Favourite Horror Movie

Lucifer_666 · Favourite Horror Movie

So whats your favourite shocker???....

Mine would be The Exorcist... I find it the classical physchological horror displaying an innocent young girl suddenly manifest into something pure evil.... what also adds to it is the fact that I know the Director William Friedkin went a little crazy with the actors ....scaring them out of their wits as they were filming scenes

The Omen comes in a close second....the music today I still find freaky

Catnapper

I'd have to say The Shining even though it wasn't as scary as I thought......which is fine by me

I liked the atmosphere of the big hotel and of course Jack Nicholson becoming more and more unhinged........though he looks pretty mad for starters!

Lucifer_666

Funny you say that babe because apparently thats why Stephen King didn't like the film ....he felt Nicholson was too crazy looking from the start and that it was mean't to be a process throughout the movie that he gets more and more pyschotic
Though I'm with you I like the film too.... I loved the way Kubrick uses imagery particularly with the two little girl ghosts and following the wee boy on the tricycle

big aundy

the shining was brilliant , jack just knows how to be mental , he's got it down to a fine art .

Lucifer_666

Here's Johnny!!!!!!!

big aundy

put that bloody thing away , i don't wanna see it

Lucifer_666

imagine if you did say that to a woman you are about to have sex with......erm...... actually I must try that out

big aundy

roddglenn

All good choices. Mine would be a toss up (no pun intended!) between Alien and The Thing.

Lucifer_666

Goodd choices too Rodd in fact I must get out the Thing again soon.... its been years since I seen it...

Would John Hurts stomach bursting scene be one of your top horror moments???

roddglenn

Yes - actually that scene was top of that recent horror scene poll.

Lucifer_666

Funny I find it hard to watch that scene myself...I think John Hurt is great at playing the tortured victim ain't he? But it wouldn't be my first choice Mate

roddglenn

There are loads of iconic moments in horror, so yes it's extremely difficult to pick one to top them all. What are your top moments?

When Linda Blair walks down the stairs like a crab in the Exorcist (uncut version only) is a chilling moment. As too is the scene in Amityville Horror when she sees the red eyes staring back at her out the window.

Lucifer_666

Yeah I love many scenes in the Exorcist including the Crab scene but I also love the scenes were she levitates with white eyes...I actually have a great Gif of that bit... and the vomit scene ...even though it has been taken the mickey out of in other movies

I love certain scenes in The Omen movies too like the beheading of David Warner..... the dogs scene in the graveyard and the impaling of the Priest

Truthfully mate I think there are loads of movie scenes I could mention even IT has some great moments when the little boy is gotten at the beginning as he speaks to Pennywise down the sewer

roddglenn

All great scenes - that one with Pennywise is very good too. The axe at the door scene with Jack Nicholson in The Shining is another classic. You're right there's just so many great ones!

Lucifer_666

Yeah its a real iconic scene that one I also love the scenes where the little girls appear and the wee boy is flying up and down each hallway of the hotel..... its brilliantly shot by Kubrick.... and it may not be the most goriest scene or one too many find scary but the scene that also sticks out to me in the shining is when she see's redrum in the mirror and realises what it means while the child just keeps repeating it... its a good moment.

In Nightmare on Elm Street ....I absolutely love the sequence when Nancy is at school and she sees her dead friend at the doorway in a body bag
and of course any scene where he scrapes his blade glove off pipes in the boiler room

In Salems Lot I will always remember the scene with the young vampire at the window knocking to get in

I'll think of more I'm sure

big aundy

yeah i love that in nightmare

Lucifer_666

Does Jaws count as a horror because I liove the scene were Brody is throwing in bait into the water not really concentrating but then all of a sudden the shark comes and scares the bejesus out of

My sister hates certain scenes in The Entity (which is a good horror too)
I think it is the music though that freaks her out....it has a very loud banging type of music.....

I think the shower scene in Psycho is an iconic horror scene too
Another scene I really like that may not register with many others is the ending of Children of the Corn when the leader child is betrayed by his second, sacrificed to 'he who walks behind the rows' and then returns as a demon kind of thing and says "He want you too Malachi...he wants you too!!" And then all hell breaks loose

roddglenn

That scene with the boy vampire is great in Salem's Lot. Another fantastically creepy scene in Salem's is when the head vampire kills the man locked in the prison cell.

There's also a great scene in Exorcist 3 where the possessed nurse tries to cut someone's head off with a huge pair of sheers. And when she's skampering about on the ceiling - freaky.

Madamhoney

The Thing & Alien are both brilliant films, my favourite genre really scifi-horror. I always quote horror as being a fave but when it comes to films I like there aren't actually that many, most of them are garbage!

I thought Silent Hill was excellent, it was quite scary to start with (kind of lost it's way towards the end though unfortunately).

roddglenn

I thought Silent Hill was good too - better than quite a few game to film adaptions.

Lucifer_666

Funny my sis has Silent Hill at home and I still haven't got round to watching it yet

I will soon though

ColonelK

I agree with Elm Street mentioned earlier. I think most Elm Streets are great. They just lost their way a bit mid way through.

Also think that Braindead is a great horror, from the 90s I think. The Ring was the last film to "proper" scare me.

Lucifer_666

The Ring I love too Colonel

I'll always remember getting the Nightmare on Elm St one which was 3D and thinking after that......that it had become a joke...something more to appeal to young teens than solid horror like the earlier ones were

ColonelK

Agreed. Elm Street became a bit of a horror parody for a while. Still like them, as they were the first proper horrors that I ever saw.

Ooooooooh, and I became afeared (sic) of mirrors after watching that Poltergeist film set in the hotel, with mirrors everywhere.

Lucifer_666

I quite like the Poltergeist movies too but I never really found them scary but they were enjoyable I used to love the little woman psychic who used to shout to the little girl to stay away from the light or stuff of that manner