To ask what your favourite horror movie is?

[Frosty66612]

I love scary films and am looking for some inspiration for ones to download. I like any from psychological thrillers, to paranormal ones, to gory serial killer ones. Please let me know your favourites

• IT Follows, one of the best I have seen
• Saw. The first one only, seriously jumpy.
• Alien
• American Horror Story season 1 and 2

I find very few films disturbing but was left with a weird sense of unease after I watched 'It Follows' - fabulously bizarre and creepy film!

The devils background- spainish film has subtitles- so good!

Veronica on Netflix

The original haunting

The Exorcist 3. Brad Dourif is excellent. It's like a creepy supernatural horror meets a crime thriller. Not what you would expect for an exorcist sequel.

The Babadook stuck with me for a long time.

The original Fright Night.

Not technically a film but the 1992 bbc Halloween special Ghostwatch creeps me out. Pipes is terrifying.

Outpost is really creepy.

Loads of good suggestions, thanks guys!
For those who have recommended The Strangers - the second one is out at the cinema at the moment. Can’t wait to see it

All of them!!

Martyrs

It’s French (subtitled) best film ever, very gory but a great storyline, I only like horror films that could be real (if it couldn’t happen it’s not scary so no ghosts/zombies etc)

Hi all, The Wicker Man (original) / Witchfinder General / Suspira / Battle Royale

Suspiria is my favourite, but others by the same director are well worth a watch - try Tenebre and Deep Red (Profondo Rosso).

If you liked Saw, try Amusement.

Martyrs is great. Frontiers and Haute Tension also worth watching.

Last Train to Busan.

Howl, Stake Land, Digging Up The Marrow good creature features.

Downrange (on shudder) and Deck the halls (iTunes) are delightfully mean-spirited.

Ring, the original Japanese film of Koji Suzuki's novel was brilliant - much scarier, I thought, than the American remake (The Ring).

John Carpenter's The Fog - i can still barely watch it. Saw it when i was 10yo and didn't sleep for 3 days straight.

John Carpenter's The Thing - spiderhead is still my favourite scene!

The Devil's Backbone (Spanish)
The Orphanage (Spanish)
Pan's Labrynth (Spanish)
Thesis (Spanish - spot a theme? )

30 Days of Night had truly scary vampires - none of those Emo-types from Twishite.

Dark Water (Japanese). We saw it in 2004 and DH is still sometimes scared of the bathroom

Woman in Black (80s tv version), saw it on Channel 4 around 1988, still sends shivers down my spine.

Unfortunately i don't get the love for The Shining.

My favourites are;

The Shining
silence of the lambs
The changeling
Shutter Island
The Last Exorcism

I am suggesting Borderlands, although I havent seen it. I read a review and it seemed too much for me. I really like watching horror films but they do upset me and as someone who is awake a lot in the night I don't need that!
Others than are nasty are The Witch (VVitch) and a really horrible one with Ethan Hawke. I think there are sequels but I have only seen the first and I am a little sad I have remembered it because it was horrible.

Eden lake is brilliant as it's so lifelike

borderlands is vv good but my fav is the old hairy poltergeist and the original the Haunting. two films I will watch over and over

Found it....Sinister. I thought is was horrible, which means good for a horror I suppose!

Oh Jesus yes the Mothman prophesies I just got a shiver reading that

Audition. The scene with the needles......

John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness, cheesy but freaks me out.

Event Horizon as well.

A Nightmare on Elm Street will always be a favourite. I watched it when I was a child. I don't find a lot of horror films scary. But, apart from the blood and gore, the idea that someone kills you in your dreams was very scary.
Hush is a good thriller. Deaf woman all by herself in a house in the woods. Serial killer decides to have some fun with her

Can I also second Mother! It was like hyperventilation in film form. I felt such anxiety and stress. At times I couldn't believe what I was watching as the escalation of events was insane. Have you seen that op, because it's a different kind of horror/psychological thriller than anything I have seen before.

Have any of you seen the Hellraiser films from the 80s? I don’t find them scary now but I watched the first one when I was 11 at a sleepover and Pinhead scared the life out of me

Lost Boys.
And that's as close to horror as I like to get .....

It Follows (unsettling)
The Mist (great ending)
Pet Sematary (fabulously schlocky)

Yes to a few mentioned already
The Orphanage, Devils Backbone, The Haunting.
Mama was good, but the short film it was based on gave me the creeps.