I've seen all three. The first is my favourite, the second is worth watching but I wasn't keen on the third.

I'll give them all a look, sometime. They seem somewhat hard to find.

Forgot to say it before, but anytime :)

I remembered Lucio Fulci's Zombie spawned quite a few rip-off sequels in Italy, IIRC. I've never seen any of them but they all seem to be of a pretty low quality and their numbering is also confusing since Zombie in Italy was marketed as a sequel to Dawn Of The Dead when it was never intended to be as such and thus Zombie 2 is known as Zombie 3.

Slightly updated list:


Friday The 13th - The Final Chapter
Halloween - 1978 Original
A Nightmare On Elm Street - New Nightmare
Saw - Saw II
Scream - Original
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - 2003 Remake
Alien - Aliens
Predator - Predator 2
Phantasm - Phantasm II
Evil Dead - Evil Dead II
Hellraiser - Original
Child's Play - Original
Final Destination - Original
Hannibal Lecter - The Silence Of The Lambs
Jaws - Original
Tremors - Original
Cube - Original
I Know What You Did Last Summer - Original
Maniac Cop - Maniac Cop 2
Poltergeist - Poltergeist II: The Other Side
Puppet Master - Puppet Master 4
Romero's Living Dead - Day Of The Dead (1985)
Return Of The Living Dead - Part II

I remembered The Lost Boys trilogy. I've only seen the original which is still a great movie, never saw the two sequels which from what I've seen are both pretty poorly received.

I recently watched this for the first time in many years, still quite an entertaining little anthology. The Gas Station was the best segment, but the other two were also entertaining.

OK, these are wrong:

Poltergeist - Poltergeist II: The Other Side
Romero's Living Dead - Day Of The Dead (1985)
::wink::

I know Poltergeist II is unpopular. The first one is great, but I always enjoyed 2 more mainly for Kane and I also like the hauntings in the second one better.

It might be a stretch but thinking it over, I was wondering if Godzilla might be a good addition. It's been so long since I last watched the older Godzilla films but the recent one was pretty decent and a not a bad reboot.

I don't think the current Godzilla is the best of the 20 some films. I don't many folks on our forum have seen all of them.

I remember watching the old ones endlessly on Sci-Fi back in the 90s when they used to marathon them every Summer. I'm hard-pressed to remember which my favorite was.

Allow me to cut/paste a write-up I just did on the best & worst of the old Showa series: Link:http://horror.com/forum/showpost.php...&postcount=144. The Showa series has 15; which is half. If you count both the US Brodderick98 Godzilla and Cranston14 Godzilla, that's a total of 30.

Are some of the newer 15 better than these Showa 9?... yes, but I don't think any of the top 10 films rise over the other top films. Many are very different than the others, and exceed in different film aspects. Makes selecting the "best film" a very difficult endeavor.

Off the top of my head, of the newer 15 G-films, I'd say Biollante, Destroyah, Final Wars and Godzilla 14 are also some of the best.

Allow me to cut/paste a write-up I just did on the best & worst of the old Showa series: Link:http://horror.com/forum/showpost.php...&postcount=144. The Showa series has 15; which is half. If you count both the US Brodderick98 Godzilla and Cranston14 Godzilla, that's a total of 30.

Are some of the newer 15 better than these Showa 9?... yes, but I don't think any of the top 10 films rise over the other top films. Many are very different than the others, and exceed in different film aspects. Makes selecting the "best film" a very difficult endeavor.

Off the top of my head, of the newer 15 G-films, I'd say Biollante, Destroyah, Tokyo SOS, Final Wars and Godzilla 14 are also some of the best.

I'll seek those out. I remember I always loved the marathons Sci-Fi had every Summer back in the 90s. The good old days ::smile::

I gotta agree that Destroy All Monsters is one of the best but I have a soft spot for VS King Kong too with it's prowrestling antics.

I haven't seen a single film after Biollante though - I must catch up..

I probably haven't seen the older Godzilla films since the mid-90s at least, back when Sci-Fi had their Summer marathons.

I'd recommend jumping right in with Godzilla Vs Destroyah -- It's designed to be a direct sequel to the original 1954 film. It hits deep viscerally somehow.
Have you seen all, or most of the 1990s & 2000s Godzilla's? Any of them strike you as particularly good?

It's been so many years since I last saw them that I can't fairly say based on a hazy memory. I definitely went through a Godzilla phase when I was small largely thanks to Sci-Fi's Summer marathons of them back in the 90s.

I remembered My Super Psycho 16. Never seen any of them but I've heard good things about them.

Hmm... I'd say Godzilla 2014 is the best of the American Godzilla movies (with only 2 to choose from).

