Trick or treat: 50 best horror films of all time

[ssampier]

Sorry, but I just thought the Blair Witch was just dumb. One hour and an half of college students walking in the forest, saying f*** a lot, and then

Spoiler

they die, one by one. The part where he unwrap his hand was mildly distrubing, but nothing earth shattering

. The worst part is my stupid friend kept insisting the movie was real. I guess he didn't see the post-production interviews.

Of course, I'm weird. I liked Blair Witch II better than one.

 

[Azul]

Did anyone find the Blair Witch Prodject scarey? THe worst I heard from firends was the motion sickeness people got from the lousy camera stuff.

Yeah, but I saw it during a midnight showing (late Friday) before hearing too much hype about the movie. I had no particular expectations other than knowing it was supposed to be better than your usually slasher/horror flick.

The movie reminded me of the kind of imagery I'd see in nightmares. The final part resembled a few nightmares I'd had as a kid enough to creep me out.

Usually horror flicks bore me. I might startle during such a movie but I very rarely get genuinely scared or creeped out. Blair Witch pressed the right buttons to remind me of nightmares so yeah, it scared and creeped me out. First horror movie to do that since my early teens (i.e. the mid 80s).

Had I seen Blair Witch during an afternoon showing (i.e. bright sunny day) and after hearing more hype (i.e. raised expectations), I would probably have gone into the theatre in the wrong mindset to properly enjoy the movie.

Blair Witch is much closer to a good campfire story than it is to a traditional horror movie. If well-told campfire stories used to scare you as a kid, you probably enjoyed it. Otherwise, you probably thought it was lame and low budget.

 

[WayneLigon]

Pretty weak list, yep.

I liked Blair Witch; it did creep me out, especially the part where their buddy vanishes in the woods, someone rips all the teeth out of his head, then calls in his voice out in the woods. Or at the end, when they're killed like the kids were killed before. Shakey-cam doesn't bother me save when it's used inappropriately; here, it works and works well to create that sense of 'you are there'.

Audition: Yes, it is as creepy as everyone says. Creepy, disturbing, wrong. Suicide Club is another one in that vein (mass teen suicides strike Japan: the first one is where 54 girls jump in front of an express subway train).

Saw, very good.
Dead Birds, also very cool.
The Machinist. Very good psychological horror.

 

[River Tam]

What was the movie where the scuba divers got left behind in shark-infested waters? It's not a horror movie, but that's the scariest movie I've seen in a long time.

 

[ecliptic]

All those movies listed freaking suck.

 

[ecliptic]

Sorry, but I just thought the Blair Witch was just dumb. One hour and an half of college students walking in the forest, saying f*** a lot, and then

Spoiler

they die, one by one. The part where he unwrap his hand was mildly distrubing, but nothing earth shattering

. The worst part is my stupid friend kept insisting the movie was real. I guess he didn't see the post-production interviews.

Of course, I'm weird. I liked Blair Witch II better than one.

Hated Blair Witch, Blair Witch 2 was much better.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

All those movies listed freaking suck.

ALL of them suck? Don't you think that's a bit extreme? I don't think they should all be on the Top 50 list, but I'd never say they all suck. Some of them are damn good movies, including some that would make any respectable top horror list.

If they ALL suck, please list your top 50?

 

[Psychic Warrior]

ALL of them suck? Don't you think that's a bit extreme? I don't think they should all be on the Top 50 list, but I'd never say they all suck. Some of them are damn good movies, including some that would make any respectable top horror list.

If they ALL suck, please list your top 50?

Well he does have the Burger King as an avatar so i don't know how much stock I'd put in his opinion You did go a long way to get that rolleyes smilie in there didn't you?

Blair Witch only had one scene that scared the hell out of me - the final scene where the girl is racing through the old house and, as she enters the basement, sees Mike standing in the corner with his back to her - just like the killer they had read about eariler (that and i loved the house, the children's handprints on the walls, the decayed look about it).

Horror movies are second only to comedy on the subjectiveness of how people take them, imo. Just look at VikingBastard's love the Wicker Man.

 

[WayneLigon]

All those movies listed freaking suck.

ALL of them? I'm thinking you're going to need to provide some justification for that. Psycho sucks? Alien sucks?

 

[Einan]

Did anyone find the Blair Witch Prodject scarey? THe worst I heard from firends was the motion sickeness people got from the lousy camera stuff..

Try watching it at a drive-in that borders on some very large woods in a car where the kids sitting behind us are throwing pebbles at the car at random intervals. The ambiance really helps up the creep factor.

Einan