Top 5 Horror Film Reccomendations

rtron

"Vivarium" was interesting.

Gonna try Color of space tonight.

flasher0030

I watched Sinister and The Conjuring last night. Would definately recommend both for those who get the buzz out of jump scares – doors banging, eerie music, dark stormy nights, images in mirrors etc. Good acting and decent plot running through them.

Frightened the bejasus out of me anyway. Should have watched with a couple of beers - to help me sleep better.

Minime2.5

If your willing to give a movie with subtitles a try Martyrs and Switchboard Romance are 2 of the best horrors ever made

Brief_Lives

Has anyone seen the australian mockumentary horror movie, Lake Mungo... I thought it was excellent.....

afro man

Old School all the way

The Excorcist
The Omen
rosemarys baby
Halloween
Friday 13th
nightmare on elm street
the thing

Midsommar found it to be total Muck .. but hey don let me put you off watching it

unkel

Minime2.5 wrote: »

If your willing to give a movie with subtitles a try Martyrs and Switchboard Romance are 2 of the best horrors ever made

You Sir are a connoisseur :cool:

Haute Tension (Switchblade Romance) is one of my favourites. The scene with the Citroen H-van still cracks me up

And Martyrs is just something else. The only film ever I really struggled to finish because I was nearly getting unwell. At some point I had a sigh of relief at what I thought was the final scene. Only to realise the film was only half way through. THIS IS DISTURBING - DO NOT WATCH THIS (hope that is enough of a disclaimer)

Mike Guide 69

“Candyman,Candyman,Candyman,Candyman,........”!!!!!:eek::D

igCorcaigh

Couldn't take to Martyrs at all.

I think I've done my bit with extreme cinema, I just find the violence to become so unrelatable that it's almost slapstick.

Anything good from Spain these days?

sweetie

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Couldn't take to Martyrs at all.

I think I've done my bit with extreme cinema, I just find the violence to become so unrelatable that it's almost slapstick.

Anything good from Spain these days?

Think Veronica was spanish, really enjoyed it.

The Raging Bile Duct

Switchblade Romance got so unbelievably goofy in the third act that it actually annoyed me. The plot is atrocious.

flasher0030

Homelander wrote: »

A few I really liked in recent years are The Witch, It comes at Night, Hereditary, Apostle, Climax, It Follows, and Midsommar. Not movies that'll have you leaping out of your seat, but uncomfortable, dread-inducing viewing.

Happy Death Day and Happy Death Day 2 U are two incredibly fun movies to watch, sort of like Scream meets Groundhog Dog - total blast, more cheesy fun than real horror but worth a watch.

Other decent horror movies from recent years I would say are A Quiet Place, Overlord, Color Out of Space, and Annihilation.

I'd never heard of Happy Death Day till I read this. Oh God, I wish I hadn't. I enjoyed Scream - it was clever. This wasn't clever. The main part in the film was the time loop. And there was zero explanation as to why it was happening. It was a novelty in Groundhog day. But if you are going to blatently copy that notion, some explanation needs to be provided to show some level of innovation; otherwise it's just extremely lazy. The main draw in films like this is the suspense of not knowing who the killer is. By the time she had gone through the various loops, it had come to the stage where I had lost all interest in the final reveal.

Which was basically murdering someone on account of a teenage crush.

al87987

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Couldn't take to Martyrs at all.

I think I've done my bit with extreme cinema, I just find the violence to become so unrelatable that it's almost slapstick.

Anything good from Spain these days?

I really liked the platform on Netflix and rec is one of my favourites too, both in Spanish

adox

Martyrs is fantastic (the original, pretty sure there was a Hollywood remake)

It is in the extreme horror genre but unlike some others which are just muck, it’s a compelling if difficult watch.

Some brilliant Asian horror films from the 90s/ early 2000s which are well worth investigating too.

Re-Animator is an 80s classic. Bundles of fun.

John Carpenters The Thing is essential viewing if you haven’t seen it. A master at the peak of his talents.

Adam9213

al87987 wrote: »

I really liked the platform on Netflix and rec is one of my favourites too, both in Spanish

The platform is one of the most underrated movies I've ever seen, it's not really a horror though it's more of a thriller, I suggest anyone to watch it.

