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Favorite horror movies?

TorpidSloth

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Halloween is arguably a masterpiece. I didn't care for Hereditary that much but I also watched it when it first hit streaming so I'd been subjected to months of "It's the scariest movie ever made" bullshit which really overhyped it for me.

I must say, I love Matthew Lillard's performance in Scream so much. He makes some insane decisions in how he plays Stu that there is no way came from Wes Craven. He kinds of hit that type of oddness when he played Shaggy in Scooby Doo later but I've always thought it was such a shame after that he only really played "normal" characters.

Look at his performance here, 0:55 onwards.


Scream might be the movie I've rewatched the most.

Lillard was also hilarious as the biggest douchebag in shes all that
 

UnPRePared

For the last time, I am NOT James Arness!
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Recently I re-watched The Seventh Victim by Val Lewton now that it's out on 4K.

Fucking thing holds up well, even though -

- it takes it's time

- it doesn't barrage you with suspense, but what's there works

- it rides the edge of being more of a mystery than horror, until THAT one big reveal

- it fleshes the characters out a lot more than even old horror films would do

- no one chews up scenery, it's played very straight



And that ending, the whole setup, making you think they won't go there, especially being a Hayes Code film, but fucking hell, did they find their way around that problem. It sticks with you.
 

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I've posted this before.

Men Behind the Sun.



It's a low budget 1980s Chinese horror movie about the atrocities conducted by the Japanese during ww2.

There's something about low budget horror movies. Sometimes they just hit the mark. This one does.

Because it's low budget, sometimes they just have to do the things that you are watching. For example, two boys fall into a pit of live rats. The way that they did that is they got a pit of live rats and then they had two boys fall in there.

There's an autopsy scene of a young boy. The way that they did that was by bribing a hospital for a body of a young boy and then doing an autopsy on the corpse.
 

CQ Beans

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There’s the big ones everyone knows like Exorcist, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the Shining which are great. An underrated one from 2009 is “30 Days of Night.” Basically Barrow, Alaska has a month out of the year with no sunlight and during that period vampires attack the town. It’s a lot more bloody and brutal than I was expecting going in
I love the scene when one of the bad guys looks around and just goes… ‘No god’ and kills that chick. Portrayed vampires in a much different way than usual. Sort of like how you think they’d be. Basically craven animals.
 

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The second half of season 3 in the Hannibal show adapted Red Dragon and they did a magnificent job at it.
As for favourite horror movies, I love the original Evil Dead and Scream. I watch a shit ton of horror so it's rare for me to see something that truly scares me. I'm a very jumpy person so jump scares usually get me but it's rare I actually get scared and something stays with me.

Most recent one that stayed with me for a while is probably Red Rooms but I'm not sure that counts as horror.
I’ve never seen Hannibal the show. I’ll check it out.
 

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Near Dark (1987) is very good.

The Conjuring 2 had a few parts that creeped me right the fuck out. The guy in the chair and the dog. Goddamn.
I remember watching the first Conjuring movie. I was stoned and thought that the Patrick Wilson character, who's based on a real person, was actually a retard and that the movie is about the exaggerations and silly lies of a retard. Speaking of Patrick Wilson, did you know that he also got to prove his comedic chops in Home Sweet Hell (2015)?
 

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First Halloween is my favorite and has a great lore to it with the shoestring budget and the simplicity.

Scream I always loved because you can’t make it again with the technology now so it’s like frozen in time and captures the 90s perfectly. And rose McGowan is thick as fawwwkk.

Current movie is definitely hereditary. Watched it once and won’t watch it again. The supernatural shit was gay as fuck but the absolute dread of that movie with the whole family dynamic was incredibly heavy.
I’ve heard tons of different opinions about Hereditary. Also, I want to have sex with that ugly Australian broad.
 
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The Shining
The Beyond
City of the Living Dead
Zombi
Suspiria
Opera
Inferno
Exorcist
Exorcist 3
The Thing
The Fly
Hellraiser
Possession
Martyrs
Black Cat
Return of the Living Dead
Evil Dead 1 and 2
Childs Play (1)

I don't have a real favorite but I love these films.
 

CQ Beans

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Halloween is arguably a masterpiece. I didn't care for Hereditary that much but I also watched it when it first hit streaming so I'd been subjected to months of "It's the scariest movie ever made" bullshit which really overhyped it for me.

I must say, I love Matthew Lillard's performance in Scream so much. He makes some insane decisions in how he plays Stu that there is no way came from Wes Craven. He kinds of hit that type of oddness when he played Shaggy in Scooby Doo later but I've always thought it was such a shame after that he only really played "normal" characters.

Look at his performance here, 0:55 onwards.


Scream might be the movie I've rewatched the most.

I couldn’t stand half of that cast. Most people didn’t like Neve Campbell’s performance but she was one of the few I liked.
 

CQ Beans

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The Shining
The Beyond
City of the Living Dead
Zombi
Suspiria
Opera
Inferno
Exorcist
Exorcist 3
The Thing
The Fly
Hellraiser
Possession
Martyrs
Black Cat
Return of the Living Dead
Evil Dead 1 and 2
Childs Play (1)

I don't have a real favorite but I love these films.
The Shining (better than the book), The Thing is a masterpiece, Hellraiser is an underrated classic, Childs Play (great book also a great film). I keep hearing how great Exorcist 3 is but couldn’t get past part 2. I’ll have to check it out.
 
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The Shining (better than the book), The Thing is a masterpiece, Hellraiser is an underrated classic, Childs Play (great book also a great film). I keep hearing how great Exorcist 3 is but couldn’t get past part 2. I’ll have to check it out.
2 is just camp trash. 3 is a masterpiece. Great all around and a direct sequel to the first one. I think it's better than the first actually.
 

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The Shining
The Thing
Alien
Psycho
Diabolique
The Vanishing
Night of the Living Dead
Halloween
The first half of I Am Legend
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Train to Busan
Videodrome
Evil Dead
The Lighthouse
Jacob’s Ladder
The Sixth Sense
Peeping Tom
Evil Dead 2
The Ninth Gate
REC
Black Christmas
Suspiria
Come and See
Scanners
The Blair Witch Project
Re-Animator
Phantasm
In the Mouth of Madness
Ringu
Bone Tomahawk
Ju-On
Night of the Hunter
Trick R Treat
Creepshow
Rosemary’s Baby
Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (50s version)
 
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