You guys watch horror films? What's your favorite?

Like the title says. Horror movies. You like them, yay, nay?

What's your fav?

Mines:

Big fan of sci-fi horror. From the Alien franchise to Killer Clowns from Outer Space.

I love Phantasm, I love the borderline whimsical nature of it, how it sort of has traditional horror but also sci-fantasy.

i like them, i just haven't found many that are good. im not into gore porn like saw and hostel.

the last one i saw that i thought was pretty decent was talk to me. i tried no one will save you which was very polished and intriguing, i just didn't get some aspects including the ending. maybe a second watch will help, or just some googling. just watched five nights at freddies which felt promising at first but ultimately fell flat. got the new exorcist on my backlog to watch. might watch it on halloween.

to answer the question in the op i prefer psychological thriller horrors like silence of the lambs, misery, clovehitch killer, get out etc.

My favorite has to be Alien taken as a standalone film. A deep sci-fi mystery that leaves you with the perfect mix of questions and answers to get your mind racing combined with perfect execution. It's not often considered in the list of Lovecraftian movies, but it leaves the viewer with that Lovecraftian feeling more effectively than any other movie I can think of

Used to watch Killer Clowns on the Sci-Fi channel when I was a kid. Must of seen it fifty times, but don't think I ever actually sat through the whole thing.

As for Phantasm, there's just something about it. The way it was filmed, that grainy look, low-budget, all ideas, dreamlike feels, absurd inter-outer dimensional story line. And a bad ass ice cream man. The Tall Man is one of the best villains, period. Love the whole series.

love em. Good stuff.

alot of my favorites are from the 80s.. even tho i was a 90s kid

I hate to bring up the old cliche but, I like horror films right up until the reveal.

@sargentd: HAHA YEAH those are all great.

Thing about being a 90's kid is all the 80's movies is what were shown on TV, I'm guessing since the rights were cheaper to acquire ten or so years later. Cable stations like TNT and USA would always have movies on, it's how I saw those classics.

They'd always do seasonal marathons, too. Like they'd always do a James Bond marathon, then maybe a horror marathon around Halloween, then maybe some other times of the year.

yup so true. USA and TNT played alot of good stuff. i was wearing an Elvira T shirt the other day and a guy started talking to me how he loved watching elvira on usa and it made me realize i havent had cable in like 13 years, not sure if usa even exists anymore

Honestly the horror movies nowadays seem less creative too. The older stuff much more entertaining.

I like A24's swag. They're the only ones capable of releasing a horror movie that's memorable.

Yeah, 80s, 90s, hard to choose. Word to People Under the Stairs: Mommmmmyyyyyyy!!! Some more.

@nod_calypse: always liked puppet master. Underrated series

Yeah, was trying to get my wife to marathon the whole series with me. That's a damn long haul though.

Think this is one of the best horror flicks of the last 20 years.

Thoroughly enjoyed the Fall of the House of Usher that just released on Netflix, highly recommend. I'm partial to Mike Flanagan (the director) as his previous works on Netflix (like Haunting of Hill House) were also enjoyable.

@nod_calypse: Wow, I did NOT expect to see The Void here. What did you like about it so much?

Alien, The Exorcist, The Conjuring, Event Horizon

I like most horror films except gore. And I have a very high tolerance for crappy movies if they are horror.

I will not tolerate crappy fantasy or science fiction and may even turn away from top notch drama or romance, but I absolutely tolerate below par horror as long as it's not gore.

My favorites are not movies, but books ( though movies were made of these book that were also very good).

They are:

Pet sematary

It

I've seen just about every horror film, lol. Probably, definitely, way too many. But I digress.

The Void stands alone, largely. I read a lot of Lovecraft. Beyond the wordiness, or underneath it, there's this mind-bending ambience of dread approaching malaise, that drenches everything. Every page feels like a gaping mouth, stuck open, nonplussed as much as horrified. And there's always this connection to the real world, as if you could just pull back the curtain a few inches, and that would be enough for you to have a life before/ life after moment. The Void captures that feeling like few other films. Another one that did it pretty well is The Beyond, by Lucio Fulci, back in 1981.

@nod_calypse said:

Think this is one of the best horror flicks of the last 20 years.

Oh yes, hands down one of the best.

@nod_calypse: Awesome, I saw it a while back and thought it was good but not great. I'll watch it again in hopefully a better mindset.

I'll check out The Beyond as well.

Yea, Prime Video is usually garbage but for Halloween it's been very good.

Re-watched The Beyond yesterday, it's a movie love more and more on rewatches to point it's easily top 5. Love that it gives you basic plot points, but keep it deliberately vague to the point it feels like a dream at times.

Dem practical effects as well.

@nirgal: It was the first adult book I read at 10 years old, and it was mind blowing. It took me 6 months to get through, and it's still my favorite book to this day.

Jeepers Creepers first film. I still have the urge to watch in now and then. I just don't understand why the sequels fail to replicate it's success. The 2nd was decent, but the rest? *Sigh*...

Evil Dead 2. Absolute classic.

Cloverfield. Not sure if it's considered a true horror movie, but its definitely one of the best "found footage" movie I've ever seen.

IT. The original movie.

When I was a kid I got the biggest scare from the Halloween series. But yeah to this day I like scary movies. I can't watch the too unrealistic ones or too fantasy sci-fi crap but the ones that feel more realistic are more scary.

@mattbbpl: if you mean "it". I had the same exact experience at the same age. I had a lot of problems going to the toilet for a couple of weeks. I just didn't dare enter.

@nirgal: Lol, your poor parents.

i was a little kid in the 1980s and a teen in the 1990s so i have alot of favorite horror movies too many to list here

@sargentd: IT superbbbbb! 💯

@sargentd: shout-out to you for giving The People Under the Stairs love. VERY underrated film.

Final Destination

My mother and sister in law came to stay with us for a week visiting, they told me to pick a movie to watch that they haven't seen and that was what I picked. It was pretty hilarious lol

My mother in law "why is dressed in leather" "that boy in the walls needs a bath"

Lolololol

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I'm a big fan of Ari Aster's movies Midsommer and Hereditary as their more cerebral movies. I recently watched X and it's prequel Pearl and they where also pretty good.

I love horror films. My favorites are The Shining and The Exorcist.

Been meaning to get a physical copy, and I just found out that Shout Factory has put out a 4K UHD release--good thing tomorrow's pay day.