What's your favorite horror movie and why?

[Grave_Addiction]

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To me, the all-time best horror movie has to be the original Night of the Living Dead.

I can watch that movie again and again, and not get bored. Romero does such a good job with this movie.

The acting is done pretty good, but the zombies are what makes this movie tick. I dunno what it is, but zombies scare the fuggin' shit outta me. I think it's that your family, best friend or neighbor can be your friend one minute, then turn into a zombie and try to chew you up like mashed potatoes the next.

Dawn of the Dead was another great movie in the trilogy. I'd have to say Day of the Dead was the weakest, though.


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Another recent good movie was 28 Days Later. I've heard a lot of people hate on that movie, but those people just don't know good movies. At first, the movie started off really rocky with me, with the whole male nude scene, but after that really low point, it rose to be a great movie, in my opinion.

It did what hardly any other movie did before, and that is to give me a sense of loneliness that sucked hardcore. It may not have helped that I drank half a case of Miller High Life (Hey, it was on sale for $6. I guess I'm a Cheap Ass Drunk, eh?), but I seriously felt depressed watching the movie. But I was too into to it to stop watching. Definitely a great movie.

I also liked how they had a different spin on how their zombies acted in the movie. Their zombies were smart and fast. That made some pretty intense scenes. Like when they were trying to get the tire changed in the tunnels. Whooo weeee! That scared me alot!

[The Successful Dropout]

adrenaline and the people under the stairs

i dont think either one of these received the credit that they deserved

[Ikohn4ever]

Evil Dead 2 is classic, horror/humor, thats always good. Some of my other favorites are the Friday the 13th and Halloween series.

I didnt like 28 days later, my big problem with it was the first half was isolation and a zombieish movie and the second half was a commentary on the military. If they would have had the movie continue in the same direction as the first half I would have really enjoyed it, but it didn't, so I don't. The American ending is weak too, how does she know how to remove a bullet and sew him back up. That was too much of a stretch for me.

[bignick]

Hmmmm. I would have to go with the Friday the 13th series. I was young when I first started watching them, so they stuck with me. You have to be young to watch horror movies. Nightmare onElm street is another fav. Oh ya and Halloween too.

[Grave_Addiction]

The American ending is weak too, how does she know how to remove a bullet and sew him back up. That was too much of a stretch for me.

Yeah, that was kinda dumb. I thought she said she was a nurse or something, though.

The ending with him dying was more believable.

I think outta all those three, Halloween is the scariest. Michael Myers is so much more scary than Jason and Freddy. Freddy is just funny now, and Jason just beats the shit outta people. Myers is the only one that seems really dark and morbid to me.

[bignick]

The American ending is weak too, how does she know how to remove a bullet and sew him back up. That was too much of a stretch for me.

Yeah, that was kinda dumb. I thought she said she was a nurse or something, though.

The ending with him dying was more believable.

I think outta all those three, Halloween is the scariest. Michael Myers is so much more scary than Jason and Freddy. Freddy is just funny now, and Jason just beats the shit outta people. Myers is the only one that seems really dark and morbid to me.

But you have to be young when you watch them, thats the key. I was like 8 and watched silver bullet. A priest that is a werewolf. I was scared shitless.

[Ikohn4ever]

plus the halloween music is so damn creepy. If I was walking down the street at night by myself and I heard that music, I'd book it for wheverever I was going quickly

[bignick]

plus the halloween music is so damn creepy. If I was walking down the street at night by myself and I heard that music, I'd book it for wheverever I was going quickly

I love the friday the 13th muzak. ahh ah ahh ahh he he he he What was the hallowenn without meyers? A mask company?

[Squirms]

The original Dawn of the Dead is one of my favorite. At the beginning, when the dude gets his arm chewed on, actually made me cringe the first time I saw it.
The Shining is also one of the classics, but it's not nearly as good as the book. Those two little girls still freak me out everytime I watch it. "Come play with us Danny" YIKES!!

[FlipSide]

I liked "The Ring" but it scared the living daylights out of me, for a few weeks there .. it bothered me just looking at the TV :?

[snotknocker]

The Shining was my favorite. Nicholson was awesome. redrum! redrum!

[Grave_Addiction]

What about that old ass priest/ghost in The Poltergeist? Totally scared the shit outta me when I was a kid.

