Best Horror film form this short list?

leeho

Blood! Gore! More! More! More! Gimme Gargomoyle's bloody fuckin' head!

armchair_warrior

didnt see the whole thing when i was 9 . The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

but i'm still skared to look at it.

leeho

Really. It is so stylized and beautifully shot, but so fucking scary. I'll never forget the swinging porch thing. I wanted to add more, but the options ran out on me. Why can you add options, but they don't show?

I'd add The Evil Dead, Rosemary's Baby and Se7en if I could.

Admins????

carnivore

LeeHo wrote: Really. It is so stylized and beautifully shot, but so fucking scary. I'll never forget the swinging porch thing. I wanted to add more, but the options ran out on me. Why can you add options, but they don't show?

I'd add The Evil Dead, Rosemary's Baby and Se7en if I could.

Admins????

Evil Dead 2. Way better than the first. And the 3rd is a little TOO campy.

carnivore

I've maxed out the number of poll options. And before I even got to add Blair Witch Project. And so many others...



BTW, I've always loved the Simpsons spoof, "The Shinning."

denvernougat

Also recommended

The Hills Have Eyes (both the original, and the remake)
Audition
The Devil’s Rejects

drano

Depends on exactly what you are after - for pure creepiness, Rosemary's Baby or The Shining are best, although I am not a huge fan of the latter.

Straight up slasher, Halloween is the best - It's got the killings and stuff but is creepy as hell. The first Friday the 13th was okay, but the series devolved into idiocy after that.

Sorry, Carnivore, I never understood the love people have for Evil Dead 2 - it's fun, but it's also a hectic mess. I throw it in to annoy my wife when I'm feeling passive-aggressive. The first one would be my pick.

I think the best mix of creepiness, splatter, plot, and creative moments on your list is the Re-animator. Hell, it's my favorite horror film, period. Get the longer version if you can, some people don't care for it but to me it explains a lot of things that the shorter version doesn't.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a good one - horrendous ideas (and I think that's the point - I've been convinced that the film amounts to an argument for vegetarianism) but surprisingly little gore. Don't worry, your mind will be happy to fill in the blanks.

apollonia666

Of all of these, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is the only one that REALLY freaked me out when I saw it. I think it was because it was based on a true story, and there was just something so heart-pounding and hysterical (hysterical as in breathless and totally flipped out as opposed to hysterical ha-ha) about the final few minutes of the movie. Urgh.

ojamas

REDRUM! REDRUM! :twisted:

drano

Flexichick wrote: REDRUM! REDRUM! :twisted:

All right, you gotta get me started. See, thing about The Shining (book) is that the house took a genuinely decent man with problems and weaknesess and made him into a tool for it's own purposes. Kubrick's film, while atmospheric, also features an over-the-top psycho performance from Nicholson that hurts the overall story. There's not a second in that film that you think he's "normal". To say nothing of the throwaway nature of the chef character, important in the film only because Jack racks him up as a kill.

And yes, I realize that The Re-animator has nothing to do with Lovecraft's stories - but it doesn't retain all the small similarities while disregarding the larger themes.

idlewild

Nothing beats Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things for sheer shit in your pants. I'd have to say Fright Night is the one with the most fun factor.

doctorj

I'm a big fan of Peter Jackson's early work. The lawnmower scene in "Braindead" is priceless.

shlee

The Omen scared the shit out of me. That kid was creepy, and they had this Latin music too. My sister and I used to pin each other to the floor and look through our hair for the 666 :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

One day one of my yoga teachers put on some similar music at the end of class (the part where you're supposed to relax) and I was totally weirded out.

drano

doctorj wrote: I'm a big fan of Peter Jackson's early work. The lawnmower scene in "Braindead" is priceless.

You just reminded me I need to watch that again.

Also: For anyone that may be intrigued, the film goes by "Dead Alive" in the U.S.

apollonia666

Flexichick wrote: One day one of my yoga teachers put on some similar music at the end of class (the part where you're supposed to relax) and I was totally weirded out.

