What's Your Favorite Horror Movie?

11.24.04 | JohnRobertson

[Dawgreg]

ROTFLMAO! Yessssss!

[COBOL2Java]

Wait Until Dark with Audrey Hepburn. I still shudder just thinking about it.

I remember seeing it in the theatre when it first came out! The theatre owners were instructed to turn off all of the lights in the seating area, and to now allow people to enter during the last 30 minutes of the movie, because it would ruin the movie for the viewers. I still remember the screams at the climactic scene where he jumps at her!

[PleaseNoMore]

I believe it can happen so it really does things to my mind.

[COBOL2Java]

I saw "Blair Witch Project" in the theatre with my teenage daughter. It spooked the heck out of me, my daughter did't get it - especially the ending. "That's IT? Man that was LAME," I remember her saying to me. Ah well, must have been a generational thing.

[drjimmy]

I think one of the creepiest scenes in a movie is when the dead kid was scratching at the window asking to be let in. I think that was "Salem's Lot".
The very first Stephen King book I read was "Salem's Lot," as a freshman in college. When I got to that scene in the book, and the boy uses the cross from the graveyard of his Frankenstein model to ward off the vampire kid, I was hooked. I had that very same model when I was a kid! The thing about Stephen King is that his stories contain situations and props that almost anyone can relate to, very ordinary and mundane stuff, then uses them to scare the pants off you. I finished "Salem's Lot" in about 24 hours of straight reading, since I couldn't go to sleep with his images in my head. The original miniseries version was definitely a good fright. The remake from a few months ago was just awful.

[SoothingDave]

Halloween III season of the witch

Three more days to Halloween, Halloween, Halloween
Three more days to Halloween
Silver Shamrock

One of my daughter's toys will play the tune and these words come into my head.

SD

[COBOL2Java]

The "chest bursting" scene was one of the wildest I had ever seen up till that point!

Yeah but "Spaceballs" ruined that for me! "Hello, my baby! Hello, my honey! Hello, my Ragtime gal!" :-)

[Semaphore Heathcliffe]

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (Made-for-TV)
Nightmare on Elm Street (the original)

[hobbes1]

"Let's Scare Jessica to Death"--a low-budget film from the early 1970s.

That's a GREAT flick.

[halfright]

Read about half the post so far and didnt see ALFRED HITCHCOCK!

Maybe its showing my age but "The Birds" scared me to death.

Just thinking about my top 3...I guess Excorsist and Jaws.....Still dont't go into the sea....Fat as I am I am just a big chunk of bait....

[hobbes1]

finished "Salem's Lot" in about 24 hours of straight reading, since I couldn't go to sleep with his images in my head.

That's funny.

The first King book I read was The Stand, I was in the 8th Grade home with the flu, and read it overnight, in one sitting. Creeped the hell out of me.....Especially the Lincoln Tunnel part....

[Atlantic Friend]

You're right, there is no visual horror, it's just that the very concept of the movie was terribly disturbing. I was totally bluffed by the way it ended, and I've been in love with Jules' "Mad World" song ever since.

In true horror genre, I'd say "The Thing" (the 1984 version). I really liked "Invasion of the Body snatchers", but like most 1970s-vintage movies it has not matured very well IMHO.

[exile]

The best horror movie of all time has to be "The Bride of Frankenstein".

[COBOL2Java]

When I was a kid I watched the 1953 movie "Invaders from Mars" and it scared the bejeezus out of me! The drill which implanted a controlling device in the back of your neck? And that alien in the glass globe? Yikes.

[Jonah Hex]

The best horror movie of all time has to be "The Bride of Frankenstein".

Also known as "The Junior Senator from New York".

[hobbes1]

Jessica.......over here Jessica

[hellinahandcart]

The original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". When I was a child it scared me. As an adult I became enchanted with the 50s kitsch, and the fact the the four main characters smoke and drink their brains out through the whole movie.

The remake SUCKED turnips.

I have a lot of favorite horror movies, including "The Birds", but I always come back to "Body Snatchers" as Numero Uno. And it's always a pleasure to watch.

[TASMANIANRED]

Remember when Saturday night on TV was a huge big deal. Big Movies released the first time to the TV market?

The Saturday Night at the Movies was "The Birds". There were about 6 of us watching it and we were afraid to go to bed after wards. I slept on the floor.

About 6 A.M. the paperboy threw the paper and slammed the front door. I don't know how I launched myself into the air from a recumbent position but I was airborne for about 2 seconds from the fright.

[PoorMuttly]

Seinfeld makes me cringe, remembering the under-pressure, life-in-a-beehive, hearing the neighbors through the walls, urine-soaked subways, glamorous city life it portrays rather accurately. Having seen a little of the dark underbelly of such communities, I am truly no fan.

Do like Costanza and the Soup Nazi...and Kramer was hilarious in Second City T.V.

[new cruelty]

Mad World is too cool for school. There are many things about Donnie Darko that I just dig. I watch it many times over the course of a year.

And I see your point about horror as there was a litte visual horror in Darko. That rabbit mask gave me the creeps.

I too liked the Thing and Invasion of the Body Snatchers. But ideally, I prefer horror movies that expose the worst in humanity such as Se7en, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Silence of the Lambs, Serpent and the Rainbow, Ed Gein, etc.

Then there are real-life horrors that stick in my head like the cult ritual slayings in Matamoros, Ed Gein, John Wayne Gacy, et al. It is horrifying to think that people like that really exist.