Your Top 10 Horror Movies

[dmk]

I want to see this... like... now.

It works better as a pastiche, a comedy, and that’s what Hellman intended, but I was just going through whatever's classified as ‘horror’ on imdb for ease.

At the least, it's fascinating for the casting of future-Twin Peaks actors (and Everett McGill starred in his previous film).

[Boner M]

1 . Long Weekend (1978)
4 . The Shout (1978)

Yes plz!

All these lists make me realise I need to check out The Leopard Man, stat.

[Raiders]

All these lists make me realise I need to check out The Leopard Man, stat.

Yeah, I'm glad I'm apparently not the only one who considers it Tourneur's finest hour. Really though, all three of his Lewton films are choice.

[B-side]

Off the top of my head, and in no order:

Dead Ringers (Cronenberg, 1988)
Eraserhead (Lynch, 1977)
The Birds (Hitchcock, 1963)
Images (Altman, 1972)
Opera (Argento, 1987)
Outer Space (Tscherkassky, 1999)
Kwaidan (Kobayashi, 1964)
Inland Empire (Lynch, 2006)
Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
The Driller Killer (Ferrara, 1979)

[Dukefrukem]

Still haven't seen 8's

[Bosco B Thug]

I was gonna be bitchy about the Inland Empire inclusions, buuut I realized there is ghost sightings and a cursed screenplay. So, oookaaay.

[Raiders]

I was gonna be bitchy about the Inland Empire inclusions, buuut I realized there is ghost sightings and a cursed screenplay.

... And the fact that a lot of it is freaky and terrifying. Possibly the best example of horror cinema as pure form over content? (not slighting the content as much as saying how the form almost single-handedly makes the "horror" experience)

[megladon8]

There are several films I left off of my list because I don't qualify them as true horror films.

Alien, American Psycho, Videodrome and Jaws are a few examples of films I do not consider horror, but are as good as (if not better than) most of the stuff on my list.

[Dukefrukem]

You don't qualify Alien as a true horror film????

[megladon8]

You don't qualify Alien as a true horror film????

Nah it's sci-fi. As is Videodrome.

Jaws is a drama/thriller.

American Psycho is comedy.

[Dukefrukem]

Well of course it's sci-fi, but it's prime objective is to scare you. Therefor it is horror. As is Jaws.

[Bosco B Thug]

... And the fact that a lot of it is freaky and terrifying. Possibly the best example of horror cinema as pure form over content? (not slighting the content as much as saying how the form almost single-handedly makes the "horror" experience)

I didn't mean, by my off-handed comment, to diminish anyone's citing of the film and the strong reasons (due to their surely vivid experience watching it) they had to including it. So I didn't mean to create any ire, in any way, nor to make myself off as a small-minded fool (goes without saying).

But I just don't see the point (to put it undesirably harshly) in adding it in a "favorite horror films?" list that suggests "horror" and "genre" in the most banal way possible. To pontificate, the only reason "genre" has any importance in cinema scholarship is to study the audience and genre fandom, which is often limiting, so the criteria I made for my list was that the average Fangoria-reading horror schmoe would easily accept a film as horror canon.

But power to everyone, really.

[megladon8]

Well of course it's sci-fi, but it's prime objective is to scare you. Therefor it is horror. As is Jaws.

Disagree.

[EyesWideOpen]

I'm not gonna worry about what is or isn't considered horror and just pick the ten movies I would want on this list:

1. Hausu
2. The Exorcist
3. Audition
4. The Shining
5. Rosemary's Baby
6. Let the Right One In
7. Psycho
8. Jaws
9. The Sixth Sense
10. The Omen

[MadMan]

My review of Jaws that I posted on the old Axis website explains why its a horror movie. I'm not so sure that Silence of the Lambs is a horror film, though-it really rests on the fine line between "Horror movie" and "Thriller." But its a great movie regardless, and if I decide that its a horror movie then it would probably crack my list.

[Dukefrukem]

My review of Jaws that I posted on the old Axis website explains why its a horror movie. I'm not so sure that Silence of the Lambs is a horror film, though-it really rests on the fine line between "Horror movie" and "Thriller." But its a great movie regardless, and if I decide that its a horror movie then it would probably crack my list.

That site had such good content.... did anyone archive any of it?

[MadMan]

That site had such good content.... did anyone archive any of it?

Well I saved my reviews, of course. The previous site is still standing and exists, for now.

[Dukefrukem]

Well I saved my reviews, of course. The previous site is still standing and exists, for now.

link plz?

[MadMan]

link plz?

http://www.sheercheek.net/axis/index.phpThere yah go.

[Dukefrukem]

http://www.sheercheek.net/axis/index.phpThere yah go.

Where's GhostintheDarkness been?

[MadMan]

Where's GhostintheDarkness been?

No idea, really. Good question, though.

[jenniferofthejungle]

Where's GhostintheDarkness been?

Making music.


I have to update my list since I only chose one damned film.

[Dukefrukem]

Making music.


I have to update my list since I only chose one damned film.

Yes you do.

[jenniferofthejungle]

Yes you do.

It's done.

I guess some people could say it's a pretty standard list, but each one is fucking awesome and has earned its rightful place in my Top Ten.

I honestly love hundreds of other horror movies, but this is my set ten right now. The only one that never changes is the first one. It's my first love.

[Dukefrukem]

This will need some serious thinking.

Still waiting...