10 Horror Movies to Get to Know You

[stoicvampirepig]

Alyce Kills

Never heard of that, wow a film I haven't seen, horrorbot3000 has a new mission.

 

[Kamako]

Never heard of that, wow a film I haven't seen, horrorbot3000 has a new mission.

Fair warning, it has a very slow start. But I've never felt the horror of guilt expressed better in any film. Best watched at night.

 

[merzbun]

There was a favourite horror movie thread not too long ago, but the four I posted there were:

Muzan-E
Ju-On: The Grudge 2
X
Hellraiser

and I'll add:

Frankenhooker
The Wicker Man (1973, although not purely horror)
Rec
Night of the Living Dead
Dark Water
The Sadness (this one I saw the other day and had a blast with it)

Man, wicked pick with Muzan-e. Love that one, Daisuke Yamanouchi is crazy. Huge love for Dark Water as well. Saw The Sadness in the theatre when that one came out.

 

[Fray Guillermo]

Daisuke Yamanouchi is crazy

Yeah I love what I've seen of him, crazy stuff but at the same time pretty self-conscious

 

[merzbun]

Alyce Kills
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
August Underground Mordem
The Thing
The Devil's Chair
The Return of the Living Dead
The Shining
Alien
Cube
Dead Silence

Bonus:
Scooby Doo, Where are You?: A Night of Fright is No Delight

Cool pick with Mordum! Honestly none of the sequels hit nearly as hard as the original for me, but I have to commend the commitment to the splatter nastiness they have.

 

[stoicvampirepig]

I take it everyones seen The Poughkeepsie Tapes.

Savage film.

 

[Kamako]

I take it everyones seen The Poughkeepsie Tapes.

Savage film.

"When you assume you make an ASS of U and Me"

 

[merzbun]

I think poughkeepsie is straight up ass I can’t lie

 

[stoicvampirepig]

I think poughkeepsie is straight up ass I can’t lie

I know theres a divided opinion on it, I only really like the last ten minutes or so...but there's a lot of films like that, especially found footage.

Have you seen Be my cat?

 

[merzbun]

I know theres a divided opinion on it, I only really like the last ten minutes or so...but there's a lot of films like that, especially found footage.

Have you seen Be my cat?

Heard of it! Haven’t seen. And I agree there, the last tiny bit is the only part of that movie I find compelling at all. Im a huge found footage fan though

 

[stoicvampirepig]

Me too, I love found footage I've quite an extensive collection on my Emby server...just let me check, yeah I've got 104 films in that genre.

 

[Fray Guillermo]

Be my cat

Got that one on my watchlist. Added so much stuff I didn't know after skimming through that Horrible Reviews almost 4 hour video.

 

[legsrjust4show]

1) Jason X
2) you gotta watch Jason X. They really made a movie where Jason goes to space and the whole production is cheaper than a made for TV movie. It's like on the same level as the bad first season episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
3) for real Jason X is something I've seen maybe ten times over and something about how it's whole soundtrack sounds like it was done on a Casio Keyboard really does it for me
4) Evil Dead 2
5) THEY PUT HIM IN SPACE! THE GUY WITH THE HOCKEY MASK!
6) Videodrome
7) literally anything John Carpenter made
8) Alien
9) This isn't even me being ironic like I love Jason X. It's a stupid movie that sounds like something someone would make up as a joke, but it's real. When they went to make it they probably did actually pitch it as a joke and some clueless producer gave it the greenlight anyway. They were probably laughing their asses off making it.
10) Suspiria (1977)

 

[Spyrone]

It goes:

1. 28 Days Later
Not just my favorite horror movie, but my favorite movie general. The atmosphere, the soundtrack, the subtext that keeps peeling like layers of an onion leaching viral toxins that will turn you into a psycho berserker in seconds flat- mmm, chef's kiss. Best horror movie of all time.

2. The Thing
One of the few films that gets cosmic horror right. Plus, it doesn't rely on the characters being dumb to make the monster scary- it's just that cosmically horrifying as an antagonist. Said monster has some amazing SFX, too.

3. Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed
I like Ginger Snaps a lot. It's hilarious (Ginger and Bridgette totally sound like Rick and Morty- for instance, "If you don't like your ideas, Bridgette, then stop having them.") and actually scary. The sequel even moreso- I love the Excruciating Death rant that Bridgette goes on during group therapy, and the sequel has better SFX so that the werewolves don't look terrible, and having spent time in a mental hospital myself, I can tell you that it has the best portrayal of a modern mental hospital I've seen in media. Unfortunately. Plus, it heavily inspired Machine Girl's first album, which is great.

4. Videodrome
Embrace the new flesh. I mean, what could be better than a schizoid body horror movie by David Cronenberg where an anomalous TV signal gives out free cybernetic implants like a slit in your chest to hide your gun and is government approved by the CIA? Embrace the new flesh.

5. Rabid
Another David Cronenberg movie that proves fast zombies have been a part of that sub-genre for a very long time. Basically plays like 28 Days Later if it were made in Seventies and set in Quebec, and is also somewhat gorier than 28 Days Later. It's a bit slow to start, but it really pays off in the end.

