Whats your favourite horror film?

[jeanette1976]

There a complete lack of really genuine scary films as they're all boringly gory.... can anyone suggest a REEEEEAAAAALLLLLLYYYYYYY creepy one for me to watch?

I thought the awful lady in the Japenese Ring was creepy and I kept thinking of her for ages!

No boring teen flicks please.... foreign films welcome.

XXX

[Supernick]

I was speaking to a (male) mate about scary films, and he rented The Grudge, the US made one with Sarah Michelle Gellar. He turned it off 5 times to compose himself and make a cup of tea, and I said he must have been a bit of a wet blanket, so I rented it with a mate from work, and whilst she wasn't very scared, I was a different story. Blood and guts don't bother me, but I hate the jumpy parts, and The Grudge is pretty much just jump after jump after jump.

[sue11]

Dream Demon really rings a bell! Is that the one with Tim Spall in it?

[violetblue]

Zombies Dawn of the Dead, or is it The Night of the Living Dead? 1968-ish, black & white, far superior to any other Zombie film.

[BigDogsWang]

Can't believe no one has mentioned 'The Exorcist'. Even by today�s standards, it still sends a shiver up my neck. I think anything to do with the Devil & possession always strikes a scary chord with people.

[eyeshade]

I managed to get into the Odean Leicester Square many years ago to see the first showing of the "The Exorcist" and believe me, when all you had seen was Dracular, this was a whole new boat game, I had tranquilisers for years afterwards and didn't get over it until about 10 years later.
The silly thing was, the other film on at the time was Lucille Ball in Mame, why didn't I see that one??? So it has to be The Exorcist for me. ES

[BigDogsWang]

I think the most recent one which made me edgey was a Kevin Bacon film (name escapes me).

He was hypnotised by some freaky woman, and ended up digging his basement up to find a dead girl who's spirit had been haunting him. Turns out his neighbors had done her in.

Name anyone?

[BigDogsWang]

Any film in which a child starts speaking in that horrible 'devil' voice gives me the creeps.

[sue11]

I never really found the exorcist to be very scary! I suspose the fact that the demon never seemed to be able to leave the bedroom put a dampner on the terror aspect for me, plus the bad special effects, although granted it was made years ago! I believe the movie was based on a true story about a german boy, but I also believe that the boy was also found in the to be suffering from eplileptic fits, rather than really possessed.

[feebal]

If you liked The Ring I recommend other Asian horror flicks Dark Water (not the US remake) and the Pang Brothers' film The Eye (not the forthcoming US remake). If you like eerie atmosphere and horrible ghosts half-glimpsed out of the corner of the eye those two should do the trick.

There are so few genuinely scary horror films. Kubrick's The Shining still does it for me. You might also check out The Devil's Backbone, a Spanish film about a haunted home for boys.

[feebal]

Oh yeah, and the Kevin Bacon film mentioned was "Stir Of Echoes".

[danger!!]

Fire in the sky based supposedly based on a true story about alien abduction, when you see the aliens just floating around scared the hell out of me films don’t tend to scare me but I watched this as a kid when I watch it now it brings me back to that moment of how I felt and still freaks me out!

[Llamatron]

The original Ring was great.
The ending was really quite frightening. Well, it was to me.
When she started to crawl out of the TV.......

Jeepers Creepers wasn't bad and Saw was good.
Unfortunately too many horror movies rely on gore or just making you jump with sudden shocks. Someone shouting BOO! is not scarey.

[Llamatron]

Oh yes, the orignal Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the remake are both surprisingly good.

[violetblue]

Oh, I forgot, The Tenant by Roman Polanski.

[~owzat~]

I 2nd andy-hughes choice:

"Dead of Night" Perhaps the best anthology film ever made - critics quote note my own! The last story:
The Ventriloquist's Dummy with Michael Redgrave for me was the best - superb acting of someone slowly going mad!!

Probably won't sleep tonight now, thinking about it...

Creepy at its best !!!!

iii :)

[Baseley09]

Yeah sue11 Dream Demon has Timothy Spall in it playing some pretty grim news reporter.

[Gilly : )]

I love horror films i have alot of the orginals like Texas chain saw and Amityville Horror but i love foreign films they are so weird and mess with your head i would definetly recomend Itchy the killer (japanese film)
Battle royal 1 & 2 (Chinese)
The tale of two sister (Chinese)

[mechanised69]

m night shyamalan films arent really that scary but they will grate at you over time especially signs, great film

[sue11]

Many thanks Basely, I am trying to remember the rest of Dream Demon, it was'nt too bad a movie if I can remember, I think it had a comedy element to it?
I saw the original Texas Chainsaw and the remake and both were pretty horrible, but I think the original is better!
I have just watched Mimic and Mimic 2 and was slightly disappointed so I would not particularly recommend either. I also have bought recently boxed set of the Phantasm movies. I wonder if they will live up to my memory of them?