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Best Horror Movie

Mi-Amigo — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 07:55:03 GMT

Welcome to the start of

HALLOWEEN ON THE COMMUNITY

and what better way to celebrate Halloween than to get your favourite breverage or stiff drink, a bucket of popcorn, a cushion to hide behind and curl up on the sofa to watch a horror movie.

But which is the BEST HORROR MOVIE ?

Here is your chance to vote for your favourite BEST HORROR MOVIE

How it works....

Voting is open to all members of the Community.

All you have to do is post your votes of your TOP 5 - number from No 5 to No 1 [your favourite] - from the list below of 30 Horror Movies compiled from posts on the O2 Community and polls on various movie websites.

Voting is open from now until FRIDAY 28 OCT at 12 NOON .

Votes will be scored as follows

5 points for each movie voted No 1; 4 points for each movie voted No 2; 3 points for each movie voted No 3;

2 points for each movie voted No 4; 1 point for each movie voted No 5.

I will tot up the score and announce the results of the poll will be posted on MON 31 OCTOBER 2022.

30 HORROR MOVIES - vote for your Top 5

Please note the dates - most of the movies are the originals NOT sequals nor remakes

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET [1984]

ALIEN [1979]

AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON [1981]

CARRIE [1976]

CHRISTINE [1983]

DRACULA [1958]

FRANKENSTEIN [1931]

FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH [1980]

HALLOWEEN [1978]

HELLRAISER [1987]

IT [1990]

JAWS [1975]

LET THE RIGHT ONE IN [2008]

MISERY [1990]

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD [1968]

PET SEMETARY [1989]

POLTERGEIST [1982]

PSYCHO [1960]

ROSEMARY`S BABY [1968]

SCREAM [1996]

THE AMITYVILLE HORROR [1979]

THE BIRDS [1963]

THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT [1999]

THE EXORCIST [1973]

THE FLY [1986]

THE OMEN [1976]

THE SHINING [1980]

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS [1991]

THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE [1974]

28 DAYS LATER [2002]

I hope those who took part in previous polls and regular contributors to the Community - including

@Cleoriff @pgn @jonsie @RafaC @Breanna @Comben @MI5 @gmarkj @Spenny @TallTrees @BobM

@J9el @adec @Bambino; @RunrigForever - and members old and new will take part.

Thank you for your interest. Look forward to your votes.

Re: Best Horror Movie

TallTrees — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 09:05:03 GMT

Hello @Mi-Amigo

I couldn't watch these but I will put the scariest sounding ones in that order

No. 1 Silence of the Lambs ( I know this actor and he scares me even when he plays a nice character!)

No. 2 Texas Chain Saw Massacre (can't bear the sound of that)

No. 3 Psycho (I do remember seeing this on TV ) The sounds in that were worse than the action

No. 4 Carrie (only saw trailer, horrible)

No. 5 The Birds ( I saw a bit of this but as I love birds, I thought it was crass)

😁bye TallTrees

Re: Best Horror Movie

Cleoriff — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 13:18:46 GMT

@Mi-Amigo

1) IT

2) The Silence Of The Lambs

3) The Shining

4) Christine

5) Psycho

Re: Best Horror Movie

gmarkj — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 13:54:45 GMT

Some good films in this list!

1. The Blair Witch Project

2. Alien

3. The Silence of the Lambs

4. IT

5. Hellraiser

Re: Best Horror Movie

Breanna — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 14:11:46 GMT

Since it seems we're going from 1-5, these are in order of how scarred for life I was after watching:

1. The Exorcist
2. IT

3. The Omen

4. The Amityville Horror

5. Misery (not scary but wow great film)

Re: Best Horror Movie

sheepdog — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 14:18:13 GMT

The Fly is actually a remake of the 1958 B-movie classic "The Fly"

1. Alien

2. Night of the Living dead

3. Psycho

4. Hellraiser

5. The Fly (1958 original with the classic ending!)

Prefer the older 60's horror films as they didn't rely on hack and slash and had more shock value.

Re: Best Horror Movie

jonsie — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 14:18:46 GMT

CARRIE (Just for the shock ending!)
CHRISTINE
IT
CHUCKIE (surprised this wasn't on the list)
THE OMEN

Re: Best Horror Movie

Mi-Amigo — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 15:52:46 GMT

Thanks @TallTrees @Cleoriff @gmarkj @Breanna @sheepdog @jonsie for your votes

Here`s mine

1. Christine

2. The Omen

3. The Shining

4. Pet Semetary

5. Psycho

Re: Best Horror Movie

RafaC — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 10:19:39 GMT

Great topic to start our Halloweek with @Mi-Amigo!

When I think about horror movies I usually say that I’m not a big fan of the genre, but looking at this list I realised I really enjoy quite a few of them.

Guess that I used to say that because I grew up in the ‘90s and ‘00s and honestly, there aren’t many great horror movies from that era.

But since then I started watching the older ones, and there are quite a few gems there.

Without further ado, my top 5 out of this list are:

1 - Alien

2 - Halloween

3 - Jaws

4 - Psycho

5 - The Silence Of The Lambs

Have to say I’m a bit of a Hitchcock and John Carpenter fan btw

Re: Best Horror Movie

BobM — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 11:10:55 GMT

My choice @Mi-Amigo

1 ... The Omen.

2 ... The Shining.

3 ... Alien.

4 ... The Blair Witch Project.

5 ... The Silence Of The Lambs.

Re: Best Horror Movie

Martin-O2 — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 15:58:56 GMT

Really tough to narrow it down to 5 but I think I'm happy with my list. See below @Mi-Amigo 🙂

ALIEN
HALLOWEEN
PET SEMETARY
HELLRAISER
28 DAYS LATER

Re: Best Horror Movie

Mi-Amigo — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 08:55:48 GMT

THE RESULTS....

30th = [0 points] Rosemary`s Baby

A Nightmare On Elm Street

Poltergeist

An American Werewolf In London

Scream

Dracula [1958]

Frankenstein [1931]

Friday The Thirteenth

Let The Right One In

21st = [1 point] The Birds

Misery

The Fly [1958]

28 Days Later

17th = [2 points] Amityville Horror

Chuckie

16th [3 points] Jaws

14th = [4 points] Night Of The Living Dead

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

11th = [5 points] Pet Semetary

Hellraiser

The Exorcist

9th = [7 points] Carrie

The Blair Witch Project

8th [8 points] Halloween

6th = [10 points] Psycho

The Shining

5th [11 points] Christine

4th [13 points] The Omen

2nd = [14 points] Silence Of The Lambs

1st [22 points] ALIEN

Thank you

@TallTrees @Cleoriff @gmarkj @Breanna @sheepdog @jonsie @RafaC @BobM @Martin-O2

for your votes.

Re: Best Horror Movie

Cleoriff — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 08:56:49 GMT

Thanks for your results table @Mi-Amigo.

I don't happen to agree with Alien as it didn't frighten me at all.

However, I was pleased to see most of the others I voted for in the top 5.

Excellent news 😉

Re: Best Horror Movie

RafaC — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 14:11:04 GMT

Nice to see the results, thanks for that @Mi-Amigo! Never watched quite a few of the top 10, so have a lot to catch up with horror movie-wise 🦇

That Alien movie poster is great btw