As it's close to Halloween, I thought I'd start a thread about what people's favourite horror movies are. Just curious. Well, that and I like discussing the subject in general!

So without further ado, here are mine (in no particular order):

Dead Silence
Nightmare on Elm Street (the remake)
Freddy v Jason (even though it had bad special effects for the time it was made- 2003! So bad, I actually thought it was a late 80s/early 90s movie until I Googled the year it was released!)
Paranormal activity 1 & 2 (3 & 4 were terrible, but 1 was, in my opinion, the most TERRIFYING horror I've watched!)
Paranormal Entity (not as scary as Paranormal Activity, but still pretty scary!)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre & Texas Chainsaw
Hostel (again, bad sequel. What is it with horror movies and having bad sequels/prequels?)
SAW (forgot the numbers of the ones I've seen, but love the ones I did see-except for the very first SAW movie. This is an uncommon (in my opinion) example of a movie series that actually gets better over time)
Jigsaw (great addition to the SAW franchise, but there was one point I was REALLY confused about. Won't say what it was, though. Don't want to give away any spoilers lol!)
Annabelle (Annabelle Creation was well written and I liked how they did the scene at the end of the movie which tied it in perfectly with Annabelle. Prefered Annabelle, though. More scary in my opinion)
Dark Ride (as you can probably guess by now, I love James Wan. Brilliant director, which is partly why I'm looking forward to seeing the upcoming Aquaman movie he's directing)
The Tortured
And there's probably more.
Final Destination (again forgot which numbers lol. The 3d one with the car race at the start, the one with the bridge and the one with the roller coaster)

So what are yours?

...because, most often, they're gore fests as opposed to actual horror. Nothing scary just an overabundance of gross.

That said, there are a few that I've enjoyed over the years:

Near Dark (first film I ever saw Bill Paxton in and he killed it... No pun intended.)

The Conjuring (closest thing Hollywood has come to truly scary movie without a serious gross factor)

Pet Sematary (not as horrifying as the book but still a good watch)

 

Aaaaaaand, I guess that's about it as far as movies go... I prefer my horror in written (and occasionally video game form, I guess).

I used to love horror movies, but most today aren’t to my liking.  They fail to really make me believe in what’s going on.

Now some of those you mentioned dragon are good classics, but I would like to add some lesser known classics that you didn’t mention.  

I wonder who knows H. P. Lovecraft?  Classics like From Beyond & Reanimater.  If you haven’t experienced them, I highly recommend them. The movies aren’t as good as the books, but some parts are truly horrifying! 😏

I like either torture horrors (where the victim gets tortured- yeah, I know, I'm sick!), or ones where you don't see the monster, or if you do it's only for a brief moment and not too clearly. I think that invisible monsters or monsters you don't see clearly are the most terrifying because what's more deadly and terrifying than a threat you can't see or see well? Plus, with invisible monsters in horrors, you don't know where they're going to strike next, giving the movie a good jump scare factor, and if you can't see the monster in the movie your brain is free to completely imagine what that monster might look like, which is both fun and cool in my opinion.