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Scariest. Dude. Ever!

[bignick]

What about that old ass priest/ghost in The Poltergeist? Totally scared the shit outta me when I was a kid.

Oh ya, those were awesome! Man, horror movies rule.

[Ikohn4ever]

lets not forget the original leatherface, the granddaddy of all masked serial killers. That was one messed up dude.

[Grave_Addiction]

Yeah, that was a freaky movie. I heard the actual events took place up north somewhere, but they thought The Texas Chainsaw Massacre had an awesome ring to it.

[LoganDX]

Yeah, that was a freaky movie. I heard the actual events took place up north somewhere, but they thought The Texas Chainsaw Massacre had an awesome ring to it.

Based upon Ed Gein's life. He also inspired Psycho.

What about the Exorcist? For me it was the mental horror instead of the gore. But I definitely have to say Freddy, Jason, and Michael rule.

Long live Chucky.....

[Grave_Addiction]

Yeah, the Exorcist was really messed up, as was The Omen. It scared me to death when all the baboons were trying to kill Damien.

[bruce_pwns_j00]

1,2,freddys coming for you, 3,4,better lock your door, 5,6, get your crusafix,7,8, stay up late. lol i hate the freddy movies. Halloween is great. But my favorite is jeepers creepers 2. everyone says its bad but i love it. its not scary just awesome.

[bignick]

Damn forgot all about chucky!

[chickenhawk]

The Exorcist is the most memorable horror movie for me and most horror movies are not memorable IMO, therefore it is my favorite. That and the first Poltergiest. I like other horror movies like Evil Dead, TCM, The Blob, etc, etc....but they are good more for the humor and cheese factor than anything else.

[Grave_Addiction]

Wrong turn was a movie that ruled!

[chickenhawk]

Wrong turn was a movie that ruled!

Really? I haven't seen it, but I heard it was pretty horrid. I have never run into anyone that thought it was good (until now). Could the Dushku factor be at work here? :)

[Grave_Addiction]

No, I just thought it was kinda creepy. Acting was the best, and usually isn't in horror movies.

But again, I think I was drinking heavily so that probably weighed in on my judgement of the movie a bit.

I thought the mountain men were scary as shit, though.

[azel]

Dawn of the Dead is my favorite by far.

I've been to Monroeville Mall four times now (and I don't live anywhere near Pittsburgh) and I've had a drink with David Emge in the bar at the Radisson outside of the mall (during the Pitt Comicon). Yes, I need a cookie.

The remake was great for what it was imo, but nothing will ever beat the atmosphere and original meaning of the first film... oh yeah and the ultimate badassness of Ken Foree!

[Grave_Addiction]

Dawn of the Dead is my favorite by far.

I've been to Monroeville Mall four times now (and I don't live anywhere near Pittsburgh) and I've had a drink with David Emge in the bar at the Radisson outside of the mall (during the Pitt Comicon). Yes, I need a cookie.

The remake was great for what it was imo, but nothing will ever beat the atmosphere and original meaning of the first film... oh yeah and the ultimate badassness of Ken Foree!

Pretty cool. Yeah, that was a great movie. When we were younger, my friends and I always talked about what we'd do if there was ever a zombie invasion. The best thing we came up with was to hijack a pedal helicopter. We'd fly rooftop to rooftop and stay away from the scary zombies.

[paz9x]

Pretty cool. Yeah, that was a great movie. When we were younger, my friends and I always talked about what we'd do if there was ever a zombie invasion. The best thing we came up with was to hijack a pedal helicopter. We'd fly rooftop to rooftop and stay away from the scary zombies.

:lol: that was great, a frickin pedal copter. Us kids were so intelligent.

[Grave_Addiction]

Hah, yeah well, we figured a car or helicopter wouldn't be very feasible in the long run because there would be a lack of gas, so we had to think of something that didn't require it. The pedal helicopter offered us exercise, the safety of flight since zombies don't fly and didn't require gas.

Trust me, if there's ever a zombie invasion, I'm the one you want to be with.

I have it all planned out what I would do.

[The Successful Dropout]

is frailty considered horror?
frailty was great

[defender]

The Shining. Stanley Kubrick took Stephen Kings story and made it one of the scariest films ever. How can you NOT think that Jack's performance in that was spectacular. By far The Shining. Its rated #89 in the top 250 at IMDB and I think as far as horror genre goes this is the top rated. Aliens is Sci-Fi actually but the horror aspect of it was brilliant.

