The Best Horror Films - From 1980 to 1999 - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Cujo, Hellraiser and Day of the Dead.

I like In the Mouth of Madness, but I like Prince of Darkness (my second favorite John Carpenter film, and overall favorite Carpenter score) a lot more.

On that note: why Alien: Resurrection and not The Thing (1982)?

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Archisorcerus wrote:

verslibre wrote:

On that note: why Alien: Resurrection and not The Thing (1982)?

I said that I used another person's list on my original post, and I explained why on another post of mine later. Also Alien: Resurrection's alternative couldn't have been The Thing. 1 movie per year.

Ah, okay. Well, I just don't see Alien: Resurrection as a horror film. It's SF action (I saw it once, in the theater, and have never had the urge to rewatch it).

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verslibre wrote:

Archisorcerus wrote:

verslibre wrote:

On that note: why Alien: Resurrection and not The Thing (1982)?

I said that I used another person's list on my original post, and I explained why on another post of mine later. Also Alien: Resurrection's alternative couldn't have been The Thing. 1 movie per year.

Ah, okay. Well, I just don't see Alien: Resurrection as a horror film. It's SF action (I saw it once, in the theater, and have never had the urge to rewatch it).

Alien Resurrection would not make my list if dong it like this person did. I like it, but horror or not, I just don't think it's that great. For another sort of sci-fi meets horror film, not of this Earth angle of that 1997 year, I find Event Horizon way more interesting (and more horror). That's a nice one to pair with Hellraiser. It's a sort of cosmic horror that I just find excellent.

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Not my favorite genre, but I've seen most of these. The Fly and Silence of the Lambs stand out for me.

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Archisorcerus wrote:

^ Braindead is also a "sick comedy" more than a horror. LOL

Any Gremlins movie is a comedy. Big smile

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The genre of horror flicks seem about as diffuse as prog some times

Then again there are many movies from this time period that incorporate elements of the genre into science fiction/thriller/love affairs/comedies.
Like music though I tend to dig the sort of stuff you can’t really fit into a finite box. Like Pan’s Labyrinth fx..a flick I rank among the finest of “modern day cinema”..yet is it horror? Fantasy? An old school fairytale? A historical account of fascism in Spain? All of the above..and more.
The Fly to me is sort of like that in that it spawns so many interesting and off-road themes/philisophical questions during it’s playing time. The themes are more condensed in the sense of focusing more on one subject ie the unholy marriage of a man and a fly…and the consequences shown both physically and psychologically ultimately makes for a highly thought provoking film. On some level it reminds me of Russell’s Altered States (another one with some horror-like undertones to it..though more esoteric I find). Via technology the human ‘experience’ can be maleable and used to transcend it’s own barriers, perhaps not at all that different from the metamorphosis we see in nature (butterflies and such). Both films toy away at the concept of body and mind and ultimately end up in both terror and some form of enlightenment.

Anyhoo..I voted for The Fly…Ringu for scaring the living daylights out of me (shrooms and horror flicks do not mix well) and In The Mouth Of Madness. The latter I feel is an overlooked Sam Neil gem (as is Event Horizon. Love that one!).

Edited by Guldbamsen - March 27 2022 at 02:20

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Archisorcerus wrote:

I'm waiting for Kees' take. He is a professional in this field. I always value educated opinions.

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Archisorcerus wrote:

I used this list as the source: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls066184016/

There's no The Shining (1980) here, for instance.

Oh, I really wanted to add this here.

Stanley Kubrick taking a mirror selfie with his daughter while Jack Nicholson thought it was a photo of him on the set of The Shining, 1980.

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Hi,

Unfortunately I ended up not seeing a lot of these things ... as too much of the style in them was about setting up the camera so you would be surprised, and for folks that know cinema, you can see those coming a mile away, and most often the surprise is long gone.

What "made" horror for me, was how a lot of hand held camera work in the 60's and then 70's defined details that became the staple of a lot of films, and one can point it to a couple of films by Roman Polanski to get a better idea of the incredible idea. In "Rosemary's Baby" there is the famous shot towards the end, where yo can not see into the room through the door ... and EVERYONE N THE THEATER moved their heads to the right to try and see what was on the other side of the door!!!!!! (You did have sounds and dialogue which only made you want to see it even more!). In "Tess", her rape is by far one of the best hand held minutes in film ... it is as if the camera is the one doing the rape! It is intense, and scary, and makes a lot of film look really poor.

To see more of a lot of these ideas and suggestions, you must watch VISIONS OF LIGHT which is a film about cinematographers, and they are amazing, and a lot of fun, and you will be totally surprised by some of the greatest shows in film history!

All in all, I fell out of it before its time, specially when it all became about guts and gore, and the girls younger than ever.

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Multiple votes are allowed. Hell(raiser) awaits! Cool

Edited by Archisorcerus - June 26 2022 at 11:57

Poll Question: Dare to vote?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Friday the 13th (1980)	7	[8.05%]
The Evil Dead (1981)	5	[5.75%]
Poltergeist (1982)	8	[9.20%]
Cujo (1983)	3	[3.45%]
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)	3	[3.45%]
Day of the Dead (1985)	4	[4.60%]
The Fly (1986)	11	[12.64%]
Hellraiser (1987)	15	[17.24%]
Child's Play (1988)	0	[0.00%]
Pet Sematary (1989)	0	[0.00%]
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)	0	[0.00%]
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)	12	[13.79%]
Braindead (1992)	7	[8.05%]
Cronos (1993)	2	[2.30%]
In the Mouth of Madness (1994)	4	[4.60%]
Mute Witness (1995)	0	[0.00%]
Scream (1996)	1	[1.15%]
Alien: Resurrection (1997)	0	[0.00%]
Ringu (1998)	3	[3.45%]
Stir of Echoes (1999)	2	[2.30%]
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