I actually wrote you a long message with recommendations and then the comment crashed because I wrote too much (I guess?) So I’ll just stick to just movie recommendations this time. I’ve tried to stick to lesser known horror movies that I think are either brilliant or interesting or both. There are some movies I’d like to put on the list, but since you say you are well versed in horror, I assume you know those already as they are pretty mainstream. I will make a few exceptions along the way, though, as I may consider some of them mainstream, but they might still be movies that someone could have missed.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, 1920 - surreal horror
Possession, 1981 - surreal body horror
Felidae, 1994 - animation
Perfect Blue, 1997 - animation
Snow White: A Tale of Terror, 1997 - fairytale horror
Audition, 1999 - horror drama
May, 2002 - horror drama
Rabbits, 2002 - surreal horror (David Lynch)
A Tale of Two Sisters, 2003 - mystery horror
The Signal, 2007 - anthology horror
Wind Chill, 2007 - popcorn horror
Lake Mungo, 2008 - found footage
Eden Lake, 2008 - survival horror
Pontypool, 2008 - surreal horror
AM1200, 2008 - horror short
Thirst, 2009 - vampire movie
Triangle, 2009 - psychological horror
I Saw the Devil, 2010 - crime thriller
Beyond the Black Rainbow, 2010 - surreal horror
The Strange Thing About the Johnsons, 2011 - horror short
Silent House, 2011 - psychological horror
Evidence, 2011 - found footage
Grave Encounters, 2011 - surreal horror
The Skin I Live In, 2011 - psychological horror
Don’t Hug Me, I’m Scared, 2011 - surreal internet horror series
Resolution, 2012 - mystery horror
Maniac, 2012 - psychological horror
Excision, 2012 - psychological horror
Chained, 2012 - psychological horror
American Mary, 2012 - popcorn horror
Afflicted, 2013 - found footage
Proxy 2013 - surreal horror
The Borderlands, 2013 - found footage
The Voices, 2013 - surreal horror comedy
Starry Eyes, 2014 - body horror
Creep, 2014 - found footage
Human Form, 2014 - horror short
Housebound, 2014 - horror comedy
Black Mountain Side, 2014 - mystery horror
The Invitation, 2015 - mystery horror
The Boy, 2015 - psychological horror (the one with the boy with antlers and fire in the background on the poster. NOT the one with the doll)
When Evil Lurks, 2023 - dystopian horror (Evil Dead vibes without the haha’s)
The Conference, 2023 - horror comedy
Abigail, 2024 - popcorn horror
I think that is all for now. Hopefully there will be a few films on this list you haven’t come across yet. They aren’t all masterpieces, but I tried to pick films that I found entertaining and/or interesting and that I think deserve more recognition.
Thanks! I have to go through these. I think I’ve seen quite a few of these, but definitely some I have not, so I’m copying this off…have you seen The Creep series?
Cool! I just looked it up and I had no idea they made an actual Creep TV series. That’s so cool. XD would you recommend it? I guess you would since you mentioned it haha.
It’s definitely enjoyable. Maybe not as good as the movies, and gets into a bit more lore about him than I think we really need to know, but…still, I’ve seen far worse.
My tolerance for rather low-quality horror is pretty high. I’ll watch really low-budget movies with not much coherence or plot or acting skills, all the way up to things deemed more “respectable” by general audiences, too… :)
Nice! Reminds me a bit of the later seasons of The White Vault. First two seasons: masterpieces. Everything after that starts to over explain a little too much. Still enjoyable, but it just explains too much and kinda cheapens the universe. Have you listened to the White Vault? It’s a radioplay/podcast that takes a lot of inspiration from The Thing. It’s really good! Well… the first two seasons are. XD
You sound a lot like one of my colleagues who has an endless love for shit tier horror movies. XD the worse they are the happier he is. If the movies are worse than Manos: The Hands of Fate, he is in heaven xD he used to make movie nights at work where people could join and watch horrible horror movies on a big screen. Man, I miss him xD
I will definitely check it out. I need to catch up on Archive 81 and The Magnus Archives, too.
endless love for shit tier horror movies
Haha! I don’t know about “love”, per se. :) I usually power through for at least a one-time viewing, more like. I usually like the “better” movies, if you will, but I won’t turn my nose up at the ones that the cultural gatekeepers tend to look down on. Meaning, there is a certain kind of horror movie watcher that seems to need a permission structure to watch horror movies. If the zeitgeist says something like “Get Out” is okay, then they’ll watch it. Conversely, there are a lot of contrarians that tend to look down on PG-13 movies with jump scares aimed at teens and the popcorn crowd, and I think a lot of those are just fine in many cases.
