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What are your favorite horror/horror-esque films? Post stills, posters, covers, whatever...
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No.13225
>>13220
Maybe The Descent? It plays on claustrophobia and you know things aren't going to go well pretty quickly. Also the GOAT -- Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) -- starts off with a sense of foreboding right off the bat, although I'm not sure if that's the kind of discomfort you're looking for.
If you have 2 minutes to kill you might get a kick out of "The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water."
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No.13230
>>13220
Shouldn't most good horror films illicit a reaction of discomfort? I doubt it is what you're looking for but the atmosphere of sleaziness in Bad is unsettling, but also funny.
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No.13283
>>13221
>>13225
I've seen most of these, but I will check out the ones I haven't.
>>13230
They should, but there are too many horror movies that just feature long empty moments waiting for the jump scare to arrive, followed by the protagonist running away to safety. The Last House on the Left literally had a long and intense rape scene which the girl couldn't escape from. Everything in Psycho just seemed "off", largely thanks to both the setting and Anthony Perkins' performance. That's kind of what I mean.
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No.13284
>>13283
That's not to say I have anything against those other kinds of horrors, but they're just much easier to find.
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No.13303
>>13283
Have you seen "Get Out"?
Just kidding. "Calvaire" might be a good fit. "La Cabina" is also really good and I think it fits with what you're looking for. I would avoid reading too much about it if you haven't seen it and think you might give it a watch. It's also 35 minutes, which is nice.
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No.13308
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Eye of the Devil was one of the first films I watched that (at the time) was not on DVD. So I felt cool to be able to see something "rare".
It's not a classic, but it's got a decent cast with Sharon Tate, David Niven, David Hemmings, Donald Pleasence. I hadn't seen The Innocents when I first watched this, so I didn't know Deborah Kerr was kind of reprising her famous role.
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No.13309
Here's a list of
The 50 Greatest Horror Movies of the 21st Century
https://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/the-50-greatest-horror-movies-of-the-21st-century
The list is a mixed bag but I do want to watch some of them. Visitor Q, Pulse, Trouble Every Day...
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No.13312
>>9160
This was an exception for me during that era where all those awful horror movies of my youth were coming out. Completely forgot about it. Thanks for the reminder.
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No.13329
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No.13338
The August Underground trilogy are up there at the top of my horror list, they're not "waah i scream" scary, they're just really twisted and edgy.
The trilogy in general isn't perfect, but it doesn't matter to me - because what the movies portray is something I've never seen in any other type of movie.
If I had to choose a favourite out of the three though, It'd be Penance.
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No.13339
>>13338
I watched a few minutes, looked kind of crappy. But I know they aim for everyday realism to create a different kind of horror that is almost believable.
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No.13366
>>13338
Mordum, along with that one german movie about masturbating with someone's entrails, has to be one of the toughest sits around, due to a mix of not being really good and hard as nails graphical violence
The bathroom fun scene is a world cinema classic moment, really endearing special effects. Very hard to imagine Salo being considered trashier than this.
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No.13374
Bava's The Whip and the Body was surprisingly great. The restoration makes the film look better than it was probably intended. Rich colours everywhere. And it's funny that Bava is credited under the name "John M. Old".
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No.13382
So I just saw this and was wondering what you guys thought of it.
I liked it a lot,I even started on the book tbh. Also good riddance of the bullies tgat kept plagueing oskar.
Though I must say that some parts seem pretty random in the movie while in the book you get explanations about it.
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No.13384
I randomly thought of Ganja & Hess the other day. It's not too bad for a weird independent horror made by black folk. It tries to be deep and that doesn't really work, but it's okay with movies like this. Many eurocult horrors do the same thing with the director having some grand aim that misfires.
>>13382
I never got around to watching that one
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No.13386
>>13384
Its really nice, its basicslly a love story between a boy and a vampire girl. Though I have to say that they hinted at many things which were only fully explained in the book. But still its a 7,5/10.
