Your favorite horror flick? Mine has always been the Excorcist. So much of that was just disturbing as Hell. Slasher films bore me.
Your favorite horror flick? Mine has always been the Excorcist. So much of that was just disturbing as Hell. Slasher films bore me.
"The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind."
-Humphrey Bogart
"Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink."
-Lady Astor to Winston Churchill
"Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it."
-His reply
"If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs."
-David Daye
I really liked "Sixth Sense." But that's perhaps not a true horror film.
"Psycho" is pretty much unbeatable, especially given the circumstances of the time. Hitchcock not only made a masterful scary flick - he redefined the limits in movies.
Nice, Jay! I LOVE the Sixth Sense. I can't really pick a favorite, but horror movies are my favorite genre... So here's a mini-list:
1) Exorcist
2) The Others
3) The Blair Witch Project
4) The Ring
5) Any of the Halloween movies (Michael Meyers is the only one who can scare the hell out of me.)
6) Darkness Falls
7) Exorcist III (Part II shouldn't have even been made)
8- Pet Cemetery
I'll remember more I'm sure.. lol
I'll make a list of course - I hate picking one fave.
1) The Haunting - Not the Jan De Bont abomination with Liam Niesen and Catherine Zeta Jones (although I just about always enjoy Owen Wilson) but the 60's Robert Wise movie. A fine adaption of a fine novel by Shirley Jackson.
2) Romero's Dead Trilogy - Night. Dawn. Day. You must make preparations for when hell fills up, the dead will walk again.
3) For fun, Return of the Living Dead - Linnea Quigley nude in the cemetary. "Send more paramedics."
4) Old Universal horror - Dracula with Lugosi. Bride of Frankenstein. Invisible Man. Creature. Chaney, Jr. I could go on...
5) Hammer horror - modernizations of the old Universal bits. Great Cushing and Christopher Lee movies.
6) This list is not in any order. I say that because perhaps my fave (gasp) is John Carpenter's The Thing. I love the original Thing from Another World with James Arness (Gunsmoke) as giant walking carrot. But this is nihilism that has rarely been equalled. Set in the arctic versus a menace that threatens to turn your very cells against you - the ultimate paranoia. I will be watching this again tonight.
7) Old Carpenter - Halloween was the original Blair Witch - an indie project that blew everyone away. The Fog. Prince of Darkness. He lost his touch, but Carpenter provided enough for several repeated viewings.
The Shining - Sure King fans don't like the Kubrick treatment, but damned if this movie does not have the spookiest shit I've ever seen. The twins. The lady in the tub. The masquerade ball. The thought of coitus with Shelly Duvall. Yikes! All work and no play makes afx a dull boy.
9) Exorcist - seminal horror. If only I could have been brought up Catholic to appreciate it more (damn Southern Baptists - no wonder I'm fat!).
10) And oh yes, here's a fine movie to end the list with. Night of the Demon (or Curse of the Demon). A great old movie that too few people have seen, with a wonderful representation of demons from the woodcuts of old.
I could go on - I'm sure there's a hundred that I've forgotten.
-afx
Damn I forgot the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre! And the Evil Dead trilogy! And Stuart Gordon's work. Argh. Too many movies - not enough popcorn.
Last edited by afxturnip; 10-23-2004 at 04:35 PM. Reason: I forgot!
That's funny - I just watched it today and later this evening a chipmunk/squirrel was scratching around on the roof eves.Originally Posted by Sparkell
Had me looking up at the ceiling going "hmmmmmmm"
That said though, I thought it a little odd in a way.
I could understand the cop being drowned by the murderous "husband" ghost, but it didn't make sense to me why the other two ghosts would go around killing people.
It is almost presented as her fault for
1) falling in love with another
2) getting her husband mad enough to kill her
3) it is her fault that the husband committed suicide, and
4) it is she who goes slinking around in dark corners killing other people
5) her fault the son is killed
Now admittedly, she had a six pack short of a beer, but she did not perform the violence that lead to the curse, but yet she was practically presented as the one responsible for it all, and she was the one who perpetrated the continued violence against people as the manifestation of the curse.
Other than some wonderful story telling and a good make-your-skin crawl creepfest, the above just left me a touch confused. If viewed as a morality play, then it was a "woman know your place or all hell will break loose" story.
One of My favorite horror films is Begotten, it's about metaphysics, Creation, the Death of God and the birth of a demon. Filmed in deep, rich black and white. It is permeated with the sensations of a particularly vivid and perverse dream and a fully engrossing hallucination. Not really your average cup of tea, it has no dialog and is a short but scary as hell movie!!
Let's not forget the Silence of The Lambs for all the unbridled savagery on display, what is shrewd, significant and hopeful about Silence of the Lambs is the way it proves that a movie can be unnerving, mercilessly scary, and mercifully humane at the same time. I know it's not your average pedestrian horror film but it sure creeped me out!
OK, these next movies aren't even rated R but they were some my first horrific cinematic experiences as a child and they still scare me today! Yes, this is sad but true, Stephen Kings the Cat's Eye and Little Monsters with Fred Savage!
Maybe someday I'll get over it!
my favortes are Silence of the lamb and Exorcist.
Donnie Darko!!!!!!!!!
Hmm, just about all of them that actually have a plot and aren't full of the stupid gore.
I love the movies with the suspense and mystery. That usually makes the not horror, but in a few cases the co-mingle.
But one of my all time favs is "The Birds". That movie to this day still scares the hell outta me.
Oh, and any movies that make you jump for the unexpectedness of a scene.
Kitana
The Shining
Exorcist
The first 2 Hellraisers
The Ring
I love horror movies!
"Have you ever been to American wedding? Where is the vodka, where's marinated herring?" - GB
"And do the cats give a shit? No, they do not. Why? Because they're cats."-from The Onion
Originally Posted by Mia M
I'm suprised it hasn't been mentioned yet. My all time favorite...
The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre![]()
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It has an extra creepy quality if you live near any old farmhouses.
Another good one for just all out blood and gore...Dead Alive.
For humor w/horror...Evil Dead 1&2 and Armies of Darkness.
Psycho and The Shining for being just plain eerie.
On the lighter, happier side...The Nightmare before Christmas![]()





