What's your favorite horror flick?

[swankyfella]

Any sub-genre (slasher, psychological, foreign, etc.) Not even necessarily the scariest or best one, just your personal favorite.

For me, it's a dead tie between Event Horizon (FUCK this ship!) and Candyman.

 

[Marter]

<url=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.253411-2-50-Reviews-Orphan-2009>Orphan is my favourite, for reasons I mention in the review.

 

[Moontouched-Moogle]

If it counts (since it's part comedy), Shaun of the Dead.

 

[The Night Shade]

EVIL DEAD II

 

[DefunctTheory]

For actual horror, The Girl Next Door.

Not scary, HORRIFYING.

As for scary horror... The Exorcist. I guess it's not so much scary, but it brings up some scary thoughts.

 

[rosemystica]

Tough call! I love a lot of horror movies. It's my favorite genre. XD

Probably a tossup between The Thing and the 1968 Night of the Living Dead.

 

[lee1287]

Hmm... REC was scary. ill go with that

 

[Squeaky]

The Thing cant go wrong with some Kurt Russel or Alien.

 

[MrShadowzs]

SAW the original, the rest of them suck

 

[Cheery Lunatic]

I like a lot.
I'm thinking Shiver, The Orphanage, or The Exorcist.

 

[Manabeam]

My favorite is Nightmare on Elmstreet Dreamwarriors. That's what really scared me as a child.

 

[SYSTEM-J]

The Thing (Carpenter)
The Fly (Cronenberg)
Dawn Of The Dead (Romero)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Hooper)
Alien (Scott)

Would probably be my top five, in roughly descending order. Directors are in brackets to specify versions, because almost all of these films have been remade or are remakes themselves. I should also shout out to some genre hybrids or films not strictly considered horror, such as Jaws, Deliverance, The Silence Of The Lambs and so on. As you can probably tell, my tastes very much favour the 70s/80s period.

 

[Radeonx]

Night of the Living Dead.
Can't go wrong with the classics.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

The good old Terminator. Arnie was born for that role.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

John Carpenter's "The Thing". It's traditionally scary, and it has an extra level of horror for me because cause of the whole 'body horror', people-transforming thing. That just messes with my head.

 

[SYSTEM-J]

The good old Terminator. Arnie was born for that role.

I wouldn't call this horror as such, more a sci-fi/action hybrid, but I can see why you might call it a horror film and it'd definitely be up there on my genre-hybrid shout-out list.

 

[SeriousSquirrel]

Hmmm, there are several that I love. As of late I'd have to say The Collector, it's tense-as-hell and will have you on the edge of your seat for most of its' run time.

A few others that are way up on my list are:

A Nightmare on Elm Street (Original)
The People Under the Stairs
The Thing
Scream
Halloween (Original)
Freddy vs Jason
Saw
I am Legend (2007 version. More sci-fi/action than anything else, but I love it)
28 Days Later

And later tonight or tomorrow I'm going to Give Santa Sangre a shot, so we'll see if that makes the list.

 

[D Moness]

the thing , the exorcist and poltergeist

3 of the best horror movies made