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re: What is your favorite horror movie?

Posted on 10/7/21 at 7:32 am to
Posted by Big Gorilla
Bossier City
Member since Oct 2020
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Posted on 10/7/21 at 7:32 am to
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The Exorcist


I watched this movie way too young. Fricked me up for years.
Posted by VaeVictus
Member since Feb 2017
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Posted on 10/7/21 at 7:35 am to
In the Mouth of Madness
American Werewolf in London
Silver Bullet
Ginger Snaps
Posted by ThuperThumpin
Member since Dec 2013
9379 posts
Posted on 10/7/21 at 7:37 am to
Jacobs Ladder (1990)
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Posted by St Augustine
The Pauper of the Surf
Member since Mar 2006
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Posted on 10/7/21 at 7:49 am to
If Jaws is considered horror than easily Jaws as it’s my favorite movie of all time.
Posted by warlock1974
Prairieville
Member since Jan 2015
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Posted on 10/7/21 at 7:52 am to
I prefer a movie that relies more on suspense and allows my imagination to work rather than just throw blood and guts and gore at me (e.g. Texas Chainsaw Massacre, etc.)

So with that said, my favorites are (in no specific order)
Halloween
Alien
Exorcist (I admit that special effects played a big part)

Growing up in the 50s, I also have a fondness for:
Frankenstein
Dracula
Wolfman
Creature From The Black Lagoon
Posted by gumbo2176
Member since May 2018
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Posted on 10/7/21 at 8:13 am to
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I watched this movie way too young. Fricked me up for years.




I saw the movie, then I went out and bought the book to read.

I was single and living in a 100 year old barge board shotgun house in the Lower 9th Ward at the time. I'd read some late at night after a days work and cleaning up after eating and that old house would occasionally groan and creak, and did so at some pretty inopportune times when reading that book..

It would send the hairs on the back of my neck and my arms on end when it did that. I found the book scarier than the movie.
Posted by skrayper
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Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 10/7/21 at 8:18 am to
Alien
Posted by HabaneroBuck
Up a ways.
Member since Oct 2020
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Posted on 10/7/21 at 8:24 am to
Why don't any of you Louisiana baws mention Angel Heart? Got something against it? It's right up there with The Shining for atmospheric horror. Probably a little scarier in some scenes.
Posted by LSUZombie
A Cemetery Near You
Member since Apr 2008
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Posted on 10/7/21 at 8:48 am to
Hard to choose a favorite...some of my all-time favorites though would be:

Jaws
Alien
Halloween
Night of the Living Dead (60s and 90s version)
The Thing
The Shining
The Exorcist

I recently rewatched a Nightmare on Elm Street and had forgotten how truly good that movie is.
Posted by EyeOfTheTiger311
Lafayette, LA
Member since Aug 2005
4595 posts
Posted on 10/7/21 at 9:04 am to
The Strangers
Posted by AlxTgr
Kyre Banorg
Member since Oct 2003
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Posted on 10/7/21 at 9:07 am to
The Ring
Posted by AlxTgr
Kyre Banorg
Member since Oct 2003
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Posted on 10/7/21 at 9:08 am to
quote:

Why don't any of you Louisiana baws mention Angel Heart?
It's like it doesn't exist any more. Never comes on any of the usual movie playing networks.
Posted by RebelTheBear
Saban's spare bedroom
Member since Aug 2016
6033 posts
Posted on 10/7/21 at 9:09 am to
quote:

I prefer a movie that relies more on suspense and allows my imagination to work rather than just throw blood and guts and gore at me


Say no more. Watch the following movies (keep in mind I'm a bit younger than most on this board so I gravitate towards new age suspense/thrillers)...

It Follows
The Strangers
Hereditary
Unfriended: Dark Web
You're Next
Ready or Not
Sinister
It (2017)
The Belko Experiment (little more blood and guts than others on his list, but still a great movie)

That list provides a good balance between supernatural, realistic, and comedic horror. All are quality movies (Unfriended: Dark Web is probably the weakest) and bring something different to the table that the other movies don't.
Posted by h0bnail
Member since Sep 2009
7628 posts
Posted on 10/7/21 at 9:12 am to
Not sure how it holds up as I haven't seen it in several years, but The Descent was pretty scary.
Posted by RebelTheBear
Saban's spare bedroom
Member since Aug 2016
6033 posts
Posted on 10/7/21 at 9:17 am to
quote:

The Descent


Very good movie
Posted by Comic_Tiger
Member since Jul 2020
1277 posts
Posted on 10/7/21 at 9:59 am to
easily The Thing.

A solid second is Aliens.

Jacobs Ladder freaked me out as a kid but on rewatch it's alright.
Posted by jimlsu1
Ellicott City, Md
Member since Oct 2008
1626 posts
Posted on 10/7/21 at 10:27 am to
Watch the original The Omen
Posted by FredBear
Georgia
Member since Aug 2017
17431 posts
Posted on 10/7/21 at 11:00 am to
The Shining and the original Halloween would have to be my top two
Posted by TheArrogantCorndog
Highland Rd
Member since Sep 2009
15959 posts
Posted on 10/7/21 at 11:16 am to
I'm a really big fan of the House of 1000 corpses trilogy

And if you're a fan of Rob Zombie, ultra low budget horror movies, 31 is classic example of that style... pretty fricked up like all of his movies, and with a fantastic big bad (Richard Brake)


Posted by upgrade
Member since Jul 2011
15077 posts
Posted on 10/7/21 at 11:37 am to
Jaws is one of my favorite movies of any genre. I don’t even really think about it as a horror movie, even though it is. Just like I don’t see Predator as a sci fi movie, yet it is.
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