On other movies, I'd make Alien still the best of the Alien series (though Aliens contends with it), Predator 1 the best of where the predators appear, and Transformers 1 for all of this series. Usually, for me, the original would be the best. Some sequels seem forced.

In Hammer Films' series... make it The Vampire Lovers for me. hehe

Transformers isn't Horror, though.

I don't think I mentioned them before, but I remembered the My Super Psycho 16 films. Never seen them but they seem pretty decently-received.

I saw 1 & 2, Jig, and all things considered, I was quite taken with them.

I've heard a lot of good things about them. I'll seek them out someday, maybe my library has them or can reserve them for rent.

Looking through the thread again I don't believe I mentioned the Cold Prey films. Never seen them but they've been pretty well-received from what I've read on them.

I don't believe I mentioned the Children Of The Corn series before. I've seen the first two and parts of the third and fourth. I'm not sure how many films in total there are in the set.

None of them were as good as Fulci's Zombie/Zombie 2/Zombie Flesh Eaters. Zombie 3 was ok but suffered as Fulci wasn't involved much could of been much better but still ok to watch. Zombie 4:After Life was terrible but Zombie 5: Killing Birds was really fun I enjoyed it a lot. I'd definitely say Killing Birds is the one I would recommend most.

Not seen any of them I'll have to look out for them

I enjoyed all three I think I enjoyed the 2nd most but I watched them close together and the lines blur a bit for me. I'd go with the 2nd maybe then the 1st as my faves. I'll re watch them at some point.

Excluding the remake and it's seuel there were 7. The first is my fave. I've seen up to part 6 (or 666:Isaac's return) but never part 7: Revelation. I'd like to see that someday so maybe I'll revisit these as besides the first film I've only watched the others once but the quality did dive after the third as far as I remember. But I think they are worth another chance.

Best movie in a series
 

Friday the 13th: part IV
Halloween: Rob Zombie's version
A Nightmare on Elm Street: the 1st one
Saw: the last one
Scream: the 1st one
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: the original 1st one
Alien: the 2nd one
Predator: the 2nd one
Phantasm: the 1st one
Evil Dead: the remake
Hellraiser: the 3rd one
Child's Play: the 1st one
Final Destination: the 2nd one
::EEK!::

I'll catch up with the rest of them someday, definitely a series I'm way behind on. Although it seems a lot of the films are of pretty weak quality.

I forgot to say I'll definitely seek out the Cold Prey films sometime. They sound like they're quite good.

Another TV series I remembered was Beyond Belief: Fact Or Fiction? Not 100% Horror but it did have a lot of Horror-oriented episodes that were quite creepy, all the moreso with the ones revealed to be true stories. My favorite was The Kid In The Closet. Scared me so bad and for weeks I didn't want to be anywhere near any closet.

First for all of them except for Saw. My favorite is Saw III.

I remembered the Resident Evil series. I've seen the first two and didn't see the rest. Didn't care for the first two and hated the changes they made from the games, which have so much great material that can translate well into a movie and yet the films chose to destroy the material.

I don't expect anything from Paul WS Anderson.

He's extremely hit and miss for me. When it comes to his own original work (Event Horizon, Soldier) he does fine, but when it comes to adapting somebody else's material (Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil and Alien Vs. Predator), forget it.

I hated Event Horizon. Really boring, end twist was unbelievable, awful acting, but the cinematography was great.

I quite liked Event Horizon. Been years since I last watched it.

It's strange he decided to make AVP PG-13 given that he's made some pretty violent and gruesome films before. Still can't wrap my head over that film being PG-13.

Why do you like Event Horizon?

I don't mean it in a dickish way. jw to see if I missed something in the movie.

Funny you should say that. Event Horizon kind of pissed me off because, to me, it was a few older movie plots sewed together. While I was watching, I was just naming the films, or TV episodes, that they were grabbing. And it came off very hodge podge to me.

You know, if I hadn't seen all these other films/TV that Event was borrowing from, I think I would have enjoyed it more. If these were new ideas to me, I would have been more satisfied.

I don't mind past ideas sewed together if the result is excellent. I didn't think Event was excellent.

I thought it had a big budget, looked really good, good sets, special effects, famous actors, interesting premise. That's about it. The bad was plot resolution and logic, character development, script, not a lot for the actors to work with. I didn't really care about the characters, and I eventually cared about as much for the discovery and resolution of the plot as much as the film did... which was none. This event horizon being the entry to Hell isn't really the resolution... I mean it's the "discovery", but what does it mean to the characters?... the thus the director, writer and audience?

I think a seemingly ambitious sci-fi like this should have a point. I thought it was only film work for profit. Can't a film just be about fun and mildly entertaining? Sure it can, and I can really enjoy those films. Event was mildly entertaining, if it wasn't also so disappointing, failing at it's implied goal.