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Megathread Scary or horror films

Saw series movies are more like gorentertainment.

"torture porn" is the correct term for it

i finally got around to watching Audition (1999, jp film), its supposedly rated as "one of the best horror films of all time" (and allegedly the female lead was a yandere), but was sorely disappointed, both in the lack of a yandere and it was just weak in general imo
 
Does anyone know the name of an asian film with two dancing girls kept in sort of present boxes in a tent with snow outside and their master and them are involved in a homicidally jealous competition of whom he prefers and then at the end there is this like more normal house scene of saving some piece of jewlery to do with it on a piano or something? Like they are human marionettes
 
Event Horizon straight up disturbed me though. I'll never watch that film again.

Heh, I think that describes the best movies - the ones that mess with your head enough to where you don't think you can watch it again. There are some that are rewatchable fun, but then there are movies leaving you wondering wtf just happened...and do you really want to watch again and figure it out?

..as a kid...Jaws scared the living shit out of me....i thought Jaws was gonna come out the plug hole.....

Modern day horrors go too far with special effects blood and gore and really are not the slightest bit scarey....its the psychology behind a horror that grips me and its hard to find some masterfully done, and when they are they don't appeal to the masses.

I was born and raised in FL. After seeing Jaws as a kid, I hated the beach and don't go in the water unless I have to. Yeah, it was based on real events, and the real events are very rare....but it messed me up for life.

Agree that modern day films rely on effects too often, and as such come up short on story, suspense, and the rest. It becomes a fun ride, not worth repeating. But sometimes, something comes along that seems to set the bar again. I'm still looking for more of those.

1408 (2007) Seen it so many times still creeps me out though, Nightmare fuel.

Pure awesome, IMO. This is one I really DO want to watch a few more times as it just seems to keep pushing his reality a little further at every turn. My favorite moment is when he thinks he's out, but realizes he isn't. Likely on my top 10 list.

Martyrs is the end-all be all of horror films to me. I won't watch it the whole way through ever again.

Saw series movies are more like gorentertainment.

Love the Saw series for fun. Been looking up Martyrs and will watch soon. Props to Ali - didn't know there were two.

i finally got around to watching Audition (1999, jp film), its supposedly rated as "one of the best horror films of all time" (and allegedly the female lead was a yandere), but was sorely disappointed, both in the lack of a yandere and it was just weak in general imo

I actually have watched this one twice, trying to make sure I understood what happened the first time thru. There's sequences that make you wonder if it's a dream or not - things that don't quite flow with following scenes, hence my need to rewatch. Though, like you, I was overall disappointed given the hype surrounding it. My recommendation to others - don't believe the hype. Save it for when your'e more desperate for something, but it shouldn't be high on the list.
 
I have a habit of watching films, and not being able to shut a film down no matter how bad it is - I have to see it to the end. So, I've seen a LOT of crap movies. However, this genre is one of my preferred, and I'm not sure I could even list how many (good or bad) I've seen.

I've seen most of The Shining, but can't say I've seen it all the way thru. Nor can I say I read it, despite being a King fan and reading most of his stuff. I can say I've gotten a tour of the hotel while travelling in Colorado. I've seen most of the other King stories that made it to film. I gotta say, the one on the Top 10 list is "It", but I can't say how much was from reading the book or seeing the original film (looking forward to part 2 of the remake coming out next summer). I was disappointed at some of the adaptations of the film, but nothing can scare you like your own imagination (from reading the story). I liked how it was grounded in 1980's (my era), and the multi-faceted approach of the creature, but it all came down to feeding on fear. Yeah, the end is a bit fantastical, but I could roll with it considering all the horrors it created along the way.

I've sought out torture porn, to see what's out there. Of course, there was 8mm, but I always had the voice in my head saying 'this is only a film', mostly because of Nick Cage as the lead :\. There was a Korean film called The Butcher which was...well, Korean, so you know there is no big names, no big budget, no big story - and yet, this is one I'd like to go back to . Premise is a guy who tortures peole to death and films it all to sell videos. He has a husband and wife he captures and his assistant is filming him as he struggles to come up with new and interesting ways to torture the couple. Not deep, a little creative, but I appreciate what they tried with limited budget. I'm also looking into other films in the genre like I Spit on Your Grave (original and recent remake). Meh...ok. I had more trouble with the original, because I could feel the uncomfortableness of presenting that concept and material back in that era. One that I expected more of, being on that list with Audition of supposed classics, was Salo - a film of excess in degredation, but while it was interesting, it wasn't great.

