28 Days Later

Sinister. There’s something about the home videos that just gets to me. Wish the second one was as good as the first!

Favourite good horror: The Fly (Cronenberg remake), The Thing

Favourite bad horror: Manos: Hands of Fate

Least favourite horror : something called Fear.com

Favourite is tough, because there are horror films that I think are the best in show (barbarian, vvitch, the shining if it counts as horror) but the ones I like the most are campy. So maybe evil dead 2? Is that cliche?

The worst I’ve watched is also not based in subjectivity but saw IV is when I realised that horror was a commodity and tickets were being sold based on litres of blood you can see being spilt. Fwiw I enjoy the first three saw films

REC (Spanish) is probably the most successful horror that actually has me on edge most of the film.

My favorite is John Carpenter’s The Thing, with was already mentioned here by @Ragnell

My least favorite would be Bird Box (is that a horror film, or just a thriller?). I tried watching it and was just bored the whole time. If Bird Box doesn’t count as horror, then I’d have to say Cronenberg’s The Fly. It’s not a bad movie per say, but it just didn’t work for me for whatever reason.

John Carpenter’s The Thing is not just my favorite horror movie but it’s on my list of top 5 favorite movies of all time. I just love that movie to bits on so many levels. Other favorites of mine include Alien, Evil Dead 2, Creepshow, and Return of the Living Dead. Though some honorable mentions to The VVitch, Barbarian, and The Lighthouse (does The Lighthouse count as a horror? Eh. Whatever. I do really like it).

We all either love horror films, or hate horror films.

Ehh I don’t like torture porn or movies with stupid loud noise jump scares, but I love anything horror that’s camp or schlock, like

Chopping Mall
Evil Dead 2/Army of Darkness
Fright Night (1985)
The Hazing
Night of the Comet
Reanimator
Return of the Living Dead

Fav right now is probably It That Follows. I really like a lot of the set choices and the concept itself.

But for all the people looking for a movie they haven’t heard of try Pontypool. It’s an odd take on an infection movie. It won’t top your list but you’ll see some different things.

Juon. Not the American remake The Grudge, the Japanese version.

In the Japanese version, the house felt like a normal, everyday house, and that’s what made everything scarier. It was lit like a normal house, unlike the American version.

Also, that scene were Toshio, the ghost child, is on every floor as the elevator went up literally had me backing up trying to get away, it creeped me out that much. Juon had so much subtle horror like that, along with the big scares.

And as for least favorite, I guess the Saw movies. I never much liked the torture porn genre. I prefer being creeped out than grossed out.

favorite: hereditary. maybe a cliche answer but it’s genuinely the best horror movie i’ve seen in a long damn time, everything else is so generic and follows the exact same predictable formula. hereditary didn’t do that at all.

cant say i have a particular least favorite, because almost all of them are bad and forgettable, therefore I forget them lmao. a bad but good horror movie i love is the later chucky movies like the bride or chucky and the seed of chucky, which are more comedy horror and bad in a good way

I’m going to take this as an opportunity to promote House (1977). I can not begin to properly articulate how much I love this movie.

As for one I’m not so fond of, I’d have to go with The House of Seven Corpses (1973). It was just super mediocre and barely memorable at all.

Classics from my childhood:

The Exorcist
Exorcist III
The Fly
Evil Dead
Poltergeist
The Thing
Prince of Darkness
Hellraiser
Carrie
Jacob’s Ladder
Pi

Modern:

Hereditary
Nope
The Night House
Annihilation
A Quiet Place

Best meta horror:

Tremors
Malignant
Cabin in the Woods
Death Becomes Her

My absolute favorites are mostly your standard entries that you’ll find on plenty of top 10 lists:

• Halloween
• Alien
• Scream
• Night of The Living Dead
• An American Werewolf in London

Apart from these, I’d recommend

• The Wailing (2016, 156 minutes): a Korean movie about a detective trying to find the cause of a mysterious disease running through a town
• Barbarian (2022, 103 minutes): this movie falls in the very weird “AirB&B” sub genre of horror. It has some scenes of incredible tension, one of the best (and well-earned) jump scares, and some great humor.
• The Return of the Living Dead (1985, 91 minutes): a horror-comedy zombie movie with some incredible practical effects

For my least favorites, I’d probably put Slenderman, Meghan is Missing, Winchester, and Ghosts of War.

Favorite: The Thing, the John Carpenter one from the 80s. It is perfect.

Least favorite: Nightmare on Elm Street. I like other Craven stuff but could never get into this one.