Good horror movies..

[Zod]

chris watton said:

Zod said:

Here's one nobody has mentioned:

Black Sunday.

It's old, but it is highly atmospheric.

I have that on BR, too!

Is the transfer good? If so, I'll buy it if I can find it.

[chris watton]

Zod said:

Is the transfer good? If so, I'll buy it if I can find it.

Yes, this is the one I bought, quite a feature packed package:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B009WU5YVE?keyw...

[Zod]

chris watton said:

Zod said:

Is the transfer good? If so, I'll buy it if I can find it.

Yes, this is the one I bought, quite a feature packed package:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B009WU5YVE?keyw...

Thanks!

[Veeayt]

Has 'cabin in the woods' been mentioned? IMO the one of the few modern films to keep up with the best of the genre.

[blindswelledrat]

Veeayt said:

Has 'cabin in the woods' been mentioned? IMO the one of the few modern films to keep up with the best of the genre.

Seriously? That's the teen flick with the house that turns round and stuff? I genuinely cant even remember anything about it.
Out of curiosity, which films would you count as 'the best of the genre'?

[downstairs]

blindswelledrat said:

Veeayt said:

Has 'cabin in the woods' been mentioned? IMO the one of the few modern films to keep up with the best of the genre.

Seriously? That's the teen flick with the house that turns round and stuff? I genuinely cant even remember anything about it.
Out of curiosity, which films would you count as 'the best of the genre'?

While I enjoyed CITW as a bit of fun, surely it's a parody? It's Joss Whedon/Drew Goddard spoofing the genre and having a laugh - and it's a comedy, not a horror film. That's like choosing Scary Movie as your favourite slasher film.

[jogger1976]

I always find myself going back to the likes of Halloween, The Shining and Jacobs Ladder. The Thing is also excellent Rob Bottin - what a genius!

I don't know if anyone's seen Session 9, with David Caruso? No real jump out of your seat scares, but it has a genuinely creepy and unsettling atmosphere about it.
The Vanishing (original Dutch version not the Jeff Bridges remake) is also has the same unnerving feel.

[robemcdonald]

Jacobs ladder. There's something very unsettling about it.

I also quite liked the woman in black. A bit more standard jump scare stuff but pretty good.

[ajprice]

Zombie thread!!!

So last week in work I said out loud that I'd never seen Beetlejuice. OMG, shocked faces, really? etc. So this weekend I've borrowed the DVD from one of said people in work, and yes it's good. Michael Keaton is great in it. I'd been missing out not seeing it until now. I also had Drag Me To Hell to watch over the weekend. Good film, a bit of reliance on jump scares in places, but it didn't freak me out or get to me at any point.

To update this thread a bit, I'd recommend Train To Busan, a Korean zombie film. It's been mentioned and recommended a few times on the Films I've watched this week thread. There's also an animated prequel film called Seoul Station, which I haven't seen.

I've been to most of the Scream Unseen films at the Odeon, Get Out and Ghost Stories were both pretty good.

Best films I've seen this year for horror have been A Quiet Place and Hereditary.

[Halb]

Beteljuice is ace.

10 Amazing Facts About Beetlejuice2

https://youtu.be/nNWJFZvvNxM
Minty Comedic Arts Published on 30 Oct 2018

[NoVetec]

ajprice said:

Zombie thread!!!

So last week in work I said out loud that I'd never seen Beetlejuice. OMG, shocked faces, really? etc. So this weekend I've borrowed the DVD from one of said people in work, and yes it's good. Michael Keaton is great in it. I'd been missing out not seeing it until now. I also had Drag Me To Hell to watch over the weekend. Good film, a bit of reliance on jump scares in places, but it didn't freak me out or get to me at any point.

To update this thread a bit, I'd recommend Train To Busan, a Korean zombie film. It's been mentioned and recommended a few times on the Films I've watched this week thread. There's also an animated prequel film called Seoul Station, which I haven't seen.

I've been to most of the Scream Unseen films at the Odeon, Get Out and Ghost Stories were both pretty good.

Best films I've seen this year for horror have been A Quiet Place and Hereditary.

IMO Train to Busan is the best fast zombie film.

I quite enjoyed Hereditary, even though you can gauge how it's going to go relatively early on.

[Halb]

The Guest

just watched it...just brilliant
wow

[Russian Troll Bot]

I was a bit disappointed with A Quiet Place. It's a nice idea but the way it was presented just left too many plot holes how did they generate electricity without making noise? Why not just go into town, turn a stereo up to full and just draw them all away? How would the military not figure out that creatures who hunt only by sound are vulnerable to sonic weapons?

Although they both went a bit OTT at the end, Lights Out and Ouija Origin of Evil were quite good, We Are Still Here is a solid haunted house film, and The Wailing is worth watching (although I did find the tonal shifts somewhat jarring, and being a 2 1/2 hour subtitled film you have to be in the right frame of mind to watch it)

[daddy cool]

Halb said:

The Guest

just watched it...just brilliant
wow

2015 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4718500/?ref_=fn_tt_t...
2014 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2980592/?ref_=fn_al_t...
2013 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2908846/?ref_=fn_tt_t...
Or something else?

[witko999]

The original Japanese version of The Ring scared the living piss out of me. I watched it about 15 years ago whilst at uni and was scared to go back to my room incase something came out of my TV! I've never watched it since (although I did see the poor relation American version which was nothing in comparison) but it still freaks me out a little if I think about it

[Russian Troll Bot]

witko999 said:

The original Japanese version of The Ring scared the living piss out of me. I watched it about 15 years ago whilst at uni and was scared to go back to my room incase something came out of my TV! I've never watched it since (although I did see the poor relation American version which was nothing in comparison) but it still freaks me out a little if I think about it

I quite liked the US version of The Ring, although the foreign versions are more effective. I think it's that sense of detachment as you have to rely on subtitles, and wouldn't pick up on things like a badly read line or dodgy accent which spoils the immersion. The Grudge was another god one, with the death rattle the spirits make being one of the freakiest sounds in film history.

[Halb]

daddy cool said:

2015 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4718500/?ref_=fn_tt_t...
2014 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2980592/?ref_=fn_al_t...
2013 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2908846/?ref_=fn_tt_t...
Or something else?

The 2014 film (th 2015 one is called the piper?)

I'd seen The guest on rlm in a review, and the not as fat fat one really liked it. It's bang on, gonna rewatch the re:view now.

[ben5575]

Whilst I can completely get behind Train To Busan, my irrational loathing of Michael Keaton means I've sadly never got Beetlejuice despite trying really hard.

[ukaskew]

I love Ghost Stories. The actual horror is pretty generic 'quiet quiet bang' but I just love how it's put together. The Alex Lawther sequence is superb and still vividly etched into my mind.

Above all else it's great fun, something a lot of horror films have forgotten (Cabin in the Woods is the other most recent favourite of mine).

[Melchett]

If you can be bothered with sub-titles then Thale is worth a look.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2112287/videoplayer/v...