List Your Top 10 Favorite Horror Movies

[Birds in Hell]

The Shining

Suspiria

Psycho.

Don't Look now

Amityville Horror (Original)
Rosemary's Baby

Plus one on all of these.

When done well, horror (in a very broad sense) is perhaps my favourite genre of film. That said, I'm generally not particularly interested in overtly gory or graphically violent films, I find them pretty repulsive.

Some other favourites:

The Wicker Man
Village of the Damned
The Stepford Wives

I'm crazy about Argento's films from the 70s: Suspiria (see my avatar), Deep Red, Inferno, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage.

The Fearless Vampire Killers

I've been meaning to see this for years. I love Rosemary's Baby, The Tenant, Repulsion, etc., so I'm not sure why it's taken me so long.

[LoathedVermin72]

The Fearless Vampire Killers

I've been meaning to see this for years. I love Rosemary's Baby, The Tenant, Repulsion, etc.

See it. It's my favorite movie of all time. And Polanski is my favorite director of all time.

[Birds in Hell]

The Fearless Vampire Killers

I've been meaning to see this for years. I love Rosemary's Baby, The Tenant, Repulsion, etc.

See it. It's my favorite movie of all time. And Polanski is my favorite director of all time.

Will do, I've never seen a Polanski film I haven't thoroughly enjoyed.

[BurtReynolds]

Tremors

[epilogue]

The Strain doesn't count

[Rangi Guy]

Maximum Overdrive

[ABNorman]

Tremors

[bada]

Alien was a good one I forgot about. Love Tremors. Probably shouldn't admit this but if I am in the right mood the T-Rex in Jurassic Park scares me pretty good.

[ABNorman]

Alien was a good one I forgot about. Love Tremors. Probably shouldn't admit this but if I am in the right mood the T-Rex in Jurassic Park scares me pretty good.

The glass of water bit is just tremendous film-making.

[nyquillyn]

Let The Right One In
The Shining
Evil Dead 2
Dawn of The Dead
28 Days Later
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Rosemary's Baby
The Birds
Videodrome
El Orfanato

This is assuming Pan's Labyrinth doesn't count as horror.

[Rangi Guy]

Let The Right One In
The Shining
Evil Dead 2
Dawn of The Dead
28 Days Later
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Rosemary's Baby
The Birds
Videodrome
El Orfanato

This is assuming Pan's Labyrinth doesn't count as horror.

28 Days later - just fell off my top 10. Good pick!

[bada]

01 Exorcist
02 Poltergeist
03 Shining
04 Sixth Sense
05 Conjuring
06 Monster Squad
07 Army Of Darkness
08 Ghostbusters
09 House
10 Beetlejuice

I tend to go for ghost stories over slashers, torture porn and gross stuff. Half of these are more fun than scary but that's my kind of spooky movies. I really love the Universal Monsters but rather than list all those I just went with The Monster Squad.

Well I was really excited to show my oldest Monster Squad but I had to turn it off five minutes in. Every other word was fag0t and it was spoken with an incredible amount of venom. I don't know it made me feel uncomfortable. It all went over my head back in the day. Well I guess it was normal back then. I'm probably being too PC but it's not a word or the attitude associated with that word in the movie that I want him picking up on. Bummer. I'm gonna try Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein instead.

[LoathedVermin72]

Oh man, I love all the kid-swearing in Monster Squad.

[Strat]

I thought sinister was pretty good

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[LoathedVermin72]

Half of those are not horror movies, trag.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Strat]

Half of those are not horror movies, trag.

I disagree completely. Just because they're not slasher films doesn't mean they're not scary -- they have ghosts, killers, monsters, and lots of jump scares. Even Ghostbusters used to alternately make laugh/make me scared when I was a little kid. It may play as straight comedy to me now, but it was different when I was a young'un, so it goes on my list.

The opening scene with thee librarian gave me nightmares as a child.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[LoathedVermin72]

Movies can be scary or have secondary horror elements without being horror movies. But whatever, I guess it doesn't really matter.