### We are moving! **Join us in our new journey as we take a new direction towards the future for this community at mbin, find our new community here and read this post to know more about why we are moving. Thank you and we hope to see you there!**
Classics from my childhood:
The Exorcist
Exorcist III
The Fly
Evil Dead
Poltergeist
The Thing
Prince of Darkness
Hellraiser
Carrie
Jacob's Ladder
Pi
Modern:
Hereditary
Nope
The Night House
Annihilation
A Quiet Place
Best meta horror:
Tremors
Malignant
Cabin in the Woods
Death Becomes Her
How would you like to feel extremely uneasy and uncomfortable?
This is absolutely an either you love it or hate it film. I can 100% understand why people hate this movie - every single shot in this movie is out of focus and not directly showing you what is happening in the scene. It requires 100% focus to decipher (or come close to) what's going on. It made me feel like a kid in the dark, which is what this movie is about - a brother and sister stuck in their home in a forever night as some entity begins to hunt them.
Content Warning - Child Disfigurement.
If you're looking for a popcorn horror movie to watch with a loved one, skip it. If you're interested in something truly, truly experimental, give it a shot.
Sleep Paralysis: The Movie
I got sucked into binging the V/H/S series a while ago and enjoyed all except Viral, which I turned off midway through as it was boring me to misery. 94 and the more recent 99 were the standouts for me.
Some that immediately pop into my head:
Krampus. It's mildly scary but the audio and atmosphere is phenomenal.
Trailer Park of Terror. Just sit back, drink a couple of beers, and enjoy this B-rated movie in all it's glory.
Slither. Horror comedy that's great for people who don't like a ton of scary but don't mind blood and gore.
Tucker and Dale versus evil. A comedy with a unique perspective to the horror genre. A must watch!
My absolute favorites are mostly your standard entries that you’ll find on plenty of top 10 lists:
Apart from these, I’d recommend
For my least favorites, I’d probably put Slenderman, Meghan is Missing, Winchester, and Ghosts of War.
I’m a big fan of the found footage (FF) subgenre of horror. Some favorites would be Gonjiam Haunted Asylum (2018), Cloverfield (2012), and Hell House LLC (2015)
We all either love horror films, or hate horror films.
Ehh I don't like torture porn or movies with stupid loud noise jump scares, but I love anything horror that's camp or schlock, like
Chopping Mall
Evil Dead 2/Army of Darkness
Fright Night (1985)
The Hazing
Night of the Comet
Reanimator
Return of the Living Dead
John Carpenter's The Thing is not just my favorite horror movie but it's on my list of top 5 favorite movies of all time. I just love that movie to bits on so many levels. Other favorites of mine include Alien, Evil Dead 2, Creepshow, and Return of the Living Dead. Though some honorable mentions to The VVitch, Barbarian, and The Lighthouse (does The Lighthouse count as a horror? Eh. Whatever. I do really like it).
Hard to pick a favorite. If I had to pick a personal favorite I'd say In The Mouth of Madness. I've never seen it brought up as often as The Thing or other Carpenter films, but it was the first "meta" horror movie I ever watched and I've always had a soft spot for it. Besides that, there are a few I make sure to watch every year. I have to watch Trick 'R Treat sometime in October and I usually start December off with Krampus (2015). Also, I'm not sure it even qualifies as horror, but One Cut of the Dead is a great one for horror fans or just movie fans in general, especially if you like lower-budget films and the passion that goes into making them. Admittedly the first twenty minutes or so can be hard to get through on the first viewing, but it's a great movie if you stick with it.
Least favorite I'd have to say, Lake Mungo. I don't think it's a bad film. I just went into expecting found footage horror and got a mockumentary about dealing with loss and uncovering a deceased family member's secrets. Again, not a bad film but not what I was in the mood for when I watched it.
Favourite good horror: The Fly (Cronenberg remake), The Thing
Favourite bad horror: Manos: Hands of Fate
Least favourite horror : something called Fear.com
While not really a fan of horror movies, there are plenty that I have loved, as films in the general sense and not specifically as any genre.
At the top of the list for me, it has to be the original The Wicker Man, and in second place it's Evil Dead Pt 2.
As least favorite, not one specific film but the entire slasher film realm.
Up front warning: This is the ultimate low budget b movie campy horror film. It was written and shot in a seven days on the sets of another movie. It is not scary and is by no objective means a good movie. If you like campy low budget slashers it's a must watch.
Sorority House Massacre 2. Five college women spend the night in their new sorority house, the old Hokstedter place, and make the mistake of using a Ouija board. It has a great twist revealing an unlikely hero and the last line of the movie is my favorite line in all of cinema.
Least favorite: Sorority House Massacre. Maybe the worst example of a low budget slasher flick ever made. This movie is so bad that the sequel used clips from a different movie, Slumber Party Massacre, for it's flashbacks and backstory. While intended to be scary campy low budget slashers flicks tend to be so ridiculously badly written and acted that they become parodies of themselves and present as humorous movies. Sorority House Massacre isn't interesting enough to reach this important self parody status and winds up being neither scary nor funny.
This is such an interesting take I’m going to watch both of these in reverse order this evening
Favorite: The Thing, the John Carpenter one from the 80s. It is perfect.
Least favorite: Nightmare on Elm Street. I like other Craven stuff but could never get into this one.
2nd The Thing, you know it’s good horror when it still holds up today.
I recently watched this for the first time and I adored it. To anybody who hasn't seen it, it not only holds-up to modern movies, the effects frankly blow most modern movies out of the water.