are also great. Great call!


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    #67
    B0jangles
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    degrassinoel wrote: »
    but it was a remake of the 1951 classic"The Thing from another world"

    I watched that a few years ago and was quite surprised that the actress who played the main female character didn't have more of a career; I thought she really stood out, compared to most of the rest of the cast, who were pretty wooden.


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    #68
    w/s/p/c/
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    Mike Guide 69 wrote: »
    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
    I remember watching this as a ten year old.  Scared the life out of me.  Read yesterday it was shown 25 years go.  Think you can find it on YouTube, will probably seem silly on a re-watch


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    #69
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    Carrie especially if you watch it as a young teen in the days before the internet and you had only just got in to reading horror, scared the living daylight out of me.


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    #70
    weldoninhio
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    I thought that the original Rec was very good.


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    #71
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    Halloween present for y'all. Later (badly) remade as The Vanishing.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyi4t5JHXvQ


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    #72
    omega man
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    Magic magic. More psychological but very dark and disturbing, quite a sad storyline actually.

    Antichrist was also an extreme mind fcuk of a film and not particularly enjoyable at all. Wish I’d never watched it actually!

    Let the right one in I thought was an instant classic as soon as I watched it. Excellent horror film.


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    #73
    lazybones32
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    Hammer89 wrote: »
    Scream is great. That Rose McGowan is something else. I don't think she'd mind me saying she's got fantastic tits.

    Yeah, she had great knockers. In Charmed, she and Alyssa Milano wore lots of tight tops with no bra. Pokies!


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    #74
    Pero_Bueno
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    The Thing
    Halloween
    In the mouth of madness
    The Fog
    The Prince of Darkness
    They Live


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    #75
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    Insidious 1&2
    The Conjuring
    Saw
    Thirteen Ghosts
    Cabin in The Woods
    Evil Dead
    Scream 1-4
    Final Destination 1-2
    Don't Breathe
    Halloween series
    The Ward
    The Uninvited
    Resident Evil


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    #76
    ElKavo
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    johnny_adidas wrote: »
    Event horizon

    Deliver us from evil

    Surprised it took so long for this to get a mention. Great flick.


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    #77
    Capt'n Midnight
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    "Come on, Ted. A Volkswagen with a mind of its own. Driving all over the place and going mad. If that isn't scary, I don't know what is".


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    #78
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Nosferatu , even the remake is good


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    #79
    Grandeeod
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    For me its the following:

    Evil Dead 1981
    The Fog. The JC version.
    The Thing. Again the JC version.
    The Thing from another world from Howard Hawkes.
    Halloween. JC version, but Rob Zombies film wasn't bad either.
    Poltergeist. The original.
    The Mist.

    All of the above films have a particular reason for being faves on a personal level.

    Someone else here mentioned the BBC produced drama, THREADS from 1984. I would have to rate that very highly as a Horror piece. It was scary when I watched it as a teenager and it's still scary now. Horror doesn't have to be about ghosts, demons, zombies or even aliens. Sometimes the actual or potential realities of life can be made into very frightening films or TV drama.


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    #80
    Mister Vain
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    Titanic


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    #81
    Ipso
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    So no one watched The Witch, bah!


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    #82
    BorneTobyWilde
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    The Conjuring is scary.


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    #83
    kravmaga
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    The Fog by John Carpenter , 1980

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080749/


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    #84
    chakotha
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    Poltergeist was a brick sh1tting experience in the movie theatre. There were a bunch of us there and a mate sitting next to me and alongside a huge curtain covering the left wall kept begging to swap seats because it kept moving. No way hozay!


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    #85
    Buddy97mm
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    The Exorcist (original), dated
    in many respects but nothing has ever scared me like it's possession scenes.


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    #86
    yerwanthere123
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    Ipso wrote: »
    So no one watched The Witch, bah!

    I did, I thought it was terrible :(


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    #87
    Ipso
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    yerwanthere123 wrote: »
    I did, I thought it was terrible :(

    Really. I thought it was a great psychological horror.


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