While The Exorcist 3 May be the worst for me, I do remember two things about it.
1) there was a part where a nurse was exiting the room hospital and from behind her someone came out with hedge clippers ready to chop her head off. To this day, it still makes me look behind me when I'm leaving the room, and I'm 38 years old.
When it got real it was a good movie but was dragged out with way to much unnecessary dialogue..
I bought the directors uncut version last season and it was worse than the version that made the screen.. So much unnecessary scenes that brought nothing to the picture. My eyes were rolling in the back of my head.
The Exorcist, hands down....so very disturbing when it came out. A close second would be the original Last House on the Left with a nostalgic shout out to Phantasm.
As for the worst, there are just too many to pick one.
is never part of the Halloween movie marathon? I think i read something about 2 being unique in some way, maybe copyright issues?
I haven't seen it since I was a kid, if ever and I'd love to watch it again.
AMC Started playing it this season.. it was on the other night.. but for years they would never play it.. must have been a copyright issue.. Very good movie..
Halloween (1978)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)
Alien (1979)
The People Under the Stairs (1991)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
And the worst? Well, the genre has so much history in B movies, so finding a bad horror movie is not difficult at all. For a mainstream horror debacle, I'd go with A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge. They set out to make a horror movie, and instead made a big gay romp. There's a gym teacher who frequents S&M bars, same gym teacher gets whipped by gym towels on his bare ass, the male "hero" (who screamed like a girl) came out years later, same male hero does a freaky weird dance that included simulating a drumstick for his penis, and of course, this exchange:
JESSE (male): Something is trying to get inside my body!
GRADY (also male): Yeah, and she's female, and she's waiting for you in the cabana. And YOU wanna sleep with me?
If you have the opportunity, watch the part about this movie from the Never Sleep Again documentary.
Karloff is the master of horror monsters, and his best performance is here, in Bride. James Whale with "buried hints of homosexuality, necrophilia and sacrilege" (Roger Ebert). Whale's masterpiece, "with its painterly and dramatic lighting, beautiful dissolves and tracking shots, sophisticated effects, and unexpected eccentricities." ranks #5 on the Rotten Tomatoes all time horror list (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari tops the list, a masterpiece of German Expressionism, and perhaps the first true horror film...certainly worth seeing).
There's more to horror than blood and gore (as much as we like that). The films above are a great example of that.
Exorcist
Halloween
Friday the 13th - 1 - 4 I liked
Nightmare on Elm Street
If you include the Shining in this genre add that one.
even Poltergeist which gets no votes, but was underrated IMO. I just got confused at times on whether Carol Ann was supposed to run to the light or stay away from the light. Coach got confused too and pulled the rope too soon.
Exorcist
Halloween
Friday the 13th - 1 - 4 I liked
Nightmare on Elm Street
If you include the Shining in this genre add that one.
Poltergeist was great
even Poltergeist which gets no votes, but was underrated IMO. I just got confused at times on whether Carol Ann was supposed to run to the light or stay away from the light. Coach got confused too and pulled the rope too soon.
If it's not horror, what else is it? Granted it's slow, but it's a slow burn with a ton of payoff scenes that send chills up your spine.
That aside, some of my favorites are:
The Ring
The Descent
Candyman
Jeepers Creepers
Saw
Nightmare on Elm Street
Scream
Evil Dead(original)
Halloween
Lost Highway (alot of people say this doesn't count but to me its the thinking man's horror movie)
While more in the genre of "Thriller" rather than "Horror"
...but saw pretty much every sci-fi horror show during the 50s, from the good ones (yes, Vincent Price's takes were tremendous) to really awful stuff like "The Abominable Snowman" and "The Crawling Eye". The one that sticks with me is, "Fiend Without a Face."
is the best horror movie I have ever seen. Anyone of the Friday the 13th movies would be the worst.
Never been a fan of the Friday the 13th franchise but can occassionally enjoy Jason X simply because it's a good bad movie and it's fun to count the deaths. Freddy vs. Jason was pretty entertaining too.
JonC great minds and all that... lol. I agree on both. The original TCM messed me up for a LONG time lol. And as far as vampires go... the original Nosferatu is the best IMO.
There are a lot of others already posted that I also thought were great. The Omen I didn't see mentioned. American Werewolf in London I always enjoyed. PumpkinHead. Amityville Horror. I have to point out that for a newer scary movie, I was pleasantly surprised by Woman in Black.
Worst movie? There are so many campy B movies from the 70's you can wade through. My uncle did the musical score (or at least he is credited with it) for a 70's B movie called Invasion of the Blood Farmers. It would really be hard for me to vote for any other movie as the worst. God-awful. But then again, take a look at MSC3000, they pointed out quite a few that were probably equally as comically bad.
