@Will: Well i probably wouldn't be a good person to ask that question, but supposedly people like the saw series, for a psychological thriller, but you have probably seen those because they are main stream but cube is another option.
The Unborn is good -- not the American one, but the Thai one. And if you want something atmospheric but don't mind rubbish stories, you should check out The Grudge and Silent Hill.
If you're looking for a horror comedy with absurd amounts of gore and a hiphop country singing zombie leading a zombie dance party, Dead and Breakfast is one of my favorites.
If so, those two. I usually like horror films that aren't gory. Nothing wrong with gore, but usually directors seem to add gore as a replacement for suspense, fear or spooking you out.
I feel like you need to give a bit more context...i own near 50 or more horror movies and would recommend all of them.
For some more obscure ones go with Audtion Ichi the Killer Let the Right One In Martyrs House of 1000 Corpses If you want a more main stream movie A nightmare on elm Street (The Original) Hills Have Eyes (I prefer the Remake but both are fun) Hostel Saw Any of the older George Romero ZOmbie flicks
If thats not enough let me know i could go on for days
@Heartagram: Got Audtion and Martyrs from a friend, have yet to watch them. Loved Ichi The Killer, so crazy lol! Own all the elm streets and both Hostels, seen all Saws and the Hills Have Eyes aswell. Know of anything else similar to Ichi? Thats the type of stuff im looking for.
@KaosAngel: Seen Human Centipede and thought it was crack up, the scientist though does creep me out a little though.
I'll say Black Sheep since it's one of the few horror movies currently on my shelf that isn't a mainstream movie, though you may be already seen it, so. Though it is more of a horror comedy.
Edit: Note, Black Sheep the movie about killer sheep, not Black Sheep the Chris Farley - David Spade movie.
@Will: Another movie i always felt was somewhat similar is Oldboy Its about a man who becomes imprisoned for many years then escapes and decide to exact revenge on the people who did it.
The Horseman was a pretty brutal movie. Its an australian film. (Not the Dennis Quad one that came out)
And for fucked up disturbing shit like Itchi & Audition just fallow all of Takashi Miike work...not all of it's traditionally horror but it's usually pretty fucked up.
@Heartagram: Thats true, ill be sure to check out some of these movies you have just listed. Ive read about the I Spit On Your Grave remake and love the idea for the movie so ive had that one down for awhile lol
" Pretty much any original, or fist in a series of horror movies tend to be the best ones. Sequels to horror movies ALWAYS suck. "
I liked Saw II a ton (more than the original) and anyone who's anyone knows that The Devil's Rejects is a far better film than House of 1000 Corpses (but the latter's not bad). But yeah, rule of thumb, if it's a sequel to a horror movie, it sucks or it'll probably suck (*cough* Paranormal Activity 2 *cough*).
Horror movies, just straight up horror films? The Decent was already thrown out there, but it's a phenomenal film. One of the best mainstream horror films in the past decade or so. Same goes for the double serving of 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later. Although I kinda hated it, The Ruins has its following. The Signal is an overlooked horror film that's available on Netflix streaming for those who are interested; it's the basic story of human society turns feral due to something something a la The Crazies or 28 Days Later, and it's pretty well done. The second half is surprisingly hilarious in a dark/black comedy way.
REC/Quarantine (they're the same movie, Quarantine is the American version and RECis European). Dawn of the Dead (the remake rocked, but the original is great too) The Host (monster horror..perhaps horror/action) House of 1000 Corpses and Devil's Rejects (personally I liked Rejects better, but it picks up where Corpses left off and they're both good movies) Rob Zombie's Halloween (note...Rob Zombie LOVES gore) I'm waiting for Wolf Creek, Wrong Turn and High Tension (I'm interested in any movie that features someone holding a 2x4 wrapped in barbed wire during its preview) from Netflix..they all seem promising. The Red Dragon (prequel to Silence of the Lambs)
@VinceNotVance: The Signal was way better than I expected..though a little corney at times. Overall though, I'd say watch it. Descent was good too. 28 Days >>> 28 weeks. I loved how it was quite a bit of time in 28 days before you learned what was happening.
Evil Dead, Ichi The Killer, The Grudge, The Ring, Captivity, Last House On The Left, to name a few. I recommend any of these, all being either the Older version, or Japanese/Not Fucked up by Hollywood Versions
This movie is so fucking scary. Its also really long. I think its just under 4 hours. But it is based of of Stephen Kings 1,000 book, so, yeah. Great movie. And Tim Curry is Amazing.
" I'll say Black Sheep since it's one of the few horror movies currently on my shelf that isn't a mainstream movie, though you may be already seen it, so. Though it is more of a horror comedy. Edit: Note, Black Sheep the movie about killer sheep, not Black Sheep the Chris Farley - David Spade movie. "
Hahaha yea trust NZ to get something out horrorish and about sheep >_<
Anyways ive got Oldboy, Audition and a few others on the way to me from a friend. Also idk but The Grudge scares the shit out of me more than any other distrubing/twisted movie ive seen so far lol.
Watched The Descent the other week and thought it was really really good, loved the atmosphere, ive got part 2 with me but im cringing at the thought of watching it after the reviews ive read but might give it a burn sometime in the weekend.
Oh and one more ive got in a stack is the new Nightmare On Elm Street, ive got the dream collection boxset of all the other movies, one of my fav franchises.
don't really watch many movies, and none of the following are gory or violent, I guess I'm more into psychological horror: Funny Games The Exorcist (first one) The Shining
there was an article on Screened about a few japanese indie horror films, can't find it right now, still looking.
" @Heartagram: Know of anything else similar to Ichi? Thats the type of stuff im looking for. "
The Tetsuo series. Neither those or Ichi are classic "horror" films. "Body Horror" maybe but only in a gore sense - giant corkscrew penis = win.
And Scanners is a classic in every sense but that's not really horror either. I haven't seen a good horror film in decades. Hellraiser was about the last one with any imagination I can remember but the sequels have just continuously crapped on the character to make Pinhead not scary at all now. The original Funny Games is fairly creepy. Dellamorte Dellamore is odd and includes zombies so it gets a comedy-horror nod just for being obscure and weird. Fulci's The Beyond is an old classic.
Most of the recent ones are remakes or just more stabby-stab-stab rubbish.
Anyway here you go OP, this site will probably be of more help to you than anything, what you wanna do is click "Reviews" where it says "Browse all reviews by" you wanna click "Score" then just scroll down all the films that got top rated........they should be more than enough for you, its several pages, ive found many good ones the same way.
On second thought forget doing all that, i did it for you, you lazy bastard there.
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