Favourite horror flick?

[AFGNCAAP]

The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre (however, I did enjoy the remake, esp. R. Lee Ermey's character in the film--he was very twisted!)

The original Night of the Living Dead

The first Alien and Predator movies; Predator may be deemed more of an action flcik that a horror film, possibily, but it had a very cool concept to it.

 

[SkeletonKey Ed]

I'm also gonna add The Exorcist, although the horror there is perhaps more psychological and more effective on me having been raised Catholic.

I'm not Catholic and The Exorcist scarred the crap out of me when I was little and again as an adult with The Version You've Never Seen Before.

- Ed

 

[Krieg]

Alien
Fallen
In the Mouth of Madness
Prince of Darkness
Poltergeist
The Exorcist
The Omen
The Thing (Carpenter's version)

 

[David Howery]

The People Under The Stairs. The bad couple in it were just so openly insane and evil, it was funny and freaky at the same time....

 

[Nightfall]

Eh. The Haunting and the Others were alright...just didn't hold my interest.

The Exorist still ranks as the all time great horror flick in my book. (Though the book was MUCH better.)

 

[Celtavian]

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The Changeling with George C. Scott. Very scary, disturbing ghost story.

Halloween: The original movie was scary and believable.

 

[Kesh]

Hellraiser

 

[JoeGKushner]

1. The Shinning: Still a great flick after all these years. One day I'll have to round up the cash to get that boxed set version of the film. It's a shame that the one I have is in fullscreen! Argh!

2. The Exorcist: Yeah, still another great movie.

3. Halloween: The first one is still great. Second one okay and well, let's pretend that it ended there eh?

4. In the Mouth of Madness: Where else do you have the Cthulhu Mythos actually winning eh?

5. Event Horizon: Man, space sure is scary.

6. The Thing: Good old John Carpenter. This is still a great movie. I don't know if other people think the F/X help up, but I still get a thrill from it.

7. Hellraiser: Not quite for the movie itself, but some of the ideas were very interesting, well some of the ideas in the mythos presented in other books that evolved it, were very interesting.

8. The Omen: Creepy when it came out and taken as a trilogy, still okay but not as great as it once was.

9. Texas Chainsaw Masacre: Well, heck, another classic. I'll have to watch this one again as my memory may be playing tricks one me.

10. Last Man on Earth: Early adaptation of "I Am Legend" with Vince Price. Ah, solitude...

 

[Ferret]

28 days later was strange, but I liked it.

I definatly likes Shaun of the dead. Favourite.

And the thing.....

 

[Cthulhudrew]

George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" is, IMO, the best all-time horror movie ever. Not only does it have zombies- those horrific, slow-moving reminders of the inevitability of death- but it also mixes in social commentary- particularly racism.

Romero's "Dawn of the Dead" (not the recent version) is also up there, though it is slightly more campy than NotLD, and it provides a nice send-up of commercialism to boot.

Sadly, I must report that I have as yet never seen Romero's "Day of the Dead", though I plan on picking up the DVD rerelease in a couple of weeks or months (whenever it's supposed to come out).

Next to NotLD, I'd place the original Raimi "Evil Dead." Not a big fan of "Evil Dead II" (which I actually saw first), because I felt it was too over the top campy and gory, and though I like "Army of Darkness", I wouldn't rate it as a horror flick. The original "Evil Dead", though, actually surprised me with how effectively scary and well done (particularly on their budget!) it was. I don't get easily scared at all, but ED actually creeped me out a bit in places.