Name some GOOD Horror movies (super rare, i know)!!!

[Spider-X]

Guys...I'm sick of all these horror movies coming out and sucking...i mean, all of them in recent memory have been either "meh" (The Uninvited, though it did have a decent twist at the end), laugh inducing (the Unborn), or just dumb (Saw 5).

Please help me out here and name me some actually good horror movies.

and by "good" i don't mean gory as hell or gross or murder porn-ish...i mean actually good: decent-to-good story, absolutely terrifying visuals, scary/intense sh#t.

The last decent horror movie i saw was The Strangers...it wasn't really a good movie...but it did have a good build up and had some effed up and terrifying stuff. It was very tense (if you let it get to you).

I think you get the point now...name off some good-to-great horror movies and, if you feel so inclined, comment on what makes them good.

Thanks in advance.

[bullets]

Fallen
The Descent
Frailty
Silent Night , Deadly Night

[SuperFerret]

Jaws, Alien, The Exorcist

[BatMatt]

Scream, it does a great job at poking fun at the cliches of the genre and pulls of an effective horror movie at the same time

[TLH]

The Descent
High Tension

[Motown Marvel]

go back to david cronenbergs earlier work. my personal favorite being THE BROOD. but also check out, rabid, shivers, and scanners.

the best horror movies came from the 70's and 80's. ding around in those era's and you'll find some incredible stuff.

[X-Maniac]

The Descent was absolute crap. Let's get serious here.

[Majik1387]

Suspiria
City of the Dead
Dead End(2003 film)
28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later
Cherry Falls

[TLH]

The Descent was absolute crap. Let's get serious here.

Why?

It was claustrophobic and atmospheric. It had amazing suspense and tension. Mix that into some gore (if you like that kind of thing), some original scares, a fairly original plot, and some great character development. It also had a gritty feel -- both in look and in acting.

Oh, and it did all that while subverting genre convention and straying from archetypes. The Descent is a minor classic. It's one of the highest rated horror films on rottentomatoes.com (85%).

[ttotheusher]

Edit.

[DarthDaveBanner]

The Fly.

[Addendum]

Night of the Living Dead (the original)
Dawn of the Dead (the original)
Day of the Dead (the original)
Jacob's Ladder
Tetsuo: The Iron Man

[Kable24]

Hatchet
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
Hellraiser
Friday the 13th 2 - 4
A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)
Dawn of the Dead '78
Day of the Dead
Invasion of the Body Snatchers the one with Donald Sutherland
Silver Bullet
Phantasm 1 & 2
Creepshow

[CFE]

1: Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978)
2: The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973)
3: Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
4: Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero, 1968)
5: Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (F.W. Murnau, 1922)
6: The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
7: Dracula (Tod Browning, 1931)
8: The Omen (Richard Donner, 1976)
9: The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963)
10: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (Robert Weine, 1920)

That's my personal Top 10.

Other films I would include...

Diaboliques, Les (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955)
Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977)
Ôdishon (Takashi Miike, 1999)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (Wes Craven, 1984)

[Dark Knight 66]

Alien
The Thing
The Blair Witch Project
Dawn Of The Dead (2004)

[SuperFerret]

3: Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)

:csad:

Oh, Psycho... how I wish I could've seen you without knowing the truth. :csad:

[Drizzle]

The Hills Have Eyes (Original or remake...both are good)

[batboy99]

The Descent was absolute crap. Let's get serious here.
Ity was ok. I liked the fact that it was a group of women who WEREN'T all pussies. They actually fought back for once.

[Paste Pot Pete]

The Woman in Black - It's a bit hard to track down, but it's worth it. It's a BBC adaptation of a stage play. It's a bit slow in parts, but the atmosphere is very creepy and oppressive. The tension culminates in, for my money, one of the most terrifying scenes ever. You will be literally paralyzed with fear.

The Mist - I've only seen the blac & white version, so I'm recommending that. It's visual effects-heavy, and I don't know if they hold up in the color version (I'm usually very difficult to please when it comes to FX), but in B&W it's just fine. A good blend of mystery, sci-fi, and most frighteningly, human paranoia and mob mentality.

