Your Favorite....

topic posted Wed, July 30, 2008 - 4:42 AM by  Arcangel
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Recently there was a posting of a fellow Horror Movies Tribie-mate looking for a Vampire Movie he didn't know the name of....
With a little help from a fellow tribie here, he found what he was looking for, which I thought was very cool and showed what Tribe should always be about!
People interacting and at times helping each other out :)

So, it got me thinking here... (Sometimes that is a dangerous statement....Me...thinking...Ha Ha Ha!!!)
What are your favorite Horror Movies when it comes to....

Vampires?
Werewolves
Zombies
Ghosts
Sci-Fi
or all around just flat out gore? (like the Hostel, Wolf Creek, Hills Have Eyes genre...not sure how you would classify those..)

For me?
Vampires.....modern day? (I can still remember being scared of the old Hammer Horror movies as a little Kid watching them late at night! Ha Ha Ha!!) I would say a few of my favorites are.....
"Lost Boys", "Fright Night" and the re-made version of "Salem's Lot" (it was re-envisoned for a TBS Mini-Series a few years back with Rob Lowe as the main character)

Werewolves?
"American Werewolf in London" and (the Original) "The Howling"

Zombies?
Gotta love the Godfather of Zombie-doms George Romero's original stuff (Night, Dawn and Day), I also LOVE "Return of The Living Dead" and the re-make of Dawn
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Arcangel
Miami
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  • Re: Your Favorite....

    Wed, July 30, 2008 - 9:32 AM
    i do like the same ones for vampires, except i also like the 'dracula' with frank langella too! i too like 'the howling' and 'american werewolf...' i like the old lon chaney one, though. 'shaun of the dead' has gotta be my favorite zombie movie though! 'serpent and the rainbow' was good too. different kinds of zombies though!

    ghosts...there are just too many! i liked the old martin and lewis movie, 'scared stiff' (it had a zombie too!) and sci-fi... there are just TONS of sci-fi that i like! 'blade runner' is maybe my all time favorite, but old school 'war of the worlds' and 'them!' are up there too.' don't much like the gore movies...yuck.
    • Re: Your Favorite....

      Wed, July 30, 2008 - 10:15 AM
      Great Post for me Vampires is the fun one so many types from Blade to 30 days of night or w/e the cool part is each persons unique take on the lore and legend. For me i will always treasure the original Dracula and Bella's preformance. I also really enjoyed Salems Lot for the creepy and really also enjoyed Francis Ford's homage to the Vampire when he redid his version of Dracula too. Werewolf few to me were any good however i did like the Howling as well, and was impressed by the take on them in Van Helsing even tho the movie's end plot tanked what could and should have been a fun monster romp. Zombie yes agreed Romero original and original Dawn of the dead stand alone head and shoulders above all else, however LOVED shaun of the dead too, and also loved the new take on it with the two 28 days films (fast run 50 mils and hour zombies not- withstanding lol) science Fiction well thats a favorite of mine and ill take out the anime influence on some great films and stay on a western theme, and go with Blade Runner, Alien (that is a top 4 monster idea of all time), and another classic Day the Earth stood still, and a favorite of mine Forbidden Planet, Loved Robbie the robot when i was younger. Thanks for the post
      • Re: Your Favorite....

        Wed, July 30, 2008 - 10:53 AM
        I think that one of my ALL time favorite "Horror" themed Sci Fi movies are.....
        John Carpenters "The Thing" and Ridley Scott's "Alien"
        • Re: Your Favorite....

          Wed, July 30, 2008 - 11:35 AM
          Vampires- Blood For Dracula
          Werewolves - Ginger Snaps
          Zombies - Dead Alive, Frankenhooker, Dawn of the Dead (original)
          Ghosts - Sleepy Hollow, Carnival of Souls
          Sci-Fi - Robocop, God Told Me To, The Thing (Carpenter)
          Gore/Slasher - Ichi The Killer, I Spit On Your Grave, TCM (original)
          • Re: Your Favorite....

            Wed, July 30, 2008 - 1:24 PM
            Fun Topic!!!
            Here's my list:

            Vampires - Fright Night, Lost Boys
            Werewolves - American Werewolf in London
            Zombies - Dead Alive, Dawn of the Dead (original) , Zombi, The Fog (original)
            Ghosts - (not a big fan of supernatural films)
            Sci-Fi - The Thing (Carpenter remake)
            Gore - Dead Alive (!!!), Flowers of Flesh and Blood, Inside, Texas Chainsaw II

            *I'm adding a new category
            Psychopaths - Texas Chainsaw (original)
            • Re: Your Favorite....

              Wed, July 30, 2008 - 7:22 PM
              NO ORDER IN PARTICULAR

              Shit I should upload a spreadsheet.

              First questions:

              Has anyone seen Frostbitten, the scandinavian vampire film??
              Has anyone seen the French film "Grapes of Death"? (zombies)
              Do you have any ideas how many ways we could do this?

