What is your favorite horror movie?

[Goddess Maple]

As a cinephile and huuuuge horror lover, I wanna know what is your favorite horror movie and why!

For me, I love when horror comes from bleak, disturbing and psychosexual subgenres, often coming from the cruelty of humans. Just like:

• Funny Games - Michael Haneke (1997)
• Possession - Andrzej Żulawski (1981)
• Opera - Dario Argento (1987)
• Eraserhead - David Lynch (1977)
• The Devils - Ken Russell (1971)
• Hellraiser - Clive Barker (1987)
• Get Out - Jordan Peele (2017)
• Climax - Gaspar Noé (2018)
And that's just a few of them

 

[DetectiveDavidMills]

Scream (1996)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Alien (1979)
Psycho (1960)
Misery (1990)
The Vanishing (1988)
Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Se7en (1995)
The Dead Zone (1983)
It (2017)

 

[Goddess Maple]

Scream (1996)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Alien (1979)
Psycho (1960)
Misery (1990)
The Vanishing (1988)
Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Se7en (1995)
The Dead Zone (1983)
It (2017)

i was sure that se7en was gonna be there hahaha
special mention to the vanishing!

 

[boredmotorcycle]

Dressed to Kill (1980), by Brian De Palma.

Ring (1998) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991) complete the podium.

Honorable mentions to Saw (2004) and I Saw the Devil (2010).

 

[urquell]

The Quebec provincial election.

 

[Misfortune Teller]

The Hellraiser series, without a doubt, especially the last two in the series, Judgment (2018) and Hellraiser the Reboot (2022), which, IMHO, bested the original film. Brilliant series, indeed. It would take a book to give reasons why this series is so important. As you said previously, Goddess Maple, the "bleak, disturbing psychosexual aspects" of the series holds a profound place in the imagination of many a person, hence why it still continues to be so popular. The outstanding quote that sums up the series: "We are explorers in the further regions of experience: demons to some, angels to others."

 

[wingmik]

Poltergeist (1982)
Halloween (1978)
The Shining (1980)
A nightmare on Elm street (1984)
In the mouth of madness (1994)