Your favorite horror films on dvd

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I will list a few now, and more later.

House On Haunted Hill (1959 version).

Night of the Living Dead (1968 version).

The Exorcist (1973).

Re: Your favorite horror films on dvd

1 - The Wicker Man
2 - The Thing (1982)
3 - Night of the Demon (1956)
4 - The Bride of Frankenstein
5 - Halloween
6 - The Evil Dead
7 - The Fly (1986)
8 - The Haunting (1963)
9 - The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
10 - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

This list might be useful - it was published by "Shivers" magazine in 1996, compiled by a panel of critics and columnists.

25 - M
24 - A Nightmare on Elm Street
23 - Nosferatu (1921)
22 - The Masque of the Red Death (1963)
21 - Cat People (1942)
20 - Peeping Tom
19 - Rosemary's Baby
18 - The Thing (1982)
17 - The Evil Dead
16 - An American Werewolf in London
15 - Mask of the Demon (La Maschera Del Demonio)
14 - Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
13 - Island of Lost Souls
12 - The Quatermass Experiment (aka The Creeping Unknown)
11 - Psycho (1960)
10 - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
9 - Witchfinder General (aka Conqueror Worm)
8 - Night of the Living Dead (1967)
7 - Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux Sans Visage)
6 - Night of the Demon (aka Curse of the Demon - 1956)
5 - The Wicker Man
4 - Halloween
3 - The Exorcist
2 - Frankenstein (1931)
1 - Dracula (aka Horror of Dracula - 1958)

Of these only Island of Lost Souls is not available on DVD legitimately.

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I agree--very scary. When I was 13, I was babysitting at my neighbor's house. Guess what book they had out on the coffee table? Yep. I read The Exorcist (Blatty) before I saw the film, and that was easily the most frightening thing I've ever experienced in my life to this point. (My favorite author is Poe. I don't tend to think of myself as being frightened all that easily.) But on that night, I was hearing things in that house while I was reading the book that had me wishing I had never picked it up!

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Could anyone please help me out:

If I wanted to own the absolute definitive versions of the first two Friday the 13th films... which releases would I go for. I'm inquiring multi-region here. And supplements are factoring least important. Strictly in terms of completeness of prints, pq, audio, etc. Extra features, packaging to follow.

Which region/releases to go for?

I'm sure there are probably some insane under the radar R3 versions out there somewhere for such a high profile series. I'm going to do a DVD-Basen search right now, but please point me in the right direction.

Thanks!

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For now, I will say "The Shining" of Kubrick. When I first looked at it for the first time, I started late in the evening! If you want to sleep - don't do that!!!!

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1) Hellraiser
2) John Carpenter's The Thing
3) The Fly (1986)
4) John Carpenter's Halloween
5) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
6) The Exorcist
7) Rosemary's Baby
8) A Nightmare on Elm Street
9) An American Werewolf in London
10) The Evil Dead 2

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The Warner Brothers release in R2 is the X rated version of the original. I don't have the actual disc but I want to say that there's a commentary too.

I don't know about AV quality but in terms of content, Friday The 13th Part 2 is the same everywhere and is R rated.

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Eh, I guess I'll just pick up the current $6 Paramount discs... I don't think these films are very good to begin with but as nostalgic guilty pleasures I'd like to own the first two. If they would've been available in some other region in more definitive packages I'd have imported, but according to all reviews I've seen, apparently it ain't so. Oh well...

Thanks.

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Marco, just a heads-up...the single-disc release of FRIDAY THE 13TH is a weird hybrid version that, as compared to the US theatrical version, has a longer first murder but a shortened final murder. The double-feature disc from Paramount of FRIDAY THE 13TH and FRIDAY THE 13th, PART II has the original theatrical version (it's actually a the first disc of the box set repackaged).

Hope this helps in your quest. By the way, I've got the Japanese pressing of FRIDAY THE 13TH from Warner (and it's uncut and looks great), but I don't remember it as having a commentary track.

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Some of my favorites on DVD are:

Don't Look Now (1973)
The Other (1972)
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Night of the Living Dead (1968, Elite edition)
Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
The Haunting (1963)
Black Sabbath (1963, Italy)
The Innocents (Fox, 1961)
The City of the Dead (1960, VCI edition) aka Horror Hotel
Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
Night of the Demon (1957)
I Walked With a Zombie (1943)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931 and 1941 on WHV)

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The Haunting (1963) and The Shining are the scariest films I've seen.

