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Corpse
Don't Dream It, Be It
Joined: Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:45 pm Posts: 37162 Location: The Graveyard
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 Re: Your top 10 favourite horror films
1. The Rocky Horror Picture Show 2. Sleepy Hollow. 3. The Blair Witch Project 4. Misery 5. Creepshow 6. The Shining 7. The Descent 8. Scream 9. Carrie 10. Halloween
Forgot Sleepy Hollow!
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Mon Oct 29, 2007 12:36 am |
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trixster
loyalfromlondon
Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2004 6:31 pm Posts: 19697 Location: ville-marie
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 Re: Your top 10 favourite horror films
Corpse wrote: trixster wrote: Corpse wrote: I hate trying to define a horror film. Like I wouldnt consider Carrie a horror film really, or Jaws. If I include Jaws, Id have to include The Host, which I dont consider a horror film either. And the Exorcist. Personally, I don't see it as a horror flick. But I guess I'll include them.
1. The Rocky Horror Picture Show 2. The Blair Witch Project 3. Misery 4. Creepshow 5. The Shining 6. The Descent 7. Scream 8. Carrie 9. Halloween 10. Night of the Living Dead (68) You think Rocky Horror is a horror film, but not Carrie, Jaws, or The Exorcist?  I don't consider Misery a horror film either, but it's listed as one on websites. And if you go to Wal-Mart and look at their Halloween Movie Month Section, Rocky Horror is there. Well, it's a parody of horror films, it's not one itself. That's why I didn't include Shaun of the Dead or American Psycho, they're like satires of the genre - respectful satires - but aren't really 'true' horror films.
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Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:23 am |
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Gulli
Jordan Mugen-Honda
Joined: Mon May 01, 2006 9:53 am Posts: 13403
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 Re: Your top 10 favourite horror films
Hard genre to define for me.
Off the top of my head I'd say
The Thing Shutter Alone The Descent Candyman Below How to Get Ahead in Advertising (well it bothers the hell out of me so in it goes) Society (mass body orge thingie!) Ringu The Omen The Car
The Thing and Shutter would be 1 and 2, the rest interchangable.
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Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:40 am |
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Nebs
Joined: Wed Nov 29, 2006 8:01 pm Posts: 6385
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Don't go by what some sites think it's horror, but by what you think.
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Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:51 am |
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Quint
Baaaaa!
Joined: Sat May 06, 2006 10:31 am Posts: 1011 Location: Lookin for mah bukkit
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 Re: Your top 10 favourite horror films
Off the top of my head:
1. Jaws 2. The Thing 3. The Descent 4. 28 Weeks Later 5. Aliens 6. Evil Dead 2 7. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1950s version) 8. The Exorcist 9. Night of the Living Dead 10. The Evil Dead Honorable Mention: Psycho, The Birds, Halloween, Alien, Scream, A Nightmare on Elm Street
Army of Darkness is actually my favorite Evil Dead film, but I feel that it moved far enough away from the horror genre to not be counted as such.
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Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:24 pm |
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kypade
Kypade
Joined: Sat Oct 30, 2004 10:53 pm Posts: 7908
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 Re: Your top 10 favourite horror films
I haven't seen nearly enough horror films to make an educated top ten, but here's an uneducated top 8:
01 Psycho 02 Hour of the Wolf 03 Suspiria 04 Jigoku 05 The Shining 06 The Birds 07 28 Weeks Later 08 Jaws 09 Jacob's Ladder
I always say to myself that I'm going to watch the obvious horror films just for obviousity's sake, but whenever the opportunity arises I find myself not caring. Maybe I'll hit up the library this week.
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Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:13 pm |
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The Dark Shape
Extraordinary
Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 3:56 am Posts: 12119 Location: Adrift in L.A.
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What bizarro world am I in where 28 Weeks Later is a top 10 horror film?
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Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:28 pm |
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Squee
Squee
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:01 pm Posts: 13270 Location: Yuppieville
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The Dark Shape wrote: What bizarro world am I in where 28 Weeks Later is a top 10 horror film? A bizarro world in which people like the movie, I suppose.
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Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:30 pm |
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Gulli
Jordan Mugen-Honda
Joined: Mon May 01, 2006 9:53 am Posts: 13403
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 Re: Your top 10 favourite horror films
The Dark Shape wrote: What bizarro world am I in where 28 Weeks Later is a top 10 horror film? Even though I love the film I wouldn't consider it horror, so in a way I agree.
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Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:32 pm |
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The Dark Shape
Extraordinary
Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 3:56 am Posts: 12119 Location: Adrift in L.A.
