Top 5 Horror Film Reccomendations

Bozo Skeleton

Anyway, I came on to say my favourite one, which has had only one mention on the thread.
Audition. If you like Japanese stuff like Ringu, this is unmissable imo. One of my favourite movies, horror or otherwise. I love how it starts off like some goofy rom com for half an hour or more, but then it turns.

stanley1

Rosemarys Baby, truly disturbing.

p to the e

To me a proper horror has to have an element of supernatural as well as an underlying feeling of dread throughout as opposed to a straight up thriller. It's not always strictly true but some of the suggestions here to me are thrillers.

Apart from some already mentioned some horrors worth checking out are:

• The Hills Have Eyes (remake)
• The Ruins
• The Babadook
• Cabin In the Woods (probably more comedy but a good send up of the horror genre)
• Bone Tomahawk (every man who's seen it is wincing now)
• Near Dark (a classic from Kathryn Bigelow)
• 28 Weeks Later
• Hellraiser (may not be to everyone's taste but scared the hell out of me)

Films I've heard good things about:

• Hush
• Haunting of Hill House (TV Series)
• The Love Witch (homage to 60's 70's type horror which may not be for everyone)
• Ready Or Not

I've also recently watched the Suspiria remake and although it has some moments I 'm not big on it. Also I can't stand Dakota Johnson and the Liv Tyler school of acting that she does.

dubstarr

Actually Cabin in the woods is a really good film.Its not what i expected at all.
I thought Shrooms was quite good,even though it didnt get great reviews.

And i really liked the new Halloween.

Rothko

p to the e wrote: »

I've also recently watched the Suspiria remake and although it has some moments I 'm not big on it. Also I can't stand Dakota Johnson and the Liv Tyler school of acting that she does.

What's that?

flasher0030

Rothko wrote: »

What's that?

I'll take a guess - Is it the tensed up "look at sensitive me" type of characters. Trying to pretend that they are sultry, but actually comes across looking a bit dim-witted.

p to the e

flasher0030 wrote: »

I'll take a guess - Is it the tensed up "look at sensitive me" type of characters. Trying to pretend that they are sultry, but actually comes across looking a bit dim-witted.

Yes those long stares with the glassed over eyeballs like they're ready to cry at any moment and barely audible speech to convey their fragility. No wonder Ben Affleck and Bruce Willis were fighting to stay on the spaceship.

splashthecash

p to the e wrote: »

To me a proper horror has to have an element of supernatural as well as an underlying feeling of dread throughout as opposed to a straight up thriller. It's not always strictly true but some of the suggestions here to me are thrillers.

Apart from some already mentioned some horrors worth checking out are:

• The Hills Have Eyes (remake)
• The Ruins
• The Babadook
• Cabin In the Woods (probably more comedy but a good send up of the horror genre)
• Bone Tomahawk (every man who's seen it is wincing now)
• Near Dark (a classic from Kathryn Bigelow)
• 28 Weeks Later
• Hellraiser (may not be to everyone's taste but scared the hell out of me)

Films I've heard good things about:

• Hush
• Haunting of Hill House (TV Series)
• The Love Witch (homage to 60's 70's type horror which may not be for everyone)
• Ready Or Not

I've also recently watched the Suspiria remake and although it has some moments I 'm not big on it. Also I can't stand Dakota Johnson and the Liv Tyler school of acting that she does.

The haunting of Hill House is excellent - really enjoyed it and I am not a huge lover of horror content.

rtron

Heres another few

Deranged
Ghosts of war
Velvet Buzzsaw*
In the tall grass
Scary stories to tell in the dark*
VHS (1 and 2)*

*Decent

Markitron

Most of these probably already mentioned but sure I will have a go anyway:

My all-time favourites:

Halloween - Just one of the best films of all time, horror or otherwise. I consider it to be perfect

A Nightmare on Elm St - I feel like the many many sequels have sullied the rep of the original, I think a lot of people forget just how creepy and effective this film is with a relatively low body count. I hate that the series devolved into set piece kills and terrible puns

The Descent - Up there with the previous two as an all-time great. The oppressive atmosphere just keeps getting ratcheted up and up before the film explodes into life in the last 40 mins or so. Also one of the all-time great endings to any film (just do not watch the american edit - or the sequel).

Alien - The ultimate haunted house movie, also one of the ultimate sci-fi movies with the ultimate movie monster. Has an equally good sequel that happens to be in a different genre altogether

Near Dark - Ultra-violent western/vampire film, what's not to like?

