Best & Worse Horror Movie You've Seen

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Since Dem's baited me with an obvious honey-trap, below is my list for the poll:

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

Even though I've posted a link to my Top 666, I'll post my Top 100 here for the sake of comparison.

1. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
2. Videodrome (1983)
3. The Wicker Man (1973)
4. Santa Sangre (1989)
5. Psycho (1960)
6. Peeping Tom (1960)
7. Onibaba (1964)
8. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
9. The Vanishing (1988)
10. Les diaboliques (1955)
11. Vampyr (1932)
12. The Innocents (1961)
13. The Devil Rides Out (1968)
14. Haxan (1922)
15. Nosferatu (1922)
16. Alien (1979)
17. Eraserhead (1977)
18. Threads (1984)
19. Lost Highway (1997)
20. The Invisible Man (1933)
21. King Kong (1933)
22. I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
23. Dead of Night (1945)
24. The Haunting (1963)
25. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
26. Repulsion (1965)
27. Jigoku (1960)
28. Possession (1981)
29. Faust (1926)
30. Eyes Without a Face (1960)
31. The Phantom Carriage (1921)
32. Don't Look Now (1973)
33. The Devils (1971)
34. Blue Velvet (1986)
35. Dead Ringers (1988)
36. Black Christmas (1974)
37. The Evil Dead (1981)
38. Hausu (1977)
39. Martin (1976)
40. A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971)
41. Tenebrae (1982)
42. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
43. The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
44. Jaws (1975)
45. Frankenstein (1931)
46. Carnival of Souls (1962)
47. The Tenant (1976)
48. Kwaidan (1964)
49. Man Bites Dog (1992)
50. L'Inferno (1911)
51. The Cremator (1969)
52. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
53. The Beyond (1981)
54. Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970)
55. Suspiria (1977)
56. Hellraiser (1987)
57. The Fog (1980)
58. The Company of Wolves (1984)
59. Stagefright (1987)
60. Kuroneko (1968)
61. Hardware (1990)
62. Gozu (2003)
63. Evil Dead Trap (1988)
64. Dementia (1955)
65. The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)
66. Clean, Shaven (1993)
67. Deep Red (1975)
68. Halloween (1978)
69. An American Werewolf in London (1981)
70. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
71. The Fly (1986)
72. Shivers (1975)
73. Horror Express (1972)
74. Freaks (1932)
75. Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
76. The Brides of Dracula (1960)
77. The Legend of Hell House (1973)
78. The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh (1971)
79. City of the Living Dead (1980)
80. Dellamorte Dellamore (1994)
81. The Thing (1982)
82. Sleepy Hollow (1999)
83. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
84. The Shining (1980)
85. Ganja & Hess (1973)
86. Ravenous (1999)
87. Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)
88. Paranoiac (1963)
89. Let the Right One In (2008)
90. Hour of the Wolf (1968)
91. Frightmare (1974)
92. I Saw the Devil (2010)
93. The Iron Rose (1973)
94. Who Can Kill a Child? (1976)
95. Twisted Nerve (1968)
96. The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1974)
97. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
98. Dracula (1958)
99. Maniac (1980)
100. At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964)

Possibly a few amendments since then but otherwise a fair representation of my Top 100.

It almost makes me want to do a 'bottom 100' for comparisons sake...

[MrBarlow]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

Who knows with Shyamalan. I certainly didn't find it funny... instead painful to the extreme to the extent that I was physically angry at myself for having endured such shite.

Were you like that with The Village... I know I was.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by MrBarlow

Were you like that with The Village... I know I was.

I actually didn't mind The Village.

[Cinematic Shocks]

The Village is an awful, awful film. I still haven't seen The Visit. I'll be watching Split soon.

[iank]

Best: Black Christmas (1974)

Worst: I dunno, I tend to turn off really shit ones and then block them out altogether.

Horror is my favourite genre.

[Demoncrat]

Best (today right this minute)
Peeping Tom

Worst (now and forever)
The Haunting (1999)

I've got deja vu ....hmmm.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Cinematic Shocks

The Village is an awful, awful film. I still haven't seen The Visit. I'll be watching Split soon.

I thought it was okay, despite it going downhill in terms of plot once the 'twist' has been revealed - decent performances and an eerie build-up helped me get something out of it. I don't think it would work as well with multiple re-watches. I'd suggest avoiding The Visit at all costs or just treat it in the same way one might approach Tommy Wiseau's The Room However, that said, it grates more than being laughably bad (it's just bad. Really bad!)

I'm actually intrigued by Split, mainly because of McAvoy.

[bleakshaun]

best: too bloody many
worst: nightmare on elm street remake

[6566329]

I've had an up-and-down week in terms of film choices, with absolutely one of the best horror films I've seen paired with possibly the most frustrating and unoriginal. So, not best and worst ever, but best and worst in a long, long time.

Best: The Witch (2015)
Lots of mentions of The Village on here. I'm of the "It was great until the twist" crowd. The Witch is the film I wanted from The Village. I love the setting and the style and the performances, even from the kids, are phenomenal across the board. Super, super creepy soundtrack, too.

Worst: The Innkeepers (2011)
Slow is OK. The Witch is a slow burn. But The Witch has things going on. The Innkeepers just has nothing happening at all. It was like Clerks without the jokes with the most cliched story imaginable. The Witch could be accused of using cliches in terms of the baddie, but there's so much going on besides the actual witch that the film could stand alone even if it was just a drama. I was a huge, huge fan of House of the Devil, even though the first 20 minutes of that film seemed to be shots of the lead walking about aimlessly, so I wanted to stick this out to the end. I thought Sara Paxton was great, too, doing a lot with a character without very much going on. But the ending just made things even worse, being almost hostile to the viewer. And not even in an interesting way. Furious haha. Won't be watching The Sacrament, but I'm not a fan of how that is a thinly disguised Jonestown movie anyway. There was just zero creativity in this movie and that looks to be of the same stable.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Definitely agree on both of those. Adored The Witch and hated The Innkeepers.

My review for The Witch.

My 'review' for The Innkeepers.

Plus, for posterity my review for The Visit, as referenced as the worst horror film I've ever seen above.