Any good horror movie suggestions (or psychological thrillers)

Two that you will not have heard of and don't rate well are 'a dark song' and 'lost things'. They are however, interesting and unusual and worth a look if you are sick of mainstream. Both are low budget, occult based and psychological.

I took a long time to get around to seeing 'Rosemary's baby', but I'm glad I did as it was very good.

'Autopsy of jane doe' wasn't too bad in this day and age of crappy movies.
 
some oldies maybe
shelleys frankenstein
a simple plan
cape fear
the orphan
from hell
i`m sure theres many others
 
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jeff7b9 said:
Wind River was a decent suspense film

A Quiet Place was solid, the sequel as well.

Breakdown with Kurt Russell was decent as I recall.

If you want something really fucked up check out" "Oat Studios" (on netflix)

The Ritual

Prisoners (Jake Gillenhall and Hugh Jackman)
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Over half way through breakdown movie. Pretty awesome movie
 
Strangeland by Dee Snyder

I would be shocked if anyone heard of it, it flew well under the radar.

A bit ahead of its time and under budget Dee Snyder played a pretty crazy villian.

I remember it being pretty good.
I think I was on mushrooms.
 
Here's a best horror movies list I made a few years ago for the past 25 years in defense of the genre during that period:
  • 2019's Parasite was terrific.
  • 2019's Doctor Sleep was a worthy successor to what many believe is the greatest horror ever made.
  • 2019's Ready or Not was surprising fun.
  • 2018's A Quiet Place was magnificent. What a tremendous conceit for a horror movie.
  • 2018's Annihilation was one of the most interesting films of that year.
  • 2018's Bird Box was a damn good movie. Sorry your Mom liked it, too. That doesn't mean it wasn't a good horror.
  • 2018's Hereditary is a Sherdog favorite. Did you guys not see it?
  • 2017's Life was a classic, pure space horror. Anyone who hasn't seen it is missing out.
  • 2017's Get Out may not have deserved a Best Picture nomination, but I don't care what anyone says, it was amazing.
  • 2017's Ravenous brings the French sensibility to zombie survival horror. It's weird, and nobody can complain it isn't thought-provoking.
  • 2017's It and the sequel It: Chapter 2 easily surpassed the first iteration with Tim Curry. King's magnum opus finally got its due.
  • 2016's Split was Shyamalan in peak form.
  • 2016's 10 Cloverfield Lane had me gripped and guessing most of the way.
  • 2015's The Visit is M. Night Shyamalan's scariest movie. Hands down.
  • 2015's The Witch was a refreshing departure from most period pieces of any genre. I felt like I was on an elementary school field trip to one of those small cultural preservations of early American life.
  • 2015's Bone Tomahawk was brutal western horror.
  • 2014's Ex Machina I found to be one of the more fascinating thinking-man's horrors made.
  • 2014's Babadook offers one of the most astonishing performances in film history by Essie Davis.
  • 2014's The Maze Runner was goddamn spectacular up to the ending. It's still worth it for everything before that Hindenburg finale.
  • 2013's Odd Thomas is the primary reason I was gut-punched when Anton Yelchin died. Now we'll never get the sequels. Awesome movie.
  • 2013's The Conjuring is a classic, and its 2016 follow-up is also great. Spare me the 'by-the-numbers' criticism. Sometimes it's about execution, and these films execute.
  • 2013's The Purge was a brilliant study of America's growing internal strife derived from wealth stratification, how this is often a matter of petty envy between first-world-problemers, as if they lived in an episode of Keeping up with the Kardashians, and how the increasingly unhinged younger generation's most privileged is cannibalizing the very generation that nurtures & suckles it.
  • 2012's The Woman in Black is underrated. That movie was terrifying. Give it a fair chance. Watch it alone at night in the dark.
  • 2012's Sinister was creepy as hell. The lawnmower. The fucking lawnmower. The sequel was good, too.
  • 2011's Kill List is one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen. You can accuse it of a litany of flaws, but you can't say it caters to the lowest denominator, or that it doesn't take risks.
  • 2010's The Crazies improved on the original. Anyone with a pulse loves Timothy Olyphant.
  • 2010's Insidious was spectacular. The Further was terrifying.
  • 2010's The Human Centipede was too decadent and unapologetic for culture to ignore.
  • 2010's Monsters is a hidden gem. It's a story carrying commentary on the immigration crisis without a heavy-handed political sermon. It's almost impossible to imagine that's possible.
  • 2010's Stake Land was a very cool, very different spin on the post-apocalyptic subgenre. Worth it.
  • 2010's Troll Hunter came out of nowhere, and surprised everyone by delighting them.
  • 2009's The House of the Devil was a fantastic homage to classic late 70's & early 80's horror.
  • 2009's Drag Me to Hell took Stephen King's willingness to shirk self-conscious censorship when he wrote the culturally chauvinistic Thinner, but put that into a movie that was entertaining to watch. Fookin' gypsies.
