What's the best horror film you have seen ?

[David John]

To me,The Shining never matched it reputation.

It's good no question,and there are a handful of very eerie,chilling scenes,but it wasn't that much more unnerving overall than a number of other horror stories.

As a movie it's also flawed.There is no distinguishing at all between "sane" Jack and crazy Jack.I'm not sure if that was down to Nicholson or Kubrick.

It's also noticeably overlong.Now I have no problem with movies that have a long running time,but this definitely dragged at times.

But like I say,it was a damn fine effort from Kubrick.

[Alexi H]

No it wasn't Scariest was never mentioned

[VERONICA EMMA CHUNG]

Ichi the killer

http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0296042/

[Hollywood_Scarlett]

Anyone seen Martyrs? Pretty disturbing.

[anotherstalker]

I agree with that totally, I think I read somewhere that Hooper intended it to be akin to a freakshow in a Southern carnival, which meant deeply unpleasant subject matter wrapped in a bizarrely humourous facade.

And despite it's OTT mannerisms and title, it's a masterpiece of sublety - no gore or violence is shown on screen, and it conveys the sexualisation of the violence without ever needing to resort to showing any nudity or dialogue that even references sex, as opposed to later slashers that required at least one tit shot per character (it was the sexual aspect that ensured it never got a video certificate by the BBFC by the way).

On a technical level, it's also flawless. There's nothing wrong with the acting, as someone said above it's only bad if you expect acting in a film to always be like a scripted Hollywood production, like the Blair Witch Project or Paranormal Activity, the acting in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is carried off in a convincingly naturalistic fashion that's extremely rare to see in movies.

The cinematography, lighting and especially the set design, really highlight how its possible for talented filmmakers to shoot a movie with next to no money and still produce something amazing; there isn't one shot in the entire movie that doesn't display artistic integrity. Even the grainy quality of the film they used because they couldn't afford decent film stock and the use of real animal corpses because they couldn't afford the special effects, work to its advantage.

Nowadays, the Friday 13th/Halloween clones have moved on and evolved into a modern form of their genre while the Texas Chainsaw clones still use the same template set out thirty years ago; there's simply nowhere for the psycho hillbilly genre to evolve, it was perfect in the original. Even the remake added nothing new, it just used a slightly different storyline.

[U.S.Hottie]

its subtitled, so no , watching the subtitles , you miss the film..lol

[MROCAT]

i sw scanners yestrday and it was decent. my faves are the evil dead films and Braindead

[ThePolicestoleMyCar]

Alien or Hellraiser

[salim]

28 Days Later

Let The Right One In

Halloween - the original

Candyman

The Ring - original Japanese version

30 Days of Night

Irreversible for the fire extinguisher scene

[chelseafcfreak]

for me it would have to be nightmare on elm street, i tried to watch this once when i was in a house on my own at night and was terrified within the first 10 mins, the music is so chilling!