Up front warning: This is the ultimate low budget b movie campy horror film. It was written and shot in a seven days on the sets of another movie. It is not scary and is by no objective means a good movie. If you like campy low budget slashers it’s a must watch.

Sorority House Massacre 2. Five college women spend the night in their new sorority house, the old Hokstedter place, and make the mistake of using a Ouija board. It has a great twist revealing an unlikely hero and the last line of the movie is my favorite line in all of cinema.

Least favorite: Sorority House Massacre. Maybe the worst example of a low budget slasher flick ever made. This movie is so bad that the sequel used clips from a different movie, Slumber Party Massacre, for it’s flashbacks and backstory. While intended to be scary campy low budget slashers flicks tend to be so ridiculously badly written and acted that they become parodies of themselves and present as humorous movies. Sorority House Massacre isn’t interesting enough to reach this important self parody status and winds up being neither scary nor funny.

Favorite: The Thing, the John Carpenter one from the 80s. It is perfect.

Least favorite: Nightmare on Elm Street. I like other Craven stuff but could never get into this one.

My favorite is John Carpenter’s The Thing, with was already mentioned here by @Ragnell

My least favorite would be Bird Box (is that a horror film, or just a thriller?). I tried watching it and was just bored the whole time. If Bird Box doesn’t count as horror, then I’d have to say Cronenberg’s The Fly. It’s not a bad movie per say, but it just didn’t work for me for whatever reason.

John Carpenter’s The Thing is not just my favorite horror movie but it’s on my list of top 5 favorite movies of all time. I just love that movie to bits on so many levels. Other favorites of mine include Alien, Evil Dead 2, Creepshow, and Return of the Living Dead. Though some honorable mentions to The VVitch, Barbarian, and The Lighthouse (does The Lighthouse count as a horror? Eh. Whatever. I do really like it).

Some that immediately pop into my head:

Krampus. It’s mildly scary but the audio and atmosphere is phenomenal.

Trailer Park of Terror. Just sit back, drink a couple of beers, and enjoy this B-rated movie in all it’s glory.

Slither. Horror comedy that’s great for people who don’t like a ton of scary but don’t mind blood and gore.

Tucker and Dale versus evil. A comedy with a unique perspective to the horror genre. A must watch!

favorite: hereditary. maybe a cliche answer but it’s genuinely the best horror movie i’ve seen in a long damn time, everything else is so generic and follows the exact same predictable formula. hereditary didn’t do that at all.

cant say i have a particular least favorite, because almost all of them are bad and forgettable, therefore I forget them lmao. a bad but good horror movie i love is the later chucky movies like the bride or chucky and the seed of chucky, which are more comedy horror and bad in a good way

Least favourite: Event Horizon
I like sci-fi, not ghost story in space.

Favourite: A Quiet Place
Excellent pacing, truly terrifying threats.

My favorite will always be The Shining, which I have seen so many times. I first watched it when I was far too young and now it’s part of my personal schema.

Least favorite, Turistas, which gave me a near panic attack from second hand claustrophobia. Never again.

Favorite is house of 1000 corpses.

How would you like to feel extremely uneasy and uncomfortable?

Try Skinamarink

This is absolutely an either you love it or hate it film. I can 100% understand why people hate this movie - every single shot in this movie is out of focus and not directly showing you what is happening in the scene. It requires 100% focus to decipher (or come close to) what’s going on. It made me feel like a kid in the dark, which is what this movie is about - a brother and sister stuck in their home in a forever night as some entity begins to hunt them.

Content Warning - Child Disfigurement.

If you’re looking for a popcorn horror movie to watch with a loved one, skip it. If you’re interested in something truly, truly experimental, give it a shot.

Sleep Paralysis: The Movie

Event Horizon, the babadook, the first couple of Cube movies and the Child’s Play series are my faves, with Bride of Chucky being my all time fav.

Other faves include American Mary, Terrifier, Cabin in the Woods, Dead snow, and happy death day. If I’m feeling like I want something dumb I’ll go after some Full Moon movies, the evil bong and gingerdead man (first one) are great

The Ghost and the Darkness.

I’ve seen it once. I was… 6 years old? Somewhere around there.

Gave me nightmares for several years. There’s only one other movie that’s ever had that effect on me.

And in terms of night terrors, I actually far prefer dreams about getting pulled out of a canvas tent into the night and getting devoured by a lion to some alternatives. You can fight back and stuff, it’s way better than those dreams about burning alive.

So, long story short, if you lucid dream hard enough you can kick a nightmare’s ass. I’d really rather not though, it’s a lot of work, so in that sense I sincerely hope the Ghost and the Darkness is the best horror movie I ever see

Juon. Not the American remake The Grudge, the Japanese version.

In the Japanese version, the house felt like a normal, everyday house, and that’s what made everything scarier. It was lit like a normal house, unlike the American version.

Also, that scene were Toshio, the ghost child, is on every floor as the elevator went up literally had me backing up trying to get away, it creeped me out that much. Juon had so much subtle horror like that, along with the big scares.

And as for least favorite, I guess the Saw movies. I never much liked the torture porn genre. I prefer being creeped out than grossed out.

Hard to pick a favorite. If I had to pick a personal favorite I’d say In The Mouth of Madness. I’ve never seen it brought up as often as The Thing or other Carpenter films, but it was the first “meta” horror movie I ever watched and I’ve always had a soft spot for it. Besides that, there are a few I make sure to watch every year. I have to watch Trick 'R Treat sometime in October and I usually start December off with Krampus (2015). Also, I’m not sure it even qualifies as horror, but One Cut of the Dead is a great one for horror fans or just movie fans in general, especially if you like lower-budget films and the passion that goes into making them. Admittedly the first twenty minutes or so can be hard to get through on the first viewing, but it’s a great movie if you stick with it.

Least favorite I’d have to say, Lake Mungo. I don’t think it’s a bad film. I just went into expecting found footage horror and got a mockumentary about dealing with loss and uncovering a deceased family member’s secrets. Again, not a bad film but not what I was in the mood for when I watched it.

Classics from my childhood:

The Exorcist
Exorcist III
The Fly
Evil Dead
Poltergeist
The Thing
Prince of Darkness
Hellraiser
Carrie
Jacob’s Ladder
Pi

Modern:

Hereditary
Nope
The Night House
Annihilation
A Quiet Place

Best meta horror:

Tremors
Malignant
Cabin in the Woods
Death Becomes Her