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#76

Favorite Horror Films

Posted: 10/19/13 at 8:13pm

75% of those on Best 12 Bars list

In addition any William Castle film

Add to that the original House Of Wax & The Mad Magician

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#77

Night of the Living Dead
The Original Carnival of Souls,
The original Invaders from Mars ( awesome Red Scare fare up there with the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers).
Rosemary's Baby. The final elevator scene still to this day has me on the edge of my seat.
Seconds. I don't know if this qualifies as horror but the last 10 minutes of that film is TERRIFYING!

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#78

Favorite Horror Films

Posted: 10/20/13 at 6:43pm

"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter

#79

Favorite Horror Films

Posted: 10/20/13 at 6:49pm

Insidious
Insidious chapter 2
Paranormal Activity franchise
Saw franchise
Evita
Texas Chainsaw
Alien
The Conjuring

So Lauren Bacall me, anything goes! *wink*

#80

Favorite Horror Films

Posted: 10/20/13 at 6:58pm

I think the only good Saw is the first one. When they started adding people and essentially widening the story (and when James wasn't as involved), it lost what was so great about the first one.

Updated On: 10/20/13 at 06:58 PM

#81

Favorite Horror Films

Posted: 10/23/13 at 6:41pm

I just remembered [REC], the Spanish "found footage" movie!

Just bumping 'cos it hasn't received a mention in the thread so far.

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#82

Favorite Horror Films

Posted: 10/24/13 at 12:56am

Most of my favorites have already been listed...but a couple others are THEATRE OF BLOOD, DOG SOLDIERS, and TUCKER & DALE VS. EVIL. I think someone mentioned it in one of their lists - but TRICK 'R TREAT is a great little film as well. Although nowhere near as good as the original, a horror movie that I think is underrated is HALLOWEEN 4.

Also, for me no Halloween is complete without watching Disney's THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW and the "Night on Bald Mountain" sequence from FANTASIA.

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#83

Favorite Horror Films

Posted: 10/24/13 at 2:55pm

The Sixth Sense
Rosemary's Baby
Burn Witch Burn
The Wicker Man (original version)
Don't Look Now
The Innocents
The Devil's Backbone
The Others
The Orphanage
Carrie
Pan's Labyrinth (if it could be considered horror)

Updated On: 10/24/13 at 02:55 PM

#84

Favorite Horror Films

Posted: 10/24/13 at 3:32pm

The original Dracula in Spanish. It plays much better than the Lugosi one

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#85

Favorite Horror Films

Posted: 10/24/13 at 4:50pm

A mini-doc on the Spanish "Dracula" (1931)

#86

Favorite Horror Films

Posted: 10/24/13 at 5:05pm

Thanks

I like Bela but the Spanish version is far superior

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#87

Favorite Horror Films

Posted: 10/24/13 at 8:25pm

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#88

Favorite Horror Films

Posted: 10/24/13 at 8:37pm

I just started "Trick 'r Treat"--one of my favorites.

#89

Favorite Horror Films

Posted: 10/30/13 at 8:36am

How could I forget City of the Dead (Horror Hotel in the US) - I loved this movie as a boy.

Not a spolier but I love a movie where a witch swears revenge on the villagers and their decendants!

#90

Favorite Horror Films

Posted: 10/30/13 at 9:06am

I can't possibly agree that the Spanish language DRACULA is even remotely in the same league as the Browning version. There's just no comparison, to me at least. Carlos Villarias as Dracula is not able to summon anywhere near the same level of menace, authority and dignity that Lugosi is able to conjure so memorably. Villarias comes off like some public access cable level parody version of the character, baring his teeth and slinking around -- he's just got no class at all, and his big showdown with Dr. Van Helsing is just embarassing.

This means that the real menace in the film has to come from Pablo Alvarez Rubio as Renfield, who is having a grand old time howling with demented laughter and panting with fear and generally acting up a storm. He's the one who lingers in the memory after the movie is over as anything other than a footnote to the English language version.

The Spanish language version is certainly worth seeing once, I guess, there's some cool mobile camerawork and all. My respect for the Browning version skyrocketed after I saw it.

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Updated On: 10/30/13 at 09:06 AM

#91

Favorite Horror Films

Posted: 10/30/13 at 9:52am

For those who weren't aware, a ton of movie theaters are showing HALLOWEEN tonight and AMC theaters are also screening THE SHINING.

#92

Favorite Horror Films

Posted: 10/30/13 at 9:55am

I will be screening Mad Monster Party tonight, followed by The Sentinel.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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#93

Favorite Horror Films

Posted: 10/30/13 at 9:55am

Canon:
The Shining
Rosemary's Baby
The Thing
Audition
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Halloween
Alien
Nightmare on Elm Street
The Birds
Carrie
Night of the Living Dead

People need to stick up for it more:
Freaks
Cat People
Candyman (one of the smartest scripts of any horror movie in recent memory and the Philip Glass score is out of this world)
The Innocents
New Nightmare
Don't Look Now
The original version of The Crazies
The Wicker Man
Kuroneko

Does Mulholland Drive count as a horror movie? Because the diner sequence has one of the best scares I have ever watched on screen.

I also consider Todd Haynes' SAFE a horror movie. One of the best unseen movies of the 90s with one of the best performances by Julianne Moore and just as Sirkian as his Far From Heaven pastiche.

I actually felt a little bored by Room 237. Maybe it was because when somebody told me there was a group of people with crazy theories on The Shining, by the power of Google, I just explored it on my computer and was just not too surprised.

Also, House/Hausu is like a William Castle movie on an acid trip. Such a fun, surreal film.

#94

Favorite Horror Films

Posted: 10/30/13 at 9:57am

Roscoe--I agree with you about the Spanish-language "Dracula," with one exception ... the camera work is far superior to the Lugosi version. It's worth it to watch for that reason alone.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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#95

Favorite Horror Films

Posted: 10/30/13 at 10:33am

Best-- well, there's certainly more camera-work going on in the Spanish-language Dracula, but I'm not sure I'd call it better. I've grown to appreciate the comparative restraint in the Browning version, there's a stateliness to it somehow, as opposed to the flashy stuff in the other.

#96

Favorite Horror Films

Posted: 10/30/13 at 10:36am

I haven't seen SAFE since right when it came out on video but I remember that movie scaring to crap out of me. I should watch it again!

#97

Favorite Horror Films

Posted: 10/30/13 at 10:39am

Best asked "I've never seen "Room 237." Is it worth watching?"

I saw it and enjoyed it. There's some interesting stuff being pointed out, no doubt, but part of the interest is in seeing exactly where reasonable crosses over into crazy. I like the stuff about the geography of the Overlook Hotel, how it doesn't really make sense at all, in particular. Well worth a look.

The filmmakers seem to be reserving judgment, overall, but there are a couple of moments where some of the wilder allegations are, to put it politely debunked. I dare anyone to actually find the image of Kubrick that is supposedly airbrushed into the clouds in that one shot.

#98

Favorite Horror Films

Posted: 10/30/13 at 6:51pm

A late giallo for the theater kids.

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#99

Favorite Horror Films

Posted: 10/30/13 at 7:18pm

It's already been listed, but John Carpenter's The Thing is probably my favorite because it's the first horror movie that actually scared me. The psychological nature of the film provided the true scares, not the (very well-done) monsters. I actually didn't want to sleep after watching it the first time.

#100

Favorite Horror Films

Posted: 10/30/13 at 7:22pm

I'm at the movie theater now about to see HALLOWEEN on the big screen. That makes me a very happy boy.

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