Best Horror Movie Ever

Without having thought about it before, I think the best might well be the original Ring - it perfectly combines the two types of horror - the slowly building creepy feeling, and the jumping out of your skin. The Thing and Halloween have been mentioned a lot, and they are both incredible. Evil Dead 2 and Sixth Sense gave me the biggest jumps of my life. Resident Evil was not a classic film and not really worthy of being mentioned in this thread, but it made me feel like I was heading for a heart attack in the cinema. And another one that might raise a few chuckles - Blair Witch 2 - I went into it having watched all the surrounding fake documentaries, at a late night showing, and the cinema was full but absolutely silent the whole way through - ideal conditions for a horror film, and it scared me half to death.
 
audition

i physically cannot sit through that film as it starts off almost liek a romantic comedy but then becomes evil & really goes for your sense, its already filled your midn with terror & now is bombardign yoru senses


saying that it should be a give away as there is a japanese lass wearign chemical safe black gloves holdign a syrign on the front cover
 
agree with the posts on the Omen - remeber the decapitation scene? What about THAT eerie music. The horror of that theme is now diluted thanks to Only Fools and Horses using it in their episodes with baby Damien and Rodney!

I also enjoyed Demons where tenagers are stuck in the cinema with truly awful looking Zombies!

my other fave horror movies:

Halloween
Dawn of the Dead
Candyman, (Candyman, Candyman) (oops!)
The fog
Death Warmed up (Aussie or New Zealand Zombie b-movie)
 
The Omen is the only film that's ever scared the living crap out of me. I was 11 when I saw it, and it was the combination of weird killings and that haunting music.

Every other so called great horror movie has just made me laugh.
 
Two British b+w films made in the 60's which are well worth watching:

Curse of the Demon and The Haunting.

They are low on gore but strong on characterisation and atmosphere. Both very spooky.:eek:

And for a good laugh check out the two brief appearances of the demon in C of the D.:D

The Haunting was remade a few years ago but the reviews were so bad that I never got around to watching it.
 
I wouldn't say Audition was a horror film really... Although the final 15 minutes is probably the most horrific thing I've ever seen in a movie. The cover is what attracted me to it :)
 
Has anyone seen The Last House on the Left?
Its getting released for the first time in the UK since its ban 30 years ago and supposed to be Wes Cravens finest film.
 
There have been some classics mentioned in this thread! Now horror is my fave genre and I could talk about it for hours, VERY surprised no one has mentioned ROSEMARY'S BABY - up there with the Exorcist and The Omen, IMO. If you haven't seen it, rent a copy - truly spine-tingling. Also THE DENTIST starring Corbin Bernsen scared the shit out of me, mainly because I am terrified of the Dentist's drill anyway. One more recent movie which left me hiding behind the sofa one lonely dark night was JEEPERS CREEPERS! Watched it again with a bunch of frienRAB in daylight and wondered what the fuss was about, but that first night I was too scared to go up the stairs after watching it!!!
 
Last House on the Left is proper disturbing, I watched some of it before going for the stop button. I don't like horror movies of that nature as that kind of stuff probably happens in real life.

I'd rather stick to the ones with vampires, goblins, ghosts, unstoppable psycho killers who wear wierd looking masks and things that go bump in the night! Call me chicken! :p

I watched Frailty and have to say that is has shot right up the list of my favorite horror movies of all time. Not a straight up horror flick but definately a very chilling experience and brilliant directorial debut courtesy of Bill Paxton (Game Over man, Game over!)
 
Forgot to mention THE AMITYVILLE HORROR - there's something about this type of story when it's based on a true event, which multiplies the scare factor by 100!
 
Hasn't anyone here seen the Korean film The Eye - now that is actually scary in an old-school sense, low on gore & high on suspense. Definetly worth hunting down... Its been released in the UK by Tartan
 
I don't have a favourite horror movie, but these are some that I liked:

The first Halloween is the most chilling, after that the latter sequels just completely descended into parody.

I liked Friday the 13th and again, the latter versions were just completely laughable.

An American Werewolf in London, The Thing, Evil Dead, Bad Taste are all grotesque and simultaneously hilarious movies :)
 
i've only seen this film once, years ago when it was shown on BBC2,but the imagery and haunting music stay with you.
it's a film that's not shaken off easily.
 
For those of you who watched or have seen Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I can tell you that on Channel 4 on Wednesday night 10pm there is a programme on called The Real Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Apparently, a few months after they made the movie, a couple of nuns went missing round the vicinity where they movie was shot. They later found them murdered and apparently a garden saw was used during the murders! How creepy is that? I think I will check the programme out.

But Leatherface was hilarious some of the scenes in the movie were pure comedy genius, like at the end where the trucker dude whacks Leatherface across the head with that spanner. Boom! Leatherface slips on the floor and he cuts his own leg up with the chainsaw!

I've not seen Audition but I understand it makes for real painful viewing, really tests your metal kind of flick. I don't think I could sit through something that is too graphically violent.

Omen 1 & 2 are brilliant horror films, creepy as well!

Stickylol, yeh I have seen Dawn of the Dead....that is a good hammy horror flick, set in that big shopping mall infested with Zombies innit? Day of the Dead is cool as well, set in that army camp, thats the one where one of the humans get ripped in half by the zombies.
 
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