Horror Movies - Super Spoopy

[Kataomoi00]

I don't believe I've seen a thread about horror movies, but if there already is one then I apologize!

Pretty simple - what horror movies do you like and why.

While I haven't seen too many horror movies, I really enjoyed the first, third, and seventh Nightmare on Elmstreet films both because of Robert Englund's performance and I just really like the concept of someone getting you in your dreams.

I also enjoyed the build up and foreshadowing in John Carpenter's Halloween.

I also liked the first Scream movie, though I do understand why some people would be annoyed with how meta it is. I think I mostly found the movie interesting in how it was said to have brought back the slasher genre and jumpstart horror again.

 

[AnOminous]

I don't believe I've seen a thread about horror movies, but if there already is one then I apologize!

Pretty simple - what horror movies do you like and why.

My all-time favorites are classics like The Shining, The Exorcist, and Rosemary's Baby, where much of the horror is psychological and character-driven.

However, a lot of classic horror isn't high cinema like these three, and among those are great films like Wes Craven's original The Hills Have Eyes, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Romero's original Dead trilogy, particularly Dawn of the Dead. Although more recent, Rob Zombie's The Devil's Rejects definitely falls into this same class of movie, with its lovingly retro feel and gives-no-fucks exploitation.

Among more modern psychological horror would also be things like Seven and Silence of the Lambs, that is, serious rather than genre films but with predominating horror elements.

The Ring (either the original Japanese film or the American remake which are virtually interchangeable). In other Japanese films, Tetsuo: the Iron Man. Although I'm not sure it strictly constitutes horror, it's pretty horrifying.

 

[The Nothingness]

The Thing (John Carpenter's version) is one of those movies that manages to represent Lovecraftian horror without being based off of any works by H.P. Lovecraft. The themes of isolation and dread make it one of my favorite horror movies.

 

[DumbDosh]

The first few Hellraiser films are fantastic since they build up to the cenobites arrival and then when they do make an appearance it's not like typical horror slashers where the protagonist is constantly evading the killer's grasp, their goal isn't even to kill someone, it's pretty much "we want to basically torture you for eternity and show you the depths of that pain and experience" and if they really want you, you're pretty much powerless to stop them. One of the best examples of this is one time when they show up, a character is pretty much completely done for until they go "wait, I know someone you'll want more than me!"

Event Horizon is a great horror movie that explores this conflict between the supernatural and technology in a futuristic world. Just the way it slowly reveals what is really happening and how the characters go "no it must be my mind playing tricks on me" and then slowly realizing what happened and what is happening is so great.

The People Under The Stairs is a solid weird horror movie that can be described without spoiling anything as a movie about a creepy ass house in the ghetto.

 

[Judge Holden]

Alrighty. This will take some time.

I fucking love horror. it is my favourite genre. and I love it so much that i literally cannot even begin to decide what my fav horror film is. Therefore I will be posting various horror subgenres with both my pics for best film and best overall franchise, and any other films I consider worth checking out.

Starting us off we have...

Slasher Films.

Best film: HALLOWEEN. While obviously dated and imitated a thousand billion times over the past 40 years, this film still holds up in my mind as the finest slasher film out there with one of the few genuinely terrifying slasher villains (rather than more "fun" villains like freddy or jason), an absolutely phenomenal soundtrack, perfect cinematography and a simple yet timeless story which makes it clear why this film is the one which truly started the slasher genre.

The sequels....are near universally shit. No2 is barely more than a DLC pack for the first movie. No3 is not even a halloween film. No 4-5-6 start mediocre and end in absolute shit with idiotic plot arcs and annoying characters and zero fucking scares. Halloween h20 is a slight improvement and retcons 4-5-6 to its credit but is still barely better than the likes of I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, and resurrection is probably the worst of them all.

Runner up: TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. While HALLOWEEN was a better made movie and a better slasher movie, it only barely edged this film out for one simple reason. While it is less polished, less influential on how slasher films would develop, and a generally less well shot film, this proto-slasher movie's greatest strength is in just how fucking scary it is despite having nearly zero gore, and just how perfectly the audio and video combines to make the watcher feel as disorientated, confused, and terrified as the characters. This is one of VERY few films that still scares me when I rewatch it.

The sequels....dont ask. There is no good sequel.

Best Franchise: FRIDAY 13TH. While HALLOWEEN started and set the bar for slasher films that would never be matched by its imitators, FRIDAY 13TH and its sequels quickly became the most influential franchise in slasher history for one simple reason. They took the basics of HALLOWEEN, threw in a touch of TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (both with Jason being a deformed freak, and in the first one with Pamela Vorhees aping Leatherface's brothers), and then mass-produced slasher films that while never matching individual films like HALLOWEEN, TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, and NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET were still invariably better by a wide margin to the sequels to those films, which bring up its average as a franchise to overall pretty good while the aforementioned franchises started strong then divebombed into utter shite. There were a few duds in this franchise such as no.5 but even that was more enjoyable than 90% of the halloween/Nightmare sequels.

