What's Your Favourite Horror Movie.

henryforde80

Hostel still freaks me out when I go to some countries.

Another one is Eden Lake, My god that film still sends shivers up my spine as could easily happen in this day and age. Well worth a watch.
One of the best films ever in my opinion

Birneybau

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Society from 1989
Rewatched last night

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

That ending...

Birneybau

victor8600 wrote: »

The Ring (1998) is beautifully made.

The fictional horror award IMO should go to Threads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgT4Y30DkaA

Are you saying the others are factual?

Apiarist

Birneybau wrote: »

Are you saying the others are factual?

The Blair Witch Project was not factual? :eek:

buried

All lot of these ain't straight up 'Horror' films as such, but a few of all these I try to watch from my Horror/Supernatural/Strange/Out-there/Unsettling film collection over the Samhain moonshine time

The Devils
Panda's Fen
A Field In England
The Exorcist
Burnt Offerings
The Devil Rides Out
Witchfinder General
Blair Witch Project
Kill List
The Wicker Man
Onibaba
Antichrist
Nosferatu
Theatre of Blood
The VVitch
The Shining
Haxan
Kwaidan
Alien
Magick Lantern Cycle - (Stick this on in the background of your own Samhain party if you having one, good tack for that)

JupiterKid

Society is a very, very disturbing film.

Some others worth mentioning are:

Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
Last House On The Left (1972)
Black Christmas (1974)
Cujo (1983)
Poltergeist (1982)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
The Evil Dead (1981)
Friday 13th (1980)

skylight1987

Steve F wrote: »

I must be a wuss! 1931 Dracula scares the ****e outta me

I tell ya now bella logousi was so scary and creepy .he terrorized my dreams as a kid .what a performance he gave as Dracula .still scares me now :eek:

JupiterKid

IMO the 1970s and 1980s was the Golden Era for Horror films. Excellent plots and great special effects without having to resort to crappy looking CGI. It is testament to these two decades that so many horror films from these decades have been remade - nearly all poorly - in the 2000s and 2010s.

My favorite horror of all time has to be Carrie, released in 1976. It has a shocking finale after a build up which is the story of a shy, badly bullied teenage girl with telekinetic powers and a Christian fundamentalist zealot mother.

Here’s the infamous prom scene...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOcZgcs6l3A

squawker

I always loved The Changeling with George C Scott

great scary movie, really fantastic foreboding atmosphere throughout

A must watch

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I'm surprised Carrie both the old and the remake were pretty decent. Also i liked I Know What You Did Last Summer. Any horrr movie to do with some sort of maniac slauthering young college students is usually good for a good aul scare.👿👹💀

NewbridgeIR

JupiterKid wrote: »

Society is a very, very disturbing film.

Some others worth mentioning are:

Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
Last House On The Left (1972)
Black Christmas (1974)
Cujo (1983)
Poltergeist (1982)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
The Evil Dead (1981)
Friday 13th (1980)

Nice list

Night Train Murders AKA Late Night Trains (1975) is also a good one.

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

Not quite horror but plain weird is Ted Post's The Baby (1973). It was shown on Moviedrome (summer of '94) as part of a double bill with Halloween.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4BFDqNAlmc

And one from the maestro, New York Ripper (1982)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN2rYe2IjYo

storker

squawker wrote: »

I always loved The Changeling with George C Scott

great scary movie, really fantastic foreboding atmosphere throughout

A must watch

Couldn't agree more. A seemingly little-known movie, but with some wonderfully creepy moments. The after-sceance scene made my hair stand on end when I first saw it.

Edgware

Psycho with Anthony Perkins.
Great storyline and tension and a good excuse for the girlfriend to hold on to me at the cinema years ago

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The Shining with Jack Nicholson haven't seen it in years so going to give it a watch tonight. Honey I'm home.

JupiterKid

The Fog (the 1980 original) scared the bejasus us out of me as a 9 year old kid when it was shown on TV. Had nightmares for weeks!:(

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

ArnoldJRimmer

Carrie is probably the only horror film which genuinely scared the sh!t out of me, and I haven't been able to re-watch. Mainly due to the final scene, but its just so eerie and horrible throughout. Great movie though

The Shining is a masterpiece which I could watch over and over. And although the original IT was a little too long, I love it. Haven't watched the re-make yet

artvanderlay

bodhrandude wrote: »

The Woman in Black, the original ITV 1989 production, a good old fashioned haunting film done very nicely and chillingly.

Have been trying to find information also about a creepy drama I can't remember if it was ITV or BBC but it was called The Nun, which I think a film version has been made this year of. The original drama though was creepy as fcuk about a nun bricked up in a wall and haunting the place. Annoyingly there is no reference online about the original 1970s drama, the new film is getting all the hype, if you can find it though check it out.

