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What are your favorite horror movies? Not the best or the best series or the best of any particular sub-genre, but your personal favorites (good and/or bad).
Any amount with or without any reason with or without an order is fine.


My top 11 in no order:

1. Creepshow - (1982) [My all-time favorite movie in general as well!]

2. Dead Alive - (1992)

3. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors - (1987)

4. French Title: Ils English Title: Them - (2006) [The scariest movie I've ever seen!]

5. The Omen - (1976) [The first movie to scare me! It gave me nightmares for weeks! I was in 8th grade.]

*6. House on Haunted Hill - (1959) [So much fun!]

*7. The Abominable Dr. Phibes - (1971) [Perfect tagline =  "Love means never having to say, "You're ugly"]

8. Scream - (1996)

9. The Hills Have Eyes - (2006)

10. Killer Klowns from Outer Space - (1988)

11. The Thing - (1982)

*My 2 favorite Vincent Price movies!

Such a tough pick.  I love so many:

Dawn of the Dead (original)
The Thing
The Shining
Audition
Infection
The Host
Shaun of the Dead
Suspiria
Deed Red
City of the Living Dead
Creepshow
Dog Soldiers
Dead Alive
Nightmare on Elm Street (original)
The Hills Have Eyes (remake)
End of the Line
Army of Darkness

Alien and Aliens are my two all-time favorites.  I've seen them so many times that when I start watching them now,  I realize I've got them memorized and I have to turn them off  :teddyr:  Alien 3 was good as well;  I've never seen the extended director's cut of it, but it's next up on my Netflix queue.

Friday the 13th part 2 - my idea of the perfect slasher. 
Jason X - Great fun.
Sorority House Massacre 2:  Nighty Nightmare - Definitely recommend a few adult beverages with this.  Awesome cheese fest.
Exorcist The Beginning - very suspenseful movie.  Kept me on the edge of me seat throughout.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003 remake with Jessica Biel) - very intense and effective horror movie.  Really achieved scariness!

There are a whole ton of horror movies that I like, but they don't quite rate high enough to make it on a list. 

I've got a soft spot for:
 
Fright Night
The Howling
The Howling 2
American Werewolf in London
The Night Stalker(tv movie)
Prince of Darkness
Both versions of The Thing
The original Omen
The Hammer Dracula franchise
The original Halloween
Kingdom of the Spiders
Tarantula
The Bat

The Thing
The Exorcist
The Evil Dead
Re-animator
Halloween(1978)
Dog soldiers
The body snatcher(1945)
Aliens
Inside(2007)
Near dark
Re-cycle

Carnival of Souls
Return of the Living Dead

There's too many to list them all but I tend to like movies that feature monsters, be they the classic Universal Monsters (probably my favourite group of films period - Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, The Bride, The Mummy, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Invisible Man, The Phantom of the Opera, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Ygor, The Wolf Man), the Hammer cycle of Monsters (New takes on Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula, the Werewolf and new monsters like the Gorgon and the Reptile), the Toho Monsters (Godzilla et al), The Slasher Monsters (Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Jason Vorhees, Chucky, Leatherface, Norman Bates), the giant 1950s atomically mutated or reawakened Monsters (Them!, The Beast From 20000 Fathoms, the Black Scorpion, etc.), Science Fiction style alien monsters (Alien, Predator, It! The Terror From Beyond Space, Body Snatchers, Invaders From Mars, The Thing, etc.) and even those who feature more psychological style Horrors (of the mind/body) (Carnival of Souls, Repulsion, Seconds, Videodrome).

Wow. Tough one, but here goes:

Maniac (1980)
Dawn Of The Dead (original)
Hospital Massacre
Shivers
Just Before Dawn
Return Of The Living Dead
Demons
Don't Look In The Basement
Truth Or Dare: A Critical Madness
Sole Survivor

Apologies if there's too many "great" ones, but I'm really racking my brain here....

