What is your favorite horror or science fiction film.

[Swede]

My favorite horror is Mothman Prophesies,scifi would be Aliens.

[david_vincent]

1. Ever read the book?

The Mothman Prophecies, by John Keel. It'll scare the crap out of you. Horror movie, maybe The Innocents. Scifi, hmm, The Day the Earth Caught Fire, perhaps. There's something about it that just grabs me.

[Swede]

2. Never read the book.

But I've read a lot about the strange things that happened there,on the inernet.

[Bridget Burke]

61. I've read the book (it's non-fiction)

Really liked it.

John Keel's attitude is a bit skeptical, a bit believing. One of his main ideas is that--even if "they" are out there (or in there)--"they" should not be trusted. (Another of his is "Disneyland of the Gods"--Earth is the amusement park.)

I see his influence in some of the better X-files scripts.

[GURUving]

3. Hilarious stuff -

Teenagers From Outer Space
Starring: Tom Graeff, Dawn Bender & Bryan Grant 1959 85 min.

[Good Fences]

21. MST3K

When we return the high court may well sentence you to tor-ture!

Bring up the gargon......

[RebelOne]

4. The original Thing From Outer Space

This is the original one from the 1950s, which starred James Arness as the creature. I think it was one of the best science films ever made. Kept you on the edge of your seat throughout the whole film.

[Ernesto]

72. RebelOne shows his age!

I totally agree with you. I must have been about 7 years old. Went to the drive-in theatre with the folks, got the s%%t scared out of me.... They didn't use no stinking computerized special effects in those days! Still that movie had a great realism and was intense. Great cast of charactors to..... 2 thumbs up from me..... I still watch "The Thing" and "High Noon" from time to time.

[Overkil]

5. I liked the.......

nightmare on elm street series

[VOX]

6. I love "The Wolfman"

(No, not ZombyWoof, but he's a great guy.)

The Wolfman is the most tragic of all the Universal classic monsters -- Larry Talbot doesn't want to be a wolf, and tries to warn everybody off.

As for SciFi, I still enjoy the world-peace message of "The Day the Earth Stood Still."

[ornotna]

11. The Day the Earth Stood Still

One of the best, my fav too. :thumbsup:
"Gort, Klaatu barada nikto"

[Jim Sagle]

23. My favorite as well. Another fave - "Them!".

[OneTwentyoNine]

63. Same here,pretty good effects for an old movie

Ohhhhhhwwweeeeeeeee......or something like that.

David

[JitterbugPerfume]

16. A Handmaids tale

Margaret Atwood

If you havent read it or seen the movie believe me it will scare the holy sheite outta you

[TXvote]

19. Have you read the epilogue???

to the handmaiden's tale??? 500 years in the future, historians are examining the contents of the book and they say something like " of course, we now know it was not Islamic militants that gunned down Congress and sent the country into martial law, it was right wing and religious extremists posing as Islamic militants". Totally friggin chilling book.

[populistmom]

38. I agree

Excellant one! :scared:

[terrya]

67. Great film and book. And if I can suggest another book..

"The Handmaid's Tale" was chilling because it's all too plausible.

Margaret Atwood's "Oryx and Crake". VERY chilling book.

[RainDog]

7. horror- Psycho scifi- BladeRunner

[AWD]

8. Dawn Of The Dead

...and it was filmed in the mall my wife grew up going to, in Monroeville, PA.

I've got pictures of the mall in it's current state...they even let me on the roof and in the boiler room for pictures!

[MrSlayer]

9. Evil Dead!

The most hilarious horror movie ever, even funnier than the Exorcist.

Sci-Fi is tough, I guess The Empire Strikes Back is my favorite.

[solinvictus]

32. Dawn of the Dead

It's in my DVD player now. The Anchor Bay version has an original commercial for the Monroeville Mall.

