Need recommendations

Now that I've finally got some income I have tons of money to rent with.

I would like some recommendations for good sci-fi and horror films.

Sci-fi is my fave genre and horror is where I lack the most in viewing.

Obviously I can't say what I've seen or not so just recommend everything that is really good (since I believe that everything deserves at least one viewing).

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Try these on fer size (if you haven't already)...

SCI-FI & FANTASY
BladeRunner (1982)
The Hidden (1987)
The Thing (1982)
12 Monkeys (1995)
A Boy & His Dog (1975)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 & 1978)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Minority Report (2002)
Time After Time (1979)
Dark City (1998)
Highlander (1986)
The Last Starfighter (1984)
Time Bandits (1981)
Dragonslayer (1981)
Conan the Barbarian (1982)
Westworld (1973)
RoboCop (1987)
The City of Lost Children (1995)
The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb (1993)

HORROR
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
The Shining (1980)
Near Dark (1987)
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Nosferatu (1922 & 1979)
Fright Night (1985)
The Wicker Man (1973)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Angel Heart (1987)
Jacob's Ladder (1990)
Don't Look Now (1973)
The Haunting (1963)
The Innocents (1961)
The Changeling (1980)
Stir of Echoes (1999)
The Others (2001)
Frailty (2002)
The Hitcher (1986)


Some obvious, some obscure, all personal favorites, all worth seeing.



Enjoy!

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Ya can Add A Clockwork Orange and 2001: ASO to that list and for horror add Polanski's Repulsion.
If ya want pure cheese sci-fi see Logans Run



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Lot of good ones already mentioned but I liked these too…

The Crow
Edward Scissorhands
The Matrix
Dune
The War of the Worlds
The Abyss

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In the Mouth of Madness- Speaks for itself

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I rented that yesterday because I'm a HUGE Carpenter fan. I am happy to say that I was not disappointed in the least. This film is top notch entertainment. Spooky as hell too!

I now need to find it on dvd.

Yeah, Carpenters movies are great, his older ones are better than his new ones though.

Funny, most people seem to hate this movie. I saw it in the theater and soon discovered that it is my second favorite Carpenter movie, a league behind The Thing.

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My favorite Carpenter always has and probably will forever be Big Trouble in Little China . I love the chinese mythology and kung-fu.

Horror

Dawn of the Dead
Evil Dead
An American Werewolf In London
The Shining
Salem's Lot
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Halloween
Dead and Buried
Day of the Dead
Night of the Living Dead
Zombie
The Other
Frankenstein: The True Story
The Exorcist
The Sentinel
Freaks
Blair Witch Project
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
Phantasm

If you want the best combination of sci-fi and horror, then look no further than John Carpenter's The Thing. A timeless classic.

Well you've already got quite a list there, but I'm sure I can make some small contribution ^_^

... Of which I'd recommend picking up the Nosferatu DVD. I have the British Film Institute's release of this disc, and am not sure of the exact differences between it and the standard US release (however I believe it's a superior version). The new restored print is very impressive, replicating the tints and tones (blue and brown mainly) of the nitrate original. James Bernard (of many of the classic Hammer horror movies) has also added a much improved new orchestral score (stereo). Extras aren't huge, but substantial enough (in terms of extra's the US two-disc set has the upper hand).

Now if you're talking sci-fi DVD's, if you wait a few weeks you'll be able to purchase the two-disc special edition of Metropolis.

Here's a bunch

Evil Dead II: Dead By Dead
The Bird With The Crystal Plumage
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Kill, Baby, Kill
Martin
God Told Me To
Stalker
The Tenant
Dead of Night
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Peeping Tom
Vampyr
The Haunting
Rosemary's Baby
Silence of the Lambs
The Exorcist
Videodrome
The Shining
Aliens
Angel Heart
Spoorloos (1988)
The Thing (1982)
Blood and Black Lace
Psycho
Dawn of the Dead (1972)
Braindead/Dead Alive
Re-animator
Halloween
Don't Look Now
Jaws
Night of the Living Dead
Jacob's Ladder (1990)
The Fly
Alien
The Brood
Night of the Hunter
The Others
The Devil's Backbone
American Psycho
Coma
The Dead Zone
Dark City
Pi
Black Sunday
Black Sabbath
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte
Aura
The Fearless Vampire Killers
And Soon the Darkness
Deep Red
Trouble Every Day
Session 9
Misery
Poltergiest
Nosfertu
The Omen
Sisters
Asylum
The Devils
The Pit and The Pendulum
The Thing (Nyby)

This may not be a sci-fi nor horror but I reccomend

Battle Royale .