Your Favourite Horror Film from 1987
 

1987 was a year for some brilliant horror films, but which one is your favourite? What makes it special to you? When did you first see it? Would you recommend it to the uninitiated?

Sometimes it's a hard decision to just pick one film (even when you're limiting it to a single year!), but my favourite film of 1987 is...

Runners Up:
Angel Heart
Anguish
Bad Taste
Blood Diner
Creepshow 2
Dolls
Evil Dead 2
Faceless
The Hidden
The Lost Boys
Near Dark
Nekromantik
Opera
Prince of Darkness
Stage Fright
The Stepfather
Street Trash

Hmm, good list Bizarre Eye. Near Dark and Prince of Darkness are both terrific as is your choice of Hellraiser.

I would add

The Serpent and the Rainbow

to the list of great films mentioned previously. As a lot of posters will go for the big guns, i thought of one a little more obscure - The Unholy

Mine goes to Hellraiser.At the time Clive Barker was like a god-figure in horror medium with Books of Blood and The Damnation Game.Hellraiser succeeds in the same splatterpunk vein and the domestic setting with claustrophopic small spaces works much better than some over ambitious Hell in Hellbound.Also best score ever.Other faves from '87 include the satanic Prince of Darkness,Angel Heart,Near Dark,Evil Dead II of course,the one and only Street Trash,and Argento's Opera.Truly a great year.

Good call Jani.

From BE's list it's a toss up between "Hellraiser" and "Necromantik" both quite shocking in their own ways though "Hellraiser" wins it for me with it's religious undertow that is not too far away from the theme running through "Martyrs".

I read somewhere that Barker upped the S&M imagery in "Hellraiser" after a weekend of visiting gay S&M clubs with the band Coil.

Evil Dead 2 wins this for me as it is my favourite of the series with Lost Boys a close second. 87 was a great year for horror!

Some great films released that year and I would have to narrow it down to Hellraiser, Evil Dead II or Near Dark but, as I'm trying to avoid picking horror-comedies, I'd go for Hellraiser but would probably pick Near Dark if I had to choose again tomorrow!

Jackson's BAD TASTE is hilarious.Total genius.

That's how to make a brilliant film on feck all budget!

I agree in what you say Reaps,but Lost Boys? God no.

The effects may be rubbish, continuity is virtually non-existent and it is quite obviously made on a shoestring (or even less) budget, but it is really well directed and written.

I'll agree there Darth-with Raimi's comic gorefest winning.


So here's the question......What's the better film THE LOST BOYS or NEAR DARK?:eyebrows:

:lol: I love your sense of humour.

A tougher question would be which is best Twilight or the Lost Boys? :eyebrows:

Near Dark -- no contest. The Lost Boys is good fun, but it doesn't have the depth or characterisation of Kathryn Bigelow's film.

Bollocks!
The Frog brothers all the way!:lol:

Hope you enjoyed the sequels ;)

The sequels to Near Dark?

What were they called again?

New Moon,Eclipse?

You sure seem to know your girly vampire shit. ;)

In a house with 3 kids between 10 and 13-I sure do.:lol:

You sure these aren't all 'girly' films? :eyebrows:

Near Dark for me too - and as for Twilight, it's blasphemy that they've even been mentioned at all! :shocked:

Optimum's cover art dept. really screwed up there - that monstrosity is the reason I haven't picked up the UK Blu yet. I'm hoping they'll re-release it at some point with better artwork.

Great mock up there Reaps. - you win. :clap:

Hear hear! Near Dark is a great movie and doesn't belong in the same sentence as those made-for-teenage-girls vampyrer abominations.

I don't believe it !

Its not a mock up its a real bd case, WTF were they thinking. :rant:

I really don't like that artwork, but you know what they say about never judging a book by its cover, that applies to DVDs and BDs as well!

Completely off topic but I saw "Twilight" recently and it's worth seeing alone for the WTF vampire family baseball game. It was one of the strangest things I'd seen in an age.

Though I really like "Near Dark" I've gone off vampire films that don't have a supernatural/religious edge to them. I much prefer the days when your personal faith could over come a vampire rather than a roundhouse kick which seems to be the norm today.

"The Lost Boys" is pretty toothless and therefore sucks:pound:

Its terrible, what were Optimum thinking? Tw***ght? hmm we can make a fast buck from that.

I genuinely thought Reaper had mocked that sleeve up.

:lol:

Cash in?


NOW WHERE THE **** ARE ALL THE LOST BOYS FANS? :eyebrows:


People are strange indeed.....:happy:




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Your there. I can see you online. :lol:

michty what a choice...
Near Dark
Opera
Stage Fright
Nekromantik

in that order...Unholy was a good pick though, a wee gem that fell under the radar...personally id only include TLB in a comedy list!!

Reaper! your latest avatar is that from Twishite, or some other girly vamp flick? :lol:

Evil Dead II, followed by The Lost Boys. Come on, it's fun!

The year I was born :)

Best films from 87 for me are:

Bad Taste
Evil Dead 2
Faceless (thought this came out in 1988?)
Nekromantik
Prince of Darkness
Stage Fright
Street Trash (a lot of fun but the middle drags)

In no particular order:
Hellraiser
Near Dark
Lost Boys
Running Man(based on a Stephen King novella so it's here by default)
Evil Dead 2
Predator
Favourite altogether from this list has to be Evil Dead 2, one word review-Groovy!

stagefright
near dark (was there another vampire film released this year?)
hellraiser
in that order.

What about "The Hidden" from 1987? - A truly exceptional cult classic.

Near Dark

Another good 'un from this year is THE VIDEO DEAD which Shout Factory have did a cracking job with!
I watched it on Sunday,and it was great to see it cleaned up.
The film itself has it's tongue firmly planted in it's cheek.
The acting and dialogue is abysmal.

Cheep,backyard,amateurish,enthusiastic splatter.
Would we want it any other way?:tongue1:

The Lost Boys. A truly magnificent film. I feel that it is the definitive vampire movie (sorry Near Dark fans!) and one of my all time favourite movies of all time.

Near Dark - A well made blend of Horror and Western with exceptional performances from all the cast (and because they never use the term "Vampire" once).

Lost Boys - An obvious cult classic and you have the badass saxophone guy so what's not to hate.
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Hellraiser - Masterpiece of splatterpunk and some (for me anyway) of the most memorable lines in any movie.