This is one of many new threads I hope to start or see appear. If this goes well, I plan to post many more genres and also cover books.
Anyway, what's everyone's favourite horror movie? (Or name your top few if you can't pick one!)
Please list a few reasons why you like the movie too. Give us something concrete so we can be convinced into renting a chilling movie for Halloween!
The new version of The Exorcist was incredibly creepy. I was split between the gruesome MRI they did on the little girl and the possessed girl crab walking down the stairs as being the most memorable/horrible scenes. All-in-all a chilling and eerie movie. If you haven't seen it, do!
For skin-tearing and gorey special effects, I'd recommend the earlier Hellraisers: the first and the second are gruesome and not as mindless as the later ones (though I make no claims to them being intellectual works). Fish hooks on chains tearing flesh is pretty horrendous even for a gore buff like me. The truly terrifying thing for me was when I learned later that most of the concepts in Hellraiser come from Clive Barker's dreams. He keeps a pen and paper near his bed and writes down what he envisioned. If I were him, I wouldn't want to go to sleep.
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Pretty much my all-time favorite horror movie is an oldie from the early sixties. It is called "The Haunting of Hill House". It's a black and white movie with no real special effects. It just leaves you to stew in your own juices as your imagination creates all of the wierdness that is suggested in the movie.
It sure as heck scared the hell out of me. Of course I was only twelve at the time. But I distinctly remember being so freaked that I puked all over my younger brother.
He remembers watching this movie with me. Go figure. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
The Haunting of Hill house, what a great movie. To bad the remake ("The Haunting") a few years back with Catherine Zeta Jones and Liam Neeson wasn't any great feat of film making. Entertainging though.
As to my favorite, that depends on whether you are talking about scary movies or about gory movies, but either way, my favorite horror flicks of all time have to be "The Evil Dead" and "The Evil Dead 2", and then of course, the third film "Army of Darkness". Of course the third one wasn't so much horror, but it is a perfect film to finish up a marathon.
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The made-for-T.V. movie Stephen King's It scared the bejesus out of me when I was younger. I watched it when I was 11 or 12 and I wasn't supposed to. Ever since then I've harboured a fear of clowns and sewers thanks to Pennywise.
"They all float. . ."
Too bad that--in retrospect--much of the movie is unnecessary and the ending is ridiculous. Hybernating alien spider indeed!
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Actually, I have had a long held fear of both clowns and sewers. It has a lot to do with a night of hard drinking in Maracaibo, Venezuela and an unfortunate encounter with a monsoon drain.
I won't even tell you how the clown became a part of this rather sordid chapter of my youthful existence.
If you want scary check out "The Ring" in movie theatres.... holy crap, this was the scariest movie I have ever seen. The imagery in this film is quite stunning, the horses, that freaky looking tree.... uggghh. I shudder thinking about it. After watching it I had trouble sleeping for a couple of days and was afraid to turn on the television (or even go anywhere near it).
It doesn't fall into the horror movie trap of having a ridiculously stupid ending, and the story is actually quite good. All in all its more of a mind job....
I'm probably going to get flamed for this, but I absolutely love "The Blair Witch Project". I watched it the way it was meant to be watched. I followed the story and hype on the internet before it was released at the theatre. I largely ignored any mainstream media on the film so that I wouldn't know what to expect to see when it was released. My wife and I got the best seats in the house at the Colossus Theatre and I was so engrossed in the story. Here is when sound makes all the difference in a movie! A darkened theatre with 67° air temperature (on purpose, I later found out) and only your neighboring viewers for heat, really gave me the feeling of being there, lost in the woods with all that freaky stuff going on. It was my imagination that gave me chills (or maybe it was the 67°).
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