What's Your Favourite Horror Movie?

Just wondering :]

I'm obsessed with horror but my favourites are Scream, Let Me In, Poltergeist, Paranormal Activity, The Amityville Horror and Nightmare on Elm Street.

We have to choose?

I love horror movies in general, both Gore and Psychological. Plus, you can't pass up a classic!

I did get a chance to spend a couple nights on the real Elm Street though. I went to college there! It was pretty cool.

The internet series Marble Hornets, does it count? Oh well, I'll count it here anyway. I also quite love Kubrick's The Shining, Paranormal Activity and hmmmmm. Damnit, this is a hard one!

Having to choose is difficult indeed. I can do a list but that's about it.

The Thing- The original. While the prequel wasn't all that bad it can't compare to this movie.

In the Mouth of Madness- Kind of low budget so the effects aren't great. But as a whole I enjoy it.

Poltergeist- Classic

Children of the Corn- Also classic

Hellraiser 1-3- Great gore-horror with excellent one-liners. The first one is probably the creepiest; they became very different movies beyond that point.

Strangeland- One of the scariest 'it could happen in the real world' horror movies out there. One of the few movies that has made me want to look away from the screen now and again.

Audition- The whole film may be a build-up to the last few minutes, but its so worth it.

Re-animator- An excellent zombie movie that's based off of Lovecraft? Can't really go wrong there.

Onibaba- Definitely another classic. I originally watched this film in Japanese without subtitles but the plot is so simple you can still follow along well enough and the movie's good enough that it still kept my interest with only a minimal understanding of the language.

Psycho- I don't think this one requires an explanation. :p

I could keep going but those are the ones that come to mind right now.

I have way too many favourites!
I love

Silence of the Lambs/Red Dragon
Paranormal Activity
Scream series
Halloween - by Rob Zombie
House of a 1000 Corpses
Dracula
Dead Alive
The Ring
Underworld series
Last House on the Left (original and remake)
Friday the 13th series

and I know I'm forgetting some. :)

Horror:

1) John Carpenter's The Thing (nothing beats its tension)
2) Hellraiser I & II (the rest of the series is way less unnerving, check out the comics though)
3) Alien & Alien3 (the second is action, these two are unnerving and disturbing)
4) Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (just creepy)
5) Event Horizon (Hellraiser in space)

More thriller... (and apparently involving serial killers):

1) Silence of the Lambs (classic)
2) Se7en (bleak & depressing)
3) The Cell (disturbing peak into the mind of a serial killer)

Oh, so hard to pick.

-Poltergeist- A classic, it's also still very creepy.
-The Ring- Scared me so much the first time I watched it. Pro tip? Don't watch seven days before your birthday.
-The Excorcist
-Children of the Corn
-Reincarnation

There are so many amazing horror flicks out there. I'd have to say that some of my top favourites are:

- Saw
- House of 1000 Corpses
- Devil's Rejects
- Poltergeist
- Dead Silence
- It
- The Hannibal Lector films

So many more, but those are the ones that jump to mind right now.

Man do I ever feel outta the loop here; I'm not a big fan of the 'classic' horror movies. But I think that's because logic and science prevent me from enjoying stuff that looks cheesy. I also kind of have a thing against Nicholson and Kubrick.

If Marble Hornets doesn't count, then I'll be sad. Poor Tim. ;_;

I'm also a huge fan of shockspoitation films (I love to be disturbed), and of psychological, 'is-it-really-happening-at-all' movies. Sooo... a brief list~

Jacob's Ladder (One of the first movies to ever make me seriously uncomfortable without heavy gore)
Human Centipede; First Sequence (... ... Explaining this will just make me sound really creepy. It's the science, I swear.)
The Shrine (The acting is a little weak, especially in the main female, but I find it interesting anyways).
Battle Royale (Seriously. Kids fighting each other to the death? What else needs to be said?)
Haute Tension (... I kind of have a thing for foreign movies. Plus the twist is played out so well.)
Audition (Stalkers are scary. End of story.)
Jenifer (Technically part of a TV show, Masters of Horror, but still creepy and amazing.)
The Fair-Haired Boy (See above.)
Suicide Club (One of the first foreign films I ever watched.)
The Blair Witch Project (This movie gets such a bad rap, but I genuinely love it. The fact that they're being stalked and toyed with by something we never actually see is way scarier than movies where you never have a frame away from the killer...)
Insidious (This is probably one of the only new Hollywood movies I can stand. The plot has a couple of holes in it, and I wish they'd spent more time developing a number of characters, but it's pretty enjoyable, and damn interesting.)

Black Sheep. The tagline is "there are 40 million sheep in New Zealand ... and they're pissed off!" Like, what more could you want.

On a more serious note though, I thought Audition was fantastic. Very slow, but that can be a good thing.

