Any horror movie you could suggest

[gujjufreak]

Hi,

Need to watch some horror movies, you got any fav's of your own.?

Thanks.

[Calidore]

Like most genres, "horror" covers a big range. What types of horror (ghosts, monsters, zombies, slasher, etc.) do you like or not like?

[SilentMute]

I'm a big Japanese--well, Asian horror fan in general--myself. My faves are The Grudge and White. You'll have to not mind reading subtitles with White.

If you are looking for English speaking...An American Haunting was pretty good. So was Insidious and A Haunting in Conneticut.

[YesNo]

I thought "The Conjuring" was pretty scary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conjuring. Also "The Ring" seemed frightening as I remember, but I don't see why at the moment.

However, my favorite horror movie would be "Scary Movie 3", which is actually a comedy.

[AuntShecky]

I don't have to watch movies to be horrified. All I have to do is watch TV news.

[Emil Miller]

Hi,

Need to watch some horror movies, you got any fav's of your own.?

Thanks.

Anything with Elvis Presley in it.

[Whosis]

How about anything from the Saw series?

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

So many to choose from, a few that immediately come to mind:
The Brainiac http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGxPW3fjaS8
One I recently watched "The Day of the Triffids" (original 1962)
"Night of the Living Dead
and one of my all time favorites; "The Killer Shrews"

[Emil Miller]

I just found this:

http://youtu.be/gOc8-crqh0g

[Varenne Rodin]

As far as classics go, "The Shining" is the best horror film. Romero's "Dead" series is excellent. "Halloween" is always spooky. "Burnt Offerings" is one of the creepiest things I've ever seen. "Don't Look Now" will make you never want to visit Venice, ever.

Regarding more current stuff, "Insidious" was outstanding. One of the best horror movies I've seen in the 2000s. I also agree that "The Ring" was great, but I guess that one is aging now. I recently watched "House of the Devil" and "The Innkeepers," by the same director. They were quite excellent, especially "House of the Devil." I highly recommend seeing both of those. "Dead End" was fun and quirky and starred Ray Wise of Twin Peaks fame. Wise did not disappoint, and the movie clipped along nicely. It's gimmicky, but clever enough to make for a tidy horror picture.

I wanted to see "The Conjuring," but I heard it was a fundy-Christian movie dressed up to seem like a legitimate horror movie, and that its creators are whackjob cultists. I'll pass rather than funding their real life horror show.

If you want full-on exploitation that's heavy on the gross-out factor, these are the most disgusting movies I have seen: Devil's Rejects, House of 1000 Corpses, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Hills Have Eyes.

For horror with laughs and a bit of gore, Rodriguez/Tarantino projects are always handy. "Planet Terror" was great, "Deathproof" was boring. "Zombieland" is hilarious! "Shaun of the Dead" is great and funny, and still has one of the goriest flesh-eating sequences I've seen. The "Evil Dead" series will never disappoint when it comes to frenetic insanity.

For bizarreness off the charts and so much color that you'll be tasting red-orange paint, "Suspiria."




(Aside: It ticks me off being logged out of this site while I'm typing out a freaking reply. I shouldn't have to go through the login process about ten times just to make one little comment. FRUSTRATION.)

[Varenne Rodin]

Oh, and for a TV show that's as good as a cinematic experience, American Horror Story seasons one and two knocked my socks off. Season three was fun, but a decline. Still, I'll be watching every season they make. Each one is its own story separate from the others.

I forgot to mention David Lynch movies, and about a million other things. I don't always think of Lynch movies as horror, but they damned well are.

I neglected Cronenberg, too. For horror that ranks high on the kink factor.

[YesNo]

I do remember starting to watch one of the Halloween movies and had to stop about five minutes into it after an ax went through someone's head. In general I don't like shocking images popping out of nowhere. I need to have the gore more calmly introduced.

I agree with you about The Conjuring or in general those movies requiring exorcisms. They seem to have the message that any sort of intuitive abilities someone might have are coming from the devil.

I thought Deathproof was pretty good. Shawn of the Dead and Zombieland were comedies. If those are horror movies, then I'd add Machete Kills to the list.

[108 fountains]

The 1931 Dracula with Bela Lugosi is a "must-see," not only because it is a great movie in and of itself, but because it set the stage for all the other vampire movies to follow - and Bela Lugosi is the best on-screen Dracula ever. The 1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula was ok, and in some respects followed the original novel more closely, but I think think the 1931 version will always be the "classic." There was a 1922 adaptation of the novel called Nosferatu (I don't know the origin of the title); I haven't seen it, so I can't comment, but it does not seem to have had as much impact as the 1931 Dracula.

