Original thread title, I know.

Anyway, your favourite (and favourites.) Not what you know to be the best now, your formative favourites. The ones you watched when your parents didn't know, or what made you love them in the first place. Heart over head. Ok?

Overall
Brain Dead (1992)

Sub-genres (Add or delete your own)
Gore: Re-Animator (1985)
Zombie: The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Slasher: Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Hammer: Dracula Prince of Darkness (1966)
Satanic: The Exorcist (1973)
Comedy: Class of Nuke 'Em High 2: Subhumanoid Meltdown (1991)
Asian: Audition (1999)
Monster: The Fly (1986)
Wop: Zombi 2 (1979)
Werewolf: Howling 2 (1985)
Vampire: Nosferatu the Vampyre (1972)

The Omen (1976)

this is a really hard one to answer

however the ones that i remember taping surreptitiously off the telly when i was younger (and had managed to work out how to operate the advance record function on the video recorder) and making the biggest impression on me were as follows:

frankenstein created woman (1967)
the fly (1986)
society (1989) (anyone else remember the moviedrome double bill of the fly / society on bbc 2?)
halloween (1978)
the silence of the lambs (1991)
horror express (1972)

Not really into horror, I like "serious" Romero-type zombie movies, of which I'd probably choose Night of the Living Dead as a favourite.

I like more subtle, supernatural horror like The Ring and Dark Water too, couldn't choose a favourite.

I seem to be the only person here who liked The Mist.

I think 28 Weeks Later is a very under rated film, it's incredibly powerful and bleak.

I really enjoy Copolla's Dracula, very dated, camp and ridiculous but good fun and I loved it as a teen.

A Nightmare On Elm Street (1 & 2)
An American Werewolf In London
Re-Animator
Hellraiser (1 & 2)
Halloween (1 & 2)
Aliens
The Fly (1986)
The Omen (1 & 2)
Critters
'Salem's Lot (I know it was a TV miniseries but by christ parts of it terrified me as a kid, so I'm including it)
Jacob's Ladder

There might be a few that don't really qualify as horror, and I know there are loads I've forgotten about but I loved all of those when I was younger. Some I wouldn't watch these days, obviously but they were the dog's bollocks when I was but a lad.

Re-Animator is a real gem. It doesn't get enough props imo.

The Fly, Halloween and The Exorcist are all favourites too, but The Omen is the best. I love that film so much!

Did you see the Mark Gattis BBC thing, Bumfinger? The bit on The Omen was very cool I thought.

I did not. Worth a download?

Three hour long episodes and I thoroughly enjoyed them. Very much an old slant on horror. Up to the 80's principally.

Overall? that's a toughie.

Hammer: The Satanic Rites of Dracula
WTF: House of 1000 Corpses
Occult: Hellraiser 1
It Could Easily Happen To You: Last House on the Left (original)
Lovecraft Mythos: The Dunwich Horror
Vampire: Let The Right One In
Zombie: Night of the Living Dead (original)
Should Have Vacationed Elsewhere: Borderland
True Story: Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer

The original Dawn Of The Dead is my favourite horror film.

I don't like horror films.

What was that called, Rob?

A History of Horror.

I am shocked and stunned that you came up with that answer so quickly, Spiny.

Cheers, I'll try to find it.

off the top of my head:

classics (it should go without saying, the originals not the remakes):
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Fearless Vampire Killers
The Omen
Re-Animator
Halloween 1 & 2
Toxic Avenger
Alien
Bride of Frankenstein
Return of the Living Dead
Jaws
Evil Dead 2

newer stuff:
The Crow
Dellamorte Dellamore (Cemetery Man)
Sleepy Hollow
Trick R Treat

There are more, but I gotta go and those are prob my topmost favs

Cemetery Man strikes me more of a macabre comedy

British:
1. TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA
2. WITCHFINDER GENERAL
3. BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW
4. TWINS OF EVIL
5. THE WICKER MAN
6. DEAD OF NIGHT
7. DRACULA AD 1972
8. HANDS OF THE RIPPER
9. THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD
10. GHOSTWATCH

Other:
1. PSYCHO
2. TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE
3. EXORCIST
4. SUSPIRIA
5. THE SHINING
6. DAWN OF THE DEAD
7. LIVING DEAD AT THE MANCHESTER MORGUE
8. TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD
9. MASK OF SATAN (AKA BLACK SUNDAY)
10. MARK OF THE DEVIL

Overall
The Card Player

Sub-genres
Zombie: Day of the Dead (2008)
Slasher: Frdiay the 13th Part V
British: Inseminoid
Satanic: Omen IV
Monster: The Killer Shrews
Werewolf: Cursed
Vampire: Vampire in Brooklyn
Ghost: The Fog
Remake The Fog