I watch quite a few horror movies, but I can't seem to say I could say which ones are my favorites. I can say Silent Hill is definitely up there somewhere. Just the creepy atmosphere it gives off. Or maybe it's just me.

I can also say I do really like The Blair Witch project. The only thing that really kills me for that movie is that they were trying to say it was real when it was pretty obvious it wasn't. Though it's been a while since I've seen it so I'm not sure if it was the movie makers themselves who actually claimed it or if it was everyone else saying it was real.

Poltergeist is another good one. I've only ever really seen the first one, though. I think I tried watching either the second or third and just did not enjoy it.

Favourites:
-Nightmare on Elm Street
-Chucky (the original, please, not the latest crud)
-Gremlins
-The Haunted
-Tales from the Crypt
-Pet Cemetery
-Hocus Pocus

Those would be my ultimate favourite horrors. I like most horror movies.
Except for Drag Me To Hell. That so should have been put in the Comedy section. I was disappoint! <.<

Agh! Need EDIT button! D:

I forgot Let Me In. The only thing I've ever watched featuring a vampire that didn't bore me to tears with its 'I don't want to be a bad vampire/I'm a bad-ass vampire and you will love me for it' cliche. My vamps are also inspired by this movies so it's going to get messy in my novel.

I can't possibly choose one! D:

But some of my top movies:

Paranormal Activity
Scream
A Nightmare on Elm St.
Cat People
Psycho
The Omen

Scream. Nightmare On Elm Street [the ORIGINAL, not that crappy remake.]. House of 1000 Corpses. The Devil's Rejects. Rob Zombie's Halloween. Rob Zombie's Halloween 2. Psycho. The Last Man On Earth. House On Haunted Hill. Vertigo. A Clockwork Orange. Scream 2. Scream 3. Scream 4. Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Thirteen Ghosts.

My life is made difficult by my lust for the uberspecific genre of paranormal satanic/luciferian cult possession/exorcism. These could include, perhaps, Rosemary's Baby and The Last Exorcism. Any suggestions?

My second favorite horror genre is haunting movies, and my favorite of those is The Haunting in Connecticut.

I also used to really like The Cell! (Yeah, that terrible J-Lo movie!)

There's so many! Let's see....

-The Exorcist -- it's such a good, classic horror movie. It scared the hell out of me as a kid and still gives me a thrill now.
-Paranormal Activity Trilogy - I just saw the latest one, and I'm loving the fantastic creepiness of the really subtle scares. It makes it feel more "real" than the over-the-top gore and special effects that some movies use.
-Saw movies - And now I'm going to contradict myself by mentioning the torture/gore fest that is the Saw series.
-Final Destination series - Do these count as horror? Gore? Something in between?
-Scream movies
-Silence of the Lambs

There are so many good movies listed in this forum. Now I want to go find them and watch them all.

Constantine - It's amazing, I love the way everything comes together, the devil was portrayed so much better in this movie, it had a bit of excorcism in it. The story just carries on getting better, and Keanu Reeves isn't the everyday hero, which is a change.

I find that nowadays very little constitutes "true" horror (at least according to my definition). What is in the cinema/tv is usually only about the gory/torturepart of horror, which I find totally uninteresting and not scary at all - it's just gross for the sake of being gross. I like more the eerie stuff like, for instance:

1408
the mist
the descent
cat people

(just to name a few titles)

but I also enjoy the type of horror that also uses humour, like:

evil dead
drag me to hell
child's play
nightmare on elm st.

Saw, without a doubt. It's the only movie that has ever actually scared me. I mean, truly terrified the shit out of me. Seven years later, I still have trouble getting to sleep if I've even been thinking about it. But I love it, because it's affected me so deeply.

I have watched horror films ad nauseum, looking for something that will scare me, but one after the other, they all disappoint. I still enjoy watching them - horror is one of my favorite genres, regardless - but they just don't scare me. Saw, however, scares me on a very primal level. The idea of being hurt or killed by an external source isn't scary to me. But the idea of having the choice between staying chained to a wall and dying, or sawing my own leg off and maybe living, is horrifying.

The Saw franchise was called a "torture/gore fest" a few posts up, and I have to say a few words in defense of the original film. While the sequels were, indeed, injected with sometimes gratuitous gore in order to bring in the bucks, the original film was not. It wasn't even meant to be a horror film, but a psychological thriller. Like most first films in what becomes a franchise, it was honest and real. Then Hollywood came in and screwed the sequels up. The original filmmakers - writer Leigh Whannell and director James Wan - were very minimally involved in the second and third films, and not at all in the rest, which is a big reason, I believe, that they got so Hollywoodized and so far removed from the raw, honest quality of the first. The original is a masterpiece, in my opinion.