Alien/Aliens
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Southerland)
Psycho
28 Days Later and several others
I loved going to strip clubs; I actually made some friends there. Now things are different for the clubs and for me. As a result I am not as happy.
Customers are not entitled to grope, disrespect, or rob strippers. This is their job, not their hobby, and they all need income. Clubs are not just some erotic show for guys to view while drinking.
NOTE: anything I post here, outside of a direct quote, is my opinion only, which I am entitled to. Take it for what you estimate it is worth.
This isn't by any means a complete list or even an in order list, just what popped into my head at this moment
- Evil dead 2
- Army of darkness
- Hellraiser 1&2
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre(the original)
- Psycho
- The birds
- The Exorcist
- The Car
- Salem's Lot
I can think of one or two photo's on here that would make a good avatar...Originally Posted by Sparkell





And they are scarey?Originally Posted by Deogol
I loved going to strip clubs; I actually made some friends there. Now things are different for the clubs and for me. As a result I am not as happy.
Customers are not entitled to grope, disrespect, or rob strippers. This is their job, not their hobby, and they all need income. Clubs are not just some erotic show for guys to view while drinking.
NOTE: anything I post here, outside of a direct quote, is my opinion only, which I am entitled to. Take it for what you estimate it is worth.
Lets see here..........in no order...
1.Evil Dead 2
2.Army Of Darkness
3. Final Destination
4. Rear Window (classic but not QUITE horror)
5. Alien (all were good but the first was a true horror film)
6. House of 1000 corpses (campy as hell but it was ment to be)
7. 8mm (if silence of the lambs can be conciderd horror, so can this, monster and all)
8. Hellrasier and Hellbound
9. Candyman
10. And COME ON.........Nightmare On Elm Steet
And how bout one REALY odd one...Bubba Ho-Tep
LOL actually Philly... I LOVE the Nightmare on Elm Street series. But, I was never afraid of it. I just didn't consider them scary. Maybe it was all of Freddy's jokes and wisecracks, but I do love that guy. LOL
I loved Candyman and Candyman II.
As for "House of 1000 Corpses", I really expected something a little bit more from Rob. It wasn't very well put-together, and to me it didn't seem like it had much of a plot. Just blood & guts.
I also forgot one.. Evil Dead (The Original) scared the hell out of me. It had something to do with the whole woods scene. ::shiver::
"House" was more of a tribute to 70's horror flix from what I saw, and I think thats why I liked it.....me being old and stuff.
The Omen
"Have you ever been to American wedding? Where is the vodka, where's marinated herring?" - GB
"And do the cats give a shit? No, they do not. Why? Because they're cats."-from The Onion
Originally Posted by Mia M
Does Glitter (Mariah Carey) count? My all time fave is Hellraiser 2...the maggots and razor blades??? The ring was good, the first Jeepers Creepers, love the Nightmare on Elmstreet series, The Shining, Misery, I know there's so many more...
The Omen part one and Damien - The Omen part 2
Oh, and Amityville Horror
And lets not forget Martha Stewart's Decorating programs
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.![]()
LOL Hottie, I love Martha!!!
Anyway, I just watched the scariest movie of all time yesterday. It's a new one calles "Saved" and it has Mandy Moore and Makuly Culkin in it. I was so terrified through the whole thing, I was sitting on the couch in a dead panic.
And I love "Bubba-Ho-Tep", but then again I love all the "Ash" movies too. There's just something about Bruce Cambell I like.
Oh, and Are we forgetting the "Mistress of the Dark"? What about the Elvira movies?
Kitana




It's not really a horror film, but "Kill Bill" (vol's 1 & 2) are my new handbooks for living!
The sex was so good, the neighbors needed a cigarette!
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