Genuinely scary horror movies

Henry

Original chainsaw

Exorcist

Pet Semetary

Original Last house on left

Signs at theatre

Night of the living dead remake
 
28 days later
Hereditary
Sinister (ending sucked)
Aliens
The Conjuring
Insidious

lots more im not thinking of
 
Alien - absolute classic
28 Days Later - 1st time I saw zombies running and the thought of that is scary af
Dog Soldiers - I actually don't remember a thing about this movie except rather liking it so I'm just gonna leave this here for you guys to find out.
Some of those Japanese and Thai movies.

I'm genuinely baffled by Get Out. It's a good movie, but definitely more of a thriller than a horror.
And Insidious is truly one of the crappiest "horror" movies I've ever seen. I don't understand how it gets such good reviews.

Dog Soldiers is a fucking classic.
 
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A bunch of solid flicks have been name already...

The most recent horror movie I really enjoyed was the "The Autopsy of Jane Doe".

Wouldn't mind seeing a sequel to this movie.
 
Not a single mention of one of the scariest films ever made?

POLTERGEIST
 
I must say that "28 weeks later" also freaked me the fuck out ..
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A bunch of solid flicks have been name already...

The most recent horror movie I really enjoyed was the "The Autopsy of Jane Doe".

Wouldn't mind seeing a sequel to this movie.

I didn't find it scary but I loved the premise to this. I actually enjoyed the first half the most, when the leads are actually performing the autopsy and just uncovering more and more layers to who that woman could have been. The tone reminded me a lot of the movie Oculus, which I also enjoyed.
 
It really all depends on one's own tastes, the mood you are in at the time, your willingness of suspension of disbelief at the time, the atmosphere you are in while watching the movie, and your focus on it. Watching with one or more people, stopping a movie to go to the bathroom or use your phone, watching in the daytime, etc., all these things will hurt your viewing, they take away from your focus on the movie and so your absorption into its' world. If you have too much energy you will not really be able to pay enough attention for the movie to do its' thing.


My tastes usually tend to be slower, weirder and creepier films with plenty of ambiguity, and enough attachment to some semblance of reality to be relatable (even if the film is surreal you can blend the surreal and real enough for both aspects to work; dreams can feel both real and unreal at the same time for instance). I also tend to favor films with a heavy sense of dread and a sort of atmosphere of evil rather than have the focus be on entities representing the evil. Even serial killer films like Henry., River's Edge, or Silence of the Lambs have an omnipresent feeling of an evil presence that is more than just contained in the actual killers. I also heavily favor film over digitally shot movies as there's just something too slick and almost videogame-like and less tactile about the digital medium that makes it feel less real in many instances (found footage can still work, and one of my favorite horror films in Session 9 was shot digitally, but it didn't try to replicate film and almost looks like found footage).
That said it's difficult for me to recommend things because I know not everyone will be able to experience the movies like I have and heck one may have an initial viewing that just didn't click but on a different occasion it may click. I'll see what I can round up though.
 
It really all depends on one's own tastes, the mood you are in at the time, your willingness of suspension of disbelief at the time, the atmosphere you are in while watching the movie, and your focus on it. Watching with one or more people, stopping a movie to go to the bathroom or use your phone, watching in the daytime, etc., all these things will hurt your viewing, they take away from your focus on the movie and so your absorption into its' world. If you have too much energy you will not really be able to pay enough attention for the movie to do its' thing.


My tastes usually tend to be slower, weirder and creepier films with plenty of ambiguity, and enough attachment to some semblance of reality to be relatable (even if the film is surreal you can blend the surreal and real enough for both aspects to work; dreams can feel both real and unreal at the same time for instance). I also tend to favor films with a heavy sense of dread and a sort of atmosphere of evil rather than have the focus be on entities representing the evil. Even serial killer films like Henry., River's Edge, or Silence of the Lambs have an omnipresent feeling of an evil presence that is more than just contained in the actual killers. I also heavily favor film over digitally shot movies as there's just something too slick and almost videogame-like and less tactile about the digital medium that makes it feel less real in many instances (found footage can still work, and one of my favorite horror films in Session 9 was shot digitally, but it didn't try to replicate film and almost looks like found footage).
That said it's difficult for me to recommend things because I know not everyone will be able to experience the movies like I have and heck one may have an initial viewing that just didn't click but on a different occasion it may click. I'll see what I can round up though.

I recommend: The House That Jack Built
 
I watched Blair Witch at the drive in when it came out. I knew nothing about it beforehand. And no one had ever done a lost footage movie before.
So I was pretty much completely hooked that this was a legit camera found and now being shown as a movie. Thus I was pretty damn terrified watching the movie. At one point a large black dog decided to jump up on my car door and look into my car. I have to say that was the closest I have ever come to having a code brown.
 
I recommend: The House That Jack Built

Not generally a big fan of Von Tier but I'v seen a few recommendations of that.

I do think that most of the best horror of the past couple of decades has been more on the arthouse side though. The problem IMHO is that at some point in the early 00's the genre increasingly shifted towards catering for lowest common denominator "horror fans" who were happy with the same teen slasher/jump scare stuff being recycled endlessly.

Used to be people like Friedkin, Kubrick, Polanski, Scott, Cronenberg, Alan Parker plus of course Carpenter were making mainstream horror films, directors with real skill at the peak of their careers were as these days that rarely happens. Its a genre full of somewhat competent but ultimately bland directors working to order, hence why so many modern remakes turn out to be sub standard compared to stuff like The Fly, The Thing, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, etc

Arthouse horror like Under the Skin, Berberian Sound Studio, Killing of a Sacred Deer, etc is much more following in the footsteps of a lot of 70's and 80's classics for me.
 
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