Eraserhead - While not a traditional horror movie (even though it's usually placed in this section of the video store), this movie will disturb the hell out of you. But it's only for people that enjoy (or at least, can tolerate) very abstract storytelling. The atmosphere and logic (or lack thereof) is the closest I've ever seen to replicating what a nightmare feels like.

Funny Games - This is a tough one to recommend, because it's a film that I'm glad I saw (it's exceptionally well-made), but have no desire to ever seen again. It's that uncomfortable. It's not gory like Saw or Hostel, but the torment (mostly psychological) is painful to watch. It's realistic suffering, intended to make you (the viewer) feel guilty about watching such a movie.

To name a few.

[ttotheusher]

The Thing A classic within the genre. It fuses suspense and gore masterfully. All the characters are identifiable and recognizable, and the setting is used brilliantly to create anxiety.

Freaks A kinda rare unknown classic about a traveling band of sideshow freaks from the 30's, this was directed by Todd Browning, who directed the Bela Lugosi Dracula. It really is an oddity, with all of the "freaks" played by people with real deformities. It's really great in that it twists your views about the "freaks" round dramatically thoughout the film.

Night of the Hunter Another relatively unknown horror film from the 50's, it stars Robert Mitchum as an evil, murderous preacher who's hell bent on hunting down two children to take the money there hiding. Whats great about the film is the director (Charles Laughton, who never directed again) uses a rather more unique film method of german expressionism, setting it apart from most horror films from the 50's.

[X-Maniac]

Here's the IMDB list:

http://www.imdb.com/chart/horror

My own favourites include: Psycho, Halloweeen, The Legend of Hell House, The Changeling, A Cold Night's Death, The Ring (original), Rosemary's Baby.

The Others and The Orphanage are pretty good too, and I absolutely loved The Mothman Prophecies.

Good horror has to make my hairs stand on end and make me jump! I prefer chills and suspense to gore and limbs flying around.

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

For me The Descent was the best horror movie in a good while.

[X-Maniac]

To me, The Descent didn't feel that original. I also thought the fact that most of the characters didn't make it was a bit of a downer, helping to make the ending rather hopeless, and the film almost pointless.

Wolf Creek also felt horribly hopeless at the end.

I also loved Razorback and another Aussie movie - can't recall the name - about a family who end up taking a wrong turn on a road trip and get stuck in the outback.

[Spider-X]

Funny Games - This is a tough one to recommend, because it's a film that I'm glad I saw (it's exceptionally well-made), but have no desire to ever seen again. It's that uncomfortable. It's not gory like Saw or Hostel, but the torment (mostly psychological) is painful to watch. It's realistic suffering, intended to make you (the viewer) feel guilty about watching such a movie.


Now, that is a movie that I got so irritated about that i actually turned it off. Half way through it i was saying to myself "why the hell would I want to watch this?!?!" It is very well made, but it begs the question: why make this movie? It's just so realistic and absolutely awful...you might as well watch a snuff film...sure one is scripted and made with actors and the other is someone actually being tortured, brutalized, and killed...but the movie is so well made, the line gets blurred. It's a disgusting film.

[[A]]

The Blair Witch Projectheh, I like that one too. and I only know two other people that like it too.

[Paste Pot Pete]

Now, that is a movie that I got so irritated about that i actually turned it off. Half way through it i was saying to myself "why the hell would I want to watch this?!?!" It is very well made, but it begs the question: why make this movie? It's just so realistic and absolutely awful...you might as well watch a snuff film...sure one is scripted and made with actors and the other is someone actually being tortured, brutalized, and killed...but the movie is so well made, the line gets blurred. It's a disgusting film.

That's the point of the movie. The actions of the captors in this film are no worse than the actions of Freddy or Jason, they're just portrayed more realistically. But you can laugh and have a good time at a Jason movie, even though there's innocent people getting slaughtered on the screen, because you're far enough removed from it to be sensitive about it.

Funny Games takes that "joy" out of watching fictionalized terror and murder. You put it on expecting to have a good time, and the filmmakers turn it around on you and say "If you were looking for a good time, you're the sick one!"

As a horror fan, it worked on me, big time. Made me feel pretty guilty for a little bit. It's a point worth making; we're far too desensitized to film violence. But I got over it. :woot:

[RogueDK]

The Descent was absolute crap. Let's get serious here.
Seconded.


