[Movies] Good horror film?

[jries]

Hello all, I am on a quest to find a horror film that is actually scary. I want to know that I'm not desensitized to horror movies nowadays. I've been watching quite a few movies recently, including the "scariest movie ever!" Paranormal Activity series...lets just say I laughed at almost all the "scares." I'm not going to list all of the horror films I've seen, because that would be quite a list...but some of the more recent have been: [Rec]/[Rec2] (awesome movies, but not really scary), The Ring series, a few of the Friday the 13th films, Nightmare on Elm Street, the Host, and many, many more. So, throw me your best MMO-Champion legion, scare me! I want to feel my heart racing, I want to feel it in my throat! Show me that movies can still be scary!


Thanks!
The List So Far
Grave Encounters - Watched
Event Horizon
Blairwitch Project - Watched
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Watched
The Hills Have Eyes - Watched
Drage Me to Hell
Candyman
The Crazies - Watched
My Soul to Take
Trick R Treat
Scream (Series) - Watched
Daybreakers
Devil
The Box
Let Me In/ Let the Right on In
30 Days of Night - Watched
Zombieland - Watched
Darkness Falls
28 Days Later - Watched
28 Weeks Later - Watched
The Descent - Watched
Audition - Watched
In the Mouth of Madness
The Machinist - Watched
Hellraiser
Saw (1) - Watched
The Exorcist - Watched
The Exorcist 3
The Grudge (Ju on)
Lake Mungo
A Serbian Film - Watched
Pet Semetary - Watched
Children of the Corn - Watched
The Thing - Watched
Halloween (series) - Watched
The Human Centipede (1 and 2) - Watched
Faces of Death
Philosophy of a Knife
Cannibal Holocaust
Cloverfield - Watched
Midnight Meat Train - Watched
Tokyo Gore Police
Funny Games - Watched
1408
Frontiers
Martyr
Inside
The Collector
Last House on the Left - Watched
Braindead
Evil Dead
I Spit on your Grave
Feast
Eden Lake
Hostel (1 and 2) - Watched
Cube
The Devils Rejects - Watched
House of 1k Corpses - Watched
Switchblade Romance
The Omen (original)
Shutter
Wishing Stairs
Alone
High Tension
Nightbreed
Insidious - Watched
Videodrome
Seven
The Devil's Backbone
The Orphanage
Fragile
8 Films to Die For (first two sets)
The Abandoned
Gravedancers
Wicked Little Things
Borderland
The Deaths of Ian Stone
Mulberry Street
Tooth and Nail
Reincarnation
Dark City
Pan's Labrynth
Session 9 - Watched
The Shrine
The Curse
The Shining - Watched
R.O.T.O.R.
Bloodsucking Freaks
Beware Children at Play
Nailgun Massacre
Gingerbread Man
Arachnophobia
Noroi
The Mist
Jaws/Deep Blue Sea - Watched
The Ruins
The Fog (original)
Eight Legged Freaks
Necromentia
Eyes Without Face
Triangle
[REC] - Watched
I Saw the Devil
Antibodies
In My Skin
The Ward
Frailty
Eraserhead
Innocents
The Ring - Watched
Woman in Black
The Others
Sixth Sense - Watched
The Birds
Poltergeist - Watched
Silent Hill
The Fair Haired Child
Strangers
Open Water - Watched
Creep
The Tingler
The Skeleton Key - Watched
Alien - Watched
Amityville Horror - Watched (both)
The Haunting in Connecticut
An American Haunting
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Dawn of the Dead - Watched
Kairo
IT - Watched

[Kaharon]

Honestly? Most people (me too) consider paranormal activity as one of the most horrific movies out there. Don't know how you watch movies, either with lights on and people around you or just while playing/doing something else. Maybe you just want to show off, doesn't matter.

OT: Event Horizon is one of my favourite, I watched that movie when I was a teenager, (I'm 24 now) and it scared me very good, Blairwitch project 1 is pretty nice, too.

