Horror Movie Fans, let's have discussions...

I used to be a big horror movie fan, but the genre got really old for me at some point. I rarely watch them, nowadays. Some of these aren't even really "horror movies" in the modern sense. But they're still classics.

Evil Dead
Evil Dead II
Alien
The Fly
Shining


I'm sure there are tons more.

 

I have to agree. I think that's when I stopped watching them, when I realized how little thought goes into making most them.

Zombieland was more of a comedy to me than anything else. Great movie, no matter what genre, though.

 

Alien is awesome. I do prefer Aliens though. Horror and an action movie together but with the best of both genres.

 

I literally remember cheering in my living room when that movie ended. That last scene alone was pure poetry.

What a great movie. I'm watching it tomorrow.

I remember having a hard time finding it on DVD. I had to pay $27 for my copy. Hopefully they've reissued it since then.

 

I do too, but I've always considered Aliens to be an action film, not a horror movie.

 

I've been meaning to check this one out. I'm a Firefly/Serenity fan, so anything Nathan Fillion related has my interest (except Castle).

 

There was a time when - Candyman - was far & away THE most favorite Horror movie
among blacks.Now why would that be.
Umm ... let be take a stab here.
The Villain is a Black Dude.
The movie plays into Urban Myth territory.
Blacks still by and large play right into urban myth or what was Boogeyman
stereotypes or being Spooked.What made Stepin Fetchit {1st Black Hollywood Millionaire}
What still exists to large degree in Haiti and many sections of Black
parishes in New Orleans.The belief in Voodoo or what Mickey Rourke witnessed in
- Angel Heart - {1987}

 

Well it's main genre would be action to be sure. However, movies rarely exist in just one.

 

Oh crap......... Jaws. How could I forget Jaws?

 

I agree with that.

 

It's taken me awhile but here are a few of my favs:
"Halloween"
"Dawn of the Dead"(the remake - dang, those zombies moved fast!)
"Zombieland"(yes it's more comedy, but I'll include it , 'cause I loved it)
"The Exorcist"(that movie scared the crap outta me)
"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"(does anybody doubt that there are possibly people like this running around?)
"The Amityville Horror"(where the eff did that money go?!)
"The Night of the Living Dead"(the one that started it all, another movie that scared the crap outta me!)
Just about any other zombie movie

 

I forgot to include "Scanners". How could I forget that one?

 

Um ... because you were Scared Silly.

Therefore a popular Scared Silly Flick wood bee :

- The Live Ghost - Laurel & Hardy Short { 1934 } featuring the great Comic
villain Walter Long.There are NO great examples today of mean,gruff,tough guys
like Walter Long.Long was so mean, I think he probably scared most those on the set.
His meanness was so dynamic and real,it could actually take one's appetite away.
Making for great foildom.Add an already naturally scaredy kat duo of Laurel & Hardy
and there's no mistaking sparks start to fly.
However this isn't Horror.

- Hellraiser - {1987} was the movie that once I got over it's sheer over-the-top
gruesomeness,I learned how to handle such Hellbound horror.Up until that movie
I was reluctant to handle such gore.I rationalized that If I could handle that movie,
no other movie could possibly be as scarey.

On another note there are movies that are so Creepy I still have a hard time handling.
Like the seldom talked about John Frankenheimer thriller starring an unbeliavable
performance by Rock Hudson - Seconds - {1966} which in my mind to this day has
THE Most Haunting and penetrating Score of any movie,ever made.That Score could
cause me to literally feel nauseous and have a nightmare.The closing scene of the movie
is so disturbing in it's presentation I have a hard time handling.To this day it
unnerves me greatly.In fact I really cannot watch it.Just thinking about it gives me
the willies.

 

All great movies!!!

 

I am and always have been absolutely terrified of horror films! Every time I watch them, no matter how stupid it is...well with the exception of say Killer Clowns from Outer Space LOL...I have a pillow on hand to cover my face.

I have been getting more and more interested in watching classic scary movies though, but I still get the creeps at night that something's under my bed or in my closet, like I am nine years old again and just saw Nightmare on Elm street, or the Exorcist, or The Ring! Eep! >.<!

What I absolutely cannot watch though are gore films, where it's just all about the blood and guts. Those sorts of films, like Saw and Hostel, make me wanna pass out. Dx

One film I just saw recently with my bf, because he was just aimlessly looking for something to watch on Netflix was the Human Centipede. OMG...that was by far one of the most disturbing films I have ever seen. It was just so stomach churning horrible. I could not get that awful film out of my mind for a good two weeks.