I heard "Tubular Bells" once on the radio before I ever saw The Exorcist and bought it (on cassette -- OLD SCHOOL, yo!). Couldn't listen to it anymore once I saw that, though!

leeho

Amazing! Se7ven has 7% of the vote. Weird, spooky, Halloween hijinx!

dailyheights

And the total votes = 13. Spooky.

stacey

I had to vote for Rosemary' Baby because I wasn't allowed to see it because my mother thought I was too young (8 at the time) when it was being reshown at the movie theater nearby. I remember being scared but was acting all tough and telling my two older sisters "aw it wasn't so scarry". Well they decided to tell me the next day "mom wants us to meet her for dinner in Brooklyn Heights". Im thinking cool a night out with my family and what do my two wicked sisters do? They take me to the Rosemary's Baby house by the promenade and tell me - sorry Mom doesn't want you we're leaving you here." Needless to say I nearly shit my pants

doctorj

Drano wrote: [quote=doctorj]I'm a big fan of Peter Jackson's early work. The lawnmower scene in "Braindead" is priceless.

You just reminded me I need to watch that again.

Think I've got a copy lying around somewhere you can borrow if you don't mind region codes. The uncut version that was banned in South Korea and not rated in the US.

Drano wrote:
Also: For anyone that may be intrigued, the film goes by "Dead Alive" in the U.S.

Right. I'd forgotten that. Not sure what my cover says, since I picked it up in a bargain bin in Scandawegia.

The hard one to find is his second major film, 'Meet the Feebles'; I don't know if that was ever reissued on DVD. The digitized video copy I've got is barely watchable.

wrongwaydianne

Another movie that scared the shit out of me - Carrie. Ay yi yi, what a prom!

quijibo

the exorcist

nuff said :shock:

shishkab

quijibo wrote: the exorcist

nuff said :shock:

yep, i agree. it's why i didn't vote.

leeho, your choices were all good ones, but they represented too many subsets of good horror films for me to pick just one. slasher, psychological, satanic, bad science, cannibals... oh, where to begin?!?!?

leeho

We should start a new one with 5 defined catgories. I like that idea! Zombie really needs to be added.

idlewild

I'm shocked no one said Jaws. I remember when that came out, most business' on the beach almost lost their shirt. I saw that twenty two times when it cam out. Actually, after Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things I'd say the scariest movies are the educational films the public school system put out in the '70's when I was a kid. I saw one when I was in PS-9 about how some nut job girl would call in false alarms and one day her brother was playing with matches and lit his house on fire, naturally the firemen couldn't make it in time to save the kid or his parents because the crazy chick called in another flase alarm. I was fucking bawling. Seeing the Towering Inferno right afterwards only backed up my hysteria.

doctorj

There's only one horror film that I ever found genuinely disturbing and not at all amusing: Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream.

alafairnadia

doctorj wrote: There's only one horror film that I ever found genuinely disturbing and not at all amusing: Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream.

yeah, talk about a movie I'll never willingly sit through again. fuckin' horrifying. ugh.

doctorj

alafairnadia wrote:
yeah, talk about a movie I'll never willingly sit through again. fuckin' horrifying. ugh.

Yup, but I'm still hanging out to see The Fountain next month.

leeho

Requiem is like somebody punching you and punching you a little bit harder every two minutes or so. I saw that shit in the theaters and it was painfully overwhelming. It was tough to take anymore as the film was playing.

Last House on the Left is pretty disturbing as well.

leeho

Just watched Wolf Creek. Pretty creepy shit.

doctorj

LeeHo wrote: Just watched Wolf Creek. Pretty creepy shit.

Wolf Creek. Based on a true story. Only the names, places, dates, people, and events were changed to protect the innocent.

alafairnadia

LeeHo wrote: Requiem is like somebody punching you and punching you a little bit harder every two minutes or so. I saw that shit in the theaters and it was painfully overwhelming. It was tough to take anymore as the film was playing.

I saw Leaving Las Vegas on a First Date. talk about wrong. I was sobbing during the rape scene, and that's at the beginning of the movie.

that was the last date, too.