Good (and so-bad-they're-good) horror movies for Halloween.

[ghostsofgiants]

I want suggestions, because I like to watch lots of fun horror flicks around this time of the year.

I've already got a lot of the obvious ones: Halloween, The Shining, Nightmare on Elm Street, etc.

[flvegan]

1. You have Rob Zombie's catalogue, I trust?

[ghostsofgiants]

3. But of course.

:thumbsup:

[mrbarber]

36. Some little unknown gems you might enjoy-

Session 9: the same director who was behind the helm of the "The Machinist", one of the most disturbing films to come along for quite a while.

The Ugly: Well done British horror film.

Shock Wave: Christopher Lee has a small role as a Nazi scientist who creates Nazi Zombie supersoldiers on a remote tropical island. Worth it for the 20 something Karen Allen in bikini scenes alone.

Nightbreed: A often dismissed 80's gem, the makeup and performance by David Croenbergh as a psychotic therapists are highlights.

Monster Squad: Before the PG-13 rating was created and enforced, it's great fun to see a monster movie (top notch creature creation effects by Stan Winston, may he rest in peace) peppered with vulgarities and wanton violence.

Phantasm: One of the best surrealist horror flicks anywhere. The best way to describe it was a review I read for another film: "Has all the logic of a 3AM nightmare". Also, the Tall Man ranks up there with Micheal Meyers and Pinhead in regards to kick ass horror icons.

Hellbound: Hellraiser 2: Nobody does it better than Clive Barker. The Channard cenobite is especially enjoyable.

The Ghoul: A lost Boris Karloff gem, very enjoyable.

Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein: A classic. No description is necessary.

[ghostsofgiants]

39. I enjoyed Session 9.

I haven't seen the others, I'll keep them in mind, thanks!

[Blue_Tires]

46. oh shit...i completely forgot about Monster Squad...

haven't seen that in 20 years...loved it as a kid...

[msanthrope]

78. Session 9 was great--scared the piss outta me....n/t

[Lucian]

2. Nosferatu.

It's a Halloween classic for me.

[ghostsofgiants]

4. I've got the Herzog version. I need the Murnau version.

Have you seen Vampyr?



Probably my favourite vampire film.

[Lucian]

5. I have not.

I'll need to. And soon.

[ghostsofgiants]

6. It's great.

I picked up the DVD a little while back. Well worth the money.

[SeattleGirl]

7. House of Wax

The original, with Vincent Price.

[ghostsofgiants]

11. Can't go wrong with Vincent Price.

[SeattleGirl]

13. So true!

He's my favorite horror movie guy.

[enigmatic]

8. You HAVE to watch "Black Devil Doll From Hell", man!

I swear, it'll change your life; it's about half-way down the page:

http://cultrararevideos.com/forgottenflixb.html

[ghostsofgiants]

10. Haha, I'll add it to my list!

[Tektonik]

9. The Descent was pretty sweet

[ghostsofgiants]

12. I have heard good things about that.

[Madrone]

19. I second the Descent -

I liked it so much I bought it on BluRay.

I'm watching this list with interest ... I lurve horror movies!

Whatever you do ... don't watch the new Prom Night.

[AlCzervik]

56. thirded.

[cemaphonic]

14. Les Diaboliques?

More film noir/suspense than horror, but it's got one of the all-time great scary scenes in it, and it's a great movie in general.

I've been meaning to watch Elm Street again. I've been wondering if it will hold up to my no-longer-11-year-old self. I remember it as being a lot more clever and interesting than most of the 80s slasher films.

[nomorenomore08]

15. I've become rather fond of Lucio Fulci, for one. "The Beyond" is especially recommended.

Some classic scary ones for me (and I don't scare easily at all) would be "Jacob's Ladder," "The Thing" (Carpenter version), the first "Hellraiser," "Suspiria," and of course, "The Exorcist."

As far as "so-bad-it's-good," you can't go wrong with Herschell Gordon Lewis - "Blood Feast," "The Gore Gore Girls," etc.

And on the other hand, if you're really in the mood to get your head fucked with, I'd suggest something along the lines of "Last House on the Left" or "Cannibal Holocaust," but proceed with caution, as there are certain things you just can't un-see.

On a final note, I saw "The Strangers" the other night, and I liked it quite a bit. A genuinely creepy flick, with the kind of nihilistic "no answers" ending I always appreciate.

