Top 3 films in various genres (yes, I am shamelessly mining you for inspiration!)

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I'll give mine first:

Top 3 in the following categories:

Scariest: The Woman in Black (original version), Don't Look Now, The Conjuring 2

Most tearjerking: Dead Poets' Society, Love Story, Kramer vs Kramer

Funniest: Blades of Glory, Saving Grace, Withnail and I

Most thought-provoking: Brazil, The Fisher King, The Last Temptation of Christ

Worst: Wayne's World 2, The Idiots, Dances With Wolves

Best Christmas: Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Click and Collect, It's a Wonderful Life

Anyone fancy sharing?

Anyone?

Just a snapshot of things I can think of at this moment in time.

Scariest: A Clockwork Orange

Most tearjerking: Brokeback Mountain

Funniest: See No Evil, Hear No Evil

Most thought-provoking: Prisoners

Worst: (dunno, one of the god awful Troll numbers forced to sit through with my dc)

Best Christmas: Home Alone

Fave film of all time: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (it dosen't fit into the categories above)

Oh, I had forgotten A Clockwork Orange! That's one film I never want to see again.

Scariest
Blair Witch Project
Paranormal Activity
The Grudge

Funniest
Life of Brian
Anchorman
Deadpool

Thought provoking
Promising Young Woman
Schindlers List
Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Tear jerking
War Horse
Marley and Me
Brief Encounter

Worst
I Saw the TV Glow
Blair Witch 2

Christmas
Die Hard
Love Actually
Nativity 2

Ooh, I haven't seen several of yours @Chocolatecoveredshitpig

I do agree Blair Witch 2 was lamentable.

Scariest: Banshee Chapter

Most tearjerking: Cargo, set in Australia during a zombie outbreak, OMG the end, gets me every time

Funniest: Monster -in - Law

Most thought-provoking: Oblivion

Worst: Cloud Atlas

Best Christmas: Home Alone

Fave film of all time: Alien

Scariest: Halloween

Funniest: National Lampoon's Animal House (with the original soundtrack)

Best Christmas: Hardware, The Sure Thing, Gremlins

Thought-provoking - The Station Agent, District 9, Lawn Dogs.

Scariest: Texas Chainsaw 70s version, Manhunter, The Shining

Most tearjerking: Cloud Atlas, What Dreams May Come,

Funniest: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Campaign,

Most thought-provoking: Cloud Atlas, A River Runs Through It

Worst: The Notebook,

Best Christmas: Angela's Christmas, Muppets Christmas Carol.

Scariest: The Descent
The Babadook
The Others

Thought provoking:

Funniest: Shaun of rhe dead (and sequels)
Zombieland

Worst: The Notebook

Weirdest 'horror': Eat and Run (1986), Bad Taste (1987)
Most atmospheric: Melancholia (2011)
Christmas: Die Hard (1988)
Funniest: This is Spinal Tap (1984)
Favourite: Fantasia (1940)