Jillyanne Posted 16 July, 2012 Posted 16 July, 2012 If I put this in The Arts during non season this wont get any replies. Anyone got any decent recommendations?
Stepgar Posted 16 July, 2012 Posted 16 July, 2012 Depends on what your are in to. I just watched The Woman In Black. Really eery. Very ghostly. Apparently the "paranormal activity" series are quite god but not seen those.
Jillyanne Posted 16 July, 2012 Author Posted 16 July, 2012 I have Woman in Black but haven't watched it yet and the Para Norn films are absolutely shockingly c r a p
Thedelldays Posted 16 July, 2012 Posted 16 July, 2012 Depends on what your are in to. I just watched The Woman In Black. Really eery. Very ghostly. Apparently the "paranormal activity" series are quite god but not seen those. I saw that at the pictures As you could imagine, the jumpy scenes were enhanced there
Stepgar Posted 16 July, 2012 Posted 16 July, 2012 Exorcism of Emily rose Good film Yeah good film. The saw series have good bits in them if you wan gore
Jillyanne Posted 16 July, 2012 Author Posted 16 July, 2012 Have all the SAW films and they don't scare me in the slightest. This is the problem, I want to be scared but can't find a film that scares me!
Tokyo-Saint Posted 16 July, 2012 Posted 16 July, 2012 Japanese horror is the best really, never a happy ending. Very hung up on water though?
dvaughanwilliams Posted 16 July, 2012 Posted 16 July, 2012 Friday the 13th series was made on the cheap, but the first few films aren't bad. The first two Hellraiser films are good, but the special effects are very 80's looking. I Spit on Your Grave. I enjoyed both the 70s original and the recent remake. The remake is much gorier, the original more cinematically interesting. If you don't mind subtitles: Koma, Audition, Spider Forest (not really a horror as such), Ichi the Killer, The Happiness of the Katakuris (Japanese gory horror musical), Ichi the Killer (very, very gory), Hiruku the Goblin (very weird) Cabin Fever is good generally, but has a few naff elements. Hostel is gory but shallow, the sequel was awful. The Candyman series is good, with the first film being the best. The Omen 1-3 (not the remake of the first film)
buctootim Posted 17 July, 2012 Posted 17 July, 2012 (edited) Driller Killer is great. Made in the days before battery powered drills. He has to be near a socket, so, obligingly, his victims choose never to run away. edit. Just found you can watch the whole film on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DzVrXxMPDA Edited 17 July, 2012 by buctootim
Chorlton Posted 17 July, 2012 Posted 17 July, 2012 Watch the BBC Drama film Threads. If you grew up in the 70s/80s it will terrify you. Set in Sheffield in the build up to and aftermath of a nuclear attack. Mind you, the first Paranormal Activity completely freaked me out, so I have a low threshold.
alpine_saint Posted 17 July, 2012 Posted 17 July, 2012 Watch the BBC Drama film Threads. If you grew up in the 70s/80s it will terrify you. Set in Sheffield in the build up to and aftermath of a nuclear attack. I saw it when it was on TV the first time, and I didnt sleep properly for weeks. Bought it on DVD 6 months ago - still havent had the nerve to watch it. I still think the original Alien film hits all the right buttons.
Draino76 Posted 17 July, 2012 Posted 17 July, 2012 Exorcism of Emily rose Good film I saw another low budget British excorcism film recently, best I've ever seen. (possibly via lovefilm streaming) I think it had the blond haired guy from the BT broadband adverts as a priest.
Saint137 Posted 17 July, 2012 Posted 17 July, 2012 Not exactly a horror movie but it will give you nightmares - the original Dutch version of "The Vanishing" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096163/ Original version of "The Thing" was very good too.
LVSaint Posted 17 July, 2012 Posted 17 July, 2012 Trrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrroooooooooooooooooooooll Hunter!!!
alpine_saint Posted 17 July, 2012 Posted 17 July, 2012 Original version of The Hitcher with Rutger Hauer.
saint.tom.clancy Posted 17 July, 2012 Posted 17 July, 2012 Drag me to hell scared the sh!t out of me. Insidious is one I found over rated, much like Paranormal Activity.
percy windham Posted 17 July, 2012 Posted 17 July, 2012 I'd go of Kill List and The House Of The Devil for two recent films, and Suspiria for an older one, it's by far the best film ever made.
dune Posted 17 July, 2012 Posted 17 July, 2012 (edited) Watched Hostel III (not seen the films that came before it) the other day. Some pretty disturbing scenes particularly when the first bloke gets his face sliced off while punters in the club gamble on the spin of the wheel that determines how he's gonna get killed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWbYw1fuzZg Edited 17 July, 2012 by dune
JPTCount Posted 17 July, 2012 Posted 17 July, 2012 **** the woman in black watch dead snow (dod sno), a Scandinavian horror about zombie Nazis, they is even more eviler than skeletor. but trust, best horror ive seen in years, ****ing scary, and funny too, and if u cant do subtitles then ur a div
Bearsy Posted 17 July, 2012 Posted 17 July, 2012 Someone was telling me bout this French film where you is watching someone getting all their skin slowly removed in super graphic detail while they is still alive. Them Frenchies are sick in the head!
percy windham Posted 17 July, 2012 Posted 17 July, 2012 **** the woman in black watch dead snow (dod sno), a Scandinavian horror about zombie Nazis, they is even more eviler than skeletor. but trust, best horror ive seen in years, ****ing scary, and funny too, and if u cant do subtitles then ur a div Dead Snow isn't scary though? It is, however, a lot of fun.
manji Posted 17 July, 2012 Posted 17 July, 2012 Frontiers (French Film) Wolf Creek (Aussie) Martyrs(French) The Orphanage (Spain) Inside(French)
Colinjb Posted 17 July, 2012 Posted 17 July, 2012 "The Descent" is a film that always makes me jump. Havn't got around to the sequel though.
manji Posted 17 July, 2012 Posted 17 July, 2012 "The Descent" is a film that always makes me jump. Havn't got around to the sequel though. Dreadful film. Girls down hole , in dark, screaming.
