Happy Halloween from The Film Experience!
Friday, October 31, 2014 at 2:01AM 
We didn't make October a big horror month at the blog like we've done in past years (gotta switch it up from time to time) but we'll be creepier and crawlier next year since we had a break in 2014... if the blog survives another Oscar season, that is. [cue: ominous music]
But for now, an OPEN THREAD.
Which horror films have you seen the most in your lifetime? Do you always watch on on Halloween?
The only two horrors I've personally seen a ridiculous bunch of times (since I'm not a big rewatcher and it's hardly my favorite genre) are Psycho (1960) and Carrie (1976). I never tire of either. My third favorite is Rosemary's Baby (1968) though I've only see it thrice. Though several others are gold (Herzog's Nosferatu, Kubrick's The Shining, etcetera) those three just tower over all others casting creepy and unimproveable shadows. My teammates have a broader range of favorites as evidenced by our Top Ten Pre-Exorcist Horror Films and the Top Ten Post-Exorcist Horror films.
Happy Halloween !
Be safe tonight. We only pretend that ghoulish fates await us on All Hallows' Eve.
Reader Comments (22)
Whale's Frankenstein/Bride of Frankenstein
Browning's Dracula/Freaks/The Devil-Doll
Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Romero's Night of the Living Dead
Karl Freund's The Mummy
House of Dark Shadows
Night of Dark Shadows
The Tingler
Psycho
Blacula
Scream
Carrie
The Witches of Eastwick counts?
Scream
Scream 2
The Descent
Snyder's Dawn of the Dead
The Sixth Sense
It
Peggy Sue -- i think so. sort of?
John Carpenter's The Thing
Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
I was obsessed with Eastwick as a kid. I even bought the soundtrack.
I have seen Jaws at least a dozen times all the way through, so probably that.
The ones I watch the most are Carrie and Rosemary. I try to alternate - so this year it's Carrie's turn.
And I try to cross off some unseen classics each year, too. Yesterday watched Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, which was so great! That last scene! That face!
All-time favorite is The Exorcist. I also love Carrie, Rosemary's Baby, the original Frankenstein and Dracula, The Other, Psycho, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. And as a pure representation of the genre, The Omen (1976) is my second fave.
I saw Burnt Offerings twice when it came out at the theater--loved it! It still holds up. It's strange to note that this, Carrie and The Omen all came out in about a four-month period.
It's got to be Jaws for me. I first saw it on TV when I was *very* young - probably like six or seven - and have come back to it regularly throughout my life. I must've seen it at least 20-25 times.
Poltergeist. Creeps me out for so many reasons, but I've watched more than a few times.
How could I leave off Poltergeist and Carpenter's Halloween?
So my nightmare movies may not be scary as the rest of yours, but after seeing 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea as a little girl, I was convinced a giant squid lived at the bottom my bed. Then seeing Gregory Peck lashed to the whale, beckoning the sailors of the Pequod to their watery graves……………….anything with water: Jaws, The Deep, The Abyss.
Fittingly enough, I watched Rosemary's Baby for the first time last night.
Horror is generally a genre I avoid, because I'm easily scared like Leslie19 (I have a similar ocean-movie-based phobia). However, there are a few horror movies I usually end up watching about once a year:
Alien
Aliens
The Haunting
Nosferatu
Scream
Let The Right One In
The Evil Dead Trilogy (Groovy!)
Mine isn't a fiction film, it's a documentary about a suspension bridge that collapses in a storm with an old man and his dog in their car sitting on it. I saw it once as a child and the image still creeps into nightmares.
My all-time horror films are Glitter and Crossroads...
Or is that not the kind of horror movie you were referring to? :)
For real: my favorite horror movie is The Evil Dead. Classic Sam Raimi.
Psycho (1960)
The Screams - all of them
The Silence of the Lambs
Rosemary's Baby
The Shining
The Sixth Sense
Fallen
Zodiac
Donnie Darko
...and I think Cabin in the Woods will join the list over time
Brookesboy got there before me. As bad a movie as it is, Burnt Offerings really really really creeped me out as a kid. Especially the Chauffeur.
Another bad movie that creeped me out was The Car, with James Brolin as the sheriff of an isolated desert town terrorized by... The Car.
I've probably seen the Halloween / Friday the 13th / Scream / Saw movies enough to count.
But I do love scary movies. Happy Halloween!
Audition! I make excuses to teach it so I can rewatch it.
The original Halloween and the original Nightmare on Elm Street I also find very rewatchable, even comforting.
The Shining
Alien
Rosemary's Baby
Scream
Cabin in the Woods
"Pyscho", " Night of the Living Dead"