With Halloween fast approaching I thought it would be perfect timing to watch some great horror films that I have never seen before.
Can you recommend any good horror films?
The question is can we recommend some great horror films that are A) to your taste, and B) you haven't already seen? I don't know.
Instead, here are all the movies with 'horror' in their genre descriptions that I have given five stars to since joining Letterboxd. (In some cases, I disagree quite strongly; there are films here I don't believe are 'horror'... but opinions vary, don't they?):
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977)
The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers, 2019)
Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero, 1978)
The Phantom Carriage (Victor Sjostrom, 1921)
The Witch (Robert Eggers, 2015)
The Cremator (Juraj Herz, 1969)
Celia (Ann Turner, 1989)
Dark Water (Hideo Nakata, 2002)
Audition (Takashi Miike, 1999)
Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, 1964)
Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero, 1968)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973)
Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965)
The Babadook (Jennifer Kent, 2015)
Halloween "haunted house" movies that I like
Hell House LLC (2015)
Haunt (2019)
Non Halloween
The Invitation (2015) more psychological thriller than horror but I like it
Come Back to Me (2014) gets better as the movie progresses
Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018)
I will always recommend Session 9 (2001) even if you have seen it it's worth a re-watch.
I second Session 9 👍
sharegonjiam has been on my watch-list for a long time. now that you've reminded me, i'm gonna make a point of getting to it today.
i'll absolutely second hell house & the invitation.
come back to me i don't know at all, and it doesn't seem to be available on any of my favourite streaming services, unfortunately.
I saw Come Back to Me years ago, and it's just one of those ones that stuck in my brain. It's not the greatest movie out there, but it's a little different.
I just remembered that I would also recommend Salvage (2006). Again, not the greatest movie, has a few pacing issues, and is constrained by no budget, but I still really like it. It was certainly a little more original at the time it came out than now, but I think it's still worth a watch.
The Others
Pet Sementary - original
The Exorcist
The Ring - Korean
Frailty
Horror comedy:
Topper
The Ghost and Mrs Muir
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
Not a movie, but the old video game F.E.A.R. was scary fun.
There's a Korean version of The Ring? I never knew that.
shareI love the original, and honestly I wasn't sure if it was Korea or Japan.
shareWell the original at least is Japanese. I guess it's possible there's a Korean remake I haven't heard of.
shareNo its in japanese. I thought you were being kind a jerk because i consider you the expert on asian cinema. Glad to see thats not true.
shareNah I wasn't trying to be a jerk, I was genuinely wondering if there's a Korean version. A number of Japanese movies have been remade in Korea, and Ringu was a particularly influential movie that set the tone of Asian horror movies in general for the next decade so a direct remake is entirely plausible.
shareNot to be repetative but have you seen Tale of Two Sisters, this is the best asian cinema in my mind.
shareSorry. I meant Japanese.
Too much "Squid Game" on my brain.
the changeling
the omen
burnt offerings
the exorcist
the night of the demon
village of the damned
the invasions of the body snatchers
the thing
alien
the ring
John Carpenter's The Thing (1982)
The Descent (2005)
Trick R treat (2007)
The Wailing (2016)
The Shining (1980)