your horror collection

[dean_martin]

Soon, Amazon, Best Buy and other video retailers will be having sales on horror movies for Halloween. I usually take advantage and add a couple to my horror collection. What movies do you consider "must haves" for your horror collection or which best represent the genre in any collection? If you break it down in subgenres like monster, supernatural, slasher, etc., what's your best representatives of those?

[RGA]

Soon, Amazon, Best Buy and other video retailers will be having sales on horror movies for Halloween. I usually take advantage and add a couple to my horror collection. What movies do you consider "must haves" for your horror collection or which best represent the genre in any collection? If you break it down in subgenres like monster, supernatural, slasher, etc., what's your best representatives of those?

The zombie movies:
Dawn of the Dead 1979
Return of the Living Dead
Shaun of the Dead
Zombie Land
Night of the Living Dead
Land of the Dead
Dawn of the Dead (remake)
Dead Snow

The Exorcist (devil)

The Thing (1982) (alien)

The Shining (Slasher/ghost

Halloween (slasher)

Arachnophobia (spiders)

Alien/Aliens (slasher but aliens)

American Werewolf in London (werewolf)
The Howling (werewolf)
Wolf (werewolf)

Scarecrows (slasher)

Fright Night (Vampire 80s version)

Nosferatu (Vampire)

Young Frankenstein (comedy)

Event Horizon (devil)

Scream (Slasher - hor/com)

Poltergeist (ghost)

Nightmare on Elm Street (1984 Slasher)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 - alien)

Psycho (slasher)

Ginger Snaps (werewolf)

The Omen (devil)

Suspiria (magic evil)


Another newer one is Tarantino's Death Proof which was pretty good in that Tarantino way of his.

But if I was recommending my absolute top 5 to someone who had never seen horror movies it would be (and if you count Jaws as an action film) then:

1. The Exorcist (devil)
2. Dawn of the Dead 1978 (Zombies)
3. The Shining (killer)
4. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
5. The Thing 1982

Runner up Halloween - this largely started the mainstream Slasher genre - all of which were not as good. Halloween had very little blood - one scene in the entire flick. It is worth watching even if a little dated. Same could be said for all the films on the list - but most everything since has been a retread.

[Worf101]

I'm doing this off the top of my dented haid so... I may miss a fiew.

Hammer Films:
All the Hammer Vampire movies from the 60's and 70s./

Misc:
"Salems Lot" - The original mini-series, scariest ever done.

"The Exorcist" - For obvious reasons.

"The Omen" - Second on to the above.

"The Fog" - John Carpenter at his best.

"The Ring" - Too effin scary for words.

"HellRaiser" - Sick, sick... sick!

"The Night Gallery" - Seasons one and two.

"The Howling" - Best werewolf movie ever made.

"Dog Soldiers" - Second best werewolf movie ever made.

That's about it, more into SciFi actually but I like a good chill every now and then.

Worf