Great topic! 

Some of my favorite memories are of my best friend and I in 5th and 6th grade staying up all night scaring ourselves watching terrifically grainy horror movies on VHS.

Near Dark, Psycho, Sleepaway Camp, Graveyard Shift (the vampire movie, not the Stephen King one) Happy Birthday to Me, American Gothic, Pet Sematary 1&2, Evil Dead 2, Ravenous, Company of Wolves, Hellraiser 1-3, The Hunger, Lair of the White Worm, Creepshow 2, Cube 1&2, The Dark Half, The Prophecy, Fright Night 1 & 2, Waxwork 1 & 2, Night of the Creeps, Student Bodies, Dead Alive, Pumpkinhead, Basket Case, Carrie, The Fly, The Shining...

With very few exceptions, I think the horror genre has slid down the crapper.  

Fantastic choices, Angel! The first time I saw Pumpkinhead, with that creepy old woman...yikes.  Some of my faves (which include all of those you listed) are Halloween and Halloween 2--it's my opinion that those two are the best.  Twilight Zone: The Movie. Christine. Night of the Living Dead *The 1990 remake*. The Lady In White *it's cheesy, but I still love that movie, and it still creeps me out*.  American Werewolf in London *even though parts of it are insanely funny*. Evil Dead. Poltergeist. Sleepwalkers. Misery. Thriller *even though it is a short film*. Silence of the Lambs. Phantom of the Opera *the original*. The Ring. Jaws.

Whew! Those are what I come with at the top of my head for now. :)

There are favorites for nostalgia reasons and favorites for scary reasons. 

Nostalgia:  Poltergeist #1 only, Nightmare on Elm Street 1 & 4, The Changeling (although it could've been a "thriller"), Twilight Zone the Movie and was it Sandman with the kid who got his mouth sewn shut???

Scary:  The Ring, House of 1000 Corpses (God I love that movie), Hellraiser original only, Saw kind of creeped me out a little...

Nightmare on Elm Street I and III

House of a 1000 Corpses

Poltergeist

Halloween

Silence of the Lambs

Alien,The Thing,Nightmare on Elm.. ,Company of Wolves,Screamers...

Not all of them are my favourite,they are just the films I found a bit frightening some years ago..

 Oh yeah!  I live for seeing horror movies.  The new Halloween was excellent.  Seeing as Halloween is more of a thriller instead of a slasher film I was a little leary about seeing it, but it was right on! 

My daughter just got into the "rent scary movies and watch with your friends" stage and I told her all you have to do is side with the bad guy and be scared no more!  She'll never admit it, but she loves me.

I'm probably the only one who thought Nightmare 7 was the best of the series, though I like the original and the threequel despite their 80's cheese. The Halloween series (minus 3) was very big with me as a kid. I still haven't seen The Thing, I don't know what's wrong with me.

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Wonder what was going through their heads when they came out with Halloween 3?  The rest are good after that, not as great at the first two, but good nonetheless.

I remember a movie that scared the bejeepers out of me when I was kid...had a big snake in it...Dreamscape?

Some others: Alien, Carrie, The Sixth Sense (watched that at like 2 in the morning--was quite jumpy afterwards, not much sleep that night), IT.

Mikey was burnt to a crisp at the end of II, and series financier Moustapha Akkad wanted to continue the series as an anthology (ala Tales From The Darkside). The third film was terrible, so they brought back The Shape.

Though the sequels after that are kind of all over the place, the series never got as bad as, say, Nightmare 4-6. Oh, I'm blocking Resurrection again. Never mind.

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My theory by A. Elk, brackets, Miss, brackets. This theory goes as follows and begins now. All brontosauruses are thin at one end, much much thicker in the middle, and then thin again at the far end. That is my theory, it is mine, and it belongs to me, and I own it, and what it is, too.

Ange's Odyssey

1. The Shining

2. Suspiria

3. Alien

4. The Omen

5. Candyman

6. Nightmare on Elm Street

7. Poltergeist

8. Carnival of Souls

9. The Ring

10. Halloween

kudos to whoever mentioned Lair of the White Worm, love that one and the best horror movie of the last few years (other than The Ring is easily High Tension)     

"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

1) THE EXORCIST (absolutely the scariest film of our time: a masterpiece)

2) THE ALIEN SAGA (my worst nightmare...)

3) SHINING (does moquette on the floor in the scene with the blood that floods the corridor remind you anything?)

4) JOHN CARPENTER'S THE THING (a variation on the theme of an alien and a isolated place)

5) DARIO ARGENTO'S PROFONDO ROSSO (I don't know how this title has been translated into english, maybe DEEP RED...Anyway Dario is Asia Argento's father and the greatest horror and thriller filmaker in Italy and one of the best in the world...)

6) DAVID CRONENBERG'S THE FLY (what if our cells met a fly?)

7) SAM RAIMI'S THE HOUSE (splatter reigns!)

8) ROMERO'S DAWN OF THE EVIL DEAD (the italian title is ZOMBIE... BTW, when I was 12 I had the videogame too ...)

9) IT (no comment needed...Uhm...Maybe one: keep away from McDonald's!)

10) THE JAPANESE RINGU SAGA ( the original is better than THE RING)

And at the 11th place I'd choose....MY EVERYDAY LIFE (it's not a film, but don't meet me in a cul-de-sac guys.....)

"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

Poltergeist I, II, III

Nightmare on Elmstreet

It

Crow (I)

Petsemitary I

Saw I, III

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Evil dead

The Hostel

Hellraiser - ALL OF THEM!

Friday 13th - ALL OF THEM!

 / L 

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