If you love movies, What do you think is the best horror movie?

Question

The horror movie can be good because it has a good storyline or it can have loads of blood and gore!!! It's up to you....

Answer 1

I guess that depends on what it is you call horror, to most people today horror can be almost any gory movie, but these types of movies are not horror, there is no macabre quality to them, they are just gore flicks.
there isnt too much true horror being filmed today, the horror movies just cant compete with the horrors of real day to day life. so for a true horror film we have to go back to a time before our world became so brutal
my choice is either The Shining, or The Exorcist.

Answer 2

I would say Saw 1,2 and 3 because they are so clever, gory and freaky. But the best thing about it is that the gore is realistic so it makes it more scary. It also has a very good meaning. I love the way everything comes together in Saw 3.
Other than that the horror films that freaked me out when i was younger where - Stephen King's IT, The Birds, The People Under The Stairs, Pet Semetary 1 & 2 and I suppose Child's Play. Now that i am older I don't find Child's Play scary at all. Btw if you haven't seen any of the above films I'd recommend them :]

Answer 3

I LOVE HORROR! Love to see blood and guts and veins. Love to hear people scream and watch them get chased down and hacked up. I know, sounds sick doesn't it? BUT I LOVE IT! MUAHAHAHAHAHA! As for the best eras, not sure. There are so many great horror movie from each era. I guess I would have to go with the 80s. I love animatronic effects like the werewolf change in "The Howling". I can not stand this computer generated horror effects they got going on today like in "Van Helsing" the werewolf is SO FAKE LOOKING! Give me good ole' fashioned blood splatters any day! Some of my favorite horror movies of all time is a toughy also. SO many to choose from, so here is a list of some of my favorites but by far not all of them! The Howling Rabid Grannies Fright Night Redneck Zombies Halloween Suspiria Hellraiser 1 and 2 Alien and Aliens Clownhouse Creepshow The Lost Boys The Puppet Master The Host The Descent Feast Hatchet Friday the 13th 1 thru 4 TCM Deadly Friend Silver Bullet Scream Pumpkinhead Rawhead Rex Phantasm Ginger Snaps and many many more!

Answer 4

My favorite horror movie of all time is the original "The Howling".
After coming home from seeing that, I made the wife stay in the car with the headlights on while I opened the backdoor (we hadn't turned the outside light on and we had woods right behind our house with moose and once we saw a bear, so there were always branches cracking and such.

When Eddie started changing and he had this fanged grin, MAN, I was MONTHS getting over that,

Storylines are good but what is essential are characters the audience can identify with, a way of connecting with the characters in the movie. If you have an emotional atachment to one or more characters, it will matter to you what happens to those characters which makes you more emotionally invested in the movie.

Answer 5

I,m going to have to show my age here,the best horror movie was "A Nightmare on Elm Street".
And by this i mean the original,this was because in its day nothing had been made like it.
This made it all the more horrifying and unless you are my age O.K 40,you could not appreciate how scary it really was.
I know that since many horror films are more gory and have more suspense but are all similar so not overall as frightening.

One of the most modern horrors i thought was good is "PULSE", you'll think twice about surfing the net after watching this one.

Answer 6

As you so correctly stated, horror is a very general term for a variety of movies. One of the best horror movies of all time is, of course, Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho".
Then you will find that the New York Museum of Modern Art purchased a copy of Tobe Hooper's "Texas Chain Saw Massacre" for their permanent film collection, thereby making it - and I agree with that - one of the most influential films of all time (whereas it is banned to this day in countries like Germany).
George Romero's "Dead"-Trilogy certainly has had an almost revolutionary impact on the horror genre.
Lately, we've seen a lot of remakes of those classics, for the most part not very intelligent ones, but hopefully inducing interest for the originals among the younger generation.

One of the best original horror flics in recent years, in my opinion, is "Saw". That movie really was over the top, very original, with depth, and not only gore galore: How far would you go ?

Answer 7

Any supernatural movie, especially the ones made in th 70s, e.g- The Exorcist, The Entity, the original Amityville Horror etc... Blood and guts dont really scare me as much as a storyline that is based on a true story!!

Answer 8

Although some have shocked me more than others, I find that the real horror stories are the ones which stay with you and haunt you for years to come.

There are only 3 of these which have done this

The Pianist (not technically a horror but the scenes of brutality towards the Jews make it one)
The Silence of the Lambs (the way that killers are slowly revealed to us in a quiet way instead of slash slash makes this one stay in your mind)
Poltergeist (yes I know it's a 15 and ages old but I first watched this one at a slumber party when I was 11 and the chairs stacking themselves in the kitchen still freak me out)

Answer 9

The Blair Witch Project works on so many levels because the "true horror" is left to the imagination, which is far more fertile than celluloid.

But the original Japanese Ring, Ju-on: The Grudge, or Dark Water are among some of the best supernatural horror movies ever made - even if their plots can be difficult for the west to digest.

Regardless, and for myself, the original Dawn of the Dead ranks #1 purely by virtue of its premise - it isn't particularly scary, but neither is it difficult to identify with.

Answer 10

I love the ones where you can't really see much at the start, lots of scary noises, shapes in the background. Blair witch was really good and the early alien films. The grudge is a recent one which I found genuinely creepy and actually had to turn it off. Not one to watch alone in the dark.

I also have to admit in terms of slasher movies I really liked Scream because it was a kind of modern take on the traditional psycho killer movie although it has a lot to answer for in terms of the cack american teen horror films that have spawned from it.

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