i don't think ive ever seen a single horror movie in my life, ive always been too scared.
as a form of shock therapy I'm just going to marathon a bunch of horror movies this weekend. what movies should I add to my marathon list? this is what I have so far
The exorcist
child's play
Halloween
Texas chainsaw massacre
nightmare on elm street
Session 9
Blair Witch Project
The Innocents
Onibaba
Inside
Candyman
The Innocents is great.
Great choice to start with The Exorcist.
My mom was a poor village girl when The Exorcist came out, it was one of her first kino experiences. She had ptsd flashbacks for years after it, and sometimes even now she fears to walk in the dark. I guess she's just not into horror movies.
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So what's the scariest movie you've ever seen? I feel like I've become completely desensitized to horror movies and I want to get scared.
what movies do you consider scary? or what movies did you consider scary before you became desensitized?
I thought X-Files was creepy as a kid, especially the episode Tooms.
I can't really remember the last creepy movie I watched. Shutter was pretty well made. Dark Water as well, until you see the black long haired girl, then it stops being creepy.
garbage
watch Martyrs. then watch Pulse and Session 9.
the first one is viscerally horrifying. it's kind of pornographic in its gratuitousness but it's still a terrifying time that has its pleasures.
the other two are disturbing, depressing looks at fragmented psyches and loneliness. they're both drenched in dread and they're very atmospheric and affecting.
The exorcist 3, right after finishing the exorcist
it's criminaly underrated
I've seen Session 9. I liked that one. I also liked Jacob Ladder, which I think is a bit similar in style (asylyms etc).
I'll check out the other two, thanks.
Btw, with Martyrs, do you mean the 2015 movie or the 2008 movie?
Yeah Jacob's Ladder has that same interest in the fracturing sense of the character's grasp on reality.
Oh and I guess I should clarify that when I say Pulse I mean the Japanese version which is called Kairo. The American remake looks like a pile of shit.
>i don't think ive ever seen a single horror movie in my life
I don't believe you. How does that happen?
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the wailing was breddy gud, there was a thread or two about it on here
wow bro I did the same two years ago now I can appreciate horror movies. Fuck the exorcist and go watch Canibal Holocaust
ive just avoided them entirely, I tried watching the exorcist when I was younger and had to stop because I felt like I was going to get a panic attack
I'm not interested in watching torture porn.
I meant the 2008 version
Keep in mind that it is graphically, savagely violent so don't watch it with people who object to blood on screen. The blood is so prevalent and it's actually used as a large part of the visual aesthetic.
>The exorcist
Only scary if you believe in that stuff.
>child's play
Comedy.
>Halloween
Not worth it.
>Texas chainsaw massacre
Not scary in any way.
>nightmare on elm street
Might work for you.
Watch: The Thing
Hellraiser 1 +2
The Shining
The Ring
The Descent
The Fly
thats what you say now that you still being a pussy. One day you will see Saw or a lucio fulci flick and that day you will start loving gore, and cannibal holocaust is not torture porn is found footage :P
not the OP but your taste sucks
The Exorcist is good, though overrated. Child's Play is shit. Halloween is good. Texas is great. Nightmare is trash.
The Thing is great. Hellraiser is laughably awful. The Shining is awful. The Ring is passable at best. The Descent is great. The Fly is a legit masterpiece.
Rosemary's baby (Polanski one)
Maniac killer
Poltergeist (80's one)
The witch
The badadook (except the last 5 minutes)
Strangeland
The ring
Drag me to hell
Wes cravens new nightmare
The mist (especially for the end)
Drag Me to Hell is so underrated. I wish Raimi just made horror movies
Best taste in thread, I would still recommend watching The Exorcist though.
This dude is gay, don't listen to him
>The Shining is awful
please
Hellraiser has the body horror for newbs
without going into torture porn territory.
Again The Ring will terrify a Horror newb.
Halloween isn't scary in the slightest. It might
have help start the slasher but it isn't the best
one by a long way. Same for Texas. They aren't bad films just not worth it for a newbie to start on.
Poltergeist is a great pick
Agreed.
Of that list Maniac Killer I found to be most disturbing.
Thought they remade it with frodo as the killer, it never came close to the fuck up'ness of the original
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Burnt Offerings
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you have absolutely shit taste
The Shining is terrible. Kubrick (outside of Eyes Wide Shut) is solely for people new to watching movies.
He can start by watching Cronenberg to get into body horror, there is literally no reason to watch Hellraiser. It's completely incompetent.
Halloween and Texas aren't terrifying movies but they were hugely significant and had a major, major impact on the way horror films were made in their wake. Why would you recommend one classic John Carpenter movie and then slag another? Watching all of John Carpenter's big horror movies is probably one of the best ways to get into the genre. The Thing, Halloween, The Fog, In the Mouth of Madness, etc.
I liked Exorcist 3.
Poltergeist is pretty "vanilla" imho to be put in the same list with some of the other one you're giving out here.
Don't get me wrong I LOVE the Poltersteist TO DEATH but I would consider it more of a family friendly horror thingy.
A few touches moreterrifying than those Goosebumps tv serials from the 90's (not that Jack Black crap) or (to get crazy) somewhere among the horror oriented episodes of the early X-Files
I can see your point.
It did have a family feel because of Spielbergs influence.
the movie is in my list because of the emotion the movie has. I at least felt for the characters. Most horror films, I'm indifferent to the victims. I got goosebumps when they rescued carrol Anne for the vortex
>Halloween and Texas aren't terrifying movies
Then why bother with them. If you become a
horror fan and want more THEN watch these.
The Shining must be terrible being one of the
most highly rated Horror films of all time. No. 1
on a lot of peoples lists. They must all be new
to movies.
You don't start watching horror with Cronenberg. That is just silly.
>The Fog, In the Mouth of Madness
Not Prince of Darkness and They Live...
Just to clarify I don't consider The Fly in the same
vain as Proper Cronenberg films before you jump
on me for that.
Bump
What the fuck are you talking about? Just because a horror movie isn't terrifying doesn't mean that it's not great. You sound as though you think the only purpose horror movies serve is to be frightening and their quality corresponds to how frightened they make the viewer. Some of the best horror movies ever made aren't all that frightening and favour atmosphere to terror.
The Shining has its fair share of detractors. Cronenberg for one very aptly ripped it. It's such a dull slog, so uninteresting.
I actually haven't seen Prince of Darkness but I think They Live is my least favourite Carpenter of the ones I've seen.
As a newbie to the genre the only purpose is to
be frightened.
We can disagree on The Shining. Not
everyone is gonna like it but tell me this. Did
you enjoy the King mini-series more?
I haven't watched it. I have little respect for King. I like a couple of his novellas but I think The Shining is a pretty weak book with a suitably weak movie.
my man
Prince of Darkness feels kinda campy for quite a bit of the beginning, but there are some genuinely freaky scenes later. For anyone that's seen it, I think the other side of the mirror sold me on it.
The Conjuring 1 and 2 are great.