Count me in the group who doesn't like Snuff-p*rn like Hostel or to a lesser extent, Saw. I can do without torture in my horror movies. A true horror movie is more psychological than anything else, like my favorite horror movie, The Shining. I'd say that I like horror movies more for the fiction aspect than the scare angle. It's good sci-fi with a twist. It's hard to draw the line between sci-fi and horror, like with Alien/Aliens. I really liked 30 Days of Night. Based on a comic, captured the feel of it fairly well. Fear.net put out two web-short sequels that you can catch on Hulu. I watched the first sequel last night. I LOVED the Mist - I own the DVD now, too. I don't want to spoil it if you haven't seen it, but if you're a parent it will kick your ass. I watched John Carpenter's The Thing a few weeks ago. Never gets old. I liked his In the Mouth of Madness, too. The Hellraiser movies were awesome, too. A good Zombie movie that I saw recently- Fido.
QUESTION: Jaws/Cujo/The Birds <-- are these considered HORROR MOVIES I kind of like the Nature Goes Wild type Horror Movies Rocket River
I can't remember the last time a movie actually scared me. And when I say "scared" I don't mean gross me out or make me jump, I mean actually give me nightmares that night. That's the kind of movie I'd like to see. I guess the last movie that actually did that for me was Jacobs Ladder?
Horror movies became self-aware with Scream, and that kind of fueled a mini-generation of meta-horror navel-gazing. I think the success and quality of that movie's script weakened the genre as a whole, because of the weaker imitations it's spawned over the last decade. Over the last few years, I thought The Strangers w/ Liv Tyler was above average. Very minimalist: a couple in a secluded home, cut off from the outside world; person(s) outside wearing masks, for whatever reasons determined to get inside that home. Similarly, I found Open Water truly terrifying. A purely psychological horror; man (or man + woman), alone, versus nature's indifference.
he asked from the last years or so, do you have any better suggestion? Thats why I said the first 2, especially the first was not about gore
If you're interested in horror movies "Drag Me To Hell" opens this week. It's from Raimi (evil dead trilogy, spiderman tri) and has gotten great reviews so far. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/drag_me_to_hell/
Best Horror Movies Ever. 1.The Exorcist 2.Jacob's Ladder 3.Dawn of the Dead (remake...not really scary just alot of action, which is what a zombie movie should have) Land of the Dead is probably the worst and most boring mainstream zombie movie ever made.
