Horror recommendation

Snake Plisken

Event Horizon is another good scary horror

dubstarr

Snake Plisken wrote: »

Event Horizon is another good scary horror

No thats crap as well.

mrcheez

The Ritual was a good one released recently. Also The Witch is a classic. I guess forest-based horror always gets me.

I didn't find Veronica scary at all unfortunately


Autopsy of Jane Doe is superb.

mrcheez

just saw The Descent...holy crap that was bad acting. Thoroughly dislikable characters, couldnt wait for them all to perish. This was the 2005 film, is there a newer version everyone is raving about?

Wailin

mrcheez wrote: »

just saw The Descent...holy crap that was bad acting. Thoroughly dislikable characters, couldnt wait for them all to perish. This was the 2005 film, is there a newer version everyone is raving about?

Yeah that's the one. Decent enough on it's release but probably not holding up very well. Didn't that director do Dog Soldiers as well?

fmpisces

mrcheez wrote: »

just saw The Descent...holy crap that was bad acting. Thoroughly dislikable characters, couldnt wait for them all to perish. This was the 2005 film, is there a newer version everyone is raving about?

There is indeed, released in 2009.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1073105/?ref_=nv_sr_3

*snip*

johnny_ultimate

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Wailin

fmpisces wrote: »

There is indeed, released in 2009.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1073105/?ref_=nv_sr_3

*snip*

Yes that's the sequel. All the previous posters are on about the original. The sequel was rubbish!

Fysh

Takashi Miike's Audition is well worth a watch if you're into foreign film. You're best going into it blind; it's a film that keeps its cards close to its chest for much of its running time but it is well worth the investment. In terms of streaming, it looks like it's on Shudder.

In a very different vein, Shinya Tsukamoto's The Iron Man is a magnificently disorienting dose of black & white industrial body horror that will probably leave you reeling on first watch, but if you enjoyed the likes of Cronenbrrg's Videodrome or The Fly you have to watch it.

David Lynch's Eraserhead is another distinctly weird black & white feature worth checking out - it's not really horrific as such, but there's a profoundly unsettling dread and oddness shot through the whole thing that makes it worth watching. Don't expect it to make too much sense though, it is a David Lynch film after all.

Lastly, a double bill suggestion for you - firstly, The Transfiguration is a haunting story about a black teenager whose obsession with vampires is compounded by his social isolation and rocky family circumstances. It's...not a feelgood film, even by the standard of horror films. Secondly, Byzantium is an evocative vampire story set in Brighton, with the visual flourish you'd expect from a Neil Jordan film, telling the story of a mother and daughter (both vampires) from the Napoleonic wars through to the present day.

Joeface

The orphanage
Amityville (not the original that is awful the remake)
Cronos

mrcheez

+1 for Audition.

Liam McPoyle

A couple of extreme titles that I'd recommend for those not of a nervous disposition.

Daddy's Little Girl

Standard revenge tale that is as / more brutal than anything I've ever seen. High impact body horror is the beat description I've read for it.

American Guinea Pig : Bloodshock

Nightmarish black and white tale of a guy being tortured for most of the movie in order to harvest a particular hormone / enzyme the body only produces in times of extreme physical trauma.

Atroz

Part found footage / part police horror from Mexico. Rough as they come.

mrcheez

"Seed" is pretty extreme. The hammer scene is disturbing. Also has disturbing footage of actual animal cruelty at the start so you have been warned.

rtron

Just watched pyewaket it was decent enough.

Charlie19

Suprised You're Next didn't get a mention.

It Follows is another good one.

Barack Obama

Watched Jigsaw over the weekend. Was a big fan of Saw (but the follow-ups did drop off) and wasn't expecting too much from this.

Actually really enjoyed it!!

Justgrimes

Outpost

Wailin

While on the topic of horrors, read The Terror by Dan Simmons a few months back. Just came across a trailer for the tv series based on the book...first 2 episodes are out. Anyone watch them yet? Production looks very good in the Penny Dreadful type of ambience.