# Recommend some obscure horror/thriller movies! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 12, 2008, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-obscure-horror-thriller-movies/449085 "2008-05-12T21:31:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-obscure-horror-thriller-movies/449085/41 "2008-05-14T20:12:43Z")
[QUOTE=MGibson] **Ravenous** which is about a group of soldiers in 1840s California and cannibalism. Marc [/QUOTE] I second this. It is a fabulous movie. Has Guy Pearce and Robert Carlyle. Marc forgot to mention Vampires. There are Vampires. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-obscure-horror-thriller-movies/449085/42 "2008-05-14T20:31:32Z")
> [@](#): > > (A) more of the creepy rather than the gory type, especially when it comes to psychological thrillers and ghost stories _The Human Monster_, starring Bela Lugosi. > [@](#): > > (B) completely over-the-top B-movie gorefests with liberal doses of fake blood and boobs and ridiculous dialogue _Vampyres_ also known as _Dracula’s Daughters_. Not much blood, but nice boobs. ---
**Author:** ![bubastis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-obscure-horror-thriller-movies/449085/43 "2008-05-14T22:05:08Z")
Right At Your Door is an especially effective little thriller that’ll have you running to the store to stockpile ducttape and pvc sheeting before the credits roll. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-obscure-horror-thriller-movies/449085/44 "2008-05-15T01:44:39Z")
[Timescape](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104362/) Not really technically a horror film, possibly a thriller. A Time Travel Thriller, maybe. Not really that obscure, but [eXistenZ](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120907/) is a little trippy mindfuckity. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-obscure-horror-thriller-movies/449085/45 "2008-05-15T02:15:52Z")
[Dog Soldiers](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280609/) I second [Session 9](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0261983/) [Funny Games](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119167/) [Braindead (a/k/a Dead Alive)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103873/) ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-obscure-horror-thriller-movies/449085/46 "2008-05-15T02:44:17Z")
The 1979 Werner Herzog remake of NOSFERATU, slow-moving but chilling & I thought rather lovely, like a ballet of the grotesque. Stars Klaus Kinski & Isabella Adjani. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-obscure-horror-thriller-movies/449085/47 "2008-05-15T02:57:55Z")
> [@](#): > > (A) more of the creepy rather than the gory type, especially when it comes to psychological thrillers and ghost stories or (B) completely over-the-top B-movie gorefests with liberal doses of fake blood and boobs and ridiculous dialogue, or (C) trippy mindfucks; My recommendations for (A) and (C) you’ve already seen (\*\*A Tale of Two Sisters \*\* and **Jacob’s Ladder** , although I don’t think the latter can be considered obscure.) But I’ve got a recommendation for (B) that you’ve probably never seen: \*\*The \*\* **Seventh Curse**. From a review I wrote for another site: > [@](#): > > You talk about your grade-B fun popcorn flicks and guilty pleasures! “The Seventh Curse” is a mid '80s Hong Kong movie that provides great over-the-top campy fun. > > I could sit here and try to type out a plot synopsis, but really there’s no point. You can read the synopsis off the back of the DVD, which makes little to no sense, yet somehow tells you everthing you need to know. This film is a gonzo mixed bag of just about everything fun you could pack into a film. It’s like Indiana Jones dropped acid and walked into kung-fu/black-magic horror/gore/human sacrifice/monster/jungle adventure/softcore titillation/shoot-'em up action film. Click [here](http://www.dvdspot.com/dvd.php?d=1012141636) for more info and my full review (scroll down). ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-obscure-horror-thriller-movies/449085/48 "2008-05-15T03:21:32Z")
[QUOTE=spoke-] [Dog Soldiers](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280609/) I second [Session 9](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0261983/) [Funny Games](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119167/) [Braindead (a/k/a Dead Alive)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103873/) [/QUOTE] Thanks for the reply…it was actually me (the OP) that brought up Dog Soldiers and Session 9, and I’ve seen the original Funny Games…going to put Dead Alive on the queue though, thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-obscure-horror-thriller-movies/449085/49 "2008-05-15T03:24:10Z")
[QUOTE=divemaster] My recommendations for (A) and (C) you’ve already seen (\*\*A Tale of Two Sisters \*\* and **Jacob’s Ladder** , although I don’t think the latter can be considered obscure.) But I’ve got a recommendation for (B) that you’ve probably never seen: \*\*The \*\* **Seventh Curse**. From a review I wrote for another site: Click [here](http://www.dvdspot.com/dvd.php?d=1012141636) for more info and my full review (scroll down). [/QUOTE] Excellent! Thanks for the recommendation! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Them](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@The\_Them](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Them)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-obscure-horror-thriller-movies/449085/50 "2008-05-15T08:38:57Z")
\*Liquid Sky Eraserhead Bad Robert \*(or _Bad Richard_ or _Bad Roger_ or something like that) – nutjob has secret room in family house messes up the homeowners’ lives I forget the title, but It’s something like _Frankenstein vs. Dracula_ – speaks for itself ---
