Best Horror Film ?

[Berzerker]

Alien was scary, but not as much as Aliens. I guess the difference is that in the first the crew were just paid to scavenge, not fight aliens. In the sequel the crew was trained to fight the bugs and they were all c@cky. I'll agree that the first was meant to be more suspenseful and play on the audience's nerves in a different, more horrorful way. I guess the action in the sequel made it a better movie IMO. The scene in Aliens where they have the bugs approaching on their little detection monitors and they just keep coming but don't appear because they're on a different level so they pop the roof and look above and there they are got me jumping, hehe. Yikes...

And it had one of the best lines I've ever heard in a horror movie. Bill Paxton (I think) is whining after the rescue shuttle crashes and they're discussing how long it will be before another ship is sent - 17 DAYS! Paxton has a fit and Ripley says to him "this little girl has survived here much longer without any military training", and Paxton whines "why don't you put her in charge".

Game over, GAME OVER MAN!

Oh yeah, Punpkinhead was a good horror movie. Scream was good too...

[Edan]

Originally posted by Zero
alien was one fo the early movies that pioneered trapped in an enviornment, killer on the loose type of movies.

You got to be kidding me. That was old when it was done in the '40s with Ten Little Indians.

[Berzerker]

Pitch Black was good too, but kind of an Aliens rip-off.

Another great line from Aliens: Vasquez, the latina buff chick, is doing pull-ups and Bill Paxton asks here if anyone ever mistook her for a man. Vasquez says no, has anyone ever mistaken you for a man?

[self biased]

two words: "dead alive." directed by none other than peter jackson. where else will you find a sumatran rat monkey?

[Master Zen]

The Exorcist, The Shining and Alien have been the only three movies to scare the everliving crap out of me when I first watched them.

As far as horror series go, Hellraiser wins hands down if only because the first two were just too damn good.

[Jaguar]

The Omen

[st_swithin]

Yeah, but Hellraiser 3 and 4 were CRAP with a capital "CRAP".

[chequita guevara]

Halloween
Alien
Night of the Living Dead

But I'm really a sucker for the classics.

Dracula
The Wolfman
Frankenstein
The Thing
The Blob
The Creature From the Black Lagoon
Godzilla
etc.

[Master Zen]

Originally posted by st_swithin
Yeah, but Hellraiser 3 and 4 were CRAP with a capital "CRAP".

Very true. That series needs Clive Barker back to make it worthwhile again.

[st_swithin]

Originally posted by Master Zen
Very true. That series needs Clive Barker back to make it worthwhile again.

I don't know if it needs the creator's hand to revive it or if it should just be allowed to fade into obscurity. He's written so many other good novels; the Hellraiser series was entirely based on a short story. So was Candyman, which was sequeled ad nauseum.

[Jac de Molay]

The Exorcist is my personal favorite. A great book and movie with a lot of underlying symbolism.

The first Halloween was great too.

[Verres]

Hellraiser I
Devil's Advocate
The Wickerman
The Exorcist (although a remake with modern special effects would be even better)
My Little Eye
Rosemary's Baby

[Lefty Scaevola]

Night of the Hunter, Robert Mitchum version.

[Az]

Alien is indeed a horror movie, no doubt about that. And yes, it is VERY scary.

But the scarriest movie I've ever seen is this movie that is filmed by a videocamera, and is about a bunch of people attacked by aliens. I think it was made after "The Blair Witch Project". It had a very real feel to in and it indeed was horrifying. in a good way.

[st_swithin]

Tom and Pam's home video?