I'm sure there's many, many others I forgot about

I can't think of them all, but here's a few:

Valentine's Day (original)
Creepshow
Dawn of the Dead (original, although the remake isn't all that bad if you don't think of it as trying to be like Romero's film)
Hellraiser (I just watched this recently after being asked to help work on a fan comic and...well...I think I'm in love...)
Scream (can only watch it occasionally, though)
Return of the Living Dead
Friday the 13th 6 and 7 (I know they're stupid and don't fit with the first couple of movies [which I also enjoy], but for me they're so bad they're good)


I'm planning to branch out my horror viewing experience, so there'll be more diverse titles on that list in time.

Classic older movies (pre 1970s):

The Black Cat (1934), Black Sunday (1960), Blood Feast (1963), The Body Snatcher (1945), The Brain that Wouldn’t Die (1962), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Carnival of Souls (1962) , Cat People (1942), Eyes Without a Face [Le Yeux sans Visage] (1965), Frankenstein (1931), Freaks (1932), The Haunting (1963), Island of Lost Souls (1932), Kwaidan (1964), Night of the Living Dead (1968), Night of the Demon (1957), Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922), Spider Baby (1968), White Zombie (1932)

Modern movies (1970+)

Basket Case (1982), Blood Freak (1972), The Blair Witch Project (1999), The Company of Wolves (1984), Daughters of Darkness (1971), Dawn of the Dead (1978), Dead Alive (1992), Dracula (1992), Evil Dead II (1987), The Howling (1981), The Lair of the White Worm (1988), Night of the Demons (1988), Phantasm (1979), Re-Animator (1985), The Return of the Living Dead (1985), Santa Sangre (1989), The Shining (1980), Silent Hill (2006), Suspiria (1977), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

CARNIVAL OF SOULS
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN
SON OF FRANKENSTEIN
FRANKENSTEIN
CASTLE OF BLOOD 
THE NIGHT STALKER
DEAD OF NIGHT (1974)

Carnival of Souls (1962)
Brain Dead
Ringu
Dog Soldiers
The Orphanage
The Innocents
Inside
The Thing
Doghouse
The Fly (1986)
A Tale of Two Sisters
Evil Dead II

Gosh, there are so many. Here's a list in no particular order:

American Werewolf in London
Alien and Aliens
Angry Red Planet
Forbidden Planet
Them
Fly - both versions
The Thing - both versions
Hammer Films Series -  Dracula, Frankenstein etc.
The Mummy - Boris Karloff version
Fright Night
Nightmare on Elm Street - 1st one

There are more ... just can't think of names off hand 

Jaws (1975)
The Shining (1980)
Session 9 (2001)
Inside (2007)
Let The Right One In (2008)
Candyman (1992)
Carrie (1976)
The Omen (1976)
The Others (2001)
Event Horizon (1997)

I'm a big fan of lots of horror movies like Euro horror, Italian cannibal films, 80's slashers, and I really like the 90's revival of the giant monster movie like Deep Rising, The Relic, Mimic, The Faculty etc

They live
Night of the living dead
The Thing
Evil dead trilogy
Drag me to hell

Probably a lot more that I can't thing of.

Obviously, I've seen better horror movies, but these are the ones I enjoyed the most. Thus, in alphabetical order . . .

"Bram Stoker's Dracula"
"Brotherhood of the Wolf"
"Lair of the White Worm"
"Something Wicked This Way Comes"

Man, a lot of people like carnival of souls, had to give everyone who said it karma lol.

My faves:
Nightmare on elm st
Night of the living dead
Dawn of the Dead
The Thing remake
The Blob remake
They Live
Night of the Creeps
Cemetery Man
Evil Dead trilogy

These are in no particular order, and I aam probably forgetting a few but these are what come to mind....

Cemetery Man! Good call, mate. Rupert Everett in one of his earliest roles (if not his first) before he starred with Julia Roberts in My Best Friend's Wedding and Inspector Gadget.  Good horror movie mixed with a some black humor and a suprise ending to boot.

