Your View: What is the Best Horror Movie?

1. Doris - February 27th, 2008 at 3:40 pm

I liked Stephen King’s It. SCARY CLOWNS…NEVER GOING TO THE CIRCUS AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!

2. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 3:41 pm

My pick for the best is also the exorcist for the same reasons as Jamie had, if you ask me, phycological horror films are the best because slasher flicks make you jump and you foret it the enxt day, but phycological horror films stick with you and truly scare you.

3. Angelina - February 27th, 2008 at 3:41 pm

That’s a toughie! Hmmm, it’s a tie. . . Alien and Jaws.

4. WahooWah - February 27th, 2008 at 3:42 pm

Night of the Living Dead…. you can’t ignore the classic

5. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 3:43 pm

It would be my second pick Doris, and that movie made me terrified of clowns forever.

jfrater: did you take my idea for this or did you get several requests?

6. Anderi - February 27th, 2008 at 3:43 pm

I’ve got a couple:

American Werewolf in London! Man! I can’t believe I saw it as a kid! I will NEVER walk on the English moors at night during a full moon! EVER!!

Alien! In space no one can hear you scream. But you could certainly feel that freshly sprayed urine getting cold in you space suit after a while…

7. KKing - February 27th, 2008 at 3:44 pm

Psycho - brilliant imagery and symbolism and definitely unforgettable. Also, who is not still haunted by Anthony Perkins’ performance. “…but she didn’t fool my mother.”

8. SocialButterfly - February 27th, 2008 at 3:45 pm

Oh, you are on the ball about that one Jamie! I am not big on horror movies I am the first to admit that, but the scene where she backward crabwalks down the stairs… oh JESUS!! I didn’t think I’d ever be able to sleep again!

9. JimmySchaps - February 27th, 2008 at 3:46 pm

Audition. or Hostel

10. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 3:46 pm

anderi: LOL! i thought the same thing when i saw that tagline!

wahoowah: yes a classic, but it was more of a gore film and after a while you weren’t scared, but the exorcist still scares me today.

11. littlegraysheep - February 27th, 2008 at 3:51 pm

IT by far!

12. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 3:53 pm

Psyco is definately my #2 of all-time horror movies, well heres my top 10
1)The Exorcist
2)Psyco
3)Jaws
4)Night of the Living Dead
5)The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
6)Nightmare On Elm Street
7)Friday the 13th
8)Hostel
9)The Prince of Darkness
10)Saw-the whole series (the ways of killing are just awesome to watch!)

i could watch these only in the daytime, never at night.
and my only notable mention would be The Hills Have Eyes

13. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 3:54 pm

oh and IT, sorry i forgot to mention it.

14. Kathryn - February 27th, 2008 at 3:55 pm

First, before you yell at me I have seen a TONNNN of scary movies, OLD scary movies included.

BUT I like Silent Hill. I have no idea why. I think the plot was good and not confusing. The special affects were not overdone. I like the Exorcist it was pretty good and scared me a bit when I first saw it (when I was in kindergarden) but now its just something I watch when I’m bored.

15. bucslim - February 27th, 2008 at 3:56 pm

I liked American Werewolf too.

I gotta say, at the time The Blair Witch thing was friggen creepy as hell. I even knew it was a hoax, but I was creeped out for weeks after I watch that.

And I’m an absolute sucker for the old Hammar studio Dracula stuff.

16. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 3:56 pm

Plus i just noticed this (forgive me if you think im spamming!) everytime you ask someone about IT here is the usual conversation

“Dude, have you seen IT?”
“seen what?”
“IT!”
“WHAT!?!”
“The movie with the goddamn clown you tard!”

17. wetsocks - February 27th, 2008 at 3:57 pm

Night of the Living dead, the original of course. After that, either Psycho or The Evil Dead.

18. stormy617 - February 27th, 2008 at 3:57 pm

Rob Zombie’s Halloween. I just saw that for the first time a few months ago and that movie was great. A lot better than the original

It, is also a great movie.

And in the more along real life lines: Silence of the Lambs

19. Nelia - February 27th, 2008 at 4:04 pm

Social - I was just going to come here and post about that crabwalk. Something about that just creeped me the hell out.
That said, I prefer two movies to The Exorcist. The Shining, and Halloween.
The Shining is just great for so many reasons, and the only time I’ve literally screamed out loud during a movie was when the Cook comes back, and is walking down that hallway… I won’t spoil it for anyone, but man, is that movie scary. It is also just a good film, which helps.
Halloween is my other favorite. I think it is because all Mike Myers has to do is STAND there and I get freaked out. The scene where the girls are walking home, and he is standing by the bush, then just disappears… That is a “gives me the willies” scene, there should be a picture of that scene next to “willies” in the dictionary
I can’t stand movies that go by, more blood more scary… It was cool back in the Friday the 13th days, and at least Alien has a good reason for it (an alien popping out of someone’s chest was an awesome scare), but movies like Saw and Hostel look gross and scary. Maybe I could get behind the originals as semi unique, but sequels? no thanks.

20. James - February 27th, 2008 at 4:05 pm

28 days later and 28 weeks later are kinda tied but if i had to chose one i’d say 28 weeks

21. Nelia - February 27th, 2008 at 4:12 pm

Edit: Sorry, that should be “more gross than scary” rather than “gross and scary”

22. blaze fielding - February 27th, 2008 at 4:15 pm

I liked the japanese guinea pig films; the devils experiment, flowers of flesh and blood, he never dies, mermaid in the manhole, android of notre dame & devil woman doctor. they can be a bit cheesy at times, but they have really good effects made using simple techniques.
Flowers of flesh and blood is possibly the most convincing horror movie, it was even investigated after its release, after Charlie Sheen was convinced it was a real snuff film!

ichi the killer and suicide circle (suicide club) are from japan too, and i reccommend them to people who like a bit of gore :]

23. anthony p - February 27th, 2008 at 4:23 pm

i collect horror movies so i have a seen a lot of them, in no particular order

exorcist - many of the same reasons listed above

Dawn of the dead remake - just found it a great all around movie

28 days/weeks later - helicopter zombie seen has to be one of the most gore filled scenes in horror.

silent hill - easily one of the best videogame movie ports and pyrmaid dude is scary as hell, human skin rip was great

Texas chainsaw remake - found it quite intense and better than the original

jason goes to hell - love the twist at the end and one of the btter in the series

saw series - reivented the horror movie

village of the damned remake - loved it as a kid and quite and original movie.

soooooooo many more i susect this wont be my only post

24. Randall - February 27th, 2008 at 4:24 pm

“The Bride of Frankenstein” is the greatest horror movie of all time. James Whale was a genius, and Boris Karloff was a fantastic actor.

The greatest latter-day Horror film is “Halloween”—John Carpenter’s original… and ONLY the original. No sequels, no reboots.

Slasher films are NOT horror films. Slasher films are slasher films.

Horror requires an element of the supernatural. Serial killers are not supernatural (even if sometimes they seem superhuman in the movies) they are simply disgusting human monsters, and our fascination with them is indicative of a sickness in our society.

Horror doesn’t have to be gross or filled with blood… it’s about eeriness and other-worldliness… being pitched out of yourself into a nightmare world.

25. Lizzie - February 27th, 2008 at 4:27 pm

Gore has its place, but I prefer psychological. Jaws still scares the bejesus out of me, and is probably the main reason I still don’t go in the water past my knees..LOL!

Horror has always been my fave genre for movies and books, so I love all the old-school movies and find it hard to pick one I think is the best. Poltergeist has always been a favourite though. Trilogy of Terror (for making little girls scream in the middle of the night at a slumber party); The Exorcist; The Omen; the old Dracula movies…..the list goes on.

