"Most Watched Horror Film" Topic

It's after Labor Day here in the U.S. and Spooky Season has begun.

What is the horror film you have watched the most number of times?

This isn't about the 'best' film, or even necessarily your 'favourite', though they may overlap. This is about your comfort eye-candy that is the go to for watching.

No nominating giant lists of movies that you like or think ought to be on the poll. Just nominate your most-watched please.

My opening nominations are a toss-up, because one is much more recent and the time gap has been a factor.

* Sleepy Hollow (1999)
* Vampire Lovers (1970)

The Haunting

The Haunting
The Innocents
The Uninvited
The Dead of Night

All older B&W films.

Evil dead

The Fog. The original with Jamie Lee Curtis, Hal Holbrook, etc.

The Legend of Hell House. One of the very best haunted house movies ever.

The Haunting. The original, not the remake.

I used to watch horror movies quite a bit. These are a few that I tend to watch more than a few times. The ones that make me feel at home:

The original "The Thing"
Beetlejuice
Dracula with Bela Lugosi
The original "Fright Night"
Any of the Halloween episodes from Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series
Byzantium
Alien
Reanimator
They Live

Come and See
You don't need vampires or zombies. They're not really scary, just silly.

Caveat. I could only watch it once.

Aliens for me, I avoid horror generally as it gives me nightmares!

We don't really watch horror movies.

Nosferatu, we play it on the tablet computer, which stands in for a drive-in movie screen for the Zeds Attack the SkyView half the time. (The other half is Godzilla.)

Classic Bela Lugosi Dracula and Lon Chaney Wolfman. Every Vincent Price movie ever, including Edward Scissorhands, but that's really a goth allegory (man against society), not a horror movie.

Nightmare Before Christmas, We will probably watch it twice this coming season, like normal. Sometimes thrice if people come over to watch and we've already watched it. Again, this is really a goth allegory (man against himself).

Alien, it's a horror movie. Aliens is an action movie.

Seen Beetlejuice a couple of times. And, not really a horror movie. It's Fight-the-Power comedy.

Whatever's on Svengoolie?

But really, it's probably…

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN!!!!

"Walk this way…"

I can watch that over and over…

Slightly more serious… okay, not really:

The original Ghostbusters
The Raven with Vincent Price
Little Shop of Horrors (Musical)
Love at First Bite

I like goofy "horror" comedies…

Okay, actually serious:
The original Universal Studios B&W flicks:
Dracula
Frankenstein
The Bride of Frankenstein
The Wolf Man
The Invisible Man
The Mummy— though really, that's not nearly as good, despite being iconic.
The Creature from the Black Lagoon
And of course:
Abbot & Costello Meet Frankenstein… okay, getting silly again!

I generally don't like much modern horror. Too much emphasis on blood and gore. I like subtler stuff on the serious side.

The Haunting is probably the best on that front. Leaves you with the central question unanswered, and more raised. (The book is of course great.)

Not my genre
None of these/no opinion
Not my cup of tea

When I actually have seen a horror movie, it takes quite a while to get it out of my head. Not in the sense of danger around every corner and in every closet, but mind games analyzing each character. So if seen, it was only once. The ones that stand out:
Alien
Silence of the Lambs
The Exorcist

The old Hammer films with Cushing and Lee.

The Exorcist. If I had to guesstimate, I've probably seen it 50-60 times.

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken "Attaboy, Luther!"

I've also seen House on Haunted Hill multiple times. (Vincent Price in a William Castle gimmick flick.)

I watch stuff like that many times. Serious horror I seldom see more than once. And most of what is called "horror" today I will not see at all.

Alien is the only movie that actually had me very tense.

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken is certainly in the running for most aired on network and UHF TV, eventually surpassed for insomniacs by the All C.H.U.D. All Late Night Cable of the 1980s.

+1 Parzival on the Universal Monster pictures.

House on Haunted Hill

The Thing from Outer Space I have seen many times but consider it sci fi.

Ghostbusters I & II

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

This year I'll probably watch:
Sleepy Hollow
Shadow of the Vampire (actually a dark comedy, I sez).
I recently saw the 1979 Nosferatu with Klaus Kinski. It was "okay," I thought the ending was kind of lame. Also, after researching the film, I felt sorry for the rats.

For a real good time watch Dracula with Bela Lugosi, Plan 9 From Outer Space (a real sleeping pill), and Ed Wood. I think that movie was made just so they go show the coffin lid closing on Lugosi for the last time. A very moving scene.
Probably watch a few others, too.

