I've got that too. It's got some incredible stuff on there. Seriously, there's not a single film in that box set that I didn't enjoy and a good few I'd never seen before.

In all seriousness, please check out "Frightmare" - a very British film, but a very effective one (it plays with the occult, etc). Demonrail - would you agree?

About Frightmare, definitely, although House of Whipchord is, if anything, even better IMO. Up there even with the likes of Death Line, which isn't something I'd say at all lightly.

Pookie, if you liked Psychomania you're gonna love Pete Walker. Although Walker's stuff is far darker. Psychomania is good fun, but not much else really. Walker is where it's at.

Gotta admit there's a bunch out there mentioned I never heard of.
And that I hadn't thought of Audition, which does scare.

Mine would be :

Skinner (Ivan Nagy)
Devil's Rejects (Rob Zombie)
Funny Games (Michaël Haneke)

Among the Hammer Pix, I really liked The Creeping Flesh

Gonna go to the big town tomorrow, to shop; I'll be looking for the DVD release of Narciso Ibañez Serrador's ¿Quién puede matar a un niño?, whose Residencia is a favourite of mine.

It's bizarre.

From my memory (contains spoilers; not that there's any twists or anything): a woman goes on holiday to a remote island in Scotland (I think it's Scotland), alone. There she falls in love with a lighthouse keeper - who promptly dies of a heart-attack. She mourns for a few days. And then he returns... walking very slowly! He just sits there, staring into middle-distance, and never speaks - and neither does she. Finally she realises the only way to be 'one' with him in his new state is to walk into the sea and drown, and return.

It's brooding and poetic (nice images of windswept beaches, lighthouses, the sea), and very, very boring even though he does eventually do some murdering. I love it for some reason.

It sounds seriously brilliant. I have to say. Must seek it out.

This is the most underrated horrer film ever made. I think it holds up.

It is a far better film than it gets credited for.

Ditto the Amityville Horror.

People knock them both but if horror films made today were half as good as either of them, the genre would be in a far healthier state than it currently is.

i'm quite shocked the shining hasn't had a mention yet, what a great flick that is.

I've never quite got the whole love for The Shining thing. I must admit. Accept when watching it while stoned, during which occasions it's scarier than walking into your bathroom to find an owl pacing up and down in your bathtub.

ah why not?

My big problem with it is Jack Nicholson. It's about his character gradually gowing mad, but it's clear from the first five minutes of the film that he's barking mad anyway.

jack nicholson does get on my tit's i must admit. although i'm not the biggest horror fan, i still find the whole concept of the film so shitty pant's scary.

The only horror movies that still freak me out are the ones I saw as a kid. These days nothing works. Just saw "The Orphanage" a couple of weeks ago and that was okay, but not scary. Real life - that's fucking scary..

So, my picks (and the bits that freaked me out)

The Omen: I saw this when I was about 7-8 and I still believed in God (and therefore Satan). The graveyard scene got to me, but not as much as the fucking soundtrack. Jerry Goldsmith's best work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAGnTAGnxPE

The Exorcist: Saw this when I was about 10-11. Again, the satanic thing got to me - and that statue of Pazuzu that is superimposed when Regan (Linda Blair) is being exorcised:





Oh and this troubled me as well:





Poltergeist: Can't remember when I first saw this. More spooky than anything, but Zelda Rubenstein freaks me out.





Especially when she's explaining what 'Caryanne' is dealing with in the 'other side':

"To her, it is but another child. But to us, it is the Beast."


One of my cousins got me onto Horror films (she was about 3 years older than me) and she had a little brother who was about a year younger than me. You'll be amused to know that he needed therapy after being exposed to these films at such an early age.
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Yeah, I saw Exorcist at a pretty young age, too, because it was filmed at Georgetown when my dad was attending so it is one of his favorite films.