26. Andrea Carlena - February 27th, 2008 at 4:28 pm

IT. Silent Hill. Candyman. They freaked, me out! Still to this day, “We all float down here!” Makes me shiver, and not in a good way. I am Legend may not have been horror, but I was pretty freaked after watching. And 30 days of night. And Bubba Ho-Tep

-Andrea Carlena Beauman

27. anthony p - February 27th, 2008 at 4:30 pm

But Randall can you really have Halloween without Halloween 2?

28. Thepennymachine - February 27th, 2008 at 4:30 pm

the shining, night of the living dead, un chien andalou, and any frightening lynch film.

29. Angelina - February 27th, 2008 at 4:33 pm

Mike Myers scares me too. . . especially in those Wayne’s World movies. . . *shudders

30. jason cormier - February 27th, 2008 at 4:37 pm

Alien
The Descent
Hellraiser
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
The Mist

“IT” was not scary, it made me giggle like a little girl.

31. Randall - February 27th, 2008 at 4:37 pm

anthony p:

Why the hell not?

Why do we always need sequels to everything? “Halloween” ended perfectly. Michael Myers was shot repeatedly and fell from a window. Then he was gone. What was he? Was he even really there to begin with? What monstrous nightmare has this been?

End of story. Nothing needed after. No follow-ups, no explanations. “Halloween” was complete.

Sequels can spoil a good, contained story, a good scare. Nightmares don’t have sequels.

Which is not to say that all sequels are bad–I presented a sequel as the greatest horror film of all time (Bride of Frankenstein) but that’s because it was a rare case of the sequel being better than the original.

Halloween, though, was flawless. Why do we need to try to “add” to something that’s done, flawless, needs no further elucidation?

32. anthony p - February 27th, 2008 at 4:38 pm

i laughed at the end of night of the living dead…i wont spoil it but i wanna know if anyone else found it funny.

the exorcist the beggining when the kid gets eaten by ummmm whatever it was that ate him scared the shit out of me, to the point where i went over and over again with the slow mo

33. Laure - February 27th, 2008 at 4:38 pm

The end of the Blair witch project is pretty damn scary, I love the Aliens series Oh! and nobodys mentioned the original Chainsaw massacre, so drab and simple. Has anyone seen a movie called ‘May’, theres a weird one.

34. Randall - February 27th, 2008 at 4:41 pm

anthony p:

And anthony–I see you collect horror films… so do I. Though clearly our tastes are different. I don’t consider “Saw” or any of its sequels to be horror. They’re simply tense kill-flicks.

I’ve got a collection of horror films going back to the silent era, and up to the Universal and Hammer years, and on to things like the original “The Wicker Man” and such… and everything in between. Horror films are one of my big loves… but I’ve never been impressed by blood-and-gore films. To me, as I said—horror has to have the element of the supernatural about it. The weird, the nightmarish.

35. sarah at the disco - February 27th, 2008 at 4:41 pm

chucky. I havent seen too many scary movies [[well too many GOOD scary movies]] well maybe chuckies just extremely scary for me cause of an extreme fear of dolls. I dunno. But thats one movie i couldnt even get through the whole thing, and I watched it like 6 years ago and Im still scared at night haha

36. anthony p - February 27th, 2008 at 4:44 pm

childsplay was a great horror filmed which by the end of the series was very much horror/comedy i think nightmare on elm street went a bit down the same path and then there was halloween resurection which was just a joke full stop.

I really need to stop posting now i must be starting to get to people.

37. riley - February 27th, 2008 at 4:45 pm

The Exorcist terrified me as a kid. Plus I think it portrays worldwide fear, as in the devil, and we are powerless against it. “IT” was also freaky, especially the idea that nobody can see it but the kids. I also thought The Ring was visually effective in scaring us all and making us jump.
All in all I think psychological fright is way worse that anything.

38. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 4:46 pm

Laure, I believe i mentioned the Chainsaw Massacre in my top 10 thank you very much

Randall: I whole heartedly agree on the sequel thing, great horror films like the exorcist were ruined by their sequels, a few good examples are Friday the 13th and A nightmare on Elm Street, Both ended perfectly on their first movie and were ruined by their way shitty sequels.

39. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 4:49 pm

I wouldn’t include Chucky to all of you who mentioned it, it got ruined by its bad sequels, the only true good horror film with sequels was Saw because each sequel had a good plot and great ways of killing in each one.

40. Lorcs - February 27th, 2008 at 4:54 pm

Hey what about What Lies Beneath, I quite liked that even though it’s less “horror” and more “supernatural thriller” but still it’s on my top ten. Others are probably Ju On, I agree with Silent Hill, but also The Hills Have Eyes and, I feel this one’s under-rated, but I quite liked Last Winter, it reminded me of the novel “White” by Marie Darrieussecq. It had similarities.

41. Lorcs - February 27th, 2008 at 4:55 pm

Oooh and I almost forgot, “30 Days of Night.”

42. Mom424 - February 27th, 2008 at 4:56 pm

I love horror, I dislike slasher films. Hostel? How could that be anyone’s favorite? Even my oh so jaded teenagers thought it awful. Want graphic blood and guts? Go read crime library or watch the news. Personally I loved The Exorcist,Aliens (Ripley kicks ass), The Shining, John Carpenter’s The Thing (maybe not horror, but scary), I even have fond memories of old Vincent Price Movies; The House on Haunted Hill etc. New horror; I actually liked Silent Hill, and the one with J-Lo where she does the mind meld thing with the psycho…The Cell
Oh and the original Halloween, and the 3 part one (I know it was made for TV) with Karen Black,,,Terror Trilogy I think…

43. carl - February 27th, 2008 at 4:57 pm

The Blair Witch Project
Audition
Imprint - banned episode from masters of horror
Guinea Pig: Flowers of Flesh and Blood
The Devil’s Rejects

44. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 5:00 pm

I think without a doubt John Carpenter makes some of the best films that can scare the shit out of you and they are not considered a horror film, like The Thing, because you don’t know if the thing died at the end.

45. Bob - February 27th, 2008 at 5:00 pm

The best horror movie ever made was “Attack of the Website that Tried to Get it’s Readers to Create Content for it.”

46. bucslim - February 27th, 2008 at 5:01 pm

Chucky? Did someone mention Chucky? Chucky . . . Yeah, Chucky should be mentioned on the same level as The Exorcist. Jeez while your at it, why don’t you just throw in The Toxic Avenger.

WTF people, this is the best horror movie, not the shittiest. Go back to your coloring book and you can have a juice box with your bowl of raisons.

47. anthony p - February 27th, 2008 at 5:06 pm

oh bugger i forgot all about the hills have eyes, love when the guy just kinda snaps and starts killing all the mutants and everyone was clapping for the dog.

the thing was great

house of 1000 corpses was really messes up and i enjoy rob zombies style of film making.

Blairwitch scared the begesus out of me but it gave me a headache as well

48. codman - February 27th, 2008 at 5:10 pm

the halloween series scared the crap out of me. when i was in fourth grade i always used to picture michael myers in my closet waiting until i fell asleep.

bucslim: the chucky movies were scary but they got worse over time like all the great horror series

by the way, the exorcist wasn’t scary at all. my mom showed it to me and my friend when we were twelve and we ended up laughing at it. as for the whole “its scary because it makes you believe in the devil” concept, i already believed in the devil so that didnt scare me at all.

49. anthony p - February 27th, 2008 at 5:10 pm

i suppose it depends on your interpretation of horro movie and its best not scariest, silence of the lambs anybody or does that fall under thriller?

50. anthony p - February 27th, 2008 at 5:11 pm

i suppose it depends on your interpretation of horror movie and its best not scariest, silence of the lambs anybody or does that fall under thriller?

