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    Posted: January 19 2017 at 23:56
Feel free to use the horror term loosely.

The Wicker Man (1973 version)
The Shining
An American Werewolf in London
Under the Skin (also listed in my SF list; love the imagery of this film)
Alien
Omens 1 & 2
Let the Right One In
Rosemary's Baby
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 - also on my SF list)
Dead Ringers and Videodrome and Scanners (Cronenbergpalooza)
Baxter
Basket Case
The Kingdom
The Hunger (one I love that not a lot of people seem to like that I know of)
Daybreakers

Okay,, more than ten, cause I couldn't pare it down. Honorable mentions to Kwaidan (even if not really scary) and various German expressionist films that I was forced to study, but still enjoyed such as Herr Cabinet, erm, I mean Der Cabinet des Dr. Caligari. And I liked Suspiria.   Of fairly recent ones I did like Pandorum, and I loved . And the Exorcist really should be on my list. Psycho of course. John Carpenter's The Thing.... Ringu. And one that I loved that many really think terrible, Clonus Body Parts Horror. I'll happily watch most any film about clones.   And The Boys From Brazil, if I thought it counted enough. Oh, From Beyond... Lots more....

And for fun horror-esque films: The Host (Bong Joon-ho), Grabbers, Shaun of the Dead, Attack the Block.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 20 2017 at 02:00
Personal favourites:

Suspiria
The Beyond
The Living Dead Girl
Black Magic Rites
Dr. Jekyll and His Women
Savage Hunt of King Stakh
The Wicker Man
Thundercrack!
Dagon
Viy



Honourable mentions:

Vampyr
Kwaidan
Anima Persa
Nosferatu (both versions)
The Colour Out of Space
The Shining
Spider Baby
Frankenhooker
Dracula vs. Frankenstein
Nude for Satan
Girl Slaves of Morgana Le Fay
Porno Holocaust

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 20 2017 at 04:41
Nosferatu (the original)
Rosemary's Baby
Repulsion
Night of the Demon
The Blair Witch Project
The Fly (50s version)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
City of the Damned (1960 version)
King Kong (the original)


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 20 2017 at 06:49
It would appear from the lists proceeding my baker's dozen that progressive rock and horror go together.Shocked  You guys are horror aficionados.Dead 

Many films I didn't mention, but which appear on your lists are firmly ensconced in my top 50.   Most the films I own are horror.  So many resplendent horror soundtracks!


Profundo Rosso
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
John Carpenter's "The Thing"
Ju-On
" Zombie 2"  Directed by Lucio Fulci
Count Dracula - Directed by Jess Franco
Re-Animator
Evil Dead 2
The Mist
Opera directed by Argento
Frailty
May
Black Christmas (the original)






Edited by omphaloskepsis - January 20 2017 at 07:05
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 20 2017 at 08:32
I distinguish between "horror" and "terror" movies. Horror is what slowly creeps up your back, terror is what jumps into your face.

Most modern so-called "horror" movies are terror movies. Terror movies don't last with you; once you leave the cinema you feel well again. With horror movies this is different; they have a lasting effect.

Here are a few of my favourites:

"Malpertuis" by Harry Kümel (the extended version, not the Cannes version). Orson Welles and Susan Hampshire are simply fantastic in this movie. The incredibly rich Cassavius (Orson Welles) lies on his deathbed. His money will go the last survivor of the inhabitants. The catch is they have to continue living in his creepy house full of mysteries. Susan Hampshire plays three different female leads.

"Rosemary's Baby" by Roman Polanski. The movie that made all pregnant women feel uneasy.

"Repulsion" by Roman Polanski. Best ever depiction of the slow descent into madness. Catherine Deneuve is simply superb in this movie.

"The City of the Dead" by John Llewellyn Moxey. One of the best horror movies about witches.

"Night of the Demon" by Jacques Tourneur. An excellent horror movie about the "hot potato" theme. Also known as "Curse of the Demon".

"The Blair Witch Project" by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez. Jean and I love this movie because the horror is all in the mind.

"House on Haunted Hill" (1959 version) by William Castle. Five people have to stay one night in a creepy house to earn ten thousand dollars.

"Nosferatu" by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. Max Schreck was the most horrific vampire ever.

"De vierde Man" ("The Fourth Man") by Paul Verhoeven. A great horror thriller with an extremely erotic Renée Soutendijk.

"Them!" by Gordon Douglas. Like many 50s and 60s movies a cross between horror and science fiction. Gigantic ants terrorize the countryside.




Edited by BaldFriede - January 20 2017 at 09:41


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 20 2017 at 09:37
The Wicker Man (1973)
Alien
Rosemary's Baby
Deep Red (Profondo Rosso)
Poltergeist (1982)
Evil Dead 2
Braindead
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (They show you a guy cutting his hand with a pocket knife at the very beginning....afterwards, there's not a drop of blood in the whole movie, yet, you'll remember it as being hardcore gore. BRILLIANT)

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 20 2017 at 09:51
My faves have pretty much been covered by now but I'd like to add two recent horror flicks that renewed my faith in the genre. Babadook and The Conjuring. I think Friede makes a good point regarding most modern movies basically being terror movies yet these two bring back the old school manners. Frightening? Sure. Great storytelling? Yes, incredibly, that too....one element that I personally miss in today's horror produce.
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