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Sure and if you can highlight your favorites that’d be cool.

[quote=“tomas, post:639, topic:405”]anyway i asked myself are there horrors out there which can scare me?
i’ve seen all of popular series like Elm Street, Hellraiser, 13th Friday, Halloween and so on - and these movies are out of the question
anyway, i’m not expert on horror films and now i’m quite lazy to go through pages of this topic, so guys, could you recommend me some of your favorites (no Leprechauns, Gremlins) (no, not even Critters)[/quote]

I love horror films, but I personally don’t find most of them scary. I don’t hold it against them, though. What I look for in horror is primarily a great atmosphere (which doesn’t necessary guarantee scariness). Although, I guess my favorites do/did scare me or at least made me very tense. Anyway, here’s my ten favorites in order, but that doesn’t mean much (especially for the first three, which I have trouble ranking) :

  1. The Thing (1982) by John Carpenter
  2. Suspiria (1977) by Dario Argento
  3. The Innocents (1961) by Jack Clayton
  4. The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1974) by Francesco Barilli
  5. The Beyond (1981) by Lucio Fulci
  6. Dawn of the Dead (1978) by George A. Romero
  7. An American Werewolf in London (1981) by John Landis
  8. Cemetery Man (1994) by Michele Soavi
  9. Day of the Dead (1985) by George A. Romero
  10. The House of the Laughing Windows (1976) by Pupi Avati

Obviously, I’ve got a thing for Italian horror and I also have to admit I have barely seen anything pre-1970.

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[quote=“kit saginaw, post:640, topic:405”]Off the top of my head, some faves are;

Carnival Of Souls
Dementia 13
Dark Night Of The Scarecrow
Ju On
Ghost Story[/quote]

thanks, i’ll add Carnival of Souls (i wanted to watch it but forgot about it) and Dark Night of the Scarecrow to my watchlist

[quote=“I love you M.E. Kay, post:641, topic:405”]I love horror films, but I personally don’t find most of them scary. I don’t hold it against them, though. What I look for in horror is primarily a great atmosphere (which doesn’t necessary guarantee scariness). Although, I guess my favorites do/did scare me or at least made me very tense. Anyway, here’s my ten favorites in order, but that doesn’t mean much (especially for the first three, which I have trouble ranking) :

  1. The Thing (1982) by John Carpenter
  2. Suspiria (1977) by Dario Argento
  3. The Innocents (1961) by Jack Clayton
  4. The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1974) by Francesco Barilli
  5. The Beyond (1981) by Lucio Fulci
  6. Dawn of the Dead (1978) by George A. Romero
  7. An American Werewolf in London (1981) by John Landis
  8. Cemetery Man (1994) by Michele Soavi
  9. Day of the Dead (1985) by George A. Romero
  10. The House of the Laughing Windows (1976) by Pupi Avati

Obviously, I’ve got a thing for Italian horror and I also have to admit I have barely seen anything pre-1970.[/quote]

Cemetery Man is also my favorite, also Thing but don’t know if i’d rate that high
An American Werewolf is a flick i finally should watch, so added to watchlist
i’ll look out also for Laughing Windows and Innocents, never heard of it
i’m not much into zombie films these days, i was once, but somehow it doesn’t impress me anymore (there are exceptions of course, as Cemetery Man or Braindead) - same with ghost stories or paranormal, it is just boring to me
i’m also considering to watch XTRO series or find out some other good space horror flicks

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@I love You M.E Kay , i will post them but it will take me some time as i have not catalogued my movies.

Watch this space!

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I would recommend you see some silence German horrors: heavy on atmosphere and weird set designs. Also, the Universal horror films, while not at all scary these days, are a lot of fun, especially the slyly comic masterpiece Bride of Frankenstein (1935). From there, Hammer is a good place to go, another, very atmospheric set of movies. Also try and check some of Roger Corman’s Edgar Allen Poe movies. Those are all the best pre-1970 horror films.

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now you reminded me i should watch Roger Corman’s Galaxy of Terror

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My Complete [I hope] List of Horrors that I’ve got so far.

My Favourites Are Marked # [The Titles I Have Viewed The Most].

UK/USA/CANADA
[All Listed Together In The Decades Of Release]

PRE - 1950

THE GREED OF WILLIAM HART
THE CURSE OF THE WRAYDONS
THE FACE AT THE WINDOW
THE PHANTOM SHIP
DRACULA
SON OF DRACULA
DRACULA’S DAUGHTER
THE MUMMY’S HAND
NIGHT MONSTER

1950’S

CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN
CORRIDORS OF BLOOD
THE MUMMY
THE MAN WHO COULD CHEAT DEATH
DRACULA
HOUSE OF WAX
TARANTULA
THE SNOW CREATURE
I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE
REVENGE OF THE CREATURE
IT CONQUERED THE WORLD
THE FLESH AND THE FIENDS
JACK THE RIPPER [1958]