Blair Witch Project - The deluge of found footage films that released in its wake will never come close to the original.

Some of my more recent favourites:

It Follows - Comes closer to the atmosphere and dread of the original Halloween that any other film I have ever seen, including Halloween's own sequels

The VVitch - Maybe slightly uneventful but an amazing atmosphere and extremely pretty to look at, especially in UHD

VHS - I thought it was a better anthology than Trick r Treat

The Last Exorcism - Probably my favourite of the the found footage movies after Blair Witch

Annihilation - Not sure if this counts, I consider it a horror movie, essential sci-fi anyway

Full_Circle_81

The Old Classics

• Poltergeist
• Alien
• The Shining
• Rosemarys Baby - only saw this in the past few years and was surprised by how shockingly effective it was :eek:
• Omen
• The Exorcist
• Candyman
• Silence of the Lambs
• The Thing
• The Fly
• Nightmare on Elm Street
• Bram Stokers Dracula - high camp, but gotta love those incredible practical effects and Oldmans iconic turn as the Count

Recent Classics

• The Conjuring
• The Descent
• 28 Days Later
• Train to Busan
• From Dusk Till Dawn - in my mind their first Grindhouse movie, first half is pure Tarantino and the back half is classic Rodriguez :P
• The Mist

Recent and Decent

• The Thing (Prequel) - I think this gets an unfair rap because of its comparison to the Carpenter classic. It plays as a prequel, but if watched in that order it unfortunately takes some of the surprise out of the 1982 version.
• It Follows - this one just freaked me the hell out. Everything from the music, the camera moves, even the premise was creepy as hell.
• A Quiet Place

Remake Heaven

• The Ring
• The Crazies
• Dawn of the Dead
• The Hills Have Eyes

Comedy Horror

• Scream
• Ready or Not
• Tremors
• Zombieland
• Cabin in the Woods
• Fright Night
• The Host

Bonus "Is it Horror?" mention

• The Invitation

dubstarr

I didnt like The Haunting of Hill House,but teh 1963 film The Haunting is so much better.Tense,suspenceful.Great film.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Haunting_(1963_film)

Kylta

Full_Circle_81 wrote: »

The Old Classics

• Poltergeist
• Alien
• The Shining
• Rosemarys Baby - only saw this in the past few years and was surprised by how shockingly effective it was :eek:
• Omen
• The Exorcist
• Candyman
• Silence of the Lambs
• The Thing
• The Fly
• Nightmare on Elm Street
• Bram Stokers Dracula - high camp, but gotta love those incredible practical effects and Oldmans iconic turn as the Count

Recent Classics

• The Conjuring
• The Descent
• 28 Days Later
• Train to Busan
• From Dusk Till Dawn - in my mind their first Grindhouse movie, first half is pure Tarantino and the back half is classic Rodriguez :P
• The Mist

Recent and Decent

• The Thing (Prequel) - I think this gets an unfair rap because of its comparison to the Carpenter classic. It plays as a prequel, but if watched in that order it unfortunately takes some of the surprise out of the 1982 version.
• It Follows - this one just freaked me the hell out. Everything from the music, the camera moves, even the premise was creepy as hell.
• A Quiet Place

Remake Heaven

• The Ring
• The Crazies
• Dawn of the Dead
• The Hills Have Eyes

Comedy Horror

• Scream
• Ready or Not
• Tremors
• Zombieland
• Cabin in the Woods
• Fright Night
• The Host

Bonus "Is it Horror?" mention

• The Invitation

None of the evil deads in the comedy section

p to the e

Full_Circle_81 wrote: »

The Old Classics

• Poltergeist
• Alien
• The Shining
• Rosemarys Baby - only saw this in the past few years and was surprised by how shockingly effective it was :eek:
• Omen
• The Exorcist
• Candyman
• Silence of the Lambs
• The Thing
• The Fly
• Nightmare on Elm Street
• Bram Stokers Dracula - high camp, but gotta love those incredible practical effects and Oldmans iconic turn as the Count

Recent Classics

• The Conjuring
• The Descent
• 28 Days Later
• Train to Busan
• From Dusk Till Dawn - in my mind their first Grindhouse movie, first half is pure Tarantino and the back half is classic Rodriguez :P
• The Mist

Recent and Decent

• The Thing (Prequel) - I think this gets an unfair rap because of its comparison to the Carpenter classic. It plays as a prequel, but if watched in that order it unfortunately takes some of the surprise out of the 1982 version.
• It Follows - this one just freaked me the hell out. Everything from the music, the camera moves, even the premise was creepy as hell.
• A Quiet Place

