Almost in time for Halloween, new horror movie recs?

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I’m a horror movie fanatic and have seen most of everything out there. My favorite era, as it is in general, pertains to the 70s classics. Nothing better than a night of the Exorcist, Last House on the Left and The Fog, to name some of my favorites.

But, I’m always looking for new blood (heh). So, anyone got anything that’s been recently, like within the last couple of years, released that they liked? I’m not necessarily a gore hound, but I can appreciate it if it’s really well done. Similarly, I’m not put off by “torture” porn (per se) or the dreaded shaky cam phenomenon. Hope that helps.

Lastly, here’s what I’ve enjoyed of late…

Oculus
You’re Next
Cabin in the Woods
Stoker
Dark Skies

I’m into the indie stuff too. Just saw The Houses that October Built, Would You Rather? and The ABCs of death. Loved them all.

As for what I didn’t care for? Haunter, the new Carrie, Evil Dead, Straw Dogs, Maniac or Rosemary’s Baby, Excision or Intruders. And despite the plethora of remakes that have made my shit list, I’m not opposed to them. Let Me In is one of the best.

What do y’all have in mind? I know there’s others here that love a good scary film, so I’m counting on you guys to hook me up. Right now, I’m even curious about one of the greatest suspense / horror films of 1976, The Town That Dreaded Sundown, being redone. Anyone seen it? The trailer doesn’t exactly look spectacular, but I’ve always been intrigued by the original source material.

I turn this over to my fellow Dopers. Make me at least shudder a little. I’m wide open.

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(In case the other thread gets closed)

Couple days ago, I watched Big Ass Spider on Netflix (you gotta love that title). A sorta homage to big bug movies. It caught me in a goofy frame of mind and I loved it. A few good shocks, a couple of fun gross-outs, some cheesy FX and some decent acting by secondary characters to carry it along. Only 80 minutes.

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Aw, geez. I was going to recommend Would You Rather?, which I liked quite a bit. It was weird (in a good way) seeing Brittany Snow in a horror film, for sure, and apparently that film is her sole producer credit.

Let’s see, horror movies I’ve seen recently and liked. Hmmm.

I loved both VHS films: VHS and VHS 2. Low-budget found-footage horror anthologies, each with around four or five distinct and standalone shorts, sort of like Creepshow. The first film was more interesting, I thought, but the second one had better production value and more traditional stories.

I liked Shadow People despite it being super low-budget and cheesy. Not much gore or special effects or even on-screen scares of any kind. They just went for psychologically unsettling and somewhat succeeded. Bad all around (acting, writing, production value) but it worked for me.

The Innkeepers was pretty good. Not great, but not bad. I just like Sara Paxton, though, so maybe my opinion of the film is skewed.

While not really a scary “horror movie” type of film, I thought Stake Land was fantastic. I know, I know, yet another vampire movie, but it really worked for me. (Post-vampire apocalypse.) One of my favorite films I’ve seen in the past year.

Also, I quite liked the first two Paranormal Activity films. The third and fourth were watchable but not particularly good. The Marked Ones kind of sucked.

Oculus was awesome, and is one of the main reasons I’m giving Selfie a shot. I don’t watch Dr Who so until Oculus I had no idea who Karen Gillan was.

Movies I haven’t seen yet but are on my list to try and see this month:

Beneath (2007)
Bereavement (2010)
Deliver Us From Evil
Devil’s Due
Texas Chainsaw 3D
The Devil Inside
The Possession
The Quiet Ones

EDIT: I’m a huge fan of horror movies, and have watched a ton of them recently but am having trouble remembering them offhand. So I may post a few more times as I remember them.

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Just remembered Silent House, which I don’t really remember other than it being creepy and worth watching.

I couldn’t remember who was in it, who made it, or even what happens at the end, so it’s a miracle I was able to find the title at all. Google to the rescue! Amazingly, the following search term brought it up in the first hit: “horror movie with construction at a house daughter tools”. (No quotes.)

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Okay, last post for now:

One of my favorite indy horror films is Salvage (2006). A girl is murdered by a serial killer, then wakes up earlier that day with a dreamlike memory/sense of her murder, only to have it happen again and again. No stars, no budget, no production value, but I loved it.

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (2010) was pretty good. I only watched it because it starred Guy Pearce and Katie Holmes, but I didn’t regret it.

The New Daughter is kind of crappy but it has Kevin Costner and a couple really well done creepy moments.

Nothing Left to Fear isn’t good, really. It sat on my DVR for almost a full year, multiple times in danger of being deleted to save room but the first couple minutes were just barely interesting enough to keep it. When I finally did watch it, it held my attention the whole way through and despite being bad, I liked it.

And finally, I’m assuming you’ve already seen the “big names” from the past few years:

Dark Skies
Insidious
Mama
Sinister
The Conjuring
The Purge
The Woman in Black

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I’ll have to search for this, as our Netflix is no more. But thanks!

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Two older goodies: Descent and 30 Days of Night, but not the sequels.

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Yes, this was made of win. I’ve recommended it to a few of my fellow fans.

I haven’t seen the second one, but a friend loved the first and I watched it because she’s one of my besties. Sadly, I hated it. Do you think the next would be better for me?

I’d never heard of this, but at least it has a sort of name, if by birth only. I’ll have to look it up and see if I can find it on cable. I’m always up for psychologically unsettling.

I’ve been meaning to see this and I’m not sure why I haven’t. Sara Paxton was certainly good enough in the remake for LHotL.

