Best Favorite OLD Horror Movie?

[kerryanne]

I have 3 favorite OLD horror movies: the first one is of course Dracula (guilty pleasure.) I rent it every once and while just so I can see the bats on the strings... But another good one is the Pit and the Pendulum... with Vincent Price---- Classic. Then there is Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte... with Betty Davis...still not as scary as being ten and sneaking out to watch the Exorcist but still... This is where it all started.

[john1007]

Dracula, the Wolfman, and Frankenstein were my favorite old horror movies.

[Mr. Meat]

Vincent Price was great. Maybe even the king of horror. Hmmm...if you liked Dracula then you'll like Nosferatu. That movie is pretty old as well. Maybe even the best Vampire movie. EVER.

[kerryanne]

I see a clip of that every once and awhile Mr.Meat and I know for fact that they would not have it here...Any idea where I could get that? Any help would be great... Thanks!

PS Nice to see that ya didn't leave Johnny-

[john1007]

Thank's Kerryanne, and i'm also sorry for acting like an idiot when i first came here.

[Mr. Meat]

Kerryanne its not hard to find around here. Umm...I go to Hollywod Video. They have an excellent selection but thats over here in Vegas so I don't know where you're coming from. Try those small chain video stores. You know the ones that are less mainstream to the public. I want to say Blockbuster but I honestly never seen Nosferatu there.

[kerryanne]

Thank you Mr. Meat... I live in a small farm town in Iowa, but I work in Des Moines near a Hollywood Video... So I will try there, and let ya know what I think of it!! /ubb/biggrin.gif /ubb/wink.gif /ubb/smile.gif

[yvonne]

kerryanne i have seen it at blockbuster video... yvonne

[kerryanne]

Thanks you guys---I am sure this one will become a favorite--- /ubb/smile.gif /ubb/smile.gif /ubb/smile.gif

[BlynS2]

Dracula, Frankenstein, The Werewolf, The Mummy, Nosferatu, all Vincent Price's works, Psycho, The Birds, and Abbot and Costello meet the Mummy, Frankenstein, Werewolf, etc. are all my favs. /ubb/biggrin.gif

[yvonne]

i have to admit..i havent seen too many older horror films....i know it terrible of me..but i just dont like to take chances, then have it suck and a few hours of my life are wasted..any good suggestions?

[HarryLloyd96]

Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, and definately the Exorcist.

[QUENTIN]

Silence of The Lambs is a 1991 film.

[Brock Landers]

All of Vincent Price's Roger Corman/Edgar Allen Poe Adaptations are great. and technically speaking "Psycho" is a 1999 film as well...

[The Troll Man]

A pair of old French films - Les Diaboliques (Diabolique in the US, pants remake with Sharon Stone) and Les Yeux Sans Visage (aka Eyes Without a Face)

[Brock Landers]

Here's a few GREAT classic horror flicks I reviewed recently...I really dig them...

- "The Beast with Five Fingers" (Peter Lorre)

- "Black Sunday" aka "Mask Of Satan" (dir: Mario Bava / Starring: Barbara Steele)

- "The Conqueror Worm" aka "Witchfinder General" (dir: Roger Corman / Starring: Vincent Price)

- "Masque Of The Red Death" (dir: Corman / Starring: Price)

- "The Oblong Box" (dir: Corman / Starring: Price)

- "Freaks" (dir: Tod Browning)

[the night watchman]

"Masque of the Red Death" is my favorite Corman/Poe/Price flick. I'd say it's one of the all-time greatest horror movies ever made.

Another great old one (in-joke for fellow Lovecraft freaks) is "Night of the Demon" (aka "Curse of the Demon"). Based on M.R. James' short story "Casting the Runes."

"Black Sunday" is great, but "Black Sabbath" is probably my favorite Bava.

[Horror Hippie]

Loved Vincent Price in both his "Dr. Phibes" movies, the original Haunting, The Changeling (70s - 80's is old, right?), most of Hammer's Dracula and Frankenstein movies, PSYCHO of course, Vertigo, the Birds, etc. JAWS (maybe not horror, but still good, heh).

[Brock Landers]

The "Dr. Phibes" series are one of the most underrated horror film series ever...they are great stuff...

I just watched Hammer Films "The Satanic Rites Of Dracula" last night again and it is another amazing classic horror flick...

Also, check out Hammer's "Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires" if you get a chance. I dig it, and Rob Zombie recently said it was one of his favorite horror flicks of all time...citing Peter Cushing's performance in it...

[Femme_Fatale]

hmm....good question. id choose Psycho, for its pure scarieness and it is a classic- or Duel, for the paranoia trip it takes you on!!!!!

[Skaboy18]

Night Of The Living Dead, no contest. Although not as old as some mentioned above, it's still not very young. Took the horror genre to a new level.

[AntonioDelLago]

THE GOLDEN OLDIES OF HORROR

1. Dracula (1931) Directed by Tod Browning (B+)
2. Frankenstein (1931) James Whale (B+)
3. The Bride Of Frankenstein (1935) James Whale (B+)
4. Cat People (1942) Jacques Tourneur (B+)
5. The Wolf Man (1941) George Waggner (B)

These five films, as well as the combined talents of their underrated directors, classy casts (Lugosi, Karloff and Chaney rule!) and atmospheric black-and-white visuals, are the gems of yesteryear. They were the predecessors of Hitchcock, Hammer horror and everything else that followed.


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[Gore 4 All]

White Zombie

It is a strange movie, boring at times, but I always loved the band so I watched it. I had to say I was impressed with it on many aspects of the film.

[AntonioDelLago]

MORE PRE-"PSYCHO" HORROR FILMS (1930's-1960)

1. INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956) Don Siegel (A)
2. DEAD OF NIGHT (1945) Albert Cavalcanti, Basil Dearden, Robert Harner and Charles Crichton (B+)
3. THE BAD SEED (1956) Mervyn LeRoy (B+)
4. DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE (1941) John S. Robertson (B+)
5. THE FLY (1958) Kurt Neumann (B+)
6. THE BODY SNATCHER (1945) Robert Wise (B+)
7. CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE (1944) Robert Wise (B+)
8. CURSE OF THE DEMON (1958) Jacques Tourneur (B)
9. HORROR OF DRACULA (1958) Terence Fisher (B)
10. HOUSE OF WAX (1953) Andre de Toth (B)



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[jason13th]

I would say M The Cursed from Fritz Lang but it is not an horror movie, it is more a thriller.
this film is a pure masterpiece, see Metroplois, too but the films I have mentioned are really old.
Most of the Hammer movies with Cushing and the director Terence Fisher.
great films.
let's not forget Psycho.

[Crow's Angel]

Bride of Frankenstein ,The Birds,Psycho,The WolF Man,and Freaks

[cesar]

Mine are (if we are talking about black and white era):
*Them
*Tarantula
*Psycho
*What ever happened to baby Jane?
*Strait Jacket
*Village of the damned
*The black scorpion
*Forbidden planet

[countchocula]

Creature From the Black Lagoon