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1. 

   RedEyedJedi
   Member

   You should start out with some classics first, Psycho, The Birds, Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, and The Thing.

   Then try some classic "slasher" flicks like The Original Halloween, Nightmare on Elm St., Evil Dead and Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
   (I'd say the Friday the 13th movies too, but only 1&2 are worth it for a new watcher.)

   The Original Dawn of the Dead is awesome too. (Tom Savini's F/X's kinda paves the way for future zombie flicks.)

   Current day flicks to see too. Se7en, Blair Witch, The Descent, The Strangers, and 28 Days Later area few good ones.

   Now for some crazy, bloody, flicks. Cannibal Holocaust, Suspiria, Hellraiser, Dead Alive, and Evil Dead 2.

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   Posted 6 months ago #
2. 

   seth_david_andrew
   Member

   Okay I'm going to say something at the cost of losing respectability on this thread. I do not like black and white films. Here and there I'll see one I don't mind, but I really have tried, and I really have found it to be a trend in my opinion. So that cancels most hitchcock out, and I respect that people like his films et cetera,

   Also, this thread was started because I was recommended movies like Nightmare on Elm Street, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, Friday the 13th, and I disliked them with great intensity. So I'm holding out hope that there are horror films that I'm not familiar with that will revitalize the genre for me.

   : \ I don't have anything against fans of these movies, they just don't entertain me like I'd like.

   That being said I got Blair Witch on the list, and I've heard interesting things about The Strangers so that will go up too, and I'll take your word for The Descent?

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   Posted 6 months ago #
3. 

   briscojr
   Member

   +1 for The Descent. Well acted by an unknown (to me) cast, and even better if you don't know what the film is about before you see it. That rare horror film that actually bothers to build plot and characters before the mayhem begins.

   I'll rep Jedi's pick for Hellraiser as well. Barker's books haven't translated to screen well, but he actually wrote and directed this one himself.

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   Posted 6 months ago #
4. 

   uɐʎɹ
   Member

   Never seen it myself, but Descent (not The Descent), with Rosario Dawson might be a good choice. The F'd up value of the film apparently holds it's own dispite a somewhat boring build up to the horrific climax.

   I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.
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   Posted 6 months ago #
5. 

   JrOaHmNoS
   Member

   oh...the descent was really good! i like it! i remember that they were going to make a sequel....

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   Posted 6 months ago #
6. 

   GoodEats
   Member

   WATCH BATTLE ROYALE, not a horror but the best movie ever made.

   RIP ODB

   Posted 6 months ago #
7. 

   JrOaHmNoS
   Member

   oh yeah! i remember reading that was one of Quentin Tarantino's favorite movie! i haven't watched it yet but i heard it's the best!

   Posted 6 months ago #
8. 

   JWils79
   Member

   "Them" aka "Il's" was pretty good. Its a french movie. I dont recall any blood or gore in it but i remember it was pretty suspenseful. If you dont like or feel like reading subtitles it was remade not too long ago (the strangers). I liked this movie. There are so many good horros films but i through this one out to go with a unique answer lol

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   Posted 6 months ago #
9. 

   seth_david_andrew
   Member

   The book Battle Royale was amazing in a campy japan-gore kind of way, if not hard to put faces to the plethora of distinctly foreign names.

   The Descent and Descent are on the list.

   I'll watch anything with Rosario Dawson in it because I am in love with her.

   I'll try the hellraiser film too (the first one? are the sequels worth it?)
   I was morbidly interested in the action figures they had at a local game store when I was super young.

   Are the Hellraiser books worth a read?

   And I just realized I'm probably going to have to get a netflix account. Unless I find Hastings has a copy of Battle Royale.

   Posted 6 months ago #
10. 

    briscojr
    Member

    @seth Deffo start with first Hellraiser, and then if you find it to your liking I recommend the second one as well. It is a direct sequel to the first, and man is it gory. The sequels start dropping in quality HUGELY after the first 2. There are, I believe, 8 Hellraiser films (I've seen the first 5 and gave up) so I'm just assuming those last few continue the downward spiral.

    The only Hellraiser book I know of was a short novella Barker wrote called "The Hellbound Heart". The movie doesn't even have that much to do with it.

    Your thread's got me interested to see Battle Royale now, so erm, just saying there *might* be a torrent of it floating around (and there's a sequel to it too). But umm, of course torrents are bad, and support the filmmakers and all that.

    Posted 6 months ago #
11. 

    BurningChrome
    Member

    @seth i feel ya on the b&w films...i've never been able to get into them either...and it's just not the absence of color either...as far as stephen king is concerned, i agree, not all movies based on his books are good...it's been hit or miss...

    what about "the cell" "jaws" or "silence of the lambs"?

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    Posted 6 months ago #
12. 

    RedEyedJedi
    Member

    Silence of the lambs is good!!! The Haunting in Conn. is pretty good too.

    Posted 6 months ago #
13. 

    Master Gio
    Member

    I love horror films to death!!!!!! Since you dislike slashers I say these films are prob more your speed:

    Audition
    Ichi The Killer
    Visitor Q
    Battle Royale
    Deep Red
    Se7en
    Suspiria
    The Descent
    Videodrome
    The Fly (1986)
    The Brood
    The Beyond
    Don't Torture a Duckiling
    Jaws
    Silence of the Lambs
    Near Dark

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    Posted 6 months ago #
14. 

    uɐʎɹ
    Member

    Is it against the TOS to mention sites that may be streaming these movies for free? Even if I post a disclaimer?

