Favourite Horror Film series

[dholliday]

as a companion to our scifi/fantasy thread...


I would say Paranormal Activity, as the first one is the only film that's genuinely scared me as an adult, even after watching it I felt an undefinable unease. The second in the series was slow and a bit dull, but had some great moments, and the third was very good, expanding on the mythology effectively. Haven't seen the fourth one yet.

REC would've won this had the third film not been so utterly pointless and unrelated to the brilliant first two. Fortunately, REC4 will focus on the story from REC1/2.


Didn't include Alien as that tends to be represented in the sci-fi threads, but Jaws gets in as I reckon some of yous have had nightmares about being thrust into shark-infested waters

 

[Azzurri]

Don't like horror films.

I know every film has actors, but nothing scares me when I think 'well all this Satan/Sprit thing is bollocks and that murderer is off to pick his kids up from school after this scene'.

 

[dholliday]

Don't like horror films.

I know every film has actors, but nothing scares me when I think 'well all this Satan/Sprit thing is bollocks and that murderer is off to pick his kids up from school after this scene'.

yeah, that's the spirit lad. Frak all that suspension of disbelief bollocks.

 

[potato]

saw

 

[ilikecheese]

What about Halloween and Friday the 13th?

 

[DualityNSNO]

Saw
Friday the 13 and Nightmare on Elm Street
Insidious
The Grudge (filmed in Bulgaria, all of them. I found that out after I saw all of them)

Many 'standalone' films are top though, and I'm quite a fan of the genre.

How is Jaws a horror film though?

Also how is [REC] on that list - found it to be more or less crap...

 

[Minimeister]

Toss up between then Omen and Nightmare on Elm Street for me but the Omen scared the hell out of me as a kid so I'll go with that.

 

[DualityNSNO]

Toss up between then Omen and Nightmare on Elm Street for me but the Omen scared the hell out of me as a kid so I'll go with that.

The Omen is next on mine/ours (my flatmates and the gf are also fans of horror films, so we watch a lot) list!

 

[Minimeister]

The Omen is next on mine/ours (my flatmates and the gf are also fans of horror films, so we watch a lot) list!

Make sure you watch the original and not the remake mate. The original had that eerie atmospherethat they couldn't recreate.

 

[stevo27]

Went for Nightmare on Elm Street as even the worst of the series have some entertainment value. Would have gone for the Romero series but I've only seen Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead out of that series

 

[Seamus Colemole]

How is Jaws a horror film though?
.

It's about a killer who stalks his victims in a small coastal town before the local police cheif tracks him down and kills him in a final fight to the death.

Just happens to be a big rubber shark rather than a hideously deformed former mental patiant.

 

[EFCNIK]

Saw. Very clever stuff. And horrendous at the same time.

 

[daza_1973]

You forgot - Everton the 70's or Everton the 90's (bar 95)

 

[DualityNSNO]

It's about a killer who stalks his victims in a small coastal town before the local police cheif tracks him down and kills him in a final fight to the death.

Just happens to be a big rubber shark rather than a hideously deformed former mental patiant.

Makes sense when you put it like that, but for me it's just not exactly in the same horror bracket, if that makes sense...

 

[DualityNSNO]

Make sure you watch the original and not the remake mate. The original had that eerie atmospherethat they couldn't recreate.

Alright, will do!