51. Randall - February 27th, 2008 at 5:11 pm

Mom:

You are a woman after my own heart…

52. Randall - February 27th, 2008 at 5:12 pm

Silence of the Lambs is not horror. It’s a thriller.

53. stormy617 - February 27th, 2008 at 5:13 pm

Randall I agree about the sequels and haven’t watched most of them myself, however I thought that Rob Zombie’s Halloween was pretty good.

I liked that he took us back to the beginning of Micheal’s killing career, not to mention the kid that played young Mikey just freaked me out completely. On the flip side we saw a side of ol’ Mikey we never saw before, the love for his sister was brought out a lot more and made him seem a little more human, there were parts of the movie that I actually felt a little sorry for him, mostly at the beginning before he killed anyone. I will not say any more as I don’t want to spoil it for anyone and hope that I haven’t already.

I thought it was a pretty good remake and I don’t usually like those much ether.

54. Drew - February 27th, 2008 at 5:14 pm

I am think Cape Fear is the best horror movie ever. Some may disagree and say it’s a thriller, but I’d say Horror fits it more accurately. The acting is amazing an the suspense is INTENSE. It is psychologically frightening and when Robert DeNiro turns around as the made…! gets me every time!

55. mitchsn - February 27th, 2008 at 5:15 pm

Exorcist or Jaws.

Personal favorite, John Carpenter’s The Thing

56. frozenmidwest - February 27th, 2008 at 5:16 pm

Two of my favorites are Legend of Hell House and The Little Girl who Lives down the Lane

57. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 5:17 pm

If anyone mentions slasher flicks that are shittier than hell one more time(that means you Chucky)Im gonna go frickin’ beserk.

58. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 5:17 pm

mitchsn:i think that would be considerd a thriller but im not certain.

59. Concerned Observer - February 27th, 2008 at 5:20 pm

Personally, I liked The Blair Witch project.

Also, The first Nightmare on Elm Street

60. Ravyn - February 27th, 2008 at 5:23 pm

I don’t know which I would call the best. I have seen so many horror movies.

I guess it would be the one where that one person dies and the entire town goes stark crazy trying to protect themselves.

61. Concerned Observer - February 27th, 2008 at 5:23 pm

If only they made a scariest media outlet list, then I could put in books… Stephen King would of course dominate that list.

IT!

I’m twelve years old and I just read IT, and it scared the shit out of me, the way King made the characters was mind blowing, though the ending was kind of suckish.

62. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 5:24 pm

concerned observer: what about the sequels, i thought they were shit, how bout you?

63. bucslim - February 27th, 2008 at 5:24 pm

Codman - Here’s a good rule of thumb that I tend to live my life by:

Anything that I can pick up and punt doesn’t scare me in the least.

64. Randall - February 27th, 2008 at 5:25 pm

The Thing (I prefer the original version, though Carpenter’s is great) is science fiction. (Based on a great story called “Who Goes There” by John Campbell, one of the greats of early sci-fi). However, in film classes (I took many) and in every film textbook I ever read, sci-fi is considered, oddly enough, a subset of horror. Though Star Wars and the like are hardly Horror.

But again–it’s because of the nightmarish, otherwordly, eerie quality. Sci-fi films often (but certainly not always) fit this mold.

65. Laure - February 27th, 2008 at 5:25 pm

Csimmons- oh oops, you just post so much i pass up your comments
yea.. cape fear was scary

66. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 5:25 pm

concerned observer:seen the movie? Scary as shit!

67. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 5:27 pm

randall: who ever wrote that textbook must have been high, most sci-fi films aren’t even that scary.

68. Randall - February 27th, 2008 at 5:32 pm

csimmons:

You don’t know sci-fi films. We’re not talking Star Trek and Star Wars here.

And remember–Horror isn’t JUST about being scary. Not in a traditional sense anyway. It’s about creepiness, eeriness, otherworldiness… the nightmarish quality.

Think Alien. Or go back to the fifties and think Forbidden Planet—-not all that scary no, but weird and creepy.

I agree, it seems odd. Better to say the two genres are closely related. But if you think of Horror films based on the creepy/nightmare angle, you realize how they can be related, and how sci-fi can fit under the larger banner.

69. Mom424 - February 27th, 2008 at 5:32 pm

Bucslim; “Go back to your coloring book and you can have a juice box with your bowl of raisins.”
I am actually laughing out loud, the funniest line I have seen in a while.
Take a bow!

70. NSEW - February 27th, 2008 at 5:32 pm

The Sixth Sense was not really scary to me as it was chilling, just gave me a weird feeling after watching it. made me turn the bedroom light on a couple of times in the middle of the night.

same with The Grudge, that one creeped me out for at least a week after i saw it. and signs had that one part with the alien walking across the screen on the news, wow not a jump out of your seat scream but definitely a stomach turner.

71. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 5:33 pm

Randall:good point, i just don’t find most sci-fi scary, of course there are a select few out of those that can scare me shitless.

72. Michelle - February 27th, 2008 at 5:36 pm

How about The Serpent and the Rainbow, i read the book it was based off of, but of course it wasnt like the movie,
Csimmons- you dont kow anything about sci-fi genre to say none of its horror, sci-fi plays on peoples emotions about the unknown.

73. bucslim - February 27th, 2008 at 5:37 pm

Mom424: When I was getting pictures taken at my wedding, my best man said take a bow right before he hit me in the nuts. Wish I still had that picture, but I’m sure my ex-wife burned that along with everything else I owned.

I still wince whenever someone says that.

74. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 5:38 pm

michelle: okay, alot of sci-fi is scary stuff, and once again, I DON’T FIND IT SCARY!

75. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 5:41 pm

buclism: OMG! that is funny as hell! You should have saved it to your computer or somrthing, dats the funniest thing ive ever heard of to happen at a wedding!

76. Anderi - February 27th, 2008 at 5:41 pm

Blaze Fielding: LOL! ANDROID OF NOTRE DAME?? I keep picturing this hunchbacked robot swinging around yelling “The bells! The bells! Beep! MMMMM! Buzz! Click!”

77. Borka - February 27th, 2008 at 5:43 pm

IT
I guess it because that`s only movie that ever scared me(had 6 or 7 wehn i watched it).

I remember when me and my bro wathced it on TV…we were like scared shitless …we were screaming”Mom mom there`s something scary on TV” and she was like pissed coz we waked her so she responded “Just change the damn channel idiots”
Ofc we didn`t and ofc i had nightmares

78. Concerned Observer - February 27th, 2008 at 5:44 pm

Yeah, I saw the movie and truth be told I thought it was funny but w.e.

Yeah, the sequels sucked ass.

LMAO Anderi !

79. Mom424 - February 27th, 2008 at 5:45 pm

Randall; Woman after your own heart. Because we are of an age, I was born in 1962, we saw the same Movies, same TV shows, same Music (’cept the 80’s). I remember scaring myself shitless with Night Gallery, Twilight Zone, and old Vincent Price movies when babysitting..Did you ever get up early Saturday mornings to watch Rat Patrol? Holy crap I remember the first TV showing of Oklahoma (Shirley Jones before she was Mrs. Partridge).

Bucslim; I sympathize, both for the remembered pain in your nether regions and for the evil ex-wife…

80. Michelle - February 27th, 2008 at 5:47 pm

Well you should, sorry, im just a passionate fan of sci-fi

81. Concerned Observer - February 27th, 2008 at 5:48 pm

Oh yeah, I saw the Grudge 2 for my 11th birthday and I was scared shitless for weeks afterward… Like, the darkest patch of my room could… *Shivers*

We played this game called “Ghost in the Graveyard” afterwards and I made those little clicking sounds when I was it… They almost shat their pants, they were terrified lolz.

82. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 5:52 pm

Mom424: you will never know the pain of getting kicked in the family jewewls and sometimes i envy girls for that reason(just when i get kicked their by my brothers), imagine it like this, its the eqivelant of taking a jackhammer to your stomach.

83. Concerned Observer - February 27th, 2008 at 5:57 pm

Except you also have to wrestle with the knowledge that roughly 15,000 potential children just got obliterated.

Yowch

84. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 5:57 pm

Well, im signing off for the day, se yall tomorrow!

85. Mom424 - February 27th, 2008 at 5:59 pm

Csimmons; I had a doctor slip when giving me a spinal block (a needle introduced between the vertabrae, into the sheath that covers the spinal chord, for anaesthetic). It hurt so bad that my toes curled into the bottom of my feet and my fingernails left cuts in my palms. There is nothing you can ever tell me about pain. But I can still sympathize…

86. beanshide - February 27th, 2008 at 6:00 pm

‘The Exorcist’ is really scary, but the Korean movie (of which american industry is already making a remake) ‘Tale of Two Sisters’ has a great density as it is psychological horror. I recomend it, it’s one of those movies that when it’s over you keep thinking about it over and over again, trying to really understand it.

87. Kathy Katholica - February 27th, 2008 at 6:00 pm

Cannibal Holocaust.

It’s not really a horror movie, per se, but it’s one of the worst films I’ve seen.

88. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 6:02 pm

Mom424:disregard me signing off, but GOD DAMN! that had to hurt like hell!

89. Sir Lick-A-Lot - February 27th, 2008 at 6:03 pm

The last 5 minutes of Saw make the terrible acting almost bearable. My mouth dropped wide open when I saw the man getting up off the floor at the end of the movie. So, I have to say Saw is up there near the top for me.

90. Concerned Observer - February 27th, 2008 at 6:03 pm

And that’s supposed to be a good thing KK…?

91. Concerned Observer - February 27th, 2008 at 6:04 pm

I’m going to legally change my name to Cuntpuncher Mcclittwister…

?

I have no idea what made me say that.

92. Concerned Observer - February 27th, 2008 at 6:04 pm

Any here like dead baby jokes?

93. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 6:06 pm

concerned observer:Dat is funnt shit right there!

94. Mariam67 - February 27th, 2008 at 6:07 pm

The Eye- original Chinese version. That movie totally freaked me out. Especially when the girl was on the elevator and the ghost was standing behind her and getting closer and closer and his feet were hanging above the floor. I watched this with my mom and this scene had her going “TURN IT OFF NOW!” with her face in her hands. I wonder if I can talk her into seeing the 2008 version with me…

95. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 6:07 pm

concerned observer: i don’t think so, thats creepy, where did you hear any dead baby jokes anyway?!?

96. Lizzie - February 27th, 2008 at 6:09 pm

Randall, (or Mom424) perhaps you can help me out. I remember watching a vampire film when I was a kid (prob mid - late 70’s). The only scene I can remember (cos it scared the crap out of me) was of a couple in a caravan in the woods somewhere with the curtains drawn, they hear a noise and one of them opened the curtains and there’s Drac, waiting to pounce. Any idea what movie this is from - or have I just described a cliche used in a hundred different films? I can’t even remember if it’s British or American.

97. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 6:10 pm

lizzie: thats more than likely a cliche, ive seen a ton like that in tons of vampire films.

98. Concerned Observer - February 27th, 2008 at 6:11 pm

They are hilarious, albeit morbid:

Here’s one:

What is the difference between a dead baby and a water melon?
One’s fun to hit with a sledgehammer, the other one’s fruit.

Here’s another:

How do you turn a baby into a dog?
Pour gas over it and light a match. Woof.

Oh, and:

How do you get 100 babies into a bucket?
With a blender.
How do you get them out again?
With Doritos.

99. Concerned Observer - February 27th, 2008 at 6:13 pm

I have more…

100. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 6:13 pm

Dat is, the most disturbing jokes ive ever heard, please, no more!

101. Lori - February 27th, 2008 at 6:14 pm

The Exorcist and The Haunting (the original black and white one), which I’m suprised no one has mentioned.

102. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 6:14 pm

NO! For the love of god DON’T!

103. DK - February 27th, 2008 at 6:15 pm

hmm…there are a lot of movies that scared me, but I’m trying to come up with some that would fit with Randall’s definition of “horror” rather than just “movies that are scary”
I suppose I should mention IT, since that is what started me on my love for Stephen King, though I wouldn’t say the movie scares me anymore. (The book still does!)
The Exorcist & The Shining are both great.
The religious-scary movies always got to me pretty good, like The Omen (original of course) & Rosemary’s Baby (which I don’t think I saw either one mentioned yet).
Blair Witch was great, Hills Have Eyes I had to stop in the middle and put in Finding Nemo, watched the rest the next day.
I thought The Ring was good as well.
I wouldn’t classify any of these as the best or my favorites either. As far as “slasher” or “psychological horror” I really like em both, but I’d say I like psychological horror better. Csimmons was right on the nose about how the slasher is good for a quick scare that you’ll forget tomorrow, that quick adrenaline rush & a jump out of your seat thing. But the scare from a psychological horror just stays with you…

104. Lizzie - February 27th, 2008 at 6:16 pm

Csimmons: Probably, but cliches have to start somewhere.

105. Concerned Observer - February 27th, 2008 at 6:19 pm

C’mon man, those things are better than Chuck Norris jokes lol.

106. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 6:21 pm

yes, but they are just creepy!

107. Concerned Observer - February 27th, 2008 at 6:23 pm

They are creepy, I’ll give you that, but at least admit they’re funny.

108. Concerned Observer - February 27th, 2008 at 6:23 pm

Anyway, doesn’t creepy BELONG on this kind of a post?

109. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 6:23 pm

okay, the bucket one was kinda funny, but they are just plain weird!

110. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 6:24 pm

thats true, creepy does belong here!

111. anthony p - February 27th, 2008 at 6:25 pm

Csimmons - so no slasher films but what about all the great ones like scream and i know what you did last summer, urban legend, ive been waiting for you, cry wolf…..the list goes on and on

112. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 6:25 pm

hey if you want creepy, weird, and just plain gross, look at 2 girls 1 cup, if you are faint of heart, please don’t google it!

113. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 6:27 pm

anthony p: A few good slasher films are in my top 10, but just the forst ones, not the sequels that always suck ass and ruin the story.

114. Concerned Observer - February 27th, 2008 at 6:27 pm

I’ve seen 2girls1cup, I laughed. It wasn’t NEARLY as bad as my friends said it would be.

You want bad, google Maggot Girl Story.

115. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 6:27 pm

sorry, meant first ones.

116. Andrea Carlena - February 27th, 2008 at 6:28 pm

How many babies does it take to paint a barn?
Dunno, depends on how hard you throw ‘em…

What sits in a corner getting smaller and smaller?
A baby combing with a potatoe peeler.

So awful and morbid. So damn catchy.

-Andrea Carlena Beauman

117. fgds - February 27th, 2008 at 6:28 pm

Suspiria by Dario Argento is my favourite horror.

About witches.

Very atmospheric.

118. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 6:30 pm

concerned observer:i almost threw up the first time i saw it, and ive seen the maggot girl story, now for something truly painful to watch, BME pain olympics(this contains imagery of brutal nature of a mans happy place)

119. manda15645 - February 27th, 2008 at 6:30 pm

Salems Lot terrified me as a kid. I was also scared of the movie IT…..I HATE clowns…..great, now I am freaked out. lol

120. rational - February 27th, 2008 at 6:32 pm

evil dead 2, the shining….. the first nightmare on elm street, eyes wide shut if thats a horror, rosemary’s baby and the poltergeist

121. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 6:33 pm

IT made me creeped of clowns, i can’t see a clown without thinking “we all float down here!”

