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)

 

[Johnny test]

Interesting question, different ways to answer it i guess
If i had to choose the best horror movie overall, in terms of both horror and cinematography, i would go with The Exorcist.
One of the most disturbing movies i've seen would be Martyrs and probably Videodrome
Ringu and Ju-On are pretty good examples of Japanese Horror
Train to Busan and (the TV show) Kingdom are great Korean flicks
John Carpenter needs to be in that list obviously, Prince of Darkness is a favourite of mine (in the mouth of Madness was mentioned before) and i'm one of the few who think Ghosts of Mars is a great movie.
Terence Fisher should be there also alongside Christopher Lee for their Dracula's
As for Romero, i don't think anything can beat Night of the Living Dead.
Argento with Suspiria, Inferno and his version of Dawn of the Dead (the european release)

 

[Jpsis]

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

This is a good and fucked up list. I like your style.

I tend to like my horror to have pitch black humor, things like:

Evil Dead 2
TCM
Brain Dead

I also like the French new wave movies like Martyrs, Inside, High tension, Frontiers etc.