Me, I’m pretty easy about it all. I’m just so happy there is so much content to select from now, both in what is coming out, and being able to watch comfort food classics any time I want…also getting my hands on foreign films or “cult films” has never been easier as well…there was a time where someone would mention something to you - IRL, for the most part, or maybe in the early days on a BBS or on USENET and you’d have to see if you could track it down at a video store or see if there was some catalog you’d send away for it…and that was usually way out of reach for me, when it came to both time and money.
Makes sense! I tend to prefer good films too. I can watch a bad horror flick now and again, but I do prefer movies that want something from me. I have a few people I used to refer to for movie recommendations on youtube. Not because I agreed with their tastes always, but because they were pretty good at finding movies I hadn’t heard of and since I knew their tastes I would also know approximately what I would think about this or that film. Haven’t really kept myself updated on the horror landscape in recent years because life is busy. That has bit me in the ass a few times.
Most recently, I goofed and drug my boyfriend to the cinema to watch The Monkey because I had heard that it was super scary and very creative. I must have been trolled because that film was probably the worst Stephen King movie I have seen since The Dark Tower. Holy shit. If it wasn’t for the fact that we had bought tickets to see it, we would have left after the the babysitters funeral. Holy shit it was awful. It was the worst kind of horror comedy. I’m sure you know what I mean.
I actually wrote you a long message with recommendations and then the comment crashed because I wrote too much (I guess?) So I’ll just stick to just movie recommendations this time. I’ve tried to stick to lesser known horror movies that I think are either brilliant or interesting or both. There are some movies I’d like to put on the list, but since you say you are well versed in horror, I assume you know those already as they are pretty mainstream. I will make a few exceptions along the way, though, as I may consider some of them mainstream, but they might still be movies that someone could have missed.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, 1920 - surreal horror
Possession, 1981 - surreal body horror
Felidae, 1994 - animation
Perfect Blue, 1997 - animation
Snow White: A Tale of Terror, 1997 - fairytale horror
Audition, 1999 - horror drama
May, 2002 - horror drama
Rabbits, 2002 - surreal horror (David Lynch)
A Tale of Two Sisters, 2003 - mystery horror
The Signal, 2007 - anthology horror
Wind Chill, 2007 - popcorn horror
Lake Mungo, 2008 - found footage
Eden Lake, 2008 - survival horror
Pontypool, 2008 - surreal horror
AM1200, 2008 - horror short
Thirst, 2009 - vampire movie
Triangle, 2009 - psychological horror
I Saw the Devil, 2010 - crime thriller
Beyond the Black Rainbow, 2010 - surreal horror
The Strange Thing About the Johnsons, 2011 - horror short
Silent House, 2011 - psychological horror
Evidence, 2011 - found footage
Grave Encounters, 2011 - surreal horror
The Skin I Live In, 2011 - psychological horror
Don’t Hug Me, I’m Scared, 2011 - surreal internet horror series
Resolution, 2012 - mystery horror
Maniac, 2012 - psychological horror
Excision, 2012 - psychological horror
Chained, 2012 - psychological horror
American Mary, 2012 - popcorn horror
Afflicted, 2013 - found footage
Proxy 2013 - surreal horror
The Borderlands, 2013 - found footage
The Voices, 2013 - surreal horror comedy
Starry Eyes, 2014 - body horror
Creep, 2014 - found footage
Human Form, 2014 - horror short
Housebound, 2014 - horror comedy
Black Mountain Side, 2014 - mystery horror
The Invitation, 2015 - mystery horror
The Boy, 2015 - psychological horror (the one with the boy with antlers and fire in the background on the poster. NOT the one with the doll)
Maggie, 2015 - horror drama
The Silenced, 2015 - mystery horror
Deathgasm, 2015 - horror comedy
The Balckcoat’s Daughter, 2015 - mystery horror
The Devil’s Candy, 2015 - popcorn horror
Southbound, 2015 - anthology horror
Demon, 2015 - horror drama
Bone Tomahawk, 2015 - horror western
Krampus, 2015 - Christmas horror
The Eyes of My Mother, 2016 - fairytale horror
The Wailing, 2016 - folklore/crime horror
A Dark Song, 2016 - mystery horror
Berlin Syndrome, 2017 - psychological horror
The Evil Within, 2017 - surreal horror
Zygote, 2017 - horror short
Lords of Chaos, 2018 - horror/crime drama
Elizabeth Harvest, 2018 - mystery horror
Climax, 2018 - surreal horror
Suspiria, 2018 - surreal horror
Come To Daddy, 2019 - horror comedy
The Night House, 2020 - mystery horror
His House, 2020 - psychological horror
The Invisible Man, 2020 - psychological horror
Run, 2020 - horror drama
All My Friends Hate Me, 2021 - horror comedy
Blood Red Sky, 2021 - popcorn horror
The House, 2022 - stop motion anthology horror
Something In the Dirt, 2022 - surreal horror
Men, 2022 - folklore horror
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person, 2023 - horror comedy
When Evil Lurks, 2023 - dystopian horror (Evil Dead vibes without the haha’s)
The Conference, 2023 - horror comedy
Abigail, 2024 - popcorn horror
I think that is all for now. Hopefully there will be a few films on this list you haven’t come across yet. They aren’t all masterpieces, but I tried to pick films that I found entertaining and/or interesting and that I think deserve more recognition.
