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There were some good ones mentioned earlier like The Shining (not really scary anymore), Nightmare on Elm Street (badass movie), and Alien. The Exorcist is fairly scary too. The first Saw is alright, I actually like Saw II better. Original Dawn of the Dead and Night of the Living Dead are amazing.

The scariest movies I have seen:

The Strangers (hands down the movie that scared the shit out of me the most)
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Halloween (the original and the Rob Zombie remake. Remake is scarier and is a pretty good)
House of 1000 Corpses (good modern "old school" horror movie)



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korea and japan make good horror. Recently 28 days, hills have eyes remake and of course films by european dir. like alexander aja are excellent.

Hostel was shit, Cabin Fever excellent.

My personnel favorite of old Freaks, 1932, Todd Browning. That is without doubt a disturbing film.



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Hellraiser 1 & 2
Nightmare on Elm Street 1 & 3
Friday the 13th 3 & 4
Alien & Aliens
The Blob (1988 version)
The Thing (1982 version)
Dawn of the Dead (2004 version)



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The Evil Dead

Only watch this if you're a fan of watching a tree rape some chick. 

Evil Dead is the most over-hyped horror film of all time.

 

 

A tree???!!

 

Well its branches...but yes.

Ewwwww........ [My interest is peeked....] XD

 

Ditto.

 



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Event Horizon is a good sci-fi horror movie. Those are a rarity.

Of course, Alien is king of that genre.




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The Eye (the Chinese version, not the American one) had some pretty scary parts. Then again I was high during the scariest parts of the movie, which tends to make the movie scarier.



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

Someone said The Shining, good.

I just saw REC, it's a spanish movie. It's great.



REC really is great, the American remake looks like a tremendous pile of crap so definitely watch REC before Quarantine gets jammed down your throat.



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If you want mega-classic horror, might I suggest

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, directed by Robert Wiene in 1920.



or Nosferatu, directed by F. W. Murnau in 1922.




Those are both in the public domain so they're both free online.


I forget the name of the magazine, but a couple years ago these guys came up with a top 10 list of horror films, and the top 2 were Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977) and the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974) , so you should see those if you haven't. Suspiria has great music by Goblin, which makes the film for me. Supposedly they're remaking Suspiria as a live action film in the U.S. starring Natalie Portman, and as an anime in Japan.


If you want to try some recent Japanese horror, I recommend Cure, directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa in 1997. It's kind of a detective mystery psychological thriller, but it scared the shit out of me.

The original Japanese Ring was really good by Hideo Nakata in 1999.

And I'm not sure if you can call it horror, but Sion Sono's Suicide Circle (aka Suicide Club, depending on your translation) from 2002 is brilliant and I highly recommend it. If you haven't seen it, here's the first scene:




And I think the previous mentions of The Shining, The Evil Dead, Psycho, Alien, and Event Horizon were good.

But I must warn you, 28 Days Later is amazing, and 28 Weeks Later is a bunch of bullshit. One was a great solid movie welcome in zombie film history, and the other was a pathetic cash-in that was dumber and more formulaic.


And if you're in it for the lulz, you can't fail with Jason X. He gets some sort of sci-fi hockey mask enhancement that makes no sense. They try to trap him in a holodeck so he can kill imaginary teenagers forever. It's just... fucking brilliant.



28 Days Later tanked as soon as they reached the mansion/complex with all the military people. I hated the last half of that movie so much...at least the first part was awesome.



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson