Thread: your favorite horror/thriller/gothic movies?

I'm not a purist at all so i don't mind if the movie is a contamination of different genres. Some of my favorites:

alien - ridley scott
the innocents - jack clayton
lost highway - david lynch
texas chainsaw massacre - tobe hooper
la casa delle finestre che ridono - pupi avati
deep red - dario argento
le locataire - roman polanski
coma - michael chrichton
the night of the living dead - george romero
the haunting - robert wise
shining - stanley kubrick
deliverance - john boorman
blood and Black Lace - mario bava
picnic at Hanging rock - peter weir
the thing - john carpenter

I prefer the older variety - from the post-WWI German ones like Nosferatu and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari through to the occasionally laughable Hammer gorefests of the 60s and 70s. I also liked some of the spoof ones like Polanski's Dance of the Vampires and those that invariably starred Vincent Price, especially The Abominable Dr. Phibes and my favourite, Theatre of Blood (a very clever film despite, apparently, being derided and misunderstood by some quarters in its day).

Originally Posted by elgars ghost

I prefer the older variety - from the post-WWI German ones like Nosferatu and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari .

Wow, I was thinking the same thing. I also like the spoof ones, like A Comedy of Horrors. A Bucket of Blood deserves special mention, not so much for the movie itself but for Paul Horn's jazz at the beginning and their satirical take on the beat poetry of Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Tobe Hooper
(this list could go on forever but this was my original favorite)

Originally Posted by kv466

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Tobe Hooper
(this list could go on forever but this was my original favorite)

definitely one of the greatest horror movies ever. I'd like to find more movies like that one, but unfortunately though his great influence on modern horror i can't see other examples that i would put on the same level.

Saw 1 (2004)
War of the Worlds (2005)
Alien
Nosferatu?

Braindead.

There's no Psycho on your list, Norman Bates!

Das Kabinnett des Doktor Caligari, 1920, still the best horror film I've ever watched.

a few more of the older ones:

the birds and psycho - alfred hitchcock
carnival of souls - herk harvey
night of the demon - jacques tourneur
vampyr - carl theodor dreyer
les diaboliques - henri-georges clouzot
secret beyond the door - fritz lang
dr. jeckill and mr.hide - rouben mamoulian
peeping tom - michael powell

Top of my list at the moment would be (in no particular order):
Witchfinder General
Legend of Hell House
Evil Dead
From Hell
Daybreakers
The Raven (1963)
The Thing (1982)
Day of the Dead
Poltergeist

Psycho is the only one I recall actually giving me nightmares - but then I was a sensitive 10 year old at the time!

Others that have made me sweat or jump include Alien and The Thing while Poltergeist is just plain good fun!

If you can forgive the creaking sets, terrible music, and limited repertory acting, Hammer Studios were entertaining - The Mummy, The Reptile, Plague of Zombies and Quatermass and the Pit were more interesting than the Dracula and Frankenstein retreads.

But you can't forget Universal Studios' 1931 Frankenstein - Boris was The Man!

My favourites are The Thing, The Shining and Videodrome. I'm really not much of a horror fan, although I do like tacky B-movies like The Refrigerator.

Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, Dracula, The Haunting (the old one), The Uninvited. Forbidden Planet. The Others, The Frighteners. The Mummy (Karloff), The Fall of the House of Usher (Vincent Price),

Shawn of the Dead

My favorite horror movie is "Shutter". The original from 2004, made in Thailand. Scariest movie ive ever seen.

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