Best Horror Movies [Archive]

Querida

14th July 2005, 05:44 PM

I've watched only a handful of horror movies, I would like to know what hubbers think is the scariest...can be action as well...oh how about ranking them from scariest to least? I particularly interested in movies that are less known rather than a list of what hubbers have/have not watched....some constructive criticism is welcome as well

just to start the horror movies i have watched:
exorcist (i love this classic...mind boggling that the director was able to capture such scariness back then....so that even banned in UK grudge ( i serioulsy was scared with this one...must have been the all hallow's eve rep that day
the shining
ringu (not the english version :roll: )
the eye (had potential then died off)
poltergeist
haunted house
the frighteners (kinda mellow)
scream (I disliked the gory ones the least...it was just senseless)

i know i have not watched many of the classic ones like elm street series, zombie series, jason series, alien series...so fill me please

j.chenkalvarayan

14th July 2005, 06:49 PM

querida ,
please don't rate exorcist as a horror movie .tell me what's so scary in that.
i think it can be categorized as a comedy movie. imho scream is a better one.

try these:
dawn of the dead
wrong turn
amityville horror
evil dead(classic)
saw(suspense)

unni

15th July 2005, 09:23 AM

i thought The Ring was real good... it's more jus startling than scary..the concept is really foolish. but white noise was pretty good because it's a true phenomenon. what 's scary about that movie is that it's already a subject you've heard about on news n stuff..so u actually question whether it's possible or not. SAW was actually jus real gorey (sp not sure). i mean it's jus real gruesome screenplay... but actually the Exorcist is kinda scary... i mean the whole concept itself is scary and as a christian....i've seen and heard of it so another case of "it COULD happen" makes it scary.

a.ratchasi

18th July 2005, 08:10 AM

If there's one movie that totally freaked me out, then that has got to be IT.

Other horrifying movies include:
Nightmare on Elm Street
The Lift
Final Destination (both 1&2)
The Devil's Advocate

chaotic whisperz

19th July 2005, 10:09 PM

not so much as scary, but The Ring was an alright movie...

alwarpet_andavan

20th July 2005, 02:26 PM

The Exorcist.... especially when i watched it for the first time...

j.chenkalvarayan

21st July 2005, 07:10 PM

http://specials.rediff.com/movies/2005/jul/21horror1.htm

Querida

21st July 2005, 07:40 PM

ahh yes..thanx JC! :D How could i forget silence of the lambs which was frightening in the potential of the villain rather than the actual story...

Nerd

27th July 2005, 01:32 PM

Just saw The Omen.. wasnt that scary but the way the satan murders people, especially the photographer was scary :shock:

Querida

28th July 2005, 10:04 PM

*spoilers ahead*

some movies stay in your memory just cause of that one scene...like in poltergeist III it wasn't so good until that scene were the old man slithers from underneath the bed all mutated :x and in Amityville horror where the plumber gets suffocated with black ooze....or of course in The Ring where she actually climbs out of the tv....which i think was considerably ruined by american movies preview showing people cause they included the best scene in the preview! :roll:

r_o_j_a

20th September 2006, 03:33 AM

last year i watched the grudge.. it was pretty scary .. i spent most of the time listening to my ipod and was pretty anxious for the film to be over..some may find it funny esp when she makes that creepy noise.
:cry:

Surya

20th September 2006, 03:41 AM

In the last 2 weeks, I've been on a horror movie watching spree! :roll: I saw 9 Horror movies!

The Ones taht I really liked:

The Ring
Saw
The Shining

The rest that I saw were meaningless hacking movies like Scream I, II and III,

I know what u did Last Summer (A Personal Comedy Fav! :rotfl: ), I

also saw The Ring II (Lame...Not Scary at all),
Saw II (Not Scary...Just REALLY REALLY VIOLENT! :twisted: :twisted: )

HOSTEL (VERY VERY DISTURBING!! I HAD TO PRAY FOR 30 Mins after watching the movie! :cry3: :curse: :curse: )

Nerd

21st September 2006, 10:46 PM

alwarpet_andavan

29th September 2006, 05:21 AM

Just finished watching "The Blair Witch Project"
What a concept!!!!!!
:thumbsup:

I just checked the imdb entry for the film now and the comment left by someone there says it best:

I think I know why Blair Witch has generated as much negative as positive responses. It FORCES YOU TO BECOME INVOLVED IN THE MOVIE GOING EXPERIENCE!
Wow. What a concept. Instead of sitting there like the passive sponges most of us become when going to the movies we are actually expected be become involved. Take a leap of faith/belief or whatever and delve into this movie. Without the overpowering F/X and music score most movies rely on to 'scare' you, if you still have an imagination left what is implied becomes a hundred times scarier than anything offered up by Hollywood in the last 30 years. The hardest thing in movies is to scare you. Not make you jump out of your seat with 5000 watts of sound blasting at 400 decibels (ever seen the 1999 version of the Haunting? Event Horizon? - every potentially tense scene is preceeded by dead silence then the Blast). Wake up people! Blair Witch is the horror movies we have been needing for a long time and I'm glad someone finally had the guts to make it.

