Horror Film Recommendations

[timb2]

Well since Halloween is coming. What scary horror movies do you recommend to see?

 

[quickccc]

Well since Halloween is coming. What scary horror movies do you recommend to see?

New ..or old ?

 

[bb721]

Dog Soldiers

 

[DallasEast]

 

[Roadtrip635]

Those would be 2 of my top 3 choices, the 3rd is.....

 

[Roadtrip635]

There's a lot of great Asian horror, in many cases they had American remakes, but stick with the original Asian movies, there's always creepier...

Ringu
Audition
Train To Busan
The Eye
Shutter
Ju-On: The Grudge
A Tale of Two Sisters
Dark Water


There's a lot more, but that should get you started.
@MichaelWinicki is our resident horror expert, I'm sure he'll have a ton of great recommendations.

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

I can recommend that you DO NOT see the Munsters remake.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

There's a lot of great Asian horror, in many cases they had American remakes, but stick with the original Asian movies, there's always creepier...

Ringu
Audition
Train To Busan
The Eye
Shutter
Ju-On: The Grudge
A Tale of Two Sisters
Dark Water


There's a lot more, but that should get you started.
@MichaelWinicki is our resident horror expert, I'm sure he'll have a ton of great recommendations.

Boy that's a solid list...

I can add two off the top of my head:

"I Saw The Devil"
"Battle Royale"

 

[Hardline]

The classics..
Dracula
Frankenstein.

My favorite silent movie Era horror.
Nosferatu.
Hexxan

 

[mattjames2010]

Savageland is one of the scariest films I've watched in years



This isn't exactly "horror" and more sci-fi, but there are some scenes that are more eerie than you'll find in horror films. Coherence.

 

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[quickccc]

What is it about " the Exorcist " that seems to be the horror movie that all horror flicks are compared to ?

What made it such a unique stick that it has been extremely hard to duplicate it's success ?
It's been a ton of " Exorcism " related theme, but it's so lame and lethargic it's guilty pleasure laughable .

 

[dsturgeon]

When I was young this scared me. The only movie to do that. I have not seen it since i was young, and I have no clue if it is actually a scary movie

 

[zrinkill]

None of these movies listed are scary .....

 

[Reverend Conehead]

The Witch (2015, directed by Robert Eggers)

 

[DallasEast]

What is it about " the Exorcist " that seems to be the horror movie that all horror flicks are compared to ?

What made it such a unique stick that it has been extremely hard to duplicate it's success ?
It's been a ton of " Exorcism " related theme, but it's so lame and lethargic it's guilty pleasure laughable .

My opinion? The Exorcist explores medical, psychological and scientific explanations for Regan's behavior throughout much of the movie. Even the subplot involving the police investigation of the lethal fall down the stairs next to the townhouse is methodically based in the explainable. Every aspect is examined to the smallest detail. Nothing about the supernatural is accepted by anyone...

...until the final 1/4 of the movie when nothing else makes sense except what cannot be explained. Now, they, and audience, must accept evil in its truest form. And some of the audience, like myself, get caught up in a what if they cannot escape despite knowing none of it is real.

No other exorcism-themed movie has ever come close to duplicating that feat in my opinion.

 

[Cowpolk]

My opinion? The Exorcist explores medical, psychological and scientific explanations for Regan's behavior throughout much of the movie. Even the subplot involving the police investigation of the lethal fall down the stairs next to the townhouse is methodically based in the explainable. Every aspect is examined to the smallest detail. Nothing about the supernatural is accepted by anyone...

...until the final 1/4 of the movie when nothing else makes sense except what cannot be explained. Now, they, and audience, must accept evil in its truest form. And some of the audience, like myself, get caught up in a what if they cannot escape despite knowing none of it is real.

No other exorcism-themed movie has ever come close to duplicating that feat in my opinion.

I watched the Exorcist in Timothy Leary mode

 

[DallasEast]

I watched the Exorcist in Timothy Leary mode

Stay off the drugs!

 

[nightrain]

Watch reruns of the Cowboys 2000-2002 seasons. Horrid.

 

[CyberB0b]

Heredity

Psychological horror.