Your top 5 horror films

[RIP]

Here is my top 5 horror films of all time in order:

1. Halloween
2. Jaws
3. Friday the 13th
4. The Fog
5. My Bloody Valentine

[Heineken Skywalker]

1. THE EXORCIST
2. THE OMEN
3. ALIEN
4. THE HOWLING
5. HALLOWEEN

This list changes slightly everytime I'm asked this question, but THE EXORCIST is always number one. Oooh... scary!

[frankenjohn]

1. NOTLD
2. Halloween
3. The Exorcist
4. The Ring
5. Jaws

[Bartwald]

My list also changes every time the question is asked but every one of such possible lists still gives you a glimpse at my horror taste; here's the one from Friday, April 2, 2004:

1. CARRIE

2. THE RING

3. A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET

4. MULHOLLAND DR.

5. THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW

However, all the movies you guys mentioned above (except for NOTLD which I just don't get), I can say I like very much and some of them would sure come pretty close to the Top 5 - especially The Omen, The Exorcist and Jaws.

[Sybillness]

1. Dawn of the Dead - the Hari Krishna zombie still creeps me out!
2. Halloween - I was afraid to walk into the kitchen for weeks.
3. The Exorcist - 'Nuff said.
4. Alien - I watched this alone when I was 8 years old - where the heck was my mother?!
5. The Fog

Those are my favorites but I also liked some really bad "B" horror flicks like The Deadly Blessing with Sharon Stone.

[LivingDeadGirl]

My lists usually change too..but here's what I came up w/ today:
1. The Exorcist (this one still scares the sh*t outta me)
2. Halloween
3. Dawn of the Dead(original)
4. Last House on the Left(that one is really disturbing)
5. Texax Chainsaw Massacre(original)

"Amityville Horror" really scared me too...but maybe it was b/c I was like, 8 yrs. old the first time I watched it.
And "Blair Witch Project" was really creepy...even though I knew it wasn't "real"..guess it was that whole "suspension of disbelief" thing.

[Bartwald]

I never saw Last House On The Left which is probably quite a flaw on my horror reputation Then again, seeing all the other early Wes Craven flicks I'm not sure I could be able to love this one...

The Amityville Horror - oh, yeah... another one I haven't seen. I saw the second part though - was an innocent child back then, as well - and it creeped me bad! A teenager hitting on his sister??! That's the first time in my life I saw stuff like this! But not only this shocked me, of course - the make-up there was pretty disgusting looking, too.

[LivingDeadGirl]

Last House on the Left was shot...kinda...I dunno, documentary style, I guess that's what's creepy about it. But being a Wes Craven fan I had to watch it.

[Bartwald]

Oh, it's hard to be a Wes Craven fan sometimes... ;D I know 'cause I'm one, too: he gave me many of my favourite horror movies but he also gave me several crap ones... Still, I will see Last House as soon as it's available to rent; can you imagine it hasn't been officially released in Poland yet?

[LivingDeadGirl]

Sybillness said:

1. Dawn of the Dead - the Hari Krishna zombie still creeps me out!
2. Halloween - I was afraid to walk into the kitchen for weeks.
3. The Exorcist - 'Nuff said.
4. Alien - I watched this alone when I was 8 years old - where the heck was my mother?!
5. The Fog

Those are my favorites but I also liked some really bad "B" horror flicks like The Deadly Blessing with Sharon Stone.

Wow, someone else who's actually seen The Fog! LOL I watched it when I was a kid & it scared the s**t outta me. But I still love it to this day!

[Fenril]

Before the list:

- I have also watched The Fog, and it's one of my favorite horror movies. Very atmospheric and creepy, just how I like them.

- Deadly Blessing frankly dissapointed me. It IS fun to watch in a B-movie kind of way, but at first it promised something much better, with the great setting and all. Oh, well.

- And as for "Last house on the left", the question isn't wether or not you're a craven fan, but how much do you like rape & revenge shockers (or "exploitation" movies, however you want to call them). On a technichal level it's downright incompetent (not all of it on purpose, either), but the story is pretty interesting --a pseudo remake of "The virgin spring" by way of a slasher movie.

Now then, the list:

1.- Candyman.
2.- Don't look now.
3.- Carrie.
4.- Hellraiser.
5.- Hasta el viento tiene miedo. (aka "Even the wind is afraid" )

The last one is a (excellent, IMHO) Mexican horror movie. I'm afraid it's not available in the USA or in Poland or anywhere, as the video I own is a long Out of Print version. Which sucks.

But I find it difficult to narrow it all down to only five, as I feel there's a lot of movies I left out.

[Bartwald]

I know it's difficult, Fenril - was for me as well! But these are not 'ultimate' lists here, more like samples of what really works for each of us.

I'd like to see your #5 choice - Even The Wind Is Afraid; the title alone makes me interested. But you're right - it wasn't released in Poland. I can only count on catching it late on Polish TV - quite often they surprise me showing some obscure horror flicks from various parts of the world.

And exploitation movies? I'm not much of a fan of those. But maybe I just haven't seen the right ones yet?

[Fenril]

- On, well, my choice #5: I do hope you (and everybody in the board) gets a chance to see it, if only so we cand discuss it. It does air on late night TV here now and then, so I guess it's not entirely impossible.

A little summary: The story takes place at an all-girls intership school, wherein a group of six girls have all been held for detention during spring break. One of them has recently heard a rumor / legend that has been circulating around campus: that the nearby clocktower is permanently shut down because a few years ago, a girl commited suicide in it. Now her ghost is rumored to haunt the tower. The girl eventually goes to investigate. She could have never guessed the chilling revenge which the deadly ghost had in mind all this time...

- And as for exploitation... I'd say it's kind of an acquired taste. I do like a few movies of that genre, but not many. It borders on sleazy and, well, exploitative most of the time. The ones of the genre that I like are: Deliverance, Last house on the left, Death weekend, and maybe I spit in your grave (but damn! That was one HARSH rape sequence). Even so, I'm not too big a fan of that subgenre, either.

[Fenril]

Oh, by the way --I, too, think that "Even the wind is afraid" is a great title (pretty evocative, no?), which is why I sought that movie so hard.

The director, Carlos Enrique Taboada (you can check his filmography in imdb) later made three other (also impressive) horror movies in Mexico. I don't know if any of them have been released. They were, with translation:

- Mas negro que la noche (aka Darker than night)
- El libro de piedra (aka The stone book)
- Veneno para las hadas (aka Poison for the fairies. This is apparently the only one that was released in the USA, under the title "The evil fairies" )

The first is another ghost movie. The other two deal with different aspects of witchcraft. Pretty atmospheric, moody and eerie, all of them. (Getting what kind of movies I like, yet?)

[Bartwald]

Interesting for sure! But no - I didn't hear of any of those movie being released in Poland. Well, at least Mexico has a director who cares about horror - in Poland we don't have horror movies at all, how scary is that? Alright so there were two werewolf movies and one vampire movie made here some two decades ago - but that's it!