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What's your all time favourite Horror movie?

Posted by ancer • 9/04/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: horror, movie

I've been wanting to ask this. For me, I did 'enjoy' watching 'Blair Witch project' - it gave me the shivers. Believe it or not, have yet to watch 'The Exorcism of Emily Rose.'Stephen King is undoubtedly the best in horror. Sam Reimi too.

What about you?

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9/04/07

06mopar

I would have to go with rabid grannies. It was the cheesiest movie I have ever seen but very funny.

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9/04/07

jpearce

The first two Alien movies I like. Don't remember David Finchers version and I want desperately to forget Jean-Pierre Jeunets Alien Resurrection.

Knowing Jean-Pierre directed Delicatessen and City of Lost Children can you imagine my disappointment. Hey he probably needed the money.

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1. 9/05/07
  
  beelzebubby
  
  Definitely Alien...Shat myself with that bloody cat...Alien 2 was good as well..In fact I'm going to make a Horror film and just call it
  
  Wheres The Cat?
  
  They always get the biggest frights no matter what Horror film it is.
9/04/07

BFK63

Silence of the Lambs, followed closely by Halloween, I blogged about this the other day as well.

sindianavisions.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/dawn-of-the-daisy-all-time-favorit...

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9/04/07

monkeytale

I've always been a fan of Stephen King. I liked "The Stand" and "IT".

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9/04/07

ancer

Oh my, I forgot - The Ring. Yeah. That was a real scare!

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9/04/07

ricardoolvera

All the Nightmare on Elm Street ones...

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9/04/07

ancer

I think SK's 'IT' was a disappointment.

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9/04/07

Madcrow

Aloha.. Well I'm with BFK63.. Silence of the Lambs scares the s#@t out of me.. Well Sir Anthony Hopkins does anyways.. The Dr. Hannibal Lecter character is the scariest, freakiest and everything else ' iest..' I am also a fan of ' Pinhead ' from the cult classics Hellraiser series..

Madcrow
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9/04/07

FemmedeBat

Silence of the Lambs was really good. I also liked Mary Reilly.

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9/04/07

FemmedeBat

Oh, and The Exorcist still scares the heck outta me. That's about the only one that actually scares me.

After watching the original Psycho, I felt uncomfortable in the shower for a long time.

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9/04/07

Lovebabz

To this day, I can't watch the Exorcist, the music alone scares the bejebbies out of me--even if it comes on network tV with a million commercials. And Jaws, another soundtrack that will paralyze me.

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9/04/07

shaydelgado

I totall recoiled at the hollywood-made the RING

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9/04/07

Norski

Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

In an effort to find some way to justify the impressive special effects wrapped around the overt plot, I came up with this alternative viewpoint for watching the movie:

Mysterious aliens, after kidnapping thousands of people, stealing millions of dollars worth of property - including an ocean liner - and terrorizing people around the world, return.

First, they leave the property they've stolen in remote spots. Then, they flummox scientists and government leaders into greeting them at yet another remote location.

When their big ship arrives, they return the people they've kidnapped over the generations: or at least, creatures that look like the people they've been kidnapping.

Doesn't anybody notice that the people haven't aged? That they walk in the same stiff, clumsy, way that the aliens do? That not one of them speaks?!

Finally, a small number of what one may assume is the best and brightest, plus a middle-class nobody whose life was ruined after the aliens messed with his mind, blithely go into the alien's big ship.

Why doesn't anybody notice how sinister this all is?!

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9/04/07

PetLvr

The Demon Seed www.imdb.com/title/tt0075931/ .. I always thought that was a horror movie.

Eraserhead www.imdb.com/title/tt0074486/ .. We used to see this over and over like the Rocky Horror Picture Show, double billed with the (original) Texas Chainsaw Massaccre.

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9/05/07

ancer

Just a thought. There was a wave of Asian horror flicks that managed to find creative ways to tingle the spine. Of which THE RING was one of them. Then came hollywood to remake and attempt to add spice, either to make it more tasteful or otherwise.

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9/05/07

GrimlyFiendish

The Thing by John Carpenter and Hellraiser.

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9/05/07

v1ctorya

The Seed of Chucky - hilarious. What is better than homicidial dolls AND a gender confused doll voiced by Billy Boyd? Nothing I tell you, absolutely nothing.

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9/05/07

ThriftShopRomantic

For humorous horror, I'd say, "Shaun of the Dead", "Lost Skeleton of Cadavra" and "Army of Darkness."

