Horror Movie Recommendations and Discussion

[sky14kemea]

The Ring is pretty scary IMO.

How good are you at stomaching torture and gore? I recently watched a film called Martyrs and I had to pause it about 2/3rds of the way through because I got a tiny bit queasy.

I usually watch kind of bad horrors, either that or I'm just too used to horrors, so it's hard thinking of recommendations that won't get me laughed at. xD

I don't think anyone has mentioned this one yet so I'll just throw it up.

28 Days Later. I am not sure how many would consider it a horror, but it certainly isn't something I would show a child. Nothing quite captured that end of the world/lonely feel for me as much as that film did. It is kind of a zombie film, but it isn't an action one. It is more about this violent strain of rabies getting out that infects humans after these humanitarians try to break out monkeys that are being tested on, one of the monkeys is infected and bites one of the people setting in motion a deadly panademic across London and the United kingdom.

The story starts with a man waking up in a hostpital after being in a coma, he wakes up 28 days after the outbreak and everyone is gone. Check it out if you haven't yet!

I like this one. I think it's way better than 28 Weeks Later. Then again I can't watch Robert Carlisle seriously after The Full Monty. >_>

Also Grave Encounters. It's a slow build up but a lot happens in the second half.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

The last GREAT horror movie I watched was The Thing, John Carpenter's 1982 version. That movie is fucking brilliant and I'm too happy to have inadvertedly saved it for so long.

 

[Cloake]

I just watched Cabin in the Woods a few weeks back. I went in with low expectations, but I was impressed with the spin on the "stupid teens" horror movie trope.

 

[Cloudydays]

Oooh ooh, teacher (waves hand furiously) I know this one! I got a tonne of DVDs, and always jump at the chance to push new flicks on to people.

Horror, as the good person above said, is subjective. Comedies can be classics (Blazing Saddles, Kentucky Fried Movie), musicals (Singing in the Rain) or teen genre, or even based on a certain director/producer' oeuvre, your Apatow's, Mel Brooks, Monty Python, Edgar Wright etc. Horror's pretty much the same, I guess. Check out the list below - apologies to other Horror fans as these titles overlap their categories....but meh.

PG13 Fun - Some good chills, usually higher budget fare - these flicks may have a few jump scares, but it's great if you want a movie for scaring your little brothers and sisters, without teaching them what drugs and boobs are - Insidious, Poltergeist, the Ring, Signs/ Sixth Sense, The Others (if you don't know the twist, do check it out), and Jaws.

Genre Mashup - An American Werewolf in London, Shaun of the Dead, Dog Soldiers, Predator/Alien (only fragments of Horror in these movies, but I argue them in nonetheless) Pan's Labyrinth, Black Swan, Repo the Genetic Opera, Army of Darkness

SFX/Gore/T*tties - If you love movies over the top - check out Piranha 3D, Friday the 13th(any of em), Hellraiser 1(gore, gore gore) The Thing, Hostel series/Saw - Dawn of the Dead (the original if you can, though the remake wasn't bad)

Director schtick - Peter Jacksons Braindead (Dead Alive) or Bad Taste - Dario Argento's Suspiria, Tenebrae or Phenomena, Kubrick's version of the Shining, Sam Raimi's Evil Dead - John Carpenter - Halloween, David Lynch...just David Lynch.

Cult Collector - Devil's Backbone, REC (don't watch Quarantine if this available instead - REC has a way better ending) In the Mouth of Madness, Sam Niell in Possession (rare 1981 flick), Jacob's Ladder - and definitely Kill List (it takes a while to get going, mind you) Undead is goofy fun

Foreign Collector - er REC, Ringu, Devil's Backbone - but also Ichi the Killer/ or Audition, a Thai film The Meat Grinder, Inside (creepy French film), Martyrs (really creepy French film), Let the Right one (not very scary, but a great vampire movie)

Horror TV - American Horror Story, Twin Peaks, Walking Dead (haven't actually watched this one yet - but heaps of people recommend it , Tales of the Crypt, Twilight Zone and the X Files - worth checking out at least, if you ever get the chance to borrow a boxset of someone.

Video Nasties - umm just Wiki that term - the list pushes the R-Rating / X-Rating line to say the least.

Personally, I'd always say The Exorcist as the best horror movie, but not everyone gets spooked by demons. Youtube some of the trailers above and see what grabs you.