[SheilaT]

10. Twelve Monkeys.

In my opinion it's the best science fiction movie ever made in that it really is science fiction, not just a movie pretending to be s-f.

[RainDog]

13. oooh, yeah, I love that one, too

I also love the first 20 minutes of The Matrix, but after that...oh well.

[amazona]

49. i vote for 12 Monkeys also

what a great story

[MotorCityMan]

73. Yes, 12 Monkeys

For horror, "Alien" scared the crap out of me when I saw it originally. I think it is structured more like a horror movie than sci-fi.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

12. The Shining - Blade Runner

There are so many great ones, but my top favorite horror film would have to be The Shining and top Science Fiction film Blade Runner.

Other favorite horror films: Poltergeist, The Thing (original and remake), Psycho, A Nightmare On Elm Street, Halloween, The Ninth Gate (great texture although not real scary), Night Of The Living Dead, the Exorcist.

Other favorite Science Fiction films: 2001 A Space Odyssey, Brazil, The Matrix, Dr. Strangelove, The Day The Earth Stood Still (for its message).

[Swede]

15. That's a pretty good list.

[ibegurpard]

50. My top two picks as well

:toast:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

14. Forbidden Planet

followed by The Day The Earth Stood Still, The Andromeda Strain, Blade Runner, and THX1138.

Many other "lesser greats" follow behind with honor.

[nuxvomica]

20. Agreed. "Forbidden Planet" is the best.

But I'd follow it with "Red Planet Mars" and the original "Village of the Damned" and the others you listed except THX. I was never too fond of that one.
For horror, "Night of the Demon", then the James Whale "Frankenstein", "Freaks", the original "Night of the Living Dead", etc.

[Catshrink]

17. Rocky Horror Picture Show

Science Fiction, Double Feature
Dr. X., will build a creature
at the late night double feature
picture show
I wanna go
to the late night double feature
picture show.

So, come to the lab,
and see what's on the slab.

[TXvote]

18. Brazil

Terry Gilliam is a genius

[Rick Myers]

27. Brazil is AMAZING!!!

Have you ever seen the 3-disk DVD set? My mother gave it to me for Christmas last year and when she bought it the guy at Best Buy told her whoever she was buying it for must be REALLY wierd...

He had NO idea!!!

;)

[Good Fences]

22. My picks....

Horror: 1. Exorcist/ Exorcist III
2. The Thing (b&w)
3. 28 Days Later

SciFi: 1. Blade Runner
2. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (b&w)
3. Brother from Another Planet (sorry- stuck for an answer)

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

24. Does Anyone Remember The TV Series "Thriller"?

For those of you old enough to remember, circa 1958, there was a TV series called "Thriller" hosted by Boris Karloff. I think it's been years since they stopped showing it syndication, primarily because it was shot in black and white. There was one episode that still haunts me to this day, scarier than almost anything I've seen since. The episode was called "The Hungry Glass" and was the story of
two couples who spend a week-end in an abandoned Southern mansion that's falling apart. The previous occupant, who had lived and died there decades before, had been a gorgeous Southern Belle in her youth, who couldn't stop admiring herself in the mirror. Her entire life became and endless procession in front of mirrors and her mansion had them everywhere. As a result, her soul went into the glass. The scary part is when the young people spending the week-end in the mansion get too close to the mirrors and old hags come part way out of the glass to drag them into another world. The way it was done, it was one of the scariest things I've ever seen. Anyone recall this show?

[King_Crimson]

58. I can't believe that anyone...

else remembers that! I was 10 years old at the time and THAT particular episode scared the daylights outta me...matter of fact, I crawled in bed with mom and dad because I couldn't sleep and had every mirror in my bedroom turned towards the wall the next day!

[Faygo Kid]

25. The Day the Earth Stood Still

The message still resonates.

