What's Your Favorite Horror Movie?

11.24.04 | JohnRobertson

[stbdside]

My favorite is SUSPIRIA.

It had the most bizarre soundtrack (music by the Goblins).

[finnman69]

Did you know when Alien was first written Ripley was a male character?

[Tiger6]

I agree with you. The Haunting was one of the best. No major special effects, but it left everything to your imagination. The book "The Haunting of Hill House" which the movie was based on was even better.

[Sub-Driver]

The Man From Hope....

[Jakarta ex-pat]

Music in horror movies (my top 5)

Halloween

Halloween III season of the witch

Psycho

The Thing (John Carpenter)

Jaws

Special mention

***Friday 13th

*** A nightmare before Christmas

***Midnight Express

***Hannibal

***Assault on Precinct 13

***Breakdown

***The Exorcist

[ExtremeUnction]

The first, "Halloween", by John Carpenter.

[geege]

"Dance with me you little toad"

[Guenevere]

#3..I do. I remember!

The Tingler and The Blob...rank up there for me......!!!

I bought the book-(when it came out in the early 70's)...The Exorcist...and midway through it was so spooked out and horrified at the direction it was going....

..I tore up the book in tiny pieces, and refused to see the movie and warned my family not to see it either!

[Liz]

Suspiria is truly scary.....sequence after sequence of eery, inexplicable horror. Terrifying.

In a class by itself....nothing like it before or since.....the work of a very talented (or disturbed) individual.

[geege]

Love the ending when the Invisible Man lights up
a smoke and introduces himself.

[Kharis13]

Hi John,

Here are a few of my favorites, in no particular order:

Horror of Dracula--1958 Christopher Lee

The Body Snatcher--1945 Boris Karloff

Paperhouse---1988 (Very intelligent and spooky)

Exorcist III--1990 George C. Scott (very scary!)

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein--1948

Jaws--1975

The Sixth Sense--1999

Brides of Dracula--1960 Peter Cushing

Aliens--1986 what a pure adrenaline rush!

Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman--1943 (OK, so it's not a great movie...however, the opening scene in the crypt is the stuff of nightmares)

Vincent Price as "The Abominable Dr. Phibes" also really scared me as a kid!

Brian

[weezel]

No doubt, the scariest movie ever, the only one that ever really scared me, not just startled, but scared, was the exorcist. I would not reccomend it to anyone.

[finnman69]

Although I already said Alien, the movie which literally kept me up all night was Nightmare on Elm Street.

I dare anyone to watch that movie late at night and then try to go to sleep telling yourself "it's only a movie".

[Will_Kansas]

It was Trilogy of Terror (made for TV) 1975.

I agree. I can watch the first two parts of that movie, but I still can't watch that third part, the one with the voodoo doll.

[saminfl]

Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Farenheit 911.

[Empireoftheatom48]

I remember the Blob scared me. It was made in Phonixville Pa well some scenes were shot there at the old Colonial Theater and the drive in. One of my classmates, his father was the Director/Producer. I remember when he brought pieces of the Blob in to school. I got one but later lost it. I remember it was all jelly like slimy and cold. Wish I had kept it!

[null and void]

Perzactly! 3 of my favorites!

[Chad Fairbanks]

One of my guilty pleasures is one called Motel Hell. "It takes a Whole Lot of Critters to Make Farmer Vincent Fritters."

Saw that years ago - my mother rented it on VHS when it came out. It was the first and only time in my life where I got to see my mother vomit... I don't know if it was the movie, my sick commentary, or a mixture of the two... but it was pretty funny to watch...