Recent horror films?
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UTH

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201 months

Tuesday 8th December 2020
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My Mrs and I used to love getting a few drinks in us on a Saturday night and watching horror films......most of the time they'd end up being rubbish, but occasionally we'd hit a winner or something surprisingly gory (being pissed always made the gore funny but enjoyable)

We rattled through so many over the last few years we kind of ran out of ideas.

Have there been any out in the last year or so we might have missed? I did have a long list on my phone from trailers I'd seen on Youtube but it seems we've ticked most of them off that we could actually find to watch!


Terzo123

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231 months

Tuesday 8th December 2020
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Dr Sleep is very good

Its the follow up to the Shining.

UTH

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Tuesday 8th December 2020
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Terzo123 said:
Dr Sleep is very good

Its the follow up to the Shining.
hmmm yes the Mrs mentions that one actually, we'll give it a go then. For some reason I just assumed a follow up to the Shining would be rubbish.

Terzo123

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Tuesday 8th December 2020
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UTH said:
Terzo123 said:
Dr Sleep is very good

Its the follow up to the Shining.
hmmm yes the Mrs mentions that one actually, we'll give it a go then. For some reason I just assumed a follow up to the Shining would be rubbish.
Its sufficiently different so as not to be in the shadows or in direct comparison with the Shining.


anonymous-user

77 months

Tuesday 8th December 2020
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It's not a full-on horror (more sci-fi-Aliens type "horror") but I found Underwater extremely enjoyable.

toasty

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243 months

Tuesday 8th December 2020
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A few years old but I'd recommend The VVitch if you haven't seen it.

As you seem to have seen of lot of the recent bunch, what highlights have you found?

UTH

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Tuesday 8th December 2020
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JimSuperSix said:
It's not a full-on horror (more sci-fi-Aliens type "horror") but I found Underwater extremely enjoyable.
That’s one of our recent ones, went in the “enjoyed” column

UTH

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Tuesday 8th December 2020
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toasty said:
A few years old but I'd recommend The VVitch if you haven't seen it.

As you seem to have seen of lot of the recent bunch, what highlights have you found?
The Witch? Yeah saw that. I think the booze didn’t help us enjoy the tension it required.

It’s been quite a while since we came across anything actually scary (again, drinking whilst watching probably doesn’t help!)

In recent memory it’s stuff like the Conjuring, Babadook, Insidious which have been memorable. The very recent stuff has clearly been forgettable as I struggle to think of any. Hereditary, Us....things like that weren’t as good as I hoped.

I’ll have a think about any others, because I must be missing some from all the ones we’ve seen of late.

Marniet

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179 months

Tuesday 8th December 2020
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Quite an unusual one on Netflix just now - his house . I thought it was very good and it gets excellent reviews. You’ve probably seen it but if not I found hereditary genuinley creepy and the lodge . I like a slow burn type horror with plenty of atmosphere

InitialDave

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142 months

Tuesday 8th December 2020
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JimSuperSix said:
It's not a full-on horror (more sci-fi-Aliens type "horror") but I found Underwater extremely enjoyable.
I thought it was "ok", but bolstered by it turning out at the end it was the actual, Lovecraftian Cthulhu rather than some generic knockoff.

vindaloo79

1,188 posts

103 months

Tuesday 8th December 2020
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https://g.co/kgs/LFwHpi

A quiet place. 2018

Old one 30 days of night 2007 - you may have missed ?

The Descent 2005

Edited by vindaloo79 on Tuesday 8th December 21:20

anonymous-user

77 months

Tuesday 8th December 2020
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Midsommar is still the most disturbing film I’ve seen recently.

toasty

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243 months

Tuesday 8th December 2020
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Schmed said:
Midsommar is still the most disturbing film I’ve seen recently.
I found it vaguely Monty Python-esque with the cliff scene, the rest was a modern version of The Wicker Man. Not bad overall.

ajprice

32,170 posts

219 months

Tuesday 8th December 2020
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A couple of films on Shudder and on the usual digital places.

One Cut of the Dead. Low budget Japanese zombie comedy horror. Stick with it past the 'B-movie' first act, don't read up on it, go in cold. It's great.

Host. A group of mates invite a medium to do a seance over Zoom. Filmed and directed remotely during Covid lockdown. Possibly counts as a short film as it's just under an hour.

EarlOfHazard

3,630 posts

181 months

Tuesday 8th December 2020
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I thought The Woman in Black was good

brightmotiv

145 posts

74 months

Tuesday 8th December 2020
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My two recommendations:

RAW: French coming of age body horror cannibalism art house mash up.

IT FOLLOWS: A few years old but very clever and full of jump scares.

UTH

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201 months

Wednesday 9th December 2020
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vindaloo79 said:
https://g.co/kgs/LFwHpi

A quiet place. 2018

Old one 30 days of night 2007 - you may have missed ?

The Descent 2005

Edited by vindaloo79 on Tuesday 8th December 21:20
Seen all three, quiet place was good, the Descent one of my faves ever, 30 days of night I might revisit, that one is very hazy in my memory.

UTH

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Wednesday 9th December 2020
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Schmed said:
Midsommar is still the most disturbing film I’ve seen recently.
Bit too weird, that one.

UTH

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Wednesday 9th December 2020
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brightmotiv said:
My two recommendations:

RAW: French coming of age body horror cannibalism art house mash up.

IT FOLLOWS: A few years old but very clever and full of jump scares.
I do keep meaning to watch Raw, the Mrs refuses to watch subtitles. Might wait for her to go to bed

It follows was good.

Radec

5,389 posts

70 months

Wednesday 9th December 2020
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A few can recommend.

Terrifier - killer clown, makes Pennywise from IT look like Ronald McDonald, b movie but very gory.

Come Play - kid who can't talk gets haunted by a demon trying to get out of his phone and take him

Run - smothering mother looks after disabled daughter but she's not all what she seems.

You Should have Left - Kevin Bacon hires a house for the weekend for his family but then weird stuff starts to happen.

Orphan - bit older but quite enjoyable, family adopt a foreign girl who seems perfect but then trouble starts to follow her around.

Body Cam - strange entity starts killing cops, when one cop who has just come back from suspension tries to figure out what's going on.