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

[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. t:

 

[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.

 

[Paste Pot Pete]

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

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

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...

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

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...

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.

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.

 

[KnightBat]

Scream 1 &2

 

[Dr Strange]

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

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Suspiria.

 

[Kirk Langstrom]

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]

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
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