Not scary in an 'jerk-reaction' kind of way but the concept is... and the climax!!!!!

Surya

29th September 2006, 05:38 AM

Just finished watching "The Blair Witch Project"
What a concept!!!!!!
:thumbsup:

I can't believe I still haven't seen it...It is THE BIGGEST SUCCESS in the Horror Genre, as far as Hollywood goes atleast! They put in like $20,000 as an initial budget and made billions!

alwarpet_andavan

29th September 2006, 05:45 AM

It is THE BIGGEST SUCCESS in the Horror Genre, as far as Hollywood goes atleast! They put in like $20,000 as an initial budget and made billions!
Exactly...
Actually it made $248 million worldwide, according to wiki...

alwarpet_andavan

29th September 2006, 05:48 AM

<Dig>
Adhu seri Surya,
Andha 'Load Man' Sarath Kumar still-a signature-ave pottutteengala?!! :lol:
</Dig>

Surya

29th September 2006, 06:37 AM

<Dig>
Adhu seri Surya,
Andha 'Load Man' Sarath Kumar still-a signature-ave pottutteengala?!! :lol:
</Dig>

This is something that should transcend all Sectional barriers of the hub and reach as many hubbers as possible! :lol: Athan. :P

RVG

8th October 2006, 07:55 AM

The Omen, Nightmare On Elm Street !

VillageGimp

13th October 2006, 10:27 PM

Omen was an original Horror movie.

Exorcist was the best.

There is another movie called The Wind

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094327/

with Meg Foster in the lead

Once of the superb horror movies ever but underrated.

nilavupriyan

13th October 2006, 10:34 PM

is blair witch a real thing...

someone said its not a cinema....its something that is got from students!

nilavupriyan

13th October 2006, 10:40 PM

i saw it in star movies...something like documentry....irritating photography...dint see fully!...seems to be good!

alwarpet_andavan

14th October 2006, 12:24 AM

is blair witch a real thing...

someone said its not a cinema....its something that is got from students!
Its not real.. the "real story" scoop was a rumor to boost the publicity i read....

About photography that's the point Nilavu... its through the eyes of the handy-cams carried by them...

Do watch it again!!!

bingleguy

14th October 2006, 02:23 AM

when i was young i really think about the time i watched Evil Dead at night around 11.30 .... ;-) :lol:

had applied viboothi n all n sat to watch that movie

when the movie was over, we were like this ...... :rotfl:

bingleguy

14th October 2006, 02:29 AM

Omen

I would say this had a lot of effect on ppl... there is nothing like ugly faces or something like that ... tis just the music .... the background score made it all happen.... Gregory Peck did great justice to his role, it was simply superb watching the movie !

Exorcist

I would rate this second .... this movie had some effects where faces make a difference. THe movie also had a lot of bg score which made ppl fear ....

Evil Dead

This one was mostly with ugly faces, initially it was scary but later on became funny ;-)

Poltergeist
This one was really a new approach, again gud bg music and lot of unexpected twists ...

Braindead
This one was simply hilarious

Vampire
This one did really have a big welcome during the early times ...

nilavupriyan

14th October 2006, 02:02 PM

Omen

I would say this had a lot of effect on ppl... there is nothing like ugly faces or something like that ... tis just the music .... the background score made it all happen.... Gregory Peck did great justice to his role, it was simply superb watching the movie !

Evil Dead

This one was mostly with ugly faces, initially it was scary but later on became funny ;-)

Braindead
This one was simply hilarious

Vampire
This one did really have a big welcome during the early times ...

