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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 :)

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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)

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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.

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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.

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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.

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**** 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

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**** 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.

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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.

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Event Horizon - sci-fi horror

good film but not while on LSD :scared:

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 !

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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 ! :)

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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.

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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....

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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.

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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.

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