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Favorite Horror Movies

LBC said:
I'm telling you dude...this is next level stuff...this is the single scariest/disturbing/shock inducing horror movie I have ever seen. For me...there is this...and everything else. This makes 'The Shining' feel almost quaint...'It' like an episode of 'Friends'

When guys who have a horror movie review show tell you it 'fucked them up'...'It gave them nightmares' and its the 'scariest movie they have ever seen'...believe them.

This isn't about jump scares or evil clowns...this is about real, dark, dysfunctional shit first...and then it becomes a 'horror' movie.
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Yeah I respect James Rolf's opinion a lot. He does a lot of stuff although he's best known for the Angry Video Game Nerd. He's an amateur film maker and of course a horror movie expert. If it scared him, then it's gotta be worth a look.

 
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LBC said:
Rolling Stone just released its list of 'Greatest 60 Horror Films of the 21st Century' and even though I don't agree with all of this I do want to point out how well my favorites did at the top:

They have 28 Days Later at #2, Hereditary at #3 and Let the Right One In at #4...Goodnight Mommy and Midsommar both made the list...even though I would place both higher...to each his own!

https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-lists/50-greatest-horror-movies-of-the-21st-century-103994/
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I haven't seen most of those top ones, but I think The Conjuring is vastly overrated. It was recommended to me as "the scariest movie ever" by a guy I work with. I will no longer be taking movie recommendations from him.

Raw was very good if you don't mind reading subtitles. Cabin in the Woods was excellent, but I'm not sure it's really a horror movie. Shaun of the Dead is at #11, and once again - good movie but not horror.

 
So I just finished Hereditary. It was very good. The director does a fantastic job of building that feeling of unease which is sorely missing from most movies of the genre. I kind of wish he has been chosen for the It remake, because that is what I was hoping for in that movie. I didn't really find this one scary, but I can certainly see why someone would be scared by this movie. 

 
3 favorites from the perspective of how much they scared the $%^& out of me - "Creature From the Black Lagoon" (was ~7 when I saw it), "The Omen" (was 15), "The Exorcist" (was ~13). No Stephen King movies would make my list, nor other moves I've already read the books that they're made from - just because I know the story and it turns into a comparison of book-movie...  

 
d20636 said:
3 favorites from the perspective of how much they scared the $%^& out of me - "Creature From the Black Lagoon" (was ~7 when I saw it), "The Omen" (was 15), "The Exorcist" (was ~13). No Stephen King movies would make my list, nor other moves I've already read the books that they're made from - just because I know the story and it turns into a comparison of book-movie...  
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The Exorcist... Holy crap! Forgot about that one! Saw it on TV as a young feller. Even the edited version scared the begeezus out of me! Slept with the lights on for 3 days afterwards...

 
Catdaddy66 said:
The Exorcist... Holy crap! Forgot about that one! Saw it on TV as a young feller. Even the edited version scared the begeezus out of me! Slept with the lights on for 3 days afterwards...
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Did that after The Omen - my cousin and I turned every light on in the house 3 times (my Aunt kept getting up and turning them all off!). Finally ended up sitting on the bed cross-legged in a closed room with the lights on until after dawn...

Honorable mention goes to Phantasm - the effects (pretty neat at the time) of that ball drilling into someone's head...

 
I don’t care for the gore in the horror films but like the psychological aspects better. Movies like psycho, original night of the living dead, the ring, and Blair witch project tend to scare me more than Jason and Michael Myers. 
 

I will say that Jaws caused me not to swim in the ocean for a long time. 
 

the exorcist scared the crap out of me. That is probably why I won’t watch it again. 

 
Catdaddy66 said:
The Exorcist... Holy crap! Forgot about that one! Saw it on TV as a young feller. Even the edited version scared the begeezus out of me! Slept with the lights on for 3 days afterwards...
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I agree about the Exorcist.  And for my money, the movie score Tubular Bells play a big part in being scary.

 
LBC said:
Rolling Stone just released its list of 'The 60 Greatest Horror Films of the 21st Century' and even though I don't agree with all of this I do want to point out how well my favorites did at the top:

They have 28 Days Later at #2, Hereditary at #3 and Let the Right One In at #4...Goodnight Mommy and Midsommar both made the list...even though I would place both higher...to each his own!

https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-lists/50-greatest-horror-movies-of-the-21st-century-103994/
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surprised they left out Train to Busan (or maybe I missed it).  Also a few are technically not 21st century (all the 2000 films are end of 20th century not beginning of 21st)

 
LurkerinTheRoost said:
surprised they left out Train to Busan (or maybe I missed it).  Also a few are technically not 21st century (all the 2000 films are end of 20th century not beginning of 21st)
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Train to Busan was so well done! A great addition to the zombie lexicon.

 
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