Favorite Horror movies (no haters please)

[dad2nc]

House of a Thousand Corpses, The Devils Rejects, Blair Witch Project, The Conjuring.

[Delahanty]

Spoorloos, a Dutch film with subtitles, and probably the scariest film ever. It's what you might call a psychological thriller exploring the theme of obsession.

It was "remade" (if that's what you want to call it--it's almost a serio-comedy) as The Vanishing about 20 years ago, complete with Sandra Bullock and a happy ending for American viewers. Skip that one.

[Unsettomati]

In chronological order:

Nosferatu (1922)
The vampire genre when vampires were horrific and repugnant, before Bela Lugosi had transformed Dracula into a vampire with a suave, debonair facade.

Horror of Dracula (1958)
The best of the Hammer films, and perhaps the best straight interpretation of Stoker's novel ever done.

Halloween (1978)
The emphasis on suspense and the refusal to rely on gratuitous cheap gore makes Halloween stand above the slasher genre it helped launch.

Alien (1979)
A masterful melding of the horror and science fiction genres.

Let The Right One In (2008) / Let Me In (2010)
The Swedish original and the English-language remake (set in New Mexico) are brilliant films, and feature the freshest re-working of the vampire genre in years. The American remake is, uncharacteristically, as every bit as good as the original.