Old horror films.... As good as you remember??

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I've done this thread cause i watched the original Texas Chainsaw Masacre for the 1st time yesterday & it was easily one of the worst films i've ever seen. Truelly terrible. Not only can i not understand the praise this got, but i can't see at all why people found it scary.

So i was just wondering what "classic" horror films people still genuinly like, or are actualyl scared by. I have a list of the good & the bad (that i've seen):

Hills Have Eyes - Slightly better, but still mostly crap (so was the remake)
Chainsaw Masacre - obviously i didnt like, just bad. (i liked the remake tho)
Exorcist - i at least see why people found this scary, i thought it was funny!
The Shining - Jack Nicholson maybe ace, but the film isn't
Friday the 13th - Absolutely terrible
The Fog - just boring, not really that bad, just boring
Halloween - the only one that still works. Not really scary, but Michael Myers is so menacing, its very atmospheric & just still very good.

The only one i can think of that i havent seen (but i do own and will watch) is The Wickerman.

Am sure i'll get lots of backlash for this, but it's not my fault films don't hold the test of time.
 
Some of them on your list, I still like. I do agree on the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre though. Only reason I remembered some of that forgettable movie was because of how bad it was. I remember just enough, never to see it again. :D
 
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Friday the 13th - Absolutely terrible
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I dunno about terrible. Only the ones after 5 are truly terrible. But I digress: Friday the 13th movies aren't so much horror movies as they are slasher flicks.
However, Cujo still scares the living crap out of me.
 
Toronado, you sissy pants. :p

I think I'm going to have to add Cujo to my Blockbuster Online Queue. I usually enjoy shows based on Stephen King stuff. 👍
 
Toronado
I dunno about terrible. Only the ones after 5 are truly terrible. But I digress: Friday the 13th movies aren't so much horror movies as they are slasher flicks.
However, Cujo still scares the living crap out of me.
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If there's anything I hate worse than horror movies, it's horror movies using animals as the killers.:guilty:
 
I actually quite liked some of the later FT13's (including Jason X & F .V. J). There by no means good, or scary, but entertaining.

I don't know if its old enough to be included in this. But:
The Thing - that is still a really good film, John Carpenter is a brillaint director.
 
You have to take into consideration the gap between now and then. Back then, graphic violence, especially on television, was either censored, curtailed, or technically problematic to portray. Now we have all become desensitized after watching enough crap that things which would have scared us back then don't bother us much at all.
 
Most of the remakes of the classic horror movies are really poor, but it is rare to find a great remake.
 
I actually loved the "Dawn of the Dead" remake. Even more so than the Romero's original, probably except for the ending.
 
Just seen The Wicker man (original) and it wasn't as bad as i thought it was going to be. But the "scary" bit was pathetic. I actually quite liked the film, way better than Chainsaw or Exorcist.

I liked the Dawn of the dead remake alot. I've only seen bits of the original on the TV, i just cant get into it. I did like Day of the dead though.
 
John Carpenter's The Thing
Night Of The Living Dead (original)
Dawn Of The Dead (original and remake)
Return Of The Living Dead
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (for having the greatest jump-scare in any movie - the scene in the woods at night); hell, even The Texas Chainsaw Massacre II was pretty good compared to the remake of the first movie
Alien (I classify this as a horror movie)
The Evil Dead
Evil Dead II
Army Of Darkness
Dead Alive
The Changeling
Poltergeist
Halloween
The Howling
Fright Night

The list goes on and on. Any one of the above movies is generally better than almost anything coming out of Hollywood today.
 
Look who decided to show up. :D

Return of the Living Dead has been one of my favorites since I was a kid. It ran in my local cheap theater for a while, I went to see it bunch of times. With Japanese subtitles, too. :lol:
 
You think Texas Chainsaw has the best jump-scene in a film ever?? Oh k.

