Horror films

[lithium]

Reminded myself of Psycho earlier, haven't seen that for ages... what a great film...

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/paramount_pictures/psycho/anthony_perkins/psycho.jpg

Also watched "Hostel" on the weekend, supossedly one of the most gruesome films of recent times, but found it a little tame:confused:

What are your favourite horror films or psychological thrillers?

[lithium]

One of my favourite films ever is Dawn of the Dead (1978), the 2004 remake is excellent too though not as good as the first...

http://thefilmasylum.com/albums/Dawn-of-the-Dead79/aaf.jpg

[Peace-Phoenix]

I love the old Hammer Horror films, and the others with Cushing and Lee in them. Horror Express is probably, to this day, still my favourite horror film, and it still chills me every time I see it. For zombie related films, you can't beat 28 Days Later. I'll be interested to see what they do with 28 Weeks Later....

[J0hn]

I love most of the Stephen King films including the Nightmares and Dreamscapes presentations.

Here is my number one favourite horror film of all time. Don't get scared now:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4-IlviV8Ao&mode=related&search=

[lithium]

Two forgotten classics of British psychological horror, and two of my favourite films...

Peeping Tom (Michael Powell 1960)
About a photographer obsessed with filming the deaths of the women he murders...

http://www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/data/500/pic6.jpg

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Witchfinder General (Michael Reeves 1968)
About Matthew Hopkins the witchfinder, one of the best endings to any film ever made...

http://www.scifilm.org/images2/witchfinder3.jpg

http://www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/data/500/0118.jpg

[bokonon]

I caught a couple be the same writer/director recently which were pretty darn good. British fellow too, his name escapes me though and I'm too lazy to search for it even though it's six feet away. Anyway, the films were 'Dog Soldiers' and 'The Decent'. Both had some jumpy moments.

'Saw' impressed me a lot when I saw it. First horror film to do so since I was a kid really. Used to love 'The People Under the Stairs' as a kid, but I don't know how it'd be received today.

'Evil Dead' must get a mention. By law. Oh yes.

And as for psychological thrillers, 'Se7en' gets a law abiding mention too. :)

[bokonon]

Eee shit, I nearly forgot Rob Zombie!
'House of 1000 Corpses' and 'The Devil's Rejects' are both superb in my eyes.

[lithium]

Eee shit, I nearly forgot Rob Zombie!
'House of 1000 Corpses' and 'The Devil's Rejects' are both superb in my eyes.:D I watched them both, and I tried to like them, I really did!

[bokonon]

Haha, not a fan, ay? Fair enough so. It's a weird one.
It was the comedy that got me on the first viewings. But now they do actually scare me a little. And in the second one I feel like...Hmm ***SPOILER WARNING***...








...I feel like I want the family to "win" and I'm always quite sad when 'Freebird' kicks in!

[Jim]

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Shining
The Eye
Zombie Flesh Eaters
I Spit On Your Grave
Driller Killer
The Vanishing
Don't Look Now

[Roffa]

Anyone remember Dr Terror's House of Horrors (1964) featuring Peter Cushing, Chris Lee, Donald Sutherland and Roy Castle among others?

I always thought it was a Hammer classic, but it turns out to come from "Amicus: the studio that dripped blood [sic]".

[Ambient Fraggle]

The shining................the ultimate

[phoenix_indigo]

I never found the Shining to be THAT scary. Maybe I'm too jaded. :|

I did however get scared by the Hellraiser series, but well back when I watched them for the first time I wasn't nearly as jaded as I am now.

[lithium]

I never found the Shining to be THAT scary. Maybe I'm too jaded. :|Aye, think the Shining works on a very different level, truly a psychological horror. The thing itself isn't particularly scary, the way Kubrick presents it all matter-of-fact and brightly lit. It's what's going on in Jack's mind that's what's truly terrifying, and that's what you start to glimpse after a while. I think Kubrick took one of Stephen King's run of the mill shitty crap ghost stories, turned it upside down and turned it into something truly frightening:)

[L.A.Matthews]

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, and Nosfratu.

The most poignant of horror films, and a revolution in the cinema world.

[paulfreespirit]

anyone seen the dark with sean bean in it ?

[mudpuddle]

I Have Seen and Loved Pretty much Every Zombie movie...

I Find the Whole Idea Fascinating...

However...Horror movies Focusing on Human Suffering Alone tends to Freak me Out...