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I love horror but apparently I don't vibe with a lot of recommendations I find online.

I'd seen so much hype about Event Horizon and I absolutely hated it and didn't find it scary. I just watched Late Night With the Devil and whole it was definitely enjoyable, it wasn't the least but frightening. I also just watched Let the Right One In and really didn't like it. It also was not a horror movie in my opinion.

I will say one of my favorites is Sinister or the first Conjuring. Sinister for the stomach twisting dread and suspence throughout and Conjuring for the same.

So, what movies do you find to be the scariest?

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[-] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I absolutely love horror movies and have a long list of fantastic ones but not very many of them actually scared me. Most of them have been named already but two I didn't see were The Babadook (2014) and surprisingly a Netflix movie called His House (2020) was actually awesome. One of my favorites in the last few years.

[-] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Yeah I actually think that my favorite horror movies are the ones that get me asking questions, rather than being scared. I like being intrigued by the evil, like in Smile (until the twist at the end, it was a perfectly good psychological horror that did not need a monster)

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

can recommend Coherence

[-] nayminlwin@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

May be Apostle? It's one of the memorable ones among recent horror.

[-] protokaiser@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I really enjoyed Pandorum and The Babadook.

[-] cosmicrose@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

“Host” fucked me up and is the reason I don’t watch horror movies anymore. I’m a huge baby though.

[-] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'm noticing a distinct lack of Terrifier and Terrifier 2 in these comments. Art the Clown is perhaps the best antagonist I've ever seen in the horror genre and true originality is rare in the modern horror filmscape.

The Ring is also good for originality as far as modern classics, though it's a whole book series in Japan.

Edit: I also liked The Shrine, forgot to mention that one. Again, originality.

[-] coaxil@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Soft & quiet.

Humans are a terrible thing

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt14557188/

Talk To Me. I would also say Sinister and The Conjuring are my favorites, and I also struggle to find scary movies that genuinely scare me. Watch this alone in the dark the first time. It is now my all-time favorite scary movie, and it's fairly recent.

[-] beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago

Megan is Missing (2011) is one of the most horrifying films I've ever seen. Fair warning though, the last ten minutes are excruciatingly painful to watch. It is not for the faint of heart.

In the gore porn genre Cannibal Holocaust (1980) and Hostel (2005) are vile, but so pointlessly gorey the actual horror (the brutality of men) is almost entirely lost.

Funny Games (1997), or the 2007 American remake for those who don't love subtitles, is another unnerving portrayal of ultra violence. It's not gore porn, but is graphic. The original version's pacing will make you squirm in your seat.

Hush (2016) and Creep (2014) are two of my movie-night-with-friends films. Still very much about the human monster, but not overly graphic and prefers to build by making the viewer a partial participant. You have to be a certain level of broken to enjoy some of the others on my list, but these two are disney movies compared to Cannibal Holocaust.

[-] MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

My vote goes to The Vanishing (1988).

[-] mp04610@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

"Ju-On: The Grudge" from 2002 was probably one of the scariest movies I've seen (if you don't mind reading subtitles). The US remake did not do it justice IMO. I don't know how well it holds up nowadays since it's so old and I was a lot younger when it came out.

[-] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago

I also remembered it as insanely scary, but when I rewatched it recently it really didn't live up to my imagination. Maybe I had hyped it up too much in my head

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