Your personal favorite horror movie?

Like which is that one film that will always creep you out, no matter how many times you watch it?

Mine's gotta be The Omen. It's such a masterpiece and even though I don't find the watching of it scary, it leaves me with a weird feeling for a ay or two after watching it.
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Peeping Tom (1960) - I've only seen this once. Movies don't scare me, but this is probably my favorite horror movie. There's only a few I like. I try to avoid watching a movie a second time in fear I won't like it as much.

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Scream (1996)- not because it's scary.

Sissy (2022)- more recent favorite

Oddity (2024)- one of this year's favorites; it's scary.

Stone-cold classic. It's atmospheric and creepy af but I also love it's substance and performances. Got a lot to visit and re-visit but don't know what will replace it...

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Lake Mungo and Martin are a tie for first place for me, with Vampire Circus sometimes vying for that top spot.

They are very different films, and they make me feel very different ways, which is probably why I cycle through which is my "favorite" from time to time.

I sent someone a list recently of movies I thought I could get away with classing as horror, as follows:

The Lodger 1927 UK
Vampyr 1932 Germany
Day of Wrath 1943 Denmark
Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 USA
Psycho 1960 USA
These Are The Damned 1962 UK
Onibaba 1964 Japan
Le Bonheur 1965 France
Repulsion 1965 UK
Kuruneko/Black Cat 1968 Japan
Don't Look Now 1973 UK
The Exorcist 1973 USA
Jaws 1975 USA
Alien 1979 USA
Manhunter 1986 USA
Spoorloos The Vanishing 1988 France
The Others 2001 Spain
The Lighthouse 2019 USA

I've put my absolute favourites in bold.

If I was picking one, I'd go for Day of Wrath, or if that's not a horror then Don't Look Now.

(edit: added Alien!)

My favorite horror is the Japanese film Noroi.

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I have a few different answers.
My favorite Horror movie, right now because those are shifting sands, is probably The Return Of The Living Dead. The Fog and Fright Night are also way, way up there.
The fastest-riser/biggest up-and-comer continues to be Messiah Of Evil which I have enjoyed more each time I've seen it since the inaugural run in 2017.
The one that actually gives me the willies, though, is tough. I might just go with Halloween. After this year's re-watch (which is probably the 25th-30th time I've seen it) I really got the feel again for its historic Creep.

Eraserhead, if that counts.

If not, probably Vampyr.

1. Eraserhead
2. The Fly
3. Alien
4. The Thing
5. The Shining
6. Let the Right One In (2008)
7. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1972)

Just a little PSA that for anyone who has Criterion Channel, Messiah of Evil in on there until the end of the month (aka Saturday).

Cure if it counts.

I'd say it definitely counts.


David Lynch's Mulholland Drive is also up there as one of the most psychologically terrifying movies of all time. Both movies really delve into


My favorite horror movie is Jaws.


The best new horror movie I've seen this year was Loop Track, but Oddity was a strong contender.


And whenever anyone has a horror thread, I try to fit in a recommendation for the horror-comedy One Cut of the Dead.

I think the one scene in a movie that kind of creeps me out is the "ghost" in the basement from House on Haunted Hill (1959); but that's not my favorite horror movie. My favorite is The Exorcist.

It's amazing what the restoration of that film has done for it. When I saw it for the first time, about ten years ago on the only available copy at the time, some atrocious VHS rip, it still made a deep impact on me, regardless of how bad it looked. But since it has been fixed up it clearly has moved from a film I wouldn't even bother recommending to anyone else becAuse it would just be yet another hunk of crappy lookijg garbage I was hawking to fools who listen to me, and which would just get a bunch of eyeroll emojis in return for me liking it...into what is obviously one of the all time great American horror films.


I'd put it up against anything in horror Thunderdome, and no one should ever bet against it at this point.

The Shining.

But it’s a broad genre. So many styles and approaches.

As I've said, my number one of all time is Aliens, with number 2 probably being Doctor Strange 2 for seeing horrro giant Sam Raimi just Sam Raimi-ing all over the place with that movie. Or course, my highest-rated on my "best to worst" chart is Scream.

It's funny man, whatever was around in 2017 was what I saw and it was pretty grimy but still it got through to me but more as like a special curio that maybe only me, you, Tak, and 26 other people on Earth would vibe with. But once I saw it restored there was this moment of like, shoot I don't know quite how to put it... like a dawning or something of realization that, wait a minute, did I just see something kinda Great? And in my two viewing since then I've just come to accept, especially last month, that, man, this movie is really good. And then (as I've mentioned to you and y'all before) when I recommended it to some friends who don't always vibe with the kind of super-deep-cut older films that I do actually said, "How could you possibly think we wouldn't like this movie, it was great!", a new dawning came over me, which was this:
Is it actually time to start talking about Messiah Of Evil with the Great Horror Movies Of All Time?
I feel like you're saying it is and you're maybe another step past that.

The Changeling (1980)

When I watch, I like the gothic, spooky types (La Llorona (2019), The Others, the original Cat People), some of the folk horror is really good too (November, Blood on Satan’s Claw). I also am big on classic Hammer. But, hmm, creepy, something that creeps me out.

The Changeling is a good one for that, yeah. Let the Right One In, The Haunting and The Innocents. But if I had to pick one... my go-to seems to be the US version of The Ring - this version was more visceral for me - gave me the shivers - plus Naomi Watts is fantastic.

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