Other great horror movies are The Exorcist, The Shining, the original 1976 The Omen, and the original 1978 Halloween. (I agree with YesNo that Halloween Part 2 and the Part 3 etc. were awful, but the original was really done well.) Also, not strictly a horror movie, but still one of my favorite movies of all times for suspense and some horror elements is Flatliners. And then of course there is The Sixth Sense. I'm probably missing a couple, but these are the classics I can think of that I thoroughly enjoyed.

[Lokasenna]

Many of the Stephen King derived films are superb: The Shining is the greatest, but Misery and Carrie are both profoundly effecting.

I personally love zombie movies: Romero's Dawn of the Dead, or the fantastic Spanish horror [REC] are superb examples of the genre.

[108 fountains]

Oh, also, Paranormal Activity. I happened to see Paranormal Activity II before I saw the original. I thought Paranormal II was great and that Paranormal I was so-so, but I wonder if I would have had the opposite reaction if I had seen Paranormal I first.

[mortalterror]

Jaws: Classic monster movie by Spielberg. Not campy or cliche at all.
Alien: Classic sci-fi monster movie by Ridley Scott. Claustrophobic and dark.
Dawn of the Dead: the best zombie film. 80s goodness, semi-realistic, guys fortified in a mall.
Dracula: The greatest horror villain of all time. Style beats special effects.
Frankenstein: Another great monster.
Freaks: filmed with real circus freaks and banned for about 30 years.
The Exorcist: scary supernatural horror, ahead of it's time.
Rosemary's Baby: Roman Polanski is the master of paranoid scared frantic women movies. Is it all in her head?
The Shining: Kubrick's venture into the horror genre with Stephen King's script and Jack Nicholson's acting.
A Nightmare on Elmstreet: surreal psychological horror
The Thing: Who is the enemy? This combines all of the best parts of Alien and Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
The Omen: Is this little boy the anti-christ? What if we're wrong? Can we afford to take that chance?
28 Days Later: Zombies can run now!
Invasion of the Body Snatchers: Don't go to sleep. Don't trust your neighbors. A Cold War parable about communist infiltration.
The Fly: what is scarier than the transformation and disintegration of our own bodies?

*Runners up
The Haunting: Classic haunted house story.
Hour of the Wolf: Not a werewolf movie. A very stylized and artsy film from director Ingmar Bergman.
Carnival of Souls: Early ghost movie.
The Last Man on Earth: adaptation of My Name is Legend starring Vincent Price in a world of vampires.
Poltergeist: Spielberg dipping his toe into the supernatural pool.
Frailty: Is he a serial killer, or is God really commanding him to kill demons?
It: Tim Curry will eat your children... with curry!
Final Destination: you have to admire how elaborate the death scenes are. It's like watching Death operate a Rube Goldberg killing machine.
Scream: self-reflective meta-horror
Day of the Beast: funny 80s horror. A priest predicts the anti-christ and must corrupt himself to catch the devil.
Fright Night: the original one. Campy 80s goodness. Welcome to Fright Night...for real.
Night of the Comet: More campy 80s goodness.
Warlock: an ancient warlock lands in present day USA pursued by a hunter. If he figures out the true name of God we are f'd.

[Calidore]

I'm a big Japanese--well, Asian horror fan in general--myself. My faves are The Grudge and White. You'll have to not mind reading subtitles with White.

If you are looking for English speaking...An American Haunting was pretty good. So was Insidious and A Haunting in Conneticut.

I can second The Grudge. In fact, I've seen all six of Takashi Shimizu's Grudge movies and enjoyed all of them. His (unrelated) Reincarnation was also excellent. I'll also throw in the American remake of The Ring, which I liked better than the Japanese original.

For non-Japanese Asian ghosts, I can recommend The Eye (the Hong Kong original only). For non-Japanese, non-Asian ghosts, the new Woman in Black was very good, as was The Abandoned. The original The Haunting from the 1960's is also a deserved classic.


So many to choose from, a few that immediately come to mind:
The Brainiac http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGxPW3fjaS8
One I recently watched "The Day of the Triffids" (original 1962)
"Night of the Living Dead
and one of my all time favorites; "The Killer Shrews"

Yes! The dogs with giant plastic fangs! Silly '50s monster movies don't get much better, if that's the right word.

Day of the Triffids has had numerous quality adaptations for not only the movie theater, but also BBC television and radio miniseries. For that matter, I don't think I've ever seen or heard a bad John Wyndham adaptation in general.


As far as classics go, "The Shining" is the best horror film. Romero's "Dead" series is excellent. "Halloween" is always spooky. "Burnt Offerings" is one of the creepiest things I've ever seen. "Don't Look Now" will make you never want to visit Venice, ever.

