totalfilm.com posted their horror film top 50 list


Here's the top ten!!!!


1 THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE 1974

2 HALLOWEEN 1978

3 SUSPIRIA 1977

4 DAWN OF THE DEAD 1978

5 THE SHINING 1980

6 PSYCHO 1960

7 THE WICKER MAN 1973

8 ROSEMARY?S BABY 1968

9 DON?T LOOK NOW 1973

10 CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST 1980

Can't we do better.

How about

1)the original Frankenstein
2)Wallace and Gromit curse of the were-rabbit
3)the original Mummy
4)Young Frankenstien
5)the original War of the Worlds
6)It's the great pumpkin Charlie Brown

The Innocents- best ghost movie ever made.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers - the Original, of course!

Um, where is "It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown!" ?? :dunno:


:D

Original (1968) Night of the Living Dead.-Sandy G.

Story by Ray Bradbury with Jason Robards and Johnathan Pryce.

Yeah, yeah, it's a Disney movie but, to me, this movie is to hallowween what "A Christmas Story" is to Christmas. No grandiose special effects or bloodletting but it just oozes with atmosphere and erieness.

The Exorcist

Friday the 13th I & 2

American Werewolf in London

Evil Dead

Nightmare on Elm St.

The Howling

The Thing (John Carpenter's)

Fright Night

Mimic

The Relic

Near Dark

The Frighteners

Hi,

Maybe I was just impressionable at the time, but The Exorcist scared me big time. As did The Haunting of Hill House.

Something Wicked This Way Comes is a classic I agree.

Jim

The Innocents- best ghost movie ever made.
This 1961 movie is indeed excellent as is 1963's "The Haunting" with Julie Harris. Many suggested here are all great movies. If you want a movie that's slightly gross, scary and weirdly funny, check out "Re-Animator" sometime.

Re-Animator IS weirdly goofy alright. For some reason, no-one can seem to get a Lovecraft story to the screen.

Lovecraft story's used to end up on Night Gallery in the 70's. For that matter didn't Harlan Ellison write some of the original Outer Limit's?

Isn't Altered States based on HPL's story The Ancestor? If it is not explicitly based on it, then it is either an uncredited theft of the story, or else an astonishing coincidence.

Dagon, although not faithfully based on any single HPL story, was a good creepy movie and IMO it really captured the mood of threat and revulsion that HPL wrote into his stories.

Lovecraft story's used to end up on Night Gallery in the 70's.

True. Guess I should have been more specific regarding big screen translations. I remember an adaptation of Cool Air on NG that I though was quite well done.

It continues to amaze me that someone doesn't take At The Mountains Of Madness and turn it into a killer big screen movie. Always thought it would translate very well.

For that matter didn't Harlan Ellison write some of the original Outer Limit's?

Not sure about that, but sounds reasonable.

I remember an adaptation of Cool Air on NG

That was one of the best episodes. It also seems to me Ellison wrote a Star Trek, where Kirk travels back to the 30.

Night Of The Living Dead (original)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)
Alien
Pumpkinhead
Nosferatu (1922 & 1979)
Evil Dead
Re-Animater (original un-cut....NOT the watered-down "Blockbuster" version!)
An American Werewolf In London
The Exorcist
Fright Night
Spiral (A VERY creepy Japanese release..if you like it or not, you'll never forget it)

Russ

"The Omen"

Dracula (as played by Christpher Lee w/ Peter Cushing as Van Helsing)

Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster (the camp is worth the rental cost)

Parents ("What exactly was this before it was a leftover?")

The Thing (Carpenter remake)

The Ghost & Mr. Chicken

The Hills Have Eyes

Phantasm

The Blob

Them

Alien

Have not seen (yet) but they keep being recommended to me as creepy -

Blair Witch Project

The Ring 1, 2

Saw

The 1963 version of the Haunting was a great movie...

Loved Ghost and Mr. Chicken as a kid (I'm still a big kid! :D )

John Carpenter's The Thing is a classic for me...

Couple of my other favoites are...

Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein and...

Abbot and Costello - Catch That Ghost.

And I'm sure Echowars will chime in with a vote for Young Doctor Frankenstein!

Scott

Couple of new movies I'd like to see would be the remake of The Fog, and the new movie Stay.

Scott

Spiral (A VERY creepy Japanese release..if you like it or not, you'll never forget it)

Russ

VERY True! I didn't care for it at all, but it will stick with you!