Remake Heaven

• The Ring
• The Crazies
• Dawn of the Dead
• The Hills Have Eyes

Comedy Horror

• Scream
• Ready or Not
• Tremors
• Zombieland
• Cabin in the Woods
• Fright Night
• The Host

Bonus "Is it Horror?" mention

• The Invitation

Never heard of "The Invitation". That's added to the list. I agree with the "The Thing" prequel but a last minute decision to change from practical effects to banal looking CGI really didn't help it. This video shows the amount of effort that went into the effects that were then dropped and I don't know why.

The Raging Bile Duct

p to the e wrote: »

Never heard of "The Invitation". That's added to the list. I agree with the "The Thing" prequel but a last minute decision to change from practical effects to banal looking CGI really didn't help it. This video shows the amount of effort that went into the effects that were then dropped and I don't know why.

The Invitation is very good. More of a thriller than a horror but the mounting sense of dread is handled extraordinarily well. It's one I always recommend on Netflix.

flasher0030

The Raging Bile Duct wrote: »

The Invitation is very good. More of a thriller than a horror but the mounting sense of dread is handled extraordinarily well. It's one I always recommend on Netflix.

Ya, decent film. Definately wouldn't call it horrow in the traditional sense anyway. No real scares and gore in respectable supply.

Sometimes I read too much about movies before watching them. Read about the "mindblowing surprise ending". Bit of a letdown.
I'd love to watch a movie that has that magic twist at the end - like The Sixth Sense or Usual Suspects. But don't seem to happen very often.

The Raging Bile Duct

flasher0030 wrote: »

Ya, decent film. Definately wouldn't call it horrow in the traditional sense anyway. No real scares and gore in respectable supply.

Sometimes I read too much about movies before watching them. Read about the "mindblowing surprise ending". Bit of a letdown.
I'd love to watch a movie that has that magic twist at the end - like The Sixth Sense or Usual Suspects. But don't seem to happen very often.

I hadn't read anything about so that probably helped. I'd hardly call it a mindblowing surprise ending though...

The Mist had a twist at the end that was just plain horrible and the end of The Others was very well handled but some twists just make the film unbelievably goofy and stupid. Switchblade Romance is one that stands out for me. When the twist happened at the end, I thought the movie fell completely apart.

Full_Circle_81

Kylta wrote: »

None of the evil deads in the comedy section

I'm actually not that big of a fan of any of the Evil Deads, none of the ones I watched really worked for me (think I've seen 1, 2, Army of Darkness and the remake........actually, that might be all of them?!). I did really enjoy the TV show, but haven't finished it yet. Could be the inclusion of Xena Warrior Princess though. Everything is immediately better when you add Lucy Lawless to the mix

p to the e wrote: »

Never heard of "The Invitation". That's added to the list. I agree with the "The Thing" prequel but a last minute decision to change from practical effects to banal looking CGI really didn't help it. This video shows the amount of effort that went into the effects that were then dropped and I don't know why.

Yep, I saw that before actually, a fierce amount of incredible work for it to simply be cut! :mad: I didn't want to bring that up in my comment, as its one of the big negatives in the movie. Its not that the CGI is awful by any stretch of the imagination, but compared to the practical efforts, its night and day. And think of how much more amazing they'd have looked in camera after lighting and post-production!!

I think studios generally balk at using practical effects now, because of the extra time and effort and thinking people only want flashy CGI.
I feel like it all kicked off with Jurassic Park really. I remember seeing the making-of years ago and Phil Tippett demonstrating his stop-motion dinos, only to be supplanted by ILMs CG dinos. In the end they still used Phils work to reference the movements of the dinos in CG, but feel like that breakthrough was the writing on the wall sadly.

Its such a pity too, as practical effects work (include make-up effects) can date a lot slower than CGI. Some CGI can look incredible at the time of release, but in a few short years can become laughable. The best practical effects work still stands up even now!

Zak Flaps

The Raging Bile Duct wrote: »

I hadn't read anything about so that probably helped. I'd hardly call it a mindblowing surprise ending though...

The Mist had a twist at the end that was just plain horrible and the end of The Others was very well handled but some twists just make the film unbelievably goofy and stupid. Switchblade Romance is one that stands out for me. When the twist happened at the end, I thought the movie fell completely apart.

I thought the ending of the Mist was brilliant....albeit incredibly grim!

