To kick off October, is there a horror film you're particularly fond of? I've come to like the genre in recent years (more so the psychological variety, not really into slashers), and have seen probably a hundred or so in total at this point, with a handful of favorites.
The Shining is number one for me. The artistry, symbolism, allusions and overall presentation are highly appealing, and has a draw to it which I can't fully explain. Almost done reading the novel also, which is itself quite good IMO.
This is one of the most interesting videos I have ever seen in my entire life. If your curiosity is piqued or you share that sense of there being something undefinable but intriguing about the movie, you might be amazed at how much is subliminally there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMxy5zPj1m0&t=3241s
Other favorites/ones that gave a good thrill:
- The Exorcist (1973)
- In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
- Jacob's Ladder (1990)
- Dagon (2001)
- Hereditary (2018)
Anyone else?
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10-01-2021, 08:49 AM #1Registered User
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Is there a horror film you especially like?
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My life is a horror film sometimes. Too many dead people that are renting from me.
But Jacob's Ladder, The Exorcist and The Shining get my votes. The Serpent and the Rainbow gets an honorable mention. So does The Stand.
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10-01-2021, 08:54 AM #3team ketchup
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I don't usually like horror but sometimes it's ok... some others that come to mind:
The Descent
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10-01-2021, 09:19 AM #4Registered User
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Did you watch the sequel, Dr Sleep? It was good.Originally Posted by EliKoehn
Some good ones that you have probably seen(?)
One of my absolute favorites: The Thing (original from 1982 not the new one)
Alien
The various Conjuring universe movies
Child’s Play
The Sixth Sense
28 Days Later
The Ring
Pet Sematary (1989 version)
The netflix show (not a movie) The Haunting of Hill House
Has a crappy rating but I liked it: Truth or Dare
This one scared the **** out of my wife: The Autopsy of Jane DoeLast edited by EiFit91; 10-01-2021 at 09:26 AM.
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10-01-2021, 09:40 AM #5Registered User
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I'm an avid fan of the horror/thriller genre; I love flicks from all across the spectrum. "The Shining" is one of my favorite films, regardless of the genre.Originally Posted by EliKoehn
Here's a few I enjoyed that kind of fly under the radar:
"Session 9" (2001) (This one is exceptional!)
"Sinister" (2012)
"Ghost Story" (1981)
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I like the first friday the 13th
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The original Alien ('79) was good, although that's a cross between horror and sci-fi.
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The Thing by John Carpenter
I still have dreams that people I know are actually The Thing...
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10-01-2021, 11:03 AM #9
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Anyways, prob really fuked up movies like requiem for a dream, clockwork orange, Jacob's Ladder, mother etcSuperHercules crew
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House on Haunted Hill freaked me the Fuk out , ded srs . I think it actually has left permanent damage to my nervous system .
The Thing was pretty good too, the effects were top notch imo .
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10-01-2021, 11:24 AM #11Han shot first!
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To make it nutrition related, I'll throw in The Fly (Jeff Goldblum) The scene when he starts eating like a fly was something else.
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The Shining is by far and away the GOAT & it’s not even remotely fuking close.
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See, I hate that movie because it actually freaks me outOriginally Posted by Strawng
I can only stand horror movies that ALMOST freak me out... hah"When I die, I hope it's early in the morning so I don't have to go to work that day for no reason"
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10-01-2021, 02:29 PM #14Super Spreader
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Yep, Alien is a great suspense/terror/sci fi.Originally Posted by paulinkansas
I also really appreciate Psycho and everything else Alfred Hitchcock did for the genre, if he didn’t basically create it with that movie.
Sometimes with these films, its where you watched them the first time that gives you “terror nostalgia”. Like for example the first time I saw Blair Witch Project was camping out in the woods. Not the scariest of movies but trying to sleep in a camper in the middle of nowhere afterwards every sound creeps you out.2 time survivor of The Great Misc Outages of 2022
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Lots of really good movies above, so I'll suggest some non-favorites that are still entertaining and maybe less seen here:
- For Alien(s) fans: Event Horizon will have you saying "wtf?" several times during the film
- For Conjuring fans: The recent Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It is much better than the trailer looked. The recordings, pics & news articles of the real people and events shown in the credits are a creepy bonus.
