Steerpike's top 10 horror

[Steerpike]

1. Night of the living Dead
2. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
3. The Blob (remake)
4. Eraserhead
5.In the Mouth of Madness
6. Hell Raiser
7. The Exorcist
8. The Others
9. Evil Dead II
10. The Thing (original) The Thing (remake)

[Forkboy]

1. Your number 10 would be my number 1.

I think the remake of The Thing is horror perfection (I love the original, too).

[Steerpike]

2. Hey Forkboy!

Yeah the Howard Hawks "Thing" and Also "It came from Beneath the Sea" are classic Sci-Fi/Horror. Love them both in their original black and white! Kenneth Tobey is the man!

[nuxvomica]

3. That's a very respectable list

Except I still don't understand the high regard folks have for "The Others". I would substitute it for the original The Haunting, or Night of the Demon, or Alien, which I regard as a classic haunted house story that just happens to be set in space.
:thumbsup:

edit: "Alien", not "Aliens". Huge difference!

[Steerpike]

4. I Like your tastes

The Haunting with Julie Harris and Russ Tamblyn is top notch. Alien is one of those rare gems that fit into both sci-fi and horror.

"Night of the Demons" is a movie I'm not familiar with?

I liked "The Others" becouse the acting and the direction were top notch.

[nuxvomica]

5. "Night of the Demon" singular

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_demon

Odd that we both made an error in number on the titles.
Are we then talking about "The Other", another good horror film, and not "The Others"? :D

[Steerpike]

6. I meant

"The Others" with Nicole Kidman...

"The Other" is pretty damn cool too!

[nuxvomica]

11. So did I

:D

:kick:

[EOTE]

7. Good list. I'd agree with the bulk of those.

I think the remake of the thing was a good deal better than the original, but for its time, the original was pretty solid. It's been a rather long time since I've seen Eraserhead, but I remember being far more confused by it than scared, does it really qualify as a horror flick? Evil Dead II would definitely be toward the top of my list, it's about as close to horror/comedy perfection as you can get. And The Others is pretty fantastic and the ending shocked the hell out of me even though I had already seen The Sixth Sense (the ending for The Others is just incredibly well done). I'd probably take away Eraserhead and In the Mouth of Madness and replace them with a few of the more recent horror flicks I've seen such as Frailty (masterful use of tension) and The Descent (one of the few movies that managed to scare the crap out of me). And I might make room for some Del Toro work like Cronos or The Devil's Backbone. Hell, he even did a great job on Blade II.

I'm glad that horror and good scary movies in general are coming back into fashion again. Just in the past couple months I've seen some good ones. "Trick R' Treat" wasn't terribly scary, but it was lots of fun. Same thing with Zombieland. And just yesterday I caught a flick called "The Killing Room" and I was shocked to find it never got a theatrical release. It was an involving, scary flick that had a fairly important message as well. Here's to a horror renaissance.

[Steerpike]

8. It's all a matter of taste!

I loved ZombieLand! As for "EraserHead" I don't think it was scarey per say...just extremely disturbing. The first time I saw it I was high on LSD. I was freaked out for about 3 years!

It's hard to make a perfect top ten list becouse there are an awful lot of great horror movies out there! I didn't even touch on Japanese horror or Italian Giallo!

Susperia anyone?

[EOTE]

9. Maybe I'd understand Eraserhead more if I saw it now.

I'd definitely agree that it was disturbing, it just confused the hell out of me. Perhaps I'll acquire some blotter and give it another try.

Suspiria is another one that looked amazing to me, but I never really understood. As for Asian horror, my favorite of this decade has to be "Old Boy" which I hear they're unfortunately remaking for the U.S. audience. Why'd they'd screw with perfection like that is beyond me.

[Steerpike]

10. Suspiria's plot is incidental.

It's the look and atmosphere that the director was interested in.

[TK421]

12. I like your list, but In the Mouth of Madness does not belong there

just my opinion!

[Steerpike]

13. And your opinion does count!

At least i didn't say "Ghosts of Mars" or "Anaconda" which I actually did like...Jon voigt Chews scenery like no ones business!

I really liked "Madness...." becouse of the wonderful imagery...devil dogs...evil children, full blown ax attacks, paintings with moving subjects...evil innkeepers...inescapable alternate dimensions and of course John Carpenter...

[TK421]

16. It was an O.K movie...anything Sam Neil is in can't be that crappy!

I felt that ( much like Event Horizon, which I love btw ) it did go for that "shock value" in certain scenes.....didn't feel much like Carpenter, IMHO

[Steerpike]

20. I love this scene from ITMOM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPcGIp6GT_A

[Mudoria]

14. "The Changeling" with George C Scott should be in there somewhere

[Orrex]

15. IFC showed that the other night

I'd forgotten how creepy it was.

[Steerpike]

17. My Wife loves that movie!

George C. Scott does horror well. I think becouse he comes off as that everyday kinda guy.

[Drunken Irishman]

18. No listi s complete without Halloween.

:o

[Steerpike]

19. I agree in part...

But Slasher movies are an almost independant sub genre...If I added "Holloween" I would also have to include "Friday the 13th", "Saw", "Nightmare on Elm St." and more than a handful of their reiterations. I would have to have a whole seperate list for Slasher flicks.

[Drunken Irishman]

23. I don't think you have to...

Maybe Nightmare on Elm Street comes the closest, but Halloween is universally accepted as a classic.

Those other ones aren't. Even Friday the 13th, which probably has a larger following than the Halloween series, was considered a cheap ripoff of Halloween when released.

Saw? That I don't consider that a slasher. It's something else...torture thriller maybe.

[SanddancerUSA]

21. Eraserhead?

More disturbing than anything else.

The Exorcist in my mind is still one of the best. Saw it in a cinema on it's 21st anniversary. Those young bugger that were there just didn't get it. Too jaded. Didn't appreciate just how bloody scary it was for 1974.

Also rate Poltegeist for several scenes rather than for the whole film. The little girl sitting in front of the TV after transmission had ended ("There here") is still disturbingly scary. The stacked chairs scene is also well done. I wouln't include it in my top 10 list because i found some of the scenes quite moving.

Alien and Aliens?

28 Days Later? Yes I agree the Sandra Bullock movie with a similar name was even more horrifying.

The wife like the Descent (chick horror flick).

[Steerpike]

22. wow

You guys might actually talk me out of Eraserhead. Still the sense of forboding is as good as the best of any horror film.

But, then, maybe it isn't really horror.