One vote for "Them." Ostensibly scifi, but it has the bona fides for a horror flick.

The original 1954 Japanese version of Godzilla, if that counts as horror. It did scare the crap out of me as a kid.

The original Masque of the Red Death with Vincent Price.

American werewolf of london

Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter.

(For obvious reasons)

+2 for Parzival's and nascasti's lists. I like the old stuff.

My top three viewed would be:
Nosferatu, the Ganz/Kinski version.
Quatermass and the Pit
Night of the Demon by Jacques Torneaur. my long suffering younger daughter is named after one of the characters.

No surprise, but it's clear none of you were Rocky Horror kids. That one is far and away in the lead for most theatrical showings.
: 3

John OFM sadly that was a recreation of reality, but yes for a constant war movie buff once was enough.

My pick is Alien, seen it dozens of times

Have been watching Nosferato on Halloween.

Vampire Lovers? For real?

Hmm,

Night of the Demon – by a long mile my most watched horror

The Devil Rides Out
Quatermass and the Pit
The wickerman (original version)
Alien
The abominable snowman
The fog (original version)
Fiend without a face

The Fog-original
The Shining-both the movie and TV versions
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow-the Hallmark version
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow-the Hallmark Hall of Fame version with Jeff Goldblum
Signs
The Lost Boys
It-the original

20th Maine, yuppers for real.

Most watched does not at all imply best.
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I have a large Hammer collection, including every vampire movie. Whenever I do a Hammer watching fest, the others get rotated around, but Vampire Lovers is always in the mix.

John OFM, your most watched horror film you only watched once. Hmm, that's a definitely a serious level of 'does not watch horror films'.

For the Lugosi fans, also check out the other Dracula movie from 1931. The Spanish language movie was filmed simultaneously on the same set at nighttime.

I find this to be a far better film. Since acquiring a DVD boxed set with both versions, I've watched the Spanish one more. (Neither one is in my running for most-watched though.)

Lugosi does a better performance as Drac, but everything else about Spanish Dracula is much better. Eva (Mina) and Renfield hit it out of the park, and the director got to see the daily rushes from the English version and make decisions on how to improve the staging and camera work for that night.

I'll second the original Wickerman and Night of the Demon, both excellent.

Does "Hocus Pocus" count? I've also seen "Practical Magic" and "The Craft" a few times. I'm not a horror movie person.

Obviously the Halloween franchise (especially the later Rob Zombie offerings).

Carpenter's Thing

Halloween
House on Haunted Hill

No Zardoz?

Showgirls

How could I have forgotten Captain Kronos?

Wonderful movie!

I am surprised that "Halloween" is not more prominent.

Oberlindes, you may be the winner.

I was waiting for someone to nominate Showgirls…

@miniMo – well, that's an explanation of sorts but even so… Vampire Lovers? For real ?

I do like that the "finishing school for young ladies (and vampires)" seems to have students who are well into their twenties…

I do think the original Halloween is a good horror movie.

Ah, the finishing school where they really finish you….

20thmaine, you're thinking of Lust For A Vampire, the first in the Hammer Karnstein 'trilogy' and definitely the weakest vampire movie the studio ever turned out.

Vampire Lovers is the second one, and the one that runs closest to the original Carmilla novel.

The third one, Twins of Evil, runs far from the novel but for my vote is the studio's, and overall genre, best vampire movie. The character development is downright Shakespearean — the Puritan leader full of action and ignorance, the teacher full of knowledge but too timid to act, eventually they each learn their weakness and adjust. Don't see that type of character growth in other vampire movies. (Dracula Reborn comes second for character development, but only for the title character.)

Ah yes – my mistake! Sorry for the confusion.

Twins of Evil is a very unusual take on the vampire movie, and all the better for it.

It occurs to me that Roman Polanski's Macbeth is very much a horror film. Really, even the original Shakespeare is an early horror story— witches, ghosts, murderous visions, murders (including children), and an evil, possibly insane villain who (supposedly) can't be killed…

Hamlet could count as well— dead father's ghost, poison, revenge, hero clutching a skull of a dead friend and waxing euphoric about it, feigned insanity, actual insanity… sounds like a horror flick.

I've seen some version of both of plays multiple times.

Also, could The Hound of the Baskervilles count as horror? I've seen several versions, one of which scared the beejeezes out of me when I was a kid— had nightmares about that hound for a week (based on the "historical flashback" legend on the origins of the hound).

Yes, either one could count, Are either of them the one you've watched the most of any horror films?