What's Your Favorite Horror Movie?

11.24.04 | JohnRobertson

[PISANO]

There was something like this on local tv this past Halloween. It was a "Scariest Movie" of all time type special. Exorcist was Number 3, Alien was Number 2 and JAWS was number 1.....Huh??

The show actually had the top 100. I wrote down the top 25 only because I had a bet that Exorcist was Number 1, of course I lost.

[Ramius]

I agree with you there. I've never been one to get into the whole horror genre... I didn't get much out of "Halloween" or "Nightmare" or any of the sequels, but "Hellraiser" really scared the crap out of me.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Hellraiser rocks. But I'm still partial to the Evil Dead movies. I don't know why.

[getitright]

TuhRayZuh at the DNC convention. That a freak so terrifyingly detached from reality might well occupy OUR White House had me quaking.

[Calvin Locke]

The original Dracula with Bela Lugosi. I remember staying up to watch it as a kid. And wrapping a blanket around my neck.

In my later years, The Shining.

[skinkinthegrass]

A good one for me : Hellraiser....Oh! forgot that good one. :P

[microgood]

Wait Until Dark is a great movie, but isn't is more of a "thriller"?

Maybe so, I was 10 when I saw it and no movie I have ever seen since ever scared me as much as that one. I laughed at Alien.

[Redcat]

Any list of great horror movies has to include "The Haunting". The Robert Wise version of course, not that piece of crap with Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Sets the standard for atmosphere.

[cvn76]

3 of the best camp/horror imho

cannibal campout

sorority babes in the slime-bowl-o-rama

stuff stephanie in the incinerator

these 3 deserved academy awards but didn't quite pique enough of the motion picture academy voting mamber's attention............or something like that.

[wizardoz]

28 Days Later... a virus spreads through Britain that turns people into cannibalistic psychos with glowing red eyes. Lots of good scares that make you jump, an icky subplot with some sex-starved soldiers that made my stomach sink... it's a good movie!

[No Dems 2004]

Hmmmm ... horror. I watch very few of those but I suppose Jaws was classified as horror and I sort of enjoyed those but I can't watch those weird horror like movies.

I will say that Harrison Ford's 'What Lies Beneath' was pretty scary - LOL

[BenLurkin]

Saw "Alien" when it opened with a lady acquaintance. She darn near tore my arm off by twisting on it during the tenser moments.

[TightyRighty]

I think The Ring was one of the best scary movies I've seen. I liked The Others too - the best scary movies are the ones where you don't see anything - but just let your imagination take over.

[woofie]

Eraserhead,Freaks

[day10]

saw that a while back while in a hotel on business - a strange movie, but scary.

[ican'tbelieveit]

I think "The Exorcist 3" has the scene in the hospital where the nurse is walking thru around and the guy pops behind her with the knife. That one makes me jump out of my skin.

I do like "Halloween H20." Probably the setting more than the plot; that old school.

Currently, my daughter and I are into foreign horror. It is definitely different.

[PoorMuttly]

Seinfeld.

[Darkwolf377]

Alien--in terms of your comments on the cathartic uses of horror, one elements seldom mentioned in commentary about this one is that the climax is all about self-reliance--there simply is no way anyone is going to help Ripley, so she must find the courage to confront her opponent.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre--the term "unrelenting" applies here

Last Man on Earth/Dawn of the Dead (remake)--inpired (directly in the case of the first) by Matheson's "I Am Legend," these are visions of Hell on Earth that make one consider "If this goes on..." 'This' being whatever one thinks is a dangerous trend in society.

Session 9--A movie that does nothing for some people, it's the ONLY movie that ever actually scared me

[cvn76]

also "hackenstein" was a cimematic masterpiece.

[Swede Girl]

Creature from the Black Lagoon and Aliens.