I love really bad movies and ones supposed to scare you silly--which they sadly never really do for me.

What is your favorite Horror flick?

Favorite B movie?

When I was a teenager, my best friend and I loved to rent horror flicks
and watch them. OR sometimes her parents would take us with them
to the drive-in (back when drive-ins still existed.)

It was some weird phase, I guess, because nowadays I really do not care
for those types of films. They scare me.

At any rate, there is one that sticks out in my mind, though I cannot
remember the title: with Angie Dickinson and Donald Sutherland.
She played a prostitute who was almost bludgeoned to death in an elevator.

Nightmare on Elm Street
Halloween
Friday the 13th
(the 1980's seemed to be an era of a lot of far-fetched horror movies)

Favorite horror movie without a doubt: Silence of the Lambs

In high school, my friends and I were all into the triple-feature (really!) slasher films; the grosser the better. This was before the days of super-realistic special effects, mind you. We were also dedicated fans of Seymour (Master of the Macabre, Epitome of Evil, The Most Sinister Man to Crawl the Face of the Earth) and Fright Night, and watched the awful, corny movies he showed on Saturday night. I saw a lot of cheesy B movies. Some that come immediately to mind are:

Attack of the Mushroom People
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Little Shop of Horrors

And the "swamp creature" movies, titles of which I don't recall.

Does Rocky Horror count as a B movie?

I heard a story on the local news about the only drive-in theatre left in California celebrating its 50th anniversary. It's the Vineland, the theatre where I had my first date, and it's also the theatre where I had my first serious necking session. I was glad to hear it was still around, but doggone do I feel old.

B-Movies
John Waters - Pink Flamingos and Blue Velvet
Bad Taste (New Zealand horror by that Lord of the Rings guy)
Martians from Outer Space
Showgirls

I love the Hellraiser movies.

B movies, I like anything by Rob Zombie, and anything reviewed on MST3K.

Favorite horror movie...hmmm. There's a slight tie between Interview With A Vampire, Silence of the Lambs, The Exorcist (which my mother saw once when it first came out and will never watch again, I'll rarely watch it myself! ) and any of the Return of theLiving Dead movies from the 80's.

(By the way, I saw Hellraiser once, and I will NEVER watch it again!)

As far as B-Movies go... Rocky Horror has to be on the list. As well as the Evil Dead trilogy.

The one that leaves the biggest, and oddest impression on me was Killer Clowns from Outer Space. If you're not afraid of clowns before you watch that movie, there's a good chance you could by the end.

My favorite scary movie (they almost never scare me either) is, hands down, In the Mouth of Madness

I haven't seen the movie in about ten years, but there's a scene with a guy on a bicycle that is probably the creepiest scene in any movie I've ever seen. There have only been a handful of movies that ever really creeped me out (The Others, Signs...yes...that movie was creepy, and The Ring) at all, but this one takes the cake.

When I was about 10, I saw a movie called Clownhouse and it freaked me out in a sort of amusing way. I'm not even sure why it was so creepy...I guess just the idea of facing your worst fears made it scary. That was definitely the scariest movie I recall from my childhood.

My husband is a chicken when it comes to scary movies and he agrees that this is the scariest by far.

As for B-Movies...I don't really do B-Movies I guess.

I forgot all about In the Mouth of Madness!

One of the craziest movies I have ever seen!

One I forgot to add myself, and another starring Sam Neil:

Event Horizon

I don't find horror flicks based on Christian theology (like Exorcist and so on) to be particularly scary or interesting for the matter (they're all the same story just packaged slightly differently). Silence of the Lambs was an excellent drama (I mean horror flick). In the Mouth of Madness didn't work for me as I felt the intertextuality was too clumsy.

I do enjoy a good grade B film though, but it must be grade B that knows it's grade B: Killer Clowns from Outer Space, Basket Case, Evil Dead. Hey, someone mentioned Attack of the Killer Tomatos -- one of my favs. Has anyone seen Return of the Killer Tomatos?

