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These are some good flicks. I, too am a huge fan of horror flicks. However, for sheer disturbing cinema, I'd have to pick:

Silence of the Lambs
Cube
Blue Velvet
28 Days Later
Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things
Don't Look in the Basement
The Collector
Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer
American Psycho
House on Haunted Hill (50's)
Village of the Damned/Midwitch Cuckoos (60's)
Brotherhood of Satan
The Mephisto Waltz
Psychomania
Don't Look Now
The Dunwich Horror
Salem's Lot (The 70's TV Version)

There's a lot more, but I'll just keep it short.

I do not understand why people regard 28 Days Later so highly. I wasn't scared at all by it and found the direction and camerawork to be erratic and annoying.
But I do agree with you on Don't Look Now, a great, underseen shocker.

Was psychomania the flick where the people kill themselves and will themselves back. I'll check the name but there was a really cheap english film where a motor bike gang found that if you kill yourself and really really want to come back, you will.

Yeah, Psychomania is the one where the bikers, in a pact with the devil, kill themselves and gain eternal life as the undead.

I absolutely love this thread! Some more favorites:

"Nachte des Grauens" - 1916
"The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" - 1919
"Freaks" - 1932
"Burn Witch, Burn!" - 1962
"Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" - 1962
"Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte" - 1965
"The She Beast (Lago di Satana)" - 1966
"The Hills Have Eyes" - 1977
"Suspiria" - 1977
"Re-Animator" - 1985
"Dead Alive" - 1992

I am also a huge fan of horror starlet and "Fangoria" pin-up girl Linnea Quigley. Does anyone else remember her? She played 'Trash' in "Return of the Living Dead" and starred in nearly every 1980's horror/slasher b-movies. She was even featured in the Ramones video "Substitute".

http://www.linneaquigleycircle.com/

My favorite Linnea Quigley role, aside from Return of the Living Dead, which will always be her best, is in Silent Night, Deadly Night as the naked chick impaled by the deer horns. Ample nudity and a really cool death scene to boot!

[quote][i]Originally posted by wallofboingo[/i]
<br>My favorite Linnea Quigley role, aside from Return of the Living Dead, which will always be her best, is in Silent Night, Deadly Night as the naked chick impaled by the deer horns. Ample nudity and a really cool death scene to boot!
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I'm with ya on this one, except that for me, a movie's just not a movie without a good "man on fire" scene.

Well, than you must really like the early 80's slasher flick, "The Burning."

Man, we used to watch a lot of these, especially the B-movie, cheaply-made ones. Some great ones listed....'Phantasm' was one I remember seeing on HBO in the early early 80's at a freind's house.....

'I spit on your grave' I remember well.

'Basket Case' featured a creepy little baby in a bassinet waiting to kill you

'the Manitou' which if I remember correctly an Indian with a tomohawk would actually grow out of your body and kill you

...who dreams up this stuff???

B- movies rule! Sorority babes in slimeball bowl-er-ama is one of my favs.

Sorority Babes also boasts one of the greatest theme songs in movie history! I wish I had a copy of it.

The Legend of hell house.Jacobs ladder.Requim for a dream.The wickerman.Exorcist.The Hunger.Pieces.Amityville horror.The forgotten.Death ship.ALIEN.Trilogy of terror.Race with the devil.

I am really looking forward to purchasing the "Friday the 13th" boxset. Movies 1 thru 10!!!

Alot of great movies are mentioned here. I am just adding one that no one has mentioned yet:

Black Christmas from 1974 starring John Saxon, a young Valerie Bertinelli, and Keir Dullea.

I won't divulge any details about the plot. To me, this has to be one of the most suspenseful and creepy films I have ever watched. Do not watch it alone!!

My favorite scary/suspense films are: "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"(the bird scene freaks me out every time), "Carrie", "The Rapture"(interesting film but very creepy), "Flowers in the Attic", the original "Phantom of the Opera", and "Psycho". Most of my taste in this genre is for suspense rather than blood and guts. Some of the scariest movies are those that imply rather than show what is going on. I also loved the movie "Ed Wood" about the making of B-horror movies and "Plan 9 From Outer Space".

Nowhere Girl[8D]