 

The problem with - Seconds - {1966} which was way ahead of it's time and
so unique there has never been another movie quite like it made.
The problem was when I saw it.I never should have been allowed to see it.
I was just 14 yrs.old.I was repeating the 8th grade at a Military Prep school
near Philly.In fact,I'd have to say that most college kids might not be ready to
deal with the subject matter and the overall presentation of that Movie.Maybe because it all
appeared so believable.That it could actually happen.And if it could,then we're ALL
screwed Big Time.Like being taken on a quickie trip to Hell,to prepare us
in the event we should choose Evil,as a way of Life.
That movie came really close to turning me Mad.It is not a movie that ANY Teenager
should watch.It's been described as an Adult Horror Film.
Of course there is Porn out there that is pretty horrific,also.
I saw something as a naive,very impressionable 14 year old,away from home
and that was scarey enough.That night { it was a weekend } after the movie,
coming back on the Bus,late at Night I was changed.I was extremely paranoid.
I looked at my schoolings and other students very differently.That movie
had a way of doing that.It changes you.It changes you and puts you in a corner.
It straps you down on a gurney where you are at the mercy of the Hospital,
whatever doctor and whatever drugs used for anesthesia.It took me back to
when I was operated on as a 2nd grader and given ether.A place I never wanted to
return.That movie did it.I was sitting on a dark bus,with the other,older students and
I couldn't deal with what I just witnessed.A Movie so maddening in it's starkness
and believability and depression,that I was held hostage within my mind to a place
where hopefully no one should have to go.A Place of surreal imagery and fakeness
yet,it is happening and it's real.Like being in a Hospital,under ether,you can hear all the
nurses and the doctor,yet unable to see them.You don't know what to think.
You try and think rationally,that those noises surely haven't anything to do with
me,but then what are they about.Drill noises and cutting and very serious Doctor
talk to nurses that is short and to the point.Too much to the point.Could it be me
that the doctor is talking about.I wanna go home.I want out of here.I wanna be with my
mother and father and brothers and watch TV and maybe laugh.I can't stand what is
going on ... I give up.I'll do whatever anyone says as long as I can go back to
my dorm room.I can't take this living nightmare another - Seconds -.

 

Blair witch project, scariest movie of all time.

 

Anyone mention the classic "Psycho?"

 

I was seriously considering suing the Producer's over that Movie.I started a
big ruckus over at Imdb where they had about the best Movie Message Boards
in the country.The reason being is that the Movie used false advertising to
hype something that had not one ounce of Fact.The movie was advertised as being
the real deal.Of course I should have known better.It was like an example of
Urban Myth meets Michael Moore at Dunkin Donuts.
I was just really peeved the way the movie was advertised.It was total Hype and
mere lies.It was advertised mostly on the internet using False police reports
and data,giving it the distinction of being a Documentary about a real
occurence.It wasn't even close.It was a cheap,slacker attempt to start a rumor as a
Documentary and get an audience all worked up over something that supposedly happened.
The tenseness of the movie relied entirely on a LIE.It's like what Geraldo pulled with
his Al Capone vault dig.There might have been good reason to believe that Geraldo would
find something.But - Blair Witch Project - was pure Adulterated EXPLOITATION.
They exploited a Rumor,and created a Big Lie.
The entire reason for watching the movie was that something mysterious did happen,
at that site and that was a lie.Adding into the fact of the catchy title.
Once one realizes that it's just a big amateur hoax of a small,not one bit Spooky
movie.I'm kinda glad Roger Ebert enjoyed the hoax.Ebert is a near pathetic film
critic.He gives every Kid Fantasy pic a huge thumbs up plus most Documentaries.
Probably because he's nothing but a disqusting Fat Kid himself.

 

I literally walked out of that movie...

I thought that was just an understood among horror movie fans, but, without a doubt, Psycho is one of the all-time greatest horror movies...

 

I loved "Killer Clowns From Outer Space"! I laughed my head off to that movie!

 

"Cloverfield" is also one of my favs

 

"The Exorcist"(that movie scared the crap outta me) Undeniable classic... did you see the trailer from it I posted earlier? - RP

Yes, I did. It's really not all that scary...unless you watch the movie & then see the trailer, IMO!

 

My wife suggests "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" (the original). She had nightmares for weeks, she says.

 

Yeah, me & my buddy from back home used to laugh at that one...

Very well done movie...

Well, TBH, when I was introduced to the trailer in question, it was pointed out to me that the reason it was cut was because it scared the audiences at the time too badly...

Mind you, this was in the early 70's...

I don't suspect they were as desensitized as we are nowadays...

I saw the new one and didn't enjoy it all that much...

But, the original is usually better, so, I'll probably look it up...