I just watched [Rec] for the first time, and it's without a doubt the scariest movie I've seen since The Descent, one of my favourite horror movies of all time, (though none of my friends agree with me about it's greatness, but they're all wrong.)

Imagine what Cloverfield would be like if it was actually scary and didn't have such godawful annoying protagonists. With rage-fuelled zombies. That's pretty much what [Rec] is, and I heartily recommend it to anyone that loves scary movies. So, to give this thread a point, which scary movies would you recommend the users of this forum to watch? In addition to [Rec], I suggest watching Candyman, The Descent and Switchblade Romance.

Also, if anyone knows any good indyish horror films please share. I do like my scary movies :D

My trouble is that horror movies are often not filmed very well, so I'm distracted and fail to get immersed. I couldn't stand to watch more than five minutes of Pulse, but it wasn't because it was scary (at all), it was because I couldn't stand the constant blue tint (and writing). [Rec] sounds neat, though it seems similar to Diary of the Dead from what you've said.

Well it's not very indyish quite the opposite actually but it is one of my favourite movies of all time Dawn of the Dead. It truly deserves all the praise it gets.

Probably the creepiest movie I've seen recently is 1408. It is rather subtle horror, but my sister, who doesn't even like scary movies, thought it was very well done.

Larenxis:
My trouble is that horror movies are often not filmed very well, so I'm distracted and fail to get immersed. I couldn't stand to watch more than five minutes of Pulse, but it wasn't because it was scary (at all), it was because I couldn't stand the constant blue tint (and writing). [Rec] sounds neat, though it seems similar to Diary of the Dead from what you've said.

True, it does use a very similar premise to Diary Of The Dead, but I can't compare the two since I've not seen it yet. Apparently Diary Of The Dead wasn't very good though...

I'll give it a go, Candyman is really really funny to watch when drunk just somthing to do with the OTT death metal voice of the Candyman.

watch the original Japeneise version of the ring by yourself if you want to get proper scared, it seems at first a little hard to get sucked in having to read the subtitles but after about 20 minutes you do. first time I watched it I was with a friend and when I went to the bathroom he thought it was funny that in that time he changed his name on my mobiles phone book to Sadako and then discreetly rang it at the next killing bit....not funny.

I absolutely hate the term Indy/Indie and don't pay any attention to if they are or aren't, but scary movies...

Rob Zombie's remake of Halloween was pretty sweet. The original was epic, but the revision actually gave meaning to Michael's psychosis. Michael Meyers was the scariest horror movie killer IMHO because he isn't undead, alien, or supernatural... He's just a normal everyday human who'd gone all fucked up in the head. HE is a possibility, Jason Voorhees or Pumpkinhead, not as much so... And Freddy's just a whiny bitch.

Alien is and always will be the premier frightfest. Watching the original Alien movie at 3am, in the dark, after being sleep deprived... Nothing can compare. I highly recommend parents show Alien to their kids when they're really young. That way, when they misbehave you can tell them Alien is going to come and eat their brains. For the diehard controlling parent, you can also buy all sorts of full-size alien suits or statues to really give your kids a fright.

Deep Blue Sea does the trick if you're afraid of the water and/or sharks. Dog Soldiers was a nice take on the Werewolf mythos. But if you want a real fright... A haunt your dreams for months scare, find the 1993 release of Necronomicon. Also, Bad Boys 1 or 2 can be fairly frightening watching Martin Lawrence try to act or be funny.

I would say that if you realy want a scare don't watch a film, Play Doom 3, my friend gave his Girlfriend a huge bruise on her stomach because she decided to creep up on him as a suprise (she was naked).
But if you want a film then may i sugest you 28 days later, or if you need a sickening fright then can i sugest Clockwork Orange because that is the freakiest film ever.

Strafe Mcgee:

True, it does use a very similar premise to Diary Of The Dead, but I can't compare the two since I've not seen it yet. Apparently Diary Of The Dead wasn't very good though...

actually diary of the dead takes place after dawn of the dead

they are part of the greatest zombie series ever

night of the living dead
dawn of the dead
day of the dead
land of the dead
diary of the dead

hmmm for horror movies, well the higher production value ones are just not scary, the cheaply filmed feeling adds more grit to them, higher production values actually make horror films bad and less scary.

as for scary movies i've seen lately, cannibal holocaust was pretty gruesome, so was the inside. the remake of dawn of the dead was good and is what dead rising ripped off. the new hallowe'en was great and so was planet terror. 30 days of night was pretty good, some wicked kills in it. got a pile of dario argento movies to watch and a couple japanese horror films as well

and sorry to say but the descent sucked

zirnitra:
watch the original Japeneise version of the ring by yourself if you want to get proper scared, it seems at first a little hard to get sucked in having to read the subtitles but after about 20 minutes you do. first time I watched it I was with a friend and when I went to the bathroom he thought it was funny that in that time he changed his name on my mobiles phone book to Sadako and then discreetly rang it at the next killing bit....not funny.

