Your favorite horror film of all time

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7_Sorrows said:
The Haunting with Julie Harris was very good.
Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane were good. I don’t know if they would fit in the horror genre.

Also Them!, The Thing (original) and The Wolfman (the original).
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The two Robert Aldrich films you mention would certainly fit into the horror genre, and both contain a smorgasboard of great acting talent to boot.
 
There was also a TV movie, “From the Dead of Night” (1989), starring Lindsay Wagner, Bruce Boxleitner, and Robert Prosky. Eerie and frightening stuff about demons who take over people’s bodies after death. Does anyone remember seeing it?
 
I don’t care for the genre, but I have to say, the movie that scared the bejeebers out of me was IT by Stephen King.
oh dear.
uber scary.
 
I watched the original Wolfman recently, and it was far better than I expected, as was the Mummy, which makes my overlong list:

The Shining - for the relentless brooding atmosphere
Alien - for the spaceship
Day of the Dead - ultimate zombie apocalypse
The Thing (Carpenter remake) - horribly compelling - (I found the original disappointing. It’s famous for the obscurity of the monster, but in reality you see it loads!)
Lord of Darkness - for the doominess of it
Plague of the zombies - for that quintessential hammer mistiness
The Mummy - just brilliant - I wasn’t expecting such a powerful plot
The Reptile - for its sadly complicated creature
The Birds - truly terrifying
Masque of the Red Death - beautiful
Invasion of the body snatchers (1978 remake) - for the human headed dog, which echoes a similar horror of I think its “Oh! Lucky Man”
The Stone Tape - not really a film, but probably the most terrifying realization of Lovecraftian beastie I’ve seen

And to reference Catholicism, which little of this stuff really does, I’d also mention the much underated TV show Apparitions with Martin Shaw.

Maybe I thought about this too much :o
 
My favorites are The Shining, Poltergeist and Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Granted Keanu Reeves wasn’t too good but Gary Oldman was fantastic.
 
Mystic_Banana said:
I watched the original Wolfman recently, and it was far better than I expected, as was the Mummy, which makes my list:

The Shining - for the relentless brooding atmosphere
Alien - for the spaceship
Day of the Dead - ultimate zombie apocalypse
The Thing (Carpenter remake) - horribly compelling
Lord of Darkness - for the doominess of it
Plague of the zombies - for that quintessential hammer mistiness
The Mummy - just brilliant - I wasn’t expecting such a powerful plot
The reptile - for its sadly complicated creature
The Birds - truly terrifying
Masque of the Red Death - beautiful
Invasion of the body snatchers (1978 remake) - for the human headed dog, which echoes the similar horror of I think its “Oh! Lucky Man”
The Stone Tape - not really a film, but probably the most terrifying realization of Lovecratian beasty I’ve seen

And to reference Catholicism, which little of this stuff really does, I’d also mention the much underated TV show Apparitions with Martin Shaw.

An understanding of the universe from a Catholic viewpoint has as it’s core horror the fear of hell, which has never been fully realised in film, for my money (although it does feature in Red Death, above)… the greatest horror is of a futile, hopelessly cruel reality without God, which is the fear that underpins most of these films

Maybe I thought about this too much :o
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Alfred Hitchcock once said that “A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.” So you’re in good company.
 
meltzerboy said:
Alfred Hitchcock once said that “A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.” So you’re in good company.
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:rotfl:and he was Catholic as well!

Actually I edited that bit out again, since I’m not sure I really agree with all of it!
 
All great movies! One of my favorites is a very low budget cult classic called Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things. So bad it’s good. 🍿 Check it out on IMDB:

imdb.com/title/tt0068370/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

I remember as a child during the 60’s having the stuffing scared out of me by a movie called The Screaming Skull. Another Rotten Tomatoes worthy movie, but for a kid…

imdb.com/title/tt0052169/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

I don’t know if this qualifies as horror, but The Purge spooked me. I’m a fan of the classics; I love Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Chris Lee, among others. Did you know that Christopher Lee, who will be 93 this month, is a fan of heavy metal music? He recorded and released some songs over the past few years. :extrahappy:
 
book_and_bead said:
All great movies! One of my favorites is a very low budget cult classic called Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things. So bad it’s good. 🍿 Check it out on IMDB:

imdb.com/title/tt0068370/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

I remember as a child during the 60’s having the stuffing scared out of me by a movie called The Screaming Skull. Another Rotten Tomatoes worthy movie, but for a kid…

imdb.com/title/tt0052169/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

I don’t know if this qualifies as horror, but The Purge spooked me. I’m a fan of the classics; I love Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Chris Lee, among others. Did you know that Christopher Lee, who will be 93 this month, is a fan of heavy metal music? He recorded and released some songs over the past few years. :extrahappy:
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Those songs recently recorded by Christopher Lee (although I admit to not having heard them) may very well qualify as horror music. G-d bless him.
 
meltzerboy said:
The two Robert Aldrich films you mention would certainly fit into the horror genre, and both contain a smorgasboard of great acting talent to boot.
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Bette Davis and Joan Crawford although beautiful in their younger years could both be very frightening looking in their senior years. I didn’t realize both movies were Robert Aldrich films. Was he the director? Bruce Dern really made an impression in Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte.
 
