what era made the best horror movies? name your favorites

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - what era made the best horror movies? name your favorites

Posted: 3/3/2006 10:37:36 AM EDT

what era do you think made the best horror movies?

silent film era?

30's - 40's?

50's - 60's?

70's 80's

current era?

Posted: 3/3/2006 10:40:47 AM EDT

[#1]

The original "Dracula"

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWLLLLLLLLLLLL

Bela: "Listen! The children of the night! Such muuusic they make.!"

Posted: 3/3/2006 10:50:48 AM EDT

[#2]

current

Too much sensorship before the 60's

Posted: 3/3/2006 10:54:25 AM EDT

[#3]

Posted: 3/3/2006 10:57:31 AM EDT

[#4]

Halloween (the original), Exorcist, Friday 13th (the original)

Posted: 3/3/2006 12:03:50 PM EDT

[#5]

30's, 40's 50's AND 60's. Basically all were part of the Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Vincent Price era.

Posted: 3/3/2006 1:36:50 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
Halloween (the original), Exorcist, Friday 13th (the original)

+1 on the 1st Halloween , scary as hell , never could figure out though how people could run as fast as hell ... Micheal just eased along & still caught em .. Jason as well LOL , Myers was like a Timex watch ..........

Posted: 3/3/2006 1:52:22 PM EDT

[#7]

anybody remember a movie called "Burnt Offerings" ? I always thought that one was pretty scarey

a classic ghost story

Posted: 3/3/2006 1:55:00 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
current

Too much sensorship before the 60's

The survey is for 'horror' movies, not 'bucket of blood' movies.

Older era movies have better levels of suspense because they had to rely on the viewer's mind to fill in a lot of the 'horror' parts, instead of just dumping gallons of blood like they do today.

Posted: 3/3/2006 1:59:22 PM EDT

[#9]

I liked both Texas Chainsaw Masacre movies, the Ring, Rose red. Generally the best movies involve a psyco killer not some ghost though there are exceptions.

Posted: 3/3/2006 2:00:38 PM EDT

[#10]

I say 80's, but I like zombies.

Posted: 3/3/2006 2:04:44 PM EDT

[#11]

My first horror movie was Howling!!!

Posted: 3/3/2006 2:20:46 PM EDT

[#12]

Hitchcock could make you sit on the edge of your seat, and never showed any gore. Vincent Price could make you double check your doors and windows before bed. Night of the Living Dead seems tame compared to today's movies, but it was scary as hell then!
Definately '50s and '60s. The '70s had a few, like The Exorcist. The '80s were butcher flicks.
Jim

Posted: 3/3/2006 3:03:15 PM EDT

[#13]

I like a lot of the 70's flicks.

One more thing, The Hills Have Eyes is going to be the best remake since Dawn of The Dead 2004.

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