Exorcist has to be # 1. Groundbreaking movie that is every bit as haunting and disturbing today as it was in the early 70s
Worst would be exorcist II
1) there was a part where a nurse was exiting the room hospital and from behind her someone came out with hedge clippers ready to chop her head off. To this day, it still makes me look behind me when I'm leaving the room, and I'm 38 years old.
2) Patrick Ewing was the angel of death
I bought the directors uncut version last season and it was worse than the version that made the screen.. So much unnecessary scenes that brought nothing to the picture. My eyes were rolling in the back of my head.
Worst: man there are so many. The one where Jason goes to space...not sure which one that is.
Worst is every horror movie released in the last decade not called The Conjuring or The Descent....
I haven't seen it since I was a kid, if ever and I'd love to watch it again.
As for the worst, there are just too many to pick one.
Salem's Lot! that was a great movie!
I haven't seen it since I was a kid, if ever and I'd love to watch it again.
AMC Started playing it this season.. it was on the other night.. but for years they would never play it.. must have been a copyright issue.. Very good movie..
Best:
The Innocents (1961)
The Legend of Hell House (1973)
The Others (2001)
The Uninvited (1948)
Don't Look Now (1973)
Hair-raising spookers all with almost zero in the way of gore....
Worst:
As one of the above posters said, too many to pick from.
Halloween (1978)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)
Alien (1979)
The People Under the Stairs (1991)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
And the worst? Well, the genre has so much history in B movies, so finding a bad horror movie is not difficult at all. For a mainstream horror debacle, I'd go with A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge. They set out to make a horror movie, and instead made a big gay romp. There's a gym teacher who frequents S&M bars, same gym teacher gets whipped by gym towels on his bare ass, the male "hero" (who screamed like a girl) came out years later, same male hero does a freaky weird dance that included simulating a drumstick for his penis, and of course, this exchange:
JESSE (male): Something is trying to get inside my body!
GRADY (also male): Yeah, and she's female, and she's waiting for you in the cabana. And YOU wanna sleep with me?
If you have the opportunity, watch the part about this movie from the Never Sleep Again documentary.
Karloff is the master of horror monsters, and his best performance is here, in Bride. James Whale with "buried hints of homosexuality, necrophilia and sacrilege" (Roger Ebert). Whale's masterpiece, "with its painterly and dramatic lighting, beautiful dissolves and tracking shots, sophisticated effects, and unexpected eccentricities." ranks #5 on the Rotten Tomatoes all time horror list (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari tops the list, a masterpiece of German Expressionism, and perhaps the first true horror film...certainly worth seeing).
There's more to horror than blood and gore (as much as we like that). The films above are a great example of that.
Worst
Cabin in the Woods. What the hell was that?
Exorcist
Halloween
Friday the 13th - 1 - 4 I liked
Nightmare on Elm Street
If you include the Shining in this genre add that one.
even Poltergeist which gets no votes, but was underrated IMO. I just got confused at times on whether Carol Ann was supposed to run to the light or stay away from the light. Coach got confused too and pulled the rope too soon.
Worst, Maximum Overdrive.
Exorcist
Halloween
Friday the 13th - 1 - 4 I liked
Nightmare on Elm Street
If you include the Shining in this genre add that one.
Poltergeist was great
even Poltergeist which gets no votes, but was underrated IMO. I just got confused at times on whether Carol Ann was supposed to run to the light or stay away from the light. Coach got confused too and pulled the rope too soon.
Worst, Maximum Overdrive.
Cabin in the Woods
Devil's Rejects (House of 1,000 corpses was more Halloween-ish but not as good)
Another favorite is the Abbott and Costello creature features. Funny stuff.
Tremors III was just bad.
That aside, some of my favorites are:
The Ring
The Descent
Candyman
Jeepers Creepers
Saw
Nightmare on Elm Street
Scream
Evil Dead(original)
Halloween
Lost Highway (alot of people say this doesn't count but to me its the thinking man's horror movie)
This. I had to go on a spiral staircase awhile ago and I was really freaked out.
I think I only saw it once, and it made a lasting impression.
Wait...which Usher are we talking about, the singer or the horror movie?
Children shouldn't play with dead things
Worst: Leprechaun
Never been a fan of the Friday the 13th franchise but can occassionally enjoy Jason X simply because it's a good bad movie and it's fun to count the deaths. Freddy vs. Jason was pretty entertaining too.
There are a lot of others already posted that I also thought were great. The Omen I didn't see mentioned. American Werewolf in London I always enjoyed. PumpkinHead. Amityville Horror. I have to point out that for a newer scary movie, I was pleasantly surprised by Woman in Black.
Worst movie? There are so many campy B movies from the 70's you can wade through. My uncle did the musical score (or at least he is credited with it) for a 70's B movie called Invasion of the Blood Farmers. It would really be hard for me to vote for any other movie as the worst. God-awful. But then again, take a look at MSC3000, they pointed out quite a few that were probably equally as comically bad.