Recommend a Horror Film

Sir Osis of Liver.

I might watch The Shining again.

riffmongous

The Thing (Kurt Russell version) and 28 Days Later are my favourites

Oooh my favourite!

The Conjuring.

The King of Moo

All-time Classic: The Haunting (1963)

Modern Choice: It Follows

Robert Duvall Cameo as a Priest on a Swing: Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (1978)

Dirty Dingus McGee

Rosemary's Baby
Don't Look Now
Drag Me To Hell
Scream
The Woman in Black
The Others
The Babadook

The King of Moo

The King of Moo wrote: »

All-time Classic: The Haunting (1963)

Modern Choice: It Follows

Robert Duvall Cameo as a Priest on a Swing: Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (1978)

It Follows. I'm not familiar with that. I must check it out.

Junkyard Tom

The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue.

The King of Moo

Deleted User wrote: »

It Follows. I'm not familiar with that. I must check it out.

It loses its way a little at the end, but it's really effective as it takes a simple, easy-to-imagine premise and sticks to it.

A few more:

El Orfanato
The Changeling
Ringu
The Omen

Dirty Dingus McGee

REC is a pretty decent one as well.

Links234

Thirst
Let The Right One In
The Devil's Backbone

Dirty Dingus McGee

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

REC is a pretty decent one as well.

What's that?

Pink Lemons

If Asian horror flicks are your thing, Noroi, is a great one!

boobar

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Oooh my favourite!

The Conjuring.

+1 for the Conjuring...nice 70s feel to it, worth looking at the history of Annabelle on the Internet as well for more spooks.

The Exorcist is worth watching...a classic

biko

Pew pew


Oh noes, don't go down into the basement

Vinculus

The Blair witch project

There's a lot of hate for this film but it creeps me out every time.

LETHAL LADY

I'm more scared by documentaries tbh. The ones I watched with Sam Vaknin and James H Fallon gave me the chills anyway.

KingBrian2

The Pit and the Pendulum. A gem of a horror movie.

Bullchomper

Marian Dora's Cannibal. Based on real events and filmed as a fly on the wall. Be advised - Don't eat snacks while watching.

Links234

Pink Lemons wrote: »

If Asian horror flicks are your thing, Noroi, is a great one!

I tried watching that once, think I made it for about 10 minutes and thought nope! Maybe some other time, can't deal with this sh*t.

The Backwards Man

Not a very well known film and not a horror per se but Roadgames starring Stacy Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis is an excellent Saturday night treat.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Here's a good scene from Psycho 2.

The Backwards Man

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Here's a good scene from Psycho 2.

Same director as mine and all:)

Yamanoto

Mark Gatiss' 3-part 'A History of Horror' for the Beeb was terrifically well put together.

Plenty of pointers as to what's worth catching in there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkZBJd4UTlM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaFNgHuYdPA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EH1FiToj4w

Dirty Dingus McGee

Deleted User wrote: »

What's that?

Spanish Horror Film

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REC_(film)

heathledgerlove

Only horror film to actually scare me since I became an adult :P was Paranormal Activity. It was brilliant! Couldn't sleep after, well creepy.
Other good ones I would recommend would be The Omen, Hallowe'en, Blair Witch, oh that one on the... House on Haunted Hill, Jacob's Ladder I watched recently, wasn't bowled over but glad of its supposed influence on the Silent Hill games.. the early ones.. scarier than any movie I've seen!

LETHAL LADY

The Hammer House of Horror stuff is great if a little dated now I suppose.
Christopher Lee was great.

Hitchcock deserves a mention. My personal faves are Rear Window and The Birds.

Ruu

Theatre of Blood. Anything Price really.

RikkFlair

Antichrist starring Willem Dafoe was a film that filled me with horror.

VickieVexed1

The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Have sweet dreams OP.

gidget

Insidious. Watched that for the first time a few weeks back. First movie i've watched in a long time that had me gripped. The Conjuring was good too.

If you watch The Woman in Black you should try find the original one they showed on the tv back in the late 80s / early 90s, which may be floating around on youtube somewhere. To this day that one is right up there with horrors that left an effect on me, after watching it as a child. Hated sleeping in the dark for ages after watching it.

Here found a little clip of it.

Junkyard Tom

Alien.

PucaMama

RikkFlair wrote: »

Antichrist starring Willem Dafoe was a film that filled me with horror.

That was something I will never forget.

I second the thing (the original) and REC (also make sure it's the original and not the American remake) other than that what type of horror are you looking for? I liked sinister. Insidious too because I saw it in the cinema without knowing what type of horror film it was. The conjuring. For some reason (and I no it sounds silly) but I saw the blob once and it scared me. I thought it was very dark, and I like horror films. Do you like zombie horror? 28 days later? Also I really liked a film called the sphere. Dark and creepy. I really like it. What about vampires? 30 days of night? Werewolves? Dog soldiers?

This makes me realise I watch more sci fi and post apocalyptic films than horror.

baron von something

But what kind of horror? What do you want to get out of it? If its suspense then something like The Shining, The Babadook, Woman in Black

Foreign horror? Japenese versions of The Ring/The Grudge

Creepy horror? IT

Jumpy horror? Haunting in Connecticut

****ed up Sci fi horror? Event Horizon

Fairy Tail horror? Pans Labyrinth

Endless lists of possibilities

Rothko

Zombi 2
Let The Right One In (Swedish version)
The Dawn Of The Dead (original)
Nosferatu

VickieVexed1

VickieVexed1 wrote: »

The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Have sweet dreams OP.

I must say that is one truly terrifying film. It gave me serious heebie Jeebies.

To those who said the Conjuring.