With acknowledgements to cryptowonderdruginvogue....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQU7HRJWS1s

I haven't looked at this thread yet except this page, so sorry if some of these have been mentioned.. My favorite horror/trash/gore films ever:

Anguish
Backlot Murders
Bad Channels
Bad Taste
Baron Blood
Basket Case 1, 2, 3
Bay of Blood
Begotten [don't really know what genre this is but...]
Beyond the Darkness
Beyond the Limits
Bloodsucking Freaks
Body Melt
Brain Damage
Burial Ground
Castle Freak
Cellar Dweller
Chopping Mall
The Church
City of the Living Dead/Gates of Hell
City of the Walking Dead
Class of Nuke 'Em High
Dawn of the Dead [original, remake was SHIT]
Dead Alive
Dead Hate the Living
Death Warmed Up
Deep Red
The Demon
Demons 1 and 2
Don't Go in the House
Don't Go in the Woods
Ebola Syndrome
Evil Dead 2
Evilspeak
Final Exam [the 80's one]
Frankenhooker
Friday the 13th Part VI
Galaxy Invader
God Told Me To
Graduation Day
Igor and the Lunatics
Intruder
Iron Warrior
Izo [don't really know what genre this film is though]
I Was a Teenage Zombie [this one's HILARIOUS; "Yeah, I'm the weedman!"]
Junior [the 80's one]
Killer Condom
Killing Spree
La Mao: The Cat
Last Horror Movie
MANIAC
Maniac Cop 1, 2, and 3
Maniac Nurses Find Ecstacy
The Manitou
Meat Market
Microwave Massacre
Monster Squad
Monsturd
My Bloody Valentine
Nails
Necropolis
Neon Maniacs
New Year's Evil
New York Ripper
Night of the Creeps
Night of the Zombies [aka Zombie Creeping Flesh and about a million other titles]
Night Train to Terror
Nightmare [aka Nightmare in a Damaged Brain]
Nightmare Weekend
Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell
Opera
Phantasm II
Pinnochio 964
Pledge Night
Pot Zombies
Premutos: Lord of the Living Dead
The Prowler
Psycho Cop 2 (not 1)
The Psychic
Q: Winged Serpent
Relentless
Riki-Oh: Story of Ricky
Rock N Roll Nightmare
Skinned Alive
Skinned Deep
Skinner
Slaughterhouse
Slave of the Cannibal God
Slime City
Slumber Party Massacre [just the first one really]
Spookies
Stendhal Syndrome
Street Trash
Surf Nazis Must Die
Superstition
Suspiria
Tenabre
Terror Train
Tetsuo I and II
Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except [aka Stryker's War]
Torso
Unmasked Pt. 25
Untold Story
Visions of Suffering [easily the most fucked up movie ever made]
Zombi 2

I dunno, too many to name... my mind always draws blanks when I make these lists.. I own well over 900 and my Netflix account has been maxed out at 500 for years... my tastes tend to fall towards 80's weirdo films based in New York, old slasher films, melt movies, and giallos. I think 99% of the movies I listed above were made before the 2000's -- horror movies suck ass now.

Anyway, if I were to make a top 10, it'd be:
1. MANIAC (1980)
2. Gates of Hell
3. Dead Alive
4. Dawn of the Dead
5. The Beyond
6. Street Trash
7. Brain Damage
8. Body Melt
9. Night Train to Terror
10. Tenebre

Oh, and the Shining does suck ass.

Also, it's interesting to note there are two films called Frightmare, which I always found kind of weird... that's a pretty particular name.

EDIT: I just looked through this thread, demonrail you've got some good tastes. Glad to see soem love for Frank Henenlotter.

a couple of years ago i watched the exorcist 10 times in one week and by the last day i was seeing visions of regan mcneil when i went to sleep

Yes this is not a bad film as things go and the concept of it is great.

What is the criteria for "underrated" in this case? Poultergeist was a hugely successful and well-remembered film that spawned many sequels, parodies, and even a video game! In fact, I could be wrong here (and somebody can look this up on wikipedia and prove me right or wrong), but I'd say it was easily one of the most successful horror films ever made.. not just fianancially but in its legacy/inspiration to others as well.