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Post by moviemouth on Sept 13, 2019 0:33:29 GMT
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Post by Raimo47 on Sept 13, 2019 0:51:13 GMT
1. The Howling
2. Omen III: The Final Conflict
3. Silver Bullet
4. Halloween II
5. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
6. Warlock
7. Christine
8. Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
9. The Shining
10. Pet Sematary
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Post by jcush on Sept 13, 2019 0:52:33 GMT
1. The Shining
2. The Thing
3. A Nightmare on Elm Street
4. The Evil Dead
5. Evil Dead II
6. The Fly
7. An American Werewolf in London
8. Christine
9. Society
10. The Return of the Living Dead
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Post by movielover on Sept 13, 2019 0:55:15 GMT
The Thing
Poltergeist
The Shining
Manhunter (horror per IMDb)
The Lost Boys
Christine
Pet Semetary
Fright Night
Evil Dead II
A Nightmare on Elm Street
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Sept 13, 2019 0:55:37 GMT
1. The Shining
-The Terminator? (I go back and forth if it's horror)
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street
3. The Fly
4. The Thing
5. Aliens
6. An American Werewolf in London
7. Evil Dead II
8. Predator
9. The Lost Boys
10. Return of the Living Dead
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Post by jamesbamesy on Sept 13, 2019 0:58:42 GMT
Only counting 1 entry per franchise.
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Child’s Play
Friday the 13th Part III
The Shining
Evil Dead II
Aliens
Gremlins
Halloween 4: The Return of Micheal Myers
The Thing
The Fly
HM - Poltergeist, Christine, Hellraiser, The Howling, An American Werewolf in London, The Hitcher, Re-Animator, Pet Sematary, Predator, The Lost Boys
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Sept 13, 2019 1:05:55 GMT
1. Shocker (1989)
2. The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
3. Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
4. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)
5. Day of the Dead (1985)
6. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
7. Evil Dead II (1987)
8. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 The Dream Master (1988)
9. C.H.U.D. (1984)
10. Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
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Post by moviemouth on Sept 13, 2019 1:06:25 GMT
1. The Shining -The Terminator? (I go back and forth if it's horror) 2. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3. The Fly 4. The Thing 5. Aliens 6. An American Werewolf in London 7. Evil Dead II 8. Predator 9. The Lost Boys 10. Return of the Living Dead I don't consider The Terminator, Aliens or Predator horror movies. They would all be in my Top 10 if I did. Here is how I go about genre listings. I have to consider horror one of the main 2 genres of the movie in order to consider something real horror. I consider Aliens, The Terminator and Predator as action/sci-fi. Alien (1979) on the other hand is sci-fi/horror.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Sept 13, 2019 1:12:00 GMT
1. The Shining -The Terminator? (I go back and forth if it's horror) 2. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3. The Fly 4. The Thing 5. Aliens 6. An American Werewolf in London 7. Evil Dead II 8. Predator 9. The Lost Boys 10. Return of the Living Dead I don't consider The Terminator, Aliens or Predator horror movies. They would all be in my Top 10 if I did. Here is how I go about genre listings. I have to consider horror one of the main 2 genres of the movie in order to consider something real horror. I consider Aliens, The Terminator and Predator as action/sci-fi. Alien (1979) on the other hand is sci-fi/horror. So what are the main 2 genres of Jaws? |
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Post by moviemouth on Sept 13, 2019 1:13:39 GMT
I don't consider The Terminator, Aliens or Predator horror movies. They would all be in my Top 10 if I did. Here is how I go about genre listings. I have to consider horror one of the main 2 genres of the movie in order to consider something real horror. I consider Aliens, The Terminator and Predator as action/sci-fi. Alien (1979) on the other hand is sci-fi/horror. So what are the main 2 genres of Jaws? Thriller/adventure
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Post by Dramatic Look Gopher on Sept 13, 2019 1:13:45 GMT
1. The Fog
2. Poltergeist
3. A Nightmare On Elm Street
5. Fright Night
6. Hellraiser
7. Dead & Buried
8. The Howling
9. The Stepfather
10. The Changeling
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Post by lostinlimbo on Sept 13, 2019 1:17:45 GMT
Inferno
Videodrome
The Thing
Phenomena
Mr. Vampire
Night of Death!
