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)

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

 

[Drizzle]

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

 

[Matt.S99]

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 *****es. 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 Project

heh, I like that one too. and I only know two other people that like it too.