noodle

It's that time of year... or rather it has been for several weeks.
At our house, we had a great scary movie marathon and then ran out.
We've done new horror, most notably Martyrs; Evil Dead I, II and Army of Darkness; classic horror including The Thing and Halloween; and some off the wall Asian crap that weirded me out.
What I'm super interested in are your favorite monster movies or Halloween movies. I've never liked Freddy Kreuger or Jason, but I'm open to them and I want to know what you guys go after when you're in the mood to be thrilled or scared. I just can't watch The Boogeyman or Jeepers Creepers

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Willravel

Jaws, The Thing, Jurassic Park, Alien, The Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby, Jacob's Ladder, Psycho, Night of the Living Dead, Seven, and 28 Days Later... there are so many great horror/thrillers out there.

noodle

See, I couldn't get into Jacob's Ladder at all. I loved The Thing, all three Jurassic Parks (mostly because I have a horrific and irrational fear of dinosaurs eating me), Se7en and 28 Days and 28 Weeks Later. The Exorcist is on that list I can't handle. Carrie, Romero's Zombie, the original and new Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Audition and Three Extremes are on my LOVE list.

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Willravel

Jacob's Ladder seems to be one of those films you either love or you hate. I didn't get it when I watched it as a child, but a few years ago it was mentioned on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movies and I gave it a shot and I really enjoyed it. There was something really interesting about the way the breakdown of reality was shown. i'd never seen hallucinations handled that way before and Tim Robbins played off them well.

Audition was too difficult to get through. I gave it the old college try, but yeesh.

I still don't get the appeal of Carrie. The whole thing just seems like (no offense to those who enjoyed it) a shallow revenge story a teenage girl would write in response to being unpopular. But that's just me.

Strange Famous

In terms of movies that disturbed me, Exorcist is up there.

I watched in 96/97 when the UK cinema ban ended. At the start everyone in the theatre was laughing and making fun of the special effects. And then, after a bit they shut up. I think no one was talking much when we all filed out.

I find the whole "made you jump" horror films very boring. Exorcist is probably the film I can most think of that that night when I laid in bed I couldnt get out of my mind.

That voice, and the scene with the crucifix, is many times more shocking (to me) than all the revolting torture and gore they show in these ghastly shock films like Saw and Hostel and so on.

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The Thing and the first Halloween were very good movies in my opinion, but I dont know how well they would fare watching them a second time.

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Nikilidstrom

My favorite will always be the original Night of the Living Dead. So many halloweens I tried to watch that movie when I was a kid only to chicken out when Ben was trapped in the basement, unaware that zombie/daughter was down their with him. I think I was 15 before I got all the way through that movie.

Sun Tzu

In terms of Halloween:

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YaWhateva

It's not really a horror movie per se but I really love The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Funny Games is not horror either but very suspenseful.

I really actually did like The Strangers and if you're going for campy horror, Jason X is high on the top of the list of so retarded its hilarious.

I think the original release of Audition was awesome, not letting people know it was a horror movie and allowing people to go see it as a date movie only to be very mistaken.

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oliver9184

Some good horror films not already mentioned divided into more fun and more scary (many have both laughs and scares):

MORE FUN: American Werewolf in London (1981), Bad Taste (1987), Braindead/Deadalive (1992), Dawn of the Dead (1978), Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1931), The Fly (1986), The Invisible Man (1933), Inside (2007) (very brutal but played for laughs), Interview with the Vampire (1994), The Omen (1976), Poltergeist (1982), The Prophecy (1995), Re-Animator (1985), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Society (1989), Switchblade Romance/Haute tension (2003).

MORE SCARY: Bug (2006), Cannibal Holocaust (1980), Dark Water (2005), Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986), Misery (1990), The Mist (2007), The Others (2001), Ringu (1998), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), The Wicker Man (1973).

Of course we must not forget the biggest horror film there ever was: The Shining (1980). I didn't know where to place it as it's extremely scary on first viewing but that gradually gives way to fun the more times you watch it. REDRUM!

snowy

The Thing is probably the movie that fits this genre that I like best. This really isn't a genre I enjoy, but I did like that movie a lot.

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Starkizzer

The Amityville Horror movies have always been among my favorites. I watched them with my dad when I was about 7. It was the first scary movie he and I watched together. After that, scary and horror movies became our thing. My older brother (wuss!) hated them and jumped at everything, so my dad and I bonded over them while he coward in his room. *snickers*

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