              Statement:

              1) The only vampire ANYTHING that matters AT ALL... the Matheson novella "I am Legend" from the 50's
              2) Zombies are a metaphor for wasteful and mindless consumption and massive consumerism of the middle class consuming itself.
              3) Bub was the best zombie ever.
              4) Still haven’t seen August Underground.


              A) vampires -
              1) 30 days of Night scared the living shit out of me, for some reason. I had waking nightmares. I
              don't usually remember nuthin from sleep.
              2) Vampiros Lesbos
              3) The Hamiltons
              4) Cronos
              5) Lifeforce
              6) Blade Series
              7) Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter
              8) Salem's Lot
              9) FROM DUSK TILL DAWN WINS
              10) Nosferatu

              B) werewolves...
              1) AmerWereInLondon
              2) Ginger Snaps
              3) Wolven
              4) In the Company of Wolves
              5) Dog Soldiers (good, but not as good as I wanted)

              C) ZOMBIES (I think I am on 3 different zombie tribes?)
              1) Night of the Living Dead
              2) Dawn of the Dead (original)
              3) Cemetery Man
              4) Evil Dead II
              5) The Beyond and Zombi 2 (released as Zombi)
              6) Brain Dead / Dead Alive
              7) 28 Days Later (yes, they are not zombies, I know... blah blah blah)
              8) Return of the Living Dead II
              9) Re-Animator
              10) Cronenberg's The Shivers (sex zombies)

              D) GHOSTS
              1) amityville horror
              2) poltergeist
              3) Session 9 (haunted housey-ish)
              4) Ghost Story
              5) House I+II
              6) BURNT OFFERINGS!!!!!!
              7) CandyMan
              8) The Orphanage
              9) The Shining
              10) The Devil’s Backbone

              E) SCI-FI –
              1) Alien I and II and IV (I liked)
              2)The Thing
              3) I am so so so so sad to say Event Horizon
              4) Invasion of the body Snatchers
              5) Predator
              6) Jason X (hilarious)
              7) Cube
              8) (maybes) Primer or Bladerunner or Brazil (dystopic sci fi can become horror???)
              9) Virus
              10) The Fly

              F) Comedy Horror
              1) Attack of the Killer tomatoes
              2) shaun of the dead
              3) The stuff
              4) SLITHER!
              5) C.H.U.D. (does that count as comedy?)
              6) bio-zombie
              7) Final Destination 2
              8) The Cars that Ate Paris
              9) Basketcase
              10) Tremors

              G) MUMMIES
              1) Bubba Ho Tep

              H) JUST TOTALLY FUCKED UP
              1) Jacob’s Ladder
              2) Cabin Fever
              3) Cannibal Holocaust
              4) Salo
              5) Men Behind the Sun
              6) NIN Broken EP full length music video
              7) Audition
              8) Irreversible (most disturbing film I have ever seen, I think)
              9) BME Pain olympics (but it is flippin real)
              10) 2 girls, 1 cup
              11) Meet the Feebles
              12) Nekromatik
              13) Clockwork Orange
              14) Blue Velvet
              15) The Vanishing (French)
              16) Reqiuem for a Dream
              17) Man Bites Dog
              18) Any Herschell Gordon Lewis

              I) INBREDS AND FAMILY CRIMINALS AND YOU GET IT
              1) The Descent (ancient inbreds)
              2) Wrong Turn (Inbred)
              3) Texas Chainsaw Massacr (Inbred and loving it)
              4) Freaks (yeah... uhhh)
              5) Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer (inbreeding and ultra violence)
              6) Last House on the Left (a little criminal gang)
              7) Hellraiser (a little family from hell) series
              8) Halloween (sister and brother) series
              9) Friday the 13th (mother and son) series
              10) Deliverance (banjos are never the same)
              11) Hills have eyes remake (wholly effed up)
              13) Hostel I and II (sue me) (a criminal family, if you will)
              14) May (a sad family of doll and girl)
              15) Ravenous (a family in the mountains)
              16) The Mist remake is simply ridiculously devastating… ouch. (a family not really making it so much)

              I) JAPANESE!
              1) Audition
              2) Oldboy (I have to include it.. I simply must.. best film in decades… maybe?)
              3) Battle Royale
              4) Ichi the Killer
              5) The Grudge (US ver really sucked it)
              6) The Ring (US ver. Sucked it)
              7) 3 Extremes
              8) Visitor Q

              J) EUROPEAN
              1) Funny Games
              2) 28 Days Later (had to list it twice!)
              3) Dario Argento's Suspiria
              4) Frontiers
              5) High / Haute Tension
              6) Them!
              7) Frontiere(S)
              8) Wicker Man

              K) SEA MONSTERS
              1) The Host
              2) Cloverfield
              3) Godzilla must count
              4) Leviathan
              5) Deep Star Six
              6) Jaws




              okay I am totally done.
              • Re: Your Favorite....