I was astonished that I liked the American version better. The Japanese one wasn't edited very well, and everyone was psychic. Well, maybe not everyone, but pretty close.

Alotak:
if you need a sickening fright then can i sugest Clockwork Orange because that is the freakiest film ever.

Clockwork Orange? Yeah, tis fairly deranged but I wouldn't go so far as to call it the freakiest film ever. Either Oldboy or Audition would get my vote for that. My flatmate was able to freak me out for days just by sneaking up behind me and going *kirikirikirikiri*.

cleverlymadeup:
The Descent sucked.

Meh, whatever. I could get all riled up defending it like I usually do but I don't want to turn this thread into an argument. Lots of people try to tell me it's rubbish but I know they're all wrong so :P. I thought 30 Days Of Night was pretty meh to be honest, probably because of Josh Hartnett. The only Argento film I've seen is Suspiria, which is fantastic. The scene where the music teacher dies is just so well done. From what I'd heard about Argento (that he was the 'lord of gore') I was kind of surprised at how much restraint that movie had.

Yeh... I tend to stay away from horror flicks... I'm really easy to scare.

The original Phsyco.

Strangely enough I had this coversation last night:

Scary Movies are a lie to me....
For example Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1973?) isn't as scary as people say...
There are movies that made me jump though like Alien(even you now its in the vent ducts its still freaky) and The Thing (Blood Test Scene)

The Decent gave me the heebie geebies.
The first american "Ring" movie still leaves me hating phones even more then i usually do.
I haven't seen the Japanese "Ring" though.
I managed to find the book for the Ring, but so far haven't read it.
I liked the ending of the recent movie adaptation of Steven Kings "The Mist". So very much OMFGWTF !!

With movies that don't have "happy family" endings of late, i find myself saying "ok now lets watch something a little more light hearted."

Oh and as a young kid (15ish) i used to watch Alien at my Grandmom's place, which was in a caravan park, with no lights in the general area. There a vast empty tract of land next door which was home to a heap of wildlife. So you had to go out and down the way to the bathroom. So yeah pretty creepy for a young kid :)

Evil dead is the scariest movie I've seen, but then again, I don't watch to many horror films.

cleverlymadeup:
and sorry to say but the descent sucked

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smuttbullen:
Evil dead is the scariest movie I've seen, but then again, I don't watch to many horror films.

Evil Dead I, II, and Army of Darkness are comedy films, not horror.

Khell_Sennet:

cleverlymadeup:
and sorry to say but the descent sucked

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smuttbullen:
Evil dead is the scariest movie I've seen, but then again, I don't watch to many horror films.

Evil Dead I, II, and Army of Darkness are comedy films, not horror.

I thought the descent was good, also Evil Dead trilogy are Comedy/HORRORS so technically speaking your wrong but right

Alien. That movie gave me the willies.

Khell_Sennet:

smuttbullen:
Evil dead is the scariest movie I've seen, but then again, I don't watch to many horror films.

Evil Dead I, II, and Army of Darkness are comedy films, not horror.

Groovy. All hail to the king baby. Hey, I'm not that good. Shop Smart, shop S-Mart. Etc. Those movies are gold. Burce Campbel really makes them.

As for horror, I would definatly recommend The Mist. It combines most fears: claustraphobia, religous nuts, the unknown, aliens and mosnters, pain, death, hopelessness. Ace movie. That acting isn't too great but the directing and camera is just perfect.

thebobmaster:
Probably the creepiest movie I've seen recently is 1408. It is rather subtle horror, but my sister, who doesn't even like scary movies, thought it was very well done.

I've seen that too, it was excellent. I thought it was a brilliant twist - "you were on bumped on the head, none of that was real" "No, none of that was real. PSYCHE!". In all serious, it was a brilliant movie, and I'd recommend it, if only more as a more Psychological horror movie, rather than the ussual hacky slashy goreathon. But a major irony I've seen in my travels, that movie has been offered in Hotels. Now honestly, isn't this the one movie that shouldn't be seen in Hotels?

It really comes down to what you're looking for. I'm more a fan of Psychological horror - I like the Saw movies, 1408 - basically movies where the killers motivations are more complex than "I'll kill them cause they're dumb enough to come into the haunted house, and they quite frankly deserve it."

Khell_Sennet:

cleverlymadeup:
and sorry to say but the descent sucked

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smuttbullen:
Evil dead is the scariest movie I've seen, but then again, I don't watch to many horror films.

Evil Dead I, II, and Army of Darkness are comedy films, not horror.

Evil Dead I is a horror movie, watch it again and you should agree that there's nothing Raimi put in as a joke, but the second movie had a gear change. 'Tis all good, though.
On topic, I believe any movie Uwe Boll has directed has been a nightmare from his first day in the chair.

