What makes a horror movie a classic horror movie?
 

Opinions...

what makes a movie a classic? what ingredients are needed? take your favorite horror pic...what makes it so unique to you? color, scenery, great characters???

What makes you wimper? I know. Do you?

If there was a straight answer to that, I think there would be many more of em. I belive the only thing that persists in every classic is that they are ahead of their time. Then again, we all mis the 80's so much, I'm not even sure I want horror movies to be ahead of their time, especially when I see all this shitty CGI.

I agree,
Classics are classic because they're pioneers in the horror genre. They've done what no movie to that point has done. I like hellraiser because its take on humanity as the true monsters. My buddy says Tits being chased by a monster makes a classic.

I think anything that has a fresh and original concept makes for a classic horror film. For Example: In Evil Dead, we saw the men being terrorized by the possesed females. I like the fact that it wasn't the usual, steriotypical "Female being scared shitless" crock of shit. Only braindead morons use the same blueprint over and over to tell their story. Once again, it's about ORIGINALITY.

If a horror film can continually scare you if you watch it more than once or can withstand the test of time then it is a classic. If can scare people now as much as it did 10 or 20 years ago, then its a classic.

I must agree with you completely on this one. It's that little extra something that makes something a classic. It's why Freddy Vs Jason was something people waited 15 + years to see, and now that it is oput, it isnt and never will be a classic. It's just limp "more of the same"

Classics are made by people with huge balls

Yeah, Freddy VS Jason is one of the many reasons I hate to watch new movies. I can honestly say that I have pretty much lost all of the respect I once had for Robert England. He no longer resides on ANY of the pedestals I once placed him on.

Right on. When's the last time a horror movie actually scared you?
Well there ya go.

Actually..that would make a good topic in itself.

I was white-knuckled and in a cold swaety all the way through the new Dawn of the Dead.

Of course, i do have zombiephobia, but they still did a great job.