Mad_maxx

The exorcist

halloween

carrie

the omen

sinister ( no classic by any means but this ethan hawke movie from a number of year back really spooked me )

Minime2.5

Mad_maxx wrote: »

sinister ( no classic by any means but this ethan hawke movie from a number of year back really spooked me )

Yep. When I watched it for the first time I had to turn it off. I couldn't handle it. It was like 12 in the day. Sun was shining in the window. Still too scary for me. I was on my own aswell like

Sugarlumps

Minime2.5 wrote: »

Session 9 is a very underrated and highly recommended horror movie. Its just been added to Netflix

Watched this at the weekend, don't get the love for this?

The Raging Bile Duct

Watched Relic at the weekend and I'd highly recommend it. It's not your average horror movie.

flasher0030

Sugarlumps wrote: »

Watched this at the weekend, don't get the love for this?

Ya, I don't get it. Nothing really happens. Couple of deaths. And then a "is it real or just someone going mad",

flasher0030

The Raging Bile Duct wrote: »

Watched Relic at the weekend and I'd highly recommend it. It's not your average horror movie.

Will definately check it out. Presume it's the 2020 film with Emily mortimor.
And not the older film back in the '90s. Called the Relic.

Sam Hain

Let the right one in, an absolutely stunning piece of cinema.
Nightmare on Elm Street
Quiet Place
Poltergeist
Don't look now

flasher0030

Sam Hain wrote: »

Let the right one in, an absolutely stunning piece of cinema.
Nightmare on Elm Street
Quiet Place
Poltergeist
Don't look now

I watched about 10 mins of A Quiet Place few weeks back. But got bored of it. Going to give it proper go one of the nights. 96% on rotten tomatoes for a thriller/horror is impressive.

I just remember Don't look know for the sex scene that seemed like it went on for about an hour. Closest we got to porn back in the day. Didn't watch the rest of the film. I remember poltergeist spooked me though. The kid sitting in front of the TV. I was only young though.

DvB

One not oft mentioned in these kind of threads is The Keep from 1983 by Michael Mann, starring a young Gabriel Byrne, Ian McKellen & Scott Glenn about a company of German soldiers in WWII who free a demon when they are stationed in a castle in Romania. Watched it again recently & despite looking a little dated is still a creepy film.

rtron

Watched one called the voices it's a keep ya guessing type.

Homelander

DvB wrote: »

One not oft mentioned in these kind of threads is The Keep from 1983 by Michael Mann, starring a young Gabriel Byrne, Ian McKellen & Scott Glenn about a company of German soldiers in WWII who free a demon when they are stationed in a castle in Romania. Watched it again recently & despite looking a little dated is still a creepy film.

There's a loose remake out now, called "Ghosts of War". It has an OK cast but the movie itself seems to be a bit of a turd.

igCorcaigh

al87987 wrote: »

I really liked the platform on Netflix and rec is one of my favourites too, both in Spanish

Yeah, I liked Rec a lot.
I've watched all of the 70s/80s classics I think.

Does the Horror genre have any contemporary things going on?
Any English language films worth a watch?
(I struggle with subtitles)

trellheim

Event Horizon well worth it too

rtron

Watched "The Rental" one night lately, it was alright.
Going to try the "The Keep" as suggested over the weekend

Brendog

"The Borderlands" was very eerie.

Dunno how its not better known among horror fans

Sugarlumps

Brendog wrote: »

"The Borderlands" was very eerie.

Dunno how its not better known among horror fans

These budget horrors has been done to death.

dubstarr

Wrong Turn
The Exorcism of Emily Rose[i found that really creepy]
Exorcist
The Conjuring
Nightmare on Elm Street

Whats the name of the film where they record everything and its done like a documentry.i cant think of the name of it.

dubstarr

dubstarr wrote: »

Wrong Turn
The Exorcism of Emily Rose[i found that really creepy]
Exorcist
The Conjuring
Nightmare on Elm Street

Whats the name of the film where they record everything and its done like a documentry.i cant think of the name of it.

The Blair Witch Project? Rec? Both good horrors imo.

dubstarr

Deleted User wrote: »

The Blair Witch Project? Rec? Both good horrors imo.

Poltergeist Activity is the one i was thinking of.

dubstarr

dubstarr wrote: »

Poltergeist Activity is the one i was thinking of.

Paranormal Acivity?

dubstarr

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Paranormal Acivity?

Yes that one as well😂😂

dubstarr

dubstarr wrote: »

Yes that one as well😂😂

I'm just after realising Poltergeist Activity is a movie I didn't know existed! I'll add it to my list

Inviere

Brendog wrote: »

"The Borderlands" was very eerie.

