Favorite Horror Film?

Guildmaster Van · Post by **Guildmaster Van** » Fri May 12, 2006 6:58 am

This is for a little of bit of research I'm compiling.

What is your favorite horror movie and what do you like about it?
My favorite horror movie would probably be The Exorcist due to the sheer mind-bending nature it had when it was originally released, and that even still today it offers a creepy little look into the ideas around exorcism.

While normally exorcisms are nothing similar to the one portrayed, there are some reports of awfully strange things going on at them even worse than the film. I mean, even the film is supposedly based on an actual exorcism in the 40s of an adolescent boy. That whole bit makes the movie sound even creepier and makes you wonder if phenomena like this really do exist :p

Oh, and Freddy Vs. Jason.
Man, that movie was funny.

Kilre · Post by **Kilre** » Fri May 12, 2006 7:15 am

Favorite horror film...hands down, it's Alien. And the Alien saga (minus the fourth film) is my favorite lineup.

Sput · Post by **Sput** » Fri May 12, 2006 7:19 am

i rather like Alien. <3 for it, ohyessss. I also like Saw, even though it was lamer than it should've been. I also like silent hill, regardless of how bad everyone says it is. LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU LA LA LA.

CaptainClaude · Post by **CaptainClaude** » Fri May 12, 2006 7:22 am

GOZU!

KittyKatBlack · Post by **KittyKatBlack** » Fri May 12, 2006 7:28 am

ryclaude wrote:GOZU!

Gozer?

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Fri May 12, 2006 7:34 am

redrum Redrum REDRUM!

The Shining was the scariest movie I enjoyed. I've seen scarier movies, but I haven't enjoyed them as much.

The Shining wasn't particularly gory. And it didn't feature a horrible monster. It was... if not believable, at least set so that it might be believable.

Killbert-Robby · Post by **Killbert-Robby** » Fri May 12, 2006 7:41 am

The Thing. Plain and simple. Its just a great piece of film history really.

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Fri May 12, 2006 8:01 am

I'm more of a fan of bad horror movies just cause they are bad and fun to watch. I'd say Pitch Black is one of my favorites if that counts as horror because it kept the suspense going and really felt like an all around good movie to me. I also liked Jeepers Creepers solely on the basis that the bad guy wins in the end, we don't see enough of that.

Komiyan · Post by **Komiyan** » Fri May 12, 2006 8:05 am

RA wrote:I also like silent hill, regardless of how bad everyone says it is. LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU LA LA LA.

Seconded! The visuals were scary as anything. Argh screaming ashbabies argh.
Evil Dead 2 as well, but that's strongly to do with the comedy elements of it. The Grudge stuck in my mind for some time, too.

Tellurider · Post by **Tellurider** » Fri May 12, 2006 8:08 am

The Shining for the win!

The best horror movies aren't just gory, they get in your head. The first time I watched the Shining all the way through I had anxiety attacks for a week. (I was eleven, okay?)

You know what's a really BAD horror movie? Event Horizon. Man is that ever a bad movie. It's so bad it's almost good. But... no not quite.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Fri May 12, 2006 8:13 am

I'm also going with Alien. If you brutally simplify the plot, it sounds like a B-Movie, but it's execution is what makes it shine.

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Fri May 12, 2006 8:14 am

Tellurider wrote:The Shining for the win!

The best horror movies aren't just gory, they get in your head. The first time I watched the Shining all the way through I had anxiety attacks for a week. (I was eleven, okay?)

You know what's a really BAD horror movie? Event Horizon. Man is that ever a bad movie. It's so bad it's almost good. But... no not quite.

Event Horizon is great to watch with a group of people and just make fun of. We laughed the whole way through.

Pillywiggin · Post by **Pillywiggin** » Fri May 12, 2006 8:15 am

My vote for creepiest horror movie would have to go to Village of the Damned. That one gave me a major case of the willies.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers gets an honorable mention. It's cheesy, but the concept behind it is rather chilling. Though I wish they'd left the original ending.

Neither of these are blood, guts or gore movies. The monsters in them hide behind human faces and are the people you would most expect to be safe around.

CaptainClaude · Post by **CaptainClaude** » Fri May 12, 2006 8:21 am

KittyKatBlack wrote:
ryclaude wrote:GOZU!
Gozer?

nah nah nah, Gozu, the scariest horror film about lactation ever.

http://www.channel4.com/film/reviews/film.jsp?id=133492

Directed by the guy who made Audition.

Nanda · Post by **Nanda** » Fri May 12, 2006 8:27 am

28 Days Later. I love it because it's not so much a horror film as a film, first and foremost, where horrible things happen. The cinematography is both frightening and beautiful, and I love that the music is often incongruent with what is taking place on the screen. It's also the most believable zombie-ish movie out there. I <3 Zombies. and cilian murphy is hot.

A close second would be "Shaun of the Dead," for similar reasons. Just replace the word film with comedy.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Fri May 12, 2006 8:30 am

Misery is good too. I find that the movies with plots and stories that are likely to happen are truly terrifying.

KittyKatBlack · Post by **KittyKatBlack** » Fri May 12, 2006 8:30 am

legostargalactica wrote:
Tellurider wrote:The Shining for the win!

The best horror movies aren't just gory, they get in your head. The first time I watched the Shining all the way through I had anxiety attacks for a week. (I was eleven, okay?)

You know what's a really BAD horror movie? Event Horizon. Man is that ever a bad movie. It's so bad it's almost good. But... no not quite.
Event Horizon is great to watch with a group of people and just make fun of. We laughed the whole way through.

...that movie scared me.

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Fri May 12, 2006 8:32 am

KittyKatBlack wrote:
legostargalactica wrote:
Tellurider wrote:The Shining for the win!

The best horror movies aren't just gory, they get in your head. The first time I watched the Shining all the way through I had anxiety attacks for a week. (I was eleven, okay?)

You know what's a really BAD horror movie? Event Horizon. Man is that ever a bad movie. It's so bad it's almost good. But... no not quite.
Event Horizon is great to watch with a group of people and just make fun of. We laughed the whole way through.
...that movie scared me.

did you watch it alone? cause if you're alone watching it it's scary, but you get a group together and watch and it's the funniest damn thing ever.

KittyKatBlack · Post by **KittyKatBlack** » Fri May 12, 2006 8:33 am

legostargalactica wrote:
KittyKatBlack wrote:
legostargalactica wrote: Event Horizon is great to watch with a group of people and just make fun of. We laughed the whole way through.
...that movie scared me.
did you watch it alone? cause if you're alone watching it it's scary, but you get a group together and watch and it's the funniest damn thing ever.

No, I had one or two other people with me. But I just don't do horror movies well. It was actually one of the only ones I remember seeing. I saw Pet Semetary too. That scared the crap out of me as well. -_-

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Fri May 12, 2006 8:34 am

legostargalactica wrote:
Tellurider wrote:The Shining for the win!

The best horror movies aren't just gory, they get in your head. The first time I watched the Shining all the way through I had anxiety attacks for a week. (I was eleven, okay?)

You know what's a really BAD horror movie? Event Horizon. Man is that ever a bad movie. It's so bad it's almost good. But... no not quite.
Event Horizon is great to watch with a group of people and just make fun of. We laughed the whole way through.

Event Horizon for the LOSE! Good grief, could it have gotten any worse? Why yes - when I first saw it in the theater, the tape broke and I had to wait for it to start back up. Not just paying for a bad film, but waiting for a bad film to be repaired so you can see the end of it.