actual scary horror films

[steiff1]

i hate clowns. hate, hate hate, they totally freak me out.

I reckon I'll lookat some japanese stuff. modern american remakes do nothing for me. i'm not into mindless gore, I want proper suspense, like as said before by you guys - when you were a kid.
witchcraft shit me up as a 10yr old.
I guess now I'm nearly 40, i wont ever get that feeling again from a movie.

[TJB]

What was the point in the doll in the conjuring? did I miss something there? it really annoyed me that it seemed to have nothing to do with the story..

I think it was just used as an introduction into what they (The Warren's) actually did. There is a book called 'The Demonologist' about some of the other cases they investigated. It's pretty good.

witchcraft shit me up as a 10yr old.
I guess now I'm nearly 40, i wont ever get that feeling again from a movie.

You should check out The Conjuring or Sinister.

[DJ OD]

Halloween, Original and first remake were good.

Newish movie but in old style, The Sleeper.

Insidious wasn't bad and had few scares, and it's follow up.

Elm Street originals

Canibal Holocaust

VHS

Poltergeist original had some scares for me as a kid.


DJ OD

[Shotgunjim]

The orphan freaked me out but I wasn't scared as such. I agree that salem's lot was frightening. Oldies are more scary as too much fx spoils it for me.

[AP0ll0UK]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspense

Suspense is a feeling of pleasurable fascination and excitement mixed with apprehension, tension, and anxiety developed from an unpredictable, mysterious, and rousing source of entertainment.

Classic horror at the top, newer stuff at the bottom, a few good thrillers / suspense thrown in for good measure.

Enjoy!

A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
A Nightmare On Elm Street III - Dream Warriors (1987)
Alien (1979) - Directors Cut
Aliens (1986) - Directors Cut
Amityville II: The Possession (1982)
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
Cape Fear (1991)
Carrie (1976)
Demons (1985)
Demons 2 (1986)
Evil Dead II (1987)
The Fly (1986)
Frenzy (1972)
Halloween (1978)
The Hidden (1987)
The Omen (1976)
The Omen 2 (1978)
The Omen 3 - The Final Conflict (1981)
Pet Sematary (1989)
Phenomena (1985)
Prince of Darkness (1987)
Salems Lot (1979) - Directors Cut / Original Mini-Series @ 184 min
Scanners (1981)
The Shining (1980)
Suspiria (1977)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
The Thing (1982)
They Live (1988)
Videodrome (1983)
Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979)

n.b. With all of the above, try and find the most complete version with the longest running time.

1408 (2007)
28 Days Later (2002)
8mm (1999)
A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010)
Body Double (1984)
The Cabin In The Woods (2012)
Chernobyl Diaries (2012)
The Crazies (2010)
The Descent (2005)
The Descent Part 2 (2009)
Creep (2004)
Dahmer (2002)
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Devil (2010)
Event Horizon (1997)
Evil Dead (2013)
Frailty (2001)
Identity (2003)
Ghost Ship (2002)
Ginger Snaps (2000)
Halloween (2007)
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
Hostel (2005)
Hostel 2 (2007)
I Spit on Your Grave (2010)
I Spit on Your Grave 2 (2013)
The Last House on the Left (2009)
Misery (1990)
The Mist (2007)
The Omen (2006)
Paranormal Activity (2007)
Paranormal Activity 2 (2010)
Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)
The People Under The Stairs (1991)
Quarantine (2008)
Silent Hill (2006)
Saw (2004)
Saw 2 (2005)
Se7en (1995)
Stir of Echoes (1999)
The Strangers (2008)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
The Tortured (2010)
Vacancy (2007)
VHS (2012)
VHS 2 (2013)

[MajorFU]

Not really a horror as such but you might want to try "Odd Thomas" I quite enjoyed it

[darkstar]

The exorcist shit me up when I was young also evil dead that bitch under the floor trap thing freaked me out !!

[Robbo]

White Noise freaked me out. I had to make the wife wait to go to bed, as i didn't want to be left alone.

Gonna watch that tonight then. thanks

[scoobypatch]

Gonna watch that tonight then. thanks

Make sure you turn the light off, The wife always turns the lights off, on most things we do!

[Robbo]

Make sure you turn the light off, The wife always turns the lights off, on most things we do!

Wasn't scary at all, me and the girlfriend not impressed with it. Oh well

[scoobypatch]

Wasn't scary at all, me and the girlfriend not impressed with it. Oh well

Sorry for that m8. But I'm never watching it again!

[WalterPill]

Echo the sentiments of a few others. Ringu (Japanese version though the septic one aint bad), Ju On: The Grudge (not sure I ever watched the remake), original Changeling was a very simple and effective ghost story. Also thought the Conjuring was very good. Sinister was indeed very creepy (at least for the first two thirds). I'd say Poltergeist, Exorcist, and the first Nightmare on Elm Street, yes.

Others:

Tale of Two Sisters (Korean and remade under another name but it was wank)
Dark Water (the Japanese original though I think the Jennifer Connelly remake was ok)
Audition (Japanese again)
The Descent (probably as much for the potholing sequences)
The Orphanage (Spanish)
The Devil's Backbone (also Spanish by Guillermo Del Toro)
Session 9
Don't Look Now
[Rec] (never watched the remake, Quarantine but it's apparently not a patch on the SPanish original)




Has no one mentioned the greatest horror movie of all time? The Shining.

[Locklear]

I personally liked the Reanimator from 1985 and the evil dead

[prezzy]

Just re watched Martyrs aagain today not sure why - it was disturbing and fucked up the first time around and the second go around was not any less disturbing, pretty relentless all the way through - a great film . . . .

Did Audition yesterday and enjoyed that, another strange film but good

[jw_2000_uk]

Just re watched Martyrs aagain today not sure why - it was disturbing and fucked up the first time around and the second go around was not any less disturbing, pretty relentless all the way through - a great film . . . .

Did Audition yesterday and enjoyed that, another strange film but good

Hostel was bad for me. Couldn't sleep for days lol.

I like the standard ones, shining,elm street,evil dead.

But I'm always intrigued, so I just read about them, when people mention sick horror movies.


AND Jesus Christ, that film would prob send me suicidel from what ive read..lol.

The make up artist commit suicide after making that movie. Who knows if it had anything to do with the story.

[prezzy]

It is a good film if you can get around the brutality.

Check out 'A Serbian Film' another interesting one, although think Disney while you watch it - Martyrs makes A Serbian Film look like it was a Disney film.

[DejaVu]

It is a good film if you can get around the brutality.

Added! I shall venture that one 2mora!

[prezzy]

Just done 'The Collector' highly amusing, worth a go maybe 6.5/10

[Soulassassin]

Just watched Martyrs and have to say I wasn't that impressed. Brutal yes, scary, deffo not, dragged a bit too in the 'downstairs bit' and not much story either tbh.
My scariest of late is probably the first Paranormal Activity, mainly because watching it in bed, our bedroom was of very similar layout and I remember staring at the bedroom door thinking if that bastard opens now I'll drown in my own shit.
Old skool films that scared me when I was young,
Jaws
Poltergeist
American Werewolf in London.

[Teajunkie]

True stories are always the best ones like the entity.
old but good seen it 20 times +
I wouldn't say expect it to be scary but better than poltergeist.

Fire in the sky
The fourth kind
Both supposed true events and a good watch IMO

Films today are just loud bangs and noises over shit costumes.
i always find the films where you don't actually see anything more scary as it leaves your imagination to run wild.

pretty sure there must be some decent scary films out there that aren't all just face burning off or gory as fuck.