The Hitcher
Q - The Winged Serpent
Re-Animator
The Evil Dead
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Post by Sulla on Sept 13, 2019 1:19:04 GMT
The Shining
The Thing
The Dead Zone
The Company of Wolves
An American Werewolf in London
Poltergeist
Altered States
The Lost Boys
Pet Sematary
The Howling
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Post by darksidebeadle on Sept 13, 2019 1:27:39 GMT
The Thing
Evil Dead 2
The Shining
The Fly
Near Dark
The Lost Boys
From Beyond
Halloween 4
Friday the 13th Part 4
Return of the Living Dead
Another Ten
Christine
The Dead Zone
The Burning
An American Werewolf in London
Day of the Dead
Child's Play
Friday the 13th
Poltergeist
A Nightmare on Elm Street
A nightmare on Elm Street 3
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Sept 13, 2019 2:03:15 GMT
So what are the main 2 genres of Jaws? Thriller/adventure Ehhh. Personally, when I think of thrillers, I think more stuff like Hitchcock and Fincher. Skinny dipping teens, POV shots of the killer, giant animal monsters, jump scares, authority figures who wont close the deadly location...textbook horror tropes. Would also be pretty weird if statistically one of the top three scariest movies ever made (next to Psycho and The Exorcist) wasn't even part of the scare genre. The other three are more dubious, but I see Predator and The Terminator as riffs on the slasher genre. They're practically Friday the 13th with an alien and Halloween with a robot. Terminator kinda ditches that after the first 45 minutes which is why I didn't really count it. Predator is kind of the reverse: it starts as an action war movie and becomes a sci-fi horror. Take Billy's death. Instead of seeing his last stand against the Predator as per an action movie, he dies screaming offscreen as per a horror. |
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Post by moviemouth on Sept 13, 2019 3:31:05 GMT
Ehhh. Personally, when I think of thrillers, I think more stuff like Hitchcock and Fincher. Skinny dipping teens, POV shots of the killer, giant animal monsters, jump scares, authority figures who wont close the deadly location...textbook horror tropes. Would also be pretty weird if statistically one of the top three scariest movies ever made (next to Psycho and The Exorcist) wasn't even part of the scare genre. The other three are more dubious, but I see Predator and The Terminator as riffs on the slasher genre. They're practically Friday the 13th with an alien and Halloween with a robot. Terminator kinda ditches that after the first 45 minutes which is why I didn't really count it. Predator is kind of the reverse: it starts as an action war movie and becomes a sci-fi horror. Take Billy's death. Instead of seeing his last stand against the Predator as per an action movie, he dies screaming offscreen as per a horror. I agree with what normally would classify as a thriller, but there are exceptions. Maybe the problem is that I don't think Jaws is scary and it doesn't feel much like a horror movie even with the horror tropes, outside of a handful of scenes. The entire second half to me feels more like a thrilling Moby Dick type adventure than a horror movie. Jaws is a tricky genre placing for me. I understand your arguments completely, which is why I still consider Jaws partly horror. I never implied that Predator and The Terminator don't have horror aspects to them, which is why I would list horror as third. I don't have a problem with people listing them as horror. The Killing of a Scared Deer on the other hand is one of the scariest movies I have ever seen and it is about a teenager who basically puts a curse on a family.
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Post by marth on Sept 13, 2019 3:58:07 GMT
The Shining
The Thing
Poltergeist
A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Entity
Christine
Omen III
The Fly
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Sept 13, 2019 4:10:09 GMT
Ehhh. Personally, when I think of thrillers, I think more stuff like Hitchcock and Fincher. Skinny dipping teens, POV shots of the killer, giant animal monsters, jump scares, authority figures who wont close the deadly location...textbook horror tropes. Would also be pretty weird if statistically one of the top three scariest movies ever made (next to Psycho and The Exorcist) wasn't even part of the scare genre. The other three are more dubious, but I see Predator and The Terminator as riffs on the slasher genre. They're practically Friday the 13th with an alien and Halloween with a robot. Terminator kinda ditches that after the first 45 minutes which is why I didn't really count it. Predator is kind of the reverse: it starts as an action war movie and becomes a sci-fi horror. Take Billy's death. Instead of seeing his last stand against the Predator as per an action movie, he dies screaming offscreen as per a horror. I agree with what normally would classify as a thriller, but there are exceptions. Maybe the problem is that I don't think Jaws is scary and it doesn't feel much like a horror movie even with the horror tropes, outside of a handful of scenes. The entire second half to me feels more like a thrilling Moby Dick type adventure than a horror movie. Jaws is a tricky genre placing for me. I understand your arguments completely, which is why I still consider Jaws partly horror. I never implied that Predator and The Terminator don't have horror aspects to them, which is why I would list horror as third. I don't have a problem with people listing them as horror. The Killing of a Scared Deer on the other hand is one of the scariest movies I have ever seen and it is about a teenager who basically puts a curse on a family. It doesn't really scare me either, but neither does The Exorcist. I still have to recognize they scared the absolute piss out of most audiences. I see your point on the second half. But is there a non-horror movie with a score as menacing? That's surprising about Sacred Deer. Like The Lobster and The Favourite, I saw it as a black comedy. I'm fact, it's the only one of the three that really had me laughing. |
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Post by biker1 on Sept 13, 2019 4:13:44 GMT
day of the dead (1985)
videodrome (1983-can)
the fly (1986)
the shining (1980)
near dark (1987)
re-animator (1985)
the evil dead (1981)
the stepfather (1987)
brain damage (1988)
hellraiser (1987)
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Post by moviemouth on Sept 13, 2019 4:22:45 GMT
I agree with what normally would classify as a thriller, but there are exceptions. Maybe the problem is that I don't think Jaws is scary and it doesn't feel much like a horror movie even with the horror tropes, outside of a handful of scenes. The entire second half to me feels more like a thrilling Moby Dick type adventure than a horror movie. Jaws is a tricky genre placing for me. I understand your arguments completely, which is why I still consider Jaws partly horror. I never implied that Predator and The Terminator don't have horror aspects to them, which is why I would list horror as third. I don't have a problem with people listing them as horror. The Killing of a Scared Deer on the other hand is one of the scariest movies I have ever seen and it is about a teenager who basically puts a curse on a family. It doesn't really scare me either, but neither does The Exorcist. I still have to recognize they scared the absolute piss out of most audiences. I see your point on the second half. But is there a non-horror movie with a score as menacing? That's surprising about Sacred Deer. Like The Lobster and The Favourite, I saw it as a black comedy. I'm fact, it's the only one of the three that really had me laughing. The Killing of a Scared Deer definitely uses humor, but the humor is part of what makes it so unsettling. I agree about the Jaws theme btw. Here is the difference. If I were to watch Jaws without any knowledge about the movie, I would not have guessed it was intended to be scary on a whole. The Exorcist on the other hand is clearly meant to terrify as a whole. I do think The Exorcist is often very creepy, which is basically the equivalent as scary for me.
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