Any1 know any good horror films?

I think people should really get up with the times.

Aint nobody is going to be scared with The shining nowadays, or aliens.

you probably watched it when it came out (or a few years later), its an old horror movie, from a time where horror movies were rare, of course it was scary back then but nowadays its comedy material because of the bad acting/effects or the entire pop culture meme around "here's johnny!".

Look at poltergeist, its regarded as one of the scariest, most intense and best made horror movies of all times, yet if you were to watch it today, you'd either switch the channel out of boredom or you'd laugh your ass off with the digital effects.

@lightleggy: it's true what your saying I watched poltergeist as a young child, it scared the shut out of me but I enjoyed it still, but to watch it today it might not have the same impact, might give it a try still.

Yeh I've seen most of the old classics but I don't think all old films can't be good and scary, I saw the original Woman in Black the other day, I was quite surprised how creepy it was and I enjoyed it a lot, this film doesn't rely on special affects, infact I don't think there is any, but does a good job at creating a creepy atmosphere and good story.

@evildead6789: @LostProphetFLCL: cheers guys a couple good reccomendations there, can't wait to check them out.

The shining is a classic of course

but the langoliers

stephen king at his best

brrr...

A friend of mine and I did not enjoy Sinister whatsoever. It had one or two scares which mildly (the lawnmower incident for example) affected me but it felt like a waste of money overall.I expected far better, especially with a big actor like Ethan Hawke being in it. My friend did tell me that Insidious, by the same director, is much scarier.

I do feel that Pandorum (recommended once in this thread so far as part of a list) was heavily ignored. I enjoyed it. That lost-and-alone-in-space, everything-has-evolved-to-kill-you, hopelessness package really did it for me. I actually can't remember how frightened I was (if at all) as it was a while back, but it's definitely an enjoyable movie.

You know what really got to me? Burnt Offerings. They really don't make them like they used to!

@LostProphetFLCL: just watched Sinister, I quite enjoyed it's quite creepy/scary it has one or two big scares that made my wife jump out of her skin so that's all good, not as scary as conjuring, the lawn mower scene amazing I had two rewind it, and a good story line. Nice one

@livingundead: I really like the conjuring a lot it's got the whole package big scares sense of dread, good story good acting does a great job of not being cheesy as someone else on here pointed out. I'm not really a zombie film fan , I didn't mind resi though simply for the action.

Also I don't always like a fluffy happy endings, and I to sometimes route for the bad guy.

check out henry: portrait of a serial killer and come and see.

there are no ghosts, ghoulies, or silly jump scares. henry certainly has a monster though. it's a character study based on henry lee lucas and the horror comes from getting to know him (or trying to, anyway). come and see is about the horrors of war. no saving private ryan war porn here. you see the effects of war rather than the "action."

Glad you enjoyed it! I definitely love that movie and how dark it's story is!

i think the shining and alien are among the better horror movies ever made.

alien has jump scares and all that, but what happens after you've seen the movie and know where the jump scares are? is it useless? with alien, it's not. the scariest part of the movie isn't any particular death. it's seeing the life cycle of a creature seemingly born to kill these people. it's the theme of seeing people try to keep sterile, but failing on the most basic level.

in the shining, kubrick made the definitive statement on the jump scare (and it wasn't even his main purpose in the movie). he recognized that having the bad guy just pop out with his knife in a victim skips the scariest part of the action. it's not the millisecond when the weapon sinks into flesh (before it even has a chance to register with the viewer); it's the gap in time between when the viewer knows the victim is going to die and when they actually do. kubrick sustains this gap longer by having his villain actor shout to let you know it's coming and using his wide angle lens to give the inevitability of the situation a chance to set in.

these movies use proper film language and good storytelling. those qualities will never age. the movies that rely on the constant escalation of gore and avoid practical effects are the ones that age quickly.

As well-made as they are, I do have to agree that they haven't aged well. As someone from a later generation who is hugely into horror, I never found Alien or The Shining scary at all. They are wonderfully made movies, but aren't scary.

I feel the same way with The Exorcist (granted that movie is not nearly as well-done as Alien or The Shining). Some people consider it the scariest movie ever, but I end up laughing when I watch it. She doesn't disturb or scare me when she is possessed and quite frankly I find her offensive statements hilarious.

The movies were terrifying in their time, but since then many more film-makers have come along and taken what those movies did and improved upon it. People in my generation (I am 25) grew up with the movies that had taken what those classics did and took that the next few levels.

