Horror/Thriller Movie Suggestions

[capt. scotty]

Since Halloween is coming up, and I get in the mood to watch horror movies or scary thrillers, figured I see if any of yinz have seen any good ones recently or awhile ago that were good

Last night, watched this horror flick called 'Feast' that came out a couple years ago.

Pretty good, and had some funny parts as well. It was kind of like Assault on Precinct 13 with monsters

Recommendations?

[dragonboy]

I'm sure you've seen most of these but here are my favs:

The Wicker Man (1973) (one of my fav movies of all time)
The Evil Dead Trilogy
American Werewolf In London
Alien
Repulsion
The Thing
Se7en
The Others
Blair Witch Project
Dawn Of The Dead
The Fly (1986)
House of 1000 Corpses/Devil's Rejects
28 Days Later (avoid 28 Weeks Later IMO)
Pumpkinhead

Shaun Of The Dead (Horror/Comedy)

Japanese Orginals
Dead Water
Ringu
Ju-on

No doubt I've forgotten a few...

[dragonboy]

Anyone seen The Mist? I've got it @ the top of my rental list...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0884328/

[getinthevan]

Anyone seen The Mist? I've got it @ the top of my rental list...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0884328/

I've been told that this movie was unexpectedly awesome.

[megalicious]

i just rented this tonight. looks pretty hilarious.

[tenn]

Pumpkinhead

Pumpkinhead is great, definitely a favorite.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCrMCCUaTb8[/media]

[tenn]

Anyone remember this masterpiece starring 'Skippy' from Family Ties?

[capt. scotty]

I'm sure you've seen most of these but here are my favs:

The Wicker Man (1973) (one of my fav movies of all time)
The Evil Dead Trilogy
American Werewolf In London
Alien
Repulsion
The Thing
Se7en
The Others
Blair Witch Project
Dawn Of The Dead
The Fly (1986)
House of 1000 Corpses/Devil's Rejects
28 Days Later (avoid 28 Weeks Later IMO)
Pumpkinhead

Shaun Of The Dead (Horror/Comedy)

Japanese Orginals
Dead Water
Ringu
Ju-on

No doubt I've forgotten a few...

Havent seen original Wicker Man, Repulsion, or Pumpkinhead 1

ALSO: Loved Devils Rejects. Like 1000 Corpses a good bit, but DR was fantastic. Also agree with your 28 assessment. Liked 'Days' a lot, 'Weeks' was okay but not near as good.

I know the 1 Japanese one is the original 'The Ring' (which I didnt like much, and I think Ju-On was the original 'Grudge', but not sure

Not a big fan of old horror movies (Wicker Man), but Ill check Pumpkinhead out and look into Repulsion

[capt. scotty]

I didnt really list stuff at first, but a couple recommendations of the top of da dome:

Event Horizon (if you havent seen it, its a must)
The Descent
Bug
High Tension
The Orphanage (guy who directed Pans Labyrinth, its good)
Frailty
Exorcism of Emily Rose

All of these probably came out in the last 5 yrs or so (except EH), but I thought they were all very good

[dragonboy]

Anyone remember this masterpiece starring 'Skippy' from Family Ties?

Tenn, you make me laugh!!! What a classic that was!  ;D

Ahhh dodgy horror from the 80s!



Forgot to put The Howling on my list!



I thought Severance was a lot of fun:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0464196/

Anyone seen The Cottage?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465430/

[dragonboy]

I didnt really list stuff at first, but a couple recommendations of the top of da dome:

Event Horizon (if you havent seen it, its a must)
The Descent
Bug
High Tension
The Orphanage (guy who directed Pans Labyrinth, its good)
Frailty
Exorcism of Emily Rose

All of these probably came out in the last 5 yrs or so (except EH), but I thought they were all very good

I didn't like The Descent, all of the women annoyed me & didn't care if they lived or died. Dog Soldiers was good though (same director)
I wanted to see High Tension but that was before someone told me the ending  >:(
I've heard good things about Frailty...

Just to make clear, The Orphanage was produced by Guillermo Del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth) not directed.

Capt, if you're not a fan of old horror movies, you might want to give Polanski's Repulsion (1965) a miss.

[dragonboy]

Not sure if it has stood the test of time but Salem's Lot freaked me out when I was a kid.



Love this poster!

[ManNamedTruth]

Not a fan of horror, i'm beginning to appreciate classic horror though. I do prefer thrillers.

From Hell
The Ninth Gate
Rosemary's Baby
Psycho
Hannibal Lecter series (avoid Rising)
Sleepy Hollow
Bram Stoker's Dracula
The Devil's Backbone (directed by Del Toro, you would like this capt.)
Donnie Darko
The Shining
The Cell
Dreamcatcher
The Dead Zone
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Mist (I enjoyed it)
The Mothman Prophecies
The Gift

[dragonboy]

This was released last week in the UK just in time for Halloween:

[CC]

Anyone seen The Mist? I've got it @ the top of my rental list...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0884328/

I've been told that this movie was unexpectedly awesome.

love the mist.
just make sure you watch the director's version in black and white.
color version is a totally different experience, not as good.