1960’S

TORTURE GARDEN
THE STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE [1968]
WITCHFINDER GENERAL
CIRCUS OF HORRORS
THE HANDS OF ORLAC
EYE OF THE DEVIL
THE SKULL
THE GORGON
THE TWO FACES OF DR JEKYLL
THE OBLONG BOX
THE CURSE OF THE CRIMSON ALTAR
HORROR HOTEL [The City Of The Dead].(1960)
THEATRE OF DEATH
CIRCUS OF FEAR
DR TERROR’S HOUSE OF HORRORS
SCREAM OF FEAR
SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN
DRACULA : PRINCE OF DARKNESS
DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE
TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA
NIGHT OF THE BIG HEAT
TOWER OF LONDON
A STUDY IN TERROR
DEATH CURSE OF TARTU

1970’S

CRAZE
DEATH LINE
FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE
THE MUTATIONS
I DON’T WANT TO BE BORN
THE UNCANNY
NIGHT CREATURE
THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD
THE KEEPER [1976]
THE CREEPING FLESH
DARK PLACES
NOTHING BUT THE NIGHT
HORROR EXPRESS
I , MONSTER
TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER
SCARS OF DRACULA
DRACULA AD 1972
THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA
COUNTESS DRACULA
CAPTAIN KRONOS , VAMPIRE HUNTER
THE HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN
THE VAMPIRE LOVERS
DRACULA [Jack Palance] #
DRACULA [Frank Langella]
THE FOG [1979] #
THE DEVIL’S RAIN
THE SENTINEL [1977]
SHADOW OF CHIKARA #
GRIZZLY
NIGHT OF THE LEPUS
TARANTULAS - THE DEADLY CARGO
MY BLOODY VALENTINE [1979]
SNOWBEAST
EATEN ALIVE
MURDER BY DECREE

1980’s

VENOM #
THE MONSTER CLUB
GHOST TOWN #
GHOST RIDERS #
SCHIZOID
TITAN FIND #
CRAWLSPACE #
THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON #
TERROR ON ALCATRAZ
DEADLY BLESSING
ALONE IN THE DARK [1982]
THE DEVONSVILLE TERROR
PRINCE OF DARKNESS
BURIED ALIVE [Donald Pleasence/Robert Vaughn][Ffilmed in 1988]
DARK NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW #
DEATH SHIP #
HOWLING 2
PRISON
THE DARKER SIDE OF TERROR
ROSEMARY’S KILLER #
WITHOUT WARNING

90’S

PANGA [Aka : Curse 3 - Blood Sacrifice]
HELLBOUND [Chuck Norris]

2000’S

THE FOG [Remake]
AN AMERICAN HAUNTING
MAMMOTH
THE REAPING
THE HAUNTING OF WINCHESTER HOUSE
SHARK HUNTER
FROM HELL
STAGEGHOST

EUROPEAN HORRORS

NOSFERATU
NOSFERATU - PHANTOM DER NACHT #
NOSFERATU A VENEZIA #
DEATH SMILES AT MURDER
THE HAND THAT FEEDS DEATH
THE LOVER OF THE MONSTER
EL CONDE DRACULA #
THE BLOODY JUDGE
THE CASTLE OF THE WALKING DEAD (Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel)
THE CASTLE OF THE LIVING DEAD (Il castello dei morti vivi )
THE CRYPT OF THE VAMPIRE
THE WHIP AND THE FLESH
THE VIRGIN OF NUREMBERG
COLD-BLOODED BEAST
JACK THE RIPPER [Kinski]
LA PLUS LONGUE NUIT DU DIABLE (The Devil’s Nightmare)
SPECTERS [Spretti]
PHENOMENON
CUTTHROATS NINE #
L’ ULTIMO SQUALO (The Last Shark)
SHARK : ROSSO NELL’ OCEANO
VENUS IN FURS
DOUBLE FACE
WEB OF THE SPIDER
LA LOBO Y LA PALOMA (House Of The Damned)
ALIEN 2 - SULLA TERRA
SLUGS , MUERTE VISCOSA
THE GREAT ALLIGATOR [Il fiume del grande caimano]

Plus

HALLOWEEN
[1 , 2 , 4 , 5 , 6 ,H20 , Resurrection] #
[1 & 2 , Rob Zombie’s versions]

FRIDAY THE 13th
[Complete , inc Freddy Vs Jason , Jason X , and the 2009 version]

PSYCHO
[1 , 2 , 3 , 4]

HAMMER HOUSE OF HORROR [TV SERIES] (My Favourite Episodes Only)

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Authentically creepy adaptation of Robert E. Howard’s Pigeons From Hell…

hosted by Boris Karloff.

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[quote=“Wild The Hunchback, post:646, topic:405”]My Complete [I hope] List of Horrors that I’ve got so far.

My Favourites Are Marked # [The Titles I Have Viewed The Most].[/quote]

Lots of interesting titles in your list, a good many of which I haven’t heard of before. I’ll definitively will be checking out a bunch of them like The Shadow of Chikara, which sounds pretty cool.

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have anyone knows something for the special edition for blood tracks 1985?

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Shadow Of Chikara , is. also known as The Curse Of Demon Mountain.