Runner up: SCREAM. While its meta take on horror might be dated as fuck, the fact remains that each film in the franchise is at the very least a solid slasher film (even three despite it being the least popular) which have enough scares to satisfy the average horror fan. Scream 1 is easily the best, after that they are all pretty much the same in terms of quality. None of them are exceptionally good slasher films in any way, but then none of them are particularly bad either. which is a heck of a lot better than almost every other slasher franchise. What keeps it from the no.1 spot is the fact that while better films, none of the scream films are really more enjoyable than FRIDAY 13th movies, and are nowhere near as influential. Again though it is was only barely edged out.

Films/Franchises still worth checking out:
- NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET due to the original spin on the slasher concept and robert englund's performance as freddy. The sequals should be skipped aside from no.3 (which was ok) and New Nightmare (which was fanfucking tastic as a more meta take on the franchise) as they devolve into unfunny schlock. That is apart from...
- FREDDY VS JASON but only if you have seen a good few Friday 13th movies and the better Nightmare on Elm Street films. Takes a longass time for good stuff to happen and every moment that does not have freddy or jason in is just painful but the fights between the two make it all worthwhile.
- PSYCHO is easily the best film connected to this subgenre but it just isnt a SLASHER film which is why i have denied it the top spot. regardless it is still an absolutely phenomenal movie which I would recommend to anyone and everyone.

(p.s. despite it often being counted as a slasher film I have not added hellraiser to this list, but it will be featured in the "Supernatural Horror" post)

 

[cypocraphy]

"The Entity" doesn't get enough love imo. It's about a ghost (or some kind of being) that is regularly raping and terrorizing a woman. It's based on a (supposed) true case. It would trigger a lot of people these days. Great soundtrack too.

 

[XYZpdq]

Event Horizon is a great horror movie that explores this conflict between the supernatural and technology in a futuristic world. Just the way it slowly reveals what is really happening and how the characters go "no it must be my mind playing tricks on me" and then slowly realizing what happened and what is happening is so great.

Event Horizon is the best Space Hellraiser movie.

 

[DumbDosh]

Event Horizon is the best Space Hellraiser movie.

It just sucks that they originally wanted it to make it much darker and had to cut so much out, and now the uncut version with missing effects is only on one producers VHS copy and there's been no news of it.

This is pretty much all that's been leaked out.

 

[Mason Verger]

Creepshow is my go to Halloween movie. For the music and this image alone..

 

[XYZpdq]

I like the (first two) Coffin Joe movies.
I saw them during TCM's Halloween movie marathon a few years back because they're crazy people who do things like Bill Rebane marathons and an obscure Brazillian bad guy.

Zé do Caixão (HUEHUE for Coffin Joe) is a loudmouthed atheist asshole who thinks he's better than anybody and he wants a wife to knock up. And he's gonna find her no matter how much he has to terrorize the local village or blaspheme God.

The character's loads of fun to watch in action, and the movies are great on atmosphere.

There's some other movies with him but I still haven't bothered to se them yet.

If memory serves me correctly when Tyce was on his quest for respectful sekeltaon footage one of the things he encounters was a random uneventful chunk of one of these.

 

[UglyOldJafar]

The Fly by David Cronenberg. Some of the most horrific practical effects ever done for the movies.

 

[Deadwaste]

any good/bad/so bad it's good films you recommend?

 

[ES 148]

My Little Pony - Equestria Girls

 

[Magic Sun Daddy]

Lo is a pretty fun film. It's about a dude who summons a demon to find his girlfriend in hell. The entire film takes place in one room and has an Evil Dead sort of tone.

 

[Positron]

The Autopsy of Jane Doe -- a very accomplished mystery/horror film. A father-and-son coroner team is tasked to find out the cause of death of a pristine, unwounded female corpse found at a scene of carnage. The more they investigate, the more questions arise, and the progression from realistic body horror to the supernatural is done adroitly. One may find the "animated corpse in confined space" aspect a bit too familiar, but at least, as one reviewer commented, it was not like those films where people act irrationally and stupidly. Indeed, the protagonists all gave a very believable, affecting performance that made me genuinely concerned about their plight.

 

[XYZpdq]

Train To Busan is a pretty good zombie flick out of south Korea.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

any good/bad/so bad it's good films you recommend?

Beyond The Black Rainbow

 

[Deadwaste]

Train To Busan is a pretty good zombie flick out of south Korea.

saw that already. i thought it was pretty good

 

[XYZpdq]

saw that already. i thought it was pretty good

There's an animated prequel, too, apparently.

 

[ShinjiIkariFapBoy76]

Silver Bullet - One of the best werewolf movies