For someone who gets so bent out shape about being told what he can and cannot say you sure seem to enjoy telling people what they should and should not be able to do.

The Catholic Church for one, at least over here. Every year they rally to opose that satanic and pagan tradition corrupting our children yadda yadda and so on.

you aren't helping. :P

HEY BACK OT TO ALL:

Now that I'm getting a new system and can play some of these legendary horror games, what RE titles should I try?

Is there any way to legally get any of the Silent Hill games without going to Amazon and paying $50?

Well, at least that sounds like a party! Kinda ironic, considering for centuries they've been the ones who have been spreading stories about demons and eternal damnation in hellfire, to adults and children alike. Maybe they feel their monopoly is threatened. Should have signed up for a trademark or something.
The remake of Resident Evil 1 is one of the best of the series, if you haven't played it. Not very demanding, either. But since you're upgrading your hardware, you could try Resident Evil 7. It's a bit different, but a great Horror game overall.

And as for Silent Hill, either grab an old PS2 and play SH2, 3 and maybe 4, or just play them via emulator. I don't know how available the PC versions are, and whether the ports were any good. ( Don't even know if they all had a PC version. )

I can appreciate most genres of Horror, with a few exceptions, as long as the films ( or games ) are well made and creative. As for the Zombie sub-genre, I still kinda like 'em, but it's definitely overdone, and there's a lot of uninspired junk out there, I'll give you that. I don't know if you've seen it, but I can recommend Zombieland, even to people who don't normally like the genre. It's more of a comedy parody of zombie movies, and it has some great actors, including Woody Harrelson and Bill Murray. Just a very fun film, all around. I also liked the early seasons of The Walking Dead, and the first season of TellTale's Walking Dead game. Interestingly, both could have worked without the zombies, since they're primarily stories about ordinary people trying to survive in extreme situations. The zombies could easily be replaced with any number of other life threatening events, and the primary focus is on the human characters and how they deal with the situation.

I haven't seen the new version of "It" yet, and I'm not sure I care to. Not really a fan of all those remakes, especially in cases where the original was good. Most of the time the remakes turn out disappointing, and I don't have much trust in the modern film industry to actually improve upon any of the classics. Horror is a fairly vague term, so I'm sure most of your examples fit into one sub-genre or another.

Undying is great, and one of the few cases where I'd actually like to see a remake, or some kind of sequel in the same style. I tried F.E.A.R. a few years back but couldn't really get into it. Maybe it gets better later on, but the first few hours just felt like a generic military shooter to me, with the occasional spooky scripted sequence ( some of which were pretty cool ).

I'd recommend checking out 30 Days of Night. I quite like that one.

As for games, I haven't gotten around to them yet (they dwell in the backlog), but I have to think the Dead Space games would fit here.

One could argue about the specific sub-genre names and their definition, but they certainly exist, and I enjoy most of them to some degree.

I think my favorite sub-genre of Horror is over the top 80s style comedy Horror, such as Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness, or modern interpretations such as Drag Me To Hell, Feast (1) or Don Coscarelli's John Dies at the End. True, I can't judge how far it strays from the original novel, since I've never read it, but I'd say it's easily the best Dracula film overall, and one of the best vampire films.

I love Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness (and almost everything Raimi directed before Spider-Man), and I was terribly disappointed by Drag Me to Hell. It neither scared me nor made me laugh. But hey, we have Ash vs Evil Dead now, so things are groovy!

I'd definitely call that Horror -- The original Alien films and their creature designs still creep me out! Easily one of the nastiest and best designed creatures in the history of ( Sci-Fi ) Horror.

Yeah, you are right! Totally forgot about that one. I like it a lot. :)

Been there, done that. Well, technically I've only played the classic Silent Hill games, 1 to 4, but as far as I know the series went downhill after that. I can recommend the second one to anyone new to the series, since it's generally considered one of the best Horror games, and its story is only loosely connected to the rest of the series.
Regarding modern vampire Horror ( anyone who mentions or recommends Twilight shall be slapped with a smelly old fish ), I'd also recommend Daybreakers and I really like the series "The Strain". Finished watching the first season this month and will write a short review eventually.

I've played Dead Space 1 on my Xbox back when it was new and thought it was very good overall. Not without flaws, but some of the game elements felt quite innovative at the time. I started playing DS2 last year, but it didn't capture me as much as the first one; felt too much like more of the same. Maybe I'll finish it later this month or next one.

Well, it's no Evil Dead, but it had its moments. Campbell's performance in Evil Dead, and especially in Evil Dead 2, is borderline insane. Half of the time I was wondering if he's actually crazy, or just a brilliant actor. Then again, they say there's a fine line between genius and madman. Going to watch the first season of Ash vs Evil Dead later this month!

By the way, you're a fan of Twin Peaks, right? Have you played Deadly Premonition?

Campbell is great in everything. Evil Dead, Brisco County Jr, Jack of All Trades, He even turned in a legit great dramatic/comedic performace in Bubba Ho-Tep, a movie that had no right to be nearly as good as it is. I've got a mile-long list of roles I wish he played (some still viable, some he's now to old for).

I'd love to. I can't get it to run :P

I gotta say I was a little disappointed with that.

For sure there was some great stuff, and the vampires WERE BRILLIANT, but there was a lot of other not so brilliant stuff that kind of brought it down. Still, not a bad suggestion.

I haven't had much time for watching horror movies so far this season. Usually I try to focus on a certain theme - last year I watched all of the 1930s Universal films - and I was thinking maybe I'd do Hammer this year, or Italian horror, but we'll see. My wife wanted to watch Friday the 13th 1 and 2, so we watched those, although I fell asleep in the middle of the first one. I've seen them many times even though they're not very good (well, part 6 is pretty good).

I've had a bit more luck with gaming as I've played through The Lurking Horror and Project Firestart so far, and I'm working on Eternal Darkness and Alien Isolation. Not sure if I'l finish those before Halloween. Also started Veil of Darkness, and I should probably go back and finish Shadow of the Comet, which I started last year and had to abandon. Probably have to totally restart that one...