Dunno how its not better known among horror fans

One of the worst movies I watched in a long time, hot garbage was all I could think

Mic 1972

The Invisible Man 2020

Not sure if it's horror or sci-fi, but i was very pleasantly surprised by it

sweetie

the autopsy of jane doe
green room

not strictly horror but disturbing;
under the skin,
mother!

ChuckieEgg

Any chance one of the mods might fix the typo in the title..

Some great pics here. Horror is one of my favourite genres so hard for me to pick 5.

In no particular order.
The Omen
*The Exorcist of Emily Rose
El Orfanato
The Conjuring
*The Changeling.

*I watched that years ago so its possible it won't have the same impact on me now. I'm like that with certain films. At the time though it terrified the life out of me.

*Not the Angelina Jolie film of the same name.


Some recent popular ones don't do it for me as horror films. Don't Breathe, Get Out, It Follows etc. I think they are brilliant but aren't scary in the right way for me. Then you have films like Hereditary that disturbed me enough that I stopped watching it.

Mic 1972

Last night i watched Relic, very eerie, loved it!

dubstarr

Deleted User wrote: »

Some great pics here. Horror is one of my favourite genres so hard for me to pick 5.

In no particular order.
The Omen
*The Exorcist of Emily Rose
El Orfanato
The Conjuring
*The Changeling.

*I watched that years ago so its possible it won't have the same impact on me now. I'm like that with certain films. At the time though it terrified the life out of me.

*Not the Angelina Jolie film of the same name.


Some recent popular ones don't do it for me as horror films. Don't Breathe, Get Out, It Follows etc. I think they are brilliant but aren't scary in the right way for me. Then you have films like Hereditary that disturbed me enough that I stopped watching it.

I didnt like Get Out,it didnt live up to the hype,

Event Horizon is the same,didnt like that either

I liked the Borderlands but the ending was ****e

Kylta

The reaping (2007)
End of days (1999)
Season of the witch (2011)
Needful things (1993)
The wicker man (1973).

And I've left out The devils backbone & pan's labyrinth, both of which I rate very highly

Mic 1972

Kylta wrote: »

The reaping (2007)
End of days (1999)
Season of the witch (2011)
Needful things (1993)
The wicker man (1973).

And I've left out The devils backbone & pan's labyrinth, both of which I rate very highly

Can i just say that The devils backbone & pan's labyrinth are vastly superior to those 5 movies?

Mic 1972

dubstarr wrote: »

I didnt like Get Out,it didnt live up to the hype,

Same here, and Us was even worse

For me his films look like Twilight Zone episodes at best

angel eyes 2012

Mic 1972 wrote: »

Same here, and Us was even worse

For me his films look like Twilight Zone episodes at best

I loved Get Out and thought Us was even better, I was reading up on theories and meanings afterwards for a couple of days.

sweetie

a few other indie horrors I loved;

Absentia (2011 - Mike flanagan, gone on to bigger things now like Gerald's game and Dr. Sleep which was pretty good too)
the loved ones (2009 aussie flick, this was brillantly gory and shocking)
Bone tomahawk (horror western with Kurt Russell!)
the Devil's candy (I just discovered it's same director of the loved one's! - like a more modern day shining)

Bozo Skeleton

Ringu
Let The Right One in (the Swedish original)
Rosemary's Baby
The Exorcist and Poltergeist scared the crap out of me. I saw them both when I was about 12 or 13, which was probably too young

The way I saw Poltergeist was when we were kids we'd stay in a caravan site in Wexford during the summer holidays. On Tuesday and Wednesday they'd show films in what seemed like a school hall with a screen. This particular week Tuesday's movie was Stripes (Bill Murray army comedy) and Wednesday was Poltergeist. So us kids went to see Stripes on the Tuesday. But they put on Poltergeist instead. Cue a room full of kids losing it terrified out of their minds

flasher0030

angel eyes 2012 wrote: »

I loved Get Out and thought Us was even better, I was reading up on theories and meanings afterwards for a couple of days.

Us is just one long slasher chase movie. Normal folk trying to get away from the bad folk. There is nothing else to it.
It was well know that there is a bit of a twist at the end of it. With that in mind whilst watching the film, it was easy to know what that was from about half way in the film. I was thinking to myself – “please be something a little more clever”. But when that did arrive in the last scene, it was such a let down.
I thought I was the only one who thought Get Out was vastly overrated. There are many movies that I’d rewatch. But that definitely isn’t one.