Best Horror Movies Ever... (2 Viewers)

[JayKellen]

I love horror movies, always have, always will. My questions for you are, what are your favorites, and what are some of the best horror movies that maybe not everyone have seen, some lesser known underrated horror movies that MUST be seen if you are a fan. I personally love The Exorcist, and most horror fans do, but Exorcist III was fantastic as well, and not everyone have seen it, which is a shame. Anyway, what are your favorites, and what flicks should I go out and get immediately that I might not have heard of??

 

[Guy_Uhler]

Well I think my favorite horror movie that everyone might not have seen would be Monster Squad, which I'm hoping will be released on DVD soon.

 

[Brook K]

A few favorites that you may not have seen:

The Wicker Man
Martin
Deep Red
The House By The Cemetery
Spider Baby
Phenomena
Blood For Dracula
Habit
Cure

 

[steve_jk]

My personal favorite is 'Evil Dead'
As a kid I remember the TV/newspaper ads for a movie called 'Suspiria' that was suppossed to be pretty intense. FOr some reason, I remember the newspaper ads saying how no one was admitted during the final sequence.

Eventually I rented the title when I just happened to walk past it and didn't think it was that great.

 

[James T]

I personally liked Evil Dead 2 more than the first and liked Army of Darkness as a "horror-themed" movie the best out of the trilogy.

I think I posted this in the polls recently, but I liked The Ring, The Others, The Exorcist. Black Christmas was good as it set the slasher film and a lot of the future stuff was based or spoofed.

 

[StephenA]

My favorites are:

Hellraiser 1 and 2
Friday the 13th part 6 and 8
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre(1974)
Dawn of the Dead(1978)
Day of the Dead
Night of the Living Dead(1990)
Return of the Living Dead
Halloween 1 and 2
The Birds
Dracula(1931)
Frankenstein(1931)
Zombie
Dead Alive/Braindead
The Shining
Jaws

 

[Bob_Bo]

Just a few that seem to stick in my memory:

The Omen
Phantasm
Hellraiser

 

[ChuckSolo]

StephenA, how come you like the 1990 version of "Night of the Living Dead" and not the 1968 version? Mine are:

Night of the Living Dead (both 1968 and 1990 versions)
Dawn of the Dead
Day of the Dead
Zombie
The Excorsit
The Hand (Oliver Stone)
Basket Case
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Frankenstein (1931)
Dracula (1932)
Alien
Aliens

And many, many others!!!!

 

[Patrick McCart]

It may be more of a suspense/thriller, but it's exactly the kind of movie you should watch on Halloween...

Les Diaboliques

 

[StephenA]

I don't know. Usually I like the original better, but for some odd reason, I like the remake of Night of the Living Dead better. Wish I could tell you, but it puzzles me.

 

[JonZ]

Halloween

 

[Micheal]

John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness.
Halloween
Black Christmas
Excorsist 1 & 3

Are a few of my favs...

 

[Justin_S]

The Hitcher
Black Christmas
Prince of Darkness
The Blair Witch Project
Rosemary's Baby
Dellamorte Dellamore
Videodrome (Actually, ANY Cronenberg film)
The Sentinel
Dead and Buried
The Hills Have Eyes
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Lord of Illusions
The Thing
Ravenous
Frailty
Identity
Cujo
Ginger Snaps
The Night Flier
Kairo
Uzumaki
Onibaba

I could go on, believe me. There are so many great horror films.

 

[Terry St]

• Silence of the Lambs
• Nosferatu (Best Vampire Movie. Ever. Period.)
• The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari
• Horror of Dracula (The original Hammer Studios film starring Christopher Lee as the title Blood-sucker and Peter Cushing of Star Wars EPIV fame as Van Helsing)
• Le Pacte des Loups (Not really a classic, but I mention it here since the Canadian DVD is bloody great reference material. Beautiful transfer.)

 

[Matt Stone]

My five favorites (though you've probably seen them all) are ...

1. Halloween
2. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
3. The Last House on the Left
4. John Carpenter's The Thing
5. The Evil Dead

I'm not even going to get started on naming anymore...I'll end up writing stuff for hours

 

[Scott Burke]

Man the list would be too long if I listed them all ,but here are a few in no particular order (however I have not seen much "lesser known" that I have liked):

Pet Semetary
Stir of Echos
Halloween
Hellraiser
Scream
Ninth Gate
The Gate
The list goes on and on and on...

 

[James Sarno]

Hey Terry...speaking of Christopher Lee,how about Horror Express ...one of my favorites.

I go with...
The Howling
Alien
Day of the Triffids
Dawn of the Dead
The Excorcist
Ringu
The Relic
The Omen
...These are some of my favorites,I have so many more and I can go on & on, but you get the idea

 

[Joey Gunz]

1) Dawn of the Dead
2) Day of the Dead
3) Return of the Living Dead
4) Return of the Living Dead Pt. 3
5) THEM!
6) Deep Rising
7) John Carpenters The Thing
8) Mimic
9) Species
10) Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
11) Salems Lot

 

[Joe Schwartz]

Here are some of my favorites that nobody has mentioned yet:

An American Werewolf in London
The Blob (1958)
The Fly (1986)
Fright Night
The Hidden
A Nightmare on Elm Street

 

[DonMac]

Funny that this thread started, because I've been gradually putting together a list over the past few months (since Halloween, actually) of what I think are the best horror movies ever made, and here's what I had for the top-20 (I'm pretty happy with 1-10, but may revise 11-20 some more and then eventually go on to #21 and beyond):

1. Psycho (1960)
2. Jaws (1975)
3. Alien (1979)
4. The Innocents (1961)
5. Halloween (1978)
6. The Exorcist (1973)
7. The Thing (1982)
8. The Shining (1980)
9. Silence of the Lambs (1991)
10. The Haunting (1963)

11. Aliens (1986)
12. The Ring (2002)
13. Carrie (1976)
14. The Sixth Sense (1999)
15. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
16. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
17. Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn (1987)
18. In The Mouth of Madness (1994)
19. The Others (2001)
20. Dawn of the Dead (1979)