Suggest Me A Horror Film

[darthmocha]

The mist
drag me to hell
paranormal activity
quarantine
the crazies

That is the worst list of horror movies I have seen in a long time. Its like a test question of what does not belong category. (Hint: the answer is Drag Me to Hell). Every other film is a horrible remake, a mediocre adaptation of a mediocre story or a low budget snore-fest that makes me nostalgic for the Blair Witch Project.

Five horror films I would check out that you may have missed:
1. Outpost (a horror film I cannot stress enough)
2. Re-Animator (best severed head scene of all time)
3. Jacob's Ladder (do not watch this on any drugs, no joke)
4. Hellraiser
5. Rosemary's Baby (scares the hell out of women)
6. The Game
7. The Changeling (1980 version, that has a ghost movie first with an EVP scene that is bone chilling)


Well that's a short list and I hope it helps.

 

[Mr Somewhere]

Quite a few of these suggestions aren't... that great...
It's pretty scary itself that nobody has mentioned The Haunting (1963). Fantastic film based on one of the all time modern horror classics. Check it out, purtty sure it's public domain too!
(Mind there are one or two scenes of patchy acting, asides from that it's flawless)

 

[Drunkenclam]

The mist
drag me to hell
paranormal activity
quarantine
the crazies

That is the worst list of horror movies I have seen in a long time. Its like a test question of what does not belong category. (Hint: the answer is Drag Me to Hell). Every other film is a horrible remake, a mediocre adaptation of a mediocre story or a low budget snore-fest that makes me nostalgic for the Blair Witch Project.

Five horror films I would check out that you may have missed:
1. Outpost (a horror film I cannot stress enough)
2. Re-Animator (best severed head scene of all time)
3. Jacob's Ladder (do not watch this on any drugs, no joke)
4. Hellraiser
5. Rosemary's Baby (scares the hell out of women)
6. The Game
7. The Changeling (1980 version, that has a ghost movie first with an EVP scene that is bone chilling)

Ya you'd like all those old movies grandpa.
Well that's a short list and I hope it helps.

 

[vingtcinq]

Srpski or, in English, A Serbian Film.

 

[Mr Somewhere]

The mist
drag me to hell
paranormal activity
quarantine
the crazies

That is the worst list of horror movies I have seen in a long time. Its like a test question of what does not belong category. (Hint: the answer is Drag Me to Hell). Every other film is a horrible remake, a mediocre adaptation of a mediocre story or a low budget snore-fest that makes me nostalgic for the Blair Witch Project.

Five horror films I would check out that you may have missed:
1. Outpost (a horror film I cannot stress enough)
2. Re-Animator (best severed head scene of all time)
3. Jacob's Ladder (do not watch this on any drugs, no joke)
4. Hellraiser
5. Rosemary's Baby (scares the hell out of women)
6. The Game
7. The Changeling (1980 version, that has a ghost movie first with an EVP scene that is bone chilling)

Ya you'd like all those old movies grandpa.
Well that's a short list and I hope it helps.

Well, that's a tad agressive. Hellraiser, Rosemary's Baby and Jacob's Ladder are great, I don't agree with the rest. Drag Me To Hell really isn't a horror, it's a Black Comedy, also, The Mist is a fantastic film. The rest however, pretty weak.

 

[darthmocha]

The main reason I didn't like The Mist is that is basically a formula film where you can basically see everything that is going to happen. I like to not be able to know exactly what is going to happen in every other scene, which is The Mist's greatest problem. Acting and production design were good, the story just looked a bit to jerked around, that's all. However, I will admit The Mist is very watchable, but its one of those films basically everyone outside of rural Utah has already seen.

Drag Me to Hell is legitimately a horror film, but more of a horror film that has more in common with classic Universal films of the 1930's or 40's, which are in their own right awesome. However, I do respect your opinion and yes that signature dark humor is part of any of Rami's films, but that just makes them that much better.

A horror film not matter how old it is has to be effective in story, production design, and acting. That's a major problem that has affected the genre, that either puts focus on one element or the other. A great horror film combines effective production design, story and proper actors for a role, which is much harder than one thinks. That's one of the reason remakes of foreign horror films like Quarantine or remakes of older horror films like The Crazies are so popular. The hardest things are already done and they can just pour money into production and whatever actors they can find to fit roles and cash in. Horror movies with buckets of blood, lots of money in production,or recently made are not necessarily shining examples of the horror genre.

 

[InnerRebellion]

The Poughkeepsie Tapes. Most messed up thing I've ever...
Actually no, the most messed up I've heard of is A Serbian Film, but the Tapes are the most messed up thing I've watched.

 

[Wayneguard]

The Japanese do horror really well. Although a lot of the themes you'll find might seem a little played out these days, after so many American films have copied them.

People always give japanese horror movies a lot of hate but many are quite good. Shutter is one that was much derided when it came out but I enjoyed it.

EDIT: oh yeah i forgot the point of quoting this guy. I agree... lol

EDIT2: OH YEAH omg somebody's earlier post reminded me. The Changeling is a fucking fantastic movie. It's scary/creepy but it also has a really good plot. And George C. Scott was a great actor.