122. AlyshiaH - February 27th, 2008 at 6:34 pm

Any zombie movie.. ok so not any. Army of darkness made me laugh “This is my bomb stick!” is still an ongoing joke with me and my hubby. But the newer A list ones freaking rule! But im a zombie freak! Love zombies and everything they do! There is nuthing scarier then an army of the undead comeing after you, expesially when you are as weak and unexperienced with a shottie as i am! And Zombies haunt my nightmares! i dont dram of scary clowns like in IT (cuz he was just a crazy guy in a cheap clown suit) or anything else.. but zombies, expecialy Zombie dogs scare me to death! OPHH im watching 28 weeks later for the first time tonight… finally talked my hubby into leaveing the video games towatch a movie with me!

Ohh and on a side note.. why dont you ever see a Zombie cat.. not a house cat, cuz thats not really scary.. but a zombie lion or tiger or panther.. that would scare me.

123. Concerned Observer - February 27th, 2008 at 6:35 pm

I know, I’ve never actually seen Hatchet vs. Genitals

124. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 6:36 pm

Don’t watch it! it hurts just thinking about it!

125. Concerned Observer - February 27th, 2008 at 6:37 pm

I always mentally picture my books, and the image from IT where Pennywise is being watched by Ben as a kid, the balloons are floating towards him even though the raging blizzard is pushing them back…

That’s one of the scariest scenes I’ve ever seen/”seen”

126. AlyshiaH - February 27th, 2008 at 6:37 pm

Why would anyone want to watch Genitals lose to a hatchet? dosent that just sound painfull to you men? Im a chick and it sounds very painful to me

127. Concerned Observer - February 27th, 2008 at 6:38 pm

What’s the difference between a Porsche and a dead baby?

I don’t have a dead baby in my garage

128. Andrea Carlena - February 27th, 2008 at 6:38 pm

What exactly is maggot girl?

-Andrea Carlena Beauman

129. Concerned Observer - February 27th, 2008 at 6:38 pm

Wait, I meant I don’t have a PORSCHE in my garage…

130. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 6:39 pm

alyshiaH:Men want to be the toughest, so when we say “theres no way you can watch that” we aren’t gonna chicken out, and these vids are the mmost painful to guys, thank god hatchet v.s. genitals is fake!

131. Concerned Observer - February 27th, 2008 at 6:39 pm

It’s a sex story about… Urg, it’s sick. Not nearly as bad as Pain Olympics those…

132. Eric - February 27th, 2008 at 6:40 pm

i like the first 2 halloween movies personally

133. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 6:41 pm

Anrea: I don’t want to explain it, just too…ugh, just google it.

134. Michelle - February 27th, 2008 at 6:42 pm

whats so disturbing about this maggot girl, its a story right

135. AlyshiaH - February 27th, 2008 at 6:42 pm

I couldnt make it past the first 30 seconds in 2 girls 1 cup… i have a really weak stomach sence having my first child. I have no neeed to ever watch someones genitals get attacked by a hatchet, real or not. but maybe thats just me. I have better things to watch on the internet, like cats running into windows repatedly trying to get the birds in the feeders…

136. Andrea Carlena - February 27th, 2008 at 6:42 pm

TELL MEEEEE!!!!

-Andrea Carlena Beauman

137. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 6:42 pm

eric: i like the first one the best, the sequels are crap, the first haloween ended perfectly, why ruin it with a sequel? espically #3, it had nothing to do with the plot.

138. AlyshiaH - February 27th, 2008 at 6:44 pm

Because they can make money off of the sequels. Its what hollywood dose… ruins perfectly good movies to make more money. Like why do a second Butterfly Effect (good movie BTW one of my favs)? just cuz they can. and the second one sucked.. and totaly didnt follow the original story

139. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 6:44 pm

i personally don’t want to explain it, just google it, id rather not explain it on here.

140. Michelle - February 27th, 2008 at 6:45 pm

ohhhhh k nevermind thats sick

141. Concerned Observer - February 27th, 2008 at 6:45 pm

Here’s the link Andrea, I’m not liable for damages

http://www.lurkmore.com/wiki/i.....aggot_Girl

142. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 6:45 pm

alysiaH:I laugh at 2 girls 1 cup after watching pain olympics.

143. Wesley Crusher - February 27th, 2008 at 6:47 pm

The Exorcist was great, but EVIL DEAD 2 is the most entertaining and probably my favorite in the horror genre. Phantasm was pretty good, too.

144. Andrea Carlena - February 27th, 2008 at 6:48 pm

Pain Olympics?!?!? Child’s play. Pure and simple childs play.
Those 2 ladies and their singular cup? Disgrossting.

-Andrea Carlena Beauman

145. AlyshiaH - February 27th, 2008 at 6:48 pm

I was forced to watch it at a friends birthday party after takeing 5 jello shots.. yeah i wasnt happy. Talk about ruining a buzz. I dont get why its called porn…

146. Joshua - February 27th, 2008 at 6:49 pm

The Shining.

147. Joshua - February 27th, 2008 at 6:50 pm

The Shining. And if you’re gonna go Evil Dead, Army of Darkness is the best.

148. Concerned Observer - February 27th, 2008 at 6:50 pm

C’mon, 2girls was TAME compared to PO (Pain Olympics). At least 2girls had hot girls with hot bodies, PO has someone DESTROYING HIS BALLS WITH A FUCKING HATCHET.

149. AlyshiaH - February 27th, 2008 at 6:52 pm

Hot girls with hot bodys eating eachothers poop! Umm.. thats a turn off for me…

150. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 6:52 pm

alyshiaH:its more horror
And here is omething i don’t get, why do i even say don’t watch it? its like a cop saying freeze, they never do.

151. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 6:53 pm

concernedobserver: Don’t remind me (shudders)!

152. AlyshiaH - February 27th, 2008 at 6:54 pm

Cops tells me to freeze ime freezeing.. cuz im innocent, and they cant prove all the stuff im guilty for! If i tell a friend to not watch something, they know i have a good reason for it… other than my hubby… cuz hes dumb. he had to rush home and watch it. Yeah i got to clean up the puke from the bathroom…

153. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 6:54 pm

alyshiaH: its a turn on for Kermit the Frog! if you’ve seen the vid on youtube, you know what im talking about.

154. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 6:55 pm

yes well criminals never freeze, they should just say “Run to some alley!”

155. AlyshiaH - February 27th, 2008 at 6:56 pm

But hes a frog! Do they even get hard? yeah no.. didnt think so. Do real guy like that? cuz im never doing that for any guy EVER

156. AlyshiaH - February 27th, 2008 at 6:57 pm

Maybe if they said that the criminals would just jump in the back of the cars

157. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 6:57 pm

alyshiaH: the vids meant to be comedic, and it is, plus i hope you’d never do that.

158. Concerned Observer - February 27th, 2008 at 6:57 pm

OMFG… I just ssaw BME PO… WTADADSJOIAGTUT(QW(&$ ACRI ( $QC#$)(WPRQ$W#OP%*(*@!_)$_%*%)*_VAC YX)#$%@)#$

HE FUCKING CUT HIS TESTIS OFF!!!! AHHH!!!!!!!! LOOK AT THAT!!!!!!!! HE DESTROYED HIS COCIK!!!! RAAHAHAHAHHA HOLY FUCKING SHIT!

159. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 6:58 pm

alyshiaH:wheres the fun in that? LOL!

160. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 6:59 pm

concerned observer: see my comment at #150.

161. Concerned Observer - February 27th, 2008 at 6:59 pm

No, we’re not generally coprophiliacs…

162. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 6:59 pm

hey C.O., i thought you said you saw it?

163. Concerned Observer - February 27th, 2008 at 7:00 pm

Lolz, remember testosterone? It’s that little thing that makes me feel like whenever someone says something like that, they’re calling me a chicken, and I HAVE to prove them wrong.

164. Concerned Observer - February 27th, 2008 at 7:02 pm

I said that in advance, and I forgot to delete it. That was my reaction whilst watching it/pausing it to write.

165. unbiased - February 27th, 2008 at 7:02 pm

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Tell me you didn’t crap your pants as a kid when the child catcher dropped his head down to the window to see those kid.

166. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 7:03 pm

ive saw it once, only once, never again.

167. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 7:03 pm

unbiased: i didn’t.

168. AlyshiaH - February 27th, 2008 at 7:04 pm

Im pregnant with a boy right now (my second boy) and that means i have a lot of testostarone in my system as it is.. i dont walk around picking fights, and i feel no need to take on a challenge that wasnt really there to start with.

169. AlyshiaH - February 27th, 2008 at 7:05 pm

unbiased: i never did.. i laughed at it…

170. Concerned Observer - February 27th, 2008 at 7:05 pm

That’s because you have estrogen as well, and a whole lot more of that than testosterone I daresay…

171. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 7:06 pm

alyshiaH: congrats on the kid, but when you reguarly have testosterone, you allways fight and never chicken out, except in russian roulette.

172. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 7:06 pm

concerned:thats the awnser for sure.

173. AlyshiaH - February 27th, 2008 at 7:08 pm

I have a naturaly low estrogen level. And with this being my second i have the same amount of testostarone in me as a 25 year old man.

Csimmons: thanks. we didnt want tohave another one so soon, but it happens and now my hubby is counting down the days till i have this baby. 57 days left till my due date.. or is it 56…

174. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 7:09 pm

alyshiaH:you can’t be sure on the duedate, its never really exact, and you really have that amount of testosterone? goddamn!

175. AlyshiaH - February 27th, 2008 at 7:11 pm

Yeah its what makles us moms of more than one boy Vets man! We need it to break up all the fights and keep up with the sprots stats when they get older! Theres a bunch of sciens behind it. The babys body is makeing it, and so is mine cuz my body remembers carrying my first one 2 years ago.

176. Wesley Crusher - February 27th, 2008 at 7:11 pm

That Pain Olympics thing was dumb. I hope that stupid fuck died from infection. What a retard…

177. Concerned Observer - February 27th, 2008 at 7:13 pm

No, I know you have that amount of testosterone, but no matter how little, you STILL have estrogen.

Lmao on the Russian Roulette CS

178. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 7:13 pm

wesley crusher: it was fake, don’t be quick to judge.

179. Wesley Crusher - February 27th, 2008 at 7:14 pm

I’M RICK JAMES, BITCH

180. AlyshiaH - February 27th, 2008 at 7:15 pm

CO: If you take some vitamines you have Estrogen in you too. Some Multivitamines made just for men have it in them… dont know why but they do.

181. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 7:15 pm

wesley crusher; oooookayyyyyyyyyyyyy………

182. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 7:16 pm

alyshiaH:Im guessing they are just freaks.

183. LordCalvert - February 27th, 2008 at 7:18 pm

absolutely and without a doubt the scariest movie ever is:

THE CHANGELING

a close second:

HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER

184. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 7:19 pm

lordcalvert:not even close to the exorcist dude.

185. filipinoknight - February 27th, 2008 at 7:19 pm

in no particular order
the fly
13 ghost(the original)
the ring and ringu(both were good)
dracula
nasfuratu
frankenstien
phantasm(i am deathly afraid of mosulems cause of that movie)
and i remember being lil watching nightmare on elm street and being scared shitless, now i watch it and laugh.

186. Wesley Crusher - February 27th, 2008 at 7:19 pm

We all love to get frightened from time to time and as a result, some of the earilest films made were horror movies. You can be certain that every year Hollywood will bring out some new form of terror to shock us in the theaters. sometimes they achieve their goal - other times we are left with a pile of junk. With this post we are going to uncover the best horror movie of all time.

When you give us your view, try to tell us why you have chosen the particular film, and also, as a secondary question, tell us what style of horror is best - for example, psychological horror (with little or no blood) or slasher films. Tell us why you think one is superior to the other.

187. Wesley Crusher - February 27th, 2008 at 7:22 pm

Her father was a priest, cold blooded he’s dead
Hypocrite, I caught him basin, so I shot him in the head
Poured on the holy water, “Bless the dead” is what I said
Then heard the demon screamin as his body bled
Now I stole from the poor, lied on the man
Dropped the dime, he’s doin time and I don’t give a damn
We’re not really greedy, we’ll help the poor and needy
We’ll rock a show and clock some dough, then drink until we’re pretty drunk
on the freeway just the other day
I saw a fine hitch-hiker, and I wanted to play
I pulled off the road, so I could offer a ride
She said “Thanks”, I said “No thang,” and she got inside
Jivin as I was drivin, then I asked which direction
She said, “5th Ward”, I said “We’re from the same section”
Made it to her ave, she said out and said “Thanks”
I said, “Yo babe, like won’t you chill and have a couple of drinks?
We went into my house, and I filled up her glass
She drank and got drunk, that’s when I got in that ass
I banged it and banged it until my thang got sore
I said “Honey…”, she said “20″, I said, “Get out, you fuckin whore!”
She put on her clothes, headed for the door
She said, “Welcome to the disease there is no cure for”
Then she started runnin and almost got away
With no clothes I gave chase, makin sure she’d pay
Now she passed by my boy and I knew he was strapped
Red pulled out his gun and shot the bitch in her back
Bare butt-naked I headed for the car
The massacre was from Texas, so I pulled out the chainsaw
Cuttin and cuttin, he said “Bushwick, man, she’s dead”
On the news they found remains of just an arm and her head
An assassin

188. filipinoknight - February 27th, 2008 at 7:22 pm

a couple more i forgot to mention
IT(the book was scarier)
the shining(same as it book was scarier)
the exorcist

189. AlyshiaH - February 27th, 2008 at 7:22 pm

CS: I think its a conspericy to make you all more tame. Just my opinion though…./

190. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 7:23 pm

wesley crusher: WTF!?!

191. Wesley Crusher - February 27th, 2008 at 7:24 pm

Oops. Sorry about that.

192. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 7:24 pm

alyshiaH:maby it is (shes onto us….)
wesley crusher: Wtf was that poem thing?

193. Michelle - February 27th, 2008 at 7:25 pm

I havnt found this ball hatchet video (yea.. morbid fascination) but i did come across a BME website and i really wish i hadnt, its like you really dont want to look….. but you do

194. AlyshiaH - February 27th, 2008 at 7:26 pm

Wesley Crusher: yeah that was about random.. and long.. have no disire to read it. And Wesley Crusher was Dr crushers son on TNG, wasnt it? Trying to prove your a geek?

195. Csimmons - February 27th, 2008 at 7:26 pm

michelle:same here.
And im going to bed, so good night people!

