What are your top 5 horror movies?

In terms of films that scare me (or at least they did when i first watched them) - in no particular order

Wolf Creek
The Descent
The Hills have Eyes
Hostel (The concept of this scared the living daylights out of me and the gore and torture just made me squirm)

And it didnt scare me like the others but halloween is just the ultimate slasher film that all others try to live up to and often fall flat. The original, not the Rob Zombie remake.
 
Literally just watched this after reading countless reccomendations for it on this forum. No offence, but I thought it was utter crap! Not scary in the slightest, infact i pretty much guessed the "twist" within the first ten minutes. The fact that it had David Caruso in it didn't exactly help the film either, he's a terrible actor, but none of the others were much better tbh.
 
I don't think i even finished watching Doomsday, gave up halfway through. Even the fabulous Sean Pertwee couldn't save that film. How did Neil Marshall manage to go downhill? Still i guess it could be worse, at least he wasn't the one who made The Descent 2.

Although apparently he made a film called Centurion that came out in April this year, yet i've never heard of it. Did it even come out at the cinema? Not a good sign! Maybe he peaked a little too early...

Can anyone recommend any decent scary horrors to watch then? I love horror films, but the majority i really don't find scary at all and i really want to watch something that utterly terrifies me.
 
I hated the Descent sequel.

Loved the first, easily one of the best horrors films from the last ten years in my opinion.
 
David Caruso is in it?

Oh dear, i'm sorry but that has just ruled out me ever watching that film. He's terrible! I shudder whenever i see the aRAB for CSI Miami, let alone watching a whole film with him in... :eek:
 
Again, Session 9 I'll have to give that a miss thanks to David Caruso. Unfortunately Andy, you don't sound very convincing about his performance in First Blood either :P

I'm sure The Dark is worth a watch, simply for Sean Bean If nothing else. Can't say the trailer was screaming "watch me" though!

Orphan - is that a recent film? The title sounRAB familiar. Anybody famous-ish in it?

Unfortunately I didn't rate The Orphanage at all. I had high hopes for it, but I was letdown. The kid was a little creepy, and I did enjoy the ending, but i found it to be darkly funny and not scary in the slightest.

I think I'm a little hard to please when it comes to scary films!
 
Midnight meat train
Train
wolf creek
all the saw series
orphan
mirrors
the descent
the tattooist
the children
the thing
the howling
dead silence
autopsy

if ive missed any off ..im sorry :D
 
No I haven't, is that worth a buy then?

Anything else noteworthy?

I love horror films, even the terribly bad cheesy ones, but I really want to be scared! I didn't even see the appeal of The Exorcist or The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
 
DEFINITELY worth buying! It's very harrowing... and bleak... :eek:

How about Orphan? Or Session 9?

Also The Dark and The Orphanage
 
House of Wax was a brilliant film, let down only by the appearance of Paris Hilton. One of the scariest '15' rated films I've seen in ages.

I watched the full uncut Last House on the Left the other day. A real classic of the horror genre. I definitely recommend the 3-Disc Ultimate Edition DVD to anyone who hasn't seen it. Amazing extras, including 'world exclusive' unseen footage.
Haven't seen the remake, though. Doubt it'll be better than the original.
 
So it doesn't have a happy ending? That's always a plus point. There's nothing I like more than an ending in which nobody survives!

I must admit I haven't heard of either of those films. Or ever seen them either. What're they about?
 
You've got to appreciate the irony of her death scene though; on her knees with a large pointy object through her head. Something that she's fairly used to:p



I actually prefer the remake. It's much more menacing. Probably the only film i've seen at the cinema where everyone was completely silent (during the graphic rape scene), you could cut the atmosphere of unease in the theatre with a knife. The acting is better, the characters are more sympathetic, and i just felt that it was generally the all round better version.

The thing i really didn't like about the original was the comic relief cop characters. That and the fact that it was nowhere near as nasty and graphic as most places had me believe (and yes, it's the uncut verision i've seen).
 
If I eschew the gore for gore's sake like August Underground, Guinea Pig series etc..

Blair Witch Project
Halloween
The Exorcist
[Rec]
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
 
Nightmare on elm street(the original 1984)
Day of the dead(1985)
Return of the living dead part 2(1987)
The devils rejects(2006)
Stephen Kings IT(1990)

Others i really enjoyed recently were...

Hills have eyes remake
Dead Set
Halloween Remake
Trick R Treat
The Mist
 
Great points well put. I have to second everything you said there.

Zombies shouldn't run!

And the Dawn Of The Dead remake was so different from the original, it might as well have had a diffeent name!
 
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