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Favorite Horror / Suspense Flick?

Posted by Dukepro25 • 10/21/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: halloween, horror, movies, suspense

All night at work we were talkin about movies.

What are you favorite Horror / Suspense movies of all time?

What are your least favorite?

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10/21/08

dsriharsha

Was more comedy than horror but I really like Constantine.
The Cube series is good too. Final Destination 1 was scary. The rest in the series were crap.

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10/21/08

chrissymarie321

I am not so keen on horror, I confess that I hide behind my hand and peep through my fingers even when I am watching the Omen and Jack Nicholson terrifies me in the Shining!
I quite like thrillers though, all time favourite probably has to be Silence of the Lambs.

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10/21/08

Dukepro25

Grudge - SUCKS!!!

Crap lol

American Haunting is crap too.

Exorcism of Emily Rose isn't that great either.

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10/21/08

SweetViolet

I don't like the horror genre at all, and most suspense movies are more boring than suspenseful to me.

I like crime dramas, action movies (Bruce Willis and Arnie movies are my dirty little secrets), fantasy stuff like Harry Potter, romcoms, and historicals (provided they aren't turgid).

I won't watch horror movies and have been bored by so many "suspense" movies that I try to avoid them now.

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10/21/08

dosyrosie

I really like horror, always dragging my man to the cinema to see another one!! Thought Hostel was bad. Just went to see Mirrors, that was good, although bit disappointed with the ending. The Saw films are good but as with most series' of films the earlier ones were better, when you weren't sure what was going on!
I like old Horror/Suspense too, like Duel!!

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10/21/08

JaydenVasara

i can't watch horror (i always run out of the theaters) but i love suspense/thrillers. "wait until dark" with audrey hepburn is one of my all-time favorites.

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10/21/08

kdawg68

Probably overall I'd say it was the original Alien. Always loved that film. Got back into it a bit when the releases came out showing the "deleted scenes" of Tom Skerrit cocooned in the alien's chamber - and Harry Dean Stanton morphing into some sort of egg like contraption. This of course was the basis for James Cameron's direction the sequel (Aliens - which Thriftshop can tell you all about)moved into.

Some other good ones:

-Audition (though not true "horror" per say..I just have a crush on the freak chick even if she feeds vomit to people). The Japanese are masters of horror in my opinion.

-The Thing (posted about it here): www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/the-thing
though apparently nobody else was interested.

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1. 10/21/08
  
  MidwestMom
  
  Kdawg... The Thing was a great movie. Do you mean the original or the Kurt Russell remake?
2. 10/21/08
  
  kdawg68
  
  I prefer the Kurt Russell remake - partly because I think J. Carpenter did a brilliant job with the script. It's usually glossed over as a box office failure, border-line b-movie, but there is genius there if you look hard enough.
  
  (note: if you like that version -then click on the discussion link in my above comment and be sure and check out Rob Ager's youtube analysis - the guy is SPOT ON with his analysis)
10/21/08

Shy

SAW!!!! blood brilliant!!!

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1. 10/21/08
  
  LGramlich
  
  Yes! Totally!
10/21/08

faithsju243

Let me see here the worst horror movie I saw was probably this trash called Feast.

My favorites are Pet Sematary, IT, Silence of the Lambs (not horror but suspense), The Howling, Aliens and the Omen.

Bottom line they just don't do horror like they used to.
Oh and Rosemary's Baby that was a good one.

How about Horror Comedy like Fright Night!!!

Edit Texas Chainsaw Massacre -original one!

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10/21/08

calais50

best Suspense-"The Game" with Michael Douglas

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10/21/08

amollimaye

The Sixth Sense

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1. 10/21/08
  
  Dukepro25
  
  A classic!
  
  Gotta love the Sixth Sense.
10/21/08

cranelegs

abbott and costella meet frankenstein, the best.
invasion of the saucer men, the worst (worse than plan nine from outer space; set women back probably 134 years)

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10/21/08

Guzzo

Most Favorite: When it first came out, truly scary.. The Exorcist.

Least Favorite: Anything with Chucky.

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10/21/08

MidwestMom

Play Misty for Me (minus the music sequences with Clint Eastwood and love interest frolicing in the sunshine) was *very* creepy. It was Fatal Attraction before Fatal Attraction.

I first saw it alone at night-time. My dad called me in the middle of it, and my phone ringer was on "loud". I nearly jumped out of my skin.

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10/21/08

LGramlich

Least favorite; The Blob. The original Blob.

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1. 10/21/08
  
  MidwestMom
  
  Look out for the Grape Jelly from Space!
  
