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TheBossInTheWall 12-05-2013 03:49 PM

General horror film reccomendations
 
I'm looking for recommendations based on a kind of theme, but i'm not quite sure what that theme is. Its embodied by specific favorite films of mine, so I figured I'd post a list and see if anyone can get this elusive theme in their head(even if you can't define it either) and offer recommendations.

Particular favorites I have in mind:
Unnameable
House I and II(the rest are a bit silly, but have a small special place in my heart)
The Descent
Poltergeist
Possession(1981)
Hellraiser I and II
Shock Waves
Event Horizon
From Beyond(Yes I've seen the Re-Animators)
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Pumpkinhead
God Told Me To
Prince of Darkness
Dagon


TY much for any suggestions.

fortunato 12-05-2013 04:47 PM

http://horror.com/forum/showthread.php?t=63436

Here's a project we completed recently; recommendations through the entire history of horror cinema.

TheBossInTheWall 12-06-2013 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by fortunato (Post 961003)
http://horror.com/forum/showthread.php?t=63436

Here's a project we completed recently; recommendations through the entire history of horror cinema.

I appreciate the link and I will check it out, but i'm looking more for help with films that fit with this hard to pinpoint, for me, theme described through the films I listed.

fortunato 12-06-2013 01:10 PM

The only theme I sense is a body horror/creature feature kind of thing. Maybe try
  • Island of Lost Souls (1932)
  • Cronenberg's horror work, like The Brood, Shivers, Rabid, Scanners, Naked Lunch
  • Basket Case (1982)
  • Cemetery Man
  • Dead Alive
  • Little Otik
  • Tetsuo, Iron Man
  • Nightbreed

shadyJ 12-06-2013 02:18 PM

To me, it looks like the theme is the horror is very setting based. With those movies, much of horror derives from the place as opposed to a person or thing. But more specifically than just a spooky place, a place where our mundane reality and an otherworldly dimension intersect, forming a doorway between the two.

With that in mind, you might try haunted house movies, new ones like The Conjuring, Insidious, The Innkeeper, and Sinister, and classics like The Haunting ('63 version), The Changeling, The Shining, and The Legend of Hell House. I would especially recommend the Grave Encounters films, part 2 strongly features that element that I described above.

TheBossInTheWall 12-14-2013 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by fortunato (Post 961040)
The only theme I sense is a body horror/creature feature kind of thing. Maybe try
  • Island of Lost Souls (1932)
  • Cronenberg's horror work, like The Brood, Shivers, Rabid, Scanners, Naked Lunch
  • Basket Case (1982)
  • Cemetery Man
  • Dead Alive
  • Little Otik
  • Tetsuo, Iron Man
  • Nightbreed

I've seen most of those and they don't seem to fit the theme. I appreciate the suggestions though, I'll definitely check out Little Otik, and I forgot that I hadn't seen Rabid yet. Not so sure about Little Otik as I vaguely remember being bored by Alice.

TheBossInTheWall 12-14-2013 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by shadyJ (Post 961041)
To me, it looks like the theme is the horror is very setting based. With those movies, much of horror derives from the place as opposed to a person or thing. But more specifically than just a spooky place, a place where our mundane reality and an otherworldly dimension intersect, forming a doorway between the two.

With that in mind, you might try haunted house movies, new ones like The Conjuring, Insidious, The Innkeeper, and Sinister, and classics like The Haunting ('63 version), The Changeling, The Shining, and The Legend of Hell House. I would especially recommend the Grave Encounters films, part 2 strongly features that element that I described above.

I've seen most of these. Insidious looked kinda meh, not much horror and more of a slow ghost story. Not that is necessarily bad, but not what i'm looking for. The Changeling sounds good, but again not the right theme. Which is my fault, I can't seem to pin point the right words.

Grave Encounters might fit, but it always looked to me like yet another found footage piece of predictable dullness. Is it really that good?

Horror Nerd Girl 03-16-2014 12:30 PM

The House by the Cemetery?

Horror Nerd Girl 03-16-2014 12:36 PM

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Originally Posted by TheBossInTheWall (Post 961380)
I've seen most of these. Insidious looked kinda meh, not much horror and more of a slow ghost story. Not that is necessarily bad, but not what i'm looking for. The Changeling sounds good, but again not the right theme. Which is my fault, I can't seem to pin point the right words.

Grave Encounters might fit, but it always looked to me like yet another found footage piece of predictable dullness. Is it really that good?

I liked Grave Encounters. At least, in the sense that it was tense and had me gripped the whole way through. It's generic stuff though.

NightOfTheLiving_Sam 03-16-2014 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Horror Nerd Girl (Post 966361)
I liked Grave Encounters. At least, in the sense that it was tense and had me gripped the whole way through. It's generic stuff though.

Yes I enjoyed Grave Encounters myself; my favorite paranormal horror movie besides Poltergeist. Another one I highly enjoyed as much as Grave Encounters was Sinister.

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