With Halloween coming up, I haven't been watching horror flicks like I should be, but I was wondering what your 1 & only FAVORITE horror flick is? For me, it doesn't get any better than Scream 1!

If I can only pick one, then I'll have to go with the original House Of Frankenstien.


Don Cardi

-The exorcist.
-Rosemary´s baby.
-The omen. (actually when I was a kid I wanted a son named damian,but I had a dog with that name at least )
- The shining.

etc.

I was just going to list a whole bunch of the scary movies I like, until I saw it was #1

I suppose I'd have to go with The Shining. The original, of course, with "Jack". I just love him in it, and that movie scared me to death when I was little. Not anymore, though. *cough*

Some others: (I couldn't help it! :p )
- Psycho (I actually read the book first, so it was cool to get the visual version)
- Poltergeist (A little goofy, but still..)
- Halloween (I think I've seen I, II, and perhaps another... )
- Agh, I can't think of any others.

Honestly, I don't think I've seen my fair share of horror movies, so it's hard to give a really good list. Well, Halloween's coming, so maybe I'll have to make a trip to the video store!

~Gina

Edit: Angie, I forgot about The Exorcist! That was a good one...

I actually liked Nightmare on Elm Street and the Friday the 13th series. To me they were more "real life" events. Everyone has gone to a camp once in their life. Nightmare on elmstreet happened in the streets and things like that.

Some of the horror movies are today are just so "out there" that they can't happen in real life (yea I realize freddy Kreugar can't happen in real life but you know what I mean) and to me that ruins the scare.

In No Order:
The Exorcist
The Shining
Psycho
Halloween 1 and 2.
The Birds
Rear Window(Though this is more suspense)
Vertigo(Ditto)

Hitchcock is the best horror director ever. Any modern day horror director will tell you that.
I love 2 of his most famous quotes:
1. "There is no horror in the murder, only in the anticipation of it."
2. "Always make the audience suffer as much as possible"

and of course...
"Good Eeeevening"

Doc

Are you telling me that Scream couldn't happen in real life?

redrum redrum redrum..

Yeah I like The Shining the best.

Others I like:
Nightmare on Elm Street (Johnnnyyy Depp)
Poltergiest (I agree, a little weird, but a classic nontheless)
Original Frankenstein movie.. (1931 i think?)

Are you telling me that Scream couldn't happen in real life? [/b][/quote]Scream could happen in real life, but I honestly laughed throughout the first 2, I don't know if I saw the third one.

yes - i agree that that psycho-thriller type films scare me more than the gory-monster ones.

btw, i have never seen the original Psycho,
am I like seriously missing out?

redrum...lol

Ohh, I saw most of Nightmare on Elm Street for the first time a while back, originally just wanting to broaden my horror viewing, and I must say...Johnny definitely kept my attention.

~Gina

I think scream 1 is not a bad movie in the entertain sense, I liked a lot when I saw it, but for me isnt a great horror flick either, is more like a teen type of movie, good anyway for have fun.
I dont know if the silence of the lamb trilogy can enter in this category, but I love that movies and hannibal lecter character in special.

BTW- Don ferro, I love hitchcock too in special vertigo and the rear window.

Well the first Scream had a lot of humor written into it. The 2nd one had some as well, but it was more of a copycat like movie (that's why I didn't like it as much). When people were like, "man, Scream 2 was so much better than Scream 1" I was like, WHAT!? What are you on? Anyways, the first film is my favorite, then #3, followed by the 2nd movie.

Vertigo has really no horror elements. It's mostly drama with thriller backdrop. Same with Rear Window, although it's more of a thriller.

1) Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
2) Psycho
3) The Shining
4) Halloween
5) Exorcist
6) Suspiria

Vercetti, that's why I said they were suspense and not horror.

On the contrary, Vertigo was rather more of a psychological thriller, though not as much as Rear Window, but certainly on it's own level.

Doc

Don Vercetti,
I'm curious. What is Suspiria about?

I know, but I got mislead with "Hitchcock is the best horror director" :p

It's made by the ITalian filmmaker Dario Argento. It's a fairytalish plot that you either love or hate as it brings out true gore for it's time. The first murder is often rated the most brutal in cinema.

A young American dancer travels to Europe to join a famous ballet school. As she arrives, the camera turns to another young woman, who appears to be fleeing from the school. She returns to her apartment where she is gruesomely murdered by a hideous creature. Meanwhile, the young American is trying to settle in at the ballet school, but hears strange noises and is troubled by bizarre occurrences. She eventually discovers that the school is merely a front for a much more sinister organisation.

Thanks for the info, DV

The title sounded familiar, but I don't recognize it...sounds good, though!

Halloween (I love the music)

I don't know how I forgot it.

It's funny how horror movies were invented to tell kids not to party and have sex.
The Shining
The People Under The Stairs
Nightmare on Elm Street
I have a bunch of other ones I have seen while growing up, but can't recall any names really.

Gosh, I can't even begin to name. I have been a horror film sucker since I was about 5. I would always go to Blockbuster and pick out the cheaply made cheesy ones, because I find those to be the scariest.

BTW Angie, I had a snake I named Damien. He was so cool, until he became violent.

The best horror film ever created:


It's sequel is also one of the best. -Pat

The Shining
What lies beneath
The sixth sense

And whatever else with dead hanging around freak me out to death!

Does anyone remember the TV Series: Circle of Fear from the 1973-1974..now that was a scary tv show...
I don't really care for scary movies anymore, although I loved them as a child/teen. Anything with a ghost or demons really scares me for a few day/nights. Some that come to mind:
Ghost Story (1981)
Beloved
The Woman in Black (1989)
The Changling
Rosemary's Baby
The Omen
Carrie
What lies beneath was spooky and I won't watch the Sixth Sense to this day..that really freaked me out. The music to Susperia ( roses are red, and violets are blue..susperia is after you... )whoo that was creepy!

The shining

John Carpenter's "Halloween"

The Exorcist and the Others . . .

GoodFella

Good thread.

I'd have to say Nicholas Roeg's 1973 chiller Don't Look Now. As well as being Roeg's masterpiece, it is #15 on my Top 100, includes some of the most hauntingly atmospheric scenes, and the climax is one which I'd definitely consider one of the best, if also one of the most frustrating. It's an art film that must be seen to be appreciated, noted chiefly (and unjustly) for its realistic sex scene, it is also a must see for its surface detail and high aesthetic value. A must see.

Have to disagree with you, Don Ferro, on Hitchcock being the best horror director. That would have to be (arguably so, of course) another Englishman: James Whale. While Hitchcock is undoubtedly (in my opinion) unsurpassed at suspense, Whale is the horror director, with such masterpieces as Frankenstein and its immediate sequel, Bride of Frankenstein, and also The Old Dark House, not to mention The Invisible Man, which is apparently a masterpiece also (I will be seeing it tomorrow! ).

Of course, if we're talking about horror films, one mustn't forget Murnau's 1921 classic Nosferatu or Robert Wiene's 1919 Expressionistic masterpiece The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

I shall be watching the first two Halloweens on, well, Halloween.

I watched Shadow of the Vampire last night, which is a fictional tale of the making of Nosferatu, in which Murnau hires a real vampire (that would be Max Schreck) to play the role of his vampire. It was awful.

I sadly mistook the popular Scream for a comedy (and a bad one at that).

Mick

A Great list for more contemporary horror films but one can not forget "Dracula" and "Frankestein". Both films made when sound films when in their infancy pionered modern day horror and surpass all horor movies made today (I feel most are formulaic).

I do want to see Hitchcock's film "Frenzy" fron 1972. I hear out of his last films that that film is probably his best.