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Apartment 1303… Ataru Oikawa’s take on ‘the haunted room’ syndrome, from 2007. And it’s pretty-good except that the plot-concept gets away from him a little toward the end. A weird mother-and-daughter living next to a ghostly mother-and-daughter, with 2-sisters and their weird mother getting involved with both sets… I began to short-circuit and not feel the total anxiety that Oikawa was trying to present. It has some genuinely chilling moments tho. And it won’t deeply disappoint.

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2005, Tales Of Terror: The Haunted Apartment… another one where the plot gets-away from the makers. This time, it crumbles (no pun intended). -Has a good premise; people can’t move from an apartment-building because of a curse. But screenwriter, Mutsuki Watanabe kicks it into his own net… Mei Kurokawa’s bf-and-family move the apartments, the ghost kills them, Kurokawa’s all depressed 'n bummed about it, but ends-up siding with the ghost at the finish without any explanation. That makes me rate the film as slightly below-average.

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Suspiria 1977
The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas 1957
John Carpenter’s The Thing 1982
Dawn of the Dead 1978
Night of the Living Dead 1968
Carnival of Souls 1962
Night of the Demon 1957
Let’s Scare Jessica to Death 1971
The Howling 1981
An American Werewolf in London 1981
Dog Soldiers 2002(?)
Infection 200?
Ju-On (year?)
Kairo (original version of Pulse) 200?
Marebito 200?
The Evil Dead 1982
The Haunting 1963
The Legend of Hell House 1973
The House by the Cemetery 1981
Halloween 1978
The Fog 1979
Re-Animator 1985
Carrie 1976
Re-Cycle 200?)

I’m pretty sure there’s more I can list, but that’s it for now. I prefer horror films with a creepy atmosphere, or simply an interesting concept /story, over sheer gore, though some on my list have that, too. I really don’t get scared by anything in the movies, though one scene in Kairo, about 30 minutes in, sent a chill up my spine one night, first time I saw it.

Jim

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Ju-Rei: The Uncanny, 2004… has the creepy atmospherics I always look for. Keeps the viewer off-balance. The film is told in-reverse, from chapter 10 to 1, about a the effects of a murderously ghostly curse of a family and their friends, but flows-ahead seamlessly. The sound-design is exquisite. The origin of the curse… a daughter witnesses her mother murdering her father from a shadowy door-crack, so shadows play-into a lot of the scenes. I’d easily place this film in my top-10 list.

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EVIL DEAD 2013 will be released in greece at may 2, many people say it’s a bloodbath but very bad acting
i don’t want to see in the theatre i prefer the movies in its original unrated version, damn MPAA!!
have anyone see it??? its more gory than the original EVIL DEAD??

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I saw it over a week ago. Yes, it’s much more violent and gory than the original, but the acting isn’t bad at all. Technically, the acting is much better and more realistic than the acting in the original. Even Bruce Campbell himself admits the original Evil Dead films were badly acted, because the 1982 original was essentially a student film directed by his high school friend Sam Raimi…albeit an excellent student film.

BUT…what the 2013 movie lacks is the element of fun, and humor (intentional or otherwise) that made the original so entertaining. I also believe the original had a better creepy feel to it. IMO, straddling the line between genuine creepiness and over-the-top humor is very tricky, and far more difficult to pull off successfully than going for the dead-serious, extreme violence shock factor. In that sense, the original succeeded grandly, and remains a classic.

I thought the 2013 film is definitely not bad, as updates go. Certainly far better, IMO, than other horror remakes of recent years. But I just didn’t find it as much fun as the original.

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[quote=“Filmlovr1, post:656, topic:405”]I saw it over a week ago. Yes, it’s much more violent and gory than the original, but the acting isn’t bad at all. Technically, the acting is much better and more realistic than the acting in the original. Even Bruce Campbell himself admits the original Evil Dead films were badly acted, because the 1982 original was essentially a student film directed by his high school friend Sam Raimi…albeit an excellent student film.

BUT…what the 2013 movie lacks is the element of fun, and humor (intentional or otherwise) that made the original so entertaining. I also believe the original had a better creepy feel to it. IMO, straddling the line between genuine creepiness and over-the-top humor is very tricky, and far more difficult to pull off successfully than going for the dead-serious, extreme violence shock factor. In that sense, the original succeeded grandly, and remains a classic.

I thought the 2013 film is definitely not bad, as updates go. Certainly far better, IMO, than other horror remakes of recent years. But I just didn’t find it as much fun as the original.[/quote]
thank you very much friend, i can’t wait for the unrated version ;D
the nc 17 version they say cut, i can’t imagine how much bloodier we will see, the acting was no bad?? that’s a good thing, may the EVIL DEAD 1982 was a good gorefeast but has some giant holes inside it
how the demon can’t go from the window and goes only from the door?? or why if can’t smash the doors it smash the doors at the end of the movie??

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I prefer Evil Dead II myself.

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Me too Yod. Evil Dead II was the best one.

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i prefer none of the evil dead trilogy