Colinjb Posted 17 July, 2012 Posted 17 July, 2012 Dreadful film. Girls down hole , in dark, screaming. Conversley... I enjoyed it immensely. The reasons above helped. I would second Event Horizon too.
manji Posted 17 July, 2012 Posted 17 July, 2012 Trrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrroooooooooooooooooooooll Hunter!!! Must watch that.
LVSaint Posted 17 July, 2012 Posted 17 July, 2012 Must watch that. Yep, it is brilliant fun. Sorry OP - it's 'Trollhunter' if you were confused.
CHAPEL END CHARLIE Posted 17 July, 2012 Posted 17 July, 2012 Although I must admit they are not at all scary to a modern audience I do still much admire the early Universal horror movies from the 1930's & 40's - films such as Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, Dracula, The Mummy, The Wolf Man .... etc. I have them all in my collection and often view them as a sort of antidote to the awful slasher films that now dominate the genre. Among other old movies still worth seeing are the famous British portmanteau 'Dead of Night' which is a fine atomsphric old thing to watch in the dark. I have already bored the forum rigid with my three decade long love affair with Jacques Tourneur's 1957 classic 'Night of the Demon'. Anyone really interested in vintage horror should also seek out 'The Skull' (scared me silly as a kid) and the original 1963 'The Haunting' - perhaps the finest haunted house film ever made. More modern horrors that I like include 'Ghost Story' (with Fred Astaire of all people), John Carpenter's highly influential 'Halloween' of course and Nicole Kidman in 'The Others' . I'll freely admit I that both enjoyed and much admired 'The Blair Witch Project' and the 'Paranormal Activity' series of films that it inspired - although I know many think they're rubbish. But if you tortured me into revealing the most frightened I've ever been in the cinema then it was in front of a film that is not even conventional horror film - Ridley Scott's sci fi masterpiece 'Alien' - poor Captain Dallas v the Alien - scary stuff.
latter day saint Posted 17 July, 2012 Posted 17 July, 2012 Event Horizon - sci-fi horror good film but not while on LSD Candyman scared the **** out of me when i was younger, as i watched at mates house on his dads new fangled surround sound system. the main bloke had a really deep voice that came booming out of the rear speakers meaning i stayed on the sofa untill daylight !
Noodles34 Posted 17 July, 2012 Posted 17 July, 2012 The original Japanese 'Ring' films are superb. definately. also Audition, not really a horror but scary as **** and Old Boy (Korean), with one of the best twists ever in the history of film making.
Noodles34 Posted 17 July, 2012 Posted 17 July, 2012 personally, my all time fave is probably still Halloween, a bit Teeny Bop America, but it really epitomised the era.
1885 Posted 17 July, 2012 Posted 17 July, 2012 definately. also Audition, not really a horror but scary as **** and Old Boy (Korean), with one of the best twists ever in the history of film making. Old Boy's not really a Horror movie, though. But fantastic, indeed !
Tokyo-Saint Posted 17 July, 2012 Posted 17 July, 2012 Just watched the woman in black, thought it was a really decent film, much better than I expected.
Dark Munster Posted 17 July, 2012 Posted 17 July, 2012 I saw it when it was on TV the first time, and I didnt sleep properly for weeks. Bought it on DVD 6 months ago - still havent had the nerve to watch it. I still think the original Alien film hits all the right buttons. One of my favourite films of all time.
Dark Munster Posted 17 July, 2012 Posted 17 July, 2012 28 Days Later. Zombies on steroids. Sequel was pretty good too.
Big Bad Bob Posted 17 July, 2012 Posted 17 July, 2012 Event Horizon - sci-fi horror Oh Gods, I watched that not expecting a horror, I had bad dreams *THAT* night Original Salem's Lot, brilliant 30 Days of Night Devil (Never get in a lift again!!) The Evil Dead trilogy Original Fright Night (You're sooo cruel Brewster) Original Nightmare on Elm Street Forget Saw, Hostel, Final Destination etc, they're all gore for gore's sake....
norwaysaint Posted 17 July, 2012 Posted 17 July, 2012 Yeah, the original Salem's lot scared me for weeks as a kid. I thought i could hear tapping at the window every night. Other ones that scared me over the years were Halloween, although the million unstoppable slasher films since have diluted its effect, and Rosemary's Baby, very creepy and a proper well made film. Modern stuff like Saw and Hostel just seem like more and more of the same. You need a proper story and feeling for the characters to get genuine scares. Those films just cut straight to the gore and it stops being scary. Troll Hunter is great, but surely it's not a horror in anybody's book? Dark Water was pretty good and I quite liked 1408 too.
1885 Posted 18 July, 2012 Posted 18 July, 2012 I like American Werewolf :-) Actually I like all Werewolf movies, Dog Soldiers being one of my favourite ones.
alpine_saint Posted 18 July, 2012 Posted 18 July, 2012 Event Horizon - sci-fi horror Oh yes - forgot about that one. The end was quite a twist too. Didnt Mike Wilde have one of the costumes from the rescue team in his living room or something ? 28 Days Later was quite good too, though the alternative ending made the film less scary, I thought.
latter day saint Posted 18 July, 2012 Posted 18 July, 2012 Steven Kings IT was scary when i 1st saw it . Pennywise the clown was creepy as f*ck back then
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