1) Jaws: Ok... its a classic and i'm a bit biased. But for its time, you have to admit it must of been pretty scary. I think the best part is the part where he explodes a scuba tank (implausible). Very good film!
2) Friday the 13th: Who can not see this and squirm? A bit? Well its a slasher film and yes I think it is also a classic that needs to be recognised. Jason Voorhees starred in my first horror film I have seen... No i didn't sleep very often afterwards...
3) Predator: EPIC!!! Its kinda a horror film right? The sequels and "Predators" was good but nothing could really beat the original. Gotta see it.
4) A Nightmare on Elm Street: Try sleeping after watching this! Yes, another slasher film involving Freddy Kreuger (apprentices being Eddy and Joe) and its a ripper involving a dream killer. I've seen parts of the original and the whole remake at the cinema and the only thing that made me jump was when Taylor Bates screamed when Freddy appeared unexpectantly because of sleep deprivation while the characters are driving at night. Damn... Scary quotes involve "Did you know that after your heart stops beating your brain functions for up to 7 minutes? We have six more minutes to play!" and also the best scene is when the girl is thrown round the room in her sleep before she is killed. Awesome build up and kill scene! Oh yeah and the funny bit was when a girl is dreaming and falls into a hallway of blood which then Freddy says, "How's this for a wet dream?". What!? I thought it was funny...
5) Halloween: Should be recognised as a good classic horror and this is all I'll say because I haven't actually seen it.
6) Open Water: I may have told some of you about this film but i think this is one of the scarier BASED ON A TRUE STORY films. It involves a couple of divers that get left behind after a diving trip and they stay in the water for hours before they die. The bodies were never found. The scene where the girl gives up and just swims down into shark infested water is really sad (she dies).
7) The Ring: Pretty good film. Makes you think... and squirm...
8) Ghost Ship: Not a well known horror film but the part where everyone is cut in half while dancing is friggin... gross...
9) Saw: Everyone says its good. And it must be good if they make so many sequels so its making an appearance on this list. (Haven't seen it).
10) Untraceable: Reasonably new and you probably haven't heard of it. Basically about a guy who kills people while streaming live on the internet, the more people who view, the faster the person dies. (Eg. A guy is in a tank of water and the more people who view the stream, the faster industrial grade sulphuric acid is pumped into the tank.)
Add some more comments about movies you have seen that you classify as an awesome horror movie.
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ReplyDeletethe strangers, starring liv tyler and scott speedman. also a true story, a trio of mad knife-weilding masked murderers break into a couple's holiday home. tragedy ensues.
ReplyDeletei would go back in time and un-watch this movie if so possible.
(i deleted the last comment because it consisted mostly of 'HOLYFUCKMCFUCKENFUCK' and this one is more casual and informed.)
A best horror film list without The Shining or Psycho?
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Saw isnt horror, its comedy.
Friday the 13th is just lots and lots of topless teenage girls.
1) The Shining - Jack Nicholson's performance, and the mastery of Stanley Kubrick, come on. The diffinitive psychological horror movie.
2) Halloween - Especialy the Rob Zombie remake, it goes more into the psychology side of the story, plus Michael Myers is fucking epic.
3) Psycho - Psycho pretty much invented horror. Shower scene anyone? Dun dun dun dun... And creepy dead mother being channeled by son hotel owner? what more could you ask for? Oh yeah, Alfred motherfucking Hitchcock.
4) The Excorcist - It has the devil, a priest who gets fucked up and a chick whos head turns around 360 degrees.
5) The Blair Witch Project - The only movie in which owl noises genuinely make you want to shit yourself.
6) Night of the Living Dead - Invented Zombies.
7) Alien (the 1979 original) - Classic.
8) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Less substance than other horror films, its more just fucked up shit, but thats what makes it so great.
9) The omen (1976 Original) - Baby is the anti-christ, makes people kill themselves, gets people to kill other people. Epic. Gets a bit cheesey near the end, "You can only kill the antichrist by stabbing him with 7 daggers", but apart from that, its pretty amazing.
10) This spot could go to lots of films, but I'll put The Ring for pure originality. Videotape that kills people. Awesome. Only one I havn't seen completely, but the parts I have seen are pretty good.
And now i sleep. And dream of Jack Nicholson screaming "HERES JOHNNY!"
Phfft.
ReplyDelete1) Evil Dead
2) The Spiral Staircase
3) Zombi
4) House With The Laughing Windows
5) House By The Cemetary
6) Ju-on
7) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1973)
8) The Tombs of the Blind Dead
9) Re-Animator
10) Salem's Lot
ive seen untracebale. And it was actually a really awesome movie :D i agree.. cept i also like texas chainsaw massacre. that was really good :)
ReplyDeletethe exorcist. i was convinced the devil would eat my soul.
ReplyDeletethe shining and Psycho are absolutely incredible :)
You know that episode of Round The Twist with the clown. Yeah, that's the scariest horror movie.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Untraceable is an awesome thriller, but I'm not sure if it counts as horror.
Yeah for filling 10 spots I had to think quite a bit.. but I agree with Exorcist, the Omen, Alien etc.(I thought of phsyco afterwards).
ReplyDeleteI think Untraceable still counts a bit as horror but I put it in there to see who might know it because we got it on bluray and it was pretty good.
Species (the first one) its classified as Sci-fi horror and it's motherbitching AWESOME. A supermodel actress that is a really pissed off female alien wanting to reproduce...EPIC
ReplyDeleteExorcist made me shit cinderblocks...but it's still awesome
The Shining is more mental than anything with the scariest sound track
Resident Evil- The first one- a super computer with a knack for killing people in the most brutal way possible
Oh and any of Romero's Zombie films are good.
:D
This must be one of the most commented posts over the past 6 months; well done Brandoid ;)