Please recommend a scary horror movie!

[crooksy73]

Hi all,

This weekend I watched The Strangers - in the dark and expecting to be scared outta my pants!

Unfortunately it was as scary as a cotton lined wicker basket full of labrador puppies in a soft light.

The weekend before I watched the 1982 version of The Thing - now thats a scary movie!

I've seen all the classics so preferrably something new. Any suggestions?

Cheers
Crooksy

[AnyaKimlin]

A new adaptation of Woman in Black appeared in the cinema on Friday.

[Foxbat]

I thought the original Japanese Ring was quite scary. Can't say the same for the Hollywood rehash though.

[HoopyFrood]

The remake tended to rely more on, as Hollywood does, jumpiness rather than atmosphere.

If you are looking for more creepiness, then East Asian horror is awesome for that. Like Ringu, Ju-on, Doll Master, Dark Water, Audition...

Try watching Paranormal Activity in the dark with no interruptions. It's so subtle it has you on the edge of your seat, watching for the smallest movements (and thus freaking right out when something does occur).

If you liked the craziness of The Thing (80s body horror for the win) then have you seen the Evil Deads? Evil Dead II is scary and hilarious in equal measure. There's also the 1988 version of The Blob which is prothes-tastic. American Werewolf in London? Hands down, best use of prosthetics and animatronics in any film. That transformation scene...

I had a spate of watching pretty much every new horror film that was released 2004-2006. Most was a giant load of rubbish (Hide and Seek? Skeleton Key? Good gods...). However, Amityville Horror (yeah, the remake!) impressed me enough to see it twice. And Mirrors and White Noise were both films that combined creepy with jumpiness and were doing very well -- until the endings. Sometimes I think scriptwriters panic and think "Gah! We can't end this film! Let's just go crazy!"

[crooksy73]

Thanks for the recommendations guys.

HoopyFrood - I watched Paranormal Activity in the dark a couple of months ago and to be honest it didn't do it for me. My wife was jumping but I just found it comical.

American Werewolf in London - absolute classic and incredibly scary!

Seen the Evil Deads, and may give the East Asian horror a go but I didn't enjoy the Ring.

The original Amytyville is a real nail biter so I'll give the remake a go as I've not seen it yet

Cheers

Crooksy

[HoopyFrood]

Paranormal Activity has definitely been one of the only films to actually scare me in recent years!

Anything you particularly looking for? Scary differs from person to person.

[AnyaKimlin]

By classics how far back do you go>? Some very early late 30s-late 50s adaptions are really good. Most my horror films tend to fall between those dates

[Moonbat]

Hi

I'd like to add that Spanish horror is also pretty good at the moment

There is the movie [Rec] which is pretty good, but much better would be things like
Orphanage, Devil's backbone, (both Guillermo Del Toro) or Julia's eyes (really rate this one) known as Los Ojos De Julia

[crooksy73]

The following are what I'd say are classics:

Halloween
Nightmare on Elm Street
Poltergeist
The Omen
The Exorcist
Alien
Friday the 13th
American Werewolf in London
The Thing
The Fog
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Jaws
Psycho
Hellraiser
Nightbreed
Children of the corn
The hitcher

More recently I've enjoyed:

Let me In/Let the right one in
Rec/Rec 2
The devils backbone
The orphanage
The dark hour
The Hills have eyes (2006)
The Descent (Now that's a scary film when watched alone in the dark!!!)
Old Boy
Wolf Creek

Thanks Moonbat, will check out Julia's Eyes

[Toby Frost]

The Shining
Dead of Night (stick with it: the dummy sequence is superb)
Don't Look Now (a bit arty, but very unsettling)
The Wicker Man (the original of course - very strange indeed!)
Carnival of Souls
Dawn of the Dead (less so Night of the Living Dead but it's still good)
Pan's Labyrinth and Marathon Man aren't technically horror but come pretty close for different reasons.

[AnyaKimlin]

I'm guessing you've tried Hitchcock and Hammer Horror ?

I'd recommend
Originals of:
Village of the Dammed
Wicker Man (Both the Hollywood renderings are weird)

Hands of Orlac
Asylum
The Ghoul
Turn of the Screw (1970s version and The Innocents from the 1960s)
Roman Polanski's MacBeth


More recent
Chimera
The Fall of the Louse of Usher

[crooksy73]

The Wicker Man - classic! the remake was awful!

[AnyaKimlin]

A tourist attraction near where I live does a Wicker Man every year near Halloween - I can't visit when it is there, freaks me out too much.

[crooksy73]

It's worth watching for Britt Ekland!

[Warren_Paul]

The scariest movie I've watched I found to be, The Grudge, only the first one though.

Although being the only person in an entire theater watching the second one kinda helped make it a bit scarier than it was.

I also found Event Horizon quite scary the first time I watched it. Its also worth watching just for being a good sci-fi.