One of my favorite B/horror (ok, semi horror) films is Tremors

A few other favorites:
Signs
The Shining

I’ve never been afraid of the slasher types (Halloween series, Nightmare series, TX Chainsaw, etc..) more gross than thrilling. But the psychological types tend to make me jump when things go bump in the night.

I'm not much for horror flicks, per se.

But I did like the first Poltergeist movie. And I like the classic movie Dracula starring Bela Lugosi. I also like Van Helsing. Flatliners was good, too, and The Lost Boys. (Guess you can tell I like Kiefer Sutherland. )

Gross movies with lots of blood, guts and ooze are not my cup of tea, especially since, as a nurse, I used to work around blood, guts and ooze.

Fife and Drum, Signs is a good flick.

I have to admit that I quite like John Water's cheesier movies (especially Female Trouble, Desperate Living, and Polyester), though I don't really think of them as B-movies - as well as his less cheesy Hairspray, Serial Mom, and Pecker. I also think The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a classic (though I find the cult that has grown up around it more annoying than anything), but I don't really think of it as a B-movie, either.

In terms of real B-movies, I'm a big fan of Italian director Mario Bava. When I was a teenager, my best friend and I used to sit up every Saturday night to watch Chiller Theater - then we'd go have sex, which I guess is what has always made horror flicks so popular at drive-ins - and Bava's films were always among our favorites. He was responsible for such classics as Terrore nello spazio (aka Planet of the Vampires, Demon Planet, Terror in Space, Planet of Blood, etc.), Reazione a catena (aka Bay of Blood, Bloodbath, Chain Reaction, etc.), and my all-time favorite La Maschera del demonio (aka Black Sunday, House of Fright, Mask of the Demon, etc.) starring the immortal Barbara Steele. Herk Harvey's Carnival of Souls and Bob Clark's Dead of Night (aka Deathdream) are also pretty good. And Romero's original Night of the Living Dead is pretty relentless.

In terms of more mainstream horror movies, you can't really beat the classic Universal flicks like Frankenstein, The Mummy, and The Wolfman - or some of the Hammer Horror films that kept Vincent Price in business for a decade or two.

Jodorowsky's Santa Sangre is a pretty whacked out thriller, Lynch's Blue Velvet is just wrong (and his Eraserhead unnerved me for days), the Coen brothers' Blood Simple is downright evil, and Kubrick's The Shining is pretty edgy, but the creepiest movie I've seen in ages is probably Alan Parker's Angel Heart . More recent films haven't really done much for me - maybe I'm just getting jaded. The only things I've seen lately that creeped me out at all are Ringu and Ju-On: The Grudge.

I usually have no use for horror flicks- though Alien I guess was the first really good sci-fi horror (correct me if I am wrong)- I see too much real world horror to ever be really affected by horror movies- though I died find "event horizon" disturbing LOL

Killer Clowns From Outer Space only solidified my clown fear. Hate them almost as much as I hate lawn flamingoes

Favorite Horror flick? Jaws

B movie? Strange Brew

I don't get scared by too many movies. But I have to say, some of them have freaked me out. The one that comes to mind first, is The Others with Nicole Kidman. Another one that freaked me out was the one with Haley Joel Osman and Bruce Willis: Remember: "I see dead people"

When it comes to serious "horror" movies, I first think of a few that really scared me when I saw them in my childhood (pre-teen):

The Exorcist

The Shining

Alien

Later (and less "serious") teen favorites include of course:

Halloween

Friday the 13th

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Hellraiser

For pure Horror/Comedy it's hard to beat:

Return of the Living Dead I and II

Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness

The most recent "serious" Horror movies that really made my skin crawl were:

The Ring

The Grudge

But the greatest all around Horror/"B" movie of all time is clearly/without a doubt/ hands down:

Re-Animator

Spine-Tingling/Hair-Raising Terror and Stomache-Churning Bloody Gore with a healthy dose of laugh-out-loud Hysterical Campyness!

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Favorite Scary Movies

Halloween

Friday the 13th

Night of The Living Dead

Alien

Nightmare on Elm Street

Poltergeist

Because they were unique, new in their approach and in the level of FX

Scream: The violent death of Drew Barrymore minutes into the movie shocked me and the two comically psycho killers, left me laughing. They could barely keep froming killing each other in their attempt to look like "victims". I've never seen that type of comic approach.

