What would you even call it if not a horror movie? Action? That's about the scariest movie I can think of, though I did see it at a pretty tender age. The head in the boat just scared the ever-loving shit out of me, and the entire film just made it so even still I can't swim in water where I can't see the bottom…

Oh, definitely, Resident Evil 2 had me absolutely terrified after that first zombie-through-the-wall scare, and Silent Hill 1 and 3 were arguably worse since the atmosphere was so much scarier. Something about having to maneuver through the environments at your own pace made it far, far scarier to me than any movie…

Well, this is the first I've ever seen Dario Argento classified as one of the "splatter gore folk." Now that I think about it I guess some of his movies do have a scene or two that qualify (ie, Suspiria and Tenebrae), but that's not what he's known for.

Suspiria is incredibly effective if you see it in the theater, or just in a dark house with the sound cranked. That score is truly unnerving. The first time I saw it I got fairly freaked out by the part where the killer is trying to undo the lock with the razor. Great imagery!

The rewind gimmick was where I said "fuck this movie." It's so smug and mainly exists to lecture the audience about how dirty they should feel for watching such violent movies.

If you watch it in the dark with the sound cranked, basically the entire last act is really unnerving. The bait and switch with the first escape creates a really serious sinking feeling. And after that, the mood and the incredibly sweaty actors, the disgusting sets, the constant extreme-close-ups of Sally's eyeballs…

That was basically my reaction, though many of the other over-hyped critically acclaimed horror movies I've seen usually hold up (ex Audition, It Follows, Pan's Labyrinth, The Orphanage, The Witch, etc).

I find Hellraiser to be a very interesting movie. It's not particularly GOOD, but it has some good ideas and some strong visuals and it was certainly unique at the time. I couldn't care less if it's scary or not, it has plenty to recommend it.

Really there's no point in watching after the third - most of them were basically DTV movies written to be standalones that had Pinhead shoehorned into them to make them more marketable.

Inferno and Phenomena are debatable, Inferno has a ton of gorgeous visuals but is even more nonsensical than Suspiria, and has duller characters. Phenomena is borderline "so-bad-it's-good," especially the insane finale and Donald Pleasance's miserable performance.

The 1990 remake holds up far worse than the original. It has an incredibly dated synth score which makes it sound like a direct-to-video kids movie. It's also paradoxically LESS gruesome than the original. The really infamous scenes from the first which are still painful today, particularly trowel girl, have no…

I saw it in a theater where practically the whole crowd went nuts with laughter when the odious, incestuous brother was castrated in about the most graphic manner possible. That is one of my least-favorite characters of all time.

Suspiria is not a giallo, and they're more of a riff on Hitchcock films (not Psycho or The Birds) than horror films. I don't think very many are supposed to be scary.

It's loaded with horror imagery, supernatural material (which can be argued is in the head of Jack, but is all over just the same) and blood. Just because you don't personally think it's scary doesn't mean its genre should be changed. I dunno. For some reason after multiple viewings it's gotten more eerie to me. I…

It's in the vein of Evil Dead 2 and Dead Alive. If anyone's scared by those apart from people with intense phobia of "disturbing imagery," I'd be amazed, but if anyone denies they're horror movies, I don't even know what to say.

Agreed completely. I HATE people that equate horror with scary and say things aren't horror if they didn't scare them personally. Only slightly better are those that say it's a "failed" horror movie, or some such ridiculous bullshit, when the movie wasn't aiming for that anyway. No other genre is subject to such a…

The score by itself gives me the shivers. Like, the first track, Running Heels. As soon as those spiky synth hits come in, I feel on edge. The scene with the woman in the kitchen, ugh…the score vastly increased the feeling of UGH, MAKE IT GET OFF THE SCREEN, I CAN'T DEAL WITH THIS, FUCK!!!

It's such an adolescent attempt to shock that it makes Eli Roth look like the pinnacle of good taste and restraint.

I've made several people watch it. Most are bored till the last act, but they're always laughing hysterically by the end and like THAT WAS SO WORTH IT!!

What would a serious, gory movie featuring a vampire and numerous deaths be? A romantic comedy?*** Things don't have to be "scary" to be a horror movie.