 

[MadCapMunchkin]

The Scream trilogy is good. I'm eager to see how the fourth one goes.

Halloween is not scary at all.

Did you watch it muted? Or watch the remake?

 

[gorfias]

Cube 2: Hypercube is streaming on Netflix. Pretty dang good movie I'd never heard of, reasonably scary mind trip.

 

[pixiejedi]

There are no words in the English language that can express how much I agree with you.

The signal was good, I was freaked out by the mist, Back in its day the Ring scarred the crap out of me because you think you know when to cover your eyes but NNOOOOO they pop it on you! Scream really messed with me as well but I was like 12 then and it was my first summer home alone so it doesn't really age that gracefully. Watched Dreamcatcher again today, its good, I don't know if it would scare you.

My husband is terrified by signs and the movie fire in the sky, but he's totally nuts about aliens and popping balloons so take from that what you may.

 

[MrRetroSpectacles]

Charlie Sheen's mind.

 

[thatcanadianguy]

2girls1cup

that is all

 

[Ghengis John]

Ive been looking for a while now, and to my disapointment I havent found a Horror Film that really scares the living daylights out of me.

Im asking you guys to suggest me one. It could be a range of different horrors like Mind Fucks, Gore or 'put in dark room, in silence and randomly flash something scary looking, acompaneid with screams' or anything really.

Im just in the mood for something truley scary, I feel the need to test my nerves.

However I have a nagging feeling I may regret this . . . . . . heh

In my opinion you should focus less on whether the movies you're watching are scary or if they're just good movies. Horror's a very subjective thing, but if you're not going to be scared you should at least enjoy what's going on right?

To that end a few films:
The Thing
The Shining
Vacancy

Gripping, isolated, claustrophobic, sci-fi survival horror.
One of Jack Nicolson's best performances with some cinematography that can't be beat.
Suspenseful Thriller with a plausible setup.

Enjoy.

 

[endnuen]

John Carpenters 'The Ting' and 'Village of the Damned' are both pretty wicked
.
The original 'Trilogy of the dead', if you can live through the 1. one being in black 'n white, it is actually a damn fine film.

The new 'Wolfman', it's part monster flick and part horror flick, gave me few good scares.

'F' is also worth a watch, gave me some chills.

'Red Hook' and 'The Collector' are also sweet horror flicks, especially 'The Collector' had me on edge.

 

[Nouw]

Army of Darkness or it's predecessors. And if your stomach can take it, Dead Alive/Braindead.

If you want to lean away from B-Movies, definitely do Alien or Jaws.

 

[Mr Somewhere]

The main reason I didn't like The Mist is that is basically a formula film where you can basically see everything that is going to happen. I like to not be able to know exactly what is going to happen in every other scene, which is The Mist's greatest problem. Acting and production design were good, the story just looked a bit to jerked around, that's all. However, I will admit The Mist is very watchable, but its one of those films basically everyone outside of rural Utah has already seen.

Drag Me to Hell is legitimately a horror film, but more of a horror film that has more in common with classic Universal films of the 1930's or 40's, which are in their own right awesome. However, I do respect your opinion and yes that signature dark humor is part of any of Rami's films, but that just makes them that much better.

A horror film not matter how old it is has to be effective in story, production design, and acting. That's a major problem that has affected the genre, that either puts focus on one element or the other. A great horror film combines effective production design, story and proper actors for a role, which is much harder than one thinks. That's one of the reason remakes of foreign horror films like Quarantine or remakes of older horror films like The Crazies are so popular. The hardest things are already done and they can just pour money into production and whatever actors they can find to fit roles and cash in. Horror movies with buckets of blood, lots of money in production,or recently made are shining example of the horror genre.

I love me a good Rami film any time of the day. I'll have to rewatch it, but I don't recall Drag Me to Hell going for that approach. Funnily enough, I very much loved The Mist for taking that approach, it very much felt like a send up to the classic fifties "B" movies, in fact I beleive there was a black and white verision released. While I agree with it being somewhat formulaic, the characterisation, tension and uderlying terror made it feel fresh.

I do for the most part agree with you however, you seem to have pretty damned good taste.

 

[funguy2121]

Ive been looking for a while now, and to my disapointment I havent found a Horror Film that really scares the living daylights out of me.

Im asking you guys to suggest me one. It could be a range of different horrors like Mind Fucks, Gore or 'put in dark room, in silence and randomly flash something scary looking, acompaneid with screams' or anything really.

Im just in the mood for something truley scary, I feel the need to test my nerves.

However I have a nagging feeling I may regret this . . . . . . heh

I found the first scene of Aliens involving, well, aliens to be very unnerving the first time I watched it. Event Horizon is also very unsettling. And the French film High Tension scared the Hell out of me.

 

[ImSkeletor]

The Scream trilogy is good. I'm eager to see how the fourth one goes.

Halloween is not scary at all.

Did you watch it muted? Or watch the remake?

The music was just extremely annoying not scary

 

[silver wolf009]

The original ALIEN. Hell of a movie, especially if you don't know what the alien actually looks like.