Pax Christi!

Oldies, especially if there’s a mad scientist.

This brings us to Man-Made Monster(1941) with Lon Chaney, Jr.

Yes, this is a plug for the group, Svengoolie fans! (Link below)

Join us tonight!

God bless.
 
7_Sorrows said:
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford although beautiful in their younger years could both be very frightening looking in their senior years. I didn’t realize both movies were Robert Aldrich films. Was he the director? Bruce Dern really made an impression in Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte.
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Yes, Robert Aldrich directed both films, as well as the third in this grotesque trilogy, The Nanny, which also starred Bette Davis. In HHSC, Bruce Dern, in a small part because he was cut early (bad joke!), was very good, as were Olivia de Havilland, Agnes Moorehead, Mary Astor, Joseph Cotton, Cecil Kellaway, and (briefly) Victor Buono, who also made his film debut in Baby Jane.
 
svid2 said:
Pax Christi!

Oldies, especially if there’s a mad scientist.

This brings us to Man-Made Monster(1941) with Lon Chaney, Jr.

Yes, this is a plug for the group, Svengoolie fans! (Link below)

Join us tonight!

God bless.
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Welcome aboard, Svengoolie master! I always look forward to your Svengoolie posts.
 
meltzerboy said:
Yes, Robert Aldrich directed both films, as well as the third in this grotesque trilogy, The Nanny, which also starred Bette Davis. In HHSC, Bruce Dern, in a small part because he was cut early (bad joke!), was very good, as were Olivia de Havilland, Agnes Moorehead, Mary Astor, Joseph Cotton, Cecil Kellaway, and (briefly) Victor Buono, who also made his film debut in Baby Jane.
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I have always wanted to see The Nanny, but have never seen more than 5 or 10 minutes. Hopefully, someday I will see the entire movie.

HHSC had an excellent cast. Joseph Cotton and Olivia de Haviland were so diabolical in their scheme. Yes, for having such a small part, he was memorable.
 
Don’t like horror movies. Never did, never will I always wonder what went through the original writers of such. Always wondered went through the mind of Stephen King as he wrote his stories. I often think writers that write such are working out their own violence and horror with the pen. In that case it would be a good thing for them to vent their own inner demons through books or movies. If I were to chose one movie/book that I actually liked it would be THE STAND. The devil didn’t win and got his due…or did he…hmmm.:eek:
 
  1. The Exorcist
  2. The Haunting (original)
  3. The Horror of Dracula
  4. The Innocents
  5. The Shout
  6. Witchfinder General
  7. The Vanishing (Dutch original, not remake)
  8. Macbeth (Orson Welles, Jon Finch, or Patrick Stewart versions)
  9. The Thing (John Carpenter version)
  10. The Masque of Red Death
Not favorites, but just watched IT! (1967) with Roddy McDowell as a museum curator who comes into possession of the Golem, and The Shuttered Room, a little-known Lovecraft adapatation from 1967 with Gig Young, Carol Linley and the always enjoyable Oliver Reed.
 
Mary_Estelle said:
Don’t like horror movies. Never did, never will I always wonder what went through the original writers of such. Always wondered went through the mind of Stephen King as he wrote his stories. I often think writers that write such are working out their own violence and horror with the pen. In that case it would be a good thing for them to vent their own inner demons through books or movies. If I were to chose one movie/book that I actually liked it would be THE STAND. The devil didn’t win and got his due…or did he…hmmm.:eek:
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There were and are quite a few Catholic horror writers, BTW.
 
7_Sorrows said:
I have always wanted to see The Nanny, but have never seen more than 5 or 10 minutes. Hopefully, someday I will see the entire movie.

HHSC had an excellent cast. Joseph Cotton and Olivia de Haviland were so diabolical in their scheme. Yes, for having such a small part, he was memorable.
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I’ve got the DVD - it is very disturbing! And very good
 
“The Night of the Living Dead”, It probably wouldn’t be that scary now but in the day I was really scared:eek:
 
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