Random Horror Fans Defend Worst Movies They Still Love (15 items)

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  (#2) House on Haunted Hill

  • Ali Larter, Famke Janssen, Geoffrey Rush, Lisa Loeb, Taye Diggs, Bridgette Wilson, James Marsters, Chris Kattan, Peter Graves, Debi Mazar, Peter Gallagher, Jeffrey Combs, Max Perlich, Slavitza Jovan, Jeannette Lewis

  Posted by u/Jadeidol65:

  This is one that started my love for asylum movies, along with Disturbing Behavior and Silence of the Lambs which I saw at 10. I believe many films and shows have had a creature shaking their head really fast, this is the first one I can recall doing it. There are quite a few great scenes in this one, the surgery, the scene with Geoffrey Rush in the spinning contraption, Taye Diggs walking around all creepy and then entering the pool of blood. I love this movie!!!
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  (#7) Alien 3

  • Sigourney Weaver, Charles Dance, Paul McGann, Pete Postlethwaite, Charles S. Dutton, Lance Henriksen, Holt McCallany, Ralph Brown, Brian Glover, Danny Webb, Christopher Fairbank, Peter Guinness, Leon Herbert, Christopher John Fields

  Posted by anonymous: 

  It is horrifying. Ripley's situation is desperate, her condition (of carrying within her what she hates and has tried to escape) is unnerving, and of course her sudden, violent loss of Newt and Hicks is devastating.

  Its alien is horrifying. The alien seems to me the embodiment of a nightmare, a contradiction: biological and mechanical, masculine and feminine, violent and graceful, from us but not of us, emotional and yet cruel, human-like and yet utterly alien. The third movie adds the idea of the "dragon", an implacable enemy whose nature is forever opposed to humanity, especially as embodied in Ripley.

  It is the perfect conclusion to the story, which from the start was nihilistic. The alien relentlessly strips from Ripley all those she has loved--the crew of the Nostromo, Hicks, Newt, Clemens--and it even destroys her own body, her motherhood. Ripley recognizes this when she speaks to the alien--"You've been in my life so long, I can't remember anything else"--yet she remains human in the face of the alien (literally!). This knowledge does not destroy her. She knows what she must do. She is steadfast to the very end.
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  (#6) Event Horizon

  • Laurence Fishburne, Jason Isaacs, Sam Neill, Joely Richardson, Kathleen Quinlan, Sean Pertwee, Emily Booth, Richard T. Jones, Teresa May, Jack Noseworthy, Noah Huntley, Peter Marinker, Robert Jezek, Holley Chant, Barclay Wright

  Posted by u/Bobby_Fingers:

  Absolutely amazing! I loved it right from the first viewing, but the sad thing is how badly the studio made Paul W.S. Anderson butcher the film and remove so much of the gore that would have made this IMO one of the scariest horror movies ever. And the footage is now lost forever to time so of course we'll never get to see a full director's cut.

  But enough of my griping, I'll say again how amazing this movie is. You don't see horror movies like this anymore; one with such a creepy atmosphere to it, and the way it plays out it just sucks you in right from the get-go. I think if the director had been given free rein... it would be right up there with Alien and The Thing in terms of sci-fi horror. 
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  (#4) Halloween

  • Malcolm McDowell, Danny Trejo, Danielle Harris, Clint Howard, Micky Dolenz, Scout Taylor-Compton, Brad Dourif, Dee Wallace, Sybil Danning, Tyler Mane, William Forsythe, Sheri Moon Zombie, Udo Kier, Bill Moseley, Sid Haig, Daryl Sabara, Ken Foree, Daniel Roebuck, Richard Lynch, Hanna R. Hall, Lew Temple, Leslie Easterbrook, Tom Towles, Daeg Faerch, Pat Skipper, Paige Pollack, Skyler Gisondo, Richmond Arquette, Max Van Ville, Kristina Klebe, John Demita, Amanda Tepe, David Michie, Nikki Taylor Melton, Nick Mennell, Jeremy Maxwell, Kazu Nagahama, Mel Fair, Steve Boyles, Daamen J. Krall, Adam Weisman, Barbara Harris, Paul Kampf, Noreen Reardon, Myla Pitzer, Stella Altman, Jenny Gregg Stewart, Andreana Weiner, Sydnie Pitzer, David Randolph, Linda Sypien, Nancy Truman, Deven Streeton

  Posted by u/rhoades2rocky43:

  I might be alone here but I love Rob Zombie's Halloween.

  I understand that Michael was always supposed to be a mystery, but for me, I need to understand why the character did what he did. In Rob Zombie's first Halloween film he gives us an understandable backstory that would really f**** up a kid... I feel them showing Michael's beginnings and progress when he was locked up was also pretty cool.

  Sure, the original is absolutely fantastic, soundtrack, the atmosphere, just everything. But the one thing I never liked was not seeing why Michael did what he did, and with Rob Zombie's film, you got a taste of that.
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  (#3) Signs

  • Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Abigail Breslin, M. Night Shyamalan, Michael Showalter, Cherry Jones, Rory Culkin, Merritt Wever, Patricia Kalember, Clifford David, Lanny Flaherty, Ukee Washington, Ted Sutton, Marion McCorry, Jose L. Rodriguez, Rhonda Overby, Greg Wood, Paul L. Nolan, Chuck Pressler, Paul Wilson, Angela Eckert, Kevin Pires, Samantha Steffen, Babita Hariani, Adam Way, Thomas Griffin

  Posted by u/dtg108:

  Signs does creepiness so well. I think that Signs takes the philosophy of “not showing too much” and runs with it. From the cornfield to the silhouette on the roof, it leaves you with just enough to let your imagination run wild, and then the alien reveal on the news sends chills down your spine.

  Another thing is the fantastic acting by both Phoenix and Gibson. It really sells the “small family” aspect and lets you believe that they really are just these ordinary people caught in the middle of this terrible invasion. You know as much as they know, and it’s really effective.

  I know the whole faith aspect gets a lot of hate, but I think it really takes the movie deeper than just another invasion flick. Graham’s whole lack of faith and subsequent regaining of it fits in perfectly with the plot.
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  (#11) Dracula 2000

  • Gerard Butler, Jeri Ryan, Nathan Fillion, Christopher Plummer, Jennifer Esposito, Jonny Lee Miller, Shane West, Danny Masterson, Omar Epps, Vitamin C, Justine Waddell, Sean Patrick Thomas, Lochlyn Munro, Tom Kane, Tig Fong, Tony Munch, David J. Francis, Robert Verlaque

  Posted by anonymous: 

  Dracula 2000... Admittedly there are issues - it's a stereotypical post-Matrix early 2000 movie from the soundtrack to the black leather, and the acting is pretty cheesy.

  But, it does some damn interesting things with the Dracula mythos and moves it to a unique setting. So many movies seem unable to move beyond Bram Stoker's vision, while this series (there are sequels) mines European folklore to give a very unique vampire experience.

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