Horror Movies
 

Halloween is approaching and I always like to watch horror movies during the month of October. (It gets me in the spooky mood.)

Obviously I like Zombie movies, and I think my favorite is Dawn of the Dead, the remake. (That just may be because I have a thing for Mekhi Phifer.)

What is your favorite horror movie? What other horror movies do you suggest???

Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things. Oh yes.

Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1973)


and any Vincent Price movie with Dr Phibes eg, the Abonimable Dr Phibes. Cheese to the nth degree.


And... The Omen.


Of course there's always the Rocky Horror Picture Show too.

I've been known to talk and ramble on too much, so to appease the masses and my laziness, I'm only going to list the films of which I've watched in the past 19 months (without summaries or plotlines) that fall into your specific asking category.

Alright:

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The Evil Dead
(abrupt pause: I can't believe the first two movies on my list, which is now over 200+ titles and counting, started off with two horror flicks; too inside of a coincidence for anybody else to care, I know)
The Shining
Identity (close shave in terms of actual classification of a "horror film")
The Descent
CUBE (thanks to MexicanOnABike's recommendation, great little mindr%^k)
Rosemary's Baby
Shaun of the Dead (zombie comedy; most everyone knows this, but I'll point it out again)
American Psycho
From Dusk Til Dawn (not unrealistic to want to classify this as an action/suspense feature, but it does feature rampires)
Full Metal Jacket (the first half)
The Lost Boys (again, rampires... teenage ones)
Requiem (I think this is a foreign (French?) film dealing with .., ah almost gave away the ending; watch it.)
The Dead Zone (with Christopher Walken... not too scare-induing, but any Stephen King prod. will be classified that way)
Frailty (took me two times watching throughout to figure out what happened)
Omen I , II ... (I think I should watch III sometime in the next week, even though it's not as good as the first two)
The Return of the Living Dead (this is one of the best films I've watched in the past year; unbelievably good concept that also has some humor to it)
The Amityville Horror (original)


... that's all I can recommend. But also, the Child's Play sequel where Chucky is in the toy factory at the end (I believe the 2nd film in the series) is a good trip back nostalgia scream-filled lane.

I'm a huge horror movies fan, myself. Local guy runs a horror movie club where everybody shows up to MST3K a variety of flicks.

The Thing (John Carpenter) <- Kurt Russell's beard is one of the monsters
Vampires (John Carpenter) <- Baraka_Guru can attest to the awesomeness
Return of the Living Dead <- Zombies! Punk rockers! Campy horror primo: "Send more paramedics!"
Christine (Stephen King) <- Fury
The Shining (Stephen King) <- Here's Johnny!
It (Stephen King) <- Pennywise
The Mist (Stephen King) <- most depressing horror movie ending ever
The Ring <- scared the absolute bejesus outta one of my girlfriends for days
Blair Witch Project <- post nasal drip horror
Bruiser (George Romero) <- earn your face back
Slither <- Amazing low budget monster flick, awesome humor bits

"The Exorcist" - I saw it at 7. What assholes my Dad and brother were to allow that. Anyways, it's now a joke in my family when I mutter 'when I grow up I wanna be like Linda Blair...'
"Creepshow" 1, 2 and 3
"Pet Semetery"
"Twilight Zone - The Movie"
"Return of the Living Dead"
"The Ring"
"Wolf Creek"
"House of 1000 Corpses"
"The Devil's Rejects"
"Texas Chainsaw Massacre" - all, except the one with Jessica Biel.
"Witchcraft" - take place in the 80s, but it's with the hot version of Tawny Kitain. The movie messed me up.

....more as I think of them...

I would suggest Descent. Its got all the elements that make horror a genre. Watch it, but MM suggests watch it in the dark...

Yeah that was a good movie.

I'll try to avoid the more common titles:

The Mothman Prophesies: a peculiar and often overlooked flick based on the urban legend/cryptozoological phenomena reported in Point Pleasant West Virginia back in the 1960s. While the narrative wanders a bit, the central core of the film is something a bit different than your run of the mill horror/thriller. I won't give too much away, but there are a few scenes in this movie that really unsettled me.

Exorcist: The Beginning: the late-arriving prequel to The Exorcist, staring Stellan Skarsgård. Everyone I know hates this movie, but I feel it's the best ever capturing of the feeling of paranoia in the desert, something less common in thrillers than I'd like. The demonic feeling isn't as strong as the original, but the performance from Skarsgård as the younger Father Merrin is somehow very relatable. And the scenes underground are sublime (until Sarah shows up).

The Objective: this was ultra-indi, and I'm not surprised when most people I tell about it have no idea what I'm talking about. The basic plot is a CIA agent and a Special Forces team in Afghanistan are on a mission to locate an important Muslim cleric for the war effort. The search leads the team deep into the haunting mountains of Western Afghanistan where their run of the mill mission is uncovered as something substantially more terrifying. I believe this is the first thriller about vimanas.

Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon: was anyone else seriously disappointed with the Scream films? By how obvious everything was, by how shallow the study of horror films was presented? Behind the Mask is the movie for you. This movie takes place in a reality where Freddy Kruger, Jason Voorhees, and Michael Myers are all real, non-supernatural serial-killers, and where there's a tiny subculture of serial-killers that exist. The movie is presented as a documentary on a soon-to-be-slasher, a sociopath preparing to become a new slasher legend. The presentation of slasher lore is much, much better than any other slasher/urban legend type film, and the performance of the lead, Nathan Baesel, is spot-on.

I'll post a few more later.

I LOVE Horror movies.

Some favorites

I love zombies so
Night of The Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead - original only though, I hate the remake
Day of the Dead - again original only avoid the remake and "sequel" like the plague though
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
Evil Dead, ED 2, Army of Darkness - Yeah it's more comedy by AoD
Braindead (aka Dead/Alive)
Shaun of the Dead
Zombieland
Undead

Some non-zombie favorites
Nightmare on Elm Street, and New Nightmare (ignoring all the others)
Halloween - Not the remake
The Thing
In The Mouth of Madness

Quarantine (2008)

Shit I forgot about Quarantine lol! Yeah that's one messed up movie. I was a little 'off' for about a week. Thoroughly enjoyed it though.

[Rec]
Severance
Them

Not a fanatic over zombie movies, I did like resident evil because of the "B" movie factor but that was all.e days.

Now, do you remember the visits to the video library and yhou asked for a good horror flick and the attendant got a step ladder and blew dust off a great VHS? Yes, those were the days. '70's Horror movies always made me shiver. But onto my favourite recommendations.

The Haunting in Connecticut. - Great movie, excellent performance. Scary creepy scary.

The Haunting. - The newest remake. This thing had me jumping.

I agree with you on these! Especially Cube. Such an intense movie for such a small movie set!

I'll add:

[REC] (spanish movie - scary shit here!! )
whoever recommended Quarantine should know about REC, this is the movie they stole the idea from. I will never watch Quarantine.

The Ring - good creepy movie.
28 days later was a great one to watch back then. If you like Zombies.

Is REC in Spanish only? Never heard of it.

Not ever?

no. I find that americanized movies take the soul out of movies. I've seen a ton of French movies redone in English(USA) and it's brutal. they add swears, explosions and more macho guys / hot girls. so i can fell quarantine being the same.

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Spanish with English subs. I saw it at my town's movie festival last year. (usually right after Toronto's in the end of September).

Plus watching non-american movies usually means you're not going to know the actors. It makes it WAY more immersive in my head.

Hardcore.

I watched 28 Days Later and then 28 Weeks Later recently. I liked them, Days more so than Weeks.

Now are they technically zombies? Is the definition of a zombie a reanimated corpse? Technically the "creatures" in 28 Days/Weeks Later were just infected and never dead before turning crazy. Is this a whole new genre or are they zombies?

These are the things I think about....

Drag Me to Hell is now out on DVD. There are scarier movies, for sure, but few that are as entertaining. It's just a buttload of fun.

I have to agree with this to an extent. The Vanishing (1993 with Kiefer Sutherland) was way lamer than the original Spoorloos (1988 Dutch) because apparently the American audiences could not take the creepy ending.

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I say that they are technically NOT zombies. Although it seems that unless you shoot them in the head, they do not die. Maybe once an infected person is shot (in the heart) and should be dead, and then continues to be animated, they could be called a zombie.

Same with the zombie-like folks in I Am Legend.

You kids can argue zombie specifics all you want... the creature that'll be gnawing on your femur tomorrow doesn't really care all that much.

I suppose arguing semantics with something that wants to eat me is a moot point. The dead/not so dead don't seem to be rational beings.

Also, I'd like to think I would last more than a day. I thank paranoia for that. I have a plan.

True, but the question was asked. I volunteered my (far from expert) opinion based on logic.

As for the creep factor, I think that movies that use the underworld are far more effective in sending chills up your spine than the mindless buffet of a zombie flick. Shows like Drag Me To Hell, or the Exorcist, or Rosemary's Baby or The Omen.

The Ring is the best 21st century creepy movie I've seen. The Ring 2? No. Horror sequels always suck. Come up with something new. Except for Evil Dead. Just keep coming back with that boom stick.

I just watched American Haunting yesterday. That was so fucking stupid. I really wanted to see it when it came out because the trailer was one of the best I had seen that year, but I never saw it.

Thanks for the key word in there (and the underground bit is spot-on). I forgot to mention this one.

Creep

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how about The Beyond ? Italian horror fest !

look up some Zombie flicks by Lucio Fulci. in fact if you like zombie flicks you really owe it to yourself to check out some Italian zombie and horror flicks from the 70's and early 80's.

some old Hammer films ? The Skull ( Peter Cushing)

or some Halloween fun ? Mad Monster Party (ranken bass animated film, totally awesome !)

Is that "The Screaming Skull"?
Well, another good Hammer film - The Gorgon.

http://www.stomptokyo.com/img-m6/gorgon-a.jpg

no, just "The Skull" it's about two occult collectors (Cushing and Lee ) and the skull of the Marquis de Sade .

the Gorgon is awsome too

surfing wikki...this looks pritty horrible !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxidermia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antichrist_(film)