[Stijne]

I'm looking to expand my horror movie collection so I'm looking for some great horror movies. Movies that really scare the s**t out of you.

Anybody, help?

[Fredrock]

The Shining - scares the crap out of me everytime I watch it.

[DollMaestro]

Really?! I thought Hostel was the freaky one! So much gore, it's basically S&M to the max :/
Another horror movie I know that's quite frightening is The Grudge. But do watch the Japanese version because the American one deviated much from the original.

[Waycos]

Hostel I thought was just gore, nothing scarey, just gross. The Grudge I hated actually. If you want a recent horror film try Silent Hill. If you're looking for something older try Alien. and if you want action and horror, go with Aliens. that should get you started.

[DollMaestro]

Hostel I thought was just gore, nothing scarey, just gross. The Grudge I hated actually. If you want a recent horror film try Silent Hill. If you're looking for something older try Alien. and if you want action and horror, go with Aliens. that should get you started.

Oh man! I forgot all about Aliens!!
BTW, has anyone watched IT? I'm curious as to whether or not it was something worth watching.

[smarmyprince]

IT wasn't especially scary. Oooooo....scary clown.....whoopdedoo. Doesn't it last like four hours? Definitely not worth the time. I'm sure in story form it's a lot scarier, but adding visual to something decreases your imagination factor. And nothing they can put on a screen can compare to what your mind can imagine.

The Ring was a bit scary late at night if you don't know when all the shocker points are.

Dawn of the Dead, and to a lesser extent (merely for horror) Shaun of the Dead, are good to get your zombie fixin's on.

I heard that Rosemary's Baby was creepy.

[Waycos]

BTW, has anyone watched IT? I'm curious as to whether or not it was something worth watching.

I wonder if you're thinking of The Thing? IT was a miniseries. The Thing was a movie, and a great one. Good job of building suspense, and making you question what's what.

I heard that Rosemary's Baby was creepy.

It definately was.. I haven't seen it in years and I wonder how it would hold up. I wonder if by now it might be a bit campy.

[Fredrock]

I hate to say but all most of the good old horror movies are probably considered "campy" by todays standard.

This post has been edited by Fredrock: 26 July 2007 - 11:33 AM

[Waycos]

Not true, The thing holds up. As does Alien, and Halloween.

[Toreshi]

I'd be better at telling you what to avoid, rather than what to watch. My boyfriend and I own approximately 380 horror movies (it's been a while since I counted, but it's somewhere in that vacinity). The overwelming majority of them are just terrible, but they're funny to watch and make fun of. Here are a couple I enjoyed (I'll reply again later when I'm at home and can actually look at the collection):

The Amittyville Horror (2005 version)
The original is classic, but the newer one tries harder to scare you and creep you out rather than just portraying the story the real Lutz's told.

The Omen
The original. Creepy as sin. I think it's just something about evil kids. >.>

Halloween
The original. No horror theme has ever been more spine-tingling, and the opening (shows how Michael Myers started out) gives me the willies.

Friday the 13th
It's classic. And even as you go on through the series and watch the terrible, terrible, sequels you can't help but be amused by the killings. Some of them are rather creative.

Nightmare on Elm Street
Like the Ft13ths, they get more and more terrible as they move on, but the original was creative and genuinely creepy.

Dead Silence
That new one that came out recently. The cg ghost is kind've hokey, but this movie does a great job of building up suspense and tension and then freaking you out. Plus, ventriloquist dummies are creepy as sin.

Suspiria
You can buy this in the bargain bin at WalMart for $4.99. XD It is a great older movie though. Very weird and suspensful.

High Tension
This is a French movie and I can't remember the original name of it right now. Personally, the ending really bugged me, but the movie did it's job in the tension department. There were lots of spots where I was almost falling off the couch.

The Howling
This one spawned some mighty awful sequels. However, the original remains an awesome older movie. It's about werewolves (who'd've guessed?) and it has one of the best transformation scenes ever, despite being an older film from before the days of cg.

Child's Play
Because it scared the living beejesus out of me when I was little.

[The Illusionist]

Saw is a pretty good modern horror/crime film - I would recommend it, not just because it is particularly scary but because very complex and requires a lot of attention for quite a good payoff... and of course because my repetoire of horror films is sadly lacking

The Exorcist is supposedly the scariest film ever made - I personally thought so aged 11, though more recently consider it an amusing parody along the lines of a Monty Python sketch... albeit with fewer sing-along songs.

The Evil Dead, on the other hand, is one of those classic films that everyone should have watched at least once, because it did almost everything 20 years before the modern slew of junk that hit the screens; demonic possession, gallons of gore, disembowelled people AND zombies... all on a budget of about £20,000 dollars, no less. Think "Blair Witch Project", but better.

More recently, I quite liked Event Horizon because it was fairly scary and disturbing, but with the unusual twist of being Sci-Fi. To compare it to other films, I'd probably have to say "Like Alien, if you had demons instead of aliens".

Finally, if you really want to push the boat out and look for a great scary old movie, have a dig and see if you can find The Pit And The Pendulum. Forget all the ruckus over The Exorcist and The Omen - when this film originally hit the cinemas, it was reputed to be so scary that the producers publically announced a competition; whoever was the first person to die of fright while watching this movie, would win $10,000.

Not too shabby, circa 1961...

[Toreshi]

I'd like to second all of Illusionist's calls. *two thumbs up* Especially Evil Dead. And if you're brave enough, try Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness. They aren't particularly scary or creepy, but they're basically Sam Raimi making fun of his original movie, taking it to ridiculous extremes. Plus, in ED2, a lamp laughs at Bruce Campbell. XD

[Cybercat]

I wonder whether the Evil Dead musical is still playing somewhere. Now *that* was fun, especially sitting in the splatter zone...