But personally I think you just gonna say "what a sissy movies" because you are so cool and aren't afraid of anything, however, these are the ones with the most horror potential.

[jries]

Honestly? Most people (me too) consider paranormal activity as one of the most horrific movies out there. Don't know how you watch movies, either with lights on and people around you or just while playing/doing something else. Maybe you just want to show off, doesn't matter.

OT: Event Horizon is one of my favourite, I watched that movie when I was a teenager, (I'm 24 now) and it scared me very good, Blairwitch project 1 is pretty nice, too.

But personally I think you just gonna say "what a sissy movies" because you are so cool and aren't afraid of anything, however, these are the ones with the most horror potential.

No, I'm not saying these things to "show off," (I'm terrified of spiders :P )and I watched them with the lights off and the surround sound cranked way up, and no I wasn't doing anything other than watching the film. I think the problem is the fact that I've played many horror VIDEO GAMES, and I need that extra immersion that a game gives me to scare me (Amnesia and the Penumbra series scared the crap out of me)

I'll check out Event Horizon, thanks for the recommendation. Blair Witch was more interesting to me than scary, but to each their own I suppose.

[Cubbydruid]

Hmmm. Ill list some "scary" ones. Then ill list some good ones.

"Scary": Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes, Drag Me To Hell, Martyrs, Candyman, The Crazies (might not be scary, but is good)

Really, none are scary unless you have a heart condition.. but here are some good ones.

My Soul To Take, Trick R Treat, Scream Series, Daybreakers, Devil, The Box, Let Me In, 30 Days of Night, Zombieland, Darkness Falls, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks LAter, The Descent.

I wish I could think of more.. lol, but right now my mind is blank.
My list is based on personal ones that I enjoyed. I tend to like more "B" and "C" type horror movies. I found alot of mine that I have seen my just googling top 25 horror movies of XXXX. Where XXXX = the year. Thats all I did. Hope you find some I like, also enjoyable

[kippi]

The Audition

/thread.

[Kisuro]

In The Mouth Of Madness - severely underrated. It's one of the best horror movies I know - it's genuinely scary (and not just gross, actually scary) and has a nice Lovecraftian vibe to it. And Sam Neill. You can't go wrong with Sam Neill.

Event Horizon - again, it's great at building an actual scary atmosphere instead of just showing gore. And, coincidentally, also has Sam Neill in it

Machinist - worth watching for Christian Bale's performace alone.

Hellraiser (parts 1 and 2 are very good, 3 is ok, 4 is abysmal, 5, 6 and 7 are watchable, 8 is terrible, I refuse to acknowledge the existance of 9).

And if you haven't seen them yet, Saw is a very good movie (part 1 that is, part 2 is ok, then it goes down fast).

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The Crazies (might not be scary, but is good)

The original
The remake is good, but not as good.

[Zeror]

What about?

- The Blair Witch Project
- The Exorcist
- The Grudge (I prefer the original japanese one called Ju-on)
- The Decent

[jries]

In The Mouth Of Madness - severely underrated. It's one of the best horror movies I know - it's genuinely scary (and not just gross, actually scary) and has a nice Lovecraftian vibe to it. And Sam Neill. You can't go wrong with Sam Neill.

Event Horizon - again, it's great at building an actual scary atmosphere instead of just showing gore. And, coincidentally, also has Sam Neill in it

Machinist - worth watching for Christian Bale's performace alone.

Hellraiser (parts 1 and 2 are very good, 3 is ok, 4 is abysmal, 5, 6 and 7 are watchable, 8 is terrible, I refuse to acknowledge the existance of 9).

And if you haven't seen them yet, Saw is a very good movie (part 1 that is, part 2 is ok, then it goes down fast).

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The original
The remake is good, but not as good.

I'll definatly have to check out Event Horizon, second recommendation so far and thanks for the recommendations also. And another point was brought up here: "Scary" movies now are about gore...I don't really find that scary, especially since it's just horribly unrealistic most of the time. I also have to agree with Saw, the original was pretty great.