You're having a laugh. It was poor. Horror for the noughties MTV generation, James Wan is just in it for the money.

With horror, go for the classics, Carnival of Souls, Night of the Living Dead, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the Exorcist, the Shining, the Thing, Silence of the Lambs, Blair Witch Project, Event Horizon, the Evil Dead, Don't Look Now, Picnic at Hanging Rock (more eerie than horror), the Wickerman (obv the original) etc.

Or think of the BBC ghost stories, Oh Whistle and I'll come to You, the original Woman in Black, episodes of Tales of the Unexpected on Youtube etc.

If you've seen them all, and want to go modern, avoid US horrors...though the first Paranormal Activity and first Saw were decent, but generally go Asian for ghost stories like Ringu, the Grudge and of course Audition...you'll never think of cheese wire in the same way again. And think of Europe for the shockers..Martyrs, Calvaire etc.

wil

heathledgerlove wrote: »

Only horror film to actually scare me since I became an adult :P was Paranormal Activity. It was brilliant! Couldn't sleep after, well creepy.
Other good ones I would recommend would be The Omen, Hallowe'en, Blair Witch, oh that one on the... House on Haunted Hill, Jacob's Ladder I watched recently, wasn't bowled over but glad of its supposed influence on the Silent Hill games.. the early ones.. scarier than any movie I've seen!

Blar Witch. I thought it was recommendations not invitation to 2hour high pitched whingefest.:(

I'll throw the Hellraiser trilogy in to the gut wrenching bloody mess:eek::cool:

wil

Vinculus wrote: »

The Blair witch project

There's a lot of hate for this film but it creeps me out every time.

Rightly so. The original social media scam before social media properly existed per se.
It wasn't even bad enough to be funny, but 40 minutes in you want her dead just so you didn't have to hear her whine any more. The (real) horror.

Only works for the hyper suggestible.

Riddle101

Ju On(The Grudge) and Ring(Japanese version) are really good horrors. Although I didn't really care much for the American version of The Grudge, but the Japanese sure now how to make a horror.

Cold War Kid

Deleted User wrote: »

Oh Whistle and I'll come to You

That is ****ing terrifying. :eek:

Martyrs

The only of the really notorious films of the last 15 or so years which I've seen. Very good story, but very verrrrrrrrrrry difficult viewing. Not for everyone. I couldn't watch bits of it.

If you're into the people-visiting-rural-area-and-getting-set-upon-by-locals type of horror OP, I'd recommend Ils.

Deleted User

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To those who said the Conjuring.

You're having a laugh. It was poor. Horror for the noughties MTV generation, James Wan is just in it for the money.

With horror, go for the classics, Carnival of Souls, Night of the Living Dead, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the Exorcist, the Shining, the Thing, Silence of the Lambs, Blair Witch Project, Event Horizon, the Evil Dead, Don't Look Now, Picnic at Hanging Rock (more eerie than horror), the Wickerman (obv the original) etc.

Or think of the BBC ghost stories, Oh Whistle and I'll come to You, the original Woman in Black, episodes of Tales of the Unexpected on Youtube etc.

If you've seen them all, and want to go modern, avoid US horrors...though the first Paranormal Activity and first Saw were decent, but generally go Asian for ghost stories like Ringu, the Grudge and of course Audition...you'll never think of cheese wire in the same way again. And think of Europe for the shockers..Martyrs, Calvaire etc.

Different strokes and all that.

LETHAL LADY

And you shake it all about. Where are the origins of these sadistic rhymes?

KungPao

Modern horror is about as scary as finding a spider in the bath. If you want proper creepy stuff it needs to be 80s and before. The Omen is great stuff...the music alone gives me the willies.

Satani...Ave.

KungPao

Deleted User wrote: »

To those who said the Conjuring.

You're having a laugh. It was poor. Horror for the noughties MTV generation, James Wan is just in it for the money.

With horror, go for the classics, Carnival of Souls, Night of the Living Dead, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the Exorcist, the Shining, the Thing, Silence of the Lambs, Blair Witch Project, Event Horizon, the Evil Dead, Don't Look Now, Picnic at Hanging Rock (more eerie than horror), the Wickerman (obv the original) etc.

Or think of the BBC ghost stories, Oh Whistle and I'll come to You, the original Woman in Black, episodes of Tales of the Unexpected on Youtube etc.

If you've seen them all, and want to go modern, avoid US horrors...though the first Paranormal Activity and first Saw were decent, but generally go Asian for ghost stories like Ringu, the Grudge and of course Audition...you'll never think of cheese wire in the same way again. And think of Europe for the shockers..Martyrs, Calvaire etc.

Been binge watching them all recently, love it. Roald Dahl was a genius, and great stuff from the other writers too.

Muppet Man

Shout out for the original "poltergeist"

Scared the bejaysus outta me when I saw it when I was younger.

M5

The asian version of "the eye" is great! The most tense scene i remember in any horror

The lift scene, jasus

Cold War Kid

Cold War Kid wrote: »

That is ****ing terrifying. :eek:

The only of the really notorious films of the last 15 or so years which I've seen. Very good story, but very verrrrrrrrrrry difficult viewing. Not for everyone. I couldn't watch bits of it.

If you're into the people-visiting-rural-area-and-getting-set-upon-by-locals type of horror OP, I'd recommend Ils.

Ils is good alright.

The tunnel scene reminds me of another, Kill List.

Which in turn makes me think of another dark menacing British one in recent years...Dead Mans Shoes.

Means Of Escape

Salems Lot with James Mason

No other horror movie can match it

Akrasia

V/H/S is a bit of craic that's worth a watch.

Darkslide

Session 9. Creepy as hell.