What are your favourite horror films?

WoollyRedHat · 11-05-2014 01:39PM

Which is better to check out first, The Ring English version, or the Japanese one?

Johnnythefox4 · 11-05-2014 01:52PM

The first Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The only horror film that ever scared me.

Links234 · 11-05-2014 02:00PM

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Which is better to check out first, The Ring English version, or the Japanese one?

Japanese one by a mile.

Assassin saphir · 11-05-2014 02:18PM

The Hills have eyes. Find it hard to watch the scene where they take the baby. 2nd film was a big let down.

Assassin saphir · 11-05-2014 02:18PM

The Hills have eyes. Find it hard to watch the scene where they take the baby. 2nd film was a big let down.

DazMarz · 11-05-2014 02:31PM

The Thing

28 Days Later

Alien

Psycho

Eden Lake

Scream

Village Of The Damned

The Conjuring

Arachnophobia

Jaws

Halloween

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Hills Have Eyes

Dead Snow

whirlpool · 11-05-2014 02:37PM

Assassin saphir wrote: »

The Hills have eyes. Find it hard to watch the scene where they take the baby. 2nd film was a big let down.

Ah jesus. I saw one of those films, I think it was the first one. Disturbing!!

whirlpool · 11-05-2014 02:38PM

HistoryMania wrote: »

Might get laughed at for this but the first time I watched Candyman I was scared witless, the 2nd one is good too, they ruined it with the third.

defo Rosemarys baby, heard they are doing a Tv series on this?

First time I seen Blair Witch also left me with chills especially the end.

Yup, coincidentally it begins tonight!

Assassin saphir · 11-05-2014 02:41PM

http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/08/the-50-most-disturbing-movies
I've only seen one that's number 50.
I've had a very sheltered life. .

Assassin saphir · 11-05-2014 02:42PM

http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/08/the-50-most-disturbing-movies
I've only seen one that's number 50.
I've had a very sheltered life. .

bigroad · 11-05-2014 02:52PM

Wolf Creek both 1 and 2 .Hostel,Austrailia does very good horror.Snowtown is supposed to be a true story,more serial killer than horror.

Dr Strange · 11-05-2014 02:52PM

Ruubot2 wrote: »

Anything Vincent Price. I like Theatre of Blood and the two Dr.Phibes ones if I had to choose.

Definitely these and other Vincent Price films. Glad there's at least one fellow Vincent Price nut on here.

SEPT 23 1989 · 11-05-2014 02:54PM

Poltergeist 2

MonkieSocks · 11-05-2014 03:02PM

Ben and Micky Versus The Dead :eek:

LordSutch · 11-05-2014 03:18PM

Night of the Demon (1959).

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CdocFnegjE0/TMoYe5yRrNI/AAAAAAAAByA/LN4_yzcj7RQ/s1600/Night+of+the+Demon.jpg

Even nowadays I would get a kick out of watching it on a dark foggy winters night

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dark crystal · 11-05-2014 04:10PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Poltergeist 2

Oh God, that creepy preacher guy...the stuff of nightmares.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--V5nlbYbQ-U/UFneYSbH4HI/AAAAAAAAAdk/SbuzxPptsg4/s1600/poltergeist2pic_%25284%2529.jpg

frag420 · 11-05-2014 05:49PM

bigroad wrote: »

Wolf Creek both 1 and 2 .Hostel,Austrailia does very good horror.Snowtown is supposed to be a true story,more serial killer than horror.

Snowtown......the bleakest movie I have ever seen. Once was more than enough I think!

Bozo Skeleton · 11-05-2014 07:12PM

e_e wrote: »

Audition (1999)

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Great movie. I love the way that it starts out almost like a whimsical romantic comedy, but boy does it turn.
I rented the dvd. "You will cower." Said a review quote on the cover. I did.

thrashmetalfan · 11-05-2014 07:33PM

The Other is a favourite horror movie of mine. Not the one with Nicole Kidman but this movie here:

Where's the baby Holly??

Bozo Skeleton · 11-05-2014 07:36PM

Rosemary's Baby
Don't Look Now
Ring - the Japanese one.
The Blair Witch Project
Let The Right One In - the Swedish one.