Apart from The Thing & Halloween (must be a Carpenter thing) i would disagree with you on those (well the one's i've seen). I forgot about Alien, i always thought that was overrated.

I purchased Deliverance today, will see if thats a gruesome as i've been told it is.

I agree generally with the Hollywood statement, bar the "Saw" films, most i have seen recently have been cack.
 
Deliverance was really good. I wouldn't classify them in a "horror" section though.
 
Anderton Prime
John Carpenter's The Thing
Night Of The Living Dead (original)
Dawn Of The Dead (original and remake)
Return Of The Living Dead
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (for having the greatest jump-scare in any movie - the scene in the woods at night); hell, even The Texas Chainsaw Massacre II was pretty good compared to the remake of the first movie
Alien (I classify this as a horror movie)
The Evil Dead
Evil Dead II
Army Of Darkness
Dead Alive
The Changeling
Poltergeist
Halloween
The Howling
Fright Night

The list goes on and on. Any one of the above movies is generally better than almost anything coming out of Hollywood today.
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Yeap, all but The Howling and Fright night I've seen out of this list. All of them are good in their own way. Especially, The Thing, Alien, and Army of Darkness.
 
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I purchased Deliverance today, will see if thats a gruesome as i've been told it is.
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It ain't.

It's good, but in no way a horror movie.

And well, I jumped about three feet out of my chair when Leatherface showed up in the wods the first time I saw it, and everyone I've shown it to since has levitated also.
 
For me the best horror movies are:

Alien
Evil dead 1 & 2
Scanners
Misery
Hellraiser 1 & 2
Brain dead
Re-animator
American werewolf in London
Nightbreed
 
I love the Alien. Aliens, too. One that really stands out from sprite's list for me is the American Werewolf in London.

I missed it originally on Anderton's list, but I have soft spots for Fright Night. It's not that I think the movie is really great, but because I thought it was really great when I watched it, when I was about 13 years old. :D I'll get that on DVD, eventually.
 
There is NOTHING like an 80s horror flick. The crap they release every few months from Hollywood nowadays is nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to re-create the glory of horror in what was arguably its heydey, depending on who you talk to.

Wow, I sound like an old-timer...
 
Anderton Prime
There is NOTHING like an 80s horror flick. The crap they release every few months from Hollywood nowadays is nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to re-create the glory of horror in what was arguably its heydey, depending on who you talk to.

Wow, I sound like an old-timer...
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Not a truer word said AP rep points all the way for that 👍
 
I wouldn't say you sound old Anderton. My 53 yr old mum used to get scared really easy at horror films when she was younger. But once i have persuaded her to watch them again now. She tends to think they are crap. As with everything it comes down to personal taste.

Going back to that Chainsaw masacre jumpy bit. Sorry, but i cannot agree with you on that at all. It is ni-on impossible to make me jump at films, but (sorry to keep mentioning this) but it didn't make my mum jump & she is generally a complete woose and being made jump.

Not for me, but the most memorable jumpy bit in a film is in "The Thing" when the alien jumps out of the petry dish. Mate of mine jumped about 20ft in the air.

In someway's i am starting to agree with horror films today. Apart from the Saw movies i havent seen a single descent one in ages.

There was two things i liked about American werewolf in London. 1, Jenny Agutter. 2, the wolf transformation is way better than they seem to be able to do now-adays (except in underworld).
 
i may be alone on this but... i think the remake of the hills have eyes was one of the best horror movies i have ever seen, certainly as good or better than anything else within the last 10 or more years. i liked the ring, and the grudge but every other modern horror movie i've seen was, in my opinion, a joke.

as for the original Texas Chainsaw, i liked it alot, but wouldn't consider it scary, though.
as someone sort of said before, things were different back then. my faveriot older horror movie is definitely the original Salem's Lot.

555
It is ni-on impossible to make me jump at films
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you are so brave, if i ever get attacked by some kind of monster, i hope your there to kill it :sly:
 

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