Me and my mate have been staying up late recently watching some horror films (with a few cans of fosters :P) and we are now getting a bit stuck for any good horror films... So far in the past couple of days we've watched:

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original one)

Saw I-IV

Hostel (regrets -_-)

Shaun of the Dead

Scary Movie 2 (that wasnt so much horror but you know..

 

and now tonight we are planning on watching:

The Exorcist

Scary Movie 4

The Grudge (if i can find it)

Severance (not so much scary)

 

 

so does anyone know/recommend any GOOD horror films? Nothing like Hostel please...

Halloween

The Ring

Nightmare On Elm Street

 

:D

If you're looking for a good British horror film then i'd definitely reccomend Wilderness. Someone on here was talking about it, and then I decided to buy it and it really is British horror at its best.

 

28 Days Later and 28 Weeks later are both VERY good too. I like the Final Destination series too if you've got already seen those.

will have a look for those films thanks Rooney :)

 

David - ive seen the first two but somehow Nightmare hasnt entered our minds :o

If your mind can be easily fooled, then I suggest the Blair Witch Project. :lol:

If you can be bothered to watch films that were made in black and white and over 40 years old - try the original 'The Haunting'. You don't see any blood, guts or gore - all the scares are provided by the atmosphere and the soundtrack (and the brilliant acting of the lead actress Julie Harris). Its generally acknowledged as one of the best horror films ever ... and the fact that it was directed by the same bloke who directed probably the two best musicals ever makes it even more amazing.

 

There's probably only another three posters on Buzzjack who've ever seen it - most of the others will have seen that bloody awful abomination of a remake with Catherine Zeta Jones and Liam Neeson.

 

Norma

Here's a few for you to try out...

 

Kairo (Pulse) - the Japanese one, not that bloody abomination "Pulse" that was remade by Hollywood a few years back

The Eye (Pang Brothers original)

Tetsuo - The Iron Man (weird, surreal and horrifying)

Eraserhead (ditto)

The Brood/Scanners/Rabid/Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg at his best)

Rinne (Resurrection) - BLOODY SCARY Japanese horror from the bloke who did "Ju On - The Grudge"

[Rec] - "Blair Witch", only a LOT better....

Cannibal Holocaust - Pretty damned unrelentingly nasty

Suspiria/Deep Red/Tenabrae/Inferno/Bird With The Crysal Plumage - Dario Arganto's finest hours....

Dumplings (strange and quite twisted Thai horror film)

Wolf Creek

Frontiere(s) - Really fukked-up French take on "Texas Chainsaw Massacre"

Haute Tension (UK title "Switchblade Romance" for some weird reason....) - A quite brilliant take on the "slasher" genre with one hell of a twist in the tail....

Calvaire (very weird Belgian horror film....)

Onibaba/Kwaidan (VERY creepy and atmospheric old Japanese horror films..)

^i was waiting for your list of good horror films cos you usually have a good sense of the film industry :D thanks

^i was waiting for your list of good horror films cos you usually have a good sense of the film industry :D thanks

Cheers mate... ^_^

 

You should take on board Norma's recommendation as well though.. The original "Haunting" really is a bloody marvelous horror film, a masterpiece....

 

I left out a couple that I just thought of - "Don't Look Now".. Brilliant stuff with a fantastic ending which you'll never forget.... And the quite astounding "El Orfanato" (the Orphanage)... Knows how to be bloody scary, but it also has a real heart and a tragic ending which will honestly have you shedding a few tears....

^lol ill have look for them. im trying to broaden out my sense of film since i will be studying film studies next year :D

If you haven't already watched it I'd reccomend ''The Descent'', very suspensful and has some good scares. One of my fave horror movies actually!

If you haven't already watched it I'd reccomend ''The Descent'', very suspensful and has some good scares. One of my fave horror movies actually!

 

Yep, that's a good 'un.. Shame the director's new one - "Doomsday" - is kind of poo....

 

More sci fi than out and out horror but see Alien if you haven't already

 

ORIGINAL version of Evil Dead/The Hillls Have Eyes

More sci fi than out and out horror but see Alien if you haven't already

 

ORIGINAL version of Evil Dead/The Hillls Have Eyes

 

I loved the Evil Dead (first one - although the sequels were pretty good - and the third one The Mediaeval Dead was hilarious).

