Spooky time! What are your favorite horror movies?

[Zurdo95D]

What are your favorite horror movies? Feel free to include any Halloween-themed, sci-fi, slasher, creature, etc. or any film you deem so.

Admittedly I'm not huge into horror, but I do appreciate the genre and films.

My list so far, in no particular order, except 1 & 2:

1 - An American Werewolf In London
2 - The Descent (2005)
3 - The Thing (1982)
4 - Dog Soldiers
4 - The Fly (1986)
5 - Alien (1979)
6 - The Wolfman (2010)
7 - Jeepers Creepers
8 - Jeeperes Creepers 2
9 - The Ruins (2008)
10 - Don't Look Under The Bed
11 - Contagion
12 - Howl (2015)
13 - Christine (1983)
14 - Bad Moon
15 - The Terminator

 

[ArtDamage]

I'm kinda picky with horror films, but I dig in no particular order:

-The Thing
-Alien/ Aliens
-Night of The Living Dead
-Event Horizon
-28 Days Later
-Invasion of the Body Snatchers
-They Live (kinda counts I guess?)
-The Shining
-Dawn of the Dead
-Psycho
-Halloween

 

[MGS_OldBoy57]

Hard choices to be made! Some of these move up and down my list over the years.

My top 10:

1. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) - still the goat imo.
2. The Exorcist
3. Alien
4. Hereditary
5. Candyman (1992)
6. Hellraiser (1987)
7. It (2017)
8. The Thing (1982)
9. The Shinning
10. Halloween (1978)

 

[The Entity]

Here are a couple that come to mind right now, in no particular order:

Ravenous
Mama
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Christine
Hellraiser
The Thing (82)
The Shining
Doctor Sleep

 

[goatchumby]

Keepin it succinct:

Evil Dead II
Dead Alive
Return of the Living Dead

 

[ArtDamage]

The Shining
Doctor Sleep

I think I'm going to watch these two for spooky season. I've seen The Shining before, but I was probably in my teens? So I want to revisit that one before watching Doctor Sleep. I've heard good things, but have no idea what to expect.

 

[choombaz]

No particular order

The Exorcist
Psycho
Jaws
Halloween
Alien
Dawn Of The Dead
The Shining
An American Werewolf In London
A Nightmare On Elm Street
Evil Dead 2
The Fly
Poltergeist
Re-Animator
The Dead Zone
Gremlins
Near Dark
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
The Thing
Videodrome

I normally do a big horror October viewfest but I’ve been a bit slack this year. Have watched and really liked X and The People Under The Stairs.

 

[Dark_Knight_89]

Nice idea!

My top 10 is probably;

1. The Thing (1982)
2. The Babadook (2014)
3. Psycho (1960)
4. Alien (1979)
5. Halloween (1978)
6. The Conjuring (2013)
7. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
8. Scream (1996)
9. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
10. A Quiet Place (2018)

An honorable mention to a film that is not a horror film, but will now feature as an annual viewing during October and the spooky season;

The Batman (2022)

"Thursday, October 31st. The city streets are crowded for the holiday. Even with the rain. Hidden in the chaos is the element, waiting to strike like snakes.

And I'm there too. Watching.

2 years of nights have turned me into a nocturnal animal. I must choose my targets carefully. It's a big city. I can't be everywhere. But they don't know where I am.

We have a signal now, for when I'm needed. When that light hits the sky, it's not just a call - it's a warning.

To them.

Fear is a tool.

They think I'm hiding in the shadows.

But I AM the shadows."

 

[Dark_Knight_89]

I note that everybody so far, except one, has mentioned The Thing (1982).

It's so good.

 

[ArtDamage]

I note that everybody so far, except one, has mentioned The Thing (1982).

It's so good.

It really is the best. It transcends being just a great horror film into being just a great FILM period.

 

[Darth Snoopy]

My Halloween watch list includes, in no particular order:

• Alien & Aliens
• The Thing
• Trick R Treat
• Dawn of the Dead
• Shaun of the Dead
• Army of Darkness
• Halloween
• A Quiet Place

 

[JAWS]

My top 10 horror and what I like to watch this time of year are a bit different

Top 10
1. JAWS
2. An American Werewolf in London
3. John Carpenters The Thing
4. ALIEN
5. Halloween (1978)
6. Dawn of the Dead
7. The Shining
8. Poltergeist
9. The Silence of the Lambs
10. Carrie

Top 10 Halloween time films no real order

1. Halloween (1978) + assortment of sequels
2. The Blair Witch Project
3. The Witch
4. Disney’s The Legend of Sleepy Hallow
5. Frankenstein meets the Wolf Man
6. Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein
7. Bran Stoker’s Dracula
8. The Exorcist
9. Hereditary
10. Trick r Treat

 

[abake]

Very fine lists indeed!

I won't repeat all the movies I love you guys have mentioned, but here's a few I would add:

- Nosferatu (both the Murnau original and Herzog's remake)
- Frankenstein ('31)
- The Witch

 

[Johnny Utah]

Annual essentials:

Halloween 78
The Fog
The Thing
Scream 1/2
The Blair Witch Project
Dawn of the Dead 78/04
American Werewolf in London
Lost Boys
Candyman 92
Jacob's Ladder 1990

 

[JAWS]

Very fine lists indeed!

I won't repeat all the movies I love you guys have mentioned, but here's a few I would add:

- Nosferatu (both the Murnau original and Herzog's remake)
- Frankenstein ('31)
- The Witch

I like watching any of the old Universal Frankenstein movies this time of year. They just ooze Halloween atmosphere

Annual essentials:

Halloween 78
The Fog
The Thing
Scream 1/2
The Blair Witch Project
Dawn of the Dead 78/04
American Werewolf in London
Lost Boys
Candyman 92
Jacob's Ladder 1990

The Fog and Candyman are on my hit list this October also.

 

[shells075]

Dawn of the Dead (1978) is probably my all-time favourite.
I would love to see some of the main protagonists done in 1/6 scale.

 

[choombaz]

• Shaun of the Dead

Forgot that one

Annual essentials:


Jacob's Ladder 1990

And that one

I should have included years to indicate which version but I think it’s pretty obvious

 

[ArtDamage]

I see a lot of recommendations for The Witch here as well.

I heard it was pretty bad initially, but I also really like Robert Eggers' stuff and it's popped up here a few times.

 

[choombaz]

I did not like The Witch when I watched it but have subsequently loved everything else Eggers has done so I am sure I just wasn’t in the mood, he has a very specific tone. I will try it again sometime.

 

[matrix69]

My scary favourites

Nosferatu 1922
Frankenstein 1931
Bride of Frankenstein
Dracula 1931
The Mummy 1932
Dead Snow
The hills have eyes 2006
The Texas chain saw massacre 1974
From dusk till dawn
The Omen 1976
The lair of the white worm
Train to Busan
The scars of Dracula
Wolf Creek
The Monster club
28 days later
The Witch
A nightmare on elm street 1984
Psycho 1960
The Exorcist 1973
Asylum 1972
The vault of horror 1973
Halloween 1978
30 days of night
Carry on screaming