Are some movies that come to mind that gave me the heebeejeebies.
I saw the Poltergeist and The Exorcist when I was about 12, both scared the crap out of me. Years later as a grown adult I read the book of the Excorcist, at one point I got so freaked out I had to get out of the house.

dirtyden · 11-05-2014 08:51PM

I thought Paranormal activity was pretty creepy. Not a great film but it was a little unsettling.

AlanS181824 · 11-05-2014 08:56PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I loved Carnival, really pi*sed me off that they aren't making any more. It was unique. I love the American Horror Story series and there's rumours that the next series will be set around either a circus or a carnival, either would be great.

Yup, it will be.

Gonna be called American Horror Story: Freak Show.

Cienciano · 11-05-2014 09:19PM

Event Horizon, Blair Witch (I know) are 2 that I remember shítting my pants while watching. Blair Witch was probably cos I was completely stoned and got really caught up in the story.

dreamers75 wrote: »

Horrors are **** once you grow up, its gore for the sake of gore.

saying that when i was a kid Salems lot scared teh **** out of me, the kid scratching the window.

nowadays horror only works on kids.

How condescending!

Academic · 11-05-2014 09:26PM

Assuming that ‘horror’ means that the supernatural is involved, my top three would be The Exorcist, The Haunting (1963), Rosemary’s Baby (the movie, not the TV rip-off).

Another three that are a step or two lower but still entertaining: The Devil Rides Out, The Ring, The Changeling.

Don’t Look Now is a very fine film, but probably doesn’t count as ‘horror’ since you won’t know until the very end that something supernatural has (probably) been going on.

Pixelbastardo · 11-05-2014 09:27PM

The Original Halloween,
The Haunted (1991)
Shutter (japanese version)
The exorcism of emily rose.

Watch them one after another and you might have trouble sleeping =]

JumpShivers · 11-05-2014 09:28PM

Not my favourite, but I found The Omen to be frightening.

Da Shins Kelly · 11-05-2014 09:37PM

I think Asia has the best handle on horror at the moment. They put a greater emphasis on building atmosphere and tension, rather than going for cheap scares or excessive amounts of gore, and a lot of their horror tends to revolve around technology - creepy videotapes, telephones, cameras, etc. - which makes them quite relevant. They're helped too by the fact that they are from a culture and countries that would be generally quite foreign to most of us, which gives it an added level of scariness - fear of the unknown or the unfamiliar. Obviously The Ring and The Grudge (I would definitely recommend the Japanese original, Ju-on, over the American remake) are the most famous, but there are others too.

A Tale of Two Sisters from Korea is one of the best horror films I've ever watched. It doesn't have a huge amount of 'jumpy' scares, but there is a very uneasy atmosphere throughout, and it's a great mixture of drama and horror. Very surreal and deeply psychological.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anF5XiN8QY8

Audition from Japan is a fantastic film, although not an easy watch. Some very disturbing scenes. Not for the faint-hearted.

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

I Saw The Devil, another from Korea, is a great revenge movie. A real case of the hunter becoming the hunted. Great acting, and a bit grisly, but a good story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwWgp1bqVwE

The Curse (or Noroi) is a Japanese found footage movie. Typically I'm not a huge fan of that type of film, but I really like this. On the longer side (pushing two hours), a lot of characters and a longer, more complex plot than most horror movies, I would say, but I thought it was well worth it. Seems to draw on quite a bit of Japanese folklore about demons and what have you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A5VNsEeAMY

Aidric · 11-05-2014 09:42PM

I'm not a fan of the horror genre per se. I find it to be quite formulaic. There was a Korean movie, however, called 'A Tale of Two Sisters' that was intense and shook me up.

I prefer the psychological thrillers that stand out for their nervy tension. Roman Polanski was responsible for two dingers, 'Repulsion' and 'Rosemary's Baby'.

check_six · 11-05-2014 09:51PM

Aidric wrote: »

I prefer the psychological thrillers that stand out for their nervy tension. Roman Polanski was responsible for two dingers, 'Repulsion' and 'Rosemary's Baby'.

Polanski also did the less well known "The Tenant" which is set in Paris. Serious creepy weirdness going on. Track it down, you would enjoy it.

Hedgemeister · 11-05-2014 10:21PM

'The Innocents' (1961) starring Deborah Kerr and Peter Wyngarde was the scariest movie I ever watched, that is, until I saw
'Haunted' (1996) with Aiden Quinn and Anthony Andrews.

What are your favourite horror films?

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