Best Horror Movies of All Time

[Dannyalcatraz]

Ed Wood looks at The Creeping Terror and says, Hold My Beer Angora Sweater.

I’m a big fan consumer of Ed Wood’s twisted take on cinema. I’ve never seen any of his stuff that could touch The Creeping Terror. The closest movie to its awfulness is Tommy Wiseau’s The Room.

 

[CleverNickName]

MY LIST OF FAVORITES
In the order that I saw them. My current favorite is hyperlinked to IMDB.

Dark Night of the Scarecrow - the first horror movie I ever remember watching. I think I was six? maybe seven?
A Nightmare on Elm Street - this movie messed me up when I was a kid.
The Exorcist - the 1st is the most frightening, but the 3rd movie has George C. Scott. I'd skip the 2nd, though...zzzz.
A Stir of Echoes - one of my favorite Kevin Bacon movies
Ringu/The Ring - hard to pick which version I like the most, so I'm listing them both.
Let The Right One In - the best vampire movie ever made, IMO.
The Babadook - a horror movie about a vengeful spirit? or a study in grief and depression?

MY WATCH LIST
Movies in this thread that others have recommended, that sound like something I'd enjoy.

Hereditary
Midsommar
Susperia

 

[Clint_L]

The Babadook - a horror movie about a vengeful spirit? or a study in grief and depression?

Not to mention an unexpected LGBTQ+ icon!

Great movie, too. For the record, I think it is both of those options above.

 

[Bohandas]

I'm a big Junji Ito fan, but I have yet to see a good movie based on his works. I do have Uzumaki (the new show, not the very blah movie) waiting for me on DVR right now

Have you seen his other show, Japanese Tales of the Macabre (on Netflix)

I’m a big fan consumer of Ed Wood’s twisted take on cinema. I’ve never seen any of his stuff that could touch The Creeping Terror. The closest movie to its awfulness is Tommy Wiseau’s The Room.

Speaking of Ed Wood, has anybody else here seen the 2015 remake of Plan 9?

 

[Bohandas]

Must be a movie. No shorts, no TV shows, no books. Child's Play the movie, yes; Chucky the TV show, no. Pretty straightforward, right?

What about documentaries? True crime, nuclear disasters, astornomical phenomena that could end the earth in the blink of an eye, that sort of thing

We were talking earlier about ultimate horror films that haven't been made yet and I think the ultimate ultimate just might be if the pop science book The Selfish Gene was eventually turned into a documentary. It's probably the scariest thing I've ever read.

Color Out of Space

The Nic Cage version, or the black and white german version where only the color is in color

That is an incredible horror movie. Carpenter is like Craven. Think John Carpenter could fill up half a top ten list for horror easily. I left a lot of both of their movies off the list. I just went with one of Carpenter's but there was an urge to include others like In the Mouth of Madness, The Thing, or Prince of Darkness. Christine too is another really entertaining horror movie.

I generally like John Carpenter's movies but I think Christine fell flat

 

[Bohandas]

I don't know, I found Wolfman, Creature from the Black Lagoon and Mummy all much more engaging than Dracula. I agree the pace in all of them isn't exactly break neck,

Well not compared to modern films. But compared to some of the horror fioms that came out in the 1970's and 1980's it kind of is. The Universal monster movies may be a slow burn, but early slasher films are a gradual process of rusting.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I tried watching Susperia (modern remake) and failed to get through it. So boring. Nothing happens to a bunch of unlikeable people I don't care about.

 

[Mannahnin]

I’m a big fan consumer of Ed Wood’s twisted take on cinema. I’ve never seen any of his stuff that could touch The Creeping Terror. The closest movie to its awfulness is Tommy Wiseau’s The Room.

Worst for me I think is Combat Shock, from Troma. Terrible dialogue and acting? You know it. Vietnam flashback scenes shot in the Staten Island swamps with virtually no props, not even a rifle? Check. Papier-mache mutated baby puppet? Check. Absolutely interminable ten minute scene of two junkies arguing under a bridge? Check.

 

[Guest 85555]

Well not compared to modern films. But compared to some of the horror fioms that came out in the 1970's and 1980's it kind of is. The Universal monster movies may be a slow burn, but early slasher films are a gradual process of rusting.

Generally I prefer the pace of older movies to the pace of newer films. Dracula is just a movie that stays dull for me from beginning to end. Nosferatu is my favorite version of dracula, and the most scary IMO, and also has a pretty slow pace.

 

[Guest 85555]

I generally like John Carpenter's movies but I think Christine fell flat

I wouldn't say it is on the same level as The Thing or Halloween but I like Christine. It is a bit on the corny side, and that is kind of what I enjoy that about it. Just to compare it to a relevant film, I don't think it is as good as Carrie, but still a fun horror movie. I also like the transformation of the main character and the scene where he is ranting to his girlfriend on the highway, where she thinks he is talking about them, but he is talking about his relationship with Christine, that always makes me laugh.