Since it's Halloween...favorite scary/horror movies?

[dahliaclone]

what are your favorite horror/scary movies? 45 years later I still think The Exorcist is the scariest movie ever made. Still love the original Halloween as well. And Psycho.

Some recent (past couple decades) if you haven't seen them:

High Tension
Hush
The Descent (scared the CRAP out of me)
Green Room
Bone Tomahawk

 

[intrepid27]

I re-watched the Iowa game earlier this week. Does that count?

 

[SCNCY]

I re-watched the Iowa game earlier this week. Does that count?

Yes.

 

[SCNCY]

My wife has been trying to watch one Halloween movie per a night in October. While we've done one most nights, we have missed some.

In any case, while I am not much of a horror movie person, I have enjoyed The Conjuring movies.

 

[dahliaclone]

My wife has been trying to watch one Halloween movie per a night in October. While we've done one most nights, we have missed some.

In any case, while I am not much of a horror movie person, I have enjoyed The Conjuring movies.

The original Conjuring is so great. My better half HATES horror movies. I tried making him watching that and he lasted maybe 25 minutes. When the daughter starts beating her head against the dresser he was like 'nope. i'm done. turn it off'.

 

[Rural]

Please get here and be gone, tired of all the awful horror movies on an endless loop.

 

[CRcyclone6]

The original Carrie is one of my favorites.

 

[sdillon500]

Hereditary. Stuck with me way longer than any other horror movie, in a deeply unsettling way. Also has two of the most horrifying images I've ever seen in a movie (if you've seen it, you know the ones I'm talking about)

 

[madguy30]

I've decided the original Friday the 13th isn't that bad if not underrated.

 

[dahliaclone]

Hereditary. Stuck with me way longer than any other horror movie, in a deeply unsettling way. Also has two of the most horrifying images I've ever seen in a movie (if you've seen it, you know the ones I'm talking about)

I thought that movie was a top 5 horror movie ever made until the last ten minutes. Ruined it for me.

 

[PineClone]

 

[Bipolarcy]

To this day, the movie that scared me the most was not a traditional horror movie. My scariest movie was Jaws. When that head popped through the hole in the bottom of the sunken boat, I about crapped my pants.

I don't like traditional horror movies. They just don't do it for me and I avoid them.

 

[cytor]

The first Halloween movie was damn good.

 

[Mr Janny]

The Witch was incredibly creepy.

Also a fan of Session 9

 

[cytor]

Anyone ever seen, "the Funhouse"? Early 80s movie. I believe Ames Iowa was mentioned or referenced in the movie.

 

[Mr Janny]

what are your favorite horror/scary movies? 45 years later I still think The Exorcist is the scariest movie ever made. Still love the original Halloween as well. And Psycho.

Some recent (past couple decades) if you haven't seen them:

High Tension
Hush
The Descent (scared the CRAP out of me)
Green Room
Bone Tomahawk

Bone Tomahawk comes out of nowhere with the horror. The first 2/3 is just sort of a straight, gritty Western, and then "Zang!!!"

 

[Bigman38]

Hereditary
Midsommar
The Witch
The Thing - Still holds up, and for the love of god ignore the one from a few years ago

Can't go wrong with a classic. Netflix just put out a "Movies that made us" with all horror movies, Aliens, Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Nightmare on Elm St.

 

[Peter]

Hereditary - really frightening and ****** up.
Midsomer - beautiful and ****** up at the same time.
The Nightmare - the only film that has made me scared to sleep.

 

[Bigman38]

I thought that movie was a top 5 horror movie ever made until the last ten minutes. Ruined it for me.

Oh man, that last 10 minutes made the movie for me. I listened to a movie podcast lately talking about it, made me appreciate the movie even more, it's packed full of stuff I missed.

 

[EnhancedFujita]

Hereditary. Stuck with me way longer than any other horror movie, in a deeply unsettling way. Also has two of the most horrifying images I've ever seen in a movie (if you've seen it, you know the ones I'm talking about)

Toni Collette in the attic at the end of that movie is I think the most unsettling thing I've seen in a movie.

Along similar lines, Midsommer was done by the same director and is also pretty messed up.

More traditionally, I always watch the original Halloween, Poltergeist, and Night of the Living Dead around Halloween.