A straightforward question, this time. I’ll try and start a debate about, oh, robot rights in film, or something next time. Anyway…
Can anyone recommend any good Horror movies? And not just “Philosophical” or “Metaphysical” horror movies, where the protagonist is battling a self-created nightmare world within the soul of humanity, or anything like that. I’m talking about Slasher movies. Movies with zombies. Movies with monsters. But well made ones.
I mean, most of the movies in the “horror” section of the video store look the same on the dust covers. Titles like “The Kill-ening,” and plot descriptions that all go like “It’s been 20 years since the Pnumatic-drill killer was executed for his crimes in the sleepy college town of Collagen…” But, as we all know, even an unabashedly cheesy genre like Horror has it’s good films, and it’s bad films. “Return of the Living Dead” and “Zombie Lake” are both zombie movies, but “Return of the Living Dead” actually does a good job at being a zombie movie, and becomes a shining example of it’s genre, while “Zombie Lake” is…well, “Zombie Lake.” Just an excuse to show nude women in between shots of guys in bad makeup. And it even manages to make the nudity boring and unappealing, which is saying a lot.
So, I guess what I’m saying is, it’s far too “hit and miss” trying to find a decent horror movie just by browsing the titles at Bradley Video, so can anyone suggest any good ones that I should look for?
Ranchoth
First, two stellar examples of internal-soul horror films- 1962’s CARNIVAL OF SOULS and the recent SOUL SURVIVORS
Now, the one classic that fits your preferences- Vincent Price’s MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (1964)
ok- also perhaps BRIDES OF DRACULA (1962) starring Peter Cushing
more recent films-
NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, 3,4
RE-ANIMATOR, BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR
HELLRAISER, HELLBOUND, HELLRAISER III (I haven’t seen any
beyond those)
ED GEIN
SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, HANNIBAL, RED DRAGON (RD can be watched first or last but SIL & H must be watched in that order)
BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA
MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN
DAGON
THE RESURRECTED (with Chris Sarandon- a good serious HP Lovecraft adaptation)
THE LOST BOYS
The original Halloween (although it’s been copied so much it’s originality is gone)
Nightmare on Elm Street, skip all the sequels then watch New Nightmare.
The Shining (Jack Nicholson version)
phantoms with ben affleck + peter o’tooles a decent enough low budget horror film.
i agree with the freddy films, although i enjoyed them upto no3
still really rate the ring remake
I’ll second all of these. Audition scared the bejeezus out of me and I don’t really scare that easily.
I’ll also add or agree with;
Re-animator
Evil Dead II/III (extremely daft, but so much fun)
Scream I/II
Ichi The Killer (Japanese, not pure horror though. More of a Character Study - Gangster Drama - Pitch Black Comedy - Horror - Gore - Comic Book kinda thing from same director as Audition)
When I hear the title 28 Days Later I think it is a sequeal to that Sandra Bullock movie. I am looking foward to seeing that one. The zombie movie, not Sandra Bullock. (unless she was being killed by zombies)
Some of my choices of movies that scare the poop out of me are
Jaws
Alien
Aliens
The Terminator
Nightmare on Elm Street (first one)
Poltergeist
Anguish
Dog Soldiers, a British horror film. The plot is rather like Alien. A troop of British commandos are on a training exercise in Scotland and run afoul of a pack of werewolves. They whole up in a farmhouse trying to survive until morning. Sounds odd, but it scared the crap out of me. You have to see it to understand.
Alien
Aliens
The Changeling
Dawn of the Dead
Freaks
Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (50’s or 70’s)
Night of the Living Dead
The Thing (John Carpenter)
Videodrome
Wild Zero
