Spooky season will be over soon but we still have time to binge some Halloween favorites so share your favorite scary movie recommendations in this thread.
I disagree but you’re not the only one. Personally, I found how they shot day-for-night fascinating both technically and in the result.
It does look like full-moon lighting a clear night and I’ve always found that erie in itself. Add how the night sky becomes its own character and it’s fantastic.
The night scenes were so good because they invented a new method for filming night scenes. If I recall, it’s filmed at the same time with 2 exposures, the lighter for the subjects and darker for the sky, overlayed.
Yeah, more of an adventure movie at that point, but I loved how weird that thing kept getting. It kept the eerie feeling of not understand what it was or what it would do even though you could see it. For me at least.
Gotta mention The Thing (1982). Impeccable cinematography, sounds, colors, everything. Practical effects that are still unsettling today, and good old fashioned "humans are not enough and never will be" horror.
Cube is so underrated! Even the sequels are pretty decent. If you can get past the low budget and questionable acting, it’s a fun movie with an interesting premise.
I still rewatch Event Horizon like once a year. It really doesn’t hold up all that well, but it’s a classic that I loved as a kid. I wish Paul W.S. Anderson would do more like it instead of a million terrible movies starring his wife.
Smile was better than I was expecting. It wasn’t great, but a lot of cool, creepy imagery kept me interested.
And The Wailing is something every horror fan should see. It’s so good. Korean Horror is almost always worth a watch.
The fact that the hell footage, including the blood orgy sequence (filmed with actual adult film stars), is lost forever is the true nightmare of Event Horizon. Another reason to hate Titanic.
I don’t know what I’m missing with Event Horizon. I’d heard it repeatedly recommended, so decided to watch it with the wife who’s much more into horror. Neither of us really enjoyed it. The effects were cool, but the writing was kinda so over the place and it just didn’t really leave an impact.
Since I just saw a post of a sequel, it reminded me: It Follows. The dread of something that is coming for you and it can’t be stopped no matter where you go or what you do is what makes it scary to me. I actually had dreams (or nightmares) of something following me a few nights after watching it. And you know what happens when you try to run in dreams right? So yeah.
No One Will Save You for fantastic alien abduction with 1 sentence spoken the entire movie. Was incredibly tense!
Evil Dead Rise for balls to the walls crazy good possession that IMO is the best of the franchise. A lot of gore and unnerving creepiness.
Barbarian for something very unique. Don’t watch any trailers, just read a small plot and go in blind. It’s a movie made by an OG YouTube skit comedy channel. It has a bit of everything, including comedy, moments so tense you have to remember to breathe, to uneasy fly on the wall moments.
For a fun Halloween movie, Friday The 13th: Part 6 is the way to go.
Some people say part 4 is the best and maybe they are right, but part 6 is the most fun. It’s got the Jason mythology crystallized, it’s got an actual main character, it’s got fun side characters. It’s just peak slasher movie that mixes in the right amount of self aware humor without becoming obnoxious.
I’d also suggest Killer Klowns From Outer Space, The Gate, and House (1986) for fun scary movies for watch parties.
Posession 1981 (French/German) there will never be another film like it.
Suspiria 1977 (Italian) another one-of-a-kind-film. Thees both have their flaws, but to me it only adds character. Their motifs are comletely realized and both had lasting effects on the horror genre.
The Ritual - psuedo-Lovecraftian horror with no explanation No One Gets Out Alive - more psuedo-Lovecraftian horror with no explanation Mama - Guillermo del Toro is awesome NightBooks - Sam Raimi Hansel & Gretel tale that’s tame enough for the kids but spooky enough for the adults
Those are some that I hadn’t seen before this season. I pretty much watch horror from mid-September on, so there’s a bunch of the old favorites that got watched, but these surprised me.
Come to Daddy (2020) is one of my absolute favorite horror comedies. It’s not Halloween-related at all but it’s so weird and dark and twisted that I recommend it to anyone who will listen.
How did this slip under my radar? I love Elijah Wood’s project choices the last decade. He takes chances and makes some weird stuff that I love. Thanks for the rec!
My wife and I recently binged through “The Conjuring” extended universe.
The Conjuring
The Conjuring 2
The Conjuring: Devil Made Me Do It (not that great)
Annabelle
Annabelle Creation
Annabelle Comes Home
The Nun (Kinda boring)
The Nun 2
It’s a fun time and you can watch each of the series of movies somewhat independently of the others, but I recommend starting with Conjuring 1 and 2 first.
They’re not the greatest horror of all time, however, all but 2 of them are fun watches. Conjuring 3 and The Nun we’re pretty boring imo.
It felt unfocused to me. And generally, human villains are far less scary than paranormal/demonic ones. That witch didn’t feel like much of a real threat.
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