Horror Collection Recommendations? (1 Viewer)

[Mark Lehmkuhl]

Any recommendations to someone who is trying to build up a classic horror dvd collection

 

[Lew Crippen]

Go here And you will be in a thread where forum members are engaged in watching horror movies. Most of the posts have the names of movies watched and some comments as to how each individual liked that movie.

 

[Matt Fig]

Any of the Universal Classics should be in a collection:
Frankenstein
Dracula
The Mummy
Wolf Man
Creature from the Black Lagoon

Any of the Evil Dead movies.

Anything with Vincent Price. Especially "House of Wax" and "The Abominable Dr. Phibes"

"Session 9" is really creepy.

There are many more good films to buy on DVD. If I think of some more I will post them. Also check my DVD collection out I have some good cheesy ones and some classics on there. It may help.
Thanks,
Matt

 

[Steve Phillips]

HOUSE OF WAX is not yet on DVD. When it does come out, Warner needs to include the 3-D version (using field sequential) along with the inevitable flat print in the same package!

 

[george kaplan]

Alien
Aliens
Frankenstein
The Bride of Frankenstein
The Birds
The Sixth Sense
Rosemary's Baby
Jaws
Jurassic Park
Psycho
Frenzy
The Silence of the Lambs
Time After Time
Young Frankenstein

 

[Lew Crippen]

What George said. If you want to look at a couple of non-traditional films, I’d recommend:

Kwaidan—four shorts from Japan. Very little blood in the traditional sense, but chilling nonetheless.

Shock Corridor—technically not a horror movie, but a very disturbing portrayal of one man’s disintagration.

 

[HankM]

Here are some:

Alien
Evil Dead Trilogy
Halloween
Friday The 13th Part 1-6
The Exorcist
Psycho (1960)
Phantasm
Night Of The Living Dead
Dawn Of The Dead
The Fog
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Thing (1982)

 

[Reginald Trent]

I'm surprised no one mentioned..............

Candyman
Sleepy Hollow
Virus
The Others
Fright Night
Pitch Black

 

[Jeff_A]

Two words...
Hammer Films

 

[Matt Fig]

HOUSE OF WAX is not yet on DVD

Thanks for the info Steve. No wonder I cannot find it? The way MGM has been releasing the Midnite Movies series, I assumed it would be out. Thanks again for the update. Matt

 

[Justin_S]

Here are some recommendations:

Black Christmas
The Hitcher
Rosemary's Baby
The Wicker Man
The Thing
The Blair Witch Project
Brain Damage
Carnival of Souls
Scanners
Lord of Illusions
Videodrome
Jacob's Ladder
Suspiria
City of the Living Dead (aka The Gates of Hell)
Frailty
Society
American Psycho
In the Mouth of Madness
Prince of Darkness
Re-Animator
Return of the Living Dead
Tenebre
Phenomena
New York Ripper
The Prowler
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Opera
Ravenous
From Dusk Till Dawn- Collector's Edition
Silver Bullet
Cube
Rabid
Stir of Echoes
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original and 1978 remake)
The Howling
Hellraiser 1 & 2
The Blob remake
Shivers
Peeping Tom


There are several more, but there you have a few recommendations.

 

[Rex Bachmann]

"Classic"-horror film suggestions:
Try the films of Italian filmmaker Mario Bava:

• Black Sunday (1960)
• Black Sabbath
• Planet of the Vampires (1964) ("Gothic" in space)
• Baron Blood (1972)
• Lisa and the Devil/House of Exorcism (pre- and post-Exorcist versions, 1972 & 1976; haven't seen it, but it comes recommended)

And there are Link Removed.

 

[Scott Temple]

Some of these aren't "serious" horror films and others are probably better classified as suspense, but I think they're all pretty good choices for Halloween.
Basket Case
Black Christmas
The Blair Witch Project
Carrie
Children of the Corn
The Exorcist
The Exorcist III
The Faculty
The Fog
Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th, Part II
Friday the 13th, Part III
Friday the 13th, Part IV: The Final Chapter
Friday the 13th, Part VI: Jason Lives
Halloween
Halloween 2
Halloween 4: The Return Of Michael Myers
Halloween 5: The Revenge Of Michael Myers
Halloween 6: The Curse Of Michael Myers
Halloween 7: Twenty Years Later (aka H20)
The Hitcher
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Stephen King's IT
Jaws
Jaws 2
Joy Ride
The Last House on the Left
Ms. 45
A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (Nightmare 6)
Wes Craven's New Nightmare (Nightmare 7)
The Others
Piranha
Psycho (1960)
Psycho II
Psycho III
Psycho IV: The Beginning (unfortunately, not on DVD)
Scream
Se7en
Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
The Thing
Valentine
What Lies Beneath
When A Stranger Calls
When A Stranger Calls Back
Light horror/more humor:
Creepshow
House
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Maximum Overdrive
Scary Movie
Scary Movie 2
Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday The 13th
Sleepaway Camp
Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (Pamela Springsteen )
Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (Pamela Springsteen )
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Part 2
Tremors
Tremors 2: Aftershocks
Tremors 3: Back To Perfection

 

[Mark Lehmkuhl]

thanks for all the responses. I will take you all up on your suggestions. I have looked for some of these and find that alot are not available at the local hollywood video. Do you all own them or rent them (if so where)?.

I went to the post where some of you were doing the October contest - wish I had found that earlier. I will get in next year's.

So far I own:

Evil Dead 1,2
Army of Darkness
Suspiria
Last House on the Left

I was looking at Hollwood yesterday for the following but couldn't find them:

The Innocents
Don't Look Now
The Hitcher
Horror of Dracula

I did find 'Near Dark' and 'Ginger Snaps'. Watched them both last night, and on the hunt for more!

Thanks again

 

[Matt Fig]

I have bought most of mine at local stores. Being a fellow Central Ohioan, try the small out of the way stores that are in some of the malls or strip malls. Northland mall had a store named "FYE" (the only one that I think is left is in Eastland mall). Also some of the mom and pop video stores that sell used movies and the ones that go out of business. That is how I got some of my harder to find DVDs.

 

[Frank Doorhof]

Oh my oh my
Japanese:
Ring 1 & 2
The Eye
Dark Water
Normal R1:
Halloween cyclus
Friday the 13th (although I don't like the first 3, and love Jason X)
Dead Alive aka Braindead
Evil Dead 1 & 2 + Army of Darkness (more comedy)
The Thing
Session 9 (VERY GOOD)
House on haunted hill (original and remake)
Mask of Satan (perfect oldie)
Zombie (Lucio F. MUST HAVE)
Poltergeist
Amityville
This is a good start.
Greetings from Holland,
Frank