Your personal favorite horror movie?

Yeah....Orlok is one of my all time favorite creeps. I recall reading that Max Shreck (apparently a pseudonym), appeared on the set in costume and in character, so he was a bit of an enigma, an image he cultivated. Even his name, something like Great Fear in German, was intended to further the mystery.

Have you seen Shadow of the Vampire? It re-imagines Shreck and Murnau's time on the set...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0189998/

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HEI guys.

I used to feel that the golf story was silly and really didn't add anything to the film, and I still think it's silly, but I've come to like it (though it's still at the bottom of my favorite segments from the movie list). And after seeing the film a bunch of times, I've come to believe that it actually works and does add to the film, because it causes the viewer to relax and let their guard down, then we get slammed with the final story and it's that much scarier. That's my theory, anyway!

I love Dead of Night but hate the golf segment (which isn't just silly but also way too long). However, I'm firmly onboard with "It makes the other segments, and especially the last segment scarier and more impactful by comparison!" is a nice way to look at it.

Yeah, I liked that one too. In December, we will have another Nosferatu re-make, directed by none other than Robert Eggers, who seems to be the current Horrormeister. I'm looking forward to that one. It's out, ironically, on Christmas day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu_(2024_film)

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is my favorite.

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Anyhow, The Shining is my favorite, IDK which ones actually leave me creeped out. I feel like unnerved or unsettled are achieved more often. Messiah of Evil is the one I try to recommend to people because it feels like one of the best, forgotten, hidden gems of horror out there.

This was my No.1 for several years too. Then I decided that it belonged in its own category. So, as crazy as this may sound, I don't actually count it anymore in my favorite Horror movies. It's just a great movie that's crazy intense and amazing that I like to watch.

Shadow of the Vampire was what got me to watch Nosferatu. Prior to that I as a younger and dumber person had, incorrectly and without having seen any, decided that silent films wouldn't hold up in the modern day. The footage replicating the original film were so creepy in Shadow that it made me seek out Nosferatu and when I dug that made me finally get to checking out other silent films.

Yes, I agree, it's long enough that you almost forget what movie you're watching.

It's Alien for me. So many of my tastes, aesthetic preferences, interests, etc. can be traced back to it. Also, besides how frightening what may be the best-designed movie monster of all time is, there's the scary - and scarily prescient - commentary about machines becoming more valuable than people.

One of my favorite movie nights ever was seeing Nosferatu on the big screen, accompanied by a small chamber ensemble that called itself Alloy Orchestra, performing original music that they wrote specifically for the movie. It was one of my most favorite movie nights. They also did music for Metropolis, equally terrific. The group disbanded a few years ago, but I believe that some members formed a similar group with another name. So far, I have not seen any announcements in my area, but I'll keep waiting. I did buy a CD of their music, but without the whole experience of it being live and in person, it's somewhat deflated.

This piece provides a fresh and compelling take on the subject.

That's awesome.
I'm down in New Orleans and they did one here at this outdoor theater we have (very legit venue, not somebody throwing up a sheet over a tree-limb) that was Nosferatu on the big-screen with a group of Avant-Jazz musicians that have never been a band together (though they have all played with the others at some point or another) who - and this is the kicker of it - all watched and came up with parts separately, never played them for each other, and then improvised a score on the spot out of what each of them had to contribute or thought up right then in the moment. And it was great. People thought it made the movie so intense. Great time.

Village of the Damned

That sounds really cool too. That movie seems to have some sort of magnetic attraction to people who want to do creative things with it.

My fave horror movie is Alien. I’ve watched it dozens of times over the years but the scene where Dallas is trying to flush out the alien with a flamethrower and the dot representing said Alien keeps getting closer and closer to the dot representing Dallas and then he enters a shaft and you see the fully grown Alien and hear it scream for the first time before the screen goes black always freaks me out.

Mark

Carrie (1976). I love horror mixed with sadness and Sissy Spacek gives such a fearless performance.
It's very atmospheric and gorgeously seventies and (imo) Brian De Palma's finest work.

Trailer is out. This looks good.

Carl Dreyer's Vampyr is for me untoppable, every other horror film i like is schlocky 80's stuff like Chopping Mall and Pieces.