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Weekend Open Forum: What's your favorite horror movie?
Although I don't regret "cutting the cord," there are some inherent drawbacks to relying on Internet services and discs for shows and movies -- namely that you always have to know what you want to watch. That's generally fine because I'm not interested in most of what's on TV and I don't need the distraction that content surfing brings, but there are seasonal periods where I miss being able to let videos roll in the background.
This is especially true throughout October and December as channels dedicate their schedules to Halloween and Christmas-themed films. When I had cable, I'd catch parts of various popular horror flicks around this time every year. I can't even say I liked many of them, but that didn't really matter. They were nostalgic and to some extent, a tradition -- as strange as that word seems to be when describing a cheesy Syfy marathon.
I can technically simulate the experience with a service like Netflix, but at that point I'd rather just build my own catalog locally. If I do that, I might as well add more than cult classics like Dawn of the Dead and Halloween, which is where this WOF comes in: what are your favorite horror movies? As a bonus, for those of you without cable, do you ever miss the passive nature of tossing on a random TV channel for background noise?
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Salem's Lot always scared the hell out of me as a kid.
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Antichrist, that is all.
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Marnomancer said:
The Exorcist (though now me and my pals laugh our arse off at it.
The Ring.
Grudge, Japanese and English version. (ok, this one does occasionally freak me out..) We use it to scare new friends in the group nowadays.
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The Shining and the Hellraiser series are my top movies.
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gcarter said:
Im not a big fan of the "gore" genre.. movies such as Saw and Hostel turn me off... give me a good haunted house movie every time... among my faves...
Session 9 (2001)
http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0261983/
The Changeling (1980)
http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0080516/
Burnt Offerings (1976)
http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0074258/
The Woman in Black (1989) (the original not the remake)
http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0098672/
As others have mentioned, Im also a big fan of asian horror, again the likes of The Ring, The Grudge etc
Oh and one of my all time fave sci-fi horror has to be:
Event Horizon (1997)
http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0119081/
I'm a hoarder when it comes to movies - got rid of my dvd collection, now just have several external drives containing digital coppies of my horror collection accessed by XBMC
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Night on Bald Mountain (Fantasia) - seen when very young...
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Ranger12 said:
Quarantine. That's about it. I'm not a huge fan of the horror genre. I think mostly because out of all the genres horror films seem to have the least amount of plot and/or character development.
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I liked silent hill that movie rocks
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3DCGMODELER said:
The Creature From The Black Lagoon..
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Candyman and Jeepers Creepers
Classic, Watched them when I was like 10 and didnt sleep or look into mirrors for days lol
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Dawn1113 said:
Well, I can't list them all as there are just way too many. But here are some of my all time favorites:
1. The Shining
2. Psycho
3. The Exorcist
4. Night of the Living Dead
5. The Ring (Japanese version, most definitely)
6. Nosferatu (both the 1922 and 1979 versions)
I'm tempted to add the Australian film, "Lake Mungo" onto that list, but I'm yet undecided. Have to watch it again to check if it still makes the hairs on my arms stand on their ends. Haha!
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Hellraiser is the one movie that really freaked me out when I saw it in the theatre. The Evil Dead/Army Of Darkness series is always fun to watch around Halloween!
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TekGun said:
The Fearless Vampire Killers
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Night of the living dead - still get chills from this classic
Insidious that movie was just creepy
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gooderguy said:
I was never a big horror movie fan, more sci-fi I guess, but I did like space horror movies, and my favorite would have to be the Alien movies. Aside from that, I do remember the Signs movie was not bad either. Oh yea and the Fire in the Sky was decent too
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CFSG1 said:
Poltergeist!
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Well, too much to say, but every japanese (or Asian) version horror movies that remake by America are not that good..
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VitalyT said:
I like only sci-fi horrors:
- Event Horizon
- Aliens
- Pitch Black
- Resident Evil (excluding last one)
- Predator(s)
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Alien 1
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Spice World
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Cota said:
The thing its by far the most cientific accurated terror movie, but I gotta say my childhood fear was IT :3
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Titanic..
lol so true. The only problem is it's not much of a horror if you know the ending though lol. You would have to been living under a very big rock to not know what happened to the Titanic lol.
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TitoBXNY said:
The Exorcist - I was stationed in Georgia when it came out. Lots of "old world" superstitious people live in the south. When the movie started, the place was packed. By the time it was 2/3 finished the theater was half-full, and by the time the movie had ended there were maybe 12 people left in the theater.The rest had run for their lives...LOL.
Runner up: The Omen (the original, not the crappy remake).
The original Omen is my runner up as well. I remember going home terrified and checking my scalp for 666, lol
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Any Jane Fonda movie
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clubfoot said:
JAWS!
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