  • 2008's Cloverfield was a good monster movie. If you're annoyed by the style, I don't care.
  • 2008's Let the Right One In, the original Swedish version, is one of the greatest horrors ever made, bar none.
  • 2008's French torture porn Martyrs was also fantastic, and especially so if you went into the movie blind. I didn't even know if I was watching French indie arthouse drama the first time I watched it. I'd read nothing about it except that it was generating good press. So it was a shocking descent for me.
  • 2007's The Mist is arguably a top three horror film adapted from a King novel.
  • 2007's The Orphanage is one of the greatest horrors almost nobody has seen.
  • 2007's Paranormal Activity gets too much hate because of the sequels. It was well done. I love that it can be alternatively interpreted as the study of the reconstructed lie of an elaborate mariticide.
  • 2007's Rec was a solid in-one-building horror like The Raid for the horror genre instead of the martial arts subgenre. The English-language remake with Dexter's sister was a crime.
  • 2007's Trick R' Treat was a great collection of vignettes.
  • 2007's 1408 is underrated.
  • 2007's 30 Days of Night was damn entertaining cinema.
  • 2006's South Korean film The Host had such subtle sociopolitical commentary that few viewers ever grasp it. They only notice the internal critique of Korean socioeconomics. Few pick up on the fact the object of the filmmaker's greatest ire isn't domestic at all.
  • 2005's The Descent was a masterpiece with the original, intended ending. A masterpiece. I'm not sure I've ever seen the dynamic of youthful, tightly knit all-female social groups, which are often more complex than their corresponding male social circles, and how passive-aggressively antagonistic these can be via laden resentment, studied through a horror lens.
  • 2005's The Call of Cthulhu brought Lovecraft to the 21st century.
  • 2005's Wolf Creek starts slow, but once done, it doesn't leave you. Because it's not just some story.
  • 2005's The Devil's Rejects was Rob Zombie finally pulling off his love letter to 70's slashers.
  • 2004's Open Water receives way too much hate for the pacing. I thought it did as good a job as Phone Booth did as a thriller with the minimalist set philosophy. Better than Awake or Buried.
  • 2004's Saw is a horror classic. Spare me logistical nitpicking. It was magnificent.
  • I maintain that the segment "Cut" from 2004's Three Extremes is one of the more disturbing pieces of horror I've seen. It really got to me. I wasn't able to emotionally disconnect.
  • 2002's Irreversible fucks everyone up. Don't pretend it didn't fuck you up. It fucked you up.
  • 2002's 28 Days Later made zombies scary. However great Romero's movies were, his zombies were never frightening. The only reason The Walking Dead happened was because of this movie. It's sequel 28 Weeks Later was also very good.
  • 2002's Ju-On (The Grudge) and The Ring are irrefutably horror classics. The latter is a rare example where I'll take the western remake over the original.
  • 2001's The Others has grown on me over time. It offers a textbook lesson on slow builds.
  • 2001's Wendigo was another one like The Maze Runner that was so damn strong for the first two Acts, but fell apart. Still worth watching for those early acts.
  • 2000's Baise Moi was so over-the-top they wouldn't even release it in most arthouse theaters. It's garbage, but it's undeniably ahead of its time, and incredibly influential. It kicked off the entire French extreme horror wave. Additionally, movies like Hardy Candy, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Elle, and above all the recent Promising Young Woman owe it a debt. It was raw, exploitative, and uncompromisingly brutal. It was the feminist generation's appropriation of The Last House on the Left where the female victims assume agency over their revenge.
  • 2000's Shadow of the Vampire is veritable porn for arthouse porn buffs.
  • 1999's Stir of Echoes was a movie that caught me off guard. I expected to roll my eyes throughout the film. Not what happened.
  • 1999's Audition is the East's Misery.
  • 1999's Blair Witch Project, love it or hate it, pioneered the found footage trope. This has expanded beyond horror.
  • 1998's The Faculty was a fun movie that-- like so many other movies from the 90's-- had a lot more under the surface to appreciate than first meets the eye.
  • 1997's The Cube is a cult classic that is about to be shamelessly copied by the upcoming Netflix film Escape Room.
  • 1997 was the year Event Horizon was made. Yeah.
  • 1997's Funny Games is the modern spiritual father to The Purge, Them, The Strangers, Us, Vacancy, etc. It's Straw Dogs minus the emphasis on the Lord-of-the-Flies effect of male nature's drive to possess the female. It's about random, nihilistic terror.
  • 1996's Scream is a hall-of-fame horror. This is from the past 25 years, ya' know, you doofs.
  • 1996's Fear made Mark Wahlberg's career. It was fantastic.
  • 1996's Frighteners is a cult classic. Nobody went in expecting anything, but it was a rollercoaster ride.
  • 1996's From Dusk Till Dawn needs neither an introduction nor a synopsis.
  • 1995's Tale from the Crypt: Demon Knight was delicious fun.
  • 1995's Hideaway is a hidden gem.

