Best scary films? What should we watch?

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I really enjoyed The Witch, for example, are there any other films with a similar vibe? I found it very atmospheric and unsettling.

Also open to lots of other types! What scary films do you recommend?

Absolutely agree 🤜🏻

Agree re Hereditary. It was shockingly dull and criminally overrated

The First Power, 1990. Lou Diamond Phillips.

Snowbeast, 1977. Michael J. London.

Original Woman in Black
The Vanishing ( Spoorloos ) original Dutch not the dreadful remake
The Ring and The Grudge, I enjoyed both original and remakes
Sinister
Insidious
Shutter ( original )
The Exorcist obviously. Groundbreaking horror
Exorcist 3 scared the 💩 out of me
Audition
Rosemarys Baby
Blair Witch Project
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The Exorcist (original)

The Omen (original)

The Shining

Poltergeist

The Menu (pretty recent, with Ralph Fiennes). It's not 'jump out of your skin' scary (some excellent plot twists), but if you don't read a detailed synopsis first then it's shocking and disturbing in the sense that you could imagine a highly strung chef becoming unhinged.

Dog Soldiers

Apostle

Go East Asian. Most new horrors have left me quite meh, but East Asian ones are good.
They are just... Different.

Agree on Hereditary being dull as fuck.

Conjuring series
Sinister was good
Some King's novels were made into good ones I even enjoyed the new IT and I am usually more into old versions

I found ‘Us’ (the Jordan Peele film starring Lupita Nyong’o) genuinely terrifying - and brilliantly made.

It’s on telly tonight if you fancy never ever being able to look at scissors again without reminding yourself of the fear caused by this film (BBC2, 9pm).

Does Parasite count as horror🙈

Midsommar (as others mentioned). Amazing cult like wicker man film.

The love witch (70s style)

In fabric (amazing director Peter Strickland)

Just binge watched new series the fall house of usher on Netflix...brilliant.

Too many to mention really...

Some good recommendations here. I would add:

Saint Maud
Censor
The Feast
The Wailing
Noroi: the curse
Lords of Chaos
Suspiria 2018
A wounded fawn
X
Pearl

The Thing (1970s version) is really good. Creeping paranoia and body horror. You also get a young and very sexy Kurt Russell as well.

Get Out is brilliant. I'd also add The Hunt for those who like their horror with social commentary.

Obviously the Alien trilogy as well, although apart from the first, they're not straight horror.

The top 2 definitely have that unsettling vibe you’re looking for and are made by British female filmmakers which is cool

The Exorcist (original).
The Exorcist 3.
The Blair Witch Project.
The Wicker Man.
Midsommar.
The Babadook (really stuck with me that one, so much so I've only watched it once.)
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Ghostwatch (the infamous 1992 bbc Halloween special staring Sarah Greene and Michael Parkinson, it's very dated now but if you look past that to the actual story it's very scary, I still can't listen to 'round and round the garden' without getting creeped out).
An American Werewolf in London.
Nosferatu.

Ha!! Ghostwatch!! That i forgotten about. I thought it was real...until really end.

Oh yes, The Babadook! Really unsettling.

The Girl With All The Gifts is great too.

Would Prevenge count as horror? That's good too.

If people don't fancy subtitles they could watch the american remake of REC which is called quarantine. Its not as good but i did still enjoy it!

Under the shadow (persian) was good.

Oh I'm glad others love [Rec] as much as I do! Don't bother with the sequels, though.

Another unsettling shocker, with an (almost) all female cast is 'The Descent'. Pleasingly horrible.

My favourite ones are:

The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Orphan
It
The Good Son

Creep, a film set on the London film underground. That’s probably the last horror film i watched 😱

I agree Get Out is brilliant

Dog Soldiers
Even Horizon
Rosemary's Baby
The Sadness
The Visit
Sinister
The Shining
Last Train To Busan
Midsommar
Bed Rest
Oh I could go on and on!

Event Horizon!