Since it's October again and Halloween is upon us I'm curious whether other people on this site love a good horror flick.
I've been a horror fan for as long as I can remember being a film fan. It's a genre saturated with absolute garbage, but there are some real diamonds to be found as well. I'm not much into "gore" flicks - not because it disturbs or upsets me, it doesn't, but because I consider most of them to be childish shlock - but I love a good classic horror movie with a solid atmosphere and vibe.

Here's a list of horror movies I consider to be entirely worth checking out;

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974 original)
Mulholland Drive (arguably more mystery thriller than horror, but its vibe oozes dread)
Lost Highway (same case as Mulholland Drive)
Eraserhead
Inland Empire
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Silence of the Lambs (also debatable if horror, but it's included afaic)
The Thing (1980 original)
The Exorcist (1973 original, but Exorcist III is one I consider to be very good as well)
Halloween (1978 original)
Suspiria (1977 original)
George A. Romero's original living dead trilogy: Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead
Psycho (1960 original)
Rosemary's Baby
Alien (1979 original)
Jacob's Ladder (1990 original)
The Shining (1980)
The Witch
The Lighthouse
Hereditary
Midsommar
The Evil Dead (1981 original)
The Fly (1986)
An American Werewolf in London
Jaws
Possession
The Wicker Man (1973 original)
Videodrome
Audition
Kairo/Pulse
Ringu (Japanese version)
The Ring (a good American remake)
The Blair Witch Project (1999 original)
Scream (1996 original)
Maniac (1980 original)
Profondo Rosso/Deep Red
Tenebrae/Shadows
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Prince of Darkness
In the Mouth of Madness
Hellraiser (1987 original)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre II (completely different vibe than the original, but a true black comedy horror classic)
It Follows
Poltergeist (1982 original)
REC (original Spanish)
The Wailing
I Saw the Devil
Noroi: The Curse
The Beyond
Repulsion
Carnival of Souls
Don't Look Now
The Babadook
The Devil's Rejects
Sinister
Friday the 13th (1980 original)
The Burning (a Friday the 13th ripoff that's probably one of the only straight slashers worth watching lol)
The Conjuring
The Conjuring II
Session 9
Insidious
A L'Interieur/Inside (2007 French original)
Haute Tension/Switchblade Romance
Event Horizon
Kill List
Lake Mungo
Bone Tomahawk
You're Next
House of the Devil
House of 1000 Corpses
28 Days Later
Ils/Them
Eden Lake
The Hitcher (1986 original)
Suspiria (2018 remake, one of the only truly great horror remakes)
The Hills Have Eyes (2006 remake, a rare remake which betters the original)
Evil Dead (2013 remake is surprisingly great, though not better than the original)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984 original)
Braindead (I know I said I wasn't really into straight gore flicks, but this is a classic)
Saw
Martyrs (2008 French original)
Phantasm (1979 original)
Black Christmas (1974 original)
The New York Ripper
Zombi II
Cannibal Holocaust
Ravenous
Wolf Creek
The Collector
The Descent
The Innocents
King of the Ants
Atterados
Annihilation
Cabin Fever (not much of an Eli Roth fan, but this is a surprisingly great wacky black comedy horror flick)
The Blackcoat's Daughter
The Dark and the Wicked
Smile (the most recent one I added to my list)

Horror is my favorite genre. Putting me on the spot, these are some (not all) of my favorite horror movies

-Scream (1996)
-Suspiria (1977)
-It Follows
-It (2017 & 2019)
-Smile
-Midsommar
-Hereditary
-Halloween (1978)
-Rosemary's Baby
-The Witch
-The Shining
-Friday the 13th 1-3
-Terror Train
-Torso
-Dracula (1931)
-Frankenstein (1931)
-The Mummy (1932)
-The Invisible Man (1933)
-A Classic Horror Story
-Saw
-A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
-Let The Right One In
-Carrie (1976)
-Faust (1926)
-Nosferatu (1922)
-Saint Maud
-The Black Phone

I got to admit I've not yet watched A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, but I've heard good things.
I recently watched The Black Phone and I quite liked it. I didn't find it particularly creepy, but Ethan Hawke is great in it and it has a good vibe. I liked the IT remake as well.
For some reason I never really vibed with Let The Right One In.
There are also a lot of movies from the 20's and 30's I should still give a shot.

Definitely appreciate the classic of the '20's & '30's. I also recommend taking the time to watch A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT. Sorry to hear you didn't enjoy LET THE RIGHT ONE IN as that blew me away the first time I watched it.

I do think Let The Right One In is a good movie when it comes to the drama aspect, but I don't find it all that creepy or eerie. I think I still have it in my collection though, so I should give it another watch.

When it comes to acclaimed modern day horror, one director whose movies I don't appreciate as much as self-proclaimed critics do is Jordan Peele. I mean, his movies are well-directed, the plots are original and the acting is usually very good, but they just kinda fail when it comes to the "horror" side of things. They aren't remotely creepy, scary or disturbing.

Agreed as his films are more psychological than physical horror, which I'm not a huge fan of psychological horror. Plus, he's a race-baiter and overrated IMO. His first film GET OUT is a masterpiece, no doubt about it and it's my favorite film of his. US I only saw once in the theater and never had any intention of seeing it again as I found it to be an unworthy follow up to GET OUT. NOPE was ok, better than US but still lacking to GET OUT. I've said it before and I'll say it again, Peele may be experiencing the M. Night Shyamalan effect where he peeked with his first entry and nothing he subsequently puts out will compare with it (a victim of his own success).

Among the classics:

Bride of Frankenstein
Nosferatu (1922)
The Mummy
Dracula
Werewolf of London

Among the postwar fims:

The Thing from Another World (Nyby/Hawks)
The Thing (Carpenter)
Bram Stoker's Dracula

Special mention to:
The Hunger (1983) All style, little substance--but the style...an elegant vampire movie.

In more or less date order from listings in the Horror film Wiki:

THE WOLF MAN (1941)
THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS
HOUSE OF WAX
IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956)
THE FLY (1958)
THE TINGLER
PSYCHO
THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968)
THE EXORCIST
ALIEN
THE HUNGER
VIDEODROME
ALTERED STATES
THE THING (1982)
THE SHINING
THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU (1996)

Glad to see Carpenter's The Thing getting a lot of love on here. One of my all time favorites.

Yes. 40 years old and still unequaled.