Night of the Creeps  "The good news is, your dates are here..the bad news is, they're dead."  Greatest line in the whole movie, lol  :cheers:

My favorites ranging from the silent era to current films are:

Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Suspiria
The Howling
Evil Dead 2
Hellraiser 2
Nightbreed
Videodrome
Razorback
Tourist Trap
[REC] & [REC] 2
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
Black Sunday
Motel Hell
Texas Chainsaw Massacre & TCM 2
Messiah of Evil
Night of the Demon
The Devil Rides Out
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
The Phantom of the Opera (Lon Chaney)
Just Before Dawn
Wrong Turn
Session 9
Spookies (this one is an awful awful movie, but a guilty pleasure)

plus many other Hammer films, and most of the Universal Horror Cycle

The main horror movies that I can enjoy over and over are:

Friday the 13th (1980)
Sleepaway Camp
The Fly (1986)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Halloween II (1981)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Poltergeist
Poltergeist II: The Other Side
The Howling
From Beyond
It's Alive
Alien

In no particular order:

The Exorcist
Dahmer
Saw
The Fly
Child's Play 1,2 and 3
Hellraiser 1 and 2
Braindead
Street Trash
The Toxic Avenger
American Psycho
Bad Taste
Cannibal Holocaust
Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
Teeth
Sweeney Todd
Children of the Corn (original)
Wishmaster

Horror films that I Love...

1... Torso (1973)
2... Dawn of the Dead
3... Black Christmas (1974)
4... Equinox & Phantasm
5... Halloween 3 (Season of the Witch)
6... Event Horizen
7... Dont Be Afraid of the Dark
8... Horror Rises from the Tomb
9... Creepshow
10... The Thing (1982)
11... Let Sleeping Corpse Lie
12... Inferno (I like it more then Suspiria)
13... Seven Doors of Death & Gates of Hell
14... Planet of the Vampires
15... Damien: Omen 2
16... Deep Red
17... Private Parts (1972)
18... Horror Express
19... Mother's Day
20... The Demon (1979) & Pieces

(I could list over 100 horror films like: Black Magic Series, Friday the 13th part 2, House of Whipcord, Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll, Anguish (1987) & etc... but I'll stop for now)

I have some mixed feelings towards modern Horror films after 2000 - present. Although I have found many foreign horror films a joy to watch... sadly there are a very, very few American Horror films that I can tolerate. (most American horror films are targeted towards the PG-13 audience or edited down to gain the PG-13 rating, on the other hand many American Horror films that are rated R are quite boring... Saw 1 and 2 are too boring for me to enjoy) although I do understand why people like Rob Zombie, since he's not willing to hold back (although I think it was a mistake for him to remake Halloween... He should of remade Mother's Day)

Modern Horror films that I've seen and liked...

1... The Orphanage
2... The Hills Have Eyes (2006) [much better then the original]
3... High Tension (2003) [Alexandre Aja is brilliant, I guess that's why I like the remake of THHE...)
4... Trick 'r Treat (2008)
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5... Exte: Hair Extensions (Insane!)
6... Carved: The Slit Mouthed Woman
7... Lesbian Vampire Killers
8... Black Sheep
9... Shaun of the Dead & Hot Fuzz
10... Vampires: Los Muertos... (Jon Bon Jovi as a vampire hunter!!!)

Creepshow!  It's got everything I love: a pretty house, zombies, hillbillies, cartoons and cake... and I really like the music.
The Haunting (1963) - I'm a sucker for any haunted house movie, but nothing I've seen can touch this one.
Pieces, mostly because of Paul Smith
Dead Alive - but that's really my favorite romance movie.
Event Horizon is probably the scariest movie I've ever seen.  I don't think I could ever watch it again.

I like your list the best so far.

I really disliked Poultrygeist though.

Street Trash is amazing. I met the director at a showing a few years ago for the DVD release.

Rawhead Rex - A Demon takes on the Irish. The Irish fight back. Rawhead Rex kills the Irish. Irish woman kills Rawhead Rex.


My favorite horror movie is Terror Firmer though. Killings take place during the making of Toxic Avenger IV. Cast/crew get involved. Awesomeness takes place.