Can I just ask why people think The Descent sucked? I really think the film's great and can't understand why so many people dislike it.

I don't watch horror movies for two reasons.

I'm a tremendous pansy.

and

Most of them are poorly written, gore fest, torture porn sessions of mind boggling frustration and/or terribly written japanese horrors the revolve around "Hey look there while the music spikes. NOthing's there lol, now look behind you so you can get murdered by the ghost of a japanese woman".

The last great one I saw was the Ring. It wasn't OMG scary, but it set the perfect tone for horror, made you fear a household object, and was very well written.

I've seen Saws 1-3 and a bit of 4, and of all of them, only Saw 1 was any good. It brought something new, was pretty scary, had some good plot twists that kept you guessing (the ending in particular), and focused more on terrifying you out of doing wrong then showering the screen with blood.

Then came along the other movies, and messed everything up. Thanks Saw 2, I was almost starting to like you.

Suspense > Bloodiness.

As an example using video games...
Resident Evil. It isn't scary when you are mowing down fields of zombies.
Silent Hill. It is scary when you hear the scraping of the Great Knife, but you don't know where it's coming from.

My type of horror movies are the ones where the baddie (Yes, I said baddie. So what if I love that word?) is around the corner, lying in wait, rather than is already driving his massive chainsaw into your trachea.

I have to say Alien and The Thing were the scariest movies I have ever seen, and I have watched them all!

Most remakes just sucked, especially the one for Halloween, it wasn't scary it was just alot more violent, that goes for Saw too. Some remakes are good like The Ring, thats all I can think of right now.

And The Descent was not bad, not great but it definitely has a good atmosphere for a horror movie.

Spektre41:
I don't watch horror movies for two reasons.

I'm a tremendous pansy.

and

Most of them are poorly written, gore fest, torture porn sessions of mind boggling frustration and/or terribly written japanese horrors the revolve around "Hey look there while the music spikes. NOthing's there lol, now look behind you so you can get murdered by the ghost of a japanese woman".

The last great one I saw was the Ring. It wasn't OMG scary, but it set the perfect tone for horror, made you fear a household object, and was very well written.

I've seen Saws 1-3 and a bit of 4, and of all of them, only Saw 1 was any good. It brought something new, was pretty scary, had some good plot twists that kept you guessing (the ending in particular), and focused more on terrifying you out of doing wrong then showering the screen with blood.

Then came along the other movies, and messed everything up. Thanks Saw 2, I was almost starting to like you.

You would probably enjoy 1408, then. There isn't much, if any gore, but there is a lot of psychological horror going on.

It's not a movie, but the play "The Woman In Black" is brilliant. There is one scene where the main character is asleep in the haunted house for about 3 minutes. Nothing happens at all, and everyone is scared to hell when he wakes up screaming. It's great because it is suspense, not gore.

I don't tend to scare during a film, but after it takes me ages to get to sleep through totally irrational fear (and I strangely don't haven nightmares, so it's possibly worse to be scared awake than asleep).

However, alien/supernatural horrors (still need to see Alien...) freak me out the most, and I saw The Shining when I was 13/14 (2nd horror I ever saw) and that creeped me out for a week after seeing it.

The ONLY horror movie that I've actually liked was 1408. Most of them are just terribly made movies based on a stupid premise. That said, some people call movies like Aliens or Dawn of the Dead horror movies, and I do like those.

Scary films just don't scare me. I love to watch them, but it's more for the spectacle of the whole thing, but horror films never actually did more than the occaisional making me jump slightly in my seat because "Lol, Monster jumps through window out of nowhere!"

The original Grudge film from Japan was probably the closest thing I had to scaring me, but I was actually more confused than scared, because the "ghosts" in that film killed indiscriminately and without any sense of justice to the killings. It was pretty much anyone who was unlucky or stupid enough to stumble into that house they inhabited.

Strafe Mcgee:
Can I just ask why people think The Descent sucked? I really think the film's great and can't understand why so many people dislike it.

It was just... bad. 75% of it was 'character building' stuff, and the last 25% was them facing off with things which weren't really that scary at all. It brought nothing new to the table, aside from the dodgy 'fake ending' which did little more than provide a bit of a filler.

thebobmaster:
Probably the creepiest movie I've seen recently is 1408. It is rather subtle horror, but my sister, who doesn't even like scary movies, thought it was very well done.

Urrrrghhh...
1408 is lame compared to the original book. Try and get a copy of Stephen King's original. That's class.

Larenxis:

I was astonished that I liked the American version better. The Japanese one wasn't edited very well, and everyone was psychic. Well, maybe not everyone, but pretty close.

Me as well Larenxis, the book is superior, but the American film is just so much better shot.