The Saw series, as well as the first two Human Centipede films (third was very poor), are all fun rides. Each has that shock value when the originals hit the screens, but after that it was just fun romps in the same areas. I'll appreciate the Saw series a bit more for stringing a plot line across multiple films to make you go back and see the connections.

Probably one I'd have in the Top 10 still for being a mindfuck would be A Serbian Film. It's not real deep, and if you don't get pulled in I could see you not getting effected like I did. But I could watch at face value as a man gets used and sucked down in over his head with a bad thing that destroys him and his family. I could also watch as the metaphor it intended as a country screws it's citizens to serve it's own needs, without care of how they are in the end. I think the biggest problem for me was how the family was effected. There were several 'cool' scenes like the normal fun films, but there were parts as this came to a close that started gnawing at me saying 'no, this isn't supposed to happen'.



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I'll go back and check my library for what I've seen and what is to be seen. But this is a good topic for me. I'll be back.
 
The only horror film to really get under my skin (since becoming an adult) was 'The Grudge' - and that was the American remake, I've never seen the original Japanese version and I don't think I want to. It sends chills up my spine just thinking about it...
 
I love this genre immensely. Especially ones with so-called cheap thrills. I watch so many I really can't remember them all.

However in the last few days, I saw The Nun (2018). That was actually pretty good, fuck the critics, a good 6.5/10. I watched I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House (2016) last night, and it was duller than dishwater and zero on the scares scale. 3.5/10 only because I liked the cinematography.
 
Just watched a decent dysfunctional Australian family at Christmas movie called Red Christmas, except this one takes on more sinister overtones with a murderous maniac on the loose. I always loved the dysfunctional family at Christmas genre, horror or otherwise. Two years ago, I went to my mother's and we spent 10 days yelling at each other, culminating in a drunk driving charge for me (which was a nightmare of conflicting jurisdictions given that we live in different states) so I am so glad I don't have to deal with that dysfunctional family at the holidays shit anymore. My father and sister are dead (as are all his siblings save one; she'd invite me to Christmas but my two cousins think I am the scum of the earth for having had a drinking/drug problem and the contempt is mutual. I'm going to throw a nice cut of meat on my father's old George Foreman Grill (which I gave him ironically years ago I think at Christmas and he generously regifted after he died) and think about how much he's enjoying being away from my mother as I am.
 
It wasn't really "SCARY" as it just more so creeped me out with extra lasting creeps lol.

The movie is called "It Follows".

The third time I watched it however, I started to get over the creepiness and realized the movie itself is sorta terrible lol.

Another one was paranormal activity 2. Again, more so the images and general creepiness of it that got me.
 
It Follows was ok, it was decently creepy iirc but other than that kinda lame

i wish i could remember all the ones i watched with my ex, other than Autopsy of Jane Doe (which was good). a lot of them ended up being subpar though
i do remember Oculus, it was an interesting premise but kinda meh

i kept hearing that Oldboy was good, but its just kinda meh revenge porn
 
I kept hearing that Oldboy was good, but its just kinda meh revenge porn

Ha...made the mistake of trying to watch that one, ended up watching Bad Boy Bubby (1993) by mistake. Indeed, a mistake. Premise is similar - locked away for many years, then turned loose. But this was in Australia, the man lived in a basement apt with his mother and her visiting boyfriend. Very off kilter film, without much redeeming qualities.


For the actual Oldboy (2003), I still very much intend to see this one. However, I also see there was a remake Oldboy (2013). Hmmm, originals first, I always say.
 
^ i watched the american version first (2013) because i did not realize there was an original s. korean version (2003). i enjoyed the original one more, that's not to take away from the second version. tathra called it with revenge porn (heh heh) for the second one i think. josh brolin did good considering the script.