This is of course a beautiful thing because what it means is that the genre has never stopped evolving. There are brilliant directors out there who KNOW those older horror movies like the back of their hand and they use that knowledge to figure out what the audience will be thinking and expecting and they play into that to get the audience to freak out.

@LostProphetFLCL: i'm 26. we're in the same generation :P

i'm not going to defend the exorcist because i haven't seen it (i've never been a big de palma fan so i haven't sought it out). i'm specifically talking about alien and the shining, which i've seen numerous times as part of generation x/y/whatever.

That to me is surprising. In my personal experience, when I have had someone my age or even younger see The Shining, they don't find it the least bit scary and some even just flat out dislike the film. Haven't had as much experience with Alien, but nobody seemed to be scared when we watched that one in my film class.

I forgot to go into this in my last post, but I totally agree with you about practical effects. I absolutely LOVE when film-makers veer away from straight CGI and find creative ways to do SFX. A movie with some of my fav special effects of all-time is actually John Carpenters The Thing. I absolutely LOVE the way they made those creatures come to life, all in a time before CGI. It is seriously remarkable what they did effects wise with that film and is a huge reason as to why I love that movie!

Interestingly enough, a movie that was more recent that did practical effects was Zack Snyders Dawn of the Dead remake. There was a cool special feature thing about it that went into how they had a couple zombies who were people who were actually missing limbs, had a man play the part of a woman because they couldn't find a woman who was big enough to do this agile running part so they did a make-up job to make the guy look like a woman, and they actually had these really cool devices they use to simulate the blood splatter when zombies got shot.

I have yet to see a good horror movie. To me the purpose of a horror movie is to scare you and none have ever done that to me. So no, I don't know of any good horror movies.

@LostProphetFLCL: if you haven't already, you should check out cronenberg's the fly. it's a great movie in its own right, but the special effects involving the main character and the monster he becomes are great too. i won't spoil the gags, but they hold up to the closeups in ways CGI generally doesn't.

EDIT: people's distaste for alien comes from the source of its horror not always being a "boo!" moment. it's like people needing a laugh track to know when a joke was told.

Contracted is one of my favorites. Not really scary as much as it's disgusting.

It's possible that you haven't found the right horror movie. Or you don't allow yourself to get into it because you don't want to show that emotion. I don't need to be scared to enjoy a horror movie. If it's entertaining then it does it's job. Whether its scary, intense, funny or whatever.

Weigh what you've seen with what you find scary. Some people find Eight-Legged Freaks scary. A lot of people think that movie is awful. I think it's a great movie. Sit someone down to watch Halloween and that person may not respond to the scares. But if they have even the slightest anxiety to spiders and you make them watch Arachnophobia...they'll likely be terrified.

I remember watching Stephen King's It at a really young age. That movie may not be terrifying, but it is impressionable. My bed frame is too low for someone to fit under it. And I wouldn't say I'm afraid of clowns, not any more, but I still have anxieties around them.

I don't respond to slasher movies. I tend to cheer for the bad guy. So they are more fun and entertaining than they are scary. The reason I cheer the bad guy may be because of some deep-down religious connotation or something. Or I'm insane.

If you're watching 80s films that rely heavily on special effects well...movies like Hellraiser don't age well and cheesy effects can pull you out of the experience. Still a good movie though.

Everyone is afraid of something. And if you think you aren't afraid of anything, the original Nightmare on Elm St. is pretty good at screwing with you. There are other decent movies in the series, but the original is more psychological and less about campiness. Also, Hitchcock usually does a pretty good job.

Also, someone mentioned Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I never saw the original, but I saw the remake and I always thought some of my teachers in school could have been controlled by aliens. Haha. Unfortunate ending though.

As I said, it all depends. The scariest slasher movie is one with no music. You can't get scared if you already know what's going to happen, unless you're afraid of string orchestra.

I haven't seen it yet but it is one that has been on my radar for a bit now. Just haven't gotten around to checking it out...

As for Alien, IDK I personally LOVE atmosphere in horror movies (hence why I love The Conjuring and Sinister so much) and yet Alien never really scared me. Tis a cool movie and that is another movie that did some awesome stuff with practical effects, but it never scared me.

Then again I am huge into horror so movies have a REALLY hard time scaring me. Games tend to do a better job as I have to react to shit that happens though. Recently, Outlast was a HELL of an experience that made me jump quite a bit. Definitely the best horror game to come out in some time!

