What's the best horror film you have seen ?

I saw this for the first time the other day after wanting to watch it for ages. I thought it was really good if a little hard to follow at times regarding the whole 'death skipping a person' thing.
I agree that the kills were really inventive, particularly the death of the teacher, overall it was 90 or so minutes that really flew by for me (no pun intended. :D)
 
I'm not a horror fan and haven't really seen any in years so I couldn't comment on what is the best but TCM isn't scary.

I went to see it with a group of frienRAB when it was re-released in the cinema and we spent most of the film laughing rather than being scared. It doesn't have a great deal of moments that make you jump out of your seat (apart from that scene with the meat hook), a large part of the film is just the woman screaming which we found unintentionally funny.

Perhaps we were just expecting more from a 'video nasty'.
 
The Thing:D

Not gory by todays standarRAB but having been brought up with a subtle diet of Hammer Horror then The Thing was about the scariest film I'd seen back in 1982 and I still love it.
 
I'm all for the whole 'original films are better ' argument , but i can't see much difference between.REC and Quarantine. Virtually a shot for shot remake .

I'm more worried about what is gonna happen to the Hollywood remake of 'Let The Right One In' .
 
one of my all time favourite horror films. I think it was The Barbican that had a series of Shakespeare related shows on back in the mid 90's, remember seeing TOB on the big screen, it was great. A true classic.
 
Nice to see plaudits here for Theatre Of Blood. Must point out though it isn't Hammer, which - dare I say it - may be partly why it is such a distinguished British horror entry of the period. It's also a notably succesful horror comic - the humour is as sable as the repellent violence which, as always works most effectively, is mainly implied through suggestion and the anticipation of the grotesque rather than actual on-screen gore.

A brilliant part both for and as played by the great Vincent Price, the plot like a self-referential elegy for the ageing star, and a very intelligently written and executed film.
 
That's another one for my list too. Can't watch it by myself to this day. I do think they should have stopped after the first film however - Freddy Kruger turned into a pantomime horror villain...
 
For me, I'd have to say it was the 1986 version of The Fly by David Cronenberg as I first watched it when I was about 7 and it still affects me emotionally to this day (I'm nearly 22). Incidentally, I've just seen it's on Film4 tonight and if I do decide to watch it, it'll be through my fingers and probably with the light on too!
 
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