With Halloween just a week away I thought it would be interesting to have a discussion on what everyone's favorite scary/horror movies are.

I'll start it off with a few of my faves:
American Werewolf in London
Bride of Frankenstien
Alien/s
Evil Dead 2

alien, phone, a select handfull of Nightmare on elm streets, dead alive, and more but thats what i think of now

Alien(s), evil dead, as a kid I always loved nightmare on elm street films. I've heard good things about this new movie, SAW, but I've yet to see it.

She-Creature - one of the, if not the only horror movie based around mermaids

The Ring

Sleepy Hollow

any Hammer film

any of the classic Universal monster films

any Godzilla movie [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Underworld

Dagon

The Blair Witch Project - everyone mocks this film but name another horror film that had so many people who believed it really happened... the only thing that i can think of is the radio broadcasts of War of the Worlds. speaking of...

War of the Worlds radio broadcasts

28 Days Later

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - when the Dementors show up on the train and the music cuts out and the camera moves in to the Dementor opening the door is just a classic horror moment. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

also any other movie such as THEM!, Night of the Leapists, Attack of the Killer Shrews, John Carpenter's The Thing, anything by Sam Raimi, John Capenter, Fracis Ford Coppala, George Romero, M. Night Shyamalan, ect ect...

28 Days Later, simply becuase the concept was scary, and it provided mankind was scary and barbarous enough without infection.

Saw had some very tense moments.

American Werewolf in London. I remember seeing it when I was about 10, and the Zombie Nazi dream scene haunted me for years.

scream and scream 2

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The Nightmare on Elm street and old zombie movies are my favorites.
The Micheal Jackson "Thriller" video scared me a bit when I wa a young lad [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]
Now just Micheal Jackson [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Alien, the first only.
Evil Dead 2 is funny as hell.
The Ring. I accually got a bit scared when I saw it.=)

/Palm

I hope you are talking about the Japanese Ring, and not the affront that was the remake....

the first time i saw it(when it was new) John Carpenter's "The Thing" kinda scared me some [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Im talking about the remake.=P
Havent seen the original, dark water was kick ass so maybe I should try to get hold of the original somewhere.

The Thing
The first and third Nightmare on Elm Street
The Exorcist
Dead Alive
Evil Dead
The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre (although R. Lee Ermie was fucking awesome in the remake)
The first 2 Hellraiser movies

I haven't liked any recent horror movies. With todays special effects and with how nice the cameras are now they're just not as scary as back in the 70's and 80's when they were still grainy with bad sound. They were just creepier back then. Plus the stories have either been utterly terrible (House of the Dead, House on Haunted Hill, Thirteen Ghosts, Wishmaster, etc.) or they've just been very uninteresting and just not scary (The Others, The Ring, Sixth Sense, etc.). I think the golden age of horror movies is over.

EDIT: Ha! Dukester, awesome that you mentioned The Thing also. That one's my favorite of all time. Best Horror Movie Monster Ever!

Now is it scary or gross out flicks?

I mean Movies like Dead Alive had nothing Scary in them at all, it was funny as hell and was chock full of more fake limbs and blood than any other movie I've seen.

Though I think my favorite Horrors/Splatter Flicks Are:

Bram Stokers: Dracula
Evil Dead 1 n' 2
The Exorcist (Actually Scared the shit out of me...when I was 5 though :P)
Sleepy Hollow
Creepshow 1 &amp; 2 (Something about the Yeti in the first one, gets me every time I see it)
Anything Clive Barker ( Yeah, I even enjoyed the last 50 Hellrasier movies, lol)
Plan 9 From Outerspace (Oh yeah, you need to have an Ed Wood film in there too)

I know there's more but I can't remember

Yeah, not all the movies I listed actually scared me. I just listed the ones that were my favorites and fit under the Horror movie category.

I haven't seen a movie that actually "scared" me since the first Nightmare on Elm Street when I was about 16 (by "scare" I mean I lost sleep at night, not just the "boo!" jump, heart skip effect that is commonplace in the genre). I'm more looking for what everyone's favorites are in the "horror / splatter / scary " movie genre, but if the film actually scares you that's even cooler [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

I used to be scared of the Moomins.

Well AZ, I really only got scared by a few the hack n slash I just can't wade thru.

King's the Stand gave me nightmares bit time and the other King film Nightflyer did me in. Dwight Reinfield gave me the utter creeps!

I saw the movie pilot "Night Gallery" when I was about 11 and the first segment with Roddy Mcdowoll and the old mans paint scared the living shit out of me. Not just boo scared [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Oh yes Dukie, I recall those segments too. I still recall with vivad horror when a crooked real estate broker cut off this 66 yr old ladies hand in hopes she'd bleed to death and he could buy up her estate, prob was she did die, but not before she buried her hand and grew herself back with roots and dirt on her. Wow!

Okay, I know a movie that actually had lasting effects of fear, when I was about 7 or so, I watched a movie called Goulies, the movie is meant to be a comedy/horror, but there's a scene wear a guy gets attacked by a monster on the toilet, so for about a year I was scared something was gonna bite my butt while on the john, and if I was taking a wiz, would come up and rip off my wang...yeah, my imagination got the better of me on that one. [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]

Though I watched the movie again recently, it's not that great...lol, and I think there's like 4 of them.

i for one liked the american version of ring much better than the japanese, which is weird because i am a BIG fan of japanese movies, and japanese horror movies, but the japanese ring, only saw the first one, was weak as hell, and i can't see how people are convinced that it is so much better than the remake. even the storry was better in the remake.

K I forgot, I really was freaked about Body Snatchers but don't know why then.

Also I was allowed to read the Exorcist at 10 and I read all the way up to where she started fu(king herself with the crucifix and I freaked out and wanted to see a priest and my parents took the book away. Does that count?

Mothman Prophecy.

Chilling more than scary but put that sucker on a big screen with lights out and surround sound pumping....that'll get ya going.

Audition - Perhaps scary isn't the word, but its easily the most disturbing film I've ever seen.
The Thing
Saw.
Things Best Left - A 5 minute short with pratically no dialogue. Really creepy.

And while're they're not remotely scary, I've gotta add the Evil Dead Trilogy and Dusk 'til Dawn to the list.