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What's your favorite horror movie?
Posted: Mar 14, 2008 in Movies
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I love a truly scary movie. What are some other recommendations for scary movies? My favorite type of horror movie would be ghost movies. Not to say that I don't enjoy watching the occasional slasher or monster or alien or vampire or zombie or devil worship movie - but a good ghost story really scares me. My favorites would be The Changeling, The Sixth Sense, The Others, and The Ring. Also, not really ghost movies, but I love Rosemary's Baby and The Blair Witch Project.
I don't know about my favorite overall, but the best horror film in the past 5 years is "The Descent." Great film.
I like a good unconventional horror film.
For example: Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire, Dead Ringers, Videodrome, Repulsion, Sisters, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, Old Boy
I think all of these films have very scary parts, in their own unique way.
I just watched the 70s version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The one with Donald Sutherland. I'd forgotten how creepy it was. And that final scene where Sutherland opens his mouth wide to unleash the Pod Person scream and you realize HE'S ONE OF THEM!!! That's a truly terrifying moment.
Definitely "Apocalypse Now."
The horror...The horror...
Silence of the Lambs doesn't usually get lumped into this category because it won a boatload of Oscars. But it is a horror film, and a great one.
Silence of the Lambs doesn't usually get lumped into this category because it won a ...
I dunno, I've always disagreed that "Silence" is a horror film. I've always viewed it as a drama/thriller with a scary villain. It felt too realistic and procedural to be horror.
I see it like "Jaws," which I steadfastly argue is not a horror film either. It's a drama and adventure picture. "Silence" is atmospheric to be sure, but not horror in my book.
A great one, though, I agree.
Silence of the Lambs doesn't usually get lumped into this category because it won a ...
Oh, and my favorite bad horror movie is "Friday the 13th, Part 5." Man that movie is so, so, so bad it's good.
SPOILER That's the one where Jason isn't Jason, and has some great memorably cheesy lines, and it completely doesn't take itself seriously. It's also very dated and unabashedly over-the-top.
Demon and his girl harmonizing in and out of the trailer park port-o-let, the white trash bumpkin and her mentally stunted son, a teenaged Tommy Jarvis hallucinating about Jason, and the amorous young couple who can't keep their clothes on. Priceless.
This isn't my favorite horror flick...but a great story about a prank I pulled on a college girlfriend. One night we watched the Exorcism of Emily Rose before bed. In the movie Emily would get possessed by the Devil at 3am which is the "witching hour."
We went to bed and I conveniently awoke at 2:50am to use the restroom. I got back into bed and watched the clock until it struck 3 and started to fake convulsing and I even grunted in this weird, deep tone. Needless to say...she was not very happy with me. Her roommates ran in because they heard her shouting....also not too happy with me. However, I still look back on this memory with fondness and laughter.
Greatest Horror Flick: Plan 9 from Outer Space
This isn't my favorite horror flick...but a great story about a prank I pulled on ...
I'd assume this girlfriend no longer has the honor of that status?
Plan 9 is awesome, but it's WAAYYY too funny to be a horror film. I'll give you that was the intention, but wow. Great bad movie.
"Last House on the Left". Wes Cravens first film. It gave me nightmares. The Krug character would be the later inspiration for the Freddy Kruger character. No ghosts though.
'An American Werewolf In London'