Recommend a horror film

[captpain]

Ils is a short, modern horror movie and it'll scare your girlfriend plenty, 1up.

[captpain]

Im thinking either Dawn of the Dead (2004), Texas Chainsaw remake or The Descent, although the last one takes its sweet time to get to the scary part. Dont know wtf is wrong with me but I cant think of any recent movies with a good amount of jumpscares thats also good.

help me out

Get Inside. It's a French movie about a pregnant woman being attacked by a lunatic who wants to take the baby out of her. Seems like a good one to get the chicks squirming. Frontiers is another good French horror movie in the crazy family tradition of Texas Chainsaw Massacre that's worth watching.

Trailers
Inside
Frontiers

Lol, I don't know if Frontiers is scary as much as it is gory and gross. It's a "classic", though.

[Aguraki]

the myst (stephen king port) 2008 by franck darabond.
on every point fantastic.
great shooting,story and effects,with all the king's gallery of actors.
Very surprising and not so obvious.

[dunpeal2064]

Don't know if its been said yet, but Audition is one of my favs

[BPzeBanshee]

I saw this weird one on SBS one night called "Faust 5.0" or something weird like that. Probably nothing scary compared to stuff like the original Grudge and all them but I found it to be an odd piece of work.
Saw Rose Red (with the guy from the Scooby Doo movie) and liked the movie, couldn't say it was all that scary either. Yet watching Freddy vs Jason got my heart pumping despite the cliches purely for the "waitforitwaitforitAHHITSHAPPENINGdone" setup.

Personal favourite - Psycho. Though again I dont get scared by that sort of horror so that's probably why.

Speaking of which, what do you guys think of the Nightmare on Elm Street/Jason yadda yadda movies anyway? Waste of time?

[Zeron]

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Speaking of which, what do you guys think of the Nightmare on Elm Street/Jason yadda yadda movies anyway? Waste of time?

I find them rather hillarious especially Jasons rule to kill all the couples that have sex.

[emphatic]

Personal favourite - Psycho.

I really hope you've seen Psycho 2. And I also hope you mean the b/w original and not the Gus Van Sant hackjob with Vince Vaughn.

[jormungand]

Serbian Film. It's a sickening piece of work. The Blythe Auffarth version of girl next door bothered the hell out of me too.

[Phoenix]

The Thing is a classic, one of the best.

- Cujo
about a mad dog
- Christine
about a living car
- The omen
about a boy
- The shining

[Jon]

Serbian Film. It's a sickening piece of work.

Great if you want to lose all faith in humanity.

[Zeron]

Serbian Film. It's a sickening piece of work.

We from ex-yu are not quite sane eh?

[captpain]

Personal favourite - Psycho.

I really hope you've seen Psycho 2. And I also hope you mean the b/w original and not the Gus Van Sant hackjob with Vince Vaughn.

The Vaughn one was such a bad idea. He can't pull that off, and who the hell makes a shot-for-shot remake of Psycho, of all movies!? Who would ever want that?

[xris]

I would like to suggest Event Horizon, it's a stylistic sci-fi about gravity folding space hyper drive thingy gone terribly wrong in a hellish way. Proof that Paul W.S. Anderson made a good movie once. It has Sam Neill in it, if you like In the Mouth of Madness you'll like this.
Nightbreed dark fantasy horror in a city full of monsters by Clive Barker. If you like stuff by Guillermo del Toro you might like this also.
I thought Pandorum was pretty good, more sci-fi horror on a space ship. Dennis Quaid was good in it.

[BPzeBanshee]

Personal favourite - Psycho.

I really hope you've seen Psycho 2. And I also hope you mean the b/w original and not the Gus Van Sant hackjob with Vince Vaughn.

The Vaughn one was such a bad idea. He can't pull that off, and who the hell makes a shot-for-shot remake of Psycho, of all movies!? Who would ever want that?

So the newer version IS a waste of time after all...nearly lented out that at the Video store.
No, I'm not stupid, I got the old black and white true Hitchcock one. Actually bought it with my own money with Rear Window and The Birds bundled in. Rear Window took way too long to wrap things up though.

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Speaking of which, what do you guys think of the Nightmare on Elm Street/Jason yadda yadda movies anyway? Waste of time?

I find them rather hillarious especially Jasons rule to kill all the couples that have sex.

I knew there was some pattern to Jason, but I thought it was just killing off all the asshole people, like the teenagers having a booze party in the cropfields of some random farmer who's got no idea.
But yeah, good humor, especially with girls in the house you can just go "Hey I'm getting a drink" when you know the suspense is just starting to build up and them scare them from behind just as the killing happens in the most cliched way.

[Tigershark]

Horror means many things to different people. Personally I like the styalised violence of the 70's Giallo but they don't tend to scare that much (though Deep Red gives you a run for it's money). Someone mentioned the House with the Windows that Laughed and that is another cracker as is Don't Tortue A Duckling.

As for pure scares I would say the first Evil Dead and more recently Paranormal Activity (though you might class the latter as a Ghost film rather than a horror).

