Horror Movie Favorites?

[User#6517]

I recently got a Netflix subscription, so I've been bingewatching like crazy for the past few weeks. Mostly on comedy TV shows though. I think it's time to switch it up a little~

In my personal opinion, the best horror movies are the ones that mess with your head a lot, and don't have to show much gore or use jumpscares.

So far, movies that I recall watching include Carrie (original), Carrie (the new one), The Conjuring, Annabelle, Insidious, The Possession, Sinister, and The Babadook. I know I've seen more than just those, so I'm frustrated that I can't think of any others at the moment.. but somewhat thankful because it's almost 2:30am right now and I'm all alone in the dark..

Anyway, what are some of your favorites? Any recommendations?

 

[john.smith]

28 days later. But it is more Zombie, not real horror.
Another that pass by my head that I liked a lot is Paranormal Activity 2: Tokyo Night the rate is not good, but I like it because it seems like nothing happen but still you are stressed.

With this movie, either you'll fall asleep or you'll be anxious.

 

[DocMcStuffins]

The original Japanese versions of the ring and the grudge. And if course the exorcist. And not exactly horror, but sixth sense.

 

[Nighwing]

The Thing, 1984 movie is one of my favorites

 

[FanBoy74]

Hellraiser, or really any of Clive Barker's films!

 

[meiji]

The remake of The Ring made me almost jump out of my skin. I was freaked out for a little while after that one.

 

[Ches]

The orphanage, the exorcism of emily rose

 

[User#8628]

Not very scary but The Others, Orphan and Shutters Island quite messed with my head. I wanted to die a little after Shutters Island..

 

[R.O.B]

Squirm (1976).

 

[RandomTokyoGuy]

The best thing about horror movies is if you watch them together with a girl who gets scared and needs someone to hold her tight.
Other than that they range from disgusting to dead boring to me depending on how much splatter the director needed to cover up the complete lack of any sort of at least semi interesting storyline.
The scream series has been good for that first purpose thought when I was younger

Not sure if it classifies as horror, but the alien movies are not necessarily the worst ones.

 

[Sudsy]

Even though a lot of people might consider it sci-fi, the first Alien movie. Classic creature-stalker.

 

[meiji]

A movie with the catch phrase "In space, no one can hear you scream" is certainly a horror movie in my book.

 

[TokyoJoeblow]

The Exorcist, The Shining, Alien, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

 

[Wwanderer]

Jaws

-Ww

 

[Nikkei Guy]

Prince of Darkness. Any movies about Satan and being possessed usually freak me out. It messed with my friend that he walked out of the theatre. When it came out on rental, I recommended to friend who was at home alone since his parents were out of town. I snuck into his house and scared the crap out of him.

 

[Soapysoap66]

Not a big horror fan, but as far as Japanese horror goes I would say Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Kairo (known as Pulse in English) and his earlier film Cure are both really atmospheric and chilling movies.

 

[Curacao]

A very distant contact has just made a moviecalled TThey're Watching which seems to be getting decent reviews - its available on iTunes apparently.

 

[vck_js]

Not a big horror fan, but as far as Japanese horror goes I would say Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Kairo (known as Pulse in English) and his earlier film Cure are both really atmospheric and chilling movies.

Cure was great! With my brother we spent hours trying to analysing the meaning of the ending XD

I usually dont really like japanese horror movie as i find them utterly boring and unscary. One of the biggest letdown was "Dark Water": the trailer was amazing, but when you actually watch the movie... Basically you spend 2 hours looking at a wet spot growing on a ceiling (yeah, horror movie, but they should have added "for a plumber"). Ghost movie don't scare me, i find humans much scarier than supernatural entities.
Takashi Miike's "Audition" was great, the pace is slow but it gradually gives you a delicious feeling of uneasiness. And the actress playing the lead part is very beautiful.

Austrian movie "Funny Games" relies on the same feeling of growing uneasiness before falling into horror. It's rare, but i prefer the US remake over the original (remake was done by the original austrian director, though).

If you dont mind a bit of gore, "Savaged" is really nice. We watched it after work and we all were teary-eyed at the end, it's romantic-gory horror XD

It's maybe not a horror movie in the strict sense of the word, but "A Serbian Film" is incredibly horrific and disturbing. Banned in several countries, etc.

"Masters of horror" is an anthology-style series, and some episodes are really great. My favorites are "Incident on and off a mountain road", "Fair-hair child", and "The screwfly solution"

 

[Soapysoap66]

Haven't seen it in a long while, but the movie that used to scare me the most for some reason was The Exorcist 3, if you haven't seen it you should check it out. It's really creepy and really underrated in my opinion.

 

[User#8628]

If you dont mind a bit of gore, "Savaged" is really nice. We watched it after work and we all were teary-eyed at the end, it's romantic-gory horror XD

Lol i thought you meant "savages".
Not really a horror but a little bit gore. One of my favorite movies. I love the chick living together with two guys, dayum!

 

[Jayrob]

Lol i thought you meant "savages".
Not really a horror but a little bit gore. One of my favorite movies. I love the chick living together with two guys, dayum!

Savages is still one of my favorite movies. Blake lively is in my top 5 Hollywood actresses

 

[just4fun]

Jaws

-Ww

Yea.....the 1st one is my all-time favorite.....

 

[Wwanderer]

Yea.....the 1st one is my all-time favorite.....

I only meant the first one...rest are schlock I think.

-Ww

 

[roots reggae]

Two of my favorites:

...and from the master of psychological horror:

 

[TokyoJoeblow]

This is a "horror" but more of a hilarious comedy lol.