Horror movie recommendations...

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Alrighty, the weekend's coming up and I'm in the mood for some great scare flicks.

Don't care if it's low-budget... just as long as it's actually 'scary'.
I've seen most of the mainstream horrors, and the teen-slashers of the 70s/80s.
 
Guess you've already seen The Shining then. Apparently The Descent is good, but that's just word of mouth.
 
Kairo (Pulse) - not the remake. Get the original Japanese version. It's not exactly scary, but it will creep you out.
 
Alien.

God that's a nasty piece of work. I just caught the directors cut on Film Four the other week there.... ;(

Seen it for the first time when I was quite young. Needless to say, still scares the pants off me.
 
Well, the movie that scared me the most was the Blair Witch Project. But I guess youve already seen that.

Try and get hold of a copy of Threads - its not a horror movie, but it'll **** you up good.
 
The Mothman Prophecies is a love-it or hate-it approach to a scary movie. It's extremely slow paced, but the tension and creepiness it builds is intense.
 
Direwolf said:
The Mothman Prophecies is a love-it or hate-it approach to a scary movie. It's extremely slow paced, but the tension and creepiness it builds is intense.
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Ah, yeah... I've been meaning to see that.

And I'm all for Japanese horrors, after seeing Ju-on and Ringu... I'd say that the Japanese do the horror genre best.
 
I hate proper scary movies, even though I end up watching them anyway. Zombies, monsters and gore are okay, it's just the kind of films where you're so creeped out you can't sleep at night that I don't like. (such as The Blair Witch Project and countless horrible Japanese films)
 
Direwolf said:
The Mothman Prophecies is a love-it or hate-it approach to a scary movie. It's extremely slow paced, but the tension and creepiness it builds is intense.
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totally agree, i recommend that film too
 
^Yeah that movie was great.

I would recommend you The Thing, it's a classic that still scares me even now, but I bet you've already seen it.
 
Remus said:
^Yeah that movie was great.

I would recommend you The Thing, it's a classic that still scares me even now, but I bet you've already seen it.
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For the love of God listen to this man. Also, try watching the first or second Critters films. They're not really that scary (Man eating alien fuzz ball porcupine thing), but they have a decent amount of gore and are pretty funny at times.
 
I found the The Thing very scary one my first watch (aswell as extremely atomospheric and clastrophobic) but now it just makes me laugh. Not in ''man, this movie SUCKS'' way, it just makes me smile everytime.
 
The Thing was the first 'horror' movie I ever saw, and it made me shit my pants.

Thus it'll always have a special place in my heart.
Alien still manages to make me jump to this day.

I personally hated Blair Witch, it bored me to tears.
 
Direwolf said:
The Mothman Prophecies is a love-it or hate-it approach to a scary movie. It's extremely slow paced, but the tension and creepiness it builds is intense.
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I agree, but whats creepier is that its based on a true story, the only real thing that changed is the time period (Film is set in 90's, whilst event took place mid 60's)
 
DEATH eVADER said:
I agree, but whats creepier is that its based on a true story
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Right...:upstare:

Probably the most boring and not scary at all horror movie that I've seen has to be Dark Water. I watched it and kept hoping for something to happen that will make me shit my pans but nothing... oh and the pasing of the movie could put a raging bull to sleep:dozey: .
 
The Ring (NOT THE RING 2!!!), Silent Hill. But you've probably already seen them.
 
If you like some humour in your Horrors, I recommend Severance, comedy in the same vain as Shaun Of The Dead, but put into a kind of Hostel in the woods setting.

Awesomely funny.
 
Well the "mothman" is in fact a real phenomenon (real in the sense that many people have reported seeing it throughout a fairly long time).

But I put no faith in the actual events of the film.
 
Doom

:dozey:

Ok serious now:

The Bunker - The Evil Is Within - great movie, Kraut's find a Bunker to hide in...evil resides
Deathwatch - WWI Tommy's in a trench system....evil resides
 
Awesome recommendations so far, I added them all to my Netflix list. n.n...
 
Dog Soilders - I liked it, Werewolf film with UK squadies
 
Dog Soldiers was a pretty good movie. Especially loved the gore. I think a sequel is supposed to be due out this year, if not already out.
 
I just watched Ringu, and I have to say that I'm quite disappointed on the scare factor.

I'm home alone, turned off the lights... and I jump once or twice but that's it.
But no matter what, the damn scene where Sadako/Samara/the Creepy little girl with long-ass hair comes out of the screen gets me every time. D:

Ju-on was alot creepier imo.
 
The hills have eyes!

Not a bad movie at all. All these terrible horror movies and one that stands out.

It isnt even scary its just somewhat gory and weird. Like some of the shit that happens.

Thats all that comes to mind.

Id say SAW but thats not a horror movie to me. More a thriller.
 
THE RELIC lol

Anyone who has also seen this movie is godlike.
 
Haha...I've seen that movie, and read both the books. So nyah.
 
Sulkdodds said:
THE RELIC lol

Anyone who has also seen this movie is godlike.
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It was good, but I enjoyed the book better, and for some reason I really liked the second one. I think it was the mole people that did it for me.
 
Jacob's Ladder. My favourite scary/creepy movie.
 
^ great choice

The original Zombie Flesh Eaters will creep you out if you can find an uncut version. We are talking eyeballs here.

But my faves are still John Carpenter's The Thing (creepy dogs, Kurt Russell cheese, and some great quotes, what more could you want?) and Alien.
 
The Thing is a great movie. The first time I saw mess it made of the huskies I was just a kid and was suitably freaked out.
 
Yeah, Mulholland Dr. is great if that counts as "horror." So are all of David Lynch's films, actually.
 
I couldn't figure something out about The Relic, it's been so long. Was the Kothoga half human? And the huskie scene from The Thing ftmfw.
 
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