Zak Flaps

Full_Circle_81 wrote: »

I'm actually not that big of a fan of any of the Evil Deads, none of the ones I watched really worked for me (think I've seen 1, 2, Army of Darkness and the remake........actually, that might be all of them?!). I did really enjoy the TV show, but haven't finished it yet. Could be the inclusion of Xena Warrior Princess though. Everything is immediately better when you add Lucy Lawless to the mix



Yep, I saw that before actually, a fierce amount of incredible work for it to simply be cut! :mad: I didn't want to bring that up in my comment, as its one of the big negatives in the movie. Its not that the CGI is awful by any stretch of the imagination, but compared to the practical efforts, its night and day. And think of how much more amazing they'd have looked in camera after lighting and post-production!!

I think studios generally balk at using practical effects now, because of the extra time and effort and thinking people only want flashy CGI.
I feel like it all kicked off with Jurassic Park really. I remember seeing the making-of years ago and Phil Tippett demonstrating his stop-motion dinos, only to be supplanted by ILMs CG dinos. In the end they still used Phils work to reference the movements of the dinos in CG, but feel like that breakthrough was the writing on the wall sadly.

Its such a pity too, as practical effects work (include make-up effects) can date a lot slower than CGI. Some CGI can look incredible at the time of release, but in a few short years can become laughable. The best practical effects work still stands up even now!

I actually quite liked the recent Thing remake, apart from that annoying CGI. Such a shame the practical effects weren't left in it. Maybe a future Blu Ray release?

The Raging Bile Duct

Zak Flaps wrote: »

I thought the ending of the Mist was brilliant....albeit incredibly grim!

Oh, it was brilliant... but it was horrible.

JupiterKid

The Exorcist
The Omen (the 1976 original)
Halloween
Carrie (the 1970s original)
Hellraiser
Salem's Lot
Society (1989) - not strictly horror, but very, very disturbing...
Threads (1984)

sweetie

Watched Sputnik last night, really good new Russian horror.

rtron

sweetie wrote: »

Watched Sputnik last night, really good new Russian horror.

Trailer looks good.
Edited:
Enjoyed the movie to.

Wailin

Where does everyone watch all these horrors? Some good ones I'd like to see but can't find them on the usual streaming platforms.

Full_Circle_81

Wailin wrote: »

Where does everyone watch all these horrors? Some good ones I'd like to see but can't find them on the usual streaming platforms.

Do you use JustWatch.com/ie? There is an app too. It lets you filter by genre as well which is handy.

A lot of the older movies sadly aren't on the big two streamers, but you still have the following movies (of varying quality)......

Netflix:

• Land of the Dead (remake)
• Bram Stokers Dracula
• Hereditary
• IT
• Silence of the Lambs
• Cabin in the Woods
• Annihilation
• A Quiet Place
• Orphan
• The Invitation
• Insidious (an sequels)
• The Purge (and sequels)
• Sinister
• Crimson Peak
• The Visit
• Annabelle
• The Platform
• Hush
• Exorcism of Emily Rose
• Species (and sequels)
• Cargo
• Krampus

Amazon:

• Conjuring
• Midsommar
• The Shining
• Silence of the Lambs (again)
• Cabin in the Woods (again)
• Suspiria
• Constantine
• Orphan (again)
• Night of the Living Dead
• Sean of the Dead
• Life
• Let Me In (remake I think)
• Mama
• The Girl With All The Gifts

All4 (limited window to watch these!!)

• Bone Tomahawk
• The Love Witch

If you have NowTV for movies, you will obviously have a much bigger selection of movies to choose from.
And just flicking through the Amazon list, by GOD Amazon have a shocking amount of drivel on there!!!

Wailin

Brilliant, thanks for that. Lots of effort gone in to that post.

Zak Flaps

Ok. So I went back over all the posts so far to see what people voted most for. I did it quite quickly but i think it's pretty accurate.

1. The Exorcist
2. The Omen
3. Halloween
4. Nightmare On Elm Street
5. The Thing / Hereditary / Rosemary's Baby

IAMAMORON

Session 9
Låt den rätte komma in
The Changeling
The Exorcist
Get Out

Mic 1972

sweetie wrote: »

Watched Sputnik last night, really good new Russian horror.

I just downloaded it for later tonight, looks promising
Looks Sci-fi more than horror tho

Mr Crispy

They're not mutually exclusive.

Full_Circle_81

Wailin wrote: »

Brilliant, thanks for that. Lots of effort gone in to that post.

