I'm a fan of older ones.

While i'm a fan of both new and old, since there was a list of some great old ones I thought i'd try to come up with a great list of horror that was made within the last 12-15 years.
May
Descent
Battle Royale
Ringu
The Eye
Dark Water
Juon
Stir of Echoes
Frailty
Bubbahotep
Undead
Frighteners
American Psycho
Seven
From Hell
Cabin Fever
High Tension
The Hole
Ginger Snaps
Slasher(cheesy fun)
Wrong Turn

I'd add Session 9 in that list as well.

and

- Tale of Two Sisters
- Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
- Chronos
- The Devil's Backbone

I haven't seen "Tale of two sisters" but I agree and can't believe i forgot all those,espicially Behind the mask since i just mentioned it a few posts ago.
And staying with Del Toro,
Pan's Labyrinth.

I think current horror films lack subtlety. The classics are usually superior. Heck, even early ‘80s horror is preferable to the current stuff. Give me The Demon Seed or the first Friday the 13th any Halloween.

70s - 80s. Surely they made better horror then than in the 90s and later? Or maybe it is because of affection value since I grew up with those movies when most impressionable, around 15 years of age.

I think SALEM'S LOT is probably my favorite. It feels genuine and has a great atmosphere. I never tire of it.

THE FOG is my other favorite. Probably because of affection value. But Carpenter is a master.

FRIGHT NIGHT was another nice one, which borrowed certain elements from Salem's Lot.

I used to think that THE EXORCIST was the scariest. But I don't know anymore. It is a great movie in any case.
I bought THE BROOD, and it probably tops them all in creepiness. I don't even dare to watch it again. Those dwarves are really nightmarish. Sometimes I start the DVD and watch a few scenes, but turn it off before anything scary happens. I just can't handle that movie.

The Hammers with Peter Cushing are great too.

I'll have to agree with this. Oh, yeah, and the substance is much better in old horror film's as well. I prefer build up and suspense to gallons of fake blood (which either annoys me, bores me, or makes me too sick to even care). Unless we are talking about a movie like Planet Terror which is full of gore but fun as hell AND totally over the top.

Does anyone remember The Gates of Hell? I'm thinking this was released in the early '80s.

Too bad this wasn't a poll - it might have be one of the few (only?) polls with 100% voting the same thing.

I like them all, give me all of it. Blood, guts, tension, monsters, psychopaths, atmosphere, mutants, aliens, inbreds, zombies. I really have no preference.