We all either love horror films, or hate horror films. What’s that film that kept you up at night? The one that you re-watch all the time? The one that made you groan at ‘the big reveal’?
Favourite: Evil Dead (2013). It was just insane, wonderfully gory and made you wanna squirm.
Least favourite: Sharkenstein (2016). Watching this film, I gained a new appreciation for Meet The Spartans.
How would you like to feel extremely uneasy and uncomfortable?
This is absolutely an either you love it or hate it film. I can 100% understand why people hate this movie - every single shot in this movie is out of focus and not directly showing you what is happening in the scene. It requires 100% focus to decipher (or come close to) what’s going on. It made me feel like a kid in the dark, which is what this movie is about - a brother and sister stuck in their home in a forever night as some entity begins to hunt them.
Content Warning - Child Disfigurement.
If you’re looking for a popcorn horror movie to watch with a loved one, skip it. If you’re interested in something truly, truly experimental, give it a shot.
Sleep Paralysis: The Movie
Man I’m really happy you enjoyed Skinamarink. I heard the buzz about it and the fear that it instilled in some so I gave it a shot as it sounded really interesting and unfortunately I just couldn’t get into it. Perhaps I just wasn’t in the right frame of mind but I really wanted to be transported back to that fear of the unknown when you were a kid but it didn’t give me that and I really wasn’t into it enough to finish it. Happy for the filmmakers though and I look forward to what they do next.
Yeah it’s def avante garde. If you can’t get past how it’s shot, you’re gonna hate it and I don’t blame anyone who doesn’t like it
Favourites (in no particular order):
The thing
The VVitch
Under the shadow
the shrine
Kairo (Pulse)
The Autopsy of Jane DoeDisliked:
It Follows - i liked the concept…didn’t really enjoy the second half of the movie though
Lake Mungo - i had to watch it 3 times because i kept falling asleep during itLove The Thing and VVitch. Absolute must watch if you haven’t seen.
After developing PTSD for an unrelated issue, I can’t watch horror anymore. But before that I was a fan. I remember being distinctly disappointed by the Silent Hill movie as betraying the core fundamentals of horror writing, and frustrated that they took what was supposed to be a psychological journey into the psyche of the main characters and turned it into a boring “evil cult” story. They didn’t even make the cult scary in the way real cults are scary.
A friend of mine actually liked the movie, on the premise that it wasn’t trying to be horror, but just a shock-value gore-o-rama. I don’t see the appeal.
The scariest movie I ever saw? Literally gave me nightmares and kept me up for weeks? The Exorcist. It probably helps that I’m kinda religious. Regardless, never watched that movie twice. Even if I didn’t have unrelated issues, I’d never watch that movie again. A+ horror.
My wife has CPTSD, and I was forced to watch The Exorcist, as a 4yo, in a Catholic household, so I feel you on both those points lol
Favourite is tough, because there are horror films that I think are the best in show (barbarian, vvitch, the shining if it counts as horror) but the ones I like the most are campy. So maybe evil dead 2? Is that cliche?
The worst I’ve watched is also not based in subjectivity but saw IV is when I realised that horror was a commodity and tickets were being sold based on litres of blood you can see being spilt. Fwiw I enjoy the first three saw films
I’m going to take this as an opportunity to promote House (1977). I can not begin to properly articulate how much I love this movie.
As for one I’m not so fond of, I’d have to go with The House of Seven Corpses (1973). It was just super mediocre and barely memorable at all.
The Ghost and the Darkness.
I’ve seen it once. I was… 6 years old? Somewhere around there.
Gave me nightmares for several years. There’s only one other movie that’s ever had that effect on me.
And in terms of night terrors, I actually far prefer dreams about getting pulled out of a canvas tent into the night and getting devoured by a lion to some alternatives. You can fight back and stuff, it’s way better than those dreams about burning alive.
So, long story short, if you lucid dream hard enough you can kick a nightmare’s ass. I’d really rather not though, it’s a lot of work, so in that sense I sincerely hope the Ghost and the Darkness is the best horror movie I ever see
I really like the old Dario Argento movies. They’re artsy and gross in equal measures. (And you just know that guy really wants to strangle someone.)
Suspiria tops the list. I also liked the sequel, Inferno, which is probably underrated. The underwater apartment rooms were really disturbing.
I wasn’t a big fan of the 2018 remake.
REC (Spanish) is probably the most successful horror that actually has me on edge most of the film.
28 Days Later
My favorite is John Carpenter’s The Thing, with was already mentioned here by @Ragnell
My least favorite would be Bird Box (is that a horror film, or just a thriller?). I tried watching it and was just bored the whole time. If Bird Box doesn’t count as horror, then I’d have to say Cronenberg’s The Fly. It’s not a bad movie per say, but it just didn’t work for me for whatever reason.
When I got into my horror phase I was watching a different horror movie almost every night, and eventually came down to watching the classics. The effects of The Thing blew my mind at how well it all stood up.
While not really a fan of horror movies, there are plenty that I have loved, as films in the general sense and not specifically as any genre.
At the top of the list for me, it has to be the original The Wicker Man, and in second place it’s Evil Dead Pt 2.As least favorite, not one specific film but the entire slasher film realm.
Favorite: The Thing, the John Carpenter one from the 80s. It is perfect.
Least favorite: Nightmare on Elm Street. I like other Craven stuff but could never get into this one.
2nd The Thing, you know it’s good horror when it still holds up today.
I recently watched this for the first time and I adored it. To anybody who hasn’t seen it, it not only holds-up to modern movies, the effects frankly blow most modern movies out of the water.
I got sucked into binging the V/H/S series a while ago and enjoyed all except Viral, which I turned off midway through as it was boring me to misery. 94 and the more recent 99 were the standouts for me.
Still need to see those two. Loved the first two, my computer confirms I watched Viral but fuck If i know anything that occurred in it so I guess my assessment matches yours lol.