Halloween, strangely enough, is my favorite Halloween movie! :thmbsp: Halloween 2 would be my Least favorite! :thumbsdn:

Audition(a Japanese film also.)It starts like a romantic drama,and turns VERY twisted in the middle and never lets up.
Carnival Of Souls_Very stylish,creepy early 60's drive-in flick.One of my favorite Halloween movies.
The Hills Have Eyes-One of the early,really gruesome Wes Craven movies.
Repulsion-An earlier Polanski movie with Catherine Denueve going animal crackers before our very eyes.
The Kingdom-The original Danish mini-series,not the Steven King tv thing it was based on.Very bizarre ghost story.
Jimmy

Blair Witch is kinda creepy on the first view of the film, movie really freaked me out a bit and I had to go work alone in big dark gymnasium all alone right after at night when I saw it. Rented it when it came out and it didn't have the same thrill.

I just saw a scary one, High Tension, I think it's French, it has a really preposterous and stupid ending but all the stuff that happens before the dumb ending is pretty scary :yes:

Saw was a great movie I usually always have movies figured out before their ending but this was one of the few that just really shocked and surpised me.

Is Spiral the right title? Anyone got the Japanese title? I did a search on Netflix and got nothing for Spiral???

Try "uzumaki" as the title,Thor.
Jimmy

Audition(a Japanese film also.)It starts like a romantic drama,and turns VERY twisted in the middle and never lets up.


Audition is one of the most troubling films I have ever seen. I don't know if I was just off my horror jaded guard, or if it's just the sickest thing I've seen in a very long while. Great flick, didn't sleep much that night, and I've been watching and loving horror films since I was 5 or 6 years old.

Here's a few more to add to the Halloween list, by virtue of the fact that not many have ever seen them, and they really succeed as great horror films.

Session 9 - Breaks all kinds of horror rules, and works really well as a result. There's just so much about this flick that will keep you guessing that I was on my heels when the final curtain fell.

Ginger Snaps - Succeeds where most modern horror flicks fall flat on their face. It's funny, smart, lyrical, and damn scary, often at the very same time.
For all my Canadian AK brothers it's also an entirely Canadian production.

Cube - Also Canadian (who says Canucks can't make brilliant films)? Very smart, at times really gory, and all in all, quite a frightening ride!

Hope you guys enjoy some of these, and add them to you recommended lists. If you do give them a view, lemme hear what you think...

Event horizon 1997 end of story.

Try "uzumaki" as the title,Thor.
Jimmy

Ah got it!

Audition has been in my Netflix queue for some time, mebbe it's time to bump it to the top ;)

Alright Thor! Good to see another few "real horror fans" at AK. Audition is ----- Sorry, I'm having trouble coming up with ways to spell Ohhh brrrrrrarggggh geez!

CUBE!! Yes! For pure unrelenting tension, this film scores big.

Halloween Movies, My choices:

The Excorsist
Juon:the grudge(Japanese theatrical version)-Very spooky
Uzumaki (japanese)-Just plain wierd
Kairo (Japanese)-Also wierd, but spooky, freaked my wife out.
Cursed (Japanese-by the same folks who gave us Uzumaki) also wierd and spooky.
The Ring (any version)-spooky
Tomie: Replay (Japanese)-Kind of spooky, different
Curse of the Demon/Day of the Demon- Not really scarey, but interesting and fun anyway. A classic.
Tale of Two Sisters (korean)-sort of spooky twisted
Whispering Corridors (Korean)-ghosts in an all girls school
Phone (korean)-nice spooky movie
The eye-Thai horror, Similar to the 6th sense, but done better.
Shutter-another Thai horror, very nice twist at the end.

Here's my list...I'm not that much into gore, I like suspense, creepiness and/or wit in my horror films...
Horror Hotel Has one of the scariest jump cuts ever done; creepy throughout.
Evil Toons Manages to spoof every bad horror film made.
Freaks 10 on the creep-o-meter; real freaks playing freaks.
Mad Monster Party Phyllis Diller!
Dracula I never got to see this Bela Lugosi masterpiece until my Transylvanian grandmother passed away, she'd always shut the TV off when it came on.
Frankenstein Classic.
The Wolfman Another one my grandmother wouldn't let me watch.
Repossessed Linda Blair is re-possessed; Leslie Neilsen is The Exorcist.
Innocent Blood Anne Parillaud as the sexiest vampire ever with Robert Loggia as the head of an all-vampire mafia?!
Carnival of Souls I had to sleep with the light on for a week after I saw it the first time.
Night of the Living Dead ditto

Of all the movies I have seen and like I say

HALLOWEEN -- 1978

The shining -- 1980

PSYCHO -- 1960

Alien -- 1980

Friday the 13th Part 1 & 2 -- 1980/1981

SAW -- 2004

SAW II - 2005