Your favorite GOOD horror movies

Yeah definitely subjective, but A Nightmare on Elm Street is in the same vein I'm talking about.

IMO if a horror movie has to rely on unexpected sounds/imagery to make you jump in your seat or blood spraying everywhere it's not good, y'know? I like the stuff that gives you a cold sweat and leaves you glancing at the closet door and wondering if you heard a sound outside the window just by what the story implies.

I like the Hammer movies with Lee and Cushing.
Phantasm
Suspiria
One Missed Call (original, not the remake)

Nightmare on Elm Street is a good classic. Some very creepy ass scenes where it plays with the power that imagination brings to making Freddy scary.

Ju-on: The Grudge was a great film when I first saw it, and had a ton of moments where they create a creepy build-up to Kayako and Toshio attacking folks.

I've got a soft spot for the Scream series, but that's just cause I'm a big movie buff so I find it to be funny how they use the horror movie mechanics to play around with it. You can tell Craven wanted to have fun with the movies and in the process created something that's both funny and very unsettling.

I know there's some good movies recently that are supposed to be creepy like The Witch, Babadook, and It Follows, but I haven't come across them and have been too skiddish to try Babadook until maybe this October.

I really enjoyed The Conjuring and Insidious. Insidious had some issues, but it was unique. Conjuring was just really well put together and acted.

I agree that modern horror sucks. People seem to have forgotten what horror truly is, it's not soft tortureporn. =\

I should also say that - most horror movies don't really "scare" me. I can get swept up in a moment maybe. But - I tend to more be into just the "ride" aspect. How the action moves the story and how the creepy elements blend in with it.

House of 1000 Corpses I thought was super fun. It had some dark stuff in it. But - like my reaction to it was just - that it was fun to watch. Engaging on lots of different levels. Comedic, dramatic, and strange.

I like movies like that.

I do remember that I saw a movie on TV when I was a kid called "Don't Be Afraid Of the Dark" which legitimately scared me. Like "didn't want to turn out the light that night" type scared me.

Most of the time though, especially after all this time, my emotions don't mix in quite so heavily when I'm watching horror movies. It's more about having fun than giving myself over to that. Which I think can also be fun in its way. It's just easier for me to have fun with a horror movie than to sort of give myself over to it intellectually and emotionally to the point where - like I'm haunted by it afterwards. Where it actually effects my psyche and has me looking over my shoulder the next day or something.

Ditto, which is why I love the Friday the 13th franchise so much, Jason Lives being one of my all-time favorite horror movies.

Sucks in general. 

I noticed the examples I gave were modern when I made that post. XD They're pretty much the only good modern horror movies I can think of. 

Pin just popped into my head for a second. not sure why. It's a strange little movie.

the original "Maniac".

Ooooh I forgot about "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things" that was another movie I saw as a kid on just regular old network tv of all places.

I need to think of some newer ones. My mind always goes to classics first.

Alien is absolutely a horror film, and a great one. Plus it gave us this:


Aliens I consider action however.

Maniac.

the original Crazies I really like a lot.