Reddit: In your opinion what is the best horror movie you have seen?

oD3 · 11 months

Alien.

finderdj · 11 months

I don't know why but the one horror that always messes me up is Event Horizon, and it's not all that special.

We don't need eyes where we're going!

omegachild · 11 months

No one's mentioned John Carpenter's The Thing? I think that is a horror masterpiece! It's got all the right element to make a great horror film and it's still one of my most favorite movies of all time.

itzjamesftw · 11 months

The Descent and Wolf Creek are my two personal favorites.

Such a hard genre to please a film nerd with.

forzato · 11 months

Rosemary's Baby is my favorite.

thiazzi · 11 months

Another vote for The Descent.

Recent one: Pontypool. Not super scary, but awesome concepts explored within.

statsisi · 11 months

The first Saw movie. One of the best twist endings that I have ever seen. I think it is comparable to the Alien chest bursting scene.

[deleted] · 11 months

One of the best psychologically frightening movies I've ever seen is Session 9. Basically, it's a possession story, but it's incredibly subtle. Just incredibly creepy.

reijslaur · 11 months

The Silence of the Lambs.

WarioThrillho · 11 months

The Shining, by far. Maybe not the scariest, but definitely the best.

goobysalad · 11 months

watching Vince Vaughn as Norman Bates was terrifyingly awful

kukukele · 11 months

I'm not one for monsters -- so The Strangers was TERRIFYING because it could actually happen.

BasinStBlues · 11 months

The Orphanage

NinjaDiscoJesus · 11 months

Nosferatu probably still is.. it's just a great film

stoof22 · 11 months

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Stratpat · 11 months

"Children Shouldn't Play With dead Things".

khj11horse · 11 months

The Ring. I'm not sure if it's because it was amazingly scary or if it was because after I watched it my dad kept calling my phone at really late hours and texting me pictures of Samara...

aidsbrain · 11 months

Insidious is by far the best horror movie I've seen.

pattycates · 11 months

Halloween. The thought that a person could go absolutley insane and stop at nothing to satisfy a need to kill to fill some kind of unfillable void in his soul is very real. i have never seen anything scarier than those scenes were he is just standing in the distance, watching and waiting

theheartofgold · 11 months

[Rec.] was pretty awesome

Noroi: The Curse

I really liked The Cell, but I feel like I'm the only one

I REALLY didn't like Martyrs, and again, I feel like I'm the only one. The first half was awesomely creepy but then it just devolved into torture porn.

madethistopost · 11 months

The Descent really got to me.

pemble · 11 months

Pet Semetary. Saw that in 7th grade and couldnt sleep for weeks. People coming back from the dead terrifies me to this day

ManiBoo17 · 11 months

I love scary movies and most of the time I'm laughing at the stupidity of them but I've come across 2 in my 17 years that scared me shitless for weeks.

Dead silence: about the demented puppet. I burned my dolls. Every single one of them
Mirrors: freaked me out to walk past a mirror to the point were I closed my eyes anywhere near a reflective surface.

monkeiboi · 11 months

For my favorite, definitely "Event Horizon"

for pure shock value, the movie that viscerally affected me the most, "The Hills Have Eyes"

TheHottestTuna · 11 months

So, if look at this based on the effect the movie had on its audience, there really isn't a debate on this topic. The scarriest movie ever created is the original Jaws, hands down. At best, even if you watched it as a little kid, the biggest effect any other horror movie has ever had on a person, is that they are creeped out for a couple of nights when they go to sleep. Oh hell, I'll be generous and say a couple of months, if the person scares really easy. If I go to the beach, right now, TWENTY YEARS after watching Jaws, I will think twice about stepping into the ocean.
Winner=Jaws.

Hawkbat · 11 months

Where is Cabin in the Woods?!

SWErdnase911 · 11 months

It has its silly moments, but thanks to Angus Scrimm and his role as The Tall Man, 'Phantasm' has always been in my top ranks of horror movies.

[deleted] · 11 months

One of my new favorites is Triangle.

XoYo · 11 months

The original Japanese version of The Grudge scared the shit out of me, and I almost never get scared by horror films.

