Favorite Horror Flick?

The Shining

The Omen it'll Scare The Crap Outta you.

Wrong Turn

The President huh? ha ha DJT and It's Admin. ( it's not a movie Yet - pray everyone )

the Exorcist.............saw it once in 1974 and I never went to a horror flick again in my life. It did it's job been 43 years since I saw a horror flick. Scared the shit out of me! I never got paying to be scared, not my favorite emotion. Same with roller coasters...........I liked them when I was a kid but at about 30 I gave em up.......

The 2007 remake of Halloween is pretty fucking scary.

So many to choose from. 

Creepshow was a good one.

Catch....I still see that bitch sitting in our bed when the wife and I have a late night on the couch. She falls asleep before me then I stare down the hall and get all freaked out. Kinda funny but not really since I'm serious. 

Freaks me the F out when have to pass the bedroom to take a piss.....I run like a little girl past the door. I always feel that bitches presence!

Wish I never saw that movie!

Burnt Offerings, staring Oliver Reed. It came out in early 1976

I'm a fan of the genre,  but like some other folks have stated,  the really "" Good "" ones are just too Horrific and Disturbing.

Anyway,  some classics:  "The Hills Have Eyes" ; "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" ;  "Bunnyman" ;  "The Shining".

Last one is famous and not all that gory,  but it's still pretty scary.

All the George Romero Zombie flicks have their merits (Night Of The Living Dead,  Dawn Of The Dead,  Son Of Dawn Of Night etc...)  but it is probably best to go from the original through the descendents, one evening at a time.  I like the one based in the 70's Mall the best,  but they all grow on you.

If you start getting Freaked Out,  watch "Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein"  because it's Funny and Jerry Garcia liked it.

>>>>The 2007 remake of Halloween is pretty fucking scary.

Agreed.  Not too many movies are really scary these days (gory and disturbing, yes) but that one was good scare fest.  Rob Zombie did the series justice.

The original Halloween ranks up there in my top three, along with the Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby.  Although I am not religious, it just takes a bit of suspension of belief to get really spooked by those occult classics.

Also a big fan of the old Hammer Horror films.  Not really scary (especially in a post-Exorcist world), but very stylistic Gothic horror with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee running around fog shrouded castles surrounded by a virtual harem of female bloodsuckers, like Ingrid Pitt:

Vincent Price on acid  - the Tingler

The Killer Shrews

The OP said "favorite", not necessarily scariest or best.

In that light I say American Werewolf In London. 

I love that movie; it's creepy but funny too.

George R. Romero's "Dawn of the Dead" is my favorite horror film of all time.

"House of the Devil" is my favorite 'new' horror film. a homage to late 70s/early 80s horror, it strikes an impressive tone that absolutely nails the style and feel of movies of that timeframe.

you may find it slow building, but the payoff in the last 20 minutes or so are crazy. (tbf, i wasn't happy with the very last scene, but it's a small quibble.

The opening credit scene is worth the rental alone.

oh, and "Get Out" was one of the better movies i've seen this year.

>>>>"House of the Devil" is my favorite 'new' horror film.

That was good, a well crafted throw back.  

>>>>"Get Out" was one of the better movies I've seen this year.   

Yep.  That was a good one, nice mix of dark humor, social commentary, and genuine scares.   

Another oldie but goodie, is Targets - which was Boris Karloff's final film.   Don't know if its available on Netflix or Amazon Prime, but it's dark and scary and remains relevant 40 years later:

Speaking of relevancy to the modern world and current events, how was "Green Room"?   I have been meaning to see that one.

Not really a horror flick, but gave me nightmares as a child

Fantastic Planet

The trailer for the remake of Stephen King's IT looks pretty intense. The original was freaky, and it was a made for tv movie!

another one that scared that crap out of me that I did not see mentioned here was Candyman. That one...

The remake of Halloween 2 scared the bejeezus out of me as well.

The Other ...the original (i think it was remade , anyway)

"Another oldie but goodie, is Targets - which was Boris Karloff's final film.   Don't know if its available on Netflix or Amazon Prime, but it's dark and scary and remains relevant 40 years later:"

So this movie was mentioned in a documentary that I watched last weekend, "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls : how the sex-drugs-and-rock-'n'-roll generation saved Hollywood".  Well worth your time.

The story is that Peter Bogdanovich had done some second unit production for Roger Corman and, as was his habit, instead of paying Bogdanovich (who had never directed anything at this point) Corman offered to let him direct his own film.  This was considered a big plus for up and coming wanna be directors.

So instead of letting Bogdanovich start a new film, Corman gives him a bunch of old footage with Karloff that he had already shot and says "You can make a movie using this, and you have to use Boris Karloff because he still owes me two days work."  So Bogdanovich has to come up with an idea of how to incorporate the existing footage into a story and include some new Karloff material.  After working for days trying to come up with an idea he had a flash of doing a "movie within a movie" that would allow him to incorporate the existing footage.

Corman loved the final product and thought it was bound to be successful.  Then days before the release the Manson killings occurred and they decided that there was no way that they could put it out in that atmosphere so it stayed on the shelf for years.

Tremors

The original House On Haunted Hill 

The original House On Haunted Hill <<<<<<<

yup - I dumped a coke in my lap when I saw that as a kid.

The Last House on the Left (Original 1972)