                Thu, July 31, 2008 - 4:24 AM
                I love these new categories.
                Audition, Meet the Feebles, Visitor Q, May, Battle Royale, Irreversible, Man Bites Dog, Wicker Man (original), love all of those.

                Other Asian gore/twisted:
                Riki-O: The Story of Riki (gore-filled prison kung fu)
                The Quiet Family
                Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
                Lady Snowblood (lots of arterial spray!)
                Gozu
                Suicide Club (greatest opening sequence ever, goes downhill unfortunately.)
              • Re: Your Favorite....

                Thu, July 31, 2008 - 6:08 AM
                Grapes of Death rocks!!!
                I rented that one on netflicks a couple weeks ago.

                Add The Girl Next Door and Philosophy of a Knife to the fucked up films category
              • Re: Your Favorite....

                Sun, August 3, 2008 - 7:27 PM
                yo, Fishbits, that's a hell of a list, but I like where your head is at!

                A) Vampires
                I am not a huge vampire fan, but here goes...
                1. Dracula (with Gary Oldman)
                2. From Dusk Till Dawn
                3. Salem's Lot
                4. Dracula (with Bela Lagosi)
                5. does Barnubus Collins count?

                B) Werewolves
                I may actually like werewolves less than vampires...
                American Werewolf in London
                The Howling
                Cursed

                C) Zombies
                Night of the Living Dead (original)
                Dawn of the Dead (original)
                Dawn of the Dead (remake)
                Resident Evil
                28 Days Later (yeah, I know, not zombies, but just as fun)

                D) Ghosts
                Poltergeist
                The Grudge
                Amityville Horror (original)
                The Shining (original)
                The Orphanage
                The Legend of Hell House
                House on the Hill
                The Haunting
                Burnt Offerings (thanks, Fish, I forgot about that one)
                Candy Man
                Ghost Busters (not horror, but still great)

                E) Sci-Fi
                Alien
                Aliens
                Event Horizon (yeah, I love that movie too)
                The Cube (another one of my favs)
                Predator 1 & 2
                Alien vs. Predator
                The Thing (remake)
                Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original & remake)
                The Fly (original & remake)

                F) Comedy Horror
                Little Shop of Horrors (Original)
                Gremlins
                Green Slime (moldy oldy)
                Scary Movie

                G) Mummies
                hmm, nothing comes to mind

                H) Just Totally Fucked Up
                Jacob's Ladder (maybe my all time favorite movie)
                Hostel 1 & 2
                Saw 1 - 4 (yea, I like 'em all)
                Rest Stop
                Cabin Fever
                The Mist (yeah, even the ending)
                Wolf Creek
                Hellraiser
                Excorcist

                Z) All the Rest
                Halloween
                Friday the Thirteenth
                Nightmare on Elm Street
                Last House on the Left
                The Hills Have Eyes
                The Ring
                Jaws
                • Re: Your Favorite....

                  Wed, August 6, 2008 - 12:09 AM
                  awesome list....

                  you are right... the DOTD remake was incredibly well done. Now with Snyder doing The Watchmen.. and watching his career... is interesting.
  • Re: Your Favorite....

    Thu, July 31, 2008 - 10:11 AM
    oh, one that i love has a vampire, werewolf, frankenstein and mummy...'the monster squad'! 'the descent' gave me so many nightmares!
    • Re: Your Favorite....

      Sun, August 17, 2008 - 9:45 PM
      Vampire: Bram Stoker's Dracula
      Underworld
      The Lost Boys
      Interview With The Vampire

      Werewolf: Howling
      American Werewolf In London

      Zombie: The Serpent And The Rainbow
      Resident Evil
      Night Of The Living Dead
      28 Days Later

      Ghost: Poltergeist
      The Others
      The Shining
      The Sixth Sense
      The Amityville Horror

      Sci-Fi: The Matrix
      Alien
      Gattaca
      Contact
      Terminator
      Donnie Darko
      The Abyss
      War Of The Worlds
      The Chronicles Of Riddick
      Swamp Thing
      Fire In The Sky
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        Re: Your Favorite....

        Mon, August 18, 2008 - 5:05 AM
        Vampire: Nosferatu the Vampyre (Herzog)

        Werewolf: Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein

        Zombie: Dawn of the Dead

        Ghost: The Shining

        Sci-Fi: Alien
  • Re: Your Favorite....

    Mon, September 1, 2008 - 5:57 PM
    I'm a hardcore fan of the Halloween series (very fan) but for the rest here my fav:

    Vampire: The Lost boys, Fright night, Bram Stocker's Dracula, Nosferatu (1979)
    Werewolves: American werewolf in London, The Howling, Silver bullet
    Zombie: The original living dead trilogy of Romero
    Sci-fi: Alien, Aliens
    Others: Ringu, Blair witch project, Dark water (Japanese version)

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