  AAAAAAHHHH (runs in super slow motion...)
10/21/08

lotusb

I don't know if "favorite" is the right word...but it SURE was creepy. I actually suffered a panic attack during the movie. It's called High Tension, it's a French film and it's VERY graphic.

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10/21/08

Onchong

Favs: Amityville Horror and Van Helsing

Least Fav: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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1. 10/21/08
  
  Dukepro25
  
  Amityville Horror and Van Helsing
  
  Both good.
10/21/08

sellytapgirl

The Others and Teh Sixth Sense are my faves. I loathe Saw (all 5 Saws)

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1. 10/21/08
  
  Dukepro25
  
  Nice picks.
10/21/08

thefly

Oh man, there are so many. Too many people think these new horror movies are classic horror when in reality they are just crap and rehashes.

You have to go back to the original low budget twisted horror. I like to think of myself as a connesieur of horror films.

My favs:

The Exorcist
Halloween
Poltergeist
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)
Nightmare on Elm Street (1,3,4,and 5)
Night of the Living Dead (original)

More recent superb films:

28 days later
28 weeks later
Dawn of the Dead
Se7en

and Quarentine which is in the theatres now and I loved it.

buzz buzz

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1. 10/21/08
  
  kat822
  
  Never been able to watch the exorsist all the way through, even the tv edited version,
  I love psychologial horror like the
  Sixth Sense
10/21/08

Dukepro25

The Hills Have Eyes is another one that I hated.

Silent Hill was pretty good though.

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10/21/08

Theresa111

The Wizard of Oz!

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10/21/08

janizarzagon

All Saw movies, Night of the Living dead, chainsaw massacre, Dawn of the dead!

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10/21/08

katscandles

Not very popular, but "Stir of Echoes" with Kevin Bacon did it for me!

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1. 10/21/08
  
  kat822
  
  is that the one where he is haunted by the girl??? don't want to give away the plot and ending, if so it was very good I liked it
2. 10/22/08
  
  Dukepro25
  
  That was just ok.
  
  I liked it, but I didn't think it was great.
10/21/08

LynneaUrania

Of course it may not be true horror/suspense, but I did enjoy Rocky Horror.

Least favorite? Same thing.

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10/21/08

kat822

Let's do the time warp again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Toast> flings pieces of toast at the computer screen lol

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10/22/08

earthlingorgeous

They are not actually horror per se but I have compiled my favorite movies with vampires in it here: earthlyexplorations.blogspot.com/2008/10/bite-is-all-it-takes.html

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10/22/08

IbneAdam

All movies with Shah Rukh Khan.
Nightmare on elm street.
Jeeper creeper.

Someone above mentioned "Night of living dead". I think that is a comedy movie (it was a horror movie for its time. But with so much seen and advancement of technology, that seems to be a comedy movie)

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10/22/08

dosox

Tom & Jerry... & nothing else

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10/22/08

WARSHOCK

my faves:
-the exorcist ...it started a genre at that time, it was said that those who saw the movie ran to see their priests afterwards.
-not all, but some stephen king movies.
-well..i completed the friday the 13th, hellraiser,halloween,nightmare at elmstreet, saw series.

least faves:
copy cat spinoffs..

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10/22/08

kirat92

the breed was pretty scary.

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10/22/08

claudiorodval

Horror:
Blair Witch Project

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10/23/08

ThreeWest

The Haunting of Julia
High Tension
Killer Clowns From Outer Space
Poltergeist I-III
Those Exorcist Movies

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10/23/08

arshad

saw 1 was great .But i did not like the other parts .

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10/23/08

chrissred

there is none other than EXORCIST by Linda Blair that made me sleep at night with lights on for months! really scary yikes!

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10/23/08

fairchildonrage

i don't usually watch these genres coz they always make me cry while watching (weird aren't i?) and they cost me three sleepless nights everytime!

i have watched The Ring and I swore never to watch the same thing again but i just watched Dark Water just last week! XD

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1. 10/23/08
  
  Dukepro25
  
  Dark Water is a good one.
10/23/08

cranelegs

surprised no one has mentioned "w."

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10/23/08

sisterofmercy

Sleepy Hollow, not very scary but I watch it every Halloween.

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10/23/08

Shiley

Alfrded Hitchcock's Pshyco or Vertigo I'm not much for Freddy or Jason.

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1. 10/23/08
  
  Dukepro25
  
  Birds was really good.
  
  I was very surprised.
  
  Psycho is also good.
  
  Haven't watched Vertigo in quite some time, but from what I remember, that was good too.
2. 10/23/08
  
  Shiley
  
  I like Alfred he's a strange little man.
3. 10/23/08
  
  Dukepro25
  
  lol

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