The most disturbing film I've seen is a Russian film from the 1980s called Come and See. It's about the German invasion of Belarus in the second world war, but the style of the film and the ways it depicts the atrocities of war mean that it regularly ends up on people's lists of favourite horror films.

Piratiko · 11 months

I think I'm in the minority, but I honestly thought The Strangers was scary as shit.

phickster · 11 months

The Poughkeepsie tapes though it did help that the movie is made as a mockumentary which at the time I thought to be real. I also screwed up the burning of the dvd and never saw the end. I assumed that the serial killer from the movie escaped and didn't sleep for like three weeks. (I was so freaked out I assumed he would have fled to canada which is where I live)

lordicefalcon · 11 months

All TIME greatest horror movie - IT the Stephen King movie from the 1980's.

We all float down here Timmy

WarioThrillho · 11 months

I love that posts like this have 96 comments but 11 upvotes

unceunceunce · 11 months

the thing original EDIT: not the new one

Shadowglove · 11 months

Hard choice between The Descent and Mirrors.

HopeRidesAlone · 11 months

Suspiria, Day of the Dead(original). Also, the remake of Night of the living dead(Tom Savini version).

Esc4p3 · 11 months

Troll 2 . It is so realistic.

andrewsmith1986 · 11 months

The Descent.

Neurotikitty · 11 months

I love "Drag Me to Hell" for all its quintessential Raimi-ness.

zorromulder · 11 months

Dawn of the Dead - The classic 28 Days later - My favorite movie Blair Witch Project - Scariest movie I've ever seen. Underrated or overlooked nowadays, I don't know which, but the movie is excellent.

the_old_in_out · 11 months

The Blair Witch Project and Night Of The Living Dead. Possibly the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre too.

e90Turbo · 11 months

Hostel.

I mean, it's totally possible that people with a ton of money could pay to torture people.

The strangers was pretty good as well, because it made you anticipate everything.

I feel every other horror story is the same.

traveler120 · 11 months

The original Psycho. The site of blood running down a drain still makes me sick and I saw it in a theater when it first came out.

NoApollonia · 11 months

One Missed Call is high on my list

Ry_Guy19 · 11 months

The Island of Dr. Moreau

Joenig · 11 months

Definitely not the best, but the first Saw is a legitimately good movie. The subsequent ones seem to have gotten worse with each iteration, but the first is gory without being ridiculous and you're not really expecting the twist like you are in the other movies.

Also, that pigman is creepy as fuck.

jane_fonda · 11 months

I don't watch a lot of horror movies, but definitely [REC] and [REC]². I also really enjoy the 13 ghosts remake and House of Wax. Not because they scare me, I just think they had some good stories. The back stories of the 13 ghosts in the special features on the DVD is better than the actual movie in my opinion.

frozenkida · 11 months

The Others starring Nicole Kidman. Scared the pants off of me! Though, in all fairness, the pants were already off because of Nicole Kidman

rezaziel · 11 months

This thread is now about how scary Amnesia is.

prophetoffun · 11 months

For me it was insidious. It is very creepy, which is better than one of those cheap shot jump out and scare you movies. Only one part is like that, but it is so fucking scary, I was scratching my balls when it happened and I almost ripped my dick off

MarshManOriginal · 11 months

Silent hill.

It's the ONLY horror movie I've seen.

HopeRidesAlone · 11 months

A scene in Amityville Horror II had me disturbed for a few weeks.

eyeffensive · 11 months

Aliens

Someone already said Alien, and I think Alien is still the best, but Aliens is also an amazing film, with the same levels of horror and sci-fi as the original.

[deleted] · 11 months

The Road (not the Filipino one)

Mittens-alalala · 11 months

The Paranormal Activity movies. Watch them alone at night, I dare you.

bronsisaurus · 11 months

The Martyrs. It's in French with English subtitles but it is so twisted and creepy it's awesome. Definitely look for it.

Dicktremain · 11 months

Parent Trap. Two Lindsey Lohans. Utter terror.

FabulousLastWords · 11 months

Not [REC], contrary to everyone else.

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