Suggest a good horror movie

[Varwnos]

Ill try Wolf creek

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Originally posted by Snotty
Sean of the dead

again, its horror/comedy

You got a bit of red on you there.

[Berzerker]

its shaun of the dead

Halloween III (has nothing to do with I and II but still good)

The one with the masks for children God that movie sucked

Aliens is the best horror movie I've seen

"This little girl has survived for weeks without military training"

Bill Paxton - "Then put her in charge"

Game over, game over Man

[Varwnos]

Ok, i saw wolf creek.

Lets just say that if it had never been filmed, no one would miss it...

[our_man]

Sunshine

[Snotty]

Todays nuts recommends grindhouse, day of the dead, hostel part 2, the strangers, 30 days of night, halloween, dead silence, saw 4 and resident evil extinction.

oh yeah they havent been released yet, oops

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by Berzerker
Aliens is the best horror movie I've seen

Alien is the best horror movie ever made.

Aliens is the best action movie ever made.

[bipolarbear]

Originally posted by Guynemer
Predator is the best action movie ever made.

[Barnabas]

Alien

[Varwnos]

I've already seen Alien

[MLeonard]

ok... I only logged in to check a private message I had, but couldn't resist this thread.

I'm having trouble understanding what everyone's idea of a "horror" film is so far. I love Alien, but there are far better horror movies out there.

The newer ones mentioned are simply gore-fests with no thought whatsoever put into them. However out of the newer ones (read in the past 5 years) I throughoughly enjoyed:

Grindhouse
28 Days Later
Cabin Fever (Eli Roth, also director of Hostel)
House of Wax (Remake - some very clever and gory deaths, climaxing with Paris Hilton's)

Now, I think the 70s and early 80s was easily the best era for horror movies that had great gore; both tongue-in-cheek and truly gross:

Basically anything directed by Dario Argento or George Romero:
Demons, Demons II
Suspiria (perhaps the most beautiful horror movie ever made)
Deep Red (Profondo Rosso)
Opera
Dawn of the Dead et. al.

Friday The 13th Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7 & Freddy Vs. Jason

Most of the Nightmare On Elm Street series

Others:
Sleepaway Camp Trilogy
The Shining
Rosemary's Baby
Audition
Last House on the Left
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Comedy/Horror related:
Evil Dead Series, including Army of Darkness
Creepshow (Leslie Nielsen and Ted Danson's segment is one of the best in this compilation)

[bipolarbear]

The Friday the 13th stuff really starts to drag after number 1. Like my best friend and I used to rent them ironically, and spend the whole whole night cracking up mocking the things. I can't speak for Nightmare on Elm Street as I'm not acquainted with that series, though in general I've found it's kills and themes to be more imaginative because 95% of them are in dreamland.

As long as we're bringing up the big names of modern Horror, the first Halloween movie is classic.

One of my favorites, more due to thematic elements is the Hellraiser series. It's very...metal. Obviously there is an abundance of satanic material, but also a very good use of silence to convey tension and perturb the audience. As with the Nightmare on Elm Street series, or what I have seen of it, there is much more creativity involved as compared to your garden variety slasher which would be closer to an interrupted gore film than an actual horror movie.

In conclusion, Hellraiser > Friday The 13th.

[SpencerH]

alien
Texas chainsaw massacre (the original)
Halloween
Jaws
Dawn of the dead (the original in B & W)
Carrie
Some movie about a bunch of women who go spelunking (it wasnt up to the level of the others i mentioned but it was pretty good)
Saw was interesting

[DinoDoc]

Not a movie but I would suggest the Supernatural TV series if you're looking for good horror.

[bipolarbear]

Originally posted by SpencerH
alien
Texas chainsaw massacre (the original)
Halloween
Jaws
Dawn of the dead (the original in B & W)
Carrie
Some movie about a bunch of women who go spelunking (it wasnt up to the level of the others i mentioned but it was pretty good)
Saw was interesting

To be persnickety, Saw was more of a psychological thriller, and Jaws was, imo, suspense, with some really cool action sequences. I'm not sure how horror is defined in terms of cinema but I feel like there should be some elements of the macabre for it to qualify for the strict definition of horror.