The only thing that really scares me is the ocean, but I don't get scared of shark movies at all.

I completely concur. I watched The Fly recently and it was very similar with how great the SFX were. CGI is still not at a level where it looks as real as SFX so it's a bloody shame that the latter is a dying breed.

Did Deep Rising frighten you?

alien is one of my favorite horror movies.

the monster itself is pretty incredible. i mean, i prefer space monsters to ghosts and all that because, for whatever reason, they seem plausible. but more than that, i like that you see its entire life cycle and so you can kind of understand it but also find it repulsive in pretty much every way. the more you learn about it, the more repulsive it becomes.

then there are the sets. you see the people are so focused on keeping everything sterile, and there certainly are sterile parts of the ship, but most of the sets feels so lived in that the crew's efforts seem futile. that's kind of the theme of the slasher flick too, with a lone corrupting force moving through characters and everybody trying to get rid of it.

speaking of characters, who is the main character that we assume must live? it's understandably lost on people now after numerous sequels about ripley, but she is a side character for the vast majority of alien.

the pacing never lets you off the hook either. a lot of horror movies bombard the viewer with events until you become numb, but alien makes sure that you have time to process everything when a terrible event happens.

of course, there's that visceral punch too. i'm not gonna lie. the idea of being impregnated, by a foreign species no less, is pretty off-putting. ridley scott also took a traditional and warm concept like motherhood and made it one of the most awful things.

anyway, i gave up on wan after Saw, but i may have to give him another shot and watch the conjuring.

While I personally love Saw (and in fact liked the series as a trilogy), Wan has really come out as a premier horror director in my eyes. Insidious was creepy as hell and even if it stumbled a bit towards the end, it at least finished strong. But then he came out with The Conjuring and had a level of tension I have never felt seeing a movie before. That movie scared the shit out of me like no other movie has before and I LOVE it for that!

There is a little special feature on The Conjuring that involves Wan talking about his philosophy on scaring and one thing he goes into is how important sound is and I completely agree with him. There is such amazing use of sound in The Conjuring, not just with the creepy noises but the creepy SILENCES. He really seems to have a grasp on when to cut out the sound and make you hold your breath.

Carrie - Remake

Alien

Aliens

The Shining

Drag me to Hell

Evil Dead

Evil Dead - Remake

The Fly

Sinister

You're Next

Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Remake

The Possession

House at the end of the Street

Halloween - Rob Zombie

@AmazonTreeBoa: The first two movies that came to mind are Sphere (I know it's Michael Chrighton, but I thought Sphere was his best work). I thought it was a good movie, even though it was panned by critics. Entirely psychological, but there are intense moments. The Abyss, also. I think it may have some similarities to sphere.

Upon further research you might like Anaconda, it's fairly well done. There are some intense moments for sure.

A couple other ones, Open Water/The Reef (here be sharks, but it might be good), Orca, Deep Rising (as someone mentioned), The Host, The Beast, TheCave, Leviathan, Dead Calm, Creepshow 2: The Raft, Triangle, maybe 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Bl, Creature From the Black Lagoon, Black Water.

Sphere was awful. Worst movie I have ever seen in the theater. Seriously was falling asleep in th theater....

The Abyss isn't really a horror movie, is it?

Anaconda isn't scary. Is cheesy and funny, not scary....

I will highly recommend The Host, even if that is another one I don't find scary. Love the humor with the family and the creature is really unique.

@LostProphetFLCL: Like I said, Sphere was panned by critics. A lot of people didn't like the movie. It was a slower movie, but it was really messed up. I mentioned the movie, mentioned that it didn't get a good reception and left it up to the person to make his/her own decision.

The thing with the horror genre it is a vague term, and Abyss, I believe is considered Sci-Fi horror. Again, it's a slower movie though.

The original Anaconda wasn't bad. It had its moment. Remember I recommended it to someone who is afraid of, essentially water. It isn't like Lake Placid which was intentionally cheesy, it was meant as a horror/suspense, and any time the group has to walk through water it is pretty suspenseful.

As I said earlier, a horror movies job isn't to scare you, because it's really difficult to scare people. But if it can pull you in and create suspense and emotion than it does a pretty good job. The issue with Anaconda, like a lot of the predator vs. prey-type movies is most of the 'prey' are jerks and deserve what they get which removes any emotion from the movie.

There are easily worse horror movies than those I listed.

God Anaconda sucked major major major ass. As a person who has been into snakes from age 11 (39 now), I laughed at the stupidity of that movie. Anacondas don't grow that big, they don't move that fast, and they don't hunt like that. They are ambush predators. That movie had zero to do with an Anaconda and everything to do with somebody's warped view of what an Anaconda is. After reading your list of movies, me and you clearly have different views as to what we consider a good movie. The Cave was the only movie you listed that was decent.

No.

@AmazonTreeBoa: Haha. OK. I respect your opinion. I listed those movies because someone said they were having trouble finding movies that scared them. And he said he was afraid of the ocean, but wasn't afraid of sharks. So I listed some movie that person may find more scary because they take place in, around or near water. Those movies won't necessarily be scary to you or I, but the person I was responding to may find them scary. Quite frankly I haven't even seen half the movies I listed. They're just movies I knew existed or found out about as I was doing some light research.

I don't find slasher movies scary, but a lot of people do. Doesn't mean I don't enjoy the odd one. They're still fun. Just because they aren't scary to me doesn't mean they aren't entertaining and I won't watch them.

Any time I go to my friends house we go rent as many budget horror movies and try to watch them all in one day. Most of them are hilarious, and some are hilariously bad, but there is always a gem or two. I like bad horror movies. I also like good horror movies. The thing is, I never compare the two types.

The worst movie I saw in theaters was Batman & Robin. The worst horror movie would either be Mama or Virus.

I'll try to list my favourite horror movies: Cape Fear (both), Psycho, Alien, Aliens, The Shining, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Evil Dead Trilogy, Halloween and 1st remake (until H2O), 28 Day/Months Later, Hills Have Eyes, Audition, Three Extremes, The Conjuring, Sinister, Videodrome, The Thing, House of 1000 Corpses, Les Diabolique, A Nightmare on Elm St., Manhunter, SIlence of the Lambs, Hannibal Rising, The Cube, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, American Psycho, Ginger Snaps, The Conjuring, Dressed To Kill, Body Double - that's all I can think of right now. As far as the classics, I've either seen it and haven't listed it or probably haven't seen it. I haven't seen a lot of classics.

I mostly watch "B"-movies, so my list of good horror isn't very extensive. Mainly because it's hard to find good horror in writing.

For whatever reason Child's Play movies scare the crap out of me, but I can get through them. Puppet Master though? No way. I get to the scene with the leeches and that's enough.

@LostProphetFLCL: just to add, the music while video clips were playing in sinister is some of the creepiest if not THE creepiest music I've ever heard in a horror film especially the familly BBQ.

That is a much better list.

Yeah both that movie and The Conjuring use sound to such a great degree to build their atmosphere.

Sinister is really a movie that just totally unerves you. Such messed up subject matter combined with that creepy music, the good acting, and a creepy boogeyman figure and it definitely messes with ya!

@AmazonTreeBoa: when you watch a horror if you haven't already, try watching it at night with the lights off, maybe on your own with the audio as loud as you can tolerate without disturbing anyone else, that's the only way to watch horrors. Thanks for your list I've seen most of those but will check out and watch the ones I haven't and let you know what I thought.

nice list guys

Has anyone seen shutter?(not the remake) it's suppose to be really good seen lots of good reviews on it, all the reviews for the remake were 90% bad.

Remake is awful, but the original is fucking FANTASTIC! Can't believe I forgot to recommend that one actually. Definitely one of the scariest movies I have seen!

@LostProphetFLCL: my wife had a copy of it laying around so I googled it, I got all excited reading the review scores till I realised I had the remake shit version which scored terribly, but yeh I don't think anyone's mentioned that little gem, it sounds like just the type of horror film I'm looking for. I need more like this.

I think the original version is on netflix! It at least WAS which is where I saw it!

If you are at all a fan of Asian horror Shutter is a MUST see!

@LostProphetFLCL: I think Asian horrors is the way forward for me, they really know how to make creepy horrors I've seen pretty much all of the films mentioned on this thread and a lot that haven't been mentioned.

You know, it's extremely rare for someone of todays generation to have an appreciation for old movies and the old horror films.

You're one cool dude LoG-Sacrament... one cool dude.

@BlackGenjii: I like old horror films

And you too are one cool dude.

@BlackGenjii: YAy!!(celebratory jump) woo!!