For serious scary horror, I'd say, "The Shining," and this made-for-TV 80s movie that creeped me out for years as a kid, caled "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" (weird little creatures in the fireplace go after housewife Sally.)

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9/05/07

gosmelltheflowers

Blair witch project was scary with what you didn't see but the exorcist frightened me as a kid...

Scary movie 3 anyone?

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9/05/07

ThriftShopRomantic

The original The Fog was pretty scary, too, based on what you didn't see.

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9/05/07

DoubleTake

* Halloween 1
* Excorcist
* Invasion of the Body Snatcher

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9/05/07

scottmillerd

The one that gives me the creeps is "Nasfuratu".

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1. 9/05/07
  
  scottmillerd
  
  here it is if you want to be creeped out too.
  
  www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5JZw6hZFwU
9/05/07

Mythmaker

I *love* The Shining. Even the trailer for it gives me the heebies.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1ktsEv8NnQ

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1. 9/05/07
  
  scottmillerd
  
  Heeeeeeeer's Johnny
9/05/07

zawadi

I'm so scared of watching Horror movies alone.
The shining, wow I remember seeing that when I was about 14 and me and my little 6 yr old brother turned this on when our mom was cooking and she has no idea I was in her room kicked back watching Showtime.
Well eventually me and my little brother ran out screaming scared and that was the end of the shining and any movie like it for a long time...

Any Horror movie is bad lol cause I'm scared

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9/05/07

ThriftShopRomantic

I'd be curious to know how many kids were traumatized by that clown doll in Poltergeist. I never liked clowns after that.

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1. 9/05/07
  
  zawadi
  
  See this is why my Parents didn't allow me to watch movies like this.. I would be a total wreck for days
2. 9/05/07
  
  scottmillerd
  
  ewww the clown doll...
  
  blogs.indiewire.com/reverseshot/archives/pol04.jpg
9/05/07

FlyingFader

"Dawn of the Dead" (1978) is the perfect combo of scares and action. "The Evil Dead" is up there too.

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9/05/07

bnsullivan

I'm not a fan of horror movies, but I have seen a few. The original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" terrorized me when I was a kid. I saw it again not too long ago on TV, and still thought it was creepy, in premise at least.

You might be interested in this story: When I was in grad school I worked on a team researching different kinds of psychological stressors, and the physiological effects they produced. In particular, we were looking at which hormones were secreted in which combinations in response to various kinds of stressors, in an effort to differentiate different types of stress.

When we got to the topic of fear/fright as a stressor we had a heck of a time thinking up something we could do to scare our test subjects so that they'd secrete whatever, yet still do it in an ethical way. (Our test subjects were all medical students who volunteered.) Finally someone came up with the idea of scary movies as a sort of proxy scare.

Some students at the fine arts dept. helped us by putting together a "reel" composed of assorted movie clips. Interspersed among the love scenes and comedy bits were clips from the scariest parts of the scariest movies they could get their hands on. The volunteers were told only that they were going to watch some film clips, not about the content. They were seated in comfortable chairs, each with cannula in a vein in their forearm through which we collected blood samples at pre-determined times -- coordinated with what was happening on the screen. Analysis of the time series of blood samples yielded info about which hormones were secreted in response to which movie sequence. The results were amazingly similar across the pool of subjects. The scary movie clips were successful in triggering certain secretions.

We hadn't set out to determine which movie sequence was the scariest, but we did notice that certain stress markers we were looking for in the blood samples peaked for every one of our subjects right after the Cujo dog attack scene.

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9/05/07

Bricore

"The sound of Music"...lol...

No, really the old one with Linda Blair in it. That was the first one I ever seen and it was the first time I can recall that I had a nightmare after watching it...

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9/05/07

Bricore

Exorcist that's the name of it...

Dora Renee' Wilkerson

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9/05/07

v1ctorya

Shaun of the Dead was Good

I thought Blair Witch was crap, personally. I got a refund (from the theaters) for that one.

I'm not good with 'scary' scary movies, had enough of that in life, so will probably never see the Exorcist. had nightmares for weeks after seeing Scream.

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10/16/07

robinsonjoel

I'm a big fan of Stephen king too! I've just posted on how to watch 1408!
joel-robinson.blogspot.com/2007/10/its-found-everywhere.html

Your comments are welcomed

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10/16/07

brigid

I don't go into horror very often because they usually don't seem to have strong stories or intelligent characters. Stupidity bothers me.

I did enjoy End of Days, though. The Excorcist, too, a bit, but I found the documentary on the true events much scarier.

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10/16/07

sellytapgirl

saw III. worst movie ever lol.

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