The Amityville Horror actually spooked me the first time i watched it. i enjoy horror/slasher/psychological thriller movies and was never really scared by any of them, i'm of the mind ryan reynolds is funny; so to this day i can't understand why it spooked me but i enjoyed the good scare.

Orphan (2009) was a great psychological thriller imo. for me it was something fresh.
 
The Babadook was decent

i vaguely remember watching The Invitation but i dont really remember if it was any good
 
The Amityville Horror actually spooked me the first time i watched it. i enjoy horror/slasher/psychological thriller movies and was never really scared by any of them, i'm of the mind ryan reynolds is funny; so to this day i can't understand why it spooked me but i enjoyed the good scare.

You watched it (YAY) but then mention Ryan Reynolds (he is funny, love him in films) - this indicates you watched the remake (2005) he was in, rather than the original (1979)?
 
^ i watched the original when i was a kid then again after i watched the remake. it is one of the things that got erased from memory due to my trial, i will watch it again.

i think Ryan Reynolds being in the remake threw me off and allowed me to be spooked by it. like illusion magic - distract your attention to one place, grab you by what's going on in another.

currently i'm watching From Dusk till Dawn the series on Netflix. more in depth than the movies were. the whole first season is the first movie but more story telling. i've seen all the movies, good stuff.
 
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It Follows is probably the best horror film I've seen recently. Perfectly creepy, cool idea and executed well, quite unique is some senses.

Geralds game was great too- really creepy, eerie shit.

I love horror and violent films but find most boring- this thread should keep me entertained:)
 
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Down a seedy city street in her neighborhood, young Enola Penny is obsessed with what appears to be a long abandoned theatre. One night, she sees that the front door is slightly ajar and impulsively decides to sneak inside. But there in the dark, decrepit auditorium, a show unlike any other unfolds before her eyes. Its host is an eerie human puppet named Peg Poett who will introduce Penny to six tales of the bizarre: A couple traveling in a remote part of the French Pyrenees cross paths with a lustful witch; A paranoid lover faces the wrath of a partner who has been pushed to her limit; The Freudian dreams of an unfaithful husband blur the lines between fantasy and reality; The horrors of the real world are interpreted through the mind of a child; A woman addicted to other people's memories gets her fix through the vitreous fluid of her victims' eyeballs; And a perverse obsession with sweets turns sour for a couple in too deep. But as the stories unfold, something much stranger is happening to Enola. Something irreversible and horrific. Something that awaits its next audience in THE THEATRE BIZARRE.

7/10. Pretty different since all horror nowadays are all the same and most people only look at titles on Netflix when there are a lot of sites out there that recommends a lot of good ones
 
I have just watched Hereditary and it freaked me out big time especially the scene where the little girl gets decapitated and the son just goes to bed like nothing happened....
 
I have just watched Hereditary and it freaked me out big time especially the scene where the little girl gets decapitated and the son just goes to bed like nothing happened....

id love to know more of your thoughts on the film. A24 is the gold standard studio to me now. Hereditary creeped me the fuck out, got under my skin, etc . I don't want to ruin it for anyone, but the scene you are talking about,
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think the satanic plot was already underway. The marking on the pole right where the accident happened. I had the same reaction as you when it happened, but then I really tried to imagine myself in that super fucked up situation, what I would I do. I would probably either just immediately od on the nearest thing I could find, or do what he did, and completely go into shock and continue my normal routine home as if nothing happened.
 
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*Spoiler of a trailer. So save yourself of it, if you want to watch.




Really loved this style; albeit, it was slow at times but comfort and horror rolled into a nice wee, cannolli;)

The effects guy was responsible for Dog Soldiers, another great show imo...I mean if you're into plausable stories than you should neglect any horror; it's about the shots, the atmosphere, the feels, effects and decent character development/ acting.

I am enamoured by this kinda show- good mix of ironic, humour in thesere too.
 
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Ladies and gentlemen, I need to watch something totally fucked up. Something traumatic and disturbing enough to make me doubt my place on earth and I have seen a Serbian Film. :\

Please help me, I need something dark and awful to soothe my pretend-soul.
 
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