Tobey Hooper's SALEM'S LOT. Screw that remake a few years back.

Burnt Offerings

The Seven Doors Of Death

The Changeling

The Innocents

[Majik1387]

Urban Legend is a pretty good slasher flick of the 90's.

[Doctor Jones]

Halloween. 'Nuff said.

[Eggyman]

Let The Right One In. Best vampire film in years and years.

[Gilpesh]

Demons
Demons 2

[RogueDK]

Demons
Demons 2
OMG! How did I forget these classics? Great call.

[Majik1387]

Nightbreed is a good movie as well

[Gilpesh]

OMG! How did I forget these classics? Great call.

How everyone in this thread forgot them, I'll never know... but still. :cmad:

[Paste Pot Pete]

How everyone in this thread forgot them, I'll never know... but still. :cmad:

I was going to mention Demons but didn't want to keep going on and on... :o

Truth be told, I've never seen the sequel, but the first is fantastic. A theatre is a brilliant setting for such a movie. The soundtrack is awesome, the effects are grotesque, and the concept is just really creepy.

[adam-red]

Well Hellraiser's been mentioned but I always liked Hellraiser 2 as well.
Also [Rec] and maybe The Eye (original - not seen the remake).

[Gilpesh]

I was going to mention Demons but didn't want to keep going on and on... :o

You should have. Then I wouldn't need to remind everyone of the awesome Demons movies. :oldrazz:

Truth be told, I've never seen the sequel, but the first is fantastic. A theatre is a brilliant setting for such a movie. The soundtrack is awesome, the effects are grotesque, and the concept is just really creepy.

Sequel is, as usual, not as good as the original but it is great how they did it... even if it gets a little weird with the Demons having new powers.

[Motown Marvel]

I was going to mention Demons but didn't want to keep going on and on... :o

Truth be told, I've never seen the sequel, but the first is fantastic. A theatre is a brilliant setting for such a movie. The soundtrack is awesome, the effects are grotesque, and the concept is just really creepy.

didnt the sequel involve a kung fu nun? or am i thinking of something else?

[The Apatow Crew]

Well, it all depends on what people think are "Good" or "Bad"

Not everyone likes or hates the same films.

[SuperFerret]

How everyone in this thread forgot them, I'll never know... but still. :cmad:

I've never even heard of them.

Oh, and I want to add Pumpkinhead to the list.

[Gilpesh]

Well, it all depends on what people think are "Good" or "Bad"

Not everyone likes or hates the same films.

Yeah... that sounds like someone who doesn't see their movies on people's lists.

I've never even heard of them.

They're gold. :up:

[KnightBat]

Scream 1 &2

[Dr Strange]

The Shining - the atmosphere, the music the two little girls!

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Suspiria.

[CaptainStacy]

Frankenstein (1931)
Bride of Frankenstein
Night of The Living Dead
The Exorcist
Jaws
Alien
Poltergeist
Fright Night
Bram Stoker's Dracula
30 Days of Night

[Prison Mike]

REC is the only recent one that comes to mind that's truly scary IMO

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Most recently the only one's that come to memory for me are The Descent, which, as I mentioned earlier in the thread, was superb the and the first movie to scare me in years, and The Mist, which was also brilliant but in a different way.

Other than The Descent and The Mist, cant think of any good recent ones.

[StillTheKing]

Throw something a little bit different in here. Not exactly new and not exactly "Horror" but The Mothman Prophecies is a good one. I really liked the movie, it has a lot of creepy moments (from what I remember) and a good story (if you are into that kind of stuff).

I haven't seen it in like 2 years but I just saw it in the Itunes store and I think I'm going to rent it.

If you have the time check it out.

[Doctor Jones]

Throw something a little bit different in here. Not exactly new and not exactly "Horror" but The Mothman Prophecies is a good one. I really liked the movie, it has a lot of creepy moments (from what I remember) and a good story (if you are into that kind of stuff).

I haven't seen it in like 2 years but I just saw it in the Itunes store and I think I'm going to rent it.

If you have the time check it out.

This is such an underrated film. I wouldn't call it horror just mystery initrigue. But it definately gives you the creeps.