**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-obscure-horror-thriller-movies/449085/51 "2008-05-15T08:51:32Z")
suburban Nightmare, only because it got me an IMDB entry. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-obscure-horror-thriller-movies/449085/52 "2008-05-15T09:11:02Z")
[QUOTE=The Them] \*Liquid Sky Eraserhead Bad Robert \*(or _Bad Richard_ or _Bad Roger_ or something like that) – nutjob has secret room in family house messes up the homeowners’ lives I forget the title, but It’s something like _Frankenstein vs. Dracula_ – speaks for itself [/QUOTE] Bad Ronald. I’ve never seen it but I have heard of it. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071186/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071186/) Actually, Dracula vs. Frankenstein was the name of it. I have seen it. It has the last performances of J. Carroll Nash and Lon Chaney Jr., and also includes Russ Tamblyn & Uncle Forry Ackerman in the cast. NOT a good film! 😛 But amazingly enough, available on DVD! ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-obscure-horror-thriller-movies/449085/53 "2008-05-15T09:15:50Z")
BRAIN DAMAGE is back in print on DVD! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Them](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@The\_Them](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Them)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-obscure-horror-thriller-movies/449085/54 "2008-05-15T09:22:00Z")
Oh, yeah - almost forgot _The Final Terror_ - psycho stalks campers in the redwoods, and its _NOT_ dumb like _Friday the Thirteenth_. See Darryl Hannah get her thoat cut and survive! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-obscure-horror-thriller-movies/449085/55 "2008-05-15T11:39:30Z")
Many of my faves listed here already, esp Carnival of Souls, The Changeling, and the original The Haunting. I remember being terrified (as a kid) by [The Tingler](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053363/). It’s a kitschy B movie, but it’s got Vincent Price–what’s not to like? Many years later, [Red Rock West](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105226/), which is much more noir than a horror film, gave me _nightmares_ with one particular burial scene. \ ---
**Author:** ![Leechboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@Leechboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leechboy)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-obscure-horror-thriller-movies/449085/56 "2008-05-15T14:40:53Z")
Thrillers [Alexandra’s Project](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338706/) is a great little Aussie thriller. Disturbing on many levels. [Three Days Of The Condor](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073802/) - Brilliant Redford spy thriller, with the added bonus that all the espionage tricks in it are plausible. A couple of great Walter Hill gimmick thrillers - [The Driver](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077474/) - a seventies existential noir heist flick. [Southern Comfort](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083111/) - a brilliant Vietnam metaphor …and a couple of oldies [The Set-Up](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041859/) - a real time character thriller with Robert Ryan brilliantly authentic as a washed up boxer defying the mob. [Night of the Hunter](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048424/) - Uncategorizable movie about a couple of plucky kids trying to escape Robert Mitchum’s evil Preacher. Features Silent screen great Lilian Gish as a kindly Grandmother type with a shotgun. Horrors [The Night Flier](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119784/) - Nice little B-movie with Miguel Ferrer as a tabloid reporter trying to track down a vampire attack small airports. Has a pitch-black vein of humour running through it. [Black Christmas (1974)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071222/) - Pre Halloween slasher flick with another black humour vein. Bonus in that the stalker in this is genuinely scary. [Dellamorte Dellamore (Cemetary Man)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109592/) - Surreal zombie horror comedy with Rupert Everett as a Cemetary worker dealing with the undead. Also features the rediculously hot Anna Falchi, as the girl Everett keeps accidentally killing. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-obscure-horror-thriller-movies/449085/57 "2008-05-15T15:09:16Z")
Does anyone remember **Midnight Offerings** , with Mary Ingalls as the “bad witch” and Erin Walton as the “good witch”? 🙂 ---
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[QUOTE=CalMeacham] > [@](#): > > Cal, O Cal. > > Please tell me you’re not actually recommending someone watch Firefox. Please. So sue me – I like it. The special effects are pretty impressive, even if you don’t like the technical errors. [/QUOTE] Indeed. I feel the same way about _Driven_. ---
**Author:** ![Apocalypso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Apocalypso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apocalypso)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-obscure-horror-thriller-movies/449085/59 "2008-05-15T23:16:30Z")
**In the Mouth of Madness** another vote for \*\*Dark City \*\* **Cube** (or was it **The Cube**?) **Donnie Darko** Annnndd…for a horror that’s also a comedy - **They Live** ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-obscure-horror-thriller-movies/449085/60 "2008-05-15T23:43:46Z")
For crawly suspense, I highly recommend **Duel** , an early Spielberg offering in which you can clearly see his coming brilliance (and that of Dennis Weaver, his put-upon protagonist). Best bad guy ever- a big fucking truck. Although, sadly, the final shot is repeated almost _exactly_ in a later Spielberg film- **Jaws** fans will recognize it immediately. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-obscure-horror-thriller-movies/449085.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-obscure-horror-thriller-movies/449085.md?page=4)