196. Wesley Crusher - February 27th, 2008 at 7:27 pm

This discourse of the fourth book of the gospel is often called the “church order” discourse, but it lacks most of the considerations usually connected with church order, such as various offices in the church and the duties of each, and deals principally with the relations that must obtain among the members of the church. Beginning with the warning that greatness in the kingdom of heaven is measured not by rank or power but by childlikeness (Matthew 18:1-5), it deals with the care that the disciples must take not to cause the little ones to sin or to neglect them if they stray from the community (Matthew 18:6-14), the correction of members who sin (Matthew 18:15-18), the efficacy of the prayer of the disciples because of the presence of Jesus (Matthew 18:19-20), and the forgiveness that must be repeatedly extended to sinful members who repent (Matthew 18:21-35).

2 [1] The initiative is taken not by Jesus as in the Marcan parallel (Mark 9:33-34) but by the disciples. Kingdom of heaven: this may mean the kingdom in its fullness, i.e., after the parousia and the final judgment. But what follows about causes of sin, church discipline, and forgiveness, all dealing with the present age, suggests that the question has to do with rank also in the church, where the kingdom is manifested here and now, although only partially and by anticipation; see the notes on Matthew 3:2; 4:17.

3 [3] Become like children: the child is held up as a model for the disciples not because of any supposed innocence of children but because of their complete dependence on, and trust in, their parents. So must the disciples be, in respect to God.

4 [5] Cf Matthew 10:40.

197. AlyshiaH - February 27th, 2008 at 7:27 pm

CS: ohhh im on to just about every thing. Plus my hubby brings back really random info from his job. People say the most random things when they call in for tech support…

198. Martin L - February 27th, 2008 at 7:27 pm

Talk about creepy and otherworldly — some of you guys are off the topic and into your own little universe of yuck.

Ennyhoo — I’m definitely putting “The Shining” up as #1. (And definitely Kubrick’s’ I won’t even discuss that made-for-the-
glass-tit abortion that King thought was so “true” to his story.) Having not seen it for twenty-six years, I bought it on DVD last year, and damn if the scene with Jack going into Room 317 didn’t make my blood run cold just as it did when I saw it in the theater in 1980.

Number Two Pick: “Alien.” Not just for the alien popping from the chest bit, but because H. R Giger produced a nonhuman ship, pilot, and monster that no one has really surpassed. He managed to conjure that atmosphere that Randall’s talking about.

Number Three: “The Haunting.” That was the first time the breathing-door effect was used in a movie, and scared the shit out of me at age 10. And I just loved the creepy woman caretaker, smiling ever so sweetly as she tells Julie Harris, “No one will come out here … at night … in the dark …”

199. AlyshiaH - February 27th, 2008 at 7:29 pm

Wesley Crusher… that is about the most random, unrelated jibberish i have ever had the unfurtanut experience to read….

200. goof_ball - February 27th, 2008 at 7:38 pm

SAW-all of them, Stephen King-any, Texas Chainsaw Masacre(sp?) but only the old one ’cause it’s soooo corny

201. J. Coustark. - February 27th, 2008 at 7:48 pm

It appears the “INTELLECTUAL GIANTS” (sarcasm) have taken over the latter part of this list. So much for intelligent conversation and the English language.

202. JasonSampson - February 27th, 2008 at 7:59 pm

Rosemary’s Baby…the introduction with the camera flying over the city and eerie music playing is unnerving. If you haven’t seen it you really ought to.

Apparently to get noticed you have to take up space.

So there.

203. Tonny SS - February 27th, 2008 at 8:01 pm

JAWS!

204. Lawrence - February 27th, 2008 at 8:03 pm

CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST….shit was disturbing to watch..

205. Brian B - February 27th, 2008 at 8:16 pm

1) Trilogy of terror
2) Night of the living dead
3) Ghost dad
4) The color purple
5) The Exorcist

206. bwmyers18 - February 27th, 2008 at 8:19 pm

How has no one mentioned “Misery” yet ? Holy crap … to this day when I re-watch that I still turn away at the hobbling … seeing it once was enough to etch it into my mind FOREVER .

207. Nelia - February 27th, 2008 at 8:19 pm

I totally agree with Randall on this one. Horror should have the supernatural element. Anything else is either Sci Fi, slasher, thriller or action. I’ve seen Jaws on here a couple times (and man do I love that movie) but I think Jaws falls firmly into action. Silence of the Lambs, likewise, is a great movie, but it is a thriller.
I know I am being really specific and nitpicky, but this list is forcing me to figure out my exact definition. I guess the hardest exclusion to justify is that of the slasher. I just don’t see human beings hurting other human beings as horror. We can at least explain why they are doing it, there IS some natural explanation. We cannot explain with our natural laws how Jack is possessed by a hotel or Myer’s invulnerability, or a demon possessing a little girl. (Well, some people might believe in demons, I don’t).
Mom - yet another Your View that finds us on the same page.

208. anandaji67 - February 27th, 2008 at 8:40 pm

The original Eye, the Japanese version, as well as Audition were both excellent and are definitely the best modern horror films. The only movies that have ever really, legitimately scared me were the Shining and Phantasm. Phantasm was cheesy and kinda stupid but it scared the living shit out of me when I was like 10.

209. Purdnasty - February 27th, 2008 at 8:42 pm

night of the living dead - by far!

210. LML - February 27th, 2008 at 9:01 pm

POLTERGEIST… forever changed my view of what a ‘haunted house’ looks like

JAWS… haven’t gone in past my knees since

THE OTHERS… that creepy old lady in the closet…eeks!!

THE OMEN… what a sweet boy

THE SHINING… redrum

and a couple movies that I don’t know the titles…

One I remember had a scene with a maze that had razors on the walls and the people were being chased thru it by dogs

the other had creatures that lived in the dark and they would come up out of the grate to get you. I remember this woman being dragged by them and she was using a camera’s flashbulb to try to scare them away.

211. Mom424 - February 27th, 2008 at 9:16 pm

Lizzie; Caravan - what we North Americans call a camper or travel-trailer correct? Not like a covered wagon? Hmm I’m thinking. Salem’s lot maybe?(I didn’t watch it, I was 17, like I stayed home for 4 or 6 hours of TV) It is kind of a cliche..Maybe The Night Stalker? You’ll have to wait for Randall!

212. Tj - February 27th, 2008 at 9:18 pm

There is something to be said about the classics but the problem is that they’re old. I see the reasoning behind picking the exorcist or night of the living dead but the truth is they just don’t hold up anymore comparatively. The only classic I would consider would be Alien, that movie was so phenomenally ahead of it’s time. But as far as best ever?

Audition

A current movie that does everything the classics could and better. It’s gory beyond all possible explanation but not in a cheap gore for the sake of gore way. The story is completely unique in the horror genre and the villain is so lovable which makes her so much more effective as such. It’s a bit slow for some people ( I recommended this movie once when I worked at a coffee shop to one of our regulars and he was alarmed at the pace.) but really there isn’t a single thing that I think it needed, it’s one of the only horror movies that afterwards I’m totally satisfied.

213. MiSaNtHrOpE - February 27th, 2008 at 9:30 pm

The second Japanese Grudge movie: Ju-On 2, and Audition. Both are just plain creepy, and sometimes really scary. Modern American horror movies seem to be losing their touch. Child’s Play 1 was pretty scary the first time I saw it.

Anyone see High Tension?

214. cambrexia101 - February 27th, 2008 at 9:34 pm

Um….can Shaun of the Dead or Hot Fuzz count?
lol.
I haven’t even seen the Ring.
I get too terrified.

But Psychological Horror movies are scarier,
Zombies can always be killed in some way,
but when it’s your own mind that’s the enemy…..
what can you do?

215. Lizzie - February 27th, 2008 at 9:35 pm

Mom424: Yes ,what you would call a camper or trailer - the type that you hitch to the back of your car to tow.

I’m pretty certain it wasn’t Salem’s Lot. The movie may have been pre-1970, I just saw it mid 70’s ish. Geez, the things I watched as a kid and my parents didn’t know…..

