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Many Moons Ago I started a thread about the 'Chessiest Horror Movie Ever' - and I got a HUGE response. There were movies mentioned that I had never heard of (and I foolishly considered myself a bad movie fan!).
Now I would like to start a new thread: What do you feel is the BEST horror movie(s) of all time? - Or, what is your favorite horror movie If you prefer.
My top two are:
1) Masque of the Red Death
2) Pit and Pendulum
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Many Moons Ago I started a thread about the 'Chessiest Horror Movie Ever' - and I got a HUGE response. There were movies mentioned that I had never heard of (and I foolishly considered myself a bad movie fan!).
Now I would like to start a new thread: What do you feel is the BEST horror movie(s) of all time? - Or, what is your favorite horror movie If you prefer.
My top two are:
1) Masque of the Red Death
2) Pit and Pendulum
1) ALIEN
At the age of 16 I snuck out the house to go watch the KOZZ Midnight Movies, and this was the movie being played. 30 years later I still have "ALIEN" dreams about every quarter. Now that is an impact!
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I'm not sure I believe in a single best horror movie. Still my top votes would probably be
Scariest:
The Ring (American version), In the Mouth of Madness (John Carpenter), Halloween (the original), and the Haunting
Best rewatch value:
The Ring, The Thing, Jaws, Evil Dead, Alien
Most influentiual:
Jaws, Alien
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I'm not sure I believe in a single best horror movie. Still my top votes would probably be
Scariest:
The Ring (American version), In the Mouth of Madness (John Carpenter), Halloween (the original), and the HauntingBest rewatch value:
The Ring, The Thing, Jaws, Evil Dead, AlienMost influentiual:
Jaws, Alien
Evil Dead... awesome!
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I'm not sure I believe in a single best horror movie. Still my top votes would probably be
Scariest:
The Ring (American version), In the Mouth of Madness (John Carpenter), Halloween (the original), and the HauntingBest rewatch value:
The Ring, The Thing, Jaws, Evil Dead, AlienMost influentiual:
Jaws, AlienEvil Dead... awesome!
Alien, In the Mouth of Madness (Hugely underated) and the Evil Dead trilogy are all great movies! The Ring is a bit too PG13 for me, Jaws? I have never considered Jaws a horror movie before. Which 'The Thing' I wonder? The 50's version or the John Carpenter version? Both are really good for different reasons. Halloween and Halloween 2 are my favorite 'slasher flicks' - though the rest do suck (Why wont the believe that man when he says: 'Michael Myers is in this town!'?). Though I kind of liked the Rob Zombie redo of Halloween as well.
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Alien, In the Mouth of Madness (Hugely underated) and the Evil Dead trilogy are all great movies! The Ring is a bit too PG13 for me, Jaws? I have never considered Jaws a horror movie before. Which 'The Thing' I wonder? The 50's version or the John Carpenter version?
John Carpenter's The Thing. The 1951 film is actually titled "The Thing from another World."
The genre into which the film Jaws falls is an interesting question. It could be considered drama but it is also properly regarded as horror. It is, granted, not the horror of the supernatural, but the genuine horror of a natural monster. Consider the shark in the movie. It kills, ruthlessly, without pity - slaying even children. It remains unseen for the majority of the movie. One sees the blood and the savagery, but for most of the movie one does not see the beast doing the killing. It is hidden, not by darkness, but by water. The movie invokes, initially, the fear of the unknown, then the fear of nature and then finally the helpless fear of isolation. We tend not to think of it as horror only because it all happens in the bright light of day - but in that it actually becomes worse for while everyone is scared of the dark, we generally feel safe when the sun is shining bright. If you doubt that Jaws is a classical horror story, consider two final thoughts - the music introducing the shark and the number of people made afraid to go swimming after watching the movie.
The Ring (American version), In the Mouth of Madness (John Carpenter),
When I read the subject line, I was going to post this one.
In the Mouth of Madness certainly is a great Lovecraftian movie without actually being directly tied to his works.
"The Thing" (John Carpenter's) is one of my favourites too. You can shake your head at the lack of character development but it has a great sense of atmosphere and action, lots of surprises and a well done ending.
"The Shining" is another favourite for similar reasons.
"Alien" has become iconic...in fact annoyingly so. I'm getting tired of seeing the same spaceship and crew over and over again. Brilliant in and of it's own right though.
"Aliens" isn't really a horror movie per se but I kind of link it with the other one and then pretend the others didn't happen.
"Night of the Living Dead", "Dawn of the Dead" are cool films; they created a sense of what zombies are for us.
"Evil Dead" absolutely yes, and it's little sequels too. The first was creepy but kind of funny, the other two were just plain funny.
"Silent Hill" has a number of failings but it's a very cool idea. I have to admit that part of my liking for it was that I had very low expectations and just watched it for lack of something better to do and because I got a deal on getting it. (minor irritations included the husband being in the film at all--I kept thinking "I get the idea, you don't need to hit me over the head with this character")
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Ahh, a subject close to my heart.
It's hard to separate best from favorite.
The Best: (these are the best of their particular sub-genre IMHO)
Alien (Space Suspense)
Event Horizon (Space Supernatural)
The Exorcist (Supernatural)
Saw (Torture Porn)
Friday the 13th (Slasher)
My Faves.
Phantasm Quadrilogy
Prince of Darkness
The Hills Have Eyes (remake)
The Thing (remake)
Texas Chainsaw (Jessica Biel version)
Darkness Falls
Final Destination series
My lists change occasionally, but this is the core.
