Seeing as it’s Halloween, today we want to hear all about your all-time favourite horror films? What was both a good scare and a good time? What really disturbed you? What’s a little known genre gem? Tell us all.
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Christo Kruger
October 31, 2012 at 10:50
I think The Blair Witch Project is still the scariest film I’ve ever seen. Followed closely by Paranormal Activity and Silent Hill.
Kervyn Cloete
October 31, 2012 at 11:17
The biggest scare I ever received in a cinema was in The Ring, the scene with the girl in the closet. I generally don’t get scared by horrors, because I easily pick up on the little clues from the director that something’s about to happen.
There were no clues there, no build up at all. One second I’m watching a subdued conversation between two ladies at a funeral, the next I’m voiding my bowels in sheer terror.
Rincethis
October 31, 2012 at 11:18
I’d agree with Christo’s first two, then replace the terrible Silent Hill with the Shining!
WernerE
October 31, 2012 at 11:48
I remember one of the earliest horror films I’ve and really enjoyed was Fright Night (1986 version). I need to find that again and rewatch it. I’m probably going to be embarrassed in how lame it will be.
DieJason
October 31, 2012 at 11:57
Fright Night was classic!
DieJason
October 31, 2012 at 11:58
I remember one of the movies that frightened me when I was but a nipper, Stephen King’s Silver Bullet, really didn’t like werewolves back then.
Darryn_Bonthuys
October 31, 2012 at 12:03
Without a doubt, John Carpenter’s The Thing. I never knew what the hell that creature was, or what it would turn into, but the practical effects used when it transformed from a dog form into nightmare fuel? Still gives me the shakes, to this day.
Lourens Corleone
October 31, 2012 at 16:55
Agreed with Darryn about The Thing, I love it. Others I am particularly fond of are the Paranormal Activity films (besides maybe #2) and Insidious, Event Horizon, [REC]. [REC2]…do I go on?