    Posted 6 months ago #
15. 

    Dave-O
    Member

    Great call on Near Dark, loved that flick.

    Any of you homos touch my stuff... I'll kill ya.

    Posted 6 months ago #
16. 

    seth_david_andrew
    Member

    Oh my god all of you are awesome.

    This list is going to be enormous, and this thread has become the epoch of my new movie watching era.

    I'm actually starting to realize I have just a bit more appreciation for horror than I thought (I own Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, and Red Dragon by the by, fantaaastic). But I'm seriously getting some good stuff.

    and @briscojr if there WAS hypothetically a torrent of Battle Royale floating around somewhere I would hypothetically be interested. Hypothetically. AND in honor of my recently developed love of masochistic filmwatching, I would be willing to subject myself to all eight Hellraiser films, and could document the experience for your "laugh at, not with" enjoyment

    @burningchrome I'm glad I'm not the only one. My cousin is a huge elitist (although he's doing really well in the film industry right now so I guess he sort of earned it) and just about punched me in the head when I told him I had no interest in seeing Citizen Kane.

    I really enjoyed The Cell because I'm so entertained by Tarsem's visual style that I forgive any weaknesses in any other part of his movies (on a similar note, if you liked the visual style of The Cell at all, I recommend checking out The Fall)

    @Master Gio Thanks for the list! I copy pasta'd it, and will be seeing most of them. I actually have seen Ichi the Killer, since I've seen most of Tadanobu Asano's stuff because I have an abnormal mancrush on him. Also, I totally forgot about the Fly and I'm excited to see that one too.

    This list is growing but I require more!

    Posted 6 months ago #
17. 

    GoodEats
    Member

    
    

    Posted 6 months ago #
18. 

    seth_david_andrew
    Member

    Okay, and also this is embarassing, but I don't really know what to do with torrents. Like, I have a vague idea of what they are but i've never been schooled in the arts of torrentry.

    And furthermore, I"m not going to get bombarded with spyware shit if I click this link riiiiiight? (paranoid)

    Posted 6 months ago #
19. 

    uɐʎɹ
    Member

    Torrents are bad, so are sites like watch-movies-links.net movies-on-demand.tv and tvshack.net that stream movies. 

    Dispite the fact that these sites might have some of these movies, don't use these sites, they are teh badness. You know, support the filmmaker and such. 

    Posted 6 months ago #
20. 

    seth_david_andrew
    Member

    Then I wouldn't think of bookmarking them.

    Posted 6 months ago #
21. 

    Gerrad
    Member

    I know there has been some dissension on black and white but I really think you cannot go wrong with the classics. I am gonna try to shed some light in great horror of the past, as people have a really good lock on the current stuff.

    Nosferatu -The orginal silent horror flick... just great, almost haunting.

    Personally the original Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Dracula and Wolfman are truely classics. There is a reason they are the basis for like every horror flick since.

    You can't go wrong with some of the Hammer Horror films of the late 50's and 60's, many of which are even in color. Pick up anything with Peter Cushing or Christopher Lee.

    My all time favorite horror flck is 1932 Freaks, by director Tod Browning. What is truely horrific is that all the actors and actresses are real carnival freaks. Bearded ladies, pinheads, human torso,

    Here is a taste
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXF6Igl6F5s

    The scene where the guy with no arms or legs is crawling after the victem in the mud and he has a knife in his mouth, one part scary, one part awesome...

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    Posted 6 months ago #
22. 

    seth_david_andrew
    Member

    Well since it was so eloquently recommended, I will absolutely add it to the list. Can't promising anything, but thank you just the same

    Posted 6 months ago #
23. 

    Gerrad
    Member

    I'm not a big horror guy either, specifically slashers. Never got into them, though many of the more modern flicks that have been said are all good calls.

    Jaws, The Excorcist, Rosemary's Baby, Alien, The Thing,

    The evil Dead series are wonderful camp horror. I will also admit to not hating the remake of House of Wax, anytime someone kills Paris Hilton it can't be all bad.

    Not a lot of Vincent Price mentioned either, the Pit and the Pendulum...

    I dunno, find what you like. But thanks for maybe checking out Freaks, movie was banned in a lot of countries after its release and was considered so fucked up the director basically couldn't get work after that. Also the inspiration for the Ramones song Pinhead.

    Posted 6 months ago #
24. 

    seth_david_andrew
    Member

    I saw a couple clips on youtube and it looks like Freaks isn't completely heartless or anything. So that's good.

    We shall see.

    Posted 6 months ago #
25. 

    seth_david_andrew
    Member

    Does no one have any recommendations in the Japan horror genre?

    Posted 6 months ago #
26. 

    Btab
    Member

    RINGUUUU!!
    But Chuckie horrifies me.

    Ohh, good for you.
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    Posted 6 months ago #
27. 

    seth_david_andrew
    Member

    God I had a nightmare when I was really young that me and my mom were running from Chuckie in an airport, and we had to steal a van taxi and run him over.

    The original Ring is called Ringu?

    Posted 6 months ago #
28. 

    briscojr
    Member

    So did you follow through on your Tweet of watching Evil Dead II?

    I still need to watch Battle Royale which I got because of all the recommendations on this thread.

    Posted 6 months ago #

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