I used to love the Night Stalker….there’s another suggestion for a top 10 list - best tv shows with a supernatural/horror theme.

216. LordCalvert - February 27th, 2008 at 9:41 pm

The Exorcist was scary the first time i saw it as a little kid. but The Changeling kept me awake for weeks

217. stevenh - February 27th, 2008 at 9:43 pm

I am not a big fan of the horror movie, but the one that kept me up many nights (long ago) was ‘WILLARD’. I don’t like rats to begin with, and this movie didn’t increase my love of the little bastards.
Great acting by bruce davison, elsa lanchester and ernest borgnine. And of course Willard and Ben.

Thanks Jamie - it’s 11:40 here on the east coast of USA and I don’t think i’m going to get any sleep tonight.

218. TheFinger - February 27th, 2008 at 10:02 pm

I thought “Wrong Turn” was decent.

219. Mandie - February 27th, 2008 at 10:45 pm

Night of the Living Dead.

Alien.

Shutter.

Evil Dead.

Event Horizon.

220. negthebarkeep - February 27th, 2008 at 10:46 pm

i would have to agree that “the exorcist” is,by far,the best.i truly believe it is based on a true story like i’ve always been told,which terrifies me.

for this same reason,i would have to say another one of my all time faves is “the exorcism of emily rose.”.frightening stuff,whether it was real or epilepsy or whatever.

and mad props to “american werewolf in london.”.SWEETEST TRANSFORMATION EVER!!!
CLASSIC!!!

-d-

221. Phillies - February 27th, 2008 at 10:47 pm

I’ve always had a soft spot for the Halloween movies, corny though they are.

Plus Nightmare on Elm Street holds a special place. I enjoy Freddy

222. MellyBelly - February 27th, 2008 at 10:55 pm

Okay, long time lurker here…but since I’m a horror freak, had to chime in. I also have a film degree which means I have no business loving horror like I do. It took me nearly 20 years to overcome the snobbery that came with that piece of paper, but I am finally free!

I’m suprised there has been so much talk about what genre something goes in. To me that’s always been something for the P&A folks to worry about. If it creeps me out, it’s horror in my book. I am more of a fan of the “feels like a nightmare” flick than that of the “that could really happen” variety. So here are my fave “surreal / feels like a nightmare” flicks. I’ve never made a list of my faves, but here’s a start.

SUSPIRIA is the best of the best, IMO. (fgds - you rock!) It is a nightmare on celluloid. The plot makes very little sense, the dubbing is hideously weird (one could argue that it’s bad, but I think it adds to the nightmarish quality), but no movie has ever given me the creeps like Suspiria. The score, the colors, the lack of logic, the production design, the pace…you just have to see it to believe it. Dario Argento is one creepy freakin director. I love all of his stuff.

Others I was distubed by (although I wouldn’t call them the “best ever”, I’d call them some of the best not-so-well-known):
THEY LIVE - Paranoia about “us” and “them” in a materialistic world. And man, the way “they” move…creepy.
SUICIDE CLUB - More a comment on Japanese pop culture and suicide, but unnerving, especially the bubblegum pop music connection.
VISITOR Q - for those who’ve seen Audition, this little Takashi Miike film will make you want to scratch your eyeballs out. Most horrific of all - when it’s over you find yourself wondering whether you liked it or not. And if you did, should you have yourself committed?
NOSFERATU - Max Schreck in Murnau’s classic is so over the top horrific that the movie “Shadow of the Vampire” (about Schreck himself being a vampire) really made me wonder…

Anyway, I really need to get some sleep, but on a final note, I have to disagree with the “sequels ruin the original” sentiment. For example, I enjoyed The Exorcist. The sequels were total crap, but to me it takes nothing away from the original…just different movies that in no way affect my feelings on the first one.

Wow, my first post, and what a ramble…

223. Fili - February 27th, 2008 at 11:07 pm

While I thought that The Exorcist was shocking, it wasn’t terribly scary. However, even though nothing too scary happens on it, The Shining is probably the scariest movies I’ve seen.

224. rhharley - February 27th, 2008 at 11:26 pm

The Shining has always, and will always, scare the bejesus outta me. I watch it only when there’s lots of lights on, and I need people around me, preferably my big cuddly protecting boyfriend!

225. MarK - February 27th, 2008 at 11:27 pm

watch shutter? i tihnk thats what its called..its thai movie about a photog..and GHOSTS!
lol

has one of the creepiest scenes in a movies ive ever seen.

226. Susana - February 28th, 2008 at 12:24 am

The Exorcist,IT,Candyman,All movies that involve Chuckie.Nothing creepier than a murderous doll.

227. Reonne - February 28th, 2008 at 12:24 am

If anyone has actually compared The Shining(original) to the book they would realize that it is not nearly as scary as it should be. The remake of it, not as well known, is so much better. Fairly true to the story and much more scary.
High Tension scared the crap out of me until the ending. Weird twist.

228. SarahJ - February 28th, 2008 at 12:35 am

silent hill, the shining, silence of the lambs, Nightmare on Elm street - I have had to watch all of them sitting beside someone, because I get frights and yell (and have to cover my ears)

229. fishing4monkeys - February 28th, 2008 at 12:36 am

Wow I got here late…lol

230. jesse - February 28th, 2008 at 12:42 am

SAW is definitely not the best horror movie, but the whole series is my favorite, it just blows my mind.

231. Jono - February 28th, 2008 at 12:56 am

Cannibal Holocaust.

232. Sonis - February 28th, 2008 at 1:36 am

The Wicker Man - orginal version with Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee & Britt Eckland. Very creepy, and although not actually scary whilst you watch it - it sticks in your mind afterwards! It also has a brilliant soundtrack.

233. arbee - February 28th, 2008 at 1:49 am

1.The Exorcist
2.BLAIR WITCH PROJECT
3.AMITY VILL.
4.NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
5.SAW
6.EVIL DEAD
7.Psycho
8.FRIDAY THE 13TH
9.NIGHTMARE AT ELM ST.
10.THE GRUDGE

234. Reea - February 28th, 2008 at 2:01 am

The Others - definitely.

Although there isn’t one drop of blood in the movie (at least not, you know, blood as in someone killed someone) it scared the hell outta me. The kids also - they have a certain way in the movie, in which they portrait the sickness and their lives that creped me out.

I can surely say that The Others is a masterpiece of it’s genre.

235. heavybison - February 28th, 2008 at 2:10 am

There’s a rarely seen flick called Don’t Look Now (1973) starring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie which, though it’s generally classified as a Thriller has an element of supernatural in it. It’s claim to fame though is the lovemaking scene between the 2 leads (rumored to be the real deal) which was considered pretty graphic for it’s’ time. The movie though is worth checking out especially for the weird and creepy backdrop of Venice and surreal soundtrack.

236. PJMurphy - February 28th, 2008 at 3:37 am

I have loved movies for a LONG time, and I’m not scared by monsters, aliens, sea creatures, or dolls.

What scares ME is my fellow man.

Having said that, the scariest scene in cinema, without a doubt, is the scene where Sir Lawrence Olivier asks Dustin Hoffman, “Is It Safe?”, in Marathon Man. If you have never seen this movie, this scene alone is worth it.

As far as scary movies go, try “Hard Candy”. It stars Ellen Page of Juno. Basically, a creepy guy meets a young girl over the ‘net, and they go back to his place.

But she’s not the victim. He is.

237. Mel - February 28th, 2008 at 4:29 am

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS — its not really a horror, but it scared the hell out of me.

238. Mel - February 28th, 2008 at 4:35 am

THE SIXTH SENSE - i found the opeing scene especially chilling