Best Horror Movie of All Time

[DFSNOLE]

Stuff can really get to us when we are kids that seems absolutely silly when we are older. More than one kid was terrified by the flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz.

Especially when you're my age. The technology in the 70's that was state of the art at the time is so poor and campy now.

 

[Spearchucker87]

My mother took my older brother and myself (age 8 at the time) to see It's Alive at the theater not a great idea mind you. I was afraid to get in our van after the movie and remember having dreams for a week or two of that baby getting me in the middle of the night. I tried watching it again about 15 years ago and it was just awful. Thinking about this my son is 9 at the moment and I don't think we have freaked him out yet with a movie. I need to act quickly to continue the tradition.

I think as a kid you are just really impacted by stuff. I probably didn't even get taken to any potentially scary movie before age 9 or so. But I remember movies that really affected me starting around that time. 2001 A Space Oddysey, Seeing the computer Hal kill the three astronouts in different ways really hit me in the heart. "The Frogs", where people got terrorized by snakes and leaches and a snapping turtle (LOL), freaked me out and left me spooked for days. To me the Bond movies of those years were epic, the way 90s kids saw Jurrassic Park. The Posseidon Aventure too, I found absolutely epic. Films you see at a certain young age just impact you and stick with you I think.

 

[FSUTribe76]

Especially when you're my age. The technology in the 70's that was state of the art at the time is so poor and campy now.

There's a few of the 70s and early 80s horror movies that still hold up quite well. Alien and the John Carpenter movies immediately spring to mind.

Although if I'm being honest, I'm a big John Carpenter fan in general. His episode of Masters of Horror (Cigarette Burns) is absolutely fantastic and of course I love The Thing, The Fog, Christine, Halloween, Escape from New York, They Live, Assault on Precinct 13, Starman and In the Mouth of Madness.

 

[DFSNOLE]

There's a few of the 70s and early 80s horror movies that still hold up quite well. Alien and the John Carpenter movies immediately spring to mind.

Although if I'm being honest, I'm a big John Carpenter fan in general. His episode of Masters of Horror (Cigarette Burns) is absolutely fantastic and of course I love The Thing, The Fog, Christine, Halloween, Escape from New York, They Live, Assault on Precinct 13, Starman and In the Mouth of Madness.

The two that first came to mind were the original Night of the Living Dead and the Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Neither would ave the impact they had at the time.