What are your favorite horror movies?

[heslopian]

I can't stand Japanese horror films, mainly because I don't like gore, not when it's as real as that; I can stomach something like Kill Bill, because the violence is so cartoonish that it takes the edge off, but Audition? No ta. I prefer psychological horror, or "horror of personality" as some have called it, where suspense is drawn more from the characters than the action. My favourites from that genre would have to be either The Silence of the Lambs or Misery.

Surprisingly, the audition wasn't that gory. It had a weird ending too. If you don't like gore try Alfred Hitchcock. No gore, but he's amazing! Misery was very funny too. And silence of the lambs was disturbing!

I love Alfred Hitchcock Psycho and Vertigo are among my favourite films. I thought Audition was so gory that other horror directors had trouble sitting through it? Or am I thinking of another film? Yeah Misery did have a great streak of unsettling but funny dark humour, like when Annie Wilkes flies into a psychotic rage about the serials she watched as a kid, where the hero would miraculously be okay at the end. Also when she calls James Caan a "dirty-birdie"