Post the best horror movies in your opinion.

When Harry Met Sally

The Old "Night of the Living Dead" for all time creepiness
The NEW" Dawn of the Dead" for pure shock value
"Prophecy" for Christopher Walken's Dark Angel Gabriel (The Greatest charecter actor Evar)
"Candyman"Because I Love Virginia Madsen and you cant beat the aura that surrounds this film
"The Serpent and the Rainbow" especially for the scene where Bill Pul;lman is being buried alive
and last but most certainly not least..
"Angelheart" because Bobby D is the Man as Louis Cyphere

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@TravisBickle I've seen all but angelheart and the serpent of the rainbow, good movies.

Watched one called ' The last exorcism' Was really great, flip flopped you into a wtf at the end and made you keep guessing. Its domeepentary style, and it works that 'feels real' aspect.

The Poughkeepsie Tapes.

Philosophy of a Knife.

The Human Centipede, although they really should have called it "The Human Hexapede," or at best "The Human Dodecapede."

My Aunt was a horror (and just about any other kind of) movie nut, and would take me to the drive in almost every weekend since I was about 7 years old. Saw every bad (and every once in a while good) horror movie that came out in the mid '70's to early '80's. Got so used to them, nothing ever scared me. Have great memories of eatign a bucket of KFC while watching the original "Dawn of the Dead". Out of all those hokey old movies, I always liked the original "Phantasm", seeing that as a kid on the drive in screen was quite a trip. "The Exorcist" also had some great freaky scenes, I don't think that one has ever been topped.

But for some reason, after becoming so used to these horror movies that I never even jumped at anything, one movie freaked me the meep out, and it was on TV. It was a little film called "Trilogy of Terror", and it consisted of three stories, all starring an actress named Karen Black. The 3rd movie of the set was about a little "Zuni" doll (at least I think that's what it was called), about 8 to 10 inches tall, looked like a caricature of an African native, with a little spear, and a gold belt or necklace. Karen Black gets it in the mail, and breaks the belt or necklace, which brings the doll to life. It starts running around her apartment, stabbing her with the little spear, and making an ungodly noise, and I think it was the noise that got me. I was about 10 years old, and that meep scared the meep out of me, it's the only movie that ever did, or ever has to this day. No idea what it was about that doll, but I'm 46 years old now, and still have never watched this movie.

I like the old ones. The Birds was creepy and when was the last time that a horror movie could creep you out every time you went out of the house for months?

I tried to watch that one, but twenty minutes in i'm so meeping bored that i started playing sudoku. @MstrLance @hoyaguru Haha fried chicken and zombies sounds like an interesting combination. I think i saw the movie with the zuni doll, i'll have to check and see. @DookaDooka Those sound pretty awesome. I'll have to watch em' here soon. I really enjoy foreign horror, Ju-on was a great movie, much better than the american version the grudge.

If you can read, "the Birds" is better as a short story.

"This Island Earth" has always been good for me.

"War of the Worlds", the George Pal version, was always a thriller for me.

"Invasion of the Saucermen", featuring a 30 year old Frank Gorden (the Original "Riddler" from Batman) as a teenager delinquent, finds aliens that get you drunk on Lover's Lane. Best use of cabbage, ever.

"Comedy of Terrors", with Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, and Basil Rathbone. "She is not Dead, But Sleeping..."

"In the Mouth of Madness", about an author whom so many believe in, his writings become true. (think LoveCraft)

Event Horizon was cool.

Yeah that war of the worlds, SOOOO much better than tom cruise running around like a meep bag. :D @BeachGoat @meepbox what is even horizon about i've heard OF it, but never anything about it.

I couldn't finish Event Horizon!

Did you scream like a girl? lol.@bobacus

Deadly Friend is pretty awesome, but mostly because I wanted to touch the dead girl's boobies when I was a kid.

Hmn. Not touching that one.@JohnLenin

The Haunting (the '63 version)
Psycho (especially when those meep violins go off as the cop is walking up the stairs, and 'mother' attacks)
Alien

Psycho is a meep good movie, love it. Haunting was pretty good, can't remember too well, haven't seen the newer one. Alien which one?@pete56

Alien is the title of a specific film. ffs.

@anothermonkeyenslaved

Yes it is, i was asking if you meant just the first one, or the others too? Signourney Weaver ones yes?@JohnLenin

Well, I didn't suggest it in the first place, but anything other than the first Alien film is bullmeep. The director's cut of the third is okay, though.

