What are your top 5 favorite horror movies?
Saturday, October 25, 2003 by Keila | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
It is not very easy to take it down to a top five so I had to do a lot of thinking on this one.
I still have to go with the all time classic as #1 though. the movie that started it all. The killer will not die. So here goes.
1: Halloween
2: Exorcist
3: Hellraiser
4: Nightmare On Elm Street
5: Jaws "not really horror but, I have hated the beach since"
Now finial Destination is one of my all time favorites but I did not include it because again not really a horror movie.
I also am going to go see the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre tonight so I will have to see if my top five will change.
I still have to go with the all time classic as #1 though. the movie that started it all. The killer will not die. So here goes.
1: Halloween
2: Exorcist
3: Hellraiser
4: Nightmare On Elm Street
5: Jaws "not really horror but, I have hated the beach since"
Now finial Destination is one of my all time favorites but I did not include it because again not really a horror movie.
I also am going to go see the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre tonight so I will have to see if my top five will change.
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craeonics
Reply #23 Sunday, October 26, 2003 7:12 AM
Reply #23 Sunday, October 26, 2003 7:12 AM
The Blair Witch Project is such an incredibly dull movie. It starts out alright, but after fifteen minutes, you've seen all you have to see, really. The hysterics after that are just plain annoying.
First horror I ever saw was Hellraiser, so everything else just pales in the gore department. Can't say that I've ever seen a movie that gives me the creeps, though minutes of silence, followed by shrieking violins always give me the spooks.
Anyhow, those old Hammer films are quite entertaining.
First horror I ever saw was Hellraiser, so everything else just pales in the gore department. Can't say that I've ever seen a movie that gives me the creeps, though minutes of silence, followed by shrieking violins always give me the spooks.
Anyhow, those old Hammer films are quite entertaining.
bakerstreet
Reply #24 Sunday, October 26, 2003 7:56 AM
Reply #24 Sunday, October 26, 2003 7:56 AM
I think how spooky The Blair Witch Project is to you depends on your background. There is a supernatural/occult mythos in Appalachian history that a lot of people aren't all that familiar with, even people who live here in Appalachia. A good example is the Bell Witch stories from middle Tennessee. I grew up with 'haints' and the various stories of satanism and witchcraft, so The Blair Witch Project kind of resonated with me. Stories similar to that have been circulating for hundreds of years. I have walked through houses that had almost exact mythologies as the one at the end of the movie, and hiked hours from the road to get to them.
Anyway, I figured it was scary to most people for the same reason Deliverance was scary. Is anything scarier than dangerous hillbillies?
. I am one, so I'll abstain from opinion.
Don't mean to wander off-topic, just wanted to explain since I was the only one to cite The Blair Witch Project so far.
Anyway, I figured it was scary to most people for the same reason Deliverance was scary. Is anything scarier than dangerous hillbillies?
. I am one, so I'll abstain from opinion.Don't mean to wander off-topic, just wanted to explain since I was the only one to cite The Blair Witch Project so far.
grayhaze
Reply #25 Sunday, October 26, 2003 8:25 AM
Reply #25 Sunday, October 26, 2003 8:25 AM
I was lucky enough to be one of the first people to see Blair Witch, and at that time the hype machine was in overdrive. At the time I was living in the States, and I'd seen the TV 'documentary' about the 'real' events leading up to the creation of the movie out of the recovered videos. At that time, nobody doubted the movie was a true story. I also lived in a remote apartment complex in the middle of acres and acres of wild forest, so that didn't exactly help on the way home after watching the movie. I think it very much depends on the circumstances under which you saw the movie. Unfortunately, by the time it reached the UK it was well known that it was a hoax. It therefore didn't do nearly as well at the box office in this country.
I saw Texas Chainsaw Massacre when I was about 10 years old, again when I was living in the States for a while. Looking back, it was pretty irresponsible of the family I was staying with to allow me to watch the movie, as it seriously scarred me at the time. I might go and see the new one, but it'll probably reduce me to tears!
As for my top five, in no particular order:
1. Halloween (Still creeps me out every time. There's just something unsettling about mental hospitals.)
2. Blair Witch Project
3. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
4. Event Horizon (The subliminal imagery is wicked.)
5. The Ring (The original, not the popcorn-friendly remake.)
I saw Texas Chainsaw Massacre when I was about 10 years old, again when I was living in the States for a while. Looking back, it was pretty irresponsible of the family I was staying with to allow me to watch the movie, as it seriously scarred me at the time. I might go and see the new one, but it'll probably reduce me to tears!
As for my top five, in no particular order:
1. Halloween (Still creeps me out every time. There's just something unsettling about mental hospitals.)
2. Blair Witch Project
3. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
4. Event Horizon (The subliminal imagery is wicked.)
5. The Ring (The original, not the popcorn-friendly remake.)
Jafo
Reply #26 Sunday, October 26, 2003 5:00 PM
Reply #26 Sunday, October 26, 2003 5:00 PM
"Jafo becomes Kona".....I shall probably never sleep peacefully again....
Chickie
Reply #27 Sunday, October 26, 2003 5:06 PM
Reply #27 Sunday, October 26, 2003 5:06 PM
I didn't get it with the fly in the Ring flick. 
Someone, PLEASE, kill the fly!
Someone, PLEASE, kill the fly!
Ande
Reply #28 Sunday, October 26, 2003 5:41 PM
Reply #28 Sunday, October 26, 2003 5:41 PM
John Carpenter's "In the Mouth of Madness" was a little scarey.
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Reply #21 Saturday, October 25, 2003 9:30 PM
Karmagirl in the land of NO coffee or Printers Part 1
Jafo becomes Kona
I am joking! can't think of anymore