[ghostsofgiants]

23. I have vowed to never watch Cannibal Holocaust, haha.

I saw The Strangers in theater, I enjoyed it a lot as well. I never get really freaked out by movies, but I was hella paranoid after that one.

[nomorenomore08]

60. "Cannibal" is the king of sick and twisted, but "Last House" is psychologically scarring enough.

"Blow your brains out! BLOW YOUR BRAINS OUT!" *boom*

[av8rdave]

24. Jacob's Ladder is a masterpiece

One of my all time favorite films.

[ghostsofgiants]

30. I'll second that.

[harmonicon]

31. I second Fulci

Zombie/Zombi 2/Zombie Flesh Eaters is my favourite.

[harmonicon]

32. - delete - posting FAIL

[distantearlywarning]

16. The original version of The Wicker Man

It's pretty good, although you might find yourself rooting for the "bad guys"

[LeftyMom]

25. +1

[Fire Walk With Me]

17. Phantasm.

It's an absolute classic...gather your friends and shout in unison "Don't go in the basement! Don't go down the hallway! Don't...Don't...Don't..."

Tons of fun :)

[DS1]

18. 1408 is decent

[BlueIris]

20. A Japanese horror flick called "Séance" is pretty good.

From '97 or so, I think.

[Crazy Dave]

21. My favorite of all time and I don't know why is "The Howling"

I never cared much for the sequels but I've watched the first one over a dozen times. Even by today's special effects standards it has the best werewolf transformation I've ever seen (Eddie in the porno theater). None of that Hulk like computer animation shit, real looking facial features with hair, whiskers and fangs popping out.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082533/

[Scout]

70. i love that one too "let me give you a piece of my mind" !!! n/t

[raccoon]

22. The Screaming Skull, House on Haunted Hill. nt

[charlie and algernon]

26. Night of the Living Dead

[ghostsofgiants]

28. Already way ahead of you on the Romero zombie flicks.

:thumbsup:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

27. This year I've been favoring older stuff:

1). Horror of Party Beach

An all-time favorite, fully restored, the uncensored print. The second feature, "Curse of the Living Corpse," features a pre-"Jaws" Roy Scheider.



2). Icons of Horror Collection: Sam Katzman

A rarity...a box set in which all four movies are killer (The Giant Claw / Creature with the Atom Brain / Zombies of Mora Tau / The Werewolf). My personal favorite is "The Werewolf."



3). Fiend Without A Face

Featuring the trippiest "monsters" of all time, flying brains with eyes and spinal cords attached...



4). Queen of Outer Space

Zsa Zsa's big movie, other than "Moulin Rouge." Can you say "I HATE that kveen?"



5). Fox Horror Classics Collection (The Lodger / Hangover Square / The Undying Monster)



Three great movies, with my personal favorite being "The Undying Monster." Beautifully filmed, really gothic and atmospheric, right up there with the old Universal Frankenstein / Dracula / Wolfman movies.

...AND A COUPLE OF NEWER ONES...

6). 28 Days Later

One of the very few "living dead"-type movies outside of George Romero that really nailed the full-blown paranoia tone throughout the entire film. Tense, entertaining. Perfect choice for a Halloween movie.



7). The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003 remake)



Yeah, it's the remake, but it's worth watching for the over-the-top performance from R. Lee Ermey ("Full Metal Jacket"). Also, there's an excellent documentary on the "extras" disc on Ed Gein, the real-life "Butcher of Plainfield" from Wisconsin in the 1950s, the guy who inspired Psycho, T.C.M., and Buffalo Bill.

:toast:

[ghostsofgiants]

29. Nice.

28 Days Later is one of my all time favourites. :D

[harmonicon]

33. My Bloody Valentine is great

It's a 70's (or early 80's) Hammer horror movie from the UK. Really good/bad.

[edbermac]

34. Psycho, The Birds for good, Plan 9 From Outer Space for bad.

[Fire Walk With Me]

35. Plan 9, Glen or Glenda; An Ed Wood marathon never hurts on Halloween

[old mark]

37. I really like a Polanski movie called "The Ninth Gate", 1999.

Has Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, and a lot of very good Euro actors. Very moody, scarey devil stuff, I have been looking for it this year on TV , may buy it on DVD - it's worth it.

Depp is great, so is Polanski.

mark

[ghostsofgiants]

38. In theory, that movie is good, but it bored the shit out of me.

I was really disappointed, because I really like Polanski's work.

