Horror is the kind of scare that appeals to all your senses. You cant bear to watch, but you do. You know the images will haunt you in your mind when you sleep, but still, you watch... You get adrenaline and imagination set loose within the realms of dark fantasy, where the boogeyman exists, things bump in the dark, and there is no safe place especially at home.
In a suspense storyline you don't know what happenned or what is going to happen, and finding out keeps your interest. Utilized by most detective movies and seekers of the paranormal.
I define thriller as hack and slash, bloody bath, on your face severing of body members, irrelevant sexual situations, teenage adrenalin and nonsense. It may be close to action, but it doesn't even get there... It may be close to adventure as it depicts the laws of horror movies being broken... the unraveling of the truth ends up with simultaneous deaths in pictoric ways...
The Ring japanese trilogy. Samara rules!
Nightmare on Elm Street , the original. Freddy is really scary on the first installment of what became a teenage thriller.
Ju-On: The grudge. The first one is creepy.
The Eye 1. Psychologic suspense thriller.
Halloween. Michael Meyers from the original movie is really scary. Of course, after many spin-offs, the magic is lost. A pity.
Silence of the Lambs. Hanibal Lecter's psychological ways are very refreshing!
Nosferatu
Alien. The original had gothic flair, beautiful handling of shadows and light, suspense, the mother alien and Sigourney Weaver... now, that's scary!
Bram Stoker's Dracula. Ok, it was not so scary for me, but it has Dracula, and the ambience is quite thick! A beautiful love story that is bathed in blood.
Alfred Hitchcocks The Birds. Beautiful clouds of darkness in the sky...
Cabin Fever
Child's Play. The famous struggle of dolls vs human...
Cujo. Nice little well behaved doggy.
The Exorcist. A classic. Nothing like watching the originals.
Hellraiser. Somehow these series were not as popular as I expected... And yet, I love them.
Poltergeist. The famous struggle of man vs tv...
Psycho. Lovely. Another classic that is best kept as original.
Resident Evil. Ok, it has plenty of action, but the concept is truly based on a horrific sucess.
Ghost Ship. The story is lame, but that part in the ship's deck, at the ball, when everybody dies... it was poetry in motion.
The Cell. Psychological movie. Another take on serial killers...
Interview with the Vampire. If I were not so in love with Lestat I would say he is an horrendous monster.
Anne Rice: Interview with the Vampire, Vampire Lestat, Queen of the Damned, Tale of the Body Thief, Blood and Gold, Blackwood Farm, Blood Canticle, Vampire Armand, Witching Hour, Lasher, Memnock the Devil, Merrick, Pandora, The Mummy.
E.A. Poe: The Tell-tale heart, The raven, The Pit and the Pendulum, Masque of the Red Death, Tales of mistery and madness
Stephen King: Pet Semetery, Carrie, It, Salems Lot
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Clive Barker's Hellraiser, Nightbreed
H.P. Lovecraft: Call of Cthulhu