Best Horror Film ?

[Drogue]

As Sloww said first, The (Stanley Kubrick) Shining is the best. It's the only film that's actually scared me, but then, I don't watch that much horror.

I'd like to see the Ring, looks good. The Exorcist was awful IMHO. It all looked so dated, so fake and all i kept thinking was "why is this scary". Almost (but not quite) as bad as the Blair Witch Project

[rah]

Alien
The Birds (I saw as a little kid, which is why I thought it was so scary)

Alien was scary because you didn't know what the creature was.
Aliens was scary because you did know what the creatures were.

[Buck Birdseed]

Oh yeah Night of the Hunter.

I also like the two first Scream movies but then they're not really about the horror as such.

[Tuberski]

The Shining movie was stupid, the miniseries was the book on film basically.

"Salem's Lot" scared the crap out of me when I was a little kid.

Same with "The Nightstalker".

Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein, also was great.

In that vein, anybody remember "Saturday the 14th"?


ACK!

[Verres]

The Birds (I saw as a little kid, which is why I thought it was so scary)

I forgot about that. I saw it a couple of years ago and still loved it. Very atmospheric...far scarier than a guy in a scream mask running around a uni building with a dagger.

[rah]

And in hindsight another reason why I think Alien was one of the more scary movies, is that we saw the special premier with all the reviewers so NOBODY knew about the infamous stomach scene. I've never see an ENTIRE movie theather crowd jump like that. There's always a few that know what's going to happen, but not that time. When we saw it the second time you could hear people whispering, "here it comes". which really takes a lot of the fun out of it.

[mindseye]

"The Wicker Man" is my favourite. Closely followed by "Don't look now". I like the more cerebral horror.

I was going to post those two (although in reverse order)! Now that's scary!

The scene at the beginning of Don't Look Now in which the photo turns red ... (shudder)

Alien will always remain one of my favorite horror films as well. The scariest monster flicks are usually the ones in which you seldom see the creature.

[SlowwHand]

Anything with Vincent Price.
Masque of The Red Death, for instance.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Azazel

"The Blair Witch Project".

I know you didnt say this was..but it too had its own spectrum of fear, that of realism not seen in many movies..almost a documentary setting ....GONE BAAAAAAADDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!

Peace

Grandpa Troll

[st_swithin]

Originally posted by Troll


I know you didnt say this was..but it too had its own spectrum of fear, that of realism not seen in many movies..almost a documentary setting ....GONE BAAAAAAADDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!

Peace

Grandpa Troll

Actually, if they'd gotten Attenborough to narrate it, it would have been truly terrifying. Or soporific. I don't know - I think half my brain might've liked it.

[Verto]

Originally posted by st_swithin


Actually, if they'd gotten Attenborough to narrate it, it would have been truly terrifying. Or soporific. I don't know - I think half my brain might've liked it.

The brain-dead part?

[Dis]

Poltergeist was damn scary when I was a little kid. And it is still pretty scary today.

I liked Candyman- though it did have that slasher movie feel to it.

Alien of course was a classic. That rates high.

The Shining was a pretty damn good film, but it really didn't scare me for some reason.

My vote for #1 goes to Alien.

[Lonestar]

Whenever I want to get the crap scared outta me, I just read the Snopes urban legends horror page in the dark, late at night.

One time my cat hopped up on my lap....scared the sh*t outta me.

The other time was when me and a bud were driving back from a game in Waco, late at night on route 6 talking about spooky Urban Legends. As I commented then, "I'm really glad we're having this conversation at midnight on a two lane highway in the middle of nowhere.".

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by Edan
A few of my favorite thriller/horror movies (some more for the atmosphere than for the scares):
The old universal classics (Mummy, Frankenstein, Invisible Man, etc)
House on Haunted Hill (The William Castle version)
Hush, Hush, Sweet Charolette
The Devil Rides Out
Phantom of The Opera (Hammer version)
The Omen
Lady in White (probably my favorite)
Silence of the Lambs

MC Hammer as the Phantom of Opera?

If I remembered anything from the play or remembered any MC Hammer songs I'd make some humorous play on words right now, but I can't. Sorry.

[Tuberski]

Well, for one thing the phantom would be spinning instead of playing an organ......

Hammer films are some of the cheesiest but funnest to watch horror movies, but they aren't scary.

ACK!