Favorite Horror Movie

[c.d.]

With Halloween quickly approaching I thought this would be a good topic. Apologies if a similar thread already exists.

There are a lot of great ones but for me it has to be the original Night of the Living Dead. The story gets going right from the start and the black and white added a great touch. The scene where they are all thinking what in the hell is going on and this can't really be happening but then turn on TV to find out this is now wide spread is classic. And an ending that you don't see coming.

I also have to give a shout out to the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers with Kevin McCarthy. I have heard some people say oh yeah like I'm really afraid of vegetables but they are missing the point. It pushes to the max the old horror movie theme of "Wow, this is a spooky place, I sure am glad you are with me, Bob. Bob? Bob? BOB?" And again a classic ending.

c.d.

[John Wheat]

The Wizard of Gore. The original. The remake is terrible.

[Jon Guy]

With Halloween quickly approaching I thought this would be a good topic. Apologies if a similar thread already exists.

There are a lot of great ones but for me it has to be the original Night of the Living Dead. The story gets going right from the start and the black and white added a great touch. The scene where they are all thinking what in the hell is going on and this can't really be happening but then turn on TV to find out this is now wide spread is classic. And an ending that you don't see coming.

I also have to give a shout out to the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers with Kevin McCarthy. I have heard some people say oh yeah like I'm really afraid of vegetables but they are missing the point. It pushes to the max the old horror movie theme of "Wow, this is a spooky place, I sure am glad you are with me, Bob. Bob? Bob? BOB?" And again a classic ending.

c.d.

Hi C.D.

I guess my favourite horror film would be Hammer Films "Dracula Prince of Darkness". It was the first horror film my parents let me stay up to watch when I was about ten (in the early 70s).

The scariest film I remember seeing at the cinema was "Halloween" 1978.

Of course, a big shout out to the Universal Monsters !! Nothing more creepy than Lugosi, and Lon Chaney Jnr is excellent as the doomed Wolf Man Laurence Talbot.

Did you know that when Boris Karloff was a kid living in London, he lived just around the corner from the Eddowes Coroner Mr S.F. Langham ?!

[Lewis C]

I've just started watching movies in earnest in the last year, and this month I've been watching more horror movies, so there are still many classics that I have yet to see. I'm a fan of Hitchcock in general, not only or even primarily his horror movies, but I do like Psycho and The Birds.

I tend to like what you might call light horror. Not a lot of blood and gore, or even terror, but rather suspense, mystery and creepiness. As such, two that I've seen recently that I like are The Innocents and The Changeling. Both involve a haunted house.

[Herlock Sholmes]

I certainly wouldn’t call myself a film buff but as far as horror films are concerned I do love the original Dracula and Frankenstein. I love the original silent Nosferatu too but I would like to see the recent one at some point. There are a few other oldies but I can’t recall any titles at the moment.

I did love An American Werewolf In London when I was younger. Haven’t seen it for years though.

[Georgeb]

I love Hammer and my favourite is The Devil Rides Out.
Really enjoy the great late 60s/70s classics like The Exorcist, The Omen and Rosemary's Baby. Just tonight watched 30 days of Night a vampire story set in Alaska it's really good.

[Abby Normal]

The original dracula, any of the hammer films with christopher lee, and FFC's Dracula with Gary Oldman
The first two Frankenstein films
The original King Kong
The original beauty and the beast french version
the hound of the baskervilles
The hunger
eraserhead
rosemarys baby
company of wolves
An american werewolf in london
wickerman
lair of the white worm
sante sangre
The raven
from hell
crimson peak
Gothic
The birds
Alien
The thing (carpenter)
Naked Lunch
The other
the shining
salems lot
trick or treat
tje serpent and the rainbow
The omen
The amityville horror
the haunting
pans labyrinth

of course alot more but these are my favorites.

Full disclosure... i dont like slasher or zombie films they bore the crap out of me. ive tried to get into night of tje living dead and halloween many times and i swear i fall asleep.

[Wickerman]

As Jon G mentioned above, Dracula Prince of Darkness was the first horror movie I saw at the picture house when I was about 12 or 14. My Dad took me, they let teenagers in providing you were with an adult, otherwise you had to be 18.
This sticks in my mind because I asked my Dad if I can pay for myself, pretending I was alone.
I paid, and they didn't ask my age, I realized I must look 18 so from that day onward I used my own pocket money to go to horror films by myself - the feeling of independence was off the charts!

My best horror film has always been Exorcist, I've never seen any other that makes the grade to beat that classic.

In the '70s I was an avid reader of Dennis Wheatley books, The Devil Rides Out, was for me, his best book & a favorite movie of mine.

I always followed the Dracula series by Christopher Lee, my favorite Dracula back then.

I do remember the first horror film that actually had a few scary scenes, I saw this one at home on TV. It was the 1963 version of The Haunting of Hill House. That film has been remade so many times, but the first one had some spinetingling moments.

I don't really have a 'best-list', I'm not into horror anymore.

[Duran duren]

The original "Halloween" from 78, I also liked "The Witch" from a few years back.

[c.d.]

And of course Freaks. A truly bizarre movie. The final scene where the freaks get their revenge is truly frightening.

Remember, you mess with one freak, you mess with them all.

c.d.

[S.Brett]

John Carpenter’s The Fog (1980)
The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)
Theatre of Blood (1973)

Sissi Trilogy (1955-1957)

... and a lot more...

[Jon Guy]

I love Hammer and my favourite is The Devil Rides Out.
Really enjoy the great late 60s/70s classics like The Exorcist, The Omen and Rosemary's Baby. Just tonight watched 30 days of Night a vampire story set in Alaska it's really good.

Hi George

I love Hammer Films too.
In 1997 I was invited to a Hammer Films reunion at Bray Studios (the large country house set by the Thames where all Hammer Films were shot up to 1967)
Anyway, re: The Devil Rides Out, I was chatting to Patrick Mower right by the famous French Windows of the house that Chris Lee smashed through in The Mummy.
I recently found a film of the day on Youtube

[Jon Guy]

The original dracula, any of the hammer films with christopher lee, and FFC's Dracula with Gary Oldman
The first two Frankenstein films
The original King Kong
The original beauty and the beast french version
the hound of the baskervilles
The hunger
eraserhead
rosemarys baby
company of wolves
An american werewolf in london
wickerman
lair of the white worm
sante sangre
The raven
from hell
crimson peak
Gothic
The birds
Alien
The thing (carpenter)
Naked Lunch
The other
the shining
salems lot
trick or treat
tje serpent and the rainbow
The omen
The amityville horror
the haunting
pans labyrinth

of course alot more but these are my favorites.

Full disclosure... i dont like slasher or zombie films they bore the crap out of me. ive tried to get into night of tje living dead and halloween many times and i swear i fall asleep.

Great list Abby. But a big shout out to Salem`s Lot.

[Ms Diddles]

I've got to agree that you can't go wrong with the Hammer Horror classics at this time of year.

I also love Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist.

I know plenty of people who think it's rubbish, but for some reason The Blair Witch Project scared the crap out of me in the cinema back in the day.

In hindsight I think it was probably the Dolby Surround Sound (all those snapping twigs and weird barely audible noises), but I've never dared watch it again!

Edit: Don't Look Now is great too, but I'm not sure if that's horror per se.

[Wickerman]

. . .

Edit: Don't Look Now is great too, but I'm not sure if that's horror per se.

Yes, I liked that one too (Don't Look Now), another of my favourites, perhaps also borderline Horror was 'The Ninth Gate', with Johnny Depp.
Not my favourite actor, but that kind of story is right up my street, using clues in a search to solve a mystery.