Its halloween! - recommend a good, recent, low budget horror movie

[lissener]

One of my very favorite movies this last year was a low-budget horror movie called Mulberry Street. It’s ostensibly a zombie movie, but the low-budget aspect is handled beautifully by moving the zombies toward the background and putting the people struggling to work together to survive in the forefront. In my top ten for the year, and just happens to be a C-grade horror film.

Other fun horror experiences this year: Frontier(s): Think French remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre . . . with Nazis.

And one of the most truly disturbing horror movies of this or any other year: Inside. French title À l’intérieur. In the store, we have a little sign in front of this movie with the text: “We dare you!” and a quote from the Village Voice as follows: “Say hello to the m—f—ing anti-Juno. [*Inside *is] . . . an exquisitely twisted, supremely uncompromised trauma.”

(And regarding The Signal, as mentioned above: it helps immensely to know that the three acts of this movie were directed by three different people, and the tone is very intentionally different from section to section. Personally I don’t think it works, but it works a little better for knowing it’s intentional.)

[Freejooky]

@Amp

Dance of the Dead - First new zombie movie I have enjoyed in awhile. Sure the main casts are annoying teenagers but the movie was fun and some of the acting was superb.

Absolutely! That’s what I came here to recommend.

Other recent gems: The Abandoned, The Signal, The Hamiltons, Inside, and The Strangers.

[lissener]

@Freejooky

Absolutely! That’s what I came here to recommend.

Other recent gems: The Abandoned, The Signal, The Hamiltons, Inside, and The Strangers.

Huh. I couldn’t stand Dance of the Dead. Hit the FF about 20 minutes into it.

[Max_Torque]

Okay, I finished Inside about an hour and a half ago. Very, very gory, and not much in the way of “scare”, but a lot in the way of “squirm uncomfortably because that looks really owie.” Not recommended for pregnant women, but apart from that, it’s pretty decent.

[lissener]

@Max_Torque

Okay, I finished Inside about an hour and a half ago. Very, very gory, and not much in the way of “scare”, but a lot in the way of “squirm uncomfortably because that looks really owie.” Not recommended for pregnant women, but apart from that, it’s pretty decent.

I agree it’s gory, but I disagree about the scare. I thought it was the best of both worlds: rather than just being some random gore without context, or with a lame context (*Saw, Hostel, *etc.), the gore is “earned.” There’s a lot of suspense and just WTFness regarding the second woman: who is she? is she even real? You very effectively sense the added horror experienced by the victim due to this mystery. Well, I do at any rate.

[Beadalin]

Hard to beat the classics. I’d go with The Evil Dead.

[griffin1977]

@lissener

One of my very favorite movies this last year was a low-budget horror movie called Mulberry Street. It’s ostensibly a zombie movie, but the low-budget aspect is handled beautifully by moving the zombies toward the background and putting the people struggling to work together to survive in the forefront. In my top ten for the year, and just happens to be a C-grade horror film.

Ah yes, saw that last year, and heartily agree, very cool.

[WilhelmGefallen]

@Tangent

I’ll also add Feast, which was the Project Greenlight movie from a few years ago. Very low budget, but with some recognizable B- and C-list actors. It’s tongue-in-cheek, but also pretty scary at times. The monsters are frightening.

The sequel to Feast is also out now, Feast II: Sloppy Seconds (Video 2008) - IMDb Feast II Sloppy Seconds (no I’m not making that up). I haven’t seen it yet, so cannot vouch for what it’s like.

There was a thread about this recently but Ghostwatch from the BBC, though technically a faux documentary rather than a movie, is definately one you may want to try out Ghostwatch (TV Movie 1992) - IMDb