Cult Labs' Favourite Horror Film

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by SharonLynette

There are a few that nearly made it that I just couldn't decide on ...it's just too hard.

Tell me about it.

I've narrowed my list down to 150. That was bad enough.

There are only four of Bizarre_Eye's top 20 in my list of 150.

[SharonLynette]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Tell me about it.

I've narrowed my list down to 150. That was bad enough.

There are only four of Bizarre_Eye's top 20 in my list of 150.

That's interesting - I think we should work out which members have the most similar tastes in film and those that are least (film) compatible. I say I think we should, obviously I can't be bothered, someone that likes excel should.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by SharonLynette

It's so difficult, there are so many films that I just love depending on the time of the year, it's hard to judge, plus there are things that I've seen only recently that I've loved more than I thought I would (Nightmare City) and those that keep creeping into my mind - when I think of them I want to watch them again (The Perfume of the Lady in Black, Ghosthouse). I think if I studied my list too much I would be tweaking it all the time - I shouldn't have forgot The Tenant though! I don't think I'd know what to knock off but that would be in the top twenty. There are a few that nearly made it that I just couldn't decide on like Picnic at Hanging Rock, Let the Right One In, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders...it's just too hard.

I was exactly the same when making my list, as there are numerous perennial favourites, others which are fairly recent and could easily move up or down 10 places depending on when I watched them, my mood at the time and how recently I'd seen another which is close to it in the list.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Recent movies or recent watches pose a slight problem as the majority of my list i've seen 4 times minimum.

Something i've only seen once and thought was brilliant may not stand the test of time. Do they deserve a potential top hundred place on one sitting?

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Recent movies or recent watches pose a slight problem as the majority of my list i've seen 4 times minimum.

Something i've only seen once and thought was brilliant may not stand the test of time. Do they deserve a potential top hundred place on one sitting?

Film is like art for me - the brilliance (or not) is instantaneous and I often go off initial impact.

Lists like these will evolve anyway in time with re-watches and reappraisals etc.

We can also compare when I do next year's list!

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Recent movies or recent watches pose a slight problem as the majority of my list i've seen 4 times minimum.

Something i've only seen once and thought was brilliant may not stand the test of time. Do they deserve a potential top hundred place on one sitting?

That's why these lists can never be set in stone and will change many times per year.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

Film is like art for me - the brilliance (or not) is instantaneous and I often go off initial impact.

Lists like these will evolve anyway in time with re-watches and reappraisals etc.

We can also compare when I do next year's list!

I'm always intrigued whenever a recent film appears in the Sight & Sound critics list, and whether it will be there in the next poll (taken a decade later). Because some of the films have been mainstays for many years, that's why the great films are truly great.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

These are the films that failed to make my top 100.

All deserve to really. They are all brilliant. however i had to narrow things down.

Deep Red
Daughters of Darkness
The Unnamable
The Crawling Eye
Edge of Sanity
The Demons
Die Monster Die
Demon Seed
Rosemary's Killer
The Entity
Breeders
Humanoids from the Deep
The Haunted Palace
Lust for a Vampire
Isle of the Dead
The 7th Victim
Doghouse
Seven
Species
Wendigo
Dead of Night
Tucker and Dale vs Evil
Curse of Chucky
My Bloody Valentine
Laid to Rest
Day of the Dead
Who Saw Her Die?
Needful Things
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
The Thing from Another World
Botched
Pig Hunt
Wrong Turn
Wilderness
Dog Soldiers
From Dusk Till Dawn
Severance
The Ruins
The Case of the Scorpions Tale
All the Colours of the Dark
Blood and Black Lace
Death Walks on High Heels
Delirium
Feast
Feast II
Brides of Dracula
Black Sabbath
The Red Queen Kills Seven Times
Fright
Season of the Witch
Lord of Illusions
Boy Eats Girl
Absentia
The Wicker Man

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Some great films there Dem, although quite a few that failed to make my Top 666 too!

That's not to say I don't like some of them though.

[Rondadoronron]

Help me Ronda yeah

1. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
2. Dawn of the Dead(1978)
3. Phantasm
4. The Evil Dead (1984)
5. Suspiria
6. Bride of Frankenstein
7. Cat People (1942)
8. Shivers
9. Day Of The Dead (1985)
10. Re-Animator
11. The Return of the Living Dead
12. Tenebrae
13. Fright Night(1985)
14. The Thing (1982)
15. The Brood
16. Blood Feast
17. The Mummy (1932 )
18. Zombie Flesh Eaters
19. Halloween III: Season of the Witch
20. The Wizard of Gore
21. Creepshow
22. The Corpse Grinders
23. Dracula vs. Frankenstein ( Al Adamson)
24. Countess Dracula
25. Fright
26. Hands of the Ripper
27. I Drink Your Blood
28. Black Sunday
29. Martin
30. The Grapes of Death
31. Psychomania
32. Twitch of the Death Nerve
33. Twins of Evil
34. Asylum
35. Blood of Ghastly Horror ( Al Adamson)
36. The Cannibal Man
37. Deathdream
38. Death Line
39. Don't Torture a Duckling
40. Dracula AD 1972
41. Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
42. Hunchback of the Rue Morgue
43. The Gore Gore Girls
44. The Last House on the Left
45. Tales from the Crypt
46. The Thing with Two Heads
47. Tower of Evil
48. Vampire Circus
49. Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
50. Horror Express
51. Blood for Dracula
52. Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll
53. Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
54. The Devil's Rain
55. The Abominable Dr. Phibes
56. House of Mortal Sin
57. Flesh for Frankenstein
58. From Beyond the Grave
59. Horror Hospital
60. The Legend of Hell House
61. The Satanic Rites of Dracula
62. God Told Me To
63. Theatre of Blood
64. The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
65. Vault of Horror
66. The Hills Have Eyes
67. Spider Baby
68. Rabid
69. Deranged
70. The Werewolf and the Yeti
71. Carrie
72. Who Can Kill a Child?
73. The Wolf Man (1941)
74. Mansion of the Doomed
75. Eaten Alive ( Tobe Hooper)
76. Bad Taste
77. The Car
78. Patrick
79. The Toolbox Murders
80. Friday the 13th (1980)
81. Alone In The Dark (1982)
82. Race with the Devil
83. Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
84. Dead of Night
85. The Omen
86. The Dunwich Horror
87. I Drink Your Blood
88. Cannibal Holocaust
89. The Shining
90. The Monster Club
91. Psycho II
92. From Beyond
93. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
94. The Horror of Frankenstein
95. Mark of the Devil
96. Blood from the Mummy's Tomb
97. Taste the Blood of Dracula
98. Blood on Satan's Claw
99. Basket Case
100. Black Christmas