I've only seen the first one. Don't remember it at all though. I'll take another look. @JohnLenin

Phantasm.
The tall man and those meeping metal spheres scared the meep out of me.

@hoyaguru I think we grew up in the same neighborhood. During my childhood, that last "Trilogy of Terror" story inspired a weird family practice (excepting my father, who is just too cool for such nonsense) where we would chase each other around the house making that little doll's noise, while pantomiming the stabbing. Catch us in the right mood, and you can still witness this dysfunctional ritual.

By and large horror films simply do not work for me. I admit that they can startle and make me flinch at "not in the eye ... again." But I can't honestly say I feel the terror. These films are essentially over for me as soon as I'm introduced to the cast of characters.

I have nothing but contempt for essentially every character in them. The "victims," of whatever terrifying nemesis, appear to be uniformly incompetent at life--I can't suspend my disbelief that all of them had not sucmeepbed to a self inflicted lethal dose of plastic bag before they met some farcical walking butchery tool.

What happens to me, is I recognize the "victims" to be so very much what they are cast as, that my loathing for them has passed murder, and moved to a place in my soul where considering their death--considering them at all--inspires sufficient resentment that I'd rather not have them on my radar at all. So when meeping Michael or Freddy show up in these stories and force these assholes on my attention, I become (in my minds eye) for Michael and/or Freddy, what Michael and/or Freddy are to their victims.

These meepy minions of evil, from the other side of death, who return to avenge the abridgment of their killing sprees, have literally no concept of what "deep and abiding loathing" really means. They are meeping toddlers in any world where an enduring hatred for stupid grants an undying and irresistible capacity to inflict meaningless suffering. They are simply no match for the LOki.

So, the movies where I found myself invested in the "holy meep, I'm meeped!" place? Mostly science fiction horror--and I don't mean supernatural horror dressed up in science fiction. I think it's because the "reality" of science fiction is more plausible to me than the supernatural. It's the plausibility thing that makes zombie films fail too.

Oh? A virus is reanimating dead people? And these undead ... what? Are stupid and want to kill/eat the living? Well, as long as they confine themselves to killing/eating the living stupids, I can't be bothered. What's that you say? They hate the living? They hate us and that's what they're on about? And they're stupid. Huh. (see "meepy minions" above.)

So, the list:
The original "The Blob." I know I would have touched it.
The first "Alien" movie. I bow to the badass nature of the beast (when there are no guns around).
John Carpenter's "The Thing." Seriously. I don't like thinking about it.

They are re doing the Thing, and even though CGI is all cool now, there will be no Kurt Russell. "You've got to be meeping kidding me...."

I really love horror movies and my suspension of disbelief for this specific genre is gleefully harbored. Some scary movies I've recently enjoyed:

8213: Gacy House

Exorcismus

Insidious

I'm reading House of Leaves too. Book scares are different from movie scares and I heart them both in different ways. Scariest book ever:

The Girl Next Door

There is a chance of a virus that is very similar to zombie virus. There are a lot of things that can totally meep people up and i hope that someday someone discovers this virus and unleashes it. While i don't WANT innocent people to die. I feel that in the long run, no one is innocent and we all deserve it for meeping up the planet. I agree with the stupidity of the victims though, but i still find it fun to watch.@LOki @Heather Those first three are on my list to be watched. I'm excited for them, i hope they are not dissapointments.

Don't forget "Saucermen"...well worth the five part bullmeep.

Duly noted :D @BeachGoat

SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN...starring Vincent Price,Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee...."69 or "70..really freaked me out when I was a wee lad..

Ooh yeah definately on my watch again list. :)

Pretty much anything by Hammer Studios during the '50s golden years. The Frankenstein series with Peter Cushing is filled with cheesy Halloween goodness.

Alien, the original one. I seem to remember leaving the theatre with an armrest clutched in my hand.
...and the original 'The Thing' had James Arness as the psychotic carrot from Mars. Marshall Dillon minus Doc ,Festus, and Miss Kitty.
The Haunting scared the meep out of me at 11 years old, alone at home,with just the TV lighting the place. I've had much respect for that movie ever since,
plus there's never, to my thinking, been a better, more sinister opener for a book than :
"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids ar supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone."

yeah, Phantasm was a way cool, way original scaryflick.