Black Christmas (Bob Clarke's version), Halloween (of course) and Michael Powell's "Peeping Tom" are other recommendations.

[Acid King]

Speaking of which, what do you guys think of the Nightmare on Elm Street/Jason yadda yadda movies anyway? Waste of time?

Both kinda go off the rails, especially Friday the 13th, but the early ones are enjoyable.

[maxlords]

Started downloading a few things after scanning this thread.

Some of my favorites:

John Carpenter's The Thing (oft mentioned, but awesome)
The Descent (I found the sense of claustrophobia in the first half palpable....I saw it in the theater too tho)
Alien
Dawn of the Dead (remake)
Dreamcatcher
Event Horizon (ending blows IMO tho)
Exorcist
Exorcist: The Beginning
Frighteners (not sure if this is really HORROR...but it's good!)
The Grudge (US remake)
The Host
Pulse (not great but I like it
Saw (ONLY the first one)
The Signal (surprisingly good)
Undead (hilarious and fun!)
28 Days Later (NOT the shite sequel tho!)
Diary of the Dead (a surprising one from Romero....considering all the crap he's put out lately)
Final Destination (only the first one)


Watched one the other day called Splinter that was surprisingly fun and a bit creepy. Not OMG this is amazing, but for what it was I enjoyed it.

[captpain]

Let me throw some of my favorites out there, too (in no particular order):

Ils
Suspiria
[REC]
Pontypool
Antichrist
Dead Alive
The Others
Drag Me to Hell
Re-Animator

[captpain]

Watched one the other day called Splinter that was surprisingly fun and a bit creepy. Not OMG this is amazing, but for what it was I enjoyed it.

I thought that was a fun little low-key horror. It didn't try to do too much, and worked within its constraints well.

[njiska]

A Tale of Two Sisters. Great korean horror film. Genuinely unnerving and the revelations at the end only make it worse.

Saw (ONLY the first one)

I see we have a common view. The first one really was a brilliant piece of work. The second made me want to vomit and not for the reasons it should have.

[neorichieb1971]

US The Ring
Spanish - Orphanage
French - Martyrs

I think those are the 3 movies which impressed me over the years. I don't think the US does horror that good in general. Too glamourish most of the time. Horrors would be better served with some ugly bitch rather than some Jolie lookalike.

[maxlords]

A Tale of Two Sisters. Great korean horror film. Genuinely unnerving and the revelations at the end only make it worse.

Saw (ONLY the first one)

I see we have a common view. The first one really was a brilliant piece of work. The second made me want to vomit and not for the reasons it should have.

Exactly....the first movie was a brilliant STAND-ALONE WORK. They never should have made a sequel IMO. It's a matter of capitalization though....the demand was there and now torture movies are all the rage.....I can't watch the damned things. The first one was different tho.

[borislaw]

In terms of an archetypal "horror" flick, I would highly recommend the recent film [u]House of the Devil[/u]. (More scary than good.)

I agree that the horror genre becomes far more attractive as one's definition of "horror" movie becomes less defined and in accord, applied more liberally. In this case I offer you director Werner Herzog's 1979 film [u]Nosferatu the Vampyre[/u]. (Good and scary.) He shot two versions simultaneously--same cast and crew--one in German, one English.

One last film I think deserves to be mentioned is [u]Thirst[/u], a vampire movie and the latest from "Old Boy" director Chan-wook Park. (More good than scary.)

[gum_drops]

Rear Window (more suspense/thriller but hey)
People under the stairs
Evil Dead 3
IT (tied for my favorite horror movie along with ED3)
House
Silent Hill
Troll 2

[dunpeal2064]

Troll 2

Lol, isn't this supposed to be the worst movie ever made? I've heard that from more than one place.

[gum_drops]

Troll 2

Lol, isn't this supposed to be the worst movie ever made? I've heard that from more than one place.

Well yea, some of the scenes and dialog were so over the top it actually made it worth watching, to me at least. I enjoyed it more than say the Village, which was horrendous all around.

[dunpeal2064]

Troll 2

Lol, isn't this supposed to be the worst movie ever made? I've heard that from more than one place.

Well yea, some of the scenes and dialog were so over the top it actually made it worth watching, to me at least. I enjoyed it more than say the Village, which was horrendous all around.

God I hated The Village. I agree, a movie being that bad can make it good. Thats what I love so much about Shiki 2 ( The XS port) I've been wanting to watch Troll 2 for a while, but then forgot about it. I think I'll give it a go tonight.

[charlie chong]

a few more decent serious atmosperic horrors i watched this year.not top tier like rosemary's baby but decent especially spider labyrinth

unman wittering and zigo -david hemmings as a english private school teacher getting terrorized by his class.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067907/

the spider labyrinth-spooky ,jumpy and atmospheric.great hungarian gothic architecture and even got an 8/10 on imdb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095728/

[captpain]

Troll 2

Lol, isn't this supposed to be the worst movie ever made? I've heard that from more than one place.

Oh it is horrible. But fortunately it is so horrible (unintentionally) that it circles back into being hilarious and fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyophYBP_w4

[Zeron]

Silent Night Deadly Night 2 scared the shit outta me