This doesn't include horror comedies like American Psycho, What We Do in the Shadows, Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, The Cabin in the Woods, Dog Soldiers, Grindhouse, Slither, etc.

It also doesn't include TV when, for example, The Haunting of Hill House is the greatest ghost story ever told.
 
Madmick said:
Here's a best horror movies list I made for the past 25 years a few years ago:
  • 2019's Parasite was terrific.
  • 2019's Doctor Sleep was a worthy successor to what many believe is the greatest horror ever made.
  • 2019's Ready or Not was surprising fun.
  • 2018's A Quiet Place was magnificent. What a tremendous conceit for a horror movie.
  • 2018's Annihilation was one of the most interesting films of that year.
  • 2018's Bird Box was a damn good movie. Sorry your Mom liked it, too. That doesn't mean it wasn't a good horror.
  • 2018's Hereditary is a Sherdog favorite. Did you guys not see it?
  • 2017's Life was a classic, pure space horror. Anyone who hasn't seen it is missing out.
  • 2017's Get Out may not have deserved a Best Picture nomination, but I don't care what anyone says, it was amazing.
  • 2017's Ravenous brings the French sensibility to zombie survival horror. It's weird, and nobody can complain it isn't thought-provoking.
  • 2017's It and the sequel It: Chapter 2 easily surpassed the first iteration with Tim Curry. King's magnum opus finally got its due.
  • 2016's Split was Shyamalan in peak form.
  • 2016's 10 Cloverfield Lane had me gripped and guessing most of the way.
  • 2015's The Visit is M. Night Shyamalan's scariest movie. Hands down.
  • 2015's The Witch was a refreshing departure from most period pieces of any genre. I felt like I was on an elementary school field trip to one of those small cultural preservations of early American life.
  • 2015's Bone Tomahawk was brutal western horror.
  • 2014's Ex Machina I found to be one of the more fascinating thinking-man's horrors made.
  • 2014's Babadook offers one of the most astonishing performances in horror history by Essie Davis.
  • 2014's The Maze Runner was goddamn spectacular up to the ending. It's still worth it for everything before that Hindenburg finale.
  • 2013's Odd Thomas is the primary reason I was gut-punched when Anton Yelchin died. Now we'll never get the sequels. Awesome movie.
  • 2013's The Conjuring is a classic, and its 2016 follow-up is also great. Spare me the 'by-the-numbers' criticism. Sometimes it's about execution, and these films execute.
  • 2013's The Purge was a brilliant study of America's growing internal strife derived from wealth stratification, how this is often a matter of petty envy between first-world-problemers, as if they lived in an episode of Keeping up with the Kardashians, and how the increasingly unhinged younger generation's most privileged is cannibalizing the very generation that nurtures & suckles it.
  • 2012's The Woman in Black is underrated. That movie was terrifying. Give it a fair chance. Watch it alone at night in the dark.
  • 2012's Sinister was creepy as hell. The lawnmower. The fucking lawnmower. The sequel was good, too.
  • 2011's Kill List is one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen. You can accuse it of a litany of flaws, but you can't say it caters to the lowest denominator, or that it doesn't take risks.
  • 2010's The Crazies improved on the original. Anyone with a pulse loves Timothy Olyphant.
  • 2010's Insidious was spectacular. The Further was terrifying.
  • 2010's The Human Centipede was too decadent and unapologetic for culture to ignore.
  • 2010's Monsters is a hidden gem. It's a story carrying commentary on the immigration crisis without a heavy-handed political sermon. It's almost impossible to imagine that's possible.
  • 2010's Stake Land was a very cool, very different spin on the post-apocalyptic subgenre. Worth it.
  • 2010's Troll Hunter came out of nowhere, and surprised everyone by delighting them.
  • 2009's The House of the Devil was a fantastic homage to classic late 70's & early 80's horror.
  • 2009's Drag Me to Hell took Stephen King's willingness to shirk self-conscious censorship when he wrote the culturally chauvinistic Thinner, but put that into a movie that was entertaining to watch. Fookin' gypsies.
  • 2008's Cloverfield was a good monster movie. If you're annoyed by the style, I don't care.
  • 2008's Let the Right One In, the original Swedish version, is one of the greatest horrors ever made, bar none.
  • 2008's French torture porn Martyrs was also fantastic, and especially so if you went into the movie blind. I didn't even know if I was watching French indie arthouse drama the first time I watched it. I'd read nothing about it except that it was generating good press. So it was a shocking descent for me.
