Your Favourite Horror Film from 1997
 

1997 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 1997 is...

Runners Up:
Cube
Event Horizon
Mimic
The Night Flier
Nightwatch
The Relic
The Ugly
Uncle Sam
Two Orphan Vampires
The Wax Mask
Wishmaster

Your choice of Lost Highway probably is the best film from 1997, your other picks of Event Horizon and Wishmaster are also top quality. However to add a little variety i will choose I Know What you did Last Summer. I really enjoyed it at the flicks and have seen it quite a few times since and still enjoy it.

Can't say the same about its sequels though.

Not sure I would have called Lost Highway a horror (not that I'm sure what I would call it either, maybe a thriller), but it certainly is an awesome film. I think it may even be my favourite David Lynch film. For some odd reason I dont own it. I guess I will wait for BD now.

Like others I've picked from this decade (Se7en and The Silence of the Lambs), I'm again going to go with a film which many don't regard as an outright horror film and agree with bizarre_eye as almost every David Lynch film is genius and has an element of horror.

Lost Highway

For sheer OTT acting,and one of the best (and always forgotten) portrayals of Satan,then Al Pacino in THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE wins it hands down.
For his 'Absentee landlord' speech alone.:nod:

Completely forgot Devil's Advocate when i made my choice.

I still rate I Know What You Did Last Summer so it doesn't matter.

Good call on The Devil's Advocate. It's one of those where Pacino eating the scenery is part of the character and not an annoying piece of overacting!

That list of films by and/or re-watch is growing by the day, if not the hour!

Yeah Devil's Advocate was a superb potboiler!

I remember going into Virgin in Falkirk and picking up the Warner VHS Boxset which contained the widescreen (a collectable thing back then!) VHS and the source novel.:cool:
It was one of my most prized possessions!:lol:

I still have that release. It also has some large art cards if i recall.

I didn't realise it was based on a novel, so I'll try to buy a copy and read it before I next watch the film.

Reminds me of my Bram Stoker's Dracula vhs. Housed in a coffin shaped box and includes the source novel with new cover and a smart stud badge shaped like the House of Dracula three heads motif, as illustrated towards the bottom of the box set.

I don't remember Lost Highway very well from my one and only viewing and desperately need to see it again. I remember it impressing me but I cannot presume it is my favourite for the year. I need to know it better.

So I'd have to go for Mimic which I think is a great film, no matter what anyone else says!

Lost Highway is one of the all-time greats full stop, so it romps home this year for me.

Honourable mention for Event Horizon (aka Hellraiser in space :D)

well id have gone for Event horizon if i could see a complete print of it. so it has to be Lost Highway purely for the fact i got to see it at the pictures. when the lightbulb comes on sheesh, have seen all his films since BV at cinema, and have to say this is the way to see them:doh: of course the cinema is the place to see most films but to paraphrase orwell "some films are more equal than others"
am i right in thinking that the beheading in The Relic was the first i saw in a 15 rated film??

I really enjoyed The Relic. Tom Sizemore is a lot of fun in this film.

Lost Highway

Outstanding

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