[dragonboy]

Anyone seen The Mist? I've got it @ the top of my rental list...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0884328/

I've been told that this movie was unexpectedly awesome.

love the mist.
just make sure you watch the director's version in black and white.
color version is a totally different experience, not as good.

I was wondering if you'd drop by Batman! Cheers for that...I wonder if the Japanese rental copy has both versions...maybe I should just buy it? Hmm...

For those who don't know, our very own CC is a huge movie buff...throw a list @ as Batman, recent horror faves? all timers?

[CC]

I like most of the movies in your list too but am mostly a big fan of Italian horror. Pretty much everything from Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci (70s/80s) and Mario Bava (60s). Also love the classic horror from Jacques Tourneur, especially the original Cat People (1942) and Night of the Demon (1957) are amazing. If you're into the classics this is a great buy: http://www.amazon.com/Collection-Snatcher-Leopard-Seventh-Shadows/dp/B000A0GOEQ

[ItStillJaimoe]

I thought The Mist is a B movie all the way with an A director (Frank Darabont). It's pretty campy and predictable, but I still liked, but it's not a classic by any stretch of the imagination.

dragonboy missed one of his favourite horror/comedy movies (and mine too), inexplicably so given his new avatar: Bubba Ho-Tep, starring the legenday Bruce "Evil Dead" Campbell. Oh, I concur with the love of Dog Soldiers, although I really liked the The Decent.

A terrific B movie that's as good as any A big-budget horror film is the classic The Re-Animator, based on an H.P. Lovecraft short-story (starring genre great Jeffrey Combs, also from the underrated Peter Jackson horror/comedy The Frighteners, the decent series The 4400 and Star Trek DS9 fame). I urge folks of Lovecraft to look up the films of Stuart Gordon (director of Re-Animator, Dagon and From Beyond).

Now, back to horror or scary films. I have a few that folks have missed that I absolutely love, but first I'd like to add a couple Guillermo del Toro films to sit alongside the beautiful and terrifying Pan' Labrynth and Devil's Backbone: Cronos (Spanish modern vampire film starring Ron Perlman) and Mimic (del Toro's first foray as a Hollywood director).

I love modern and classic horror, and a some of the best are must owns let alone must-sees, for the direction, imagination and atmosphere alone:

Night of the Hunter, directed by Charles Laughton (Robert Mitchum trying to kill two kids who know where his stolen money is located. Fucking great great great film that The Simpsons paid homage to)

The Mummy (with Boris Karloff)
Frankenstein
The Bride of Frankenstein
The Son of Frankenstein
Dracula
The Wolf Man
Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein (hilarious and creepy film starring Legosi, Lon Chaney Jr. and Vincent Price as The Invisible Man)
Suspira (from Italian horror master Dario Argento)
The Hound of the Baskervilles - gotta love Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
Young Frankenstein

Other films I rather like are Cabin Fever, The Ring and Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead, The Shining, The Blair Witch Project (say what you will, but the film has imagination and the ending is disturbing), Ghost Story, The Changeling, Brotherhood of the Wolf and Robert Wise's The Haunting (1963), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Donald Sutherland version).


And on to David Cronenberg...

His early low-budget stuff is worth watching and remains highly influential: Shivers, The Brood, Rabid (with Marilyn Chambers) and Scanners (with the terrific bad-guy Michael Ironside).

Dead Zone isn't too frightening as it is thrilling and fascinating.
The Fly rules and Dead Ringers will make you sick. I hope David goes back to doing horror at some point.

Oh yeah, Hitchcock's Psycho is in a class by itself and Psycho II is a surprisingly effective sequel.

Bruce Campbell for President.

[Jellyfish]

Last House on the Left.....it's only a movie....it's only a movie.....
The Romero Dead trilogy + Diary of the Dead(skip Land,it sucks)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre pts 1&2.Pt 1 is prolly the best american made horror film of all time.Pure terror with very little blood.Pt 2 is totally the opposite,gory as hell and funny.
Rob Zombie's 3 movies are great(House of 1000 Corpses,Devil's Reject's and his Halloween remake)
The Evil Dead trilogy,Bruce is the man!
I thought The Mist was pretty good as well,although I have not seen the B&W version.
The Grudge was really scary.
Exorcism of Emily Rose was good.
The original Exorcist stands the test of time,really frightening and shocking.

[ItStillJaimoe]

The most frightening movie that isn't a movie may play out on Tuesday if Canada's Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper gets re-elected by a majority vote - it would mean the Devil would have full-power. I'm praying for a Liberal Party victory (unlikely, but possible) or a minority Conservative government (likely). Amongst other things, the Conservative government wants to drastically cut arts grants and funding, making David Cronenberg, Margaret Atwood, Sarah Polley, Michael Ondatjee and many others in the film/arts communitity very very angry, and they might not like David Cronenberg when he's angry.