What is the best horror movie?

[Thedarkmooprince9]

[abc3643]

I think that depends on your definition of horror movie and what is important to you in a horror movie.

I am not sure that this is the "best" horror movie, but it is one of my favorites.
Growing-up in the USA, I knew this British 1960 horror film as "Horror Hotel", but the full British version (with scenes that were deleted in the US version) is called "The City of the Dead". 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.
AND, it's free to watch in the USA because the copyright got messed-up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BChuMtWjYY

Another favorite 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" (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. None of them end well. And they all have an alternative destiny as well...

The best line is near the end...

Christopher Lee's character 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, Christopher Lee's character 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/watch?v=Yiaxw7RqDkM

[Paris13]

All the Leather Faces. xxoo

[Paris13]

Thanks, Gag. xx

[LavLavLuv]

Evil dead (2013)

[Boomchakalaca]

Conjuring

[OfMiceandMen]

I agree, the Conjuring series were done well.

[Boomchakalaca]

No matter how many times i rewatch it there's a jumpscare that ALWAYS gets me.
When lorraine fell in the basement and the noose lady fell in front of her

[OfMiceandMen]

Yep, it has some good moments where you are like... oh shit!

[Boomchakalaca]

Oh shit 😂 nah i be like slightly jumping out my seat and muted

[Capricornunicorn92]

I was going to say this lol

[Boomchakalaca]

We got good taste

[ibodi]

Hellraiser。。

[Anonymous]

Depends what type of horror you’re into