Halloween Special: Your Top Ten Favourite Horror Movies

Here's my selection:

1. Dawn of The Dead (1978)
2. John Carpenter's Halloween (1978)
3. Jacob's Ladder (1990)
4. Saw (2004)
5. Insidious (2011)
6. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
7. Scream (1996)
8. Stephen King's IT (1990)
9. Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987)
10. Madhouse (2004)

These are mine. The order doesn't indicate level of likeness. just my most favorite ones.

• Cannibal Holocaust
• Evil Dead (all of them)
• Frankenstein (The 1931 version)
• The Exorcist
• Salem's Lot (Not a movie but as a kid it freaked me out)
• Nightmare on Elm Street
• I Spit On Your Grave (Original)
• Hellraiser
• The Hills Have Eyes
• Suspiria

I have many more but you only wanted 10.

Man. No idea. Not sure I can order these. But I can pick ten.

• John Carpenter's Halloween
• John Carpenter's The Thing
• 28 Days Later
• Alien
• The Blair Witch Project
• The Fly (Cronenberg)
• Phantasm
• Let the Right One In
• Scream

And just to fuck with the list, and maybe the people reading it:

• Carnosaur 2 (my first experience with vore)

I'm dividing this into a couple of categories.

Straight-up "real" horror:

• 1. The Omen (the original)
• 2. The Thing
• 3. Nosferatu
• 4. Silence of the Lambs
• 5. Dawn of the Dead
• 6. The Shining
• 7. The Exorcist
• 8. Ringu
• 9. Village of the Damned
• 10. Dracula (the early 30's version)

Honorable mention - American Werewolf in London

Best shlock-tacular horror/comedies

• 1. Army of Darkness
• 2. Shaun of the Dead
• 3. Dawn of the Dead (repeat, but whatever, it's my list, bitch!)
• 4. Bubba Ho-Tep
• 5. The Frighteners (I know I'm weird for preferring this to Dead Alive - eh, oh well)
• 6. Cannibal: The Musical
• 7. Gremlins (love 'em both)
• 8. Slither
• 9. Tremors (all of them, all of the Tremors.... oooooohhhhhh baby)
• 10. Evil Dead 1/2

Best "worst" horror movies (i.e., the ones you should never, ever watch)

• 1. Toxic Avenger series (also, any Troma films in general if you can stomach the pure, glorious shittiness)
• 2. Dracula 3000
• 3. Snomageddon (I have a horrible, never-ending love of Syfy's sea of crap)
• 4. Pterodactyl (both this and Dracula 3000 have Coolio, folks)
• 5. Alien Apocalypse
• 6. DinoShark (or just about any of the 80 trillion animal mashups Syfy has done)
• 7. Plan 9 From Outer Space
• 8. Gingerbread Man
• 9. Leprechaun: Back 2 the Hood
• 10. Troll 2

Sorry about the editing problems. I'll try to jump in tomorrow and fix this.

• Alien
• The Thing From Another World
• Halloween
• Braindead
• The Exorcist
• The Mist
• The Shining
• Rosemary's Baby
• Return of the Living Dead
• Son of Frankenstein

In no order.

• Mouth of Madness
• Event Horizon
• Night of the Living Dead
• Dawn of the Dead
• Triangle
• The Orphanage
• [rec]
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers ('56 version)
• Let the Right One In
• Pontypool

1. Halloween (1978)
2. Night of the Living Dead
3. The Shining
4. Carrie
5. Fright Night (1985)
6. Return of the Living Dead
7. Night of the Creeps
8. Creepshow
9. Near Dark
10. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

In no particular order and most of these are just off the top of my head. There's no way I could order horror movies or settle on just ten.

Alien

John Carpenter's The Thing

Kansen

The Eye

Tale of Two Sisters

Noroi(ABSOLUTELY worth watching if you're a fan of found footage and/or asian horror)

Uzumaki(Also a pretty good read)

[rec]

The Mist

Drag Me To Hell

A lot of my favorites may not be considered straight horror, since I'm really not a big fan of scary movies.  In no particular order, let's see if I can make it to 10: 
 
Fright Night (I don't even know if it needs saying, but this is not the remake) 
Dead Alive/ Braindead 
Phantasm (the Tall Man is my favorite horror villain ever)
The Monster Squad 
Alien 
The Thing (the remake, but not that remake) 
The Frighteners 
Hellraiser 1/2 
Aberration (Not a good movie, but maybe I just like horror films shot in New Zealand)  
 
 
Edit:  I feel ashamed for realizing I left out The Shining, or really anything else from the works of Stephen King, but this is my list and I'm sticking with it.

No particular order.

John Carpenter's The Thing

John Carpenter's Halloween

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Alien

Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn

1408

Psycho

Cabin in The Woods

Shaun of The Dead

I'm really struggling to think of one more. I'm sure there's plenty that I've forgotten, but the one coming to mind is this intense Korean film called The Chaser. It's probably more into the "thriller" category, but it left me feeling more emotionally drained and disturbed than damn near any horror movie I've ever seen.

@JoeBigfoot: Oh, man. Event Horizon is awesome.