  • 2007's The Mist is arguably a top three horror film adapted from a King novel.
  • 2007's The Orphanage is one of the greatest horrors almost nobody has seen.
  • 2007's Paranormal Activity gets too much hate because of the sequels. It was well done. I love that it can be alternatively interpreted as the study of the reconstructed lie of an elaborate mariticide.
  • 2007's Rec was a solid in-one-building horror like The Raid for the horror genre instead of the martial arts subgenre. The English-language remake with Dexter's sister was a crime.
  • 2007's Trick R' Treat was a great collection of vignettes.
  • 2007's 1408 is underrated.
  • 2007's 30 Days of Night was damn entertaining cinema.
  • 2006's South Korean film The Host had such subtle sociopolitical commentary that few viewers ever grasp it. They only notice the internal critique of Korean socioeconomics. Few pick up on the fact the object of the filmmaker's greatest ire isn't domestic at all.
  • 2005's The Descent was a masterpiece with the original, intended ending. A masterpiece. I'm not sure I've ever seen the dynamic of youthful, tightly knit all-female social groups, which are often more complex than their corresponding male social circles, and how passive-aggressively antagonistic these can be via laden resentment, studied through a horror lens.
  • 2005's The Call of Cthulhu brought Lovecraft to the 21st century.
  • 2005's Wolf Creek starts slow, but once done, it doesn't leave you. Because it's not just some story.
  • 2005's The Devil's Rejects was Rob Zombie finally pulling off his love letter to 70's slashers.
  • 2004's Open Water receives way too much hate for the pacing. I thought it did as good a job as Phone Booth did as a thriller with the minimalist set philosophy. Better than Awake or Buried.
  • 2004's Saw is a horror classic. Spare me logistical nitpicking. It was magnificent.
  • I maintain that the segment "Cut" from 2004's Three Extremes is one of the more disturbing pieces of horror I've seen. It really got to me. I wasn't able to emotionally disconnect.
  • 2002's Irreversible fucks everyone up. Don't pretend it didn't fuck you up. It fucked you up.
  • 2002's 28 Days Later made zombies scary. However great Romero's movies were, his zombies were never frightening. The only reason The Walking Dead happened was because of this movie. It's sequel 28 Weeks Later was also very good.
  • 2002's Ju-On (The Grudge) and The Ring are irrefutably horror classics. The latter is a rare example where I'll take the western remake over the original.
  • 2001's The Others has grown on me over time. It offers a textbook lesson on slow builds.
  • 2001's Wendigo was another one like The Maze Runner that was so damn strong for the first two Acts, but fell apart. Still worth watching for those early acts.
  • 2000's Baise Moi was so over-the-top they wouldn't even release it in most arthouse theaters. It's garbage, but it's undeniably ahead of its time, and incredibly influential. It kicked off the entire French extreme horror wave. Additionally, movies like Hardy Candy, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Elle, and above all the recent Promising Young Woman owe it a debt. It was raw, exploitative, and uncompromisingly brutal. It was the feminist generation's appropriation of The Last House on the Left where the female victims assume agency over their revenge.
  • 2000's Shadow of the Vampire is veritable porn for arthouse porn buffs.
  • 1999's Stir of Echoes was a movie that caught me off guard. I expected to roll my eyes throughout the film. Not what happened.
  • 1999's Audition is the East's Misery.
  • 1999's Blair Witch Project, love it or hate it, pioneered the found footage trope. This has expanded beyond horror.
  • 1998's The Faculty was a fun movie that-- like so many other movies from the 90's-- had a lot more under the surface to appreciate than first meets the eye.
  • 1997's The Cube is a cult classic that is about to be shamelessly copied by the upcoming Netflix film Escape Room.
  • 1997 was the year Event Horizon was made. Yeah.
  • 1997's Funny Games is the modern spiritual father to The Purge, Them, The Strangers, Us, Vacancy, etc. It's Straw Dogs minus the emphasis on the Lord-of-the-Flies effect of male nature's drive to possess the female. It's about random, nihilistic terror.
  • 1996's Scream is a hall-of-fame horror. This is from the past 25 years, ya' know, you doofs.
  • 1996's Fear made Mark Wahlberg's career. It was fantastic.
  • 1996's Frighteners is a cult classic. Nobody went in expecting anything, but it was a rollercoaster ride.
  • 1996's From Dusk Till Dawn needs neither an introduction nor a synopsis.
  • 1995's Tale from the Crypt: Demon Knight was delicious fun.
  • 1995's Hideaway is a hidden gem.

