Good horror movies..

[downstairs]

Some really good suggestions in this thread so far, and for once only one for Event Horizon (which seems to be the default PH scary movie). I definitely agree with It Follows, [Rec], Cabin In The Woods (although comedy really), Session 9, The Descent, The Chaser (not really horror, but certainly feels like it at times) and Switchblade Romance (Haute Tension). Depends what you're after though; you might like to be creeped out, you might like to be brutalised, you might fancy brain out (no pun) gore.

How about:

Kairo (nobody EVER seems to have seen this but it is utterly terrifying)
Ringu
Martyrs
The Ruins
Skew
Primal
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
The Beyond and/or Zombie Flesheaters
Maniac (2012)
The Thing (1982)
Inside
You're Next
Kill List
VHS 2 (much better than the first one)

off the top of my head...


e: just noticed rich85 said Hills Have Eyes too, sorry.

Edited by downstairs on Sunday 26th July 15:58

Edited by downstairs on Sunday 26th July 15:59

[Funkycoldribena]

militantmandy said:

The Decent - be warned, hard watching if you're claustrophobic

It was ok then?

[mitman]

Wolf Creek

[Glenred]

FourWheelDrift said:

Event Horizon

This!

[Halb]

Negative Creep said:

Far too many film makers forget that what you can't see is scarier than what you can. Look at the hand holding scene from The Haunting, which creates real tension with only the power of suggestion, or how little the Alien is seen in the first film. Getting a bunch of unlikeable teens together and creating lots of cheap jump scares does not make a good horror film.

The Haunting...wow, yeah that is very creepy, probably in my top ten...the original, not the remake.

[Patch888]

rich85uk said:

i have pretty much given up on horror as its nearly impossible to find a good one these days but always thought The Descent and The Hills Have Eyes(2006) were pretty good, if you don't mind subtitles then these are well worth a watch

Switchblade Romance
Frontiers
Cold Prey + Cold Prey 2
The Chaser

Now your talking, switchblade is one of my all time favourites, have you seen martyrs? The only horror I've struggled to watch, the second half can only be described as an ordeal.

[Patch888]

Also 'inside' is superb as already mentioned.

Eden lake, descent and 28 days later are great easy watching horrors.

[Negative Creep]

Halb said:

Negative Creep said:

Far too many film makers forget that what you can't see is scarier than what you can. Look at the hand holding scene from The Haunting, which creates real tension with only the power of suggestion, or how little the Alien is seen in the first film. Getting a bunch of unlikeable teens together and creating lots of cheap jump scares does not make a good horror film.

The Haunting...wow, yeah that is very creepy, probably in my top ten...the original, not the remake.

The remake fks it up in quite spectacular fashion, completely missing the point by filling it full of cheap cgi ghosts. The worst part is the scene where the room turns the windows into an evil face, throws her out the bed and she says "whose hand was I holding?" with utterly no context or sense whatsoever

[rich85uk]

Patch888 said:

Now your talking, switchblade is one of my all time favourites, have you seen martyrs? The only horror I've struggled to watch, the second half can only be described as an ordeal.

Not yet but i should, although i thought Inside was abit on the squeamish side...

[downstairs]

rich85uk said:

Patch888 said:

Now your talking, switchblade is one of my all time favourites, have you seen martyrs? The only horror I've struggled to watch, the second half can only be described as an ordeal.

Not yet but i should, although i thought Inside was abit on the squeamish side...

Ordeal? The Divide is a terrific film, if not strictly horror - also it's directed by Xavier Gens, who directed Frontier[s] which was mentioned earlier in the thread.

And for context, Martyrs is a proper film and the ordeal is only part of what it has to say. For pure ordeal, there's always something like Gurotesuku which is no fun at all other than as some kind of horror Top Trump.

A couple of other ideas for the OP:

Ils
Dream Home
I Saw The Devil (more of a thriller, but you know..)
In The Mouth Of Madness

[CR6ZZ]

mitman said:

Wolf Creek

This. Possibly one of the most disturbing films I've seen, simply because it is entirely plausible.

[Amirhussain]

CR6ZZ said:

mitman said:

Wolf Creek

This. Possibly one of the most disturbing films I've seen, simply because it is entirely plausible.

+1. One of my all time favourite films.

[RDMcG]

The Wicker Man

[Amirhussain]

The Loved ones, Aussie horror film.

[downstairs]

Amirhussain said:

The Loved ones, Aussie horror film.

Almost a comedy isn't it? - certainly pretty light amongst horrors. And she's very pretty.

Another interesting little film is I Didn't Come Here To Die, which is about a group of teens camping in the woods who get killed off one by one (yawn!) expect in this there's no killer.

[RobGT81]

REC

[Aphex]

As above, so below was actually pretty decent.

Haven't seen many good horrors in a while. The Babadook and It Follows have been the best I've seen recently

[militantmandy]

Funkycoldribena said:

It was ok then?

One of half a dozen or so horror films that I would class as actually scary. I thought it was brilliant. Lots of subtle stuff going on with colour and light as well that really adds to it.

[Patch888]

downstairs said:

rich85uk said:

Patch888 said:

Now your talking, switchblade is one of my all time favourites, have you seen martyrs? The only horror I've struggled to watch, the second half can only be described as an ordeal.

Not yet but i should, although i thought Inside was abit on the squeamish side...

Ordeal? The Divide is a terrific film, if not strictly horror - also it's directed by Xavier Gens, who directed Frontier[s] which was mentioned earlier in the thread.

And for context, Martyrs is a proper film and the ordeal is only part of what it has to say. For pure ordeal, there's always something like Gurotesuku which is no fun at all other than as some kind of horror Top Trump.

A couple of other ideas for the OP:

Ils
Dream Home
I Saw The Devil (more of a thriller, but you know..)
In The Mouth Of Madness

Martyrs is a good film, there's no disputing that, I did find it a hard watch, the second half takes a really dark turn with some heavy hitting scenes. The divide is worth a watch I agree, a good gritty horror. Although for me not on par with frontiers.

If your after something a little different, cabin in the woods is worth a watch.

[Funkycoldribena]

militantmandy said:

Funkycoldribena said:

It was ok then?

One of half a dozen or so horror films that I would class as actually scary. I thought it was brilliant. Lots of subtle stuff going on with colour and light as well that really adds to it.

Have a parrot fish as I was a bit too subtle.