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No.13431
>>8376
I'd say Wax Museum is a better film than the average Universal horror. Universal is loved for the classic monsters, but the scriptwriting has a lot of flat characters and contrived plot points. I feel like I have to lower expectations to enjoy those films.
Wax Museum also has many scenes with the Gatling banter of a screwball comedy. It must be the first film with the trope of constant verbal jousting between male and female newspaper reporters.
Pretty good 30s Hollywood horror. I think the laserdisc has the proper grading for red/green 2 strip technicolor. Other versions get it wrong.
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No.13478
Here's an interesting article about the word horror itself. The word was rarely used until humanity was forever changed by the extreme carnage of World War I.
https://lithub.com/how-horror-changed-after-wwi/
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No.13490
>>12505
I know I'm responding to a 4 month old post, but if anyone here hasn't seen this, I highly recommend it. It's a super artistic revenge movie with horror elements; I wouldn't necessarily classify it as a straight horror movie, but there's enough supernatural elements, dark imagery, and blood and violence for it to be included in this thread. The plot line is very very simple, the trailer pretty much tells the story, but it's shot and edited so beautifully that it doesn't really matter.
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No.13501
>>13431
>Universal is loved for the classic monsters, but the scriptwriting has a lot of flat characters and contrived plot points. I feel like I have to lower expectations to enjoy those films.
I feel the exact opposite way. Most of them are basically just drama films with supernatural elements. The writing is the most important part of the films.
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No.13546
>>13366
Posting that scene in webm form still gets me permad from most boards, even caught a sitewide ban once.
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No.13589
I like the more mainstream films like Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Psycho, but I also think movies like Begotten, Ringu, and Haxan ought to be mentioned for terrifying the shit out of me when I was a teenager.
Speaking of which, I remember watching a video from Cinemassacre about this obscure Japanese surreal movie, with a typical plot of teenaged girls wandering into a haunted house, before surreality hits, and all sorts of strange things happen, like one of the girls getting eaten alive by a piano. An interesting element, If I remember correctly, was that the director consulted his daughter on what would scare her the most, when making the movie.
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No.13591
>>13589
The name of the japanese movie you describe is "Hausu". Excellent movie.
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No.13611
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No.13613
>>13591
Thank you, my Argentinian friend. I'll go and watch it ASAP.
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No.13616
>>13611
Which are your favorite girls? Mine are Kung fu and Gorgeous.
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No.13617
>>13616
Ha ha, Kung Fu of course. I forgot about the other ones.
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No.13716
I was just thinking about how much I like Schalcken the Painter. I think it's essential for this thread. You feel haunted after watching it.
I'd never looked into the author of the Schalcken story, Sheridan Le Fanu. Sometimes great horror films come from great authors. I noticed his Carmilla story has spawned a lot of very different films -- Alucarda, Vampire Lovers, Let's Scare Jessica to Death, The Blood Spattered Bride --- so I wonder which adaptation is the closest to his writing?
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0494257/
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No.13721
>>13716
>Schalcken the Painter
Great atmosphere. I like how they establish the tone of a normal story, then slowly it gets creepier and creepier.
>Sometimes great horror films come from great authors.
I like M.R. James' writings but I don't know if the films have been any good. Night of the Demon is okay but nothing special.
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No.13799
>>9314
>>9309
>>9307
How did you do this? My guess is you have a phone with 2 cameras and you messed with the colors past a certain depth point.
Either that or you just recolored the rectangle. I'm curious because I was thinking of using the depth info from my second camera for an artificial fog effect but I'm too much of a brainlet to figure it out.
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No.13800
>>11582
>Black Swan
>Requiem for a Dream
>he doesn't know
I have a set of recommendations for you, watch every Satoshi Kon movie starting with Perfect Blue (there's only four movies and one 13-episode show). Also Perfect Blue and Paranoia Agent would be relevant to this thread, I didn't find either to be particularly scary but they're still quite unsettling.
