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George Romero's Martin is one of the oddest of vampire films ever. I would have to vote it as a favourite.
Ringu, as a horror film, scared the crap out of me.
Peter Jackson's Dead Alive is also pure camp Zombie genius. In fact, Peter Jackson is one of the masters of the sub genre of Horrality (a sort of mish mash of comedy and horror). Sam Raimi and his Evil Dead trilogy is up there as well.
I just introduced my son to The Thing a few weeks ago (he gave it two thumbs up). This 80s remake is a study in the paranoia of isolation and mistrust. A simple premise done very well.
Another great vampire film is The Hunger. Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon... nothing like some steamy lesbian vampire action (with a dash of doomed David Bowie).
I will also second roachboy's addition of Tetsuo: The Iron Man. Very freaky Japanese horror.
If you are in to the classics or are a completionist who likes to see where films evolved from... check out some of these films:
Jacques Tourneur and Val Lewton's horror films: Cat People (1942) I Walked with a Zombie (1943) and The Leopard Man (1943)
Herschell Gordon Lewis' Blood Feast (1963) and Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964) He is probably the creator of the slasher/gore genre.
For Zombie fans you really must screen the George A Romero classics Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead. A must!
Ghost stories... there are many but one always stands out for me, perhaps because I saw it when I was a kid, The Changeling. This is just a study in creep and claustrophobia. George C Scott's new house is trying to tell him something.
Up there too is Poltergeist...
Let me think on this some more...
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