As for 28 Days. This movie didnt do ANYTHING new. You just arent old enough to know that there was a string of similiar last men on earth movies from the past. There were so many bad story holes in 28 days I wanted to PUKE. An easy example...How is it that trained military personel become total assholes in less than 28 days? The lietenant (or whoever) promised his troops a woman and all this crap and the way they acted like animals after only a few weeks is total garbage. I didnt buy any of the story line at all. If I was to watch it again I would do it with a notepad to write down the 50 story holes to point them out to anyone who doesnt see this movie as pure crap. If you want to see a better movie that's similar then see Charlton Heston in "The Omega Man" from 1971.

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[Vampire Hunter D]

Theres to many so i dont have a favorite. But to be honost all the 0lder like black and white ones i just cant watch. I mean yes without them horror movies would be as they are now but hey my mind is just warped by todays culture. Since i cant decide ill just pick my favorite recent one which is DOTD04 and FvsJ.

[defender]

Oh and now I think more about 28 days later...

Where were all these dead bodies? It seemed like the Zombies became really desctructive fast and when they are walking around the city there was like no dead bodies in the streets...just the cars. After 4 weeks there would still be a lot of dead carcasses around.

Go read all the other comments from users who also feel the movie had real story problems.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0289043/usercomments

[goatindaruffness]

I don't know if it would be considered a horror movie, as it was more a comedy but I LOVED the Monster Squad when I was a kid...
Great music in that one too...
I'm also a big fan of most Troma movies, anyone into horror should look into these movies, (TROMA.com) they have some good classic horror, and some good low budget stuff, and plenty of comedy in all their movies too...
Recently however, one of the better movies in the past 5 years, is defintely the Ring, it had so much more than most people saw it for, such a deep movie...
Speaking of deep movies, it isn't a horror movie, but it was horrifying, if you get a chance to see the movie Things Behind the Sun, you should see it, it will change your life, it made me cry my ass off...
-Goatman

[Grave_Addiction]

Wolfman has nards!

[CantB76]

The Shining--Jack Nicholson is reason enough

[KrazyKefka]

The Shining was a good one. I always liked the part where his wife is going through the papers he's been working on and all of them say the same thing "All work and no play make Jack a dull boy". I wonder how long it took someone to type that all out. This was before computer, where you could just type up a page and print out a bunch of copies.

Anyways, I'd say my favorite "horror" movie is Cemetery Man with Rupert Everett. I don't really find it scary, but it's such a bizarre movie. I highly recommend it.

[The Successful Dropout]

I don't know if it would be considered a horror movie, as it was more a comedy but I LOVED the Monster Squad when I was a kid...
Great music in that one too...
I'm also a big fan of most Troma movies, anyone into horror should look into these movies, (TROMA.com) they have some good classic horror, and some good low budget stuff, and plenty of comedy in all their movies too...
Recently however, one of the better movies in the past 5 years, is defintely the Ring, it had so much more than most people saw it for, such a deep movie...
Speaking of deep movies, it isn't a horror movie, but it was horrifying, if you get a chance to see the movie Things Behind the Sun, you should see it, it will change your life, it made me cry my ass off...
-Goatman

were you answering my question about whether frailty is considered horror or not? because its definitely not a comedy

[Grave_Addiction]

Oh and now I think more about 28 days later...

Where were all these dead bodies? It seemed like the Zombies became really desctructive fast and when they are walking around the city there was like no dead bodies in the streets...just the cars. After 4 weeks there would still be a lot of dead carcasses around.

Go read all the other comments from users who also feel the movie had real story problems.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0289043/usercomments

Yeah, that's a good point. But I don't think a low-budget movie could really pull off having thousands and thousands of extras laying on the streets. They probably could have done some camera tricks to make it look like that, however.

I'd like to think the zombies took the people back to their pad so they could chow them down in the privacy of their own home. Also, having no dead people lying around really made the movie feel more lonely to me. Like he was really the only man left. I loved and hated that feeling.

[LoganDX]

I don't know if it would be considered a horror movie, as it was more a comedy but I LOVED the Monster Squad when I was a kid...
Great music in that one too...


Loved Monster Squad!!!