Right, and that's part of what I'm saying here too. To say "horror" is really general - there are so many sub-genres of "horror" that it's definition becomes blurred. Can you pair it off with suspense/thriller or gore/slasher?

Either way, thanks for the recommendations, I've heard American Horror Story is pretty good. I've already seen most of the stuff in your Sfx/gore category. Just got down with the Hostel series. I think their take on it was interesting but they sort of lost the psychological theme of being in the back alley in middle-of-nowhere Europe leads you to being a simple nobody - somebody to easily pick off and "turn into a statistic". They sort of lost that going into the 3rd movie there, turning more towards "People pay to kill".

Either way, it was an interesting series.

 

[Scarim Coral]

If you into J horror or not get put off from subtitles then I highly recommend Tales of Two Sisters and Three... Extremes. It's one of the most scary J Horror films other than The Ring!

 

[FieryTrainwreck]

I recently saw this British flick named 'Kill List'. It's one hell of a movie, starting out as a cinema verite crime drama of sorts before veering into some truly strange and unsettling territory. Also quite funny at times, if you dig gallows humor.

Wow. I clicked on this thread fully expecting to be the only one recommending Kill List, and there it is in the very first response.

One I didn't see: Event Horizon. Sci-fi horror with more emphasis on the horror than, say, Aliens.

Classics: The Thing (1982) and The Shining.

REC was freaky as hell.

For the most part, I don't respond well to (or much respect) movies that rely entirely on jump scares or overt gimmicks.

 

[Sack of Cheese]

If you like Asian horrors, try:
-Acacia: from the guy who wrote Whispering corridors I think?
-Audition: Thriller with disturbing elements. It's a bit slow at the beginning but that was deliberate.
-Dark water: Japanese version is much much much better than that crappy US version.
-The eye 1 & 2: Watch the Hong Kong version. They're wonderful films!
-Infection: A weird Japanese horror takes place in a hospital. Butt loads of mind-screw.
-Pulse: I find this pretty chilling, but most of my friends didn't like it.
-Ring 1 and 2, don't watch Zero, it kills the franchise for me.

These are the ones on top of my head, I haven't watched Whispering corridors but I heard good things about it. Ju-on is just horrible, only the first one managed to unnerve me, the second one was meh.

http://www.mandiapple.com/snowblood/index2.htm << This website has a lot of reviews for Asian horrors.

If you into J horror or not get put off from subtitles then I highly recommend Tales of Two Sisters and Three... Extremes. It's one of the most scary J Horror films other than The Ring!

I only liked Dumplings in Three extremes, watched it three times plus the full-feature film twice. The others were meh.

Tales of two sisters is awesome though! << It is actually Korean btw.

 

[xshadowscreamx]

a horror discussion thread, i have found my poeple.. now much of the movies that should be recommedned have been said.. so all i can add is the more extreme stuff, most are not horror but are horrific.

Martyrs (french)- oh boy, it has horror elements, and very soul crushing by the end ( prob my fav of this genre)

a Serbian film (Serbian)- just reading about it will disturb you for hours or days. also soul crushing

frontiers - i still need to see that one

high tension- still need to see that one

irreversible (french)- a rape revenge movie but filmed backwards and i believe it has the most rape scene in a movie that i have scene.

audition- has already been mentioned, i found it pretty boring for the most part.

enter the void- realistic anti-drug movie lol. and plenty of sexual scenes

antichrist- starring Willem defoe. and some horrific mutilation.

necromantic- low budget movie, and the content well its in the title.. but it wasent bad and it had a message.

all i can think of right now

 

[ShipofFools]

The last GREAT horror movie I watched was The Thing, John Carpenter's 1982 version. That movie is fucking brilliant and I'm too happy to have inadvertedly saved it for so long.

That movie friggin' rules!

Also I can recommend Jacob's Ladder, a very unsettling film to say the least.

And Soylaris. Not a horror, nothing scary, but still one of the most disturbing things I have ever seen, and I can't explain why!

 

[HardkorSB]

I saw the "Evil Dead" remake last week and it was surprisingly good.

Since people are bringing up Japanese films, check out Tetsuo - The Iron Man:


p.s. The full movie is in the related videos AND with English subtitles so you can watch it anytime

 

[penguindude42]

Horror films are dumb and you shouldn't bother.