What's your favorite Horror movie.

[rfun6]

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken.

 

[Mac]

Well I just added those two to my netflix list. Although I love the Hellraiser movies so far, should I go any further than #4 or should I save myself the time?

anyone got any good horror movies that they know are streaming on netflix that I should check out? Send a list, I love the streaming option, makes it so much easier to add and watch.

The first 3 are ace. The 4th is pretty good but the ending will tick you off. Skip the rest.

 

[Mac]

I just watched NightBreed last week. I love his sidekick with the peeled-off face.

To be honest though, I've always enjoyed Stephen King more than Clive Barker. Clive always seems to go for demons and dark magic. It's always someone who petitioned for special powers, or evil entities vying for control.

King likes to feature baddies that don't really have a "good" or "bad" orientation... they just are. Cujo, IT, Christine... they are all presented as "stuff that happened" without some evil bringing them about... Charlie's pyrokinesis, Carrie's telekinesis, and a million of his bad guys are nothing more than normal things that inadvertantly got fouled up. Even the hotel room in "1408", he implicitly states that the room isn't haunted... it's just bad. No reason it got that way, no way to fix it. It just is.

In other words, King's stories end up being about people in bad situations with few options. You can identify with his characters because they live in a real world and aren't asked to make leaps of faith about the dark dominion that wants to envelop us all. You end up asking yourself, "What would I do?" which really allows the fear to settle into your bones.

At least that's my take on it. YMMV and all that.

In all fairness king has a much larger body of work to choose from when making a film. King does perhaps have a more seductive writing style that draws you in a bit more then Barkers. But Barker is alot more consistent. From front to back his works have the same feel and the same artistic integrity. King on the other hand can't come up with a decent ending to save his life. some examples:

Spoiler alert!!!!




It: the awesome evil scary demon clown is actually a giant spider from outer space. (LOL I mean seriosly dude? 600 pages for that!?!?)

Needful things: The sheriff bests the devil by pulling some paper flowers out of his sleeve and saying get outta my town! (groan)

The Stand: A nuclear explosion is created when god's hand comes down to activate it. (uber lame)


And don't even get me started on sleepwalkers.

 

[loxmythe]

Just watched The Crazies - not bad - had kind of night of the living dead thing about it.
I like Clive Barker's movies also especially liked The Midnight Meat Train.
Just saw Darkness Falls on Netflix streaming - worth watching.
Also liked The Machinist - on Netflix streaming.
I Also see Netflix streaming has The Hunger - I saw it years ago when I was a kid - going to check it out and see if it's as good as I remember - as well as The Night Stalker tv series - scared the heck out of me when I was a kid.

 

[Mac]

Midnight meat train was really good too..

 

[thelook]

When A Stranger Calls....It's not bloody, just very intense!

 

[lasttango]

Another Stephen King favorite is Salems Lot.

Yeah, remember that on HBO when I was a kid.
Terrifying.

Mine would be American Werewolf in London...

 

[MsUnderstood]

I am a hard core Zombie movie freak so I have to say my all time favorits are

"Night of the Living Dead" (the original)
I saw this at 15 or 16 and was scared for days
"Dawn of the Dead" (the original)
Spent many years scared to go to the mall. If you had to use the bathroom you had to so down a hall just like in the movie.

All time number one favorit is "The Exorcist"
that movie terrified me and I swear it left emotional damaged....j/k

 

[mjones]

For some reason when I was a kid the android in the original aliens, when he got his neck ripped off freaked me out haha.

good classics,
Reanimator
Warlock series movies
Phantasm (first one) rest bored me

I know some other good classics I can't remember the names I'll post em if I remember.

 

[athlon14]

alien and predator....Too many to list

 

[loxmythe]

I watched The Hunger last night on Netflix - wow did that suck. I must have been high when I saw it in the 80's.

 

[redgirl]

I watched The Hunger last night on Netflix - wow did that suck. I must have been high when I saw it in the 80's.

Funny!

 

[bassnut]

I watched The Hunger last night on Netflix - wow did that suck. I must have been high when I saw it in the 80's.

I remember liking that too. I guess it was hip and stylish for the times like the modern vampire stuff. I remember being creeped out at the end.

 

[Stephra]

OOOH! Since we're talking vampires, does anyone remember "Vamp"? It had Grace Jones as an extreme stripper vampire.

YouTube - Vamp (1986) - Trailer

 

[loxmythe]

Vamp - looks delightfully Awe-full. Have to keep an eye out for it.
Sometimes I just love a movie that's so bad it's good. Like The Evil Dead movies.

 

[cerver7]

My Top 5:

Friday the 13th (original)
Halloween (original)
Nightmare on Elm Street: the dream warriors (part 3)
The Fog (original)
The Shinning

 

[zoiDman]

Not a Horror movie but it scared the heck out of my as a kid.

Wait Untill Dark

 

[cerver7]

Event Horizon, that movie freaked me out a bit too

 

[loxmythe]

The Uninvited - old black and white movie - scared the crap outta me when I was a kid. Spooky mist floating around. I can't find it on dvd though.

 

[cerver7]

The Uninvited - old black and white movie - scared the crap outta me when I was a kid. Spooky mist floating around. I can't find it on dvd though.

only on VHS or older than that?