If internet years were equal to dog years, Mark Chapman has already spent an entire lifetime on the world wide wait. Many human years later, the new tube finally delivers and Mark is only too happy to be your guide to the weird, whacky and wonderful online. The greatest scares ever!
| Mark Chapman
The great thing about a genre like Horror is that everyone has their favourite movie. That one standout that had that extra few litres of blood, that one part that made you jump out of your skin and nervously look over your shoulder on the way home.
As part of our Halloweek special, here are some suggestions for the top films.
The Nightmare on Elm Street films were always winners for me. In fact, years ago in South Africa, there used to be a public holiday called Kruger Day.
Although it was about a long dead head of state and the spelling was missing an "e", it was, of course, the perfect excuse for a Freddy Krueger Elm Street marathon.
In what now seems like a bad script for a Scream movie, imagine a group of teenagers watching super-scary flicks all day - the perfect excuse to get your girlfriend to snuggle up real close - usually punctuated by someone running from the kitchen screaming, covered in tomato sauce to scare the wits out the already clingy young ladies.
Good times...
With those memories in mind, the first Elm Street (with Wes Craven's super-evil Freddy) ranks really highly in my list of favourite horrors, but lists of favourite movies are all over internet and don't always agree with me...
According to voting on the Internet Movie Database, the Top Ten Horror movies of all time are:
10. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
9. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
8. Cabinet des Dr. Caligari., Das (1920)
7. Jaws (1975)
6. Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage (1926)
5. Diaboliques, Les (1955)
4. Aliens (1986)
3. The Shining (1980)
2. Alien (1979)
1. Psycho (1960)
However, looking at that list you would have to think it was voted for by particularly poncy film students, because the bodycount and volume of blood in those movies is generally pitiful.
Now the Box Office Prophets site is a lot more on the ball!
10. The Exorcist
9. Psycho
8. Dead by Dawn: Evil Dead 2
7. Dawn of the Dead
6. Alien
5. Halloween
4. The Haunting (1963)
3. Nightmare on Elm Street
2. The Evil Dead
1. The Shining
Not my personal Top Ten, but a lot closer to the mark, I would say!
What Horror movies gave you the shivers and why?
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1. The Exorcist - every night when I went to bed I thought my bed was going to start to shake
2. Texas Chain Saw Massacre - I don't know what my friends were thinking when we watched this at a slumber party.
3. Amityville Horror - I could never look at a toilet the same
But, Evil Dead II, although not scary at all, must surely rank as one of the greatest blood/zombie movies of all time...
5. Return of the Living Dead - "Send more cops" is one of the funniest lines for a zombie ever.
4. Bloodbath at the House of Death - a very silly spoof movie, although I'm not sure if this should be on the best or worst list...
3. 28 Days Later - very, very disturbing stuff
2. Candyman
1. Evil Dead II - no competition...
Although, local movie Undead deserves a very honourable mention as one of my personal favourites as well!
Too many movies, too little time...
I couldn't get over how clever it was. And freaky. The fact that the guy abducted people while they were asleep made it hard to get to sleep after I saw it.
And I also loved The Ring. I watched it so many times that it got to the stage that there was nothing to be freaked out about because I knew the whole movie off by heart...
Do you like scary movies Casey?
Scary, scary stuff.
And that mask still sends shivers down my spine!
For me, the Omen is well up on the list - the original one, not the crappy rehash. Loved Disturbia, even though its a thriller rather than true horror flick. Saw was brilliant, but the sequels have gone downhill. try the hills have eyes for over the top graphic horror.
if you want something truly twisted, try House of the 1000 Corpses, or its sequel, The Devil's Rejects. Absolutely crazy stuff, from the mind of Rob Zombie.
It's the stomach-turning stuff of nightmares.
104 minutes of sheer terror.