Deserted island top 5 horror movies
 

I apologize if this has been done before but I was curious. Lets just say that you find yourself trapped on a deserted island with only a dvd player and a tv. Which 5 horror movies would you bring with you to watch until you died from one thing or another (or survived to become the next Tarzan). For me it would have to be
1. The Bride of Frankenstein
2. Suspiria
3. The Mummy (Hammer studios)
4. Pet Semetary
5. House of 1,000 Corpses

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"Enjoy that dead girl's body."

Hmm, that's a pretty good question. And some pretty good choices you have there.
I'd want to be entertained if I was stuck with these, so I'd choose all horror comedies.
The Cottage
Hatchet
The Video Dead
Black Sheep
Cannibal: The Musical

I just figured if I was going to be stuck on an island I would try and get one movie from every sub-genre i love. I've actually never seen any of those movies but I have a list of horror movies I need to see and I think it'd be good to have more than young frankenstein to laugh at so they're goin on my list so thank you

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"Enjoy that dead girl's body."

Rewatchability is the key in this question.

1. Halloween (the original, of course)
2. Shaun of the Dead
3. Black Sunday
4. Creepshow
5. Ghostbusters

If I had to sub Shaun and Ghostbusters for "real" horror films, I'd probably pick Bride of Frankenstein and Slumber Party Massacre.

1. Suspiria
2. The Last Man on Earth
3. Shaun of the Dead
4. The Beyond
5. Cabin Fever

I'm just basing this off of which movies have rewatchibility, like knife_fight said. Except Suspiria...that's just my favorite.

Halloween
Halloween 2
Halloween 4
Halloween 5
Halloween 6

Suspiria is such a beautiful movie, and the soundtrack by Goblin just grates on my nerves in all the right ways.

Godzilla
The Giant Claw
Child's Play
Tremors
Halloween

I didn't care for Suspiria, but I agree the music from it is awesome.
And you're very welcome for the recommendations. Another hilarious one that I forgot to mention is Evil Dead 2. You may have already seen that, though.

I like your question. Never heard anyone ever ask which 5 horror movies you could have on a deserted island. Reason I say that is, although I'm a lifelong horror fan, if I could have a very limited number of movies at a deserted island, I don't know I'd take any horror. Being on a deserted island always sounds nice in one way, but honestly, I think it would pack plenty of it's own horror. :) (I know, way to take the fun out of a question!)

I agree with knifefight, rewatchability would be important. And I'd probably try get 5 documentaries on how to survive on a deserted island. If that didn't fly, I'd keep my definition of horror really wide and go for some uplifting, inspiring, musical, etc, movies like: Yellow Submarine, Gandhi, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (BBC TV 81), Grease 78 and Jesus of Nazareth 77 (6 hrs).

If those movies wouldn't fly, I'd go for a second round:
Evil Dead 2
Aliens
Ghostbusters
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (BBC TV 81)

If they didn't allow Hitchhicker and Bogus Journey, I'd replace them with some combo of Se7en, Poltergeist or The Thing 82.

Grease? Really?

The Giant Claw? Most interesting choice I've seen yet. A giant bird "from outer space, some godforsaken anti-matter galaxy, millions and millions for light years for Earth." Villain, I got to know, how come Giant claw?

Hmm...5 is pretty tough. How about 6 instead...

Frankenstein (1931)
The Black Cat (1934)
The Raven (1935)
Jaws (1975)
Alien (1979)
The Thing (1982)

It's a guilty pleasure of mine. I love giant monster movies and ever since i saw this one i've loved it despite it's many, many, many flaws.

The Cabin in the Woods
Halloween (1978)
The Thing (1982)
Scream (1996)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

If I could have a sixth film, I would choose Psycho (1960). Coincidentally, Marion crane mentions that she wanted to buy a private island in the film.

Great recall. A bit surprised that you'd put Scream above Psycho.

Scream is one of my favorite, if not favorite, horror movies. It was really close on all these. I could really watch these films over and over. Most, but not all, of these are also in my top ten.

LOL! Yes, for the music. I'm a huge Olivia Newton-John' music fan. Grease has Hopelessly Devoted to You, You're the one I Want, Grease, Summer Nights, & We go Together. Those are the only ones I really like. Xanadu might be a better choice. I was thinking of Across the Universe only for the Beatles music, but, decided against it because none of the songs are preformed by the Beatles.

Actually, I wasn't crazy about any of those three films, as I'm not really into film musicals, there's only a few I've really liked: Yellow Submarine, Sound of Music and Fiddler on the Roof. Singin in the Rain, West Side Story, Grease, Little Shop of Horrors, Jesus Christ Superstar and Xanadu I enjoyed too.

If you're going to be stuck on a deserted island, a musical is a good choice. I guess Rocky Horror and Little Shop are the only horror musicals I'm aware of; but I don't like their music enough to pick them for one of my 5.

I like your choice of Bram Stoker's Dracula. I was considering that one too. It's a long movie with a ton of fine detail (I see a bunch of new things every time I've seen it) and has a high degree of re-watchability. I think you'd get board re-watching Cabin though.

Good choices and I agree, for me, it all comes down to rewatchability... So I had to think about horror movies that I have and can continue to rewatch...

Cabin in the Woods
Evil Dead 2
The Descent
Shaun of the Dead
May

ChronoGrl, who's the chic with the axe in you Signature pic?

I'll have to check out May.

Psycho (1960)
The Evil Dead (1981)
Frankenstein (1931)
Jaws (1975)
Eraserhead (1977)

To be honest, I'd take books, and not DVDs. Big thick anthologies...

Sharni Vinson in You're Next - Good, solid horror movie - I definitely recommend it if you haven't seen it already.

And May is fantastic.

But that's not answering the question... :p

I don't care. I'm rebelling. Honestly, to be stuck watching the same 5 movies till the end of my existence sounds more like torture to me than anything else. If I WAS forced to take some movies with me, they probably wouldn't be horror. I'd take some big long musical thing, like That's Entertainment, or five hours of the greatest music of the 60s or something, because life without music would suck really bad. Then I'd want some comedies, to cheer me up from being depressed because I'm stuck on an island by myself...

Forgive my digression. I just imagined myself in that situation and wondered what I'd want to keep myself sane.

Those were my thoughts exactly, Lee. Desert, or deserted, island, I'd be thinking music, not a horror DVD set. But I love being asking questions I've never been asked before. :)

Kwaidan

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Dead of Night

Night of the Hunter

Threads

what deserted island would have electricity?

All great choices It's hard to choose 5 but here it goes.

1 Rosemary's baby
2 the exorcist
3 Friday the 13th part 4
4 Halloween 1978
5 psycho

Ok fine I'll rephrase "What 5 Horror movies would you pick to watch for the rest of your life."

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"Enjoy that dead girl's body."

I think they would be:

1. Evil Dead (original)
2. Creepshow (original)
3. Salems Lot (original)
4. Ghostbusters
5. The Abominable Dr. Phibes

... but I'm not sure LOL. There's no Robert Englund movies on the list... arrghh!

Night of the living dead
Friday the 13th part 4
Toxic Avenger
Last house on dead end street
Maniac (1980)

Oh, like if they were to cut us off. Tough. I'll take a second shot, being I get to be at home, instead of on a deserted island. Off the top of my head, I'd say the first 5 of these I'd be considering:

Evil Dead2, Alien, The Thing 82, Aliens, Poltergeist, Se7en, Frankenstein 31, Psycho, Exorcist, The Fly 86, Godzilla Vs Smogmonster.