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Favorite Horror Film
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claybugg
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I think the Blair Witch Project might be the scariest i have ever seen (incoming flames).
Some other good ones:
The Sixth Sense
The Shining
The Exorcist
Psycho
The Ring
House On Haunted Hill (the more recent one)
A Tale of Two Sisters (BRILLIANT Japanese movie)
Signs
I also have to mention Requiem For A Dream. It's not a horror movie per se, but it IS horrifying and will stay with you for a long time. Awesome movie =D.
Some other good ones:
The Sixth Sense
The Shining
The Exorcist
Psycho
The Ring
House On Haunted Hill (the more recent one)
A Tale of Two Sisters (BRILLIANT Japanese movie)
Signs
I also have to mention Requiem For A Dream. It's not a horror movie per se, but it IS horrifying and will stay with you for a long time. Awesome movie =D.
beer good
Well-Known Member
Korean, actually. But it's great.
beer good
Well-Known Member
"Oldboy" and "Sympathy for Mr Vengeance" are horror movies? O...kay. I guess "Kill Bill" is too (no, wait, "Kill Bill" is just horrible.)
Anyway. 10 horror movies* nobody is allowed to not watch. Just for fun, limited to one per director, or Carpenter and Romero would dominate.
- Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
- Night of the Living Dead (George A Romero, 1968)
- Dark Water (Hideo Nakata, 2002)
- Evil Dead (Sam Raimi, 1981)
- In the Mouth of Madness (John Carpenter, 1995)
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tope Hooper, 1974)
- Jaws (St*v*n Sp**lb*rg, 1975)
- Zombie Flesheaters (Lucio Fulci, 1979)
- The Descent (Neil Marshall, 2005)
- Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg, 1988)
* My thesaurus defines "film" as "movie". But hey, everyone gets to make their own definitions...
Anyway. 10 horror movies* nobody is allowed to not watch. Just for fun, limited to one per director, or Carpenter and Romero would dominate.
- Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
- Night of the Living Dead (George A Romero, 1968)
- Dark Water (Hideo Nakata, 2002)
- Evil Dead (Sam Raimi, 1981)
- In the Mouth of Madness (John Carpenter, 1995)
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tope Hooper, 1974)
- Jaws (St*v*n Sp**lb*rg, 1975)
- Zombie Flesheaters (Lucio Fulci, 1979)
- The Descent (Neil Marshall, 2005)
- Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg, 1988)
* My thesaurus defines "film" as "movie". But hey, everyone gets to make their own definitions...
Heteronym
New Member
You know, eyez0nme, 'film' is just the stuff used to make movies. That's like calling a novel 'paper and ink'. definitions are killers, so let's just start again 
I'd have to say The Exorcist: never scared me once! In fact, the first time I saw it, mislead by the hype that called it the greatest horror movie of all times (it hasn't done this movie any favours, I think), I felt bored to death! When I watched it again I saw it as a beautiful drama about a mother trying to save her daughter from an unstoppable evil, resorting to anything that could help her, even exorcism.
Jason Miller, Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max Von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb... what an amazing cast! Miller in particular has won my eternal admiration for his performance as a doubt-stricked, rational priest who doesn't believe in demons and sacrifices himself to save a young girl.
The script is brilliant! William Peter Blatty never wrote anything decent again, but The Exorcist just develops unlike any horror movie I've ever seen: it's amazing that before going for the exorcism, Burstyn tries doctors and psychologists to see what's wrong with her daughter... you know, like actual people would do. Such realism is so rare in horror movies.
I could write about this beautiful movie for hours; suffice to say, it's one of best cinematic experiences I've ever had!
I'd have to say The Exorcist: never scared me once! In fact, the first time I saw it, mislead by the hype that called it the greatest horror movie of all times (it hasn't done this movie any favours, I think), I felt bored to death! When I watched it again I saw it as a beautiful drama about a mother trying to save her daughter from an unstoppable evil, resorting to anything that could help her, even exorcism.
Jason Miller, Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max Von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb... what an amazing cast! Miller in particular has won my eternal admiration for his performance as a doubt-stricked, rational priest who doesn't believe in demons and sacrifices himself to save a young girl.
The script is brilliant! William Peter Blatty never wrote anything decent again, but The Exorcist just develops unlike any horror movie I've ever seen: it's amazing that before going for the exorcism, Burstyn tries doctors and psychologists to see what's wrong with her daughter... you know, like actual people would do. Such realism is so rare in horror movies.
I could write about this beautiful movie for hours; suffice to say, it's one of best cinematic experiences I've ever had!
Fantasy Moon
kickbox
My favorite horror movies are constantly changing so it is difficult to choose just one, or even a few. As much as I like the genre, it's not something that I find easy to pinpoint something that could be called a favorite.
Horror classics could be viewed as "cheesy" by today's standards.
unKeMPt
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Oldboy and the other Chan-wook Park films are Korean, not Japanese.
My favorite horror films:
The Thing by John Carpenter
Braindead by Peter Jackson
Evil Dead II by Sam Raimi
The latter two are more horror-comedy (ooh, that reminds me -- Shaun of the Dead), but they're still great.
Pan's Labyrinth, coming out soon, looks excellent. I also want to see The Descent, as well as that director's (Marshall, I think?) previous movie, Dog Soldiers.
My favorite horror films:
The Thing by John Carpenter
Braindead by Peter Jackson
Evil Dead II by Sam Raimi
The latter two are more horror-comedy (ooh, that reminds me -- Shaun of the Dead), but they're still great.
Pan's Labyrinth, coming out soon, looks excellent. I also want to see The Descent, as well as that director's (Marshall, I think?) previous movie, Dog Soldiers.