The Fog, What Lies Beneath: because I like Ghost stories and that one didn't insult your intelligence by treating the characters like they were too dumb to figure it out what was going on.

White Noise, The Ring, House On Haunted Hill (remake): Because they creeped me out.

Rocky Horror, Evil Dead 2 and Armies Of Darkness: Funny, campy, and/or gore fests... what's NOT to love.

Lin

I had high hopes for White Noise. It started out really cool-- and it creeped me out too. But then I thought it devolved at the very end and I was disappointed.

I wish we had something like the Twilight Zone from the 60s, these days. I used to love that show, but now it seems very dated.

I know what ya mean, I thought the end was confusing and didn't make alot of sense but it DID creep me out (which isn't easy to do) since I've been watching scary movies since I was a little kid.

They've tried several remakes of the Twilight Zone but they lack the excellent writing and acting ability of the original. I used to love Night Gallery, The Outer Limits and One Step Beyond as a kid too. The closest I've seen to shows like the TZ were Tales From The Darkside and Tales From The Crypt but they still pale in comparison.

It's all about gore now unfortunately

You would have to pay me a lot of money to get me inside a theater showing a true horror movie. I have seen none of the horror movies listed thus far, except for Silence of the Lambs, and it was edited for TV, IIRC. I hate bloody scenes, violence, screaming, and all the other things related to such cruelty and insanity that are part of horror movies.
But a spoof movie on horror, that is different. B movies are fun as well, and a spoof on B movies is even better.

Now this is a topic!

Horror Movies:

The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari -- a brilliant depiction of madness
The Mummy -- the best of the classic Universal monsters, in my opinion; wonderful atmosphere and Karloff at his best
White Zombie -- Bela Lugosi at his best (yes, better than Dracula)
The Black Cat -- the best team-up of Karloff and Lugosi, and a genuinely weird and creepy story
The Island of Lost Souls -- Charles Laughton is great as Dr. Moreau
The Cat People -- or any of the subtle, beautiful, moody horror films produced by Val Lewton
Psycho -- Hitchcock's classic
The Haunting -- greatest ghost story of all time


As you can see, I much prefer the old black-and-white stuff

B Movies

I assume we mean bad movies. To start with, despite what some have said, Ed Wood's Plan Nine From From Outer Space is not, by a long shot, the worst movie ever made. Wood's infamous movie actually has a plot, and makes some sense, unlike many other worthless films. For example, something like Monster a-Go Go or Manos: The Hands of Fate (for all you MST3K fans out there) is much worse than poor old Plan Nine. Anyway, some "favorites" of mine:

Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla -- Lugosi is just sad here; deep into his drug addiction days. However, what truly makes this atrocity memorable is a guy named Sammy Petrillo, who deliberately imitates the young Jerry Lewis, and manages to make it much more annoying. Has to be seen to be believed.

The Astro-Zombies -- besides the extreme slowness and nonsensical plot and ultra-cheap special effects, you have Tura Satana, a buxom young woman who wears huge amounts of makeup and the most outrageous costumes you've ever seen.


By the way, I was also a HUGE fan of horror host Larry "Seymour" Vincent many years ago when I lived in Southern California.

I remember seeing that when I was ten. A friends big brother had a party and they were all watching it.

Not good viewing for a ten year old. Kinda freaked me out....

(Haven't touched a Rubik's cube since )

You would probably enjoy Tremors, done in a campy B movie style. Not really scary and it actually has some very funny moments. It’s on the SciFi channel this Wednesday evening.

Vicki: I have to see The Astro-Zombies now - I love Tura Satana! Speaking of which, I'm surprised no one has mentioned the great Russ Meyer in their B-movie list (myself included). Films like Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (starring Satana), Vixen! and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls are classics.

And I really should have included The Haunting (the Robert Wise original, obviously, with Julie Harris and Claire Bloom, not the idiotic remake) among my horror films. It is not only the best ghost story ever (by Shirley Jackson), but also the best ghost movie.