Gotta be The Thing, John Carpenter and Rob Bottin, match made in heaven...
Effects still look good today, apart from the stop motion bit at the end..

Stop Motion gets a bad press. They never had CGI back then so you have to put it into context.

As such, I'd say the stop motion in The Thing is pretty good. Nowhere near Harryhausen, but pretty effective nonetheless.

In 10 years they'll be saying CGI looks crap too. I assume we will be watching 3D holograms by then.

First of all, horror movies don't scare me easily. A few did when I was a kid, but not anymore now as an adult. Therefor, I rarely watch 'em with the idea that I'm going to get frightened in any way. These days, I just judge 'em based soley on the quality of entertainment that I get from the story, art direction, acting, blah blah blah....
So here are a few that I do enjoy:



5. Texas Chainsaw Massacre - This movie's story came off as very genuine. While most horrors tend to want the viewer say things to the screen like "Idiot! Run outside, not to the upstairs!" or"Don't go in there, you moron!", this movie actually made the situation of the onscreen victims seem logistically believable. Therefor, their fright & inevitable demise doesn't come off as deserving as those characters in other films who make one feel that their stupidity justified thier grisly end. This film sory's intent was aimed at making the obseverer feel the fear thru the fear of the victim, not just thru the idea of a mad demonic slash-object-wielding maniac.

4. Silence Of The Lambs - Yes, it does seem like the lambs have been extraordinarily quiet lately.
And that can only mean one thing: trouble is abrewing.

3. Night Of The Living Dead - Sort of the Blair Witch Project of it's day.

2. Blair Witch Project - As I said before, I really can't get scared from movies anymore. Especially, if there's a monster or a Jason/Freddy/Michael Myers involved. The minute I see these guys, I am instantly reminded that I'm watching a movie, thereby negating any chance of being frightened anymore. Blair Witch tried to come as close to reality as any horror movie could. Making it seem like this could actually happen. Plus, we never saw the witch. And as it has been stated many times over centuries, "The greatest fear is that of the unknown". This movie, while it still didn't scare me, it came as close as it possibly could at this point in my life. Something that I can't ever see happening much again.

1. Exorcist - I saw a preview of this as a kid, where the girl was on the bed as it shook. That night, I was scared as hell to go upstairs to my fuckin' bedroom.
That fuckin' movie.......