I just got into horror movies
 

I really havent liked horror movies until recently, what movies are absoulute musts that I see. I have seen saw, the butterfly effect, and signs. I am seeing the lady in the water tommorow.

Re: I just got into horror movies
 

before anyone is rude about it, Butterfly effect and lady in the water arent horror.

Anywho, must sees:
Dog Soldiers
Alien
Aliens
Alien3
Night of the Living Dead (Both Versions)
Dawn of the Dead (both versions, watch all 3 old movies first)
Day of the Dead
An American Werewolf In london
The Lost Boys
Jaws
Silver Bullet
The Hills Have Eyes (both versions)
Evil Dead 1 and 2
The Exorcist

more to come

Audition
The Ring
Final Destination
Jeepers Creepers
The Omen (original)
Child's Play
Friday the 13th
Halloween 1 and 2
Nightmare on Elm Street


Some movies that are so bad they require watching:
Basket Case
Pieces
Darkness Falls (an experience in true suffering. it is terrible)
Puppet Master


That should keep you busy for a day or two :)

Re-Animator
Night of the Demons
Dead Alive

Dead Alive....


Watch this one (And Audition) only if you have a strong stomach. i am NOT kidding.

Yeah, ole Peter Jackson really trotted out the KY jelly for Dead Alive. It's hilarious, though.

You've got....THE BITE!!!

i just saw audition last night, its the best psych thriller horror movie i have seen in years!

Jaws
Halloween
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Blair Witch Project
Exorcist

NO! dont go near that. most boring load of shit ever.

No one has suggested The Evil Dead:eek:

Deadbirds....Scariest movie ever made....

Correct me if I am wrong, but i heard that the exorsist is the scariest movie ever.

ya ill correct you right now. exorcist is good for a laugh, just to see an ugly possesed girl saying that peoples mothers suck cocks in hell. but its certainly not scary. As for Dead Birds being the scariest film ever, idk about that, but its definetly up there.

"Deadbirds....Scariest movie ever made...."

Me and the three other people I watched it with found this to be a rather heaping pile of trash. I wouldn't really call it scary. Typical, and it had SOME atmosphere. Nowhere NEAR as scary as some others. But then again... it depends on tastes. It was definately one of the lower-rated horror movies I've seen in the past few years.

For classics;

Nightmare on Elm Street
Friday the 13th
Halloween
Child's Play

Evil Dead 1 & 2 (2 specifically)
Dead Alive / Braindead

Ringu / The Ring

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)

House of 1000 Corpses
The Devil's Rejects
The Hills Have Eyes 06

PS. Mothman, someone has. Infact, Vodstok did in the first reply to this thread.

FrightNight

The Hunger

Maniac

The Frightners

Subspecies

Alien

Nosferatu(the original)


A bit of mix for you to see what genre of horror you prefer.

Also check out any Hammer film and anything with Christopher Lee

Texas Chainsaw Massacre(original)
The Burning
Black Christmas
Hellraiser
Witchboard
Halloween
Nightmare on Elm Street

:confused: and you think Jeepers Creepers is a must see? :eek:

don't listen to these folk, listen to me.


DON'T follow other people's reccomendations. Just dive into it with a blank slate. Go with the ones that you've heard of before, ones where you've heard the title mentioned in passing, et cetera. Browse the horror sections in the video store and look at the backs of the cases, get what ones sound interesting to you. You'll get some bad ones, sure, but you'll be forming your own opinion about everything without influence. It's mostly what people did before the internet got all popular.

Yeah STE is right on.

Just because 1 person thinks something is good doesn't mean you will... I happen to think that Audition wasn't great, but a lot of people here like it... Same goes for pretty much anything... You won't know what you think, until you see it.


In my opinion, the most essential horror movies for you to check out would be these...

A Nightmare on Elm Street
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)
Night of the Living Dead (original)
Dawn of the Dead (original)
Halloween

I'd say start with those 5 and then expand from there based on what you like and don't like about them. Those 5 are movies that pretty much every horror fan has seen and gives respect to so it's a real good place to start.

Camp Blood 1 & 2
Killjoy 1,2
Nursie
pieces

All got for gore and a laugh mate ;)

you caught pieces, but not evil dead? i meantioned 1 and 2....


pieces is worth watching for the end. it is the biggest "WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!" aside from Sleepaway camp.


For the recored, STE is right, but at least you now have a nice log list of title sto choose from. Think of them as guidelines.

a lot of Christians will say this because it hits them where they live. If you believe in god and the devil then i would say you could very well find this the scariest movie ever.

i dont believe in those things but i will say the exorcist set the bar for mainstream horror .. it is very well made and atmospheric.

i think someone just starting into horror might need a list of movies they could actually find ..

