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.
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.
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!
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.
This sounds interesting. I love horror in non-traditional settings. Western Horror is incredibly underused. The only one that comes to mind is Bone Tomahawk, which is a must see if you haven’t. Thanks for the suggestion!
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.
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.
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