- For anyone: Hereditary is very good if you like creepy and disturbing.
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10-01-2021, 03:34 PM #16based on actual events
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Yes, really love the genre when it’s done right. Will definitely 2rd, 3th, and 4st Hereditary because it’s probably the best all around horror film. Some other good recommendations
- Insidious
- The Skeleton Key
- Shutter Island
- Hide and Seek is pretty good for psychological thriller
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10-01-2021, 04:06 PM #17Super Spreader
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Also any video by those Hodge twins or whatever their name was.
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ah forgot this one... liked it a lotOriginally Posted by jtaylor2010
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Nikocado Avocado also is a great horror channelOriginally Posted by desslok
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10-01-2021, 06:39 PM #20Time is Muscle
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Not ranked:
The Shining, no doubt. There is a lot of subtlety in that film which is really interesting. Bald black Halloran vs. bald white Grady, Jack and Danny in the middle.
The Conjuring, though I hadn't seen a horror flick in a long time when I watched it and was pretty impressionable.
Cujo, really, really scared me in the theater as as kid. Walked out shaking. Ironically I'm currently getting a rabies vax cycle bcz of the stupid family dog.
Real-life horror stories freak me out more than movies, though. Serial killers, abductions, and random murderers.Once upon a time (maxes 2020) ...
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This guy’s channel has some good horror stories..supposedly all true..
https://youtube.com/c/MrBallen
Also OP, the Shining is Kubrick’s confession of filming the moon landing. All sorts of clues if you know where to lookLast edited by Paul Kreul; 10-01-2021 at 07:31 PM.
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I can't.Originally Posted by snailsrus
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You're not missing anything. Just mostly illiterate degenerates over there. Here there are mostly intelligent degenerates.Originally Posted by air2fakie
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Well, I am truly somewhat surprised that The Shining has such high repute on this forum. It's a template for so many themes, a set piece of the insanity with which we're somehow indulged to sympathize.
The Thing (1982) wasn't one of my favorites, even though the effects were incredible; something about "Oh no! It's an invasive agent, and it could be anyone" is just kind of simplistic for me, even though everything about the movie was above average IMO.
Hereditary was disturbing but well-done. Next to The Exorcist, I can't think of a movie involving spirits as unsettling and impactful.
@Snails, Requiem for a Dream was one of a few that made me break down and cry before it was over. I wouldn't call it horror so much as pure tragedy. Sadness is a little easier of an emotion to model and exploit than fear, I think. The scene where he thinks he's meeting her on the beach and once he reaches her, falls off the pier into his dingy prison hospital bed and the surgeon says she will find her for him, when that's obviously untrue, was sickening. Clockwork Orange was more of a set-piece for raw human nature IMO, not really "fukked up" so much as trying to idealize the point of default by exposition.Bench: 350
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Hah, I wasn’t complaining just answering her Q.Originally Posted by paulinkansas
Watch it again as a comedy and tell me Jack Nicholson doesn’t crack you up in every scene, especially when he’s slowly following Olive Oyl up the stairs.Originally Posted by EliKoehn
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10-03-2021, 06:27 AM #27Formerly grouchyjarhead
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Most of my favorites are already mentioned. I just started watching It (1990) this morning though, been a while. Not as good as I remembered scare-wise but still good.
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Hell House LLC, but I love a decent found footage horror film, not a genre for everyone.
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I though the new It movies did a much better job than the original. Going back and watching the original is kind of disappointing to me, but that’s the case with lots of old horror films. One that surprisingly kept its appeal was Nightmare on Elm Street 5. It’s done like an actual dream and jumps around which kind of pulls you in and makes you get lost in direction.Originally Posted by GrouchyUSMC
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From a different era, Silence of the Lambs and Se7en. Last Saturday I was at an estate auction in some converted apartments in a downtown district. It was creepy, like in the set of Se7en.
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