Thanks! I have to go through these. I think I’ve seen quite a few of these, but definitely some I have not, so I’m copying this off…have you seen The Creep series?
Cool! I just looked it up and I had no idea they made an actual Creep TV series. That’s so cool. XD would you recommend it? I guess you would since you mentioned it haha.
It’s definitely enjoyable. Maybe not as good as the movies, and gets into a bit more lore about him than I think we really need to know, but…still, I’ve seen far worse.
My tolerance for rather low-quality horror is pretty high. I’ll watch really low-budget movies with not much coherence or plot or acting skills, all the way up to things deemed more “respectable” by general audiences, too… :)
Nice! Reminds me a bit of the later seasons of The White Vault. First two seasons: masterpieces. Everything after that starts to over explain a little too much. Still enjoyable, but it just explains too much and kinda cheapens the universe. Have you listened to the White Vault? It’s a radioplay/podcast that takes a lot of inspiration from The Thing. It’s really good! Well… the first two seasons are. XD
You sound a lot like one of my colleagues who has an endless love for shit tier horror movies. XD the worse they are the happier he is. If the movies are worse than Manos: The Hands of Fate, he is in heaven xD he used to make movie nights at work where people could join and watch horrible horror movies on a big screen. Man, I miss him xD
I will definitely check it out. I need to catch up on Archive 81 and The Magnus Archives, too.
Haha! I don’t know about “love”, per se. :) I usually power through for at least a one-time viewing, more like. I usually like the “better” movies, if you will, but I won’t turn my nose up at the ones that the cultural gatekeepers tend to look down on. Meaning, there is a certain kind of horror movie watcher that seems to need a permission structure to watch horror movies. If the zeitgeist says something like “Get Out” is okay, then they’ll watch it. Conversely, there are a lot of contrarians that tend to look down on PG-13 movies with jump scares aimed at teens and the popcorn crowd, and I think a lot of those are just fine in many cases.
Me, I’m pretty easy about it all. I’m just so happy there is so much content to select from now, both in what is coming out, and being able to watch comfort food classics any time I want…also getting my hands on foreign films or “cult films” has never been easier as well…there was a time where someone would mention something to you - IRL, for the most part, or maybe in the early days on a BBS or on USENET and you’d have to see if you could track it down at a video store or see if there was some catalog you’d send away for it…and that was usually way out of reach for me, when it came to both time and money.
Makes sense! I tend to prefer good films too. I can watch a bad horror flick now and again, but I do prefer movies that want something from me. I have a few people I used to refer to for movie recommendations on youtube. Not because I agreed with their tastes always, but because they were pretty good at finding movies I hadn’t heard of and since I knew their tastes I would also know approximately what I would think about this or that film. Haven’t really kept myself updated on the horror landscape in recent years because life is busy. That has bit me in the ass a few times.
Most recently, I goofed and drug my boyfriend to the cinema to watch The Monkey because I had heard that it was super scary and very creative. I must have been trolled because that film was probably the worst Stephen King movie I have seen since The Dark Tower. Holy shit. If it wasn’t for the fact that we had bought tickets to see it, we would have left after the the babysitters funeral. Holy shit it was awful. It was the worst kind of horror comedy. I’m sure you know what I mean.