Here's some stills of Perfect Blue: >>13798
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No.14128
What was the movie about a psychopath in England or something that beats his own dog, it was a horror movie.
This is probably the Mandela effect if not shit memory but there was another horror movie in 1977 about hills having eyes but it was a psychological horror movie instead.
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No.14133
>>14128
>a psychopath in England or something that beats his own dog
Any more details?
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No.14142
>>14133
He was a ragged guy and it looked like industrial-era London, it was from a shitty top 10 lists I watched 6 years ago so I can't say much else, he a had a green jacket too?
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No.14144
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>>14128
>there was another horror movie in 1977 about hills having eyes
Rituals is the closest that I can come
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No.14225
Eyes without a face was pretty good.
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No.14505
>>12959
>How about new suggestions for rare/arthouse horror?
THE TERRITORY (Raoul Ruiz, 1981)
I watched this without knowing it was a horror at first. It seemed more like a cool weird movie from Ruiz, who was so great in the 80s.
The story involves a couple of small families who go hiking together in the woods. In the course of their journey there's quite a lot of strange events to digest. Sometimes the film seems to be exhibiting unexpected randomness, which can be enjoyable on a surface level, but (as challenging as it may be) it's worth reflecting on what Ruiz may be saying. IMDb has a pretty good user review which outlines some of the basic ideas.
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No.14754
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No.14757
>>14754
we're getting rave reviews!
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No.14764
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No.14769
Kuroneko - not mentioned yet? One of the best Japanese ghost stories on film. It is quite creepy. I love that many of the scenes are enveloped in an inky black abyss.
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No.14812
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El asesino de muñecas
Bad movies make good trailers. All the good stuff distilled into a few minutes.
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No.14906
>>9717
>I’d also recommend the 1975 TV adaption of M. R. James’ ‘The Ash-tree’ (the adaption was named ‘The Ash Tree’). This was, IMHO, a step up in quality from the previous TV adaptions of James’ stories.
I'm interested in M.R. James so I'll take that recommendation. Coincidentally I came to this thread having just watched one of those previous TV adaptions you referenced. Whistle and I'll Come to You builds and builds only to fizzle out into nothing. There were some creepy sequences, and I liked all the attention toward "Englishmen muttering incoherently", but overall it's a disappointment. I'm going to read the original story because it mast have been better.
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No.14909
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Has anyone seen In Fabric (2018) from Peter Strickland?
It's still not online and haven't heard much about it, so maybe it's not very good. I can't even find a trailer, just this clip
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No.14912
2 all time fav movie series.
Any suggestions on similar?
Extreme alternate(?) culture timeline.
Think Black Mirror series.
Over the top, detailed, long term, twisty, mind-fuckery.
Think The Cube movies.
Huge fan of serial killer stuff, as well.
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No.14917
>>14912
A few that are similar to Saw and Cube:
Fermat's Room (2007)
>Four mathematicians who do not know each other are invited by a mysterious host on the pretext of resolving a great enigma.
Exam (2009)
>Eight candidates for a highly desirable corporate job are locked together in an exam room and given a final test with just one question.
and a change of pace with Theatre of Blood (1973) which is a pretty good Vincent Price movie
>A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.
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No.14925
>>14912
>The Purge
I would label the series as "dystopian horror" which is kind of unusual. I can't think of anything else in that category. Typically dystopian movies are in the sci-fi genre with less violence.
Two regular horror movies similar to The Purge are Ils (2006) and The Strangers (2008). But, your mileage may vary because they don't have the "Extreme alternate culture timeline" aspect.
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No.14927
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The Purge ripped off an old Star Trek episode called "The Return of the Archons"
https://mega.nz/#!uhZnVACD!Pu4ixhmmGEayW2qIUE7J-aWsAXHDPehe9-UZxyFbHic
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No.14955
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>>14133
>>14144
The clip at 3:48.
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No.14956
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>>14909
official trailer out 3 days ago
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