[old mark]

42. It is much better without commercials. nt

[ghostsofgiants]

43. I didn't watch it on TV.

Just wasn't a fan, sadly.

[cemaphonic]

61. Yeah, me too

A scary Polanski movie starring Johnny Depp, and based on a really good book should have been awesome, but it was just really lifeless. Oh well, at least it was better than Fearless Vampire Killers (a huge disappointment for me, since I love both Hammer Horror and Polanski's weird sense of humor.)

There's always Repulsion though.

[SoxFan]

40. Exorcist III

An underrated creep-out. It's more of a spooky police procedural for much of the movie, but the forbidding atmosphere is palpable.

[IndianaJones]

41. Dog Soldiers. nt.

[BarenakedLady]

44. Creepshow

:)

[IndianaJones]

45. the roach story! nt.

[Blue_Tires]

47. that movie alone is the reason

i'm deathly afraid of insects to this very day...some things you just shouldn't see at too young an age

[Blue_Tires]

48. Satan's Cheerleaders...

[Dogtown]

49. "Pumpkinhead"

1988 Lance Henricksen

1st directorial attempt of Stan Winston (i got that from wiki, my trivia's not that good.)



Also, the 2 "Jeepers Creepers" films are excellent!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

50. Check out "Wind Chill"

Decent little horror flick from a year or two ago that most people missed.

[ghostsofgiants]

77. Just watched that. Not bad.

[BlueIris]

51. "May." (Don't watch this one alone...seriously.) nt

[Frank Cannon]

66. Oh, my god, I forgot about "May"

I think I've been trying to repress that memory.

That movie is just mind-roastingly disturbed.

[mockmonkey]

52. A few slightly twisted movies

Dead and Buried
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082242/

Otis
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0996967/

Return of the Living Dead
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089907/

Dellamorte Dellamore aka Cemetary Man
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109592/



This one is more ghost story like and a bit political, with George C. Scott

The Changeling
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080516/

[ghostsofgiants]

54. The Changeling is a classic.

:thumbsup:

[mockmonkey]

68. No matter how many times

I see the scene with the wheelchair, It still freaks me out. :scared:

[distantearlywarning]

65. Cemetary Man!

That's a cool movie. Weird, but cool.

[tigereye]

53. Young Frankenstein

The Mummy

and Shaun of the Dead




I don't really like the slasher films. They make me queasy.

[AlCzervik]

55. Shadow of the vampire.

[ghostsofgiants]

57. I downloaded that a while back but haven't watched it yet.

Have you seen E. Elias Merhige's film "Begotten"? That movies is messed up.

[AlCzervik]

58. i haven't but just on "Messed up" i may have to rent it, you will like Shadow of the vampire

at least i hope you will, it is good and creepy.

[ghostsofgiants]

59. Cool.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begotten

[Hardrada]

62. The Turn of the Screw, The Innocents

both based on a scary tale by Henry James. Powerful because they operate on a complicated psychological level and are more insidiously unsettling because you don't know where the Evil is situated or what will happen next.

[Drunken Irishman]

63. Black Christmas.

[Frank Cannon]

64. John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness

I never heard much about this movie when it came out, but I thought it was creepy and scary as hell, and I'm kind of jaded when it comes to horror movies.

[Connonym]

67. I don't know if it 100% meets the criteria of horror but Tremors is a riot

and of course anything with Bruce Campbell rocks the free world

[unsavedtrash]

69. Shaun of the Dead

Not horror but definitely zombie action.

"We're coming to get you Barbara!"

[Scout]

71. The Other

"Holland, where's the baby?"

[tinfoilberet]

72. "Robot Monster"

The scariest part is when the bubbles waft out of the beast's astronaut helmet, LOL

[ghostsofgiants]

74. Haha, sounds terrifying.

:P

Welcome to DU!

[begin_within]

79. Filmed in lovely Bronson Canyon

[Individualist]

73. My favorite: The Haunting (1963 version)

[TK421]

75. Ghost Story....the scene on the bridge scared the everliving shit out of me

as a kid...if you saw it, you know what I'm talking about

[Bossy Monkey]

76. Mario Bava's Black Sunday scared the bejeezus out of me when I saw it on TV as a little kid

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054067/
Don't know if it still would, of course.

[begin_within]

80. A brand new one

[begin_within]

81. Children of the Damned: