Recomend me a scary film.

[JRShield]

Saw, but only the first part!

 

[Nwabudike Morgan]

Anything but Paranormal Activity. It was easily the least scary "scary" movie I've ever seen. The characters somehow managed to be incredibly unlikable despite not having any personalities or even the slightest degree of characterization to create people that you would have a reason to like or dislike. And it's hard to be scared when you don't care if anything bad happens to the people you're seeing on screen.

I imagine if hearing people mumble puts you into a panic, you'd be terrified.

And I'm going to do what others have done and recommend The Thing. I don't think it's possible to not be put on edge by that movie's unrelenting, oppressive paranoia.

 

[Wordslinger]

The Amityville Horror. Quite possibly the only truly scary movie I've ever seen.

 

[crouchingtigress01]

I found The Strangers a rather frightening, but I think it has something to do with the time and atmosphere. When I saw it with my mom at home late one night, she asked me to check all the locks after *slight spoiler* the scene when the masked male antagonist broke in silently without alerting the female protagonist, and he stood there menacingly for a few minutes before vanishing off screen *end slight spoiler*

That being said, the end was the usual for horror/ slasher flick, but given the right atmosphere I think it might scare you just a little bit

 

[Tdc2182]

To this date I have never been more scared than the movie The Ring. Maybe it is because it was one of my first horror films, or maybe it was because Japanese horror scares the shit out of me, but I have seen many films since then, none that scary. Japan is the only country to have gotten actual horror down right.

 

[Tdc2182]

I think The Mist (2007) based off the Stephen King novella was a good horror. It may not have been extremely scary, jumpy or disturbing, but it was really good as a movie and as a well rounded horror. Really what horrors should be about is terror, and this film is the epitome of terror. Be warned, some people hate the ending, but I think it made the movie.

I agree with this too. I did not have high expectations about that movie, and was very surprised. And the ending, yeah, that really brought you back down to Earth. So messed up.

 

[saintchristopher]

The Exorcist III from 1990 starring George C Scott is one of my favorite movies. It was directed by William Peter Blatty, author of the original Exorcist novel, and is based on another novel of his, Legion. It's a very deliberately paced, tension-saturated film. It didn't review very well because it was not intended to be an "Exorcist" movie (Legion was not part of the Exorcist canon) but the studio pressured him to fit it in, so they actual exorcism climax feels a little tacked-on.

If you can forgive that though, you're treated to a very moody, very tense story that is excellently written with strategically well-placed scares.

 

[dariuskyne]

don't forget to include some suspense type thrillers like:

Hide and Seek http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382077/
White Noise http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375210/
Fallen http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119099/
Hard Candy http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424136/
Identity http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309698/
The Number 23 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481369/

basically it's more of a "what if you were in their shoes" or "that situations is just wrong" thing as opposed to the "jump out and grab ya" thing.

as for stuff that falls under the actual horror genre, my suggestions are:

In the Mouth of Madness http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113409/
Poltergeist and poltergiest 2 (i still have nightmares about that tequila worm.)
1 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084516/
2 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091778/
The Lord of Illusions http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113690/
Midnight Meat Train http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0805570/

but again horror and the such is subjective, remember Gremlins http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087363/ is a "horror" movie.

 

[Smagmuck_]

Paranormal Activity... I'm sorry, but if it can scare my Dad's friend sober after about five jeager-bomobs somethin' must've been done right...

Also The Thing. Still have nightmares about that head-crab thing. Eww. *Shudders*

 

[godofallu]

I have to completely disagree with Paranormal Activity. Nothing happened the entire movie except for the last 3 seconds, which was given away in the commercial.

I second The Thing, I know the name is terrible but it is pretty good.

Oh and the Descent was pretty cool, although I was wearing a Disturbed shirt at the time with a picture of a guy that looked just like the creatgures so I may be a bit biased there.

 

[MikailCaboose]

Try the Grudge (original Jap version, never saw the American remake).
Then the new House on Haunted Hill. Really, really good remake of the original.

 

[Wildcard5]

The original black and white "Night of the Living Dead" if you can find it in any format. It truely paints a grim picture for humanities ability to handle itself in the face of an new pandemic.

 

[Nwabudike Morgan]

Have any horror movies come out in recent years that don't rely on cheap jump scenes or excessive gore and instead do things the way they should be done, by creating an atmosphere of uncertainty and unease and only revealing enough about the thing you should be scared of to plant a seed in your brain, where your imagination does the rest?

 

[bak00777]

well im not a huge fan of the films that scare u shitless, but i do love crappy horror movies, and thanks to Netflix i have a metric shit ton of B-Horror movies. I also like classic horror movies, ones that had good Special FX for their time, but now they are laughably out of date, but i love old stephen king movies (even tho "It" had such a bad ending).