As for horror movies, the only one that ever gave me nightmares was Jaws. Not sure why.

I really liked Alien, which in my opinion works even better on tv than on a movie screen because it all adds to the claustrophobic athmosphere. I don't really think Aliens is a horror movie, they went way more with an action movie theme there. It's also good, but not in a scary way.

[shumaza]

the only movie to scare the shit out of me when i was a kid was candy man...

me and my best friend watched that and we couldn't go to the bathroom alone for a week after that pulic bathroom scene.
as for something that's just plain scary try the hills have eyes remake... when i saw it in theaters is scared the shit out of me... not sure that could carry over to home viewing though... and don't even bother with the new sequel.

Saw was a good movie but it wasn't SCARY and the sequels are just getting worse *i can't beleive they are making a fourth one! why god why*

Evil dead tril is just awsome... remember kids shop smart...shop s-mart

Pumpkin head was an awsome campy movie back in the day.


and check out monster squad.. not really a scar movie but it's like the halloween version of the goonies

wolfmans got nards!!

[Wolf82]

Land of the Dead, Pet Semetary (first one), The Fog, Hannibal (all of the series), Deep Blue Sea, Pulse, Se7en, The Messengers, Ghost Ship

Land of the Dead-
Apart of the Night of the living dead series was remade in 2005. It shows the last refuge of the living "Fidler's Green", but the undead are starting to adept and evolve mentally... But meanwhile the city has other problems....

Pet Semetary-
Based off the Stephen King story. A family moves to a new house near a busy truck road. After their Cat gets killed trying to cross the road they bury it in a strange cemetery behind the house... The next day the cat appears back at the house as if it had never died... Except now the cat is different, and not in a good way. When their son meets a similar tragedy, they bury him as they did the cat... but what comes back is not human.

The Fog-
A strange fog drifts in from the shore and covers over the town.... Something is in the fog though and it's killing people left and right. An unseen force is shedding blood in the port side town.

Hannibal-
Is a series surrounding serial killers, specifically Hannibal Lecture aka Hannibal the Cannibal. Demented and spooky...

Deep Blue Sea-
An offshore facility is working with Sharks in hopes of finding a cure for alzheimer's disease. But something isn't as it seems at the facility.... the sharks are getting smarter... maybe too smart.

Pulse-
Something is happening to people around a local college. Suicide rates are up, people are disappearing... But when a group of friends find a recently deceased friend is trying to communicate with them over the internet things start to get bad. Now weird creatures are lurking in the shadows, waiting for their time.

Se7en-
A serial killer is on the loose... his victims... those who embody the seven deadly sins... It's up to one detective to find him before he finishes his vicious killing spree and vanishes forever... but the killer has plans for the detective too.

The Messengers-
A family moves from the big city to a farm house in the country side. But soon after moving in the 2 children of the family begin to see strange things... and it seems that something is in the house.. something evil.

Ghost Ship-
A salvage crew comes upon a ship from the 1960's that has been mysteriously missing for 20 years. Having vanished without a trace. When they board the vessel they find no signs of damage, bodies or any kind of disaster. But as they explore further they start to hear music and voices throughout the ship... and quickly come to realize that many of the ships passengers are still there... in spirit.

[shumaza]

ghost ship was a crap movie... if you want a good one get the one the director did before that 13 ghosts now that was creepy

[DollMaestro]

I remembered watching this horror movie about a group of people spending a night at a haunted house to win a huge amount of cash, and I think the place they stayed at used to be a mental hospital of sorts since a girl with video camera video taped doctors and nurses who aren't "really there".
What was that movie called?

EDIT: Ah! There's a horror movie that came out this March in Thailand about siamese twins called "Alone". The way they introduced it was a bit creepy, haven't watched it yet, but if you ever get ahold of the film, give it a try and see whether or not the movie is worth watching. My mom used to tell me that ghost stories told in Thailand are usually very scary. Japan comes in second.

This post has been edited by DollMaestro: 29 July 2007 - 11:35 AM

[The Illusionist]

Sounds a little like House on Haunted Hill to me, DollMaestro, however I have also seen and heard of several movies that follow a plot very similar.

personally, I didn't like it very much - a lot of the film was dedicated to brightly lit portrait and silhouette shots of it's stunningly gorgeous cast, far too much to leave in enough time for anything actually scary...

Ring of Darkness, on the other hand, was a very scary movie. Unfortunately for everyone involved, I mean 'scary' in a "Oh Dear God, They actually allow people to make films this bad! Please someone gouge out my eyes!" kind of way. It's about a vampiric boy-band, if you really feel an urge to learn about it, and was made on a budget of about $50.

[DollMaestro]

Wait, so you've watched "Alone", huh?
So on a scale of 1 to 10, you'd give it a.... 5 or 6?

[Cybercat]

Ghost Ship has only one good scene, in my opinion. The one with the cable. If you want horror at sea, you're better off watching Below.

As for House on Haunted Hill, the original is much creepier than the 1999 remake. Apparently there will be a sequel later this year.
Of course, this is a problem with a lot of remakes, they hardly ever are as good as the original. Another nice example of that is The Haunting (also known as The Haunting of Hill House.) The special effects of the remake were good, but the movie was still awful compared to the original, which being from the 1960s had no fancy effects at all. These days it seems the visual effects are more important than story or acting...

This post has been edited by Cybercat: 29 July 2007 - 09:39 PM