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My favorites are: Night of the Demon(1956), Salems Lot, Return of the Living Dead, Creepshow,The Howling, House by the Cemetary, Evil Dead and finally, PHANTASM.

Re: Your favorite horror films on dvd

1930's - 1940's


Hammer (50's - 70's)


50's - 60's Other Horror


1970's - 1980's
High Def -

Modern (90's - present)
High Def -



I tend to gravitate to older Horror films

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That's beautiful Jim_K.

Here's a few from me:
The Shining.
Exorcist.
Halloween.
The Friday the 13th whole series I-XI which I bought last October.
Poltergeist.
Creepshow. I wish they'd do a SE.

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There's a pretty good SE version available in the UK.

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Thanks for the heads up! I'm adding that to my want list. I guess it would be about $20 or less delivered. Not a bad deal at all. I can watch it on my PC. The new transfer would have to be better than the only US release. Oddly enough, I just bought that SE of Creepshow 2 a week or so ago from the big Anchor Bay buy 2 get 1 free sale from deepdiscount.com. Very odd that first film didn't get the SE over here.

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Such a wonderful film to look at. I blind bought it and wasn't disappointed. That ending is true horror all the way. I particularlly like how disorienting the whole movie is. Classic.

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Off the top of my head, heres what I have in my collection....

Halloween 1999 LE
Re-Animator
From Beyond
John Carpenters The Thing
Jaws
Alien
Shadow Of The Vampire
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
The Curse OF Frankenstein
Silence Of The Lambs
Seven
Brams Stokers Dracula (Coppola)
The Wicker Man (original)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)
Halloween 2
Cat People
Cemetary Man
Exorcist
Exorcist 3
Evil Dead
Evil Dead 2
Behind The Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
Interview With The Vampire
28 Days Later
Fright Night
Mountain Of The Cannibal God
The Shining
American Psycho
Psycho
Dawn Of The Dawn
American Werewolf in London
Last House On The Left


.... there's more I cant remember right now.

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20s-40s:

Fall of the House of Usher (silent version)
The Val Lewton Collection
Frankenstein (1931)
Dracula (1931 Spanish version)
The Wolf Man
Werewolf of London
Spiral Staircase
Bela Lugosi Collection (Universal Franchise Collection)
The Mummy's Hand
The Mummy
Sleepy Hollow from The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad


50s-60s:

Horror of Dracula
Psycho
The Birds
The Blob
The Fly
The Hammer Horror Series (Universal Franchise Collection)
The Curse of Frankenstein
Night of the Living Dead
The Thing from Another World



70s:

Halloween
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Daughters of Darkness (1971)
Let's Scare Jessica to Death
The Omen
The Changeling
Tombs of the Blind Dead
Night Gallery (I don't care if it's a TV show!)


80s:

Nightmare on Elm Street
The Evil Dead


90s-00

The Ring
Stir of Echoes
Tremors
Seven
The Cell
Silence of the Lambs
The Devil's Backbone

And honorable mention to:

The Boris Karloff Collections
Suspiria
Re-Animator
Scream
Roger Corman/Vincent Price Edgar Allan Poe adaptions



If you want a really good list of most of the major horror films, and which ones are available on DVD, along with ratings of them, I highly, highly recommend this link at allmovie.com:

Major Horror Films

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I'm also going to throw in "Q: The Winged Serpent." That one is always fun to watch.

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The Excorcist is the scariest film I've ever seen; I still get chills up and down my spine when I watch this and "hear noises" all night afterwards. William Peter Blatty's screenplay of his novel captures the powerful suspense and horror of the written page.

Most importantly, Friedkin's direction and the excellent cast really sell the story. Friedkin worked very carefully to create a suspension of disbalief that the audience could establish and hold throughout the film. While watching this, you really believe that this little girl is possesed by the devil, and the next logical, terrifying thought is that there really is a devil, that the devil is real . . . Just writing this gives me the chills.

Much the same can be said about Kubrick's The Shining. Kubrick develops the "believability" of the story slowly and carefully. The "Twins," the cascade of blood, and Jack Torrance's slow decent into insanity build up to a series of terrifying crescendos.

Tod Browning's 1931 Dracula remains a personal favorite. Bela Lugosi is Dracula; the scene in the beginning of the film where Dracula is on that magnificent staircase and Lugosi says, "I am Drac -- yule -- la" gets me every time.

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The Thing - both versions, 1982 (with Kurt Russell) AND 1951.

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I should add Deep Red to my personal list- I can see why people think it was Argento's masterpiece.