your favorite horror movie?

[jetdog]

I love horror movies, I can't exactly get into the slasher genre though, I need something supernatural to be involved.
I think I'll have to give it to the Shining. http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Mptv/1006/th-2754-1.jpg I feel like this is a little bit of a cop out because Kubrick is such a genius (not to mention King), but there it is.

What is your favorite horror movie and why?

[RoyMunson]

The original Halloween… the music makes the movie

[RoseBlood]

Psycho and any Hitchcock movie.

He was amazing.

[Furtherman]

I'm not really a horror movie fan, as in someone who will go and see any horror movie, like the built in audiences that made Saw, Hostel, etc., etc., such hits.

But I've recently found out a few women I know LOVE horror movies. They don't care too much about the plot, they just love the whole getting scared part.

Is this true ladies?

[Marc with a c]

I'm not really a horror movie fan, as in someone who will go and see any horror movie, like the built in audiences that made Saw, Hostel, etc., etc., such hits.

But I've recently found out a few women I know LOVE horror movies. They don't care too much about the plot, they just love the whole getting scared part.

Is this true ladies?

my ex was like this. i fucking hated it.

[buzzard]

after Pet Cemetary I strangled my cat:nono:

[RoseBlood]

I hate gore fests!!!

[mendyweiss]

http://www.best-horror-movies.com/images/Exorcist-head-spin.jpg

[BoondockSaint]

A Nightmare on Elm Street freaked me out as a kid.

[sailor]

i really don't like horror films at all, but i enjoyed scream and thought it was clever.

[GameRelatedSig]

I'll have to second The Exorcist.

[Hottub]

The original, The only...

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Night Of The Living Dead.

[buzzard]

you mean like with Jane Fonda :lol:

[fezident]

I pretty much dislike the entire genre. I just can't feel scared when I'm watching a movie.

Having said that, I thought FINAL DESTINATION was unique and creative. Same goes for SAW.


But... movies like THE RING, DARK WATER, and THE GRUDGE etc etc are all exactly the same to me. Senseless plots... cheap devices... no payoffs.

[ToLEEdo]

Won't count it as horror really but the Evil Dead trilogy is my favorite.

[badorties]

wow, a double post

how spooky

[badorties]

i'm not a big gore fan, and any interst is more on a geek level

i love shawn of the dead, evil dead and bubba ho-tep

i also adore the abbott & costello monster flicks

[joethebartender]

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[grlNIN]

I went out to dinner on the 30th and more than half of the conversation were about scary movies. I had never seen the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre and my boyfriend and i rented it Tuesday night after the conversation.

We watched it last night and i fell asleep during it. Not scary at all for me. I am more disgusted by gore and gross noises than with frights.

Movies that have scared me a lot are:

Scream- The opening sequence where he's dragging Barrymore across the lawn was brutal.
Night of the Hunter- Mitchum is a fucking creepy bastard and that whole movie just kept my nerves on edge.
Nightmare on Elm Street- Saw it when i was little and never fully recovered.
IT- same as above.
The Stand- The entire concept of something like that happening is unsettling.

Misery and Se7en were fucked up too.

[RingWraith]

A Nightmare on Elm Street freaked me out as a kid.

Same here!!! After seeing that one as a kid, it screwed up sleeps for weeks.

[King Hippos Bandaid]

Nightmare on Elm Street

:king:

[Mike Teacher]

The original Halloween… the music makes the movie

How many directors also write and play the theme, making both a classic movie, and a classic song? Carpenter nailed this one. Geh Geh.

R+F once talked about that 'perfect' album, where there's not a single bad track. I think about perfect movies; perhaps 'Goodfellas' is perfect; every scene seems vital, not a single clunker. I wouldnt cut one.

Anyway for me Halloween is perfect. And how unlikely a beast of a movie; that it was ever made was a lark. He did the thing for $400,000, a small budget for an MTV video today. Half of that went to the Panavision [?] widescreen cameras and film, this was shot uber wide; and Carpenter can fill that space; many cant.

The actors are wearing the clothes they owned, there was a single van people people used as actors 'trailers' to change. Everyone PA-ed; after a scene Jamie would grab a piece of gear and help haul it to the next scene, it was that skeletal.

He used that handheld cam which is now done to cliche, but that opening walkaround back then was very new and original, the POV really made for a kick ass beginning.

I think even the Halloween concept came later. I think the working title was 'The Babysitter Murders' and only well into writing did the idea of tying it in with Oct 31 came about.

Debra Hill, who co-wrote the thing dies last year. Sadder still, she had a hand in the remake of her and Carpenter's The Fog, which was originally not so good, and the remake is an unwatchable piece of shit.

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Nosferatu / Der Golem / Frankenstein / Gojira [the original 1954 Godzilla without the later splicing in of Raymond Burr]

Audition / Oldboy / American Psycho

Evil Dead / Hills Have Eyes

And all the rest...

[AnnoyedGrunt]

I think even the Halloween concept came later. I think the working title was 'The Babysitter Murders' and only well into writing did the idea of tying it in with Oct 31 came about.


Bob Clark claims that Carpenter talked to him purely as a fan about Black Christmas. When Carpenter asked about if he ever thought about a sequel to which Clark said he had thought of doing 'Black Halloween'.

[Sarge]

I dont know if its sci-fi, or horror but John Carpenters remake of "The Thing" always stuck out with me.

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

The original, The only...

http://www.zombiereportingcenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/notld1.jpg

Night Of The Living Dead.

They're coming to get you, Hottub.