Omen is the oly moviw which made me scare....that too not omen...."jenma natchathiram"...the remake of omen!...when i was a small boy i was scared by that lady....yeppa

evil dead is an ultimate comedy

nilavupriyan

14th October 2006, 02:09 PM

sleepy hollow...not a horror..but so stylish movie....excellent photography,music and makeup

amudha

16th October 2006, 07:01 PM

Shining is my most favourite horror movie. Its not scary but its weird !! The climax in the maze will be spine-chilling 8-). And Jack Nicholson's performance is right up there with One flew over the cuckoo's nest :thumbsup:

And yeh its kubrick's 8-)

'The Shining' is probably the best horror movie i watched too... J Nicholson and also the little boy's performance adds to the horror..i have also been to the hotel where the actual movie was shot... :)

'The Eye' is my next bet...esp the scene when the boyfriend shows the girl her pic, and she doesnt recognize her own pic.. :)

i just hate the 'Evil Dead' kind of movies...too many masks..esp if u watch kids dress up for Haloween every year.. :D

Querida

3rd November 2006, 08:23 AM

has anyone watched candyman? is that also scary? I have heard alot about it but have yet to watch....actually there's a whole lot of movies i have yet to watch :cry: especially tamil scary movies...lousy video stores here never care about old movies... :x anyways a funny movie i did watch was mel brooks' young frankenstein Igor cracked me up so much! I watch 24 what a crock i liked 13 monkey better...

P_R

3rd November 2006, 09:12 AM

actually there's a whole lot of movies i have yet to watch :cry: especially tamil scary movies...lousy video stores here never care about old movies... In my long career as a consumer/victim I can assure you, you have missed nothing.
The only time I was withih an ace of being spooked was when watching the Amul Baby number in Vaanchinaathan.

Sanjeevi

3rd November 2006, 01:51 PM

Actually I like horror movies without blood, violence, ugly scenes (like in evil dead).

Thus i like

Psycho
Sixth Sense
Ring
Ring Two
Oman
Signs

And i like silver bullet too only because it

villan007

3rd November 2006, 06:48 PM

The only time I was withih an ace of being spooked was when watching the Amul Baby number in Vaanchinaathan.

:rotfl:

hub rap

4th November 2006, 12:30 AM

sleepy hollow...not a horror..but so stylish movie....excellent photography,music and makeup
yeah... sleepy hollow is one of my personal favourites too. having watched it long ago, i dont remember much of it except for how petrified :frightened: i was while watching the movie.... especially the scene when johny depp watches the head-less horse man spring out of his grave :shaking: :skull: for the first time. the spoof the villagers make on the hero was terrific too. if i remember correctly it won an oscar for its settings. [/b]

hub rap

4th November 2006, 01:04 AM

i just hate the 'Evil Dead' kind of movies...too many masks..esp if u watch kids dress up for Haloween every year.. :D

evil dead is all fun when i look back now. but,

We were in no mood for the tenth std tuition classes that day. the nearest theatre was screening evil dead then and we three wanted to try. the theatre was the eeriest i had ever gone. or may be, the feeling that we are gonna watch one of the most famous horror movies gave us that feeling. coz, i didnt feel so, while watching thenali in the same theatre. for a theatre that usually screened porn movies, evil dead was a pretty decent movie. but, 'the turn-out was disappointing' would certainly be an understatement. may be thats why they weren't screening decent movies. to our disaster, not more than ten people were seated ahead of us. and only a couple that seemed newly married were seated a few rows behind us. whoa... wuck... dunno what to say. there was a big tussle between us b4 we could decide who would sit in between the other two... the most rememberable part came in the interval when we were licking our delicious ice creams and the lights went off all of a sudden and a bell rang terrifyingly, signalling the end of the interval. we ran like hell.. one tumbled down on the way.. we threw the ice cream in fear over a person on the way back to our seats.. and our screams managed to do what evil dead couldn't. yeah, the couple behind momentarily paused their public foreplay.

may be i have a point at the end of this long post. if you had watched horror movies in a day bright room with a lot of friends or relatives around you on a tv or a comp... you probably missed the thrill. :wink:

bingleguy

4th November 2006, 01:05 AM

:-)

Surya

4th November 2006, 01:47 AM

I saw The Grudge a couple days ago! :banghead:

The Movie BLOWS!! :evil: It was sooo flat! There was nothing scary about it! :roll:

Querida

4th November 2006, 04:31 AM

i can't believe i'm saying this....(sigh) like your ego isn't as high as it can get :P maybe it's not easy to scare you...cause it surely scared me..i was surprised cause well i didn't get scared with the ring....that and i was in the row of screaming girls and my friend's the kind who watched while peeping behind fingers..and it was hallowe'en...and my other friend kept making that creepy noise...guess im not convincing...alright i quit :D

Surya

4th November 2006, 06:17 AM

:lol:

Wha?! :shock: ego!? :oops:

The Ring was Scaaary! :frightened: To this day, I get freaked when I switch all the lights off and go upstairs to my room in the dark. I Keep imagining a girl in a chair suddenly appearing downstairs when I'm halfway up the stairs which is why I run up the steps as fast as I can at night...anywayz.... :cry2:

The thing in the grudge was...all of it's "Scariest" stuff was in like the first 15 mins...which made the rest of the movie seem a bit silly..... For me atleast. :D :P

Then again, As u said, it is quite hard to scare me! 8-) :ejatly:

ajaybaskar

8th November 2006, 02:00 PM

Ring,Omen

rayan36

9th November 2006, 10:19 AM

the ring two wasn't scary compared to the grudge and the 1st original ring. I like exorcist series, the best

Surya

11th November 2006, 06:02 AM

Ring 2 wasn't scary at all...also Ring 2 went too deep into the story and stuff, and had some stuff that didn't tie up in the end..:?

amudha

13th November 2006, 04:53 AM

may be i have a point at the end of this long post. if you had watched horror movies in a day bright room with a lot of friends or relatives around you on a tv or a comp... you probably missed the thrill. :wink:

thats funny hub rap... :D

this might sound stupid, but i always watch horror movies when there is someone around...i also mute the the tv, and turn away when i know something horrible is about to happen... :oops:

many friends have teased me about this, but i still like watching horror movies, though it haunts me later...

"curiosity kills the cat" fits me i guess... :)

amudha

13th November 2006, 04:59 AM

:lol:

I Keep imagining a girl in a chair suddenly appearing downstairs when I'm halfway up the stairs which is why I run up the steps as fast as I can at night...anywayz.... :cry2:

:lol: ...i always imagine things like this too...and never turn back while going up the stairs...

why do i have to watch these movies!!! :D

thamizhvaanan

13th November 2006, 07:27 AM

Any recent good horror movies? seems like a long time since i got scared :roll:

Sanjeevi

13th November 2006, 09:58 AM

Any recent good horror movies? seems like a long time since i got scared :roll:

Watch Vallavan esp the Pallan character

Sinthiya

13th November 2006, 10:52 AM

Any recent good horror movies? seems like a long time since i got scared :roll:Watch Vallavan esp the Pallan character
:rotfl:....Sanjeevi....:thumbsup:...

narayanan

16th November 2006, 07:31 PM

thamizh,
have you watched Texas Chainsaw Massacre ?
~~~~~~~
Psycho 1960 :thumbsup: dont even try Psycho 1998 , it sucked.

Surya

17th November 2006, 06:51 AM

bulb_mani

17th November 2006, 12:14 PM

Dharmapuri....

Veerasamy --> Yet to come :twisted:

narayanan

17th November 2006, 12:34 PM

Veerasamy ? I thought Sabari is capten's next ? :roll:

ajaybaskar

27th November 2006, 03:21 PM

Veerasamy ? I thought Sabari is capten's next ? :roll:

Sabari is captain's next and veerasamy is karadi's next

dinesh2002

27th December 2006, 08:32 AM

" Evil Death" strikes to my mind when u say English Horror films :P

and all these remakes [Grudge,Grudge 2] from Ju-On, the Korean Movie was a poor version of the originals... u should watch the original version in Korean... !

amudha

19th January 2007, 05:32 AM

thamizh,
have you watched Texas Chainsaw Massacre ?
~~~~~~~
Psycho 1960 :thumbsup: dont even try Psycho 1998 , it sucked.

Yes, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one horror movie that I had to switch off the TV half way through...

It is a real horror!!! :shock:

amudha

19th January 2007, 05:36 AM

For horror movie watchers, I would like to suggest The Blair Witch Project..

The movie definitely is a great watch!

ajaybaskar

23rd February 2007, 06:14 PM

Saw series.. Not a horror movie but will make u sleepless for couple of nights..

Kollywoodfan

23rd February 2007, 10:10 PM

thamizh,
have you watched Texas Chainsaw Massacre ?
~~~~~~~
Psycho 1960 :thumbsup: dont even try Psycho 1998 , it sucked.

Psycho was awesomely disturbing, Norman Bates!, and also acclaimed for its famous eye shot.

The Ring I and II were good.

Though I am a fan of horror movies in any shape or form, even if they're stupid.

Some not as scary ones that still deliver thrills include:

- When a stranger calls
- The Messengers
- Darkness Falls
- The Grudge
- The Fog (prolly my least fav)

ajaybaskar

19th April 2007, 12:59 PM

The Grudge. haunting...

Yathu

24th April 2007, 10:33 PM

Last scary movie I saw was THE DESCENT, very enjoyable to watch. Quite a few jumpy moments!

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A bit off topic:

Have you seen the Scary Movie series of films (1-4). SOOOOOO FUNNY!

I HAVENT LAUGHED SOOOO MUCH AT ANY OTHER MOVIES! Its all stupid slapstick humour, but you gotta love it! :lol: