Recommend the Best Psychological Horror Films

[BKtheKITTY]

"The Last Broadcast". An independent horror film that saw a major theatrical release.
THIS is the movie that started the "Camcorder Horror" Trend (Blair Witch, REC, etc).

To date this is the only one that gets it right, IMHO. The best part? The whole thing is on YouTube! Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvkw6C4qThM

DUDE you're not recommending REC? Fair enough Quarantine can go to hell, but REC was fantastic! Maybe not the most intellectual film, but it didn't rely on gore, nor things leaping at you... The whole thing was just down and out scary, watch it, OP! =3

REC was okay, but I just didn't find it scary. I attribute this to two major factors:

1. The pacing was kind of predictable and the movie telegraphed it's moves. I just wasn't surprised or shocked for most of it.

2. This is going to sound weird, and it's really just a personal quirk of mine but....I am rarely able to get scared in movies where the spoken dialog is in my native tongue (Spanish). Weird, huh?

But you are right, REC might be worth a shot for the OP. I just think that TLB was a more gripping kind of horror movie.

I can see some of your points, but for me those points are reversed, though it was indeed predictable to some degree, the suspense, I felt, completely held, it was executed in such a way that even the very simple plot became frantic, aided by the rather short runtime.

In terms of language, often I feel exactly the same thing, and being English, it is to me a world ever so slightly different to mine in all but language which I do not speak a word of. It makes for a bewildering experience trying to keep up with the subtitles and the action, and adds an extra sense of Panic to an already (in my opinion) short, sweet and exhilerating film.

It was much the same with Pan's Labyrinth =P

In any case, this is something of a moot point, we have stated our cases, which is all that we can do for the OP, as you previously stated =] I just wanted to put in my parry

My hat is, to you Wildrow12, tipped.
I'll have to look out for The Last Broadcast =D

OH! Since y'all got your opinions out, what did everyone think of Carpenter's Prince of Darkness? I liked it =]

 

[Wildrow12]

"The Last Broadcast". An independent horror film that saw a major theatrical release.
THIS is the movie that started the "Camcorder Horror" Trend (Blair Witch, REC, etc).

To date this is the only one that gets it right, IMHO. The best part? The whole thing is on YouTube! Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvkw6C4qThM

DUDE you're not recommending REC? Fair enough Quarantine can go to hell, but REC was fantastic! Maybe not the most intellectual film, but it didn't rely on gore, nor things leaping at you... The whole thing was just down and out scary, watch it, OP! =3

REC was okay, but I just didn't find it scary. I attribute this to two major factors:

1. The pacing was kind of predictable and the movie telegraphed it's moves. I just wasn't surprised or shocked for most of it.

2. This is going to sound weird, and it's really just a personal quirk of mine but....I am rarely able to get scared in movies where the spoken dialog is in my native tongue (Spanish). Weird, huh?

But you are right, REC might be worth a shot for the OP. I just think that TLB was a more gripping kind of horror movie.

I can see some of your points, but for me those points are reversed, though it was indeed predictable to some degree, the suspense, I felt, completely held, it was executed in such a way that even the very simple plot became frantic, aided by the rather short runtime.

In terms of language, often I feel exactly the same thing, and being English, it is to me a world ever so slightly different to mine in all but language which I do not speak a word of. It makes for a bewildering experience trying to keep up with the subtitles and the action, and adds an extra sense of Panic to an already (in my opinion) short, sweet and exhilerating film.

It was much the same with Pan's Labyrinth =P

In any case, this is something of a moot point, we have stated our cases, which is all that we can do for the OP, as you previously stated =] I just wanted to put in my parry

My hat is, to you Wildrow12, tipped.
I'll have to look out for The Last Broadcast =D

OH! Since y'all got your opinions out, what did everyone think of Carpenter's Prince of Darkness? I liked it =]

It was a pleasure to speak with you, BK.

As for PoD, I liked it (but bear in mind that this is coming from a John Carpenter fan boy).

 

[Random Argument Man]

You can not go wrong with Session 9. I watch a lot of horror films (like, I have shelves full of my favorite horror films in my appartment), and this is one of the few films that I still consider scary. Check it out, because you will not regret it.

Damn, you stole the words out of my mouth.