As far as horror movies go, Me and my friends made one. It actually showed at a theater here in town and we sell it on dvd. But it's not my favorite horror movie....

[Grave_Addiction]

I don't know if it would be considered a horror movie, as it was more a comedy but I LOVED the Monster Squad when I was a kid...
Great music in that one too...


Loved Monster Squad!!!

As far as horror movies go, Me and my friends made one. It actually showed at a theater here in town and we sell it on dvd. But it's not my favorite horror movie....

Me and my friends always wanted to make a zombie movie for the longest time, but we were just too damn lazy to sit down and write a script.

What was your movie about? You should post it on the net, I'd download it to watch it.

[bignick]

Who needs a script? Just do it freestyle! You need a hot chick that will show her titties, um a hot chick that will show her titties, and a hot chick that will show her titties.

[Quackzilla]

Wrong turn was a movie that ruled!

That was not a horror movie, that was pure mainstream BS.

It was very, very corny. If it was a little less lame it would be funny.

[Grave_Addiction]

Wrong turn was a movie that ruled!

That was not a horror movie, that was pure mainstream BS.

It was very, very corny. If it was a little less lame it would be funny.

Like I said before, I had been drinking a lot that night, so it might have been the MGD that made it so good. Whatever the case may be, that night the movie was really good.

[alongx]

The Shining was great because it was a Kubrick. Every other horror movie I found a little ridiculous - I always end up laughing at what's supposed to be the "scary part"

[LoganDX]

I don't know if it would be considered a horror movie, as it was more a comedy but I LOVED the Monster Squad when I was a kid...
Great music in that one too...


Loved Monster Squad!!!

As far as horror movies go, Me and my friends made one. It actually showed at a theater here in town and we sell it on dvd. But it's not my favorite horror movie....

Me and my friends always wanted to make a zombie movie for the longest time, but we were just too damn lazy to sit down and write a script.

What was your movie about? You should post it on the net, I'd download it to watch it.

It was about these three guys who take shelter in an abandoned movie theater and come to find out it was the site of a massacre many years ago. They find the missing bodies which have been changed. They awaken the bodies and have to survive until dawn. The doors don't open to the outside until then.

Had some cool effects. The make up guy actually worked in Hollywood. He was with Tom Savigny. Savigny did stuff like Night of the Living Dead.

As far as posting it for everyone, I would. The director/co-writer is a complete ass about it! He has become to the point that it's HIS, not ours. So if he finds out I put it on the net without him getting a big paycheck from it, I violate my contract. That means no $$$ for me. Sorry.

And BigNick-we got a chick to do the obligitory tit shot. She was a stipper but not a real hot one.....

[Eclipse]

i think Event Horizon....No idea what it was about that movie that just filled me with ominous dread back in 96-97(i think)....I just guess that:

Space+Hell+Government Experiments with Dimensions=Pure horror.


its less scary years later, now that the cg is outdated and all, but i remember being scared to go the shaq-fuing bathroom on my own... the thought of having that dude with black eyes grabbing a hold of me in the darkness of my own home freaked the crap out of me. o_o
im scarred for life.

movie so bad its horrifying:
House of the Dead

Made me think hard and long..about life, about the things i love, about why the hell the guys who made this movie are being given licenses to make movies like DMC and Crazy taxi....

[fieldkillah]

Suspiria, its a classic Dario Argento horror film. The music is creepy, and the first murder is one of the most brutal i've ever seen.

[notfromtexas]

JOHN CARPENTERS "THE THING" when i was a kid i loved the part where the dog started to turn. Even now I like the movie because it makes me think, if i was in that hellhole, would i trust any of those jerks with my life. HELL NO

[Eclipse]

John Carpenter made some awesome movies back in the day.....
The Thing was great for its paranoia factor. =D



...Then came Ghosts of Mars...a nice hop onto the steaming crap train.

[notfromtexas]

Yea, hes definetly the conductor on the manure to Nadick express train, But hey some people just shine early. His early movies are classics and always will be.

[Moxio]

A lot of horror movies blow, mainly because they're so cheesily predictable.

My favorite one would be the Exorcist.

*prepares to be ridiculed*

[6669]

Showgirls.
Seriously, The Sixth Sense really freaked me out, and so did that part in Signs, where they finally show the alien. Then again, I'm scared of spiders.