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In time for Hallowe'en - best horror movies!

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TheVampireEmpusa · 20/10/2011 21:12

What are your favourites? Cheesy or more serious horror! Which scared you, and which had you laughing hysterically?

Personally, for me it's..

Dawn of the Dead (1978 version)
Not as cheesy as I first expected

28 Days Later
One of the artier horror films

Shaun of the Dead
Fantastically funny movie

The Orphanage
Totally freaked me out, and I don't get scared very often!

Blair Witch Project
Only other horror film to scare me

Candyman
Who else dared say "candyman" in the mirror?

House on Haunted Hill (black and white)
Vincent Price at his best

The Tingler
One of my all time favourite horror films

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SilverMachine · 21/10/2011 19:31

I know what you mean still squiffy, the orphanage really disturbed me as well

I tend to prefer spooky horror films to mindless gore, I hated Hostel and am not keen on the Saw films.

My favs are:

Mirrors
Insidious
The Amityville Horror
Dark Water (The japanese version)

Sure there must be lots more.

MandaHugNKiss · 21/10/2011 19:40

Of course, for a mother, The Orphanage can never be anything other than harrowing. Can you even begin to imagine? The realisation at the end that she had... well, I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it. But so heartbreaking. Plenty of people around me wiping their eyes when the lights went up in the cinema.

TheBloodCountessBathory · 21/10/2011 20:00

I bloody love Hammer House of Horror!

MandaHugNKiss · 21/10/2011 20:06

I would never have guess from your username, Elizabeth. I mean, Countess Bathory!

I always favoured amicus over hammer as a kid.

Did you realise that they're back? Infact it's Hammer behind The Woman in Black due out next year with Daniel Radcliffe in the lead. The play is beyond fabulous (the old tv production that I have on vhs somewhere in a dark cupboard, less so) so I do hope they don't screw it up...

kerrymumbles · 21/10/2011 20:09

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ilovesooty · 21/10/2011 20:11

House of Wax
Chamber of Horrors
Theatre of Blood

Hilarious.

The Hand - and The Most Dangerous Game Both truly frightening and gave me nightmares for days afterwards.

ninah · 21/10/2011 20:15

the film that scares me most is Wolf Creek
not seen The Orphanage but will def look at it now!

Mandy2003 · 21/10/2011 20:20

For a true factor I have to recommend Creep

I asked the guy in the dvd store, does it have gloopy zombies in it, cos I'm really not in the mood for gloopy zombies? No, he said. I fell asleep watching it, woke up and saw on the screen - gloop! But not zombies though, so he was half right!

TethHearseEnd · 21/10/2011 20:24

I just came to post that Wolf Creek is the scariest film, and see that ninah has got there first Grin

I shat my kidneys out watching that.

Best is The (Original) Wicker Man or a film nobody has ever heard of called The Asphyx with Robert Powell in it.

ninah · 21/10/2011 20:26

It's Frightening!
adds Asphyx to list

SilverMachine · 21/10/2011 20:32

ilovesooty I haven't been able to eat poodle pie anything in white sauce after watching Theatre of Blood

Slacking9to5 · 21/10/2011 20:43

The floaty vampire film is Salems Lot.

Eden Lake.

No monsters, no ghosts - just the most terrifying creatures of all. Human beings.

TethHearseEnd · 21/10/2011 20:43

Ooh, ninah, have you see The Asphyx?

TethHearseEnd · 21/10/2011 20:43

If so, that makes two of us Grin

TheBloodCountessBathory · 21/10/2011 20:57

Thanks Manda - I will look out for Woman in Black, never seen the play but DH assures me it's the creepiest thing he's ever seen - sounds fab (as long as Harry Potter doesn't balls it up!)

LivingDead · 21/10/2011 20:58

Watched a new hammer one the other night, it was pretty good, not great was called Wake Wood. It was helped immensely by featuring Aiden Gillan, who I could eat on toast.

TheBloodCountessBathory · 21/10/2011 21:24

Oh yes - I remember I wanted to see Wake Wood (am so out of the loop with films, books, music at the moment Blush)

GsyGacheFiend · 21/10/2011 21:27

Manda I just read your posts to DH (who did his Phd on Amicus), I think you're his new MN crush Grin

ariadneoliver · 21/10/2011 21:53

kerry if you like Japanese horror try Dark Water (the original version not the US remake) and Ju On

Clawdy · 21/10/2011 21:54

"The Innocents",film version of "Turn of the Screw" made in 1960s,starring Deborah Kerr. Absolutely terrifying,but so subtle.

mrsshears · 21/10/2011 22:05

Not a film but THE WALKING DEAD is on fx now,series 2
highly recommended!

ThePsychicSatsuma · 21/10/2011 22:10

eden lake is fecking vileness.

ThePsychicSatsuma · 21/10/2011 22:12

Blaire Witch always scares me. saw it at cinema. brilliant.

Also have a soft spot for the scream films, and tthe house on haunted hill remake - love the rollercoaster falling off the tracks and the insanity machine

the people under the stairs is BRilliant -well worth watching

ThePsychicSatsuma · 21/10/2011 22:13

Blair

sorry

with the scream films, think it's scary with the whole phone thing, and being stalked...

ThePsychicSatsuma · 21/10/2011 22:14

Hostel pretty scary premise, and that liam Neeson kidnapping his daughter one,

Lot of Quentin tarantinos are too bonmkers though - didnt like the one with the crazy car driver who bounced girls round in the metal front seat