Horror Movie rec's

[Chutney]

I've created a similar thread in the General OT forum a long while back, but I figured this place has enough posters to deserve one too.

I'm a big fan of horror films, but I feel like the genre hasn't aged well for me. A lot of the films I found scary and awesome back in the day feel so tame now. As a result, I've been more and more determined to find movies that really creep me out and mess with my head a little.

So go ahead and throw out your fave's, recommendations, and thoughts on what you actually find scary (i.e: these torture films that keep getting made are a bore).

 

[Chutney]

The last film that I thought was messed up was 'An American Crime.' But I think that has more to do with me finding out it was a true story.

 

[Sedatedfork]

The last movie that really freaked me out was Vacancy. Also -- when I saw The Ring for the first time in the movie theater, I was pretty impressed. But as for straight horror, I haven't seen anything that really disturbed me that much. I saw a Documentary about the Friday the 13th movies that I thought was interesting on Showtime this past weekend. It was interesting to see how they made some of the death scenes.

 

[huevonkiller]

Hey Chut, 123 posted a pretty scary/disturbing movie list recently.

http://sportstwo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=142671&highlight=movies

That's all I got, I'm sure you've seen a few of those though.

We recently took a look at the 10 most disturbing books of all time, and it seemed natural enough to do a movies counterpart. We here at PopCrunch completely regret this decision. While there are certainly some depressingly disturbing books, there’s just something so much more visceral about seeing something grotesque on screen. As we researched this topic we realized that there’s an endless supply of torture porn and sick movies out there; this list could have easily been a top 50. Instead we’ve kept it to 15, with selections from different disturbing “genres” if you will. You’ll have your obvious torture filled movies on the list, but we also have movies that run the gamut of weirdness, from suburban twistedness to mainstream psychological horror that just happened to be really well done. We normally finish the openers to these by saying that we hope you enjoy the list, but that doesn’t seem appropriate here. You’d almost certainly be a better person to not watch all of these selections.

http://movies.popcrunch.com/the-15-most-disturbing-movies-ever-made/

 

[mook]

I really liked The Descent from a few years ago. Jacob's Ladder might be my favorite all-time horror film.

 

[Haakzilla]

...I rec. none of them

 

[ppilot]

I really liked The Descent from a few years ago. Jacob's Ladder might be my favorite all-time horror film.

Agree with the descent... great movie

 

[crandc]

A very old, but very good, is The Hands of Orloc. It is particularly scary because there is no supernatural, no monsters, just what the human mind can conceive.

Hitchcock was good because he was understated. I agree the genre has too much blood and gore in "modern" times.

Of course for a real life horror movie, watch the evening news.

 

[Chutney]

One that I've heard good things about and that I'm currently trying to find is "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer." It's on that list huevonkiller posted.