In honor of the season, here are horror movies I've enjoyed as a person who doesn't really like horror movies:
Let the Right One In
It Follows
The Descent
You're Next
Evil Dead (remake)
Happy Death Day
From Dusk till Dawn
Cabin in the Woods
Green Room
The Thing
Bone Tomahawk
Jaws
I know many of these probably don't pass a true definition of a horror movie and only have horror elements, but they work enough for me.
Also a ton of credit to this forum generally speaking as I would have never seen half of these without word of mouth here over the years.
You should note if Let the Right One In is the original or the american version.
I'm the same way on horror, I'd say thats a pretty good list as I've seen most of them. I'd say additional movies to ease you in on horror but are fun would be Tremors and Jason X. Pitch Black sort of?
In honor of the season, here are horror movies I've enjoyed as a person who doesn't really like horror movies:
Let the Right One In
It Follows
The Descent
You're Next
Evil Dead (remake)
Happy Death Day
From Dusk till Dawn
Cabin in the Woods
Green Room
The Thing
Bone Tomahawk
Jaws
I know many of these probably don't pass a true definition of a horror movie and only have horror elements, but they work enough for me.
Also a ton of credit to this forum generally speaking as I would have never seen half of these without word of mouth here over the years.
I really dig horror movies, and I will also vouch for everything on that list, except You're Next, which I haven't yet watched.
(But I really want to. I don't think it's streaming on anything right now.)
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Hush is an underrated gem more people should watch
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The new Malick movie is very Malick-y. Long, gorgeous, heartfelt.
For classic horror, I'm partial to Phantom of the Opera (1943, with Claude Rains as the Phantom) and The Curse of Frankenstein (1957, the first horror movie with the legendary team of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee).
For some truly gruesome '80s body horror that still holds up incredibly well, The Fly (1986) is pretty much definitive.
For a light-hearted sci-fi horror-adjacent flick ("valley girls at the end of the world"), I love Night of the Comet (1984), with Catherine Mary Stewart (The Last Starfighter) and a pre-Star Trek Robert Beltran.
And of course there's the weird collision of horror and comedy that somehow works in An American Werewolf in London (1981). For a more straightforward werewolf movie, I really dug Dog Soldiers (2002) as well.
A zombie comedy-horror that's also exactly how British people would really deal with the zombie apocalypse? Obviously Shaun of the Dead (2004) is essential.
And I'm someone who's generally not really into horror movies!
Would love to see more in that universe, especially with the threads that were started right near the end, would love to see more of the Liquid vs Solid Civil War
I could not get past the pilot/1st episode, the acting was so stiff and it looked like it was made with no budget, does the quality improves substancially in the following episodes?
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I liked a lot of the ideas in the first season of The Sarah Connor Chronicles, but it also always looked cheap and decidedly TV for me, at a time when I'd seen sci-fi series that looked better, more expensive and more competent. The same series but better crafted could've really wowed me, but so often I felt I was looking at the episodes and thinking "Yeah, I can see what they were going for, and if they'd had more resources it could've been great."
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
to start our Halloween festivities we watched Hellboy (Ron Perlman) and my son who is a late teen said that it was a pretty good movie. For being "almost a boomer" i guess i did good.
Would love to see more in that universe, especially with the threads that were started right near the end, would love to see more of the Liquid vs Solid Civil War
I could not get past the pilot/1st episode, the acting was so stiff and it looked like it was made with no budget, does the quality improves substancially in the following episodes?
It improves dramatically in s2. S1 is only like 6 episodes. S2 was 20+ eps
Poltergeist is good and creepy with a balls-to-the-wall finale.
The Boneyard is a low budget camp affair with effects that are a little better than you might expect. A murderous, mutated Phyllis Diller is the highlight.
The only recent horror flick I liked was The Autopsy of Jane Doe. The two main characters are just so good that it sells all the scary stuff in a way that few other movies have for me.
The Changeling is my favorite ghost story film. Among other things, it is one of the few where "Why am I being haunted" becomes the core of a satisfying murder mystery.
Apparently there's going to be another remake of Ju-On/The Grudge? They say nostalgia moves in 20-year cycles, so we're just about ready for a J-horror revival.
I thought it was good but over hyped. I didn't think it was particularly scary
Like The Witch, it's not scary but it inspires plenty of dread.