I agree. im an atheist, but still find it scary as hell.

For the most part, if people say it isntdcary to them, they are either very cynical or just trying to be a bad ass.

jeepers creepers gets props for origionality in the very least.
it does kind of fall apart in the end but is still has an origional baddie and it it builds well (until the nonsense at the police station)

well, i'm not trying to be a badass - but i havent found a movie scary since i can remember...


wait .. 'an inconvenient truth' - the al Gore movie about global warming ..

i think that is pretty scary .. even if only 5% of it is true (and i personally believe its all true)

And may I ask you what exactly scares you?

Movie-wise, not much has given me the chills. Since I was young, at least, and I've ben longing for the feeling again.

Fear-wise in real life, they mainly lie in things that can actually happen. The thought of someone watching you from outside your window, the thought that someone might be in your room at that very moment you're thinking it. The thought that, hey, if someone wants to bust into your house now and kill you - not much is going to stop them.

That's what scares me.

I'm also big on imagination. The one film that I can claim has given me the chills is The Blair Witch Project.

I re-read my comment and it seems sort of bitchy, and I'm sorry if I came off that way. It seems I mainly due because of the way I write. I just didn't, personally, find Dead Birds to be anything extraordinary. Everyone is different.

Re: Re: I just got into horror movies
 

I can see how the lady in the water woudnt be considered to be horror, I laughed in it a lot, and the only actually horror parts was when the wolf jumped out, which wasnt scary, but my sister kept screaming and jumping in my ear. I did think that it was brillantly done, and the plot was very original.

I also failed to mention that I have seen dawn of the dead, and land of the dead. I liked dawn of the dead better.

You can get them on ebay mate,some are about 1.99 each if you look:)

I didn't think the Exorcist was all that. I've watched it quite a bit and never thought it was really "scary." Maybe a TAD eerie but it will be your own opinion.

And I also agree that you have to find what you like. Don't listen to other people because all our tastes vary. I personally rarely look at the back covers of movies because if I read them I could be passing up a really decent movie (and that has happened before).

Here's my pimp that everyone could see coming from a mile away.

Watch the Exorcist III. Not so in your face. Very subtle, very nice.

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Good boy :)

Check out the movies in my signature. Few (if any) will actually scare you, but all are fantastic horror films.

Dunno whats been said, cant be assed reading thru 3 pages but here are just a few must sees........doubt youll like half the stuff on list list going by the movies you mentioned in your 1st post.

friday the 13th (all)
NOES (all)
Hellraiser (1,2,3 & 8)
Halloween(all)
critters(all)
pet sematary 2
dog soldiers
28 days later
the dentist 1&2
saw
hostel
re-animator 1,2,3
rotld 1,2,3 fuck 4+5
army of darkness
childs play 1,2,3
leprechaun!!!!! (all except no4)
House 1,2&4
children of the corn
puppet master(all)
wrong turn
tcm remake
the descent
creep
ginger snaps 3
the video dead
night breed
fragile
the toolbox murders
fright night 1,2
demonic toys
shakma
link
monkey shines
mans best friend
cujo
the burning
the people under the stairs
cabin fever
the blair witch project
the thing

etc, etc hell even jack frost 1n2 are must sees!

I am going to rent 28 days later this weekend, and maybe hellraiser.

28 Days Later is very hit-or-miss. Alot of people love it, but I (along with many others) didnt think it was all that.

You wont find alot of people that dont like Hellraiser though...classic. The second one is worth seeing as well.

It might be a bit popcorn, but I'd say Poltergeist is a good view for anybody just getting into horror. Solid, primal scares without the kind of extreme gore that takes a bit of indoctrination. Bava's Black Sunday is also rich, intriguing and fairly risque for its time, so are the AI Poe films with Vincent Price. They're not Poe, but they're all something special. And for a good exotic scare, I'd say Ju On. These are all movies that help a person better appreciate the genre and sort the wheat from the chaff. Though I would agree with the STE on following your instincts. The more you follow them, the better they develop one way or the other. You can only rent Dracula's Curse or Hell's Highway once.

I am always rooting for Phantasm as it's one of my favorite 70's horror films. A very unique style combining scary, funny and surrealism, all played out through the filter of 70's hipness. It's a whackay, freakay kind of horror.

In my opinion, the best thing about Phantasm was it's use of music. It was creepy, yet it flowed with the film, just like in movies such as 'Halloween'.

28 Days Later = Suck

Hellraiser = Awesome