Thanks, I must check out this production. The most scared I have ever been in my life was at the West End production of The Woman in Black. I was terrified, and at one stage I turned to my wife (who was equally terrified) and said I can feel the hairs on my neck standing up. Jaysus! It's just a two man show, but it is the most brilliant piece of live theatre I have ever seen.

Edgware

artvanderlay wrote: »

Thanks, I must check out this production. The most scared I have ever been in my life was at the West End production of The Woman in Black. I was terrified, and at one stage I turned to my wife (who was equally terrified) and said I can feel the hairs on my neck standing up. Jaysus! It's just a two man show, but it is the most brilliant piece of live theatre I have ever seen.

I saw that show as well. Really brilliant especially when out of nowhere the woman in black would appear for a few seconds and the audience would scream.
I felt though that they could have got one last scream when the actors were introduced at the end of the show. Imagine the screams if the curtain raised and herself was there

Edgware

skylight1987 wrote: »

I tell ya now bella logousi was so scary and creepy .he terrorized my dreams as a kid .what a performance he gave as Dracula .still scares me now :eek:

Reminds me of the Brendan Grace joke.
" we were so poor we couldn't afford laxatives. The father would put us sitting on the pot and tell us ghost stories"

bmc58

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

natashaob6 wrote: »

Just been to see the new Halloween movie and I must say it did the first one justice and is now up there as one of my favourite horror movies.As I love a good scare for me Halloween and Friday The 13th would be my favourite scary movies. So what is your favourite horror movie is it your classic slasher or maybe movies that have a paranormal theme.?

From a long time ago.Wolfen.Scared the poop out of me.

Dyr

bmc58 wrote: »

From a long time ago.Wolfen.Scared the poop out of me.

Cracking film, great b movie vibe to it

artvanderlay

Edgware wrote: »

I saw that show as well. Really brilliant especially when out of nowhere the woman in black would appear for a few seconds and the audience would scream.
I felt though that they could have got one last scream when the actors were introduced at the end of the show. Imagine the screams if the curtain raised and herself was there

I'd have died if that happened! That rocking chair going mental nearly finished me off as it was :eek:


I thought the movie version was decent too. Some good scares. Check out @1:46 in this video

squawker

artvanderlay wrote: »

I thought the movie version was decent too. Some good scares.w[/YOUTUBE]

you need to watch the made for TV movie, much better than the Harry potter version

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098672/

Ally Dick

I was very impressed with Hereditary. It has stayed with me for weeks now. I reckon it's a classic of horror up there with The Wicker Man and The Exorcist. The ending gave me the creeps

Sgt Hartman

I actually found Paranormal Activity a good movie. It's sequels were rather average however. Orphan was another good movie which freaked me out, especially when you find out who the orphan really is.

For silly horrors I loved the Nightmare on Elm Street series, and also a mad movie called Basket Case about a guy who keeps his hideously deformed parasitic twin in a basket.

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Winchester has some quiet scary moments in it. It's about Sarah Winchester who lives in an old mansion and believes she is been haunted by the souls of people who have been killed by an old Winchester riffle. Haven't herd it been mentioned much but would definitely recommend it if any of you haven't seen it yet.

Birneybau

Edgware wrote: »

Reminds me of the Brendan Grace joke.
" we were so poor we couldn't afford laxatives. The father would put us sitting on the pot and tell us ghost stories"

Now that's terrifying

lawred2

artvanderlay wrote: »

Thanks, I must check out this production. The most scared I have ever been in my life was at the West End production of The Woman in Black. I was terrified, and at one stage I turned to my wife (who was equally terrified) and said I can feel the hairs on my neck standing up. Jaysus! It's just a two man show, but it is the most brilliant piece of live theatre I have ever seen.

Saw that last year in the west end.. The entire thing was phoned in. Disappointed wasn't the word

JupiterKid

Anyone seen the new Halloween film yet?

Some critics are giving it pretty good reviews and anything Jamie Lee Curtis lande her name to is usually rather good.

For Halloween fans, here’s a nail biting scene from Halloween II (1981). :eek::eek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r0M64MQ3bE

mzungu

JupiterKid wrote: »

Anyone seen the new Halloween film yet?

Some critics are giving it pretty good reviews and anything Jamie Lee Curtis lands her name to is usually rather good.

For Halloween fans, here’s a nail biting scene from Halloween II (1981). :eek::eek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r0M64MQ3bE

Not yet, hopefully soon though. Halloween II is a great movie, up there with the original but gets very little acclaim. Everything after that is pretty awful, though. Part III has nothing to do with parts I & II and part IV is a by the numbers 80s horror that goes for gore over suspense. Ditto everything after IV.

Another classic 70s horror, Black Christmas. Feating none other than Lois Lane herself, Margot Kidder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG_zlex3PoI

Springfields

'Let the right one in'
Seriously creepy movie

Saw 'the quiet place' last week. Pretty impressive given the lack of actual speaking parts in the movie..

omega man

Some really great movies mentioned already.

More psychological / disturbing but ‘Antichrist’ and ‘Magic Magic’ really messed with my head.