The Audition

/thread.

That movie was more WTF than scary imo.

[Heartattaq]

bloodhook

[kippi]

That movie was more WTF than scary imo.

I mean we are so desensitized that like some alien jumping around a corner might startle you, but being scared mehh

[Celticmoon]

Lake Mungo was pretty good. The Grudge scared me too, when it came out.

[jries]

I mean we are so desensitized that like some alien jumping around a corner might startle you, but being scared mehh

I agree with this completely. Thank you all for the recommendations so far, writing down a list of movies to watch once it gets a little darker out

[Klausk]

Don't know as in most scary, but as in most disturbing you should definately see "A Serbian Film".

[Vrykolas]

I've been watching quite a few movies recently, including the "scariest movie ever!" Paranormal Activity series...

That's for people who have never seen a scary one before I think ... I saw the first which was a total joke because of the dumb alphamale.

OT: Event Horizon is one of my favourite, I watched that movie when I was a teenager, (I'm 24 now) and it scared me very good, Blairwitch project 1 is pretty nice, too.

This is very strange to me, I remembered watching this in the theatres and not finding it scary at all so I decided to rewatch it a few months ago ... still don't see why it's supposed to be scary it just seems like a normal decent scifi.

I'm very jumpy so I tend to avoid horrormovies but they also interest me, it's a strange connection.

Horror is like humor, it's very subjective so it's hard to give you advice on which ones are good.


I'm still wondering if I should see REC because of this, regarded by many as the most scary movie particulary the last 15m, I've read some really disturbing posts about how it fucked people up, but then again Paranormal Activity 1 also spawned a lot of comments about it being scary and that one did absolutely nothing for me.

[jries]

Don't know as in most scary, but as in most disturbing you should definately see "A Serbian Film".

That movie is the most messed up thing I have ever seen (that isn't real) haha, I would recommend watching it just to see something that puts you in check

I'm still wondering if I should see REC because of this, regarded by many as the most scary movie particulary the last 15m, I've read some really disturbing posts about how it fucked people up, but then again Paranormal Activity 1 also spawned a lot of comments about it being scary and that one did absolutely nothing for me.

Scary? Not really, at least not in my opinion. It is a phenomenal movie though, especially if you watch REC 1 and 2 back to back (About 3 hours long). Judging by you saying they interest you I think you would thoroughly enjoy it. If you've seen Quarantine then you should watch them just to see how much worse the American remake is (Quarantine is a remake of the first REC) the last 15m was pretty awesome and had me on the edge of my seat, but even still, wasn't "scary" so to say.

You're absolutely right in saying Horror is subjective, as well.

[Kenjji]

Drag me to hell was a good watch, maybe not terribly scary but a good movie.

[Kisuro]

And another point was brought up here: "Scary" movies now are about gore...I don't really find that scary, especially since it's just horribly unrealistic most of the time. I also have to agree with Saw, the original was pretty great.

Exactly. This is why I don't really enjoy most of the new "horror" movies, that waste their time with trying to come up with more and more gross ways of killing people. Thatt's not scary. That's disgusting. Yes, it will probably make me want to stop watching and go throw up, but it will not make me scared. I realize gore is part of the horror genre, but it should be a means to an end (namely, scaring the audience) and not an end in itself.

[Kaj392]

Nightmare on Elm Street

I hope for you that you checked the old one's, not the new remake

Drag Me To Hell,

When that dude started to dance, i laughed so hard

The Descent is 'scary' / gross, for the rest, meh. No horror movie is scary anymore...

[Fullgore]

Depends on what you like..
Horrors from the 70's are usually very creepy

Just some random names that come to mind:

Hellraiser
Pet Cemetery
Children of the corn
Poltergeist
The Thing
Halloween movies
The Human Centipede

Gore:
Faces of Death movies
Philosophy of a Knife
Cannibal Holocaust

[DemonFox]

Ju On series are pretty good ( jap versions) 2 was the best imo