• Evil Dead (NOTHING is better than the original)
• REC (Quarantine)
• The Exorcist
• Zombies Halloween 1 & 2
• Dawn of the Dead (Remake)
• 28 Days Later
• Insidious
• Martyrs
• 30 Days of Night
• The Fourth Kind
• Jacob's Ladder
• The Descent
• The Strangers
• Vacancy

• John Carpenter's The Thing
• Evil Dead
• Evil Dead 2
• Perfect Blue
• Dead Alive / Braindead
• Bubba Ho-Tep
• Gingerdead Man
• [rec]
• Nosferatu
• Pontypool

The only order would be The Thing as number one, and then the rest just kind of tossed in there. That might not even be my top 10, but those are the ones that immediately spring to mind. Mind you, I love schlocky shitty horror movie more than the 'serious' ones most of the time, because I can at least get behind the shitty acting and terrible everything if the movie is tongue-in-cheek.

1. Alien
2. John Carpenter's The Thing
3. The Mist

The rest are in no order:

• Ju-On
• An American Werewolf in London
• Dawn of the Dead remake
• House on Haunted Hill remake
• Night of the Living Dead
• Event Horizon
• The Shining

Would Jaws be considered horror? It seems like it should be but I just don't. If so then it's number thee and The Mist is four, take NotLD off the list.

The Thing, Alien, The Mist. I'm not much of a horror fan.

Hmmm... OK let me give this a shot. I'm not sure I've seen all that many horror movies but here are the ones that stand out in my mind, just as they come to me.

• The Thing
• The Shining
• 28 Days Later
• Alien
• The Descent
• Saw
• Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (fucking great movie but I'm stretching the "horror" label pretty far here)
• The Mist
• I seem to have liked 1408 quite a bit although I can't remember a thing about it now.
• 28 Weeks Later

Some of those are just what I get when I look through horror movies on my netflix history. I'm sure there are other horror movies I'm missing that just aren't classified as horror for whatever reason. The Orphanage comes to mind, and The Devil's Backbone.

• The Thing
• Dawn of the Dead (both original and remake)
• 28 Days Later
• Alien
• Event Horizon
• The Mist
• The Cabin in the Woods
• Shaun of the Dead
• The Exorcist
• Zombieland

1. John Carpenter's The Thing
2. Dead Alive/Braindead
3. People Under The Stairs
4. John Carpenter's In The Mouth of Madness
5. The Mist
6. Cujo
7. Evil Dead II
8. The Beyond
9. Near Dark
10. Flesh-Eating Mothers

I'm not much of a horror fan, but a few films I really love are Alien, Aliens, and John Carpenter's The Thing . Aliens is more of a straight-up action film, but it has some truly terrifying scenes.

@JoeBigfoot said:

• Mouth of Madness

In The Mouth of Madness is one of the best movies in the genre. Love that movie. Sam Neill is awesome.

Not in any order, but here's top 10. I tend to gravitate towards 1960s horror for some reason.

Horror Hotel/City of the Dead

Black Sunday

The Haunting

The Innocents

Blair Witch Project

Paranormal Activity

Halloween

Dracula (1931)

Nosferatu

Castle of Blood or Carnival of Souls

If you don't have both John Carpenters The Thing and Alien your opinions are moot to me.

Halloween

Alien

The Shining

Dracula (Bela Lugosi)

I don't know man, so many..

I'm actually surprised at the number of people saying The Mist, I thought nobody saw that movie.

• 28 Days Later
• The Thing
• Aliens
• The Shining

Honorable mention goes to 2001 A Space Odyssey for sort of being like a horror movie

Hocus Pocus.

Night of the Living Dead

Dawn of the Dead

The Haunting

Psycho

Pumpkinhead

Pontypool

The Shinning

The Thing

The Last Man on Earth

Evil Dead

@uniform said:

1. Halloween (1978)
2. Night of the Living Dead
3. The Shining
4. Carrie
5. Fright Night (1985)
6. Return of the Living Dead
7. Night of the Creeps
8. Creepshow
9. Near Dark
10. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

This guy knows his shit.

Not in any kind order

• The Thing
• The Exorcist
• The Shining
• House of the Devil
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
• Jaws
• Alien
• Dawn of the Dead
• Halloween
• Videodrome

• Trick r' Treat
• The Evil Dead Series
• 28 Days Later
• Cabin in the Woods
• Shaun of the Dead
• Alien
• The Shining
• Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
• The host

I'm not a big horror fan. As you can see, the majority of the horror movies I enjoy are equal parts horror and either comedy or drama. I've never understood the appeal of the constant stress resulting from "true" horror movies.

http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/off-topic/31/twenty-horror-movies-of-the-past-20-years-that-you-should-watch/510210/

I stand by what I said

I stand by what I said

28 Days Later

Alien

The Blair Witch Project

Halloween

Hellraiser

Jaws

Night of the Living Dead

Psycho

The Shining

The Thing

No order really and also very subjective (I'm sure there are a lot that deserve more mention that I'm just forgetting):

1. John Carpenter's The Thing (better watched in the winter rather than Halloween, if you live in a snowy region)
2. In the Mouth of Madness (just watch this, it is awesome on so many levels)
3. The Others
4. REC (the original Spanish film, NOT the remake)
5. El Orfanato
6. Alien
7. Pontypool
8. Jacob's Ladder
9. Splinter
10. 28 Days Later

I'm pleasantly surprised to see so much The Thing and In the Mouth of Madness on here, didn't think many people enjoyed them as much as I did.

Narrowing it down to a list of ten was pretty damned difficult so I won't even attempt to rank them from 1 to 10.

• The Beyond
• Black Christmas (original)
• Dawn of the Dead (original)
• The Exorcist
• Hellraiser
• Re-animator
• Suspiria
• The Thing (original)
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)
• The Wicker Man (original)