Thought ‘30 days of night’ was very underrated. Loved the original ‘let the right one in’ also.

Honourable mention to ‘don’t look now’. Creepy and quite sad. Also loved ‘event horizon’ for a bit of horror sci-fi mix.

LETHAL LADY

The Shining by a long shot. Nothing beats the first time seeing Jack Nicholson coming up the stairs in this scene

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

McMurphy

Watched Psycho last night, ashamed to admit it, but never had seenit before, only knew about the movie, that it had a famous shower scene, and the epic soundtrack that went with the scene.

Really enjoyed it.

Hitchcock at his best.

yogi37

selwyn froggitt wrote: »

I really like some of the horror movies that have come out of the UK in the last decade or so
Sightseers
Kill List
Dead man’s shoes

Dead Man's Shoes is hardly a horror is it? Smashing movie though.

yogi37

briany wrote: »

For me, The Blair Witch Project. It's one of those epoch-making horror films, like Halloween, in that it kick-started a subgenre (or at least brought it to mainstream prominence). By the time I'd seen Halloween, I'd already been exposed to many of its tropes. Blair Witch Project, on the other hand, was entirely new to me, and so I still find it effective.

But I understand that it's a pretty divisive film.

I haven't watched this in years and I don't know how well it aged but it's one of the few horror movies I watched in the cinema and it scared the life out of me.

It was so unique and original and scary as hell for little me.

Galwayguy35

Wolf Creek.

You wouldn't want your car to break down when Mick Taylor is out and about!

Sir Osis of Liver.

Ally Dick

I loved 30 Days Of Night. Creepy and gory

Charlie19

Really enjoyed The Others.. with Nicole Kidman.

adox

The Thing is not only my favourite horror/sci-fi film, it’s one of my favourite films of all time.

It covers so many genres. It’s a sci-fi movie. It’s a horror movie. It’s a survival movie. It’s a thriller. It’s a whodunnit.

All the planets aligned for this one. It doesn’t put a foot wrong. Carpenter at his best. Stellar cast. Spectacular special effects. It’s hard to appreciate how ground breaking they were at the time and, for the most part still stand up today.

They special effects are just the icing on the cake though. The way the story plays out is just perfection. The unsettling setting. The tension throughout the whole film and suspense is almost unbearable. The Morricone score is perfection also and an intricate part of the film.

I could go on and on about this film. If you haven’t seen it I honestly think you are in for a treat. If you like tension, it’s there in abundance. If you like gore it’s there. If you like mystery it’s there. If you like sci-fi it’s there.

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Cujo a 1983 American horror movie based on the Stephen King novel of the same nlame. It's about a St.Bernard family dog who gets bitten by a bat and slowly turns rapid through the movie. Although it didn't do great in the box office it does have some intense scary moments when Cujo goes from being the loving family pet to a uncontrollable beast of a dog. When I saw it when it was first released it scared the sh*te out of me.You definitely will look at your pet dog in a different way after watching Cujo.

Ally Dick

Anyone see Monkey Shines? A Romero one. Had a few disturbing scenes

h7nlrp2v0g5u48

Ally Dick wrote: »

Anyone see Monkey Shines? A Romero one. Had a few disturbing scenes

Seen it many years ago. Good movie.

Archeron

I don't think it was popular, but I really like Silent Hill. The sense of dread when the siren starts is great.

WoollyRedHat

briany wrote: »

For me, The Blair Witch Project. It's one of those epoch-making horror films, like Halloween, in that it kick-started a subgenre (or at least brought it to mainstream prominence). By the time I'd seen Halloween, I'd already been exposed to many of its tropes. Blair Witch Project, on the other hand, was entirely new to me, and so I still find it effective.

But I understand that it's a pretty divisive film.

I remember watching it with a friend when I was 13, believing the film to have been an actual found footage documentary. We watched it in my cold and isolated hall/lobby in the dark with our feet off the floor to be safe, (horrifying in itself) and that movie and our surroundings is the truest sense of horror that ever enveloped me. The creepy hallway is long gone and I haven't watched it since but it was new for me too and I loved it.

Paddy Cow

Ally Dick wrote: »

I loved 30 Days Of Night. Creepy and gory

I've watched it a few times. The sequel though is terrible.

yuridwyer

Paddy Cow wrote: »

I've watched it a few times. The sequel though is terrible.

The sequel is one of the worst movies of all time....

Ally Dick

Paddy Cow wrote: »

I've watched it a few times. The sequel though is terrible.

Thanks. Didn't know there was one. Probably like From Dusk Till Dawn film sequels and Netflix series. All terrible. Loved the original

Always Tired

I thought the new Halloween was absolute rubbish. Predictable yet illogical, and totally unoriginal, like geez haven't they learned that the whole transferring Michael Myers thing is a bad idea, it never goes smoothly!

Chucky used to scare me big time when i was a kid.