What type of horror movies do you perfer?

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For those who really don't like horror of any kind you don't have to answer this question, but for those of you who like horror movies what type of horror is it that you like the most? There's all sorts of different horror movies out there: some are about zombies who come back from the dead to attack the living, some are about evil ghosts haunt a cursed house, some are about inhuman pyscho killers who wear masks and slaughter teenagers, and some are about man-eating monsters who go around searching for victims to feed on.

Personally I like the kinds about ghosts and zombies the best. I think it's because the idea of something coming back from the dead has always fascinated me, and for zombie films you have the feeling of ordinary people struggling to survive against an undefeatable army and with ghost films you usually have a mystery-solving aspect where you try to figure out why the person has come back as a spirit to torment others.

In fact I think two of my favorite horror movies are George Romero's Living Dead films (zombies) and the Japanese Ju-On films (ghosts). They're some of the few movies that have not only scared me but have also made me interested in what the films are about.

I personally enjoy smashers. I enjoy the cliches, the silliness and all that makes up a classic slasher film. I think it is because I don't like to be genuinely scared and some if the other horror movies kind of spook me out.

if you like horror, watch 'i saw the devil' it is korean but released in north america
watch in original language with subs.
i watch a lot of horror and this one had me wincing.

this one was excellent for the genre.

I can see that, personally I find slashers to be more funny than scary. The ones from the 80's and 90's were especially known for their teenager stereotypes. It always seems like the nerdy virgin survives and the sluts and stoners get brutally slaughtered.

I hate horror movies that rely on "jump" scares. Any as*hole can scare you by walking up behind you and yelling "boo!" The best horror movies aren't the scary ones, but the disturbing ones. Movies like The Shining and Jacob's Ladder that create a gradual sense of unease. I also like paranoid horror like The Thing, where the feeling of tension comes from not knowing who is and isn't a threat. There are also horror movies that work in a constricting way, for example, Night of the Living Dead, where the threat slowly grows around you until there's no escape.

I understand what you mean, I think one of the things that makes Ju-On so scary is the fact that you figure out part-way through the movie that every character in the film is doomed because the curse is completely unbreakable and everyone who enters the haunted house for any reason will die. I felt they completely ruined that feeling in the American remakes (also known as The Grudge films), because they seemed to focus on the typical cliche of having a protagonist who tries to "break the curse" rather than letting the curse flow naturally like it would in a real life situation (if curses were real that is).

I have to admit, I detest usual horror films, but there are a few psychological horror films like Jacob's Ladder or The Shining which I don't mind.

European sleaze movies where the women get leered over and raped while lager is poured all over them whilst the attackers laugh, overlaid by horribly soppy music. Mmm.

Friday the 13th series (minus the remake from a few years ago.)
Hellraiser series.
Prom Night (original) and Prom Night 2.
Bloody Birthday.

I like any horror movie with real suspense in it. I liked Alien, The Grudge, The Thing, and many of the stalker type horror flicks such as Copycat .

Creepy and atmospheric. I thought Rosemary's Baby from the 70's was the benchmark. The Ring captured some of that and some of the Japanese/Korean movies of the same vein. Movies with ghosts always end up seeming lame to me. I also enjoy sci-fi horror, especially the alien movies.

I can tell you which ones I don't like - stupid slasher flicks, where characters are only there to provide a body count, in which countless sequels are exponentially spawned, all of which just seem to run into the other indistinguishably after a time. That had happened to A Nightmare On Elm Street, which had been an incredible movie - till the story had lost it's punch with all the sequels of inferior quality. The same with Saw, which was one of the most innovative, disturbing movies I had ever seen, till they killed it with sequels. I never cared much for any of the Friday The 13 movies - I can hardly tell one of those movies from another.
I love horror films with a well written story, such as The Thing, Angel Heart, The Hitcher (the original), etc. I don't mind gore, if it's not gratuitous - so many lesser horror films make internal organs and blood the whole point (one poorly made movie had scene where a girl vomits her own intestines in an otherwise bad scene). After all, I absolutely loved Re-Animator, which might have been a gore-a-minute flick. I'm still up in the air about Sergio Argento's horror films from Italy, such as Suspiria, or Demons, in which blood and gore is splashed about often without rhyme or reason; and yet, the stories are just so out there much of the time that you can't help but like them to a degree.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

I like Rosemary's baby too.

I only watch mild horror which is more like thriller with no gore. The only other horror movies I enjoyed were The Others and Hitchcock's movies except The Birds.

Slashers will always be number 1 in my heart. I don't care how bad the plot is, how cheesy the murders are or how cliched the characters are, Jason Voorhees is my man! Everything else ties for second because I will watch anything pretty much. As long as it's scary (or tries to be scary) I'll give it a try.

The only one I didn't like was Dead Alive. That was too gory for me, and that's saying something.

Did you see the uncut Braindead version, or the heavily-cut Dead Alive version? The uncut UK/Australian/New Zealand version is even gorier than the unrated US verison.

I tend to prefer haunted house movies. I'm not really that much of a gorehound, though I'll watch gory horror films on occasion (though I avoid the "torture porn" films at all costs)