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[SolKane]

Well as my inaugural topic, let's see what your top 10 horror movies are (they don't have to be standalone).

Mine in no particular order:

In the Mouth of Madness
Prince of Darkness
Ravenous
Stephen King's It
An American Werewolf in London
Session 9
Child's Play
Phantasm
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Remake)
House

Tried to leave some of the more obvious classics (ie Thing, Rosemary's Baby) in favor of the movies I like the most.

 

[samus4ever]

Halloween
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Psycho
Friday The 13th
Hostel
The Hills Have Eyes Remake
A Nightmare On Elm Street
Halloween II
Dawn Of The Dead
The Omen

 

[Cosmic Bus]

Suspiria
Near Dark
Session 9
Eyes Without a Face
Prince of Darkness
Halloween
The Blair Witch Project
The Shining
Angel Heart
Dellamorte, Dellamore

 

[Nick]

Halloween
Everything else

 

[sefskillz]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=104091&highlight=horror

 

[SaitoH]

Random order:

-Dead Alive aka Brain Dead
-The Thing
-Evil Dead
-The Shining
-Hellraiser
-Blair Witch
-Dog Soldier
-Alien
-Nightmare on Elm Street
-Freddy vs Jason

 

[Space Runaway]

No specific order:

The Beyond
A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3
The Shining
Friday the 13th Part 4
Zombie
The Gate
Night of the Living Dead
House by the Cemetery


I'm not sure how I feel about Carpenter's The Thing as horror otherwise it'd be on there.

 

[Keyser Soze]

1 The Descent
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2 The Shining
3 Halloween
4 The Evil Dead
5 The Exorcist
6 Silent Hill
7 Dog Soldiers
8 28 Days Later
9 The Blair Witch Project
10 Ringu

 

[VALIS]

This is a lot harder than sci-fi since there have probably been 10x the amount of horror movies over the years.

I looooooooooooove older horror movies. Anyway, mmm...

1. The Wicker Man
2. Rosemary's Baby
3. Night of the Living Dead
4. Black Sunday
5. The Haunting (original, not remake)
6. The Shining
7. I Walked With A Zombie
8. The Body Snatcher
9. Witchfinder General
10. The Exorcist

And some more...

The Devil Rides Out, The Phantom of the Opera (1930s version), Dracula (again, 30s), Incubus, The Masque of the Red Death, Alucarda, Dawn of the Dead... eh, I'll just shut up now.

 

[Brobzoid]

1 The Descent
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2 The Shining
3 Halloween
4 The Evil Dead
5 The Exorcist
6 Silent Hill
7 Dog Soldiers
8 28 Days Later
9 The Blair Witch Project
10 Ringu

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the decent sucked so much ass....

 

[{Mike}]

This is a lot harder than sci-fi since there have probably been 10x the amount of horror movies over the years.

I looooooooooooove older horror movies. Anyway, mmm...

1. The Wicker Man
2. Rosemary's Baby
3. Night of the Living Dead
4. Black Sunday
5. The Haunting (original, not remake)
6. The Shining
7. I Walked With A Zombie
8. The Body Snatcher
9. Witchfinder General
10. The Exorcist

And some more...

The Devil Rides Out, The Phantom of the Opera (1930s version), Dracula (again, 30s), Incubus, The Masque of the Red Death, Alucarda, Dawn of the Dead... eh, I'll just shut up now.

Is it that good?

 

[Kabuki Waq]

The Excorcist is the only movie to ever really frighten me so that movie is 1-10 for me.


No other Horror Movies i have ever seen actually scared me. Some have disturbed a little or had great kills but none have ever scared me like excorcist.

 

[VALIS]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=104091&highlight=horror

Holy crap. How do I read this forum for like 5 hours a day and miss a 200 post thread of horror movie awesomeness? Arg. Some good taste in there. Hurray GAF.

 

[VALIS]

Is it that good?

I think so, yeah. It's a total build up/shock at the end sort of movie, unlike wall-to-wall horror like a Friday 13th or Exorcist. What kind of evil lurks just beneath the surface of our friends and loved ones? Very chilling.

 

[SolKane]

This is a lot harder than sci-fi since there have probably been 10x the amount of horror movies over the years.

I looooooooooooove older horror movies. Anyway, mmm...

1. The Wicker Man
2. Rosemary's Baby
3. Night of the Living Dead
4. Black Sunday
5. The Haunting (original, not remake)
6. The Shining
7. I Walked With A Zombie
8. The Body Snatcher
9. Witchfinder General
10. The Exorcist

And some more...

The Devil Rides Out, The Phantom of the Opera (1930s version), Dracula (again, 30s), Incubus, The Masque of the Red Death, Alucarda, Dawn of the Dead... eh, I'll just shut up now.

I like your 10 but some of your addenda I don't think age too well, like the old Phantom, Dracula, and Masque, which I thought was just cheesy. For Phantom adaptations I prefer the Hammer version with Herbert Lom (though Lon Chaney was better) and I've always been partial to Nosferatu.

 

[Mr. Spinnington]

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the decent sucked so much ass....

Yes, but The Descent was not so bad.

 

[{Mike}]

I think so, yeah. It's a total build up/shock at the end sort of movie, unlike wall-to-wall horror like a Friday 13th or Exorcist. What kind of evil lurks just beneath the surface of our friends and loved ones? Very chilling.

Thanks, I will give it a rental soon.

 

[reeche]

Into the Mouth of Madness of Madness is also one of my favorites and a lot of people hate that movie....Flawed in many ways but I love the concept. Too many to name as I generally love the genre of horror so I'll just pick out a couple of random ones that spring to my brain.


Re-Animator
Dawn, Night, and the comedy Return of the Living Dead
The Thing
Scream (Not the shitty two sequels)
The Brood
Carnival of souls

And just to be totally goofball, two that most people think are crappy. The Hitcher and Intensity which was a TV version of the Koontz that shocked me by actually not being horrible and pretty darn good as far as made for TV goes.

 

[SolKane]

Into the Mouth of Madness of Madness is also one of my favorites and a lot of people hate that movie....Flawed in many ways but I love the concept.

It's always been a favorite of mine since I first saw it. Sam Neill's performance is really great, pretty much an apt representation of a deranged narrator from a Lovecraft story.

 

[Nithr]

does the others count as horror?