 

I didn't like the original HHE - I didn't think it was particularly scary.

 

I'd also recommend (although its been recommended in another thread some while back now) John Carpenter's The Thing. A curio in that the remake was if not better (though I think it was) then certainly scarier than the original.

 

Norma

 

I didn't like the original HHE - I didn't think it was particularly scary.

 

I'd also recommend (although its been recommended in another thread some while back now) John Carpenter's The Thing. A curio in that the remake was if not better (though I think it was) then certainly scarier than the original.

 

Norma

 

I never really saw Craven's "Hills Have Eyes" as being a 'horror' film tbh.. Always saw it more as a companion to films like "Deliverance"..... The remake of HHE was definitely more 'horror' though.. And, up until you started seeing the rather silly OTT CGI effects of the "monsters", it was doing pretty damn well in creating tension and a mood and atmosphere... Certainly a lot better than just about any other remake.....

 

Carpenter's "The Thing" is absolutely fantastic, just showing what you can do with a remake when you have someone who actually understands the genre (same goes for David Cronenberg's superior remake of "The Fly") being involved.... You could never get CGI to create more gut-wrenching horror effects than Stan Winston and his team of artists achieved.... The scene with the decapitated human head sprouting spider legs and then scuttling off is something I will NEVER forget as long as I live.....

 

something tells me that if i see all these films ill be having trouble sleeping :P Half Term is just around the corner so ill catch up with this list soon :P

Since it hasn't been mentioned, I have to add Kubrick's The Shining. It is truly the work of a genius. Utterly terrifying nearly the entire way through.

I dont know how good it is (Coz i havent seen it yet) but [Rec] looked pretty damned Scary! and apparently the zombie thing in Night vision is something like youve never seen before! Gutted it only stayed at my cinema for a week! :( I was gonna watch it the day after it got taken off! :angry: :lol:

I am a big horror fan..here are some of my favourites that I have watched over the past few years.

 

The ordeal (although its in French, still a really good film with english subtitles)

House of wax 2005

Wrong turn (only the 1st one. the 2nd is c**p)

Maniac

Last house on the left

Wilderness (one of the best horrors out there)

Severance

 

 

I never really saw Craven's "Hills Have Eyes" as being a 'horror' film tbh.. Always saw it more as a companion to films like "Deliverance"..... The remake of HHE was definitely more 'horror' though.. And, up until you started seeing the rather silly OTT CGI effects of the "monsters", it was doing pretty damn well in creating tension and a mood and atmosphere... Certainly a lot better than just about any other remake.....

 

Carpenter's "The Thing" is absolutely fantastic, just showing what you can do with a remake when you have someone who actually understands the genre (same goes for David Cronenberg's superior remake of "The Fly") being involved.... You could never get CGI to create more gut-wrenching horror effects than Stan Winston and his team of artists achieved.... The scene with the decapitated human head sprouting spider legs and then scuttling off is something I will NEVER forget as long as I live.....

 

I think I agree with your comparison of HHE to Deliverance - that's what I would have rated it as (though not nearly as good as Deliverance or even Southern Comfort). I've not seen the remake but I have been assured from several sources that it is pretty scary.

 

I love that scene in The Thing - the head/spider effect ... but it was David Clennon's character catching a glimpse of it and saying the best line of the film 'You've gotta be f/cking kidding me!'

 

I do love Cronenberg's The Fly - the one thing it had in common with the original though was the pathos. You actually felt sorry for the Jeff Goldblum character towards the end - and when the brundlefly became entangled with the pod itself - it was really pathetic and I must admit I shed a tear - I felt so sorry for him/it. And I think Geena Davis's reactions in the film conveyed exactly what the audience was feeling - horror tinged with pity. I felt the same pity for the David Hedison character when I saw the original - the last shot with that human head on a tiny fly - with a big hairy spider approaching it.

 

The only film to scare me in recent years - or rather, disturb rather than scare, was the Australian film 'Wolf Creek'. Absolutely brilliant acting by John Jarrett (apparently this guy wasn't always a full-time actor - yet Tarantino has said he's probably the best Australian actor ever - and with the exception of Jack Thompson - I'd agree).

 

Norma