[coralrf]

26. Alien...

best flick ever

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

37. Did You Ever See The Movie That Inspired The Film Alien?

"It, The Terror From Beyond Space" is the film that inspired Alien. "It" was one of the best horror/science fiction movies of the '50's. It's about a monster that stows away on a space ship heading back to earth from Mars. The monster attacks the crew members one-by-one, hiding in the ship's ventilation system and taking crew members into it to drink their blood. What's left of the crew keeps closing hatches to seal itself off and the monster uses its superior strength to break through them. Finally, having run out of room the two surviving crew members discover that the Martian monster is using up a great deal of oxygen. They decide to put on their space suits and flush all of the oxygen out of the ship, killing the monster. There are elements of this film in both Alien and Aliens. Even though this was one of the low budget '50's horror films, it's still pretty watchable, although you rarely see it on TV.

[Catshrink]

28. I Saw Momma Drinking Green Nyquil Jello Shots

(just checking to see if Zomby's paying attention)

[Ramsey]

29. Star Wars original triology

That is a bit cliched, but damn they were good.

I also like:

Bladerunner
Pitch Black
Evil Dead 1&2
Stargate
Fifth Element
Dune (the Sci-Fi version)
Some of the Star Trek movies, particuarly those with Picard
Cat People
The Crow
Stigmata
Lost Boys

[ACK]

30. Night of the Living Dead for horror and Blad Runner for Scifi

The attention to detail in Blade Runner and the whole look and feel was great.

Night of the Living Dead just rocked. That was vicious even by today's standards. Great stuff.

[solinvictus]

31. Horror & sci fi

Horror: For the pure imagery and its treatment of the vampire myth; the 1922 "Nosferatu" by Friedrich Murnau. Second, Romero's original "Night of the Living Dead". "Dawn of the Dead" is really great too, for its satire on consumer culture.
Sci Fi: "Blade Runner". Period.

[RainDog]

34. speaking of nosferatu

did you see gods and monsters? what an incredible take on an old story.

[Bridget Burke]

62. Also speaking of Nosferatu: "Shadow of the Vampire"

John Malkovitch plays Murnau, director of "Nosferatu". He hires Willem Dafoe to play the vampire in a classic case of typecasting--he really IS a vampire.

Imagine Malkovitch & Dafoe being creepy together. Giving their all for art (well, the vampire's in it for the blood). Funny, in a ghastly sort of way.

[ChaoticSilly]

33. 2001

It may be kind of old, but it's still one of my favorites. Some more favorites in no particular order:

Dune & Children of Dune, Sci-Fi channel version (hoping for a movie of God Emperor of Dune)
Stargate
the 1st & 2nd Star Trek movies
Contact

Now if only someone would make a movie from Destination Void, I'd be the first (and probably only) person in line to see it.

I don't really get into horror too much, but Mimic was pretty good.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

35. Horror- Night of the Living Dead (Because I got to Party with Tom Savini

a couple of times... AND it established a genre that has yet to be finished).

Science Fiction? NO ONE will agree with me, but today it is AI. Hey, give me a break, I love smarm. 2001 comes in 2nd (today) followed War of the Worlds.

[slackdude]

36. The Ring

That movie scared the bejesus out of me!

[Pale Blue Dot]

39. I'm shocked that no one's said "2001"

So here goes:

2001 - Was expecting it to be boring, was blown away;
War of the Worlds - Admittedly it's a bunch of right wing propaganda, but it scared the crap out of me when I was a kid;
Them - The absolute best one could hope for from a giant ant movie;
Day of the Triffids - Killer plants, what could be scarier?;
E.T.

[Catshrink]

40. Did anyone see "Night of the Lepus?"

It was about some giant rabbits that invaded a Kansas(?) town one night. They were as big as houses.

[Pale Blue Dot]

41. I saw it!

DeForrest Kelly (from "Star Trek") was in it! It was exactly as scary as you would expect a movie about giant killer bunny rabbits to be!

[Catshrink]

42. OMG!! Really? I've mentioned it to several people and

no one every saw it. It was very goofy, but that's what made it so "memorable."