See I thought The VVitch was just bad. Great Actors, great scenery, wonderfully shot and sound is amazing, terrible story and writing. I wanted the final act of the movie to be the whole movie. There were a lot of scenes that just that came off as hilarious instead of scary to me, which completely threw me out of the experience.
I thought it was good but over hyped. I didn't think it was particularly scary
Very few of my favorite horror movies are actually scary, except possibly on an existential level.
Hereditary was extremely effective at what it was trying to accomplish - especially that point about 1/3 in that Disco is talking about. I honestly can't remember the last time I felt that tense - that awful - in a movie theater. I was legit gripping the armrest of my seat and barely breathing. It wasn't scary, but it was utterly horrifying.
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Let the Right One In
It Follows
The Descent
You're Next
Evil Dead (remake)
Happy Death Day
From Dusk till Dawn
Cabin in the Woods
Green Room
The Thing
Bone Tomahawk
Jaws
I know many of these probably don't pass a true definition of a horror movie and only have horror elements, but they work enough for me.
Also a ton of credit to this forum generally speaking as I would have never seen half of these without word of mouth here over the years.
I'm the same way on horror, I'd say thats a pretty good list as I've seen most of them. I'd say additional movies to ease you in on horror but are fun would be Tremors and Jason X. Pitch Black sort of?
The babysitter on Netflix is a fun movie if you haven't seen it. Monster squad is on Hulu and the best movie ever.
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I really dig horror movies, and I will also vouch for everything on that list, except You're Next, which I haven't yet watched.
(But I really want to. I don't think it's streaming on anything right now.)
top notch 80s practical effects + Jeffery Combs with the ham-o-meter at 150%? How can you go wrong?
Thinks it on Amazon Prime rn
For classic horror, I'm partial to Phantom of the Opera (1943, with Claude Rains as the Phantom) and The Curse of Frankenstein (1957, the first horror movie with the legendary team of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee).
For some truly gruesome '80s body horror that still holds up incredibly well, The Fly (1986) is pretty much definitive.
For a light-hearted sci-fi horror-adjacent flick ("valley girls at the end of the world"), I love Night of the Comet (1984), with Catherine Mary Stewart (The Last Starfighter) and a pre-Star Trek Robert Beltran.
And of course there's the weird collision of horror and comedy that somehow works in An American Werewolf in London (1981). For a more straightforward werewolf movie, I really dug Dog Soldiers (2002) as well.
A zombie comedy-horror that's also exactly how British people would really deal with the zombie apocalypse? Obviously Shaun of the Dead (2004) is essential.
And I'm someone who's generally not really into horror movies!
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I could not get past the pilot/1st episode, the acting was so stiff and it looked like it was made with no budget, does the quality improves substancially in the following episodes?
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I got high and watched that movie and I lost my fucking shit at this scene:
Iconic.
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It improves dramatically in s2. S1 is only like 6 episodes. S2 was 20+ eps
Poltergeist is good and creepy with a balls-to-the-wall finale.
The Boneyard is a low budget camp affair with effects that are a little better than you might expect. A murderous, mutated Phyllis Diller is the highlight.
The only recent horror flick I liked was The Autopsy of Jane Doe. The two main characters are just so good that it sells all the scary stuff in a way that few other movies have for me.
Also, this:
I still need to buy that blu-ray.
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Also while we're mentioning Jeffery Combs, From Beyond is an awesome creature feature.
I had seen this scene hundreds of times without seeing the movie. Still was awesome
No spoilers but there was a point about 1/3rd through the movie that I needed to go take a walk to clear my head I was so disgusted/shocked.
Like The Witch, it's not scary but it inspires plenty of dread.
Yeah.
The movie just kind of throws you headfirst into that.
Apart from a few choice scenes towards the end it definitely was not scary but man, my head spun with some of the stuff that happened on the way.
See I thought The VVitch was just bad. Great Actors, great scenery, wonderfully shot and sound is amazing, terrible story and writing. I wanted the final act of the movie to be the whole movie. There were a lot of scenes that just that came off as hilarious instead of scary to me, which completely threw me out of the experience.
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Very few of my favorite horror movies are actually scary, except possibly on an existential level.
Hereditary was extremely effective at what it was trying to accomplish - especially that point about 1/3 in that Disco is talking about. I honestly can't remember the last time I felt that tense - that awful - in a movie theater. I was legit gripping the armrest of my seat and barely breathing. It wasn't scary, but it was utterly horrifying.
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