🔪 what's your favorite horror movie 🔪?

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mine are the conjuring, the hostel, the rite and annabelle

abc3643 · Accepted Answer

I will cannibalize my answers to these questions:
What is the best horror movie?What's the best horror film you saw this year?

My favorite is "City of the Dead", a 1960 black-and-white UK film which is a rather creepy and scary film that moves rather quickly. The only star of note in the film is horror staple Christopher Lee. It's a short, quick-moving, but suspenseful and creepy horror movie. Since Christopher Lee is in it, you know that it's good.

The film is about a fictional town named Whitewood Massachusetts whose residents are all Satan-worshippers who are over 200 years old.

They continue to live because they have made a pact with Satan: Twice each year - on Candlemas Eve (a real holiday) and The Witches' Sabbath - they perform "at the hour of 13" a sacrifice of a young woman to Satan.

In the US, the film was renamed "Horror Hotel". That's the version I grew up with. In the US, the movie is not under copyright, so you can watch it for free here on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/7BChuMtWjYY

In "Horror Hotel", an important scene at the beginning of "The City of the Dead" was edited deleting lines of dialog. This is because the US is a religiously uptight society and perhaps more so in 1960. These lines involving making a pact with Satan were deemed too upsetting for the church-going public (and a lot of people went to church in 1960 compared to today). Unfortunately for "Horror Hotel", these lines of dialog go a long way toward explaining the basic premise of the film - a town that made a pact with Satan. For this reason, I now prefer to watch the original UK version.

The deleted lines are in Wikipedia...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_of_the_Dead_(film)#Deleted_lines

Deleted lines
Some dialogue was removed from the American version of the film, including the following lines in the opening sequence which clarify the plot. They are retained in the original British version, which has been shown on Turner Classic Movies:

"I have made my pact with thee, O Lucifer! Hear me, hear me! I will do thy bidding for all eternity. For all eternity shall I practice the ritual of Black Mass. For all eternity shall I sacrifice unto thee. I give thee my soul, take me into thy service."

"O Lucifer, listen to thy servant, grant her this pact for all eternity and I with her, and if we fail thee but once, you may do with our souls what you will."

"Make this city an example of thy vengeance. Curse it, curse it for all eternity! Let me be the instrument of thy curse. Hear me, O Lucifer, hear me!"

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Another favorite horror movie of mine is also British, the 1965 movie "Dr. Terror's House of Horrors", the first of the Amicus production horror films.

This movie also stars Christopher Lee, but also Peter Cushing as "Dr. Schreck" (The word "schreck" is German for "terror") who studies metaphysics. An early Donald Sutherland is also in it. There's also a popular British personality, Roy Castle, in it as well. (Some of the actors in the movie you may recognize from other works such as Michael Gough who played Alfred in some Batman movies.)

The movie is about 5 men who are on the evening commuter London-to-Bradley express train. A 6th man shows up, Dr. Schreck, whose "house of horrors" is his deck of Tarot cards. This is something of an anthology film with 5 distinct stories as the other men ask about the Tarot cards and each of them has his destiny told. After each man's story is told, another Tarot card is drawn showing his alternative destiny as well...

Christopher Lee's character, Franklin Marsh, is a snobby art critic and his story (the 4th) is particularly upsetting. Donald Sutherland's story is the last.

The men all have shitty destiny stories and, worse, the same terrible alternate destiny. They demand Dr. Schreck show his destiny... He reveals the same alternate destiny card that all the others had.

The men start freaking out after that.

So, now we come to the best line of the movie being almost at the end of the movie...

As I said, the men are freaking out a bit but Christopher Lee's Franklin Marsh tries to calm them. He then snaps at Dr. Schreck.
"Why have you done this?
What do you want?
WHO ARE YOU?"
to which, with the camera up close to his face, Dr. Schreck slowly turns his head to him and quietly asks
"Have you not guessed?"

The ending is priceless including the music...

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Yiaxw7RqDkM

Keyboardkat · Accepted Answer

The scariest movie I ever saw was a film called, "Deadly Blessing." I was on a business trip and I watched it in the hotel room. I kept turning it off because I couldn't bear to watch, and then turning it on again because I just HAD to see what happened next!

PBandJ_Nerd · Accepted Answer

My favorites are Killer Klowns from Outerspace and Little Shop of Horrors. They aren't considered scary today but it's old horror. Little Shop of Horrors I've watched several times and find it enjoyable.

ShesRad80 · Accepted Answer

1978 Halloween 2007 trick r treat

smahala1991 · Answer

Carrie, Sleepaway Camp, IT (remake and original), nightmare on Elm Streets 1-7, and Child's Play 1 and 2

AmeerX · Answer

I think Grudge was the scariest movie I ever saw. Ring is pretty scary too. I watched all others and non were as scary as those. There was this movie forgot the name but it is about antichrist and of a boy being raised in in Presidents house and that was pretty scary too. In fact it was the most scariest.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

Probably, "The Abominable Dr. Phibes" Runners-up: Halloween III: Season Of The Witch; The Thing From Outer Space; Trilogy Of Terror; Galaxy Of Terror, Cube, Hellraiser; The Re-Animator; From Beyond.

Blueeyes81 · Answer

I'm rather fond of Tremors. Scared the shit out of me when I was a kid because my bedroom was in the basement. As an adult I really liked The Which and Train to Bussan.

Fromdusktilldawn · Answer

Cabin in the Woods

KC-Sunbeam · Answer

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre series of movies.

LiamJHayden · Answer

I am not a fan of the slash ones, so Cloverfield or the original Godzilla.

bradley142 · Answer

im old school so the Friday the 13 movies and Halloween movies

Jmmmfi4 · Answer

PROBABLY BE EASIER TO LIST ONES I DON'T LIKE

LavLavLuv · Answer

The conjuring Evil dead

Nikki1989 · Answer

Either The Exorcist or Susperia.

Billlewis · Answer

'Burnt Offerings' (1976)

Paris13 · Answer

Leatherfaces. xxoo

Chewy______ · Answer

The Thing ( 1982)

CubaPirate · Answer

The original Omen

Kelly6 · Answer

The Ring

John_Cobretti · Answer

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