Best and worst horror movies available on blu-ray?

[NathanDrakeFan]

I am taking a journalism class in school and for the school newspaper, I am writing an article about what makes scary movies scary.In order to do so, I must watch a lot of movies that use horror effectively, as well as horror movies that don't do horror effectively. If anybody can give me suggestions on the best made horror movies and worst made horror movies available on blu-ray, that would be greatly appreciated.

The only horror movies I currently own are Halloween(1978), and I suppose Trick r' Treat would fall under horror as well(horror anthology). Please suggest movies from both sides. Good and bad.If you can, name all the good and bad ones you know because I'll likely be buying more than a few of them.

EDIT:I forgot I owned The Thing as well

[Taipan]

The Exorcist
The Thing

[I KEEL YOU]

The Shining
The Thing

Troll 2

[DVDFreaker]

I have no idea

[NathanDrakeFan]

Originally Posted by Taipan

The Exorcist
The Thing

Thank you. I will get the Exorcist, and I own The Thing. I just forgot to put it because I very briefly skimmed my shelf. I updated my original post now

[NathanDrakeFan]

Originally Posted by I KEEL YOU

The Shining
The Thing

Troll 2

Thank you. I will get The Shining and Troll 2, and I own The Thing. I just forgot to put it because I very briefly skimmed my shelf. I updated my original post now

[slimdude]

This thread can go on forever! There are copious of good, and bad horror films ,and also I would like to relate, there will be more selections of films in this genre on DVD than Blu-ray because, many horror movies have not been released in the Blu-ray format as yet.

[NathanDrakeFan]

Originally Posted by slimdude

This thread can go on forever! There are copious of good, and bad horror films ,and also I would like to relate, there will be more selections of films in this genre on DVD than Blu-ray because, many horror movies have not been released in the Blu-ray format as yet.

Can you at least name me a couple good and bad ones on blu-ray? I know that the list is rather large on DVD and not so much on blu-ray,but this community should know about it. I want to watch as many as possible(without spending too much money). Name any

[jupiter123]

Personally, these movies scared the shit out of me. And I dont get scared too easy either.


The Grudge
Candyman
Blair Witch Project
The Ring
Dead Silence
The Shining
Pet Cemetery

[j2raymond]

Originally Posted by NathanDrakeFan

I am taking a journalism class in school and for the school newspaper, I am writing an article about what makes scary movies scary.In order to do so, I must watch a lot of movies that use horror effectively, as well as horror movies that don't do horror effectively. If anybody can give me suggestions on the best made horror movies and worst made horror movies available on blu-ray, that would be greatly appreciated.

The only horror movies I currently own are Halloween(1978), and I suppose Trick r' Treat would fall under horror as well(horror anthology). Please suggest movies from both sides. Good and bad.If you can, name all the good and bad ones you know because I'll likely be buying more than a few of them.

EDIT:I forgot I owned The Thing as well

Best and worst don't really apply to the horror genre. There are very few horror movies that could possibly be critically lauded. Afficionados operate under a whole different set of criteria - as my friend Charlie in W. VA would say, "They ain't right". Scary often has little to do with "best" or "worst".

As far as what makes a movie scary, to me it's when the veneer of normalcy is shattered by an outside incompatibility, hence dispensing with any rational response framework. Don't get me wrong, gore is good too (blood, beasts, and breasts!), but usually secondary. For example, in "The Shining", one of my favorites, I'm not creeped out by the pools of blood or the axe mayhem, but rather by the two pale sisters holding hands, and, most of all, when Jack goes to the bar, to find it fully equipped, and in business ("You're the manager, you've always been the manager.") So...the feeling of inescapible dread? the loss of rationality? trying to function normally in a situation which is obviously way out of control?

[DaleDark]

Good:
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
The Ruins (freaked me the fu¢k out, and that ain't easy)
28 Days Later
Frozen
The Strangers
Alien
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Misery
The Omen
The Mist

Bad:
Most (not all) sequels
The Grudge
One Missed Call
I Know What You Did Last Summer
13 Ghosts
The Wickerman (remake)

The only caveat I can give you is what one person may find blood-curdlingly terrifying, someone else may find boring and unimpressive. Case in point, I saw The Blair Witch Project twice the weekend it opened. Friday night, I saw it with some friends at an art-house cinema near a college campus. By the end of that movie, people in the theater looked visibly shaken. I then saw it on Sunday, with my older brother, at a multi-plex in my local mall. To say that it had the opposite effect on that audience would be a gross understatement (a number of patrons yelled "This is bullshit!" as they left the theater). What makes a scary movie "work" has far more to do with the anxieties/phobias of the individual watching it than anything the writer/director can commit to celluloide (I have a friend that cannot/will not watch Killer Klowns From Outerspace, not because the film is even remotely scary, but that he's afraid of clowns, period).

[Leonard Smalls]

This is definitely subjective as what scares one person may not scare another.

Got under my skin:

The Shining
Poltergeist
The Exorcist
Alien
The Omen (original)
A Nightmare On Elm Street (original)
Insidious

Could fall asleep watching:

Troll 2
Chud
Friday the 13th: The whole series
Leprechaun: The whole series
Resident Evil: The whole series
House of the Dead
Jaws 3 and 4

[nolfoc]

Jaws (not on BD yet)
Halloween II 1981
Let Me In
The Thing
Halloween 1978
The Exorcist
Se7en
Scream
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
28 Weeks Later
Last House on the Left (2009)
Aliens
Predator
Child's Play

IMO these are the best Horror movies out on BD (excluding Jaws of course)

[Prox]

If you watch Paranormal Activity at night with the lights off and a moderate to good sound system, you will not sleep for a week.

[frightism]

Is it just me or has there been about 20 threads (at the least) in the last two months alone on the topic of "Top __ horror Blu-rays with best PQ and AQ"? Bumping threads, people, bumping threads...

[NathanDrakeFan]

Originally Posted by frightism

Is it just me or has there been about 20 threads (at the least) in the last two months alone on the topic of "Top __ horror Blu-rays with best PQ and AQ"? Bumping threads, people, bumping threads...

But this is not about pq or aq.

[frightism]

Originally Posted by NathanDrakeFan

But this is not about pq or aq.

Well, that and "Best horror film blu-rays" have been a popular thread topic lately.

[smith1921]

good

the descent

bad

exorcist 2

[EvlAsh]

The Hills Have Eyes (2006): Unrated


Bad:
Most PG-13 horror. Of course there are a few exceptions.

[Tom Hiddleston]

Awesome: Let the Right One In.
Interview with the Vampire.
Lost Boys.

Good: My Bloody Valentine original.
Dracula.
Scream.
Sleepy Hollow.
Return of the Living Dead.

Bad: Friday the 13th remake.
Nightmare on Elm Street remake.
The Ruins, I really liked the book, but the movie, not so much.
My Bloody Valentine remake.
The Uninvited.

Just off the top of my head.