This thread is getting overrun by hipsters all of a sudden...

christine

the dentist'/dentist 2 -- just dont watch these a day before a dental appointment it gives me the creeps so much id cancel my dental appointment if i saw it the night before

texas chainsaw

day of the dead

old dawn of the dead-this ones alot better then that new crap

shaun of the dead scary meets funny

creep show--- that last one really made me affraid of roaches speaking of roaches

i dont think its a scary movie but if your scared to shits of roaches --joes apartment

jaws

deep blue sea

carrie -old and 2001 remake , i have not seen the 2013 remake so dont quote me on that one

halloween movies

freddy cruger movies and of course

childs play 1-3

thats a good start

I'm not so much of a fan of horror movies any more. I guess I still like them, but I like them in the same way I like sci-fi movies. Most movies are bad anyway (and this has always been the case, it isn't a recent trend), but I find that sci-fi and horror have a shockingly high bad-to-good ratio. It's like the majority of those guys know that their movie is shit, so they choose to make it horror or sci-fi so that you at least get the entertainment of seeing the monster, seeing the kills, or seeing the alien.

Having said that, I still like those kinds of movies, but they're increasingly becoming a guilty pleasure for me.

But some good suggestions have been made here. Someone mentioned Jacob's Ladder, which I felt was a highly compelling and mature psychological horror.

I'd also recommend Antichrist. Not saying that it's good, I honestly can't tell. But it's certainly a unique take on the cabin-in-the-woods horror trope. It's also very well acted and directed with some incredible cinematography. If nothing else, it's a gorgeous movie with some truly haunting imagery. Conventional horror fans might find it boring though. Despite a few shocking scenes of brief violence and torture and genital mutilation, the vast majority of the movie is just the two characters (the only two characters in the movie) talking through their problems. In that sense, I almost hesitate to call it a horror movie. It feels more like an art-house commentary on misogyny, grief, and natural evil.

In that same vein, I also have to comment on David Cronenberg's remake of The Fly. That's old enough for a horror fan such as yourself to have had plenty of time to watch it. But if you haven't seen it, go watch it NOW. This movie has frequent doses of gross-out horror movie stuff, but one of the things I love about it is that it isn't about that at all. It's a small scale character drama, a tragic love story DISGUISED as a conventional monster movie. And it is sad, it is scary, it is also surprisingly heartwarming. It's also pretty freaking gross. Unfortunately, since it was made in the early 1980's, it is pretty freaking dated as well. But it's still fucking awesome, with some excellent chemistry, great acting and directing, a totally relatable story about the tribulations of love, and a fantastic musical score. And yes, there's also enough gross-out stuff there to keep gorehounds interested. You;vce all probably seen it, but if you haven't...watch it NOW.

And since I mentioned the cabin-in-the-woods trope, I've also got to mention The Cabin In the Woods. Yes, I realize that it's not really a horror movie. Still, it's a really clever deconstruction of the horror genre, and it's just plain a lot of fucking fun to watch. Yes, it's not a horror movie, but it's deliberately structured exactly like the most cliched cabin-in-the-woods horror movie you've ever watched, and I'm sure it'll be appreciated by most any fan of horror. The thing I like about it: it strikes this nice balance where it takes the piss out of those movies while still being respectful to them and paying homage. Fans of that type of horror can see the respect that the fimmakers have for the genre, while people who hate that particular type of horror can still be entertained at how much they're taking the piss out of it.

You're forgetting something. It aged with time, but that perspective probably has lots to do with you seeing the movie a long time and then subsequently seeing it getting referenced in pop culture for the next 30 years. You saw its original context and then you had years of seeing it get made fun of. Of course it's not gonna be scary to you. That might not apply to someone who never saw the movie.

Of course, this is the point at which you would probably say, "but you don't even have to see the movie. They've been so ingrained in popular culture that everyone knows what is gonna happen even if they never saw it. After all, even people who never watched a single Star Wars movie know that Darth Vader is Luke's father."

But what you're forgetting here is that movies usually don't become such staples of pop culture without having some very real substance there. People wouldn't have even bothered to spend 30+ years joking about Alien if Alien hadn't been extremely fucking effective at delivering suspense and tension. That whole build up to the big gore scene was MASTERFULLY done, no question about it, and that mastery is why people are still freaking talking about it. Whether decades of pop culture exposure has taken some shock out of it or not, one can still go back and watch the movie and see just how effective it was.

The conjuring is amazing.

ignore the hipsters who hate on anything popular, who bash it.