Ah you're very welcome, but I really just used the JustWatch website and tried to pull out the ones that I thought were good or at least decent!
A couple (as mentioned) are on multiple services, in case you only have Netflix or Amazon but not both.

Pity that many of the "classics" are really only available to rent or perhaps on Sky/NowTV.
Shudder, which specialises in horror titles, actually has very few of the old old classics, but has some newer classic (90s onwards) and newer indy and foreign horror titles.

otnomart

I can't watch horror, prefer ghost stories.

Ordered by year:

The Others (2001)
Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
The Orphanage (2007)

Mic 1972

Mr Crispy wrote: »

They're not mutually exclusive.

I agree that genres are never exclusive of each other, but i do tend to have a personal ranking where for example a comedy/horror for me is still just basically comedy, or a sci-fi/horror for me is just sci-fi

El Gato De Negocios

Haven't read all the thread but I cannot recommend Possum highly enough. Probably the best modern horror movie I've seen in the last 5 years.

Very low budget, minimal cast, light on dialogue but an absolute belter of a psychological horror. Dont read anything about it, just watch it. Its only 80 odd minutes long too which is great.

I Saw The Devil, while not strictly a horror, contains some serious tension and has more twists and turns than spaghetti junction.

SimonTemplar

South Korea's A Tale of Two Sisters is very good too. I agree the consensus on RT

Restrained but disturbing, A Tale of Two Sisters is a creepily effective, if at times confusing, horror movie.

rob316

Not a film but I watched Haunting of hill house over the last week, really good. A real intelligent, complex ghost story.

sweetie

Watched Host last night, a very topical Zoom meeting movie on Shudder. Recommended!

Wailin

Hell House LLC, found footage horror i just watched on shudder. Some decent moments in the build up. Anyone bother with the sequels?

gazzer

sweetie wrote: »

Watched Host last night, a very topical Zoom meeting movie on Shudder. Recommended!

Great movie. Not ashamed to say I jumped a few times. The ending was really good

Truthvader

Dont Look Now

In a class of its own way above most of the cheese on offer here.

Probably hard to get on line or whatever as a lot of people have never heard of it. If you can get it watch it. Only bad thing about it is the name which seems wilfully sperficial but might make you think you are going to see a normal horror movie

sweetie

Wailin wrote: »

Hell House LLC, found footage horror i just watched on shudder. Some decent moments in the build up. Anyone bother with the sequels?

yeah, they're not bad, gets a bit Inception ish though

sweetie

Truthvader wrote: »

Dont Look Now

In a class of its own way above most of the cheese on offer here.

Probably hard to get on line or whatever as a lot of people have never heard of it. If you can get it watch it. Only bad thing about it is the name which seems wilfully sperficial but might make you think you are going to see a normal horror movie

great movie, shame you didn't mention some more. Btw Most movie fans, horror or otherwise, enjoy different types of films. Whodathunkit!

The Raging Bile Duct

Truthvader wrote: »

Dont Look Now

In a class of its own way above most of the cheese on offer here.

Probably hard to get on line or whatever as a lot of people have never heard of it. If you can get it watch it. Only bad thing about it is the name which seems wilfully sperficial but might make you think you are going to see a normal horror movie

It's one of the most iconic movies from the seventies. Most people with more than a passing interest in cinema will know it.

Truthvader

The Raging Bile Duct wrote: »

It's one of the most iconic movies from the seventies. Most people with more than a passing interest in cinema will know it.

You'd think but go back over this thread and it is only mentioned by one other person.

rtron

sweetie wrote: »

Watched Host last night, a very topical Zoom meeting movie on Shudder. Recommended!

Just watched it now, brilliant.

Inviere

sweetie wrote: »

Watched Host last night, a very topical Zoom meeting movie on Shudder. Recommended!

Watched it last night, enjoyed it. Short, and to the point...some nice tension builds & scares.

larva

igCorcaigh

Statutory Ape wrote: »

Haven't read all the thread but I cannot recommend Possum highly enough. Probably the best modern horror movie I've seen in the last 5 years.

Very low budget, minimal cast, light on dialogue but an absolute belter of a psychological horror. Dont read anything about it, just watch it. Its only 80 odd minutes long too which is great.

Watched Possum yesterday from your recommendation, thanks.

Very powerful performances. The mood was intense and beautifully captured with a great score.
Excellent film making, although not all threads of the story resolved for me, still a bit confused.

Wailin

^^^Where can I watch this lads?