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People like movies on the internet? I thought we just got together to bitch? Weird, man. Weird. 
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Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:35 pm |
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Squee
Squee
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:01 pm Posts: 13270 Location: Yuppieville
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The Dark Shape wrote: People like movies on the internet? I thought we just got together to bitch? Weird, man. Weird.  Hmm... Good point. Let's get back to it!
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Quint
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Joined: Sat May 06, 2006 10:31 am Posts: 1011 Location: Lookin for mah bukkit
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Gullimont wrote: The Dark Shape wrote: What bizarro world am I in where 28 Weeks Later is a top 10 horror film? Even though I love the film I wouldn't consider it horror, so in a way I agree. It does sort of stray more into action or thriller than horror (as does Aliens), but I figured that it was close enough to consider a horror movie.
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Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:24 pm |
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STROKER ACE
Speed Racer
Joined: Tue May 31, 2005 7:07 pm Posts: 199
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 Re: Your top 10 favourite horror films
Halloween Psycho Poltergeist The Hills have Eyes (remake) Suspiria A Nightmare on Elm Street The Legend of Hell House Let's Scare Jessica To Death Night of the Creeps The Birds
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Tue Oct 30, 2007 7:00 pm |
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Algren
now we know
Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:31 pm Posts: 68230 Location: Seattle, WA
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My favourite horror films:
1. Scream 2. Paranormal Activity 3. Paranormal Activity 2 4. Paranormal Activity 3 5. Halloween 6. Saw 7. Drag Me to Hell 8. Halloween H20 9. The Strangers 10. 28 Days Later
I mainly favoured films that have scared the living crap out of me and I'd enjoyed it (because I'd watched them as an adult, not like watching I.T. as a child which made me scared of clowns for my entire life) with a few stylistic favourites towards the end of the list. Other favourites include It Follows, Evil Dead 2, Haute Tension, The Faculty, Dawn of the Dead (2004).
Expanding to action-horror, then I would have Predator top the list, with Dog Soldiers in the top five. Others that straddle the fence are From Dusk Till Dawn and John Carpenter's Vampires. I love them, but they are not strictly horror. Also in the action-horror sub-genre are Underworld and Underworld: Evolution. Great films.
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tree and a half
Cream of the Crop
Joined: Mon Jan 11, 2016 11:38 am Posts: 2084
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 Re: Your top 10 favourite horror films
I managed to get it down to 36, in date order:
Freaks (1932) The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Dead of Night (1945) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Kwaidan (1965) Satan's School For Girls (1973) Trilogy of Terror (1975) The Omen (1976) Eraserhead (1977) Halloween (1978) The Shining (1980) An American Werewolf in London (1981) Blue Velvet (1986) Angel Heart (1987) The Vanishing (1988) Dead Ringers (1988) The Cell (2000) Open Water (2003) Dawn of the Dead (2004) The Devil's Rejects (2005) The Skeleton Key (2005) Slither (2006) Bug (2006) Inland Empire (2006) The Mist (2007) Funny Games (2007) Pontypool (2008) Let the Right One In (2008) Drag Me To Hell (2009) Orphan (2009) Frozen (2010) Fright Night (2011) Cabin In The Woods (2012) Mama (2013) The Purge: Election Year (2016) Elle (2016)
(Were there really no good horror films in the 90's, or am I forgetting something?)
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Algren
now we know
Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:31 pm Posts: 68230 Location: Seattle, WA
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 Re: Your top 10 favourite horror films
Some Japanese 90s horror films are quite well regarded, such as Ring and Audition. Do you like those?
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tree and a half
Cream of the Crop
Joined: Mon Jan 11, 2016 11:38 am Posts: 2084
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 Re: Your top 10 favourite horror films
Ringu was good, but not worthy of my list.
I'll add Audition to my to-watch lsit.
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David
Pure Phase
Joined: Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:33 am Posts: 34865 Location: Maryland
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 Re: Your top 10 favourite horror films
28 Days Later Alien An American Werewolf in London Bram Stoker's Dracula The Company of Wolves Hellraiser The Innocents Interview with the Vampire Near Dark Sleepy Hollow
Five runners-up:
The Blair Witch Project Dead of Night The Haunting (original) The Others The Witch
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Thegun
On autopilot for the summer
Joined: Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:14 pm Posts: 21856 Location: Walking around somewhere
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I can't believe how long ago the Descent was. Outside of that and Strangers, the genre has really been lacking. The conjuring and PA really don't do anything for me. Annabelle is the first and only movie I ever walked out of. So boring
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