Regarding more current stuff, "Insidious" was outstanding. One of the best horror movies I've seen in the 2000s. I also agree that "The Ring" was great, but I guess that one is aging now. I recently watched "House of the Devil" and "The Innkeepers," by the same director. They were quite excellent, especially "House of the Devil." I highly recommend seeing both of those. "Dead End" was fun and quirky and starred Ray Wise of Twin Peaks fame. Wise did not disappoint, and the movie clipped along nicely. It's gimmicky, but clever enough to make for a tidy horror picture.

I wanted to see "The Conjuring," but I heard it was a fundy-Christian movie dressed up to seem like a legitimate horror movie, and that its creators are whackjob cultists. I'll pass rather than funding their real life horror show.

If you want full-on exploitation that's heavy on the gross-out factor, these are the most disgusting movies I have seen: Devil's Rejects, House of 1000 Corpses, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Hills Have Eyes.

For horror with laughs and a bit of gore, Rodriguez/Tarantino projects are always handy. "Planet Terror" was great, "Deathproof" was boring. "Zombieland" is hilarious! "Shaun of the Dead" is great and funny, and still has one of the goriest flesh-eating sequences I've seen. The "Evil Dead" series will never disappoint when it comes to frenetic insanity.

For bizarreness off the charts and so much color that you'll be tasting red-orange paint, "Suspiria."

(Aside: It ticks me off being logged out of this site while I'm typing out a freaking reply. I shouldn't have to go through the login process about ten times just to make one little comment. FRUSTRATION.)

Varenne, long time no see!

I keep seeing praise for the Indisious movies; I really need to check them out one of these days.

Enthusiastic second for Suspiria. Visually, it's one of the most gorgeous horror movies ever made. I think it was the last movie ever shot in three-strip Technicolor; director Dario Argento got the last existing Technicolor camera out of storage for it.

Actually, for massively entertaining everything-but-the-kitchen-sink lunacy, Argento's Phenomena (starring a young Jennifer Connelly) is hard to beat.


The 1931 Dracula with Bela Lugosi is a "must-see," not only because it is a great movie in and of itself, but because it set the stage for all the other vampire movies to follow - and Bela Lugosi is the best on-screen Dracula ever. The 1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula was ok, and in some respects followed the original novel more closely, but I think think the 1931 version will always be the "classic." There was a 1922 adaptation of the novel called Nosferatu (I don't know the origin of the title); I haven't seen it, so I can't comment, but it does not seem to have had as much impact as the 1931 Dracula.

Nosferatu the word was used by Bram Stoker in Dracula. The excellent movie Nosferatu was an unauthorized adaptation that just changed the names (and introduced the trope of sunlight being harmful to vampires). Stoker's widow sued and won a judgment that included the destruction of all prints; a few 16mm copies escaped, which is the only reason the movie still exists.

Current DVDs of the 1931 Dracula include the Mexican version that was shot simultaneously and is also worth watching. Many people (including me) think it's a better movie than the Browning version. My own personal favorite Dracula actor is Christopher Lee.

For those who cringe at the idea of vampire romance (lately, with good cause), I can heartily recommend Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark as an example of that subgenre done right.


Other great horror movies are The Exorcist, The Shining, the original 1976 The Omen, and the original 1978 Halloween. (I agree with YesNo that Halloween Part 2 and the Part 3 etc. were awful, but the original was really done well.) Also, not strictly a horror movie, but still one of my favorite movies of all times for suspense and some horror elements is Flatliners. And then of course there is The Sixth Sense. I'm probably missing a couple, but these are the classics I can think of that I thoroughly enjoyed.

My only dislike in your first four is The Shining, but I'm very much in the minority there.

As usual, mortalterror's list is a good guide. I'd just move The Haunting into the top section.

A couple of zombie movies nobody's mentioned yet: The original Return of the Living Dead, and the second sequel (RotLD Part 3). The original is a great horror-comedy, the first sequel dropped the horror and played up the comedy instead and was crap, but the third movie dropped the comedy instead and gave us a tragic zombie romance played completely straight, and was terrific.

For gore fans, Peter Jackson's gross-out zombie comedy Dead Alive is pretty good. It's slow going at first, but if you make it to the scene where the priest saves our hero from zombies in a graveyard, you'll be sold.

I'd also like to throw out some love to Phantasm. It's low-budget horror with a truly unique vision, and is a cult classic for a reason. The sequels are optional, though the first (the only one I've seen) was perfectly decent.

[Varenne Rodin]

Cal, Near Dark is great! I'll see Phenomena, too. I really like Jennifer Connelly.