[Adam3482009]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000GHZJ.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

I don't think too many people here have heard of "The Ugly" before. I know I hadn't until I picked it up at Wal-Mart since it came in a 2-pack with Saw 2 (which I didn't think was that great of a movie since it was just too over the top for the sake of being over the top). From the cover of the movie (seen above), it would seem there's a Jeepers Creepers like monster in the movie but this isn't the case.

"The Ugly" is a 1997 low budget dark/creepy psychological horror movie made over in New Zealand. It's not a movie that you'd really want to watch with a large group of freinds since it's kind of a depressing/solemn/dark type of movie with a psychotic sort of undercurrent.

Here's a synopsis that sets things up:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120401/ (check this link out to see what others have to say)

Simon is a confessed serial killer. Unfit to stand trial. He has been locked away for five years in a dilapidated mental hospital, watched by the sinister Dr Marlowe. Enter Karen, an enthusiastic but formidably intelligent psychologist. She will interview Simon - who wants to prove that he is cured. He seems sane. Seemingly incapable of ferocious acts of violence. He tells her of a terrifying force within him, which drives him to destroy those around him. He says this force has gone. Karen listens to his story. At first she trusts him, even believes him. But then her trust gives way to scepticism. His confession is replaced by deception. The interview unleashes demons from Simon's strange internal world - threatening Karen's previously stable sense of reality. She wants the truth. But she finds that truth can be the most terrifying thing of all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlLDvAxfrOs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlLDvAxfrOs

[kakashi]

Dead birds
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377749/

Red sands
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1103256/

Let the right one in
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139797/

And if you like Asian horror movies, these are my personal favourites:

marebito
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434179/

Noroi
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0930083/

Vital
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417243/

[Kiltak]

Superman Returns

[kakashi]

^^roflmao

[Adam3482009]

Here's a relatively newer horror movie that would kind of fall under the solemn/scary not a group movie category (sort of like the previous movie I posted). This film came out in the US on Christmas weekend and I remember wanting to thinking what the heck?! Genius marketing.lol Oh well, probably partially because it was a foreign film.

http://www.optimumreleasing.com/dyn/wolf_creek_lg.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/08/15/wolf_creek_narrowweb__300x450,0.jpg
This is a more recent Australian film kind of made along the lines of scaring tourists away from travelling into the Australian outback due to the types of odd characters that have been encountered in the past (real life serial killers).

This gives a fictional account (very loosely inspired by true events as opposed to being the actual account lol) of 3 young college aged kids going out on a vacation that quickly turns into something else involving a crocodile dundee like psychotic fruitloop.

Here's a breif synopsis:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416315/


Three friends embark on an adventure in the rugged Australian outback, having set out to see the famous Wolf Creek- a famous crater made by a meteor thousands of years ago. They spend time partying and bonding during their road trip to the landmark. When they arrive they leave their car at the bottom to make the 3 hour hike to the top of the crater. We get to know the three on a personal level, so that what happens to them is more than mere gore and torture; we actually feel for these characters and want them to succeed. A surprisingly well-done, yet very difficult film to watch.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEpvw51xubU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEpvw51xubU

[Sam Fisher]

Alien
Catwoman{because it's such a horror to watch}

[Ash J. Williams]

Videodrome
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
The Eye (original)
The Dead Zone
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Paranoia 1.0
The Virgin Spring
Suicide Club
Kwaidan
Lost Highway
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ('31)
Christine
The Fog (1980)
Vampyr
I Walked with a Zombie
Cat People ('42)
Carrie ('76)
Sisters ('73)
At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul
This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse


Night of the Hunter Another relatively unknown horror film from the 50's, it stars Robert Mitchum as an evil, murderous preacher who's hell bent on hunting down two children to take the money there hiding. Whats great about the film is the director (Charles Laughton, who never directed again) uses a rather more unique film method of german expressionism, setting it apart from most horror films from the 50's.
Technially, The Night of the Hunter is film noir with the pacing of a thriller. To me, it just didn't feel like a horror movie.

[ttotheusher]

Technially, The Night of the Hunter is film noir with the pacing of a thriller. To me, it just didn't feel like a horror movie.

I suppose your right. I think the way the film is shot (so different to any film noir I've ever seen) could sway you into thinking its a horror film.

[bullets]

Don't Look Now (1973)

[bullets]

REC is the only recent one that comes to mind that's truly scary IMO


I've got to see that.