6. The Cabin In The Woods
This movie is like a cosmic horror monster jamboree, overseen by a shadowy secret society. It's the closest thing I can think of to an SCP movie. It's also really funny and contains a blink-and-you'll-miss-it reference to Left 4 Dead in the form of the special infected turning up in the containment cubes.

7. Velvet Buzzsaw
So you know that trope in horror movies of an accursed painting that haunts the hell out of anyone who is in possession of it for too long? This movie does that right. The ending is really great too.

8. American Psycho
This movie was considered to be unfilmable by the books author. It's not. It is filled with biting satire, a soundtrack consisting of all the bangers from the '80s and a main character so cold you feel the black hole in the earth he feeds his victims to trying to swallow you up.

9. Invasion Of The Body Santchers (1978 version)
The best version of the paranoiac classic. The fact that it's set in NYC in the Seventies just makes it that much more plausible that people would be ignorant of the martian fungoid plot to replace humanity. NY was more crazy than the rest of America back then, which is saying a lot when it's the decade that had more crime than any other time prior in America and the closest thing to a domestic insurgency in US history that I can think of. Of course people would think Donald Sutherland was crazy and wonder what kind of psychedelics he was on in that time in place, especially when you consider how little people at the time even paid attention to groups like Weatherman and the massive amount of bombs going off in the city at the time.

10. Overlord
It's the closest thing to Wolfenstein: The Movie I can think of. GET PSYCHED and go watch it.

 

[Duke_11037]

Love the Friday franchise, prob my favourite of those 80’s slasher classics (still have to dig into nightmare though). part 6 is my favourite in particular

Yeah theyre so fucking good. Found the dvd collection for the cheap, my fav is probably 1 or 3

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Jason X

This is a amazing movie to watched stoned on a weekend. Absolutely insane movie

 

[Deleted member 612095]

I don't know that many : The Haunted Castle , The Grudge One to Three ,Paranormal Activity all parts , Silent Hill movies. There is more but I think that's enough.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Bonus:
Scooby Doo, Where are You?: A Night of Fright is No Delight

Funnily enough you could actually count this specific episode due to Supernatural- ohhhh, now I see why you included this specific one

 

[Kamako]

Funnily enough you could actually count this specific episode due to Supernatural- ohhhh, now I see why you included this specific one

Scoob and I have never been so
shook-eth

 

[Crashbandi]

Saw this little game going around on bluesky the other day, what are 10 horror movies that you feel really embody your taste and interests? Favourites are gonna play a hand obviously, but it's cool to consider which ones really speak to all the different aspects of yourself! Here was mine, RGT horror-heads, what would be yours?
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3. Noroi: The Curse
- such an incredible and chilling slow burn here. Shiraishi rules, I love the way his films incorporate flawed and low-res images to such a surreal and profound result. his use of imperfect CGI works perfectly to create that feeling of what youre seeing being of another, unknowable world, and that you should Not be seeing it.

8. Splatter: Naked Blood
- playing in a similar vein to Crimes, but this one takes a strong sense of perverse glee at the fragility of the flesh. being a pink film its kinda obvious that itll be some certified pervert shit. really love the way that Sato's films cross these gaps of sexuality, violence, and taboo, creating a sense of total self-annihilating parade of viscera while also retaining some heady philosophical questions about desire, alienation, and repression. has some of the nastiest shit ive ever seen.

I see you like Japanese movies, I saw a big dispute whether Reincarnation or Noroi was a better horror movie. I personally liked Reincarnation more Noroi to me was a bit slow I guess...maybe I just didn't get it.

Splatter Naked Blood is a genius movie, and recommend it to people who like body horror, and gruesome deaths.

Good list overall, I highly recommend Reincarnation

 

[Pjira]

The Thing (1982)
Fright Night (1985)
Perfect Blue (1997)
Suspiria (1977)
Pumpkinhead (1988)
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Demons (1985)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Halloween (1978)
X and MaXXXine (2022/2024) - I just saw these last year but I loved them and feel pretty good about placing them here.

Also The Evil Dead franchise as a whole, both the old and new movies. Nightmare on Elm Street is also another franchise I enjoy overall, but it has some duds.

 

[Sfjeov]

I don't watch a lot of horror tbh

The Wicker Man
Carnival of Souls
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Santa Sangre
Videodrome
Yellowbrick Road
Rec
Final Prayer
Kill List
Hell Raiser and its sequel

 

[Deleted member 708596]

In no particular order:

The Human Centipede 2
Jaws
Freddy VS Jason
Hellraiser
Cabinet of Doctor Caligari
Dracula (1931)
Salo
Child's Play
Guinea Pig Part 3: He Never Dies
Ichi The Killer

 

[merzbun]

In no particular order:

The Human Centipede 2
Jaws
Freddy VS Jason
Hellraiser
Cabinet of Doctor Caligari
Dracula (1931)
Salo
Child's Play
Guinea Pig Part 3: He Never Dies
Ichi The Killer

good shoutout for guinea pig 3, super funny movie. calling salo a horror film feels weird but its definitely horrific (and a masterpiece!) so i vouch

 

[Yousef]

Ten horror movies? Ah that’s really easy.

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

Horror movies suck