[Pale Blue Dot]

43. I LOVE bad movies

I was a huge fan of MST3K. I'll still go out of my way to see a bad movie (my best friend got me the DVD of "Battlefield Earth" last year.)

[Esurientes]

45. So do I, and these are worse:

Leprechaun (early Jennifer Anniston in the first one. The one set in Las Vegas is the most hilarious)

Pet Sematery

Dracula (the original, where Renfrew is in jail eating flies)

[screembloodymurder]

44. My list

Predator
Terminator
Pi

[Richardo]

46. 2001: A Space Odyssey...

...was on last night. Has been in my overall top 5 (and sci fi #1) since it came out in 1968.

[Rabbit of Caerbannog]

47. Am I the only one who thought

that "Silent Running" with Bruce Dern was a great flick?

[Richardo]

48. No - I did, too. Peter Schickele soundtrack and Bruce Dern

Douglass Trumbull directing. Great vision, albeit a tad preachy.

Has one of my favorite Bruce Dern reads ever:
"We're not playing for 3-in-1 oil here, boys, this is for MONEY!"

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

53. Good movie but

I didn't like the plot point when Bruce Dern was injured and went unconscious and his ship the Valley Forge just accidentally happened to go off course and run into the "gaseous" rings of Saturn. I don't think a modern space vessel would do that.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

54. Huey, Dewey, and Louie

Definately a good one. Favorite? no.

[populistmom]

51. Rosemary's Baby

Seriously creepy, especially for the momly types. :scared:

[Sean Reynolds]

52. Halloween

[CanuckAmok]

55. Horror: Alien. Sci-fi: either The Quiet Earth or Blade Runner

That's a tough question, as we looove horror and sci-fi.

The Ring blew me away, too, but it'll take a few more screenings before I decide if it's a favourite or not.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

56. Soylent Green

[CanuckAmok]

57. You know it's 'people', right?

Opps, sorry--should have said 'spoiler'!

[soleft]

59. You consider Mothman horror?

Nah. Horror involves chainsaws, and ice picks and cannibalism.

[Midwest_Doc]

60. Jacob's Ladder

[Bridget Burke]

64. Many of the above, plus

"The Fifth Element" An antidote to the elegant dystopia of Bladerunner--a technicolor future by way of "Heavy Metal" magazine.

"Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Fifth Dimension" Sure, it's science fiction! Also hilarious.

"Five Millions Years to Earth"--also called "Quatermass and the Pit" Construction workers find something unusual in the London Underground; is it an unexploded V-weapon or something stranger? This one on the border between science fiction & horror truly creeped me out.

"Equinox" In the genre of bad-horror-films. What happens when a bunch of silly young folk encounter a forbidden book of eldritch lore & begin reading out the spells? Just what you think. Not very good at all, but remembered because of a non-speaking flashback to the original owner of the volume--the great Fritz Leiber, master of science fiction, fantasy & horror.

[Killarney]

65. Horror - Poltergeist!!

:)

[skypilot]

66. I've said this before...

In the horror category, "Carrie" is my hands down favorite. For science fiction (and this might be stretching a bit) check out "Happy Accidents". It's actually a sci fi/romantic comedy which is so much better than the prosaic title suggests.

[Terran]

68. Blade Runner

After all these years, still my favoritie scf movie. For horror, it's less clear-cut, but probably "The Haunting" (the original version, not the crappy remake).

[bif]

69. "2001" "Robinson Carusoe on Mars" and "A.I."

Some of my faves.

[GalleryGod]

70. THEM !!!!

GIANT ANTS!
Very Anti-Nuke Film

[banana republican]

71. The Man who Could Work Miracles

circa 1930

74. Alphaville & Solaris

by Godard

the original Solaris by Tarkovsky, not the remake.



Clockwork Orange as well.... horror or science fiction, which is it?