This doesn't include horror comedies like American Psycho, What We Do in the Shadows, Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, The Cabin in the Woods, Dog Soldiers, Grindhouse, Slither, etc.

It also doesn't include TV when, for example, The Haunting of Hill House is the greatest ghost story ever told.
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Definitely with you on Doctor Sleep, the first It from 2017, Funny Games, Shadow of the Vampire, Audition, The Faculty (it seems to be hard to make a bad Body Snatchers movie), Stir of Echoes, 28 Days Later, Bone Tomahawk and Let the Right One in as overlooked or underappreciated movies.
 
jeff7b9 said:
Strangeland by Dee Snyder

I would be shocked if anyone heard of it, it flew well under the radar.

A bit ahead of its time and under budget Dee Snyder played a pretty crazy villian.

I remember it being pretty good.
I think I was on mushrooms.
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Cool movie. Good soundtrack too
 
BisexualMMA said:
... Stir of Echoes, 28 Days Later, Bone Tomahawk and Let the Right One in as overlooked or underappreciated movies.
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Did you watch the original "Let the right one in" and if so did you watch in Swedish? Overdubbed? Captioned?

I enjoyed "Let Me In" which was the American remake with Chlöe Grace Mortiz and I enjoyed it. I watched the "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" films in the original language (Icelandic I think?) with subtitled and enjoyed those, but I could watch Noomi Rapace in any language.
 
jeff7b9 said:
Did you watch the original "Let the right one in" and if so did you watch in Swedish? Overdubbed? Captioned?

I enjoyed "Let Me In" which was the American remake with Chlöe Grace Mortiz and I enjoyed it. I watched the "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" films in the original language (Icelandic I think?) with subtitled and enjoyed those, but I could watch Noomi Rapace in any language.
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Yeah the original is the only one I've seen. Subtitled. I should check out the remake.

There have been a handful of good Scandinavian movies remade by Hollywood. The Vanishing, In Order of Disappearance, etc.
 
jeff7b9 said:
Great list.

I am bookmarking this page and I will check some of these out when I have my shoulder surgery next month.
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Good luck for your shoulder surgery!

Thanks everyone for contributing. I have read plot summaries and man these movies are gonna be good. Also bookmarking this thread
 
Primer
Enemy
The double (eisenberg one)
The Platform
Chronicle
Backcountry
The edge
 
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