Best horror movies to watch?

[Calculating Bovinity]

Threads is not classified as a horror but it should be. One of those movies that stays with you long after you finish watching it.

Dog Soldiers is PFG

Bone Tomahawk

Screamers

Pontypool, does something fresh with the zombie genre

The Dead Zone

Tremors

Ghost in the Machine is a stinker but it's pretty fun

 

[NortheastPhilly]

Misery is still one of the scariest movies I’ve ever seen

 

[ThePepsiColaRapist]

Threads is not classified as a horror but it should be. One of those movies that stays with you long after you finish watching it.

Dog Soldiers is PFG

Bone Tomahawk

Screamers

Pontypool, does something fresh with the zombie genre

The Dead Zone

Tremors

Ghost in the Machine is a stinker but it's pretty fun

Screamers is such an underrated film.

 

[PogromStallone]

The Vanishing (the original not the Jeff Bridges remake)
Don't read anything about it just watch it. No movie has given me the level of anxiety that one did.

Saw it years ago without knowing anything about it, probably the only movie that has made me literally scream out loud at the end.

 

[guest]

I'd second a few mentioned already - the original Martyrs is genuinely shocking. Kill List is great, kind of 3 different genres rolled into 1 film. The Witch is almost art. Misery is a timeless classic. The original The Vanishing (in Dutch and French) is a true head fuck.

I would add The Block Island Sound. It's not a straight horror movie per se but it's one of the most deeply unsettling movies I've ever seen and you don't really have a clue what's going on until the end.

 

[ThePepsiColaRapist]

I think the recent Pet Semetary is better than the first. It takes a lot of liberties with the novel, but captures the tone of said novel more than the first film.

 

[Snake]

The Fly 1986
The Thing 1982
Alien

 

[JesseTheGovernor]

The Thing mentioned and that’s one of my fav movies.

REC is great if you don’t mind subtitles. It’s the original version of “Quarantine”

Suspiria is a unique classic from the golden age if 70s horror.

Not an original suggestion but the first Scream still holds up. Unreal opening scene.

Audition is a Japanese film and it’s fucked up and worth a watch.

The first Blair Witch is still great to me but I know a ton of people hate it or think it’s lame.

The Shining is my fav movie but everyone has seen it by now.

The original Invasion of the Body Snatchers is great also, albeit not scary bu today’s standards. The remake is also good.

And Oldboy (Korean version) is a great movie and very unsettling. It isn’t a “horror” though but it’s great.

 

[Chapel]

There’s a reboot of Hellraiser being made with, you fucking guessed it a black female Pinhead

 

[Zombie247]

"Hereditary" is alright, i watched it a couple years back.

"The Void" is good if you like Lovecraftian horror.

"We Are Still Here" is also alright, manages to capture the 70's horror movie feeling/look pretty well.

Those 3 mentions are all fairly modern, the oldest is from 2015.

The Void, is a great heads up

 

[guest]

The Shining is my fav movie but everyone has seen it by now.

Did you see Doctor Sleep? I went into it not expecting much but it's a good movie and a worthy sequel to The Shining (though obviously not as good.)

 

[ThePepsiColaRapist]

The Witch is almost art.

The Witch and Hereditary set the bar.

 

[Zombie247]

 

[Zombie247]

Did you see Doctor Sleep? I went into it not expecting much but it's a good movie and a worthy sequel to The Shining (though obviously not as good.)

I was surprised how good that movie was.

 

[Snake]

Audition is a Japanese film and it’s fucked up and worth a watch.

I only watched it once and that was enough.

DEE DEE DEE DEE, child.

 

[ThePepsiColaRapist]

I was surprised how good that movie was.

The director, Mike Flanagan, has been pumping out hits for a decade.
Absentia and Oculus are great.

Hush and Gerald's Game, same.
Haunting of Hill House and Doctor Sleep are masterpieces.

 

[Zombie247]

The director, Mike Flanagan, has been pumping out hits for a decade.
Absentia and Oculus are great.

Hush and Gerald's Game, same.
Haunting of Hill House and Doctor Sleep are masterpieces.

Absentia is a hidden gem

"Dont trade with him".

I will get round to watching Hush & Gerald's game.

 

[JesseTheGovernor]

Did you see Doctor Sleep? I went into it not expecting much but it's a good movie and a worthy sequel to The Shining (though obviously not as good.)

I did and I also enjoyed it well enough. I thought it could have been a standalone without the tie in to The Shining, but it was a good concept of future Danny. Ewan MacGregor is almost always good in his roles as well.

 

[alkiefuck2]

blair witch project is a great rewatch, when it's dark, headphones, alone etc

 

[analeggsalad]

The House by the Cemetery (1981)
Night of the Demons (1988)