Wow. That has Kelly McGillis. And vampires are okay, although nothing will ever be Near Dark. Regardless, this is a definite.

You know, I hardly ever get to see anything in the theater, but I did part one. I was so disappointed, because that very well might have been the only movie in the history of ever that would’ve benefitted from home viewing. No matter, I really adored it almost throughout. The second one sucked though. So, meh.

Total agreement. But isn’t Selfie a TV show? Is it scary? My DVR is almost too full of those right now as we speak, so it might pay to be selective.

I was just reading about Beneath. It’s only like $3 on PPV, so that’s a possibility. I soooooo want to see Devil’s Due. I just wish some of these didn’t have such generic titles so they weren’t so forgettable or you get them confused with others. It looks intriguing. Films set in Britain can be tough due to heavy accents and poor sound quality, but I may give The Quiet Ones a shot. Jared Harris is wild and Olivia Cooke is under used on Bates Motel. I thought that TC3D, The Devil’s Inside and The Possession were all varying degrees of not so good. The last one had a bit of potential in the storyline, but the execution was amateurish at best. I think that leaves Deliver Us From Evil, which will be a Redbox rental for sure, and Bereavement. I read it’s a prequel to another movie, Malevolence. Have you seen that?

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Yep. I’m a follower of Elizabeth Olsen, so I got this the minute it came out. The twist was surprisingly effective.

Until you mentioned it, I’d completely forgotten about this one. I had to find it on IMDb, but I now remember it being quite good. I’ll have to watch it again.

The made-for-TV-movie was one of the creepiest things I’d ever seen when I was a kid, so when this was coming out, and the writer was Guillermo del Toro, I was stoked. But Katie Holmes was so flat, and although I think Guy Pearce is a genius, he pretty much was right there with her. Add in that it wasn’t nearly as charming (or is that the nostalgia talking?), and it left me longing for something more.

Aww, who wouldn’t want to see Costner terrorized? That’s an immediate inclusion. :smiley: No, really, he doesn’t bother me and I feel his acting in his old age has greatly improved from all his earlier preening. So, yes to this.

Me too. I started watching it and got only about a third in before I bailed for the evening. If you say it gets better, I’ll have to reconsider. Not to mention, since it’s taped, it’s free. I’m always about the free.

Liked it, was unimpressed, pretty all right despite seeming like a horror version of Nell, okay enough, ugh, great premise that didn’t quite deliver (but I do have higher hopes for the sequel!), and better on the atmosphere than the remainder. However, I’m nothing if not up for more Daniel Radcliffe.

Anyhoo, you’re amazing for all these suggestions. It’s given me much food for thought and has expanded my “must see” list. Thank you so much!!

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These are both very, very good, even though The Descent gave my claustrophobic self the hives. I had no idea there was a sequel. Fun fact about 30 Days… I have a friend in New Zealand whose father got to be one of the zombies. Coolest thing to look for in a movie ever.

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I thought Triangle was pretty good.

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A few I liked: Grabbers, Night of the Creeps, House of the Devil, Apollo 18, and Below

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I haven’t seen it yet but The Battery is getting really good reviews. It’s an extremely low budget independent movie from 2012 that’s just been released on DVD. It’s about two survivors of a zombie apocalypse. But people are saying it’s not just another zombie movie.

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Well, let me cart out my 70’s list

The Other
Let’s Scare Jessica To Death
Trilogy of Terror
A Cold Night’s Death
The Beguiled

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Good call. I LOVED triangle. So much so that I created a whole thread about it here on the boards.

EDIT: To faithfool, the OP in my linked thread is spoiler-free. If you haven’t seen it yet, I recommend you get and watch it without reading anything else about it. (Other than the OP of the linked thread.)

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This sounds like a winner. On it goes. Thanks!

Grabbers is comedy, right? I could get on board with that, as I loved both Shaun of the Dead and Warm Bodies. Night of the Creeps isn’t as recent as I’m looking for, but maybe later. is House of the Devil a remake? Reimagining? I’m interested. Seen Apollo 18, although it’d slipped my memory. It wasn’t bad at all. And I’m gonna have to skip Below. Claustrophobia and a war movie? No bueno. :stuck_out_tongue:

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I haven’t seen it yet but The Battery is getting really good reviews. It’s an extremely low budget independent movie from 2012 that’s just been released on DVD. It’s about two survivors of a zombie apocalypse. But people are saying it’s not just another zombie movie.

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The blurb had me at baseball. A must see. Gracias!

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See, this is why I asked for newer stuff. I’ve seen all of these but A Cold Night’s Death and that cast looks promising. I never got what everyone was on about with Trilogy of Terror, but having just seen it a few years ago, perhaps I missed the magic of the moment. I wanted to like Jessica more because I’d heard about it forever, but it left me decidedly so-so. Nice premise though. However, The Other freaking rocks. One of my all time favorites.

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Ooooh, will do then. Maybe I need to re-up with Netflix just for the month of October.

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You’ve even seen The Beguiled? And here I thought I was being clever stretching the boundaries of what one considers horror.

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Cockneys vs Zombies. Comes close to “Shaun of the Dead.” A couple of the gags are hysterical.

Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies. The guy who plays Lincoln is so good, he almost carries the film. Plays around with history in a fun way. Plus, zombies. During the Civil War.

^Dale Sams–“The Beguiled” is a smokin’ little horror film; excellent choice. So is “Cold Night’s Death.” How about “Moon of the Wolf”? (David Janssen)