What's your favourite horror film?

[JorisBonson]

DH and I love horrors but seem to have exhausted Netflix etc - what's your favourite? Any hidden gems we might not have seen?

I don't do well with the Paranormal Activity style films but might be brave / give DH a laugh while I scream.

I forgot about 30 Days of Night, it's one of my favourite films! Ditto Alien/Aliens but probably seen those.

Rec/Rec 2
Event Horizon
It Follows
28 Days Later/28 Weeks Later
Creep
Frozen (not the Disney one!)
Let the Right One In
The Devil's Candy
Funny Games
The Amityville Horror
A Quiet Place
Life
Deliver Us From Evil
Dawn of the Dead
You're Next

I love 'creature feature' movies but they mostly aren't particularly scary - Jaws, Rogue, Lake Placid, The Grey, The Shallows, 47 Meters Down, Deep Blue Sea, Backcountry, Into the Grizzly Maze etc.

Train to Busan
30 days of night
Cabin in the woods
Midsommar
Hereditary
Rec (too scary for me but DH loved it)

Ring - the Japanese version, scariest film ever!

@yodaforpresident

Ring - the Japanese version, scariest film ever!

Second that! Let the right one in (original) is great

All the above plus the black and white original of The Haunting,
Night of the demon
Ghost stories
Bram stokers dracula
An interview with a vampire
The original and the new version of Suspiria

Off the top of my head my favourites are:
Get out
Room 1408
Orphan
Dark skies
Eden Lake
The ruins
Carrie
Wolf creek
It

@Chatanooga1The wickermanis the reason i have a very real phobia of morris dancers. It is a brilliant film but i can't watch the ending.

Christine is good
The Fog (original)

Watched Us recently and found that disturbing.

Love a ghost story but cant be doing with gore and violence. Gore is just so unrealistic and violence upsets me.

@chatanooga1

My word, that took a long time to get a mention. I agree, superb film, (but i could have done without Britt Ekland).

We got sucked into crap Saturday night TV but some great recommendations to go on here!

Also found out DH has never seen Day of the Locusts, which still scares me to this day, so that'll be on soon.

I have a list of horror films I always ask if my friends have seen them when they come round (pre covid obviously) and if not I'll put it on. starting with:

• Nightmare on Elm Street (the 80s version. )
• Halloween (the original is the 1978 one but I think the new one is very good too but needs to be watched in sequence without all the other sequels, so just 78 and 18)
•Insidious (watch the whole series, the sequels aren't as good as the first but I love all the twists and links.) (it is quite spooky and ghostly but really really good too)
• An American werewolf in London.
• Friday the 13th (the first is the best but they are all worth a watch, apart from the remake which is shocking.)
•Childs play (it's a bit mental and disturbing but if you can get past that then it's worth a watch)

in case it isn't obvious, I'm a bit of a horror movie fanatic and am now feeling like I wanna go watch a horror film lol.
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Oh yes...insidious and sinister.
Rec is also good, if you can stomach a pandemic, zombie horror!

missed off the shining. typed it and deleted it by accident. I recommend not reading the book if you're watching the film and the film ruined the book for me because as brilliant as the book is (I'm a massive Stephen King fan) the Stanley kubrick film is very different to the book by Stephen King and I struggled to picture what the book was describing. maybe different if you read the book before the movie but I'm not so sure.
I loved the sequel, doctor sleep.
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@Blacktothepink rec has been on my list for a while but I need to pick a brave day from what I've heard!

Have you seen Annihilation? That fucking screaming bear

Rec - or the American remake ‘Quarantine’ is quite good too... almost identical. Not Rec 2 though, that’s crap.
The Descent
Creep
Them
Get Out
His House
Us
The Thing (Kurt Russell version)
Hereditary is good for the first 80%, then is completely stupid.
Wicker Man

Any of the Hammer films that has Peter Cushing in it.

The Legacy....
The Woman in Black (the 1989 version that was originally broadcast on Christmas Eve 1989)

Lady in White (more of a supernatural mystery)

Some of the horror portmanteaus such as Tales That Witness Madness and Dr Terrors House of Horrors.

@Chatanooga1 YES if thats the one with George C Scott in it.

Definitely It Follows. I have dreams of being relentlessly stalked so I found it very scary.

@PeskyRooks

Oh yes Ghost Stories is brilliant DentonsFringeArnottsWaistcoat!

I think it’s also desperately sad. As is The Babadook (and Pan’s Labyrinth, but that’s not really a horror, though it should be given the real life period of history it encompasses)

Can Silence of The Lambs be a horror, still scares/un nerves me nearly 30 years later (yep!) even though I know Dr Hahn from Greys (sorry I mean Catherine Martin) gets out of the pit and keeps the dog.

Things I’ve watched/rewatched recently:

Unfriended
Unfriended Dark Web
Thirteen Ghosts
Any and all zombie films

I watched Brightburn last night. It was very good and different

My favourite films are in English, Eden lake, and Japanese, battle royale.
I hate supernatural, just because I don’t find it in the least bit scary. I prefer more “realistic” horror on the whole, the fact that something “could” happen is the scary part for me, for example the hostel films. Although I did like the human centipede, which I hope wouldn’t ever happen!

I'm trying to think of ones that havent been listed.
The Girl With All The Gifts.
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
Splinter
Monsters.
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