Sounds like it will watch.

Phantasm was straight meeped up for my 12 year old self.

Outpost (2008)

@bobacus

I have to vote again for Phantsm. I was 14 when it came out (1979), about the same age as the protagonist, and it really freaked me the meep out. The big guy (Angus Scrimm, what a name) saying "Boyyyy", the metal spheres flying around with little knives coming out, sticking to a guy's head, then the drill bit coming out, drilling in, and sucking out his blood...What the meep was going on in that movie? They don't make them like that any more. If I saw it now, I'd probably roll my eyes at the cheesey special effects, but back then it was way over the top. They made a couple of sequals years later, but I don't think they were any good.

For some real chills, you can't beat The Shining, and reading the book is even better. Stephen King just had a book out recently called "Duma Key" that really reminded me of The Shining, not story-wise, but scare-wise, if you liked the description of the old lady in the tub in the Shining, check out Duma Key.

The original "The Howling" was pretty neat, and I wish I had been able to see "The Thing" (Kurt Russell version) in the theater. If I remember right, The Thing came out the same week as "E.T.", and no one went to see it. The new one (prequel?) comes out this weekend, I'll have to see if CGI can hold up to the practical effects of the original.

my favorites are pretty much anything stephen king (my personal favorites, however, are the shining and carrie). the original halloween is great too. but not that bullmeep remake rob zombie did. meep him, he has no business directing films.

Audition
The Bad Seed
Funny Games
Hellraiser
The Changeling (the George C Scott one from 1980)
Orphanage (spanish subtitles)
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"The Thing"...Ha ahahahaha...

Well, Dang!

The Shining

Psycho

The Lost Boys

No reason, no rationale, just my favorites. Gory doesn't do it for me...I prefer psychological thrillers/suspense. In my humble opinion, these are tops.

BTW, original story for "The Thing" is called "Who Goes There?". Will scare the meat off yer bones.

I love you pepper lol. Those three are real favorites. @Pepper

Near Dark

Bad Taste
Tales From The Crypt (Movies and TV Series)
The 6th Sense
Army Of Darkness (Living Dead Series)
IT (The Evil Clown)
Pet Semetary

I'm surprised the Bad Seed got named, was going to add that but thought it might be too old school. Good one Heather.

The Fly (1st one)
AvP
The Mist (2007)

I mean Army of Darkness as in Evil Dead Series

meep! How could I have forgotten Todd Browning's 'Freaks' , and
'Reanimator', and the follow-up to it..which name I can't remember..

@pete56

meep! How could I have forgotten Todd Browning's 'Freaks' , and 'Reanimator', and the follow-up to it..which name I can't remember..

There were two, Bride of Re-Animator and Beyond Re-Animator. I loved the original too.

Yup-! Thems is the ones.
Thanks!... was 'beyond...' the one where he was futzing around with
a particular gland, that showed 'reality' beyond what we normally see?
Gotta bail.. work beckons... I'll findout later.

in no particular order:

kubricks The Shining
The Exorcist (1973)
The Omen trilogy
Event Horizon
Poltergeist
The Mist (stephen king)
An american werewolf in london
carpenters The thing (I am secretly looking forward to the new one, apparently a prequel rather than an all out remake)
Jaws
rosemary's baby
Alien 1 and 2
predator
Stephen Kings 1990 TV film IT
dusk til dawn (clooneys finest hour imho)
lost boys

"From Beyond" is an H P Lovecraft based tale about work on the pineal gland. Not quite as good as the story, but fun effects.

The "Re-animator" series are also based on Lovecraft. Hard to beat the master.

@pete56

Yup-! Thems is the ones. Thanks!... was 'beyond...' the one where he was futzing around with a particular gland, that showed 'reality' beyond what we normally see? Gotta bail.. work beckons... I'll findout later.

@r0b0c0p @nurglets @BeachGoat I've seen twenty of the above mentioned films, will check out the rest. I found a jester hat kit. I have a new way to do my zombie look. :D Some of you old meeps and young, ought to be dressing up. Anyone else prepared?

I just love all the little goblins coming to the door & giving them goodies. I set up the big blacklight, they always like that.

Tango puppy always used to just adore the kids coming in their costumes...this will be the first year in 16 without her to bark & tell us that they're on the way up the path...

We may just shut off all the lights and hide.

^Somebody puppy this fukker.