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  • recommendations for good (not so well known) horror films?
  • racefaceec90
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    as above really.
    any good un’s to watch (i used to watch loads of them back in the late 80’s 90’s.

    i like psychological horror/gore e.t.c

    ta 🙂

    piemonster
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    At this time of day my mood should suffice for horror

    piemonster
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    Might help if you eliminate a few obvious choices

    Ring, The Grudge etc

    mikewsmith
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    REC – a spanish one

    racefaceec90
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    have seen the ring/grudge (japanese films) also some of the saw films/silent hill.

    really thinking something obscure tbh

    something weird it can be too.

    doesn’t have to be purely horror either.

    will be watching rec (it sounds like a good film)

    i like anything from prince of darkness to re-animator/from beyond/demons e.t.c am trying to think of some good psychological horrors i’ve seen also (i thought twin peaks fire walk with me was great/anything by david lynch/chronenburg also tbh 🙂

    mikewsmith
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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/5live/films/genres/horror/
    Berberian Sound Studio sounded good (just added to my list to watch)
    A list of the more recent releases, sounds like you need to ask Mark Kermode….

    crashtestmonkey
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    The Descent one of the best Ive seen in years, really claustrophobic and intense. Avoid US-release version (different ending) and the sequel.

    Eden Lake has a nice social-comment undertone to it.

    Martyrs (French) excellent horror with a twist. Great film and pretty brutal

    Pan’s labyrinth
    Return of the living dead (frick’n amazing 80’s flick)
    Hellraiser
    The last house on the left (original)
    All the early ‘hammer movies’ are worth a revisit

    One of the best horror flicks IMO is Blair witch, the extras sell the movie well. Most hate it but they don’t get the imaginative horror. They would rather see cgi than shadows. I was also the same … When I was 12

    Paulio
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    A Tale of Two Sisters. But you won’t understand the ending, utterly mental.

    xherbivorex
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    Rec is great. best/scariest one of those “found footage” type films that i’ve seen. i have the 2 sequels lined up to watch.
    Sinister was quite good as well, i thought.
    I haven’t seen Mama yet but Guillermo Del Toro was involved so it may be decent, and a new one i was told about yesterday called The Wicked looks like it might be okay too (good IMDB score so far anyway).

    alexpalacefan
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    Event Horizon scared the willies out of me.

    APF

    Davesport
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    It sounds like “Eraserhead” would satisfy. One of David Lynch’s creations. Mild horror value & deeply disturbing 🙂

    Let me know how you get on.

    D.

    househusband
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    Wolf Creek.

    Had me genuinely squirming in places…

    toby1
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    Worth checking out Dead snow. The old boy trilogy too.

    unklehomered
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    Have you seen Cube and sequels?

    Cube 2 is a bit meh but Cube 0 was good.

    PrinceJohn
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    Battle Royale? Japanese – not horror specifically, but pretty nasty concept.

    A lot of good Asian stuff – proper creepy

    Steve-Austin
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    the eye, original
    devils backbone
    cronos
    the host
    ju on
    dark water
    in my skin
    anatomy

    that should keep you going for a while

    sprootlet
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    Audition was recommended to me but I don’t like horror

    mikey74
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    +1 for Wolf Creek, Cronos, Devil’s Backbone.

    I’d also venture: The Orphanage, Drag me to Hell, Anti-Christ (but be prepared to be weirded out, and to cross your legs in empathy). Pandorum was a weird piece of Sci-fi horror.

    Silent House was a bit crap, so I wouldn’t recommend that. Dead Snow is entertaining.

    Man Bites Dog?

    Oh, and Martyrs is about as disturbing a piece of film-making as I have seen for a while.

    gofasterstripes
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    I really liked…

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1189073/

    The Skin I live In

    racefaceec90
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    thanks for the replies (some of them i have seen).

    i loved the original cube film (really original concept for a film).

    as for eraserhead i happened to wake up to it being on my tv at about 3am (i used to drink/had left the tv on whilst i fell into a drunken stupor) man was that a mind funk or what 😆

    will definitely give the ones i haven’t yet seen a go 🙂

    thanks

    oh and just finished watching the rec film (short but very good imho/definitely one of the best pov/doc type type horror’s i have seen 🙂

    dannybgoode
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    Martyrs is about as grim as it gets. Possibly slightly more on the thriller than true horror but properly gruesome (French BTW).

    Delicatessen (also French) is good.

    Cheers

    Danny B

    shermer75
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    I thought that Insidious had some original ideas and at least one image that stills haunts me today. Which is what you’re going in for with a horror film I guess. Oh, and a completely incongruous comic turn in the middle that was so stupid I loved it.

    marco
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    The Loved ones – Aussie made pyscho creep out

    crashtestmonkey
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    Delicatessen is one of my fave films, never considered it a horror though. Eraserhead weirded me out for days.

    stu1972
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    Guinea Pig – The Devils Experiment.

    If you like gore this should suffice.

    A work colleague loaned me this film which spanned over 4 discs I think.
    Got 20 minutes into the first one then knocked it off.

    Not my cup of tea. Horrible.

    bigbloke
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    Phantasm, classic late 70’s film?

    Or one i sort of saw as a kid but not all the way through Xtro i think it was called.

    munchiepumps
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    How about,

    Return of the living Dead.
    Chaser.
    The Devils Rejects.
    Vamp.

    patriotpro
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    The Ring
    Grudge 2 (Jap Version)
    Hellraiser 2
    The Hills Have Eyes

    roach
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    How about The Brood?

    2unfit2ride
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    I’m not sure if it actually qualifies as a true horror film as I didn’t laugh once, but The Guard Post was an interesting watch.

    footflaps
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    I like Outpost, has Nazis in it as well….

    butcher
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    something weird it can be too.

    The Long Weekend. There’s two. The original is a low budget Australian movie which I watched late at night on C4 as a 16 year old. And I just found it a little bit odd, in a good and slightly freaky way. But after watching it there were always real life events that I could relate to it, which would inevitably weird me out a bit! They also remade it in recent years.

    Return of the living Dead.

    Yes! Probably seen it already, but one of my favourites. A classic and under-rated zombie movie.

    maccruiskeen
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    I like Outpost, has Nazis in it as well….

    Takes a bow

    patriotpro
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    +1 The Brood
    Another one is ‘Rabid’

    neilsonwheels
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    The loved ones.

    CountZero
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    The Brood is good, Event Horizon is very good indeed, and very underrated, and Pan’s Labyrinth really creeped me out; I can’t bring myself to watch it again. Del Toro is a master of the really creepy. I so want him to get on and do At The Mountains Of Madness, I can’t think of anyone else who could do Lovecraft’s books justice.

    SaxonRider
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    Berberian Sound Studio

    dannybgoode
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    Once watched Event Horizon in an ‘altered mental state’. Was perhaps the most scary experience of my life.

    More concerningly, I watched it is a more normal state and realised my poor little brain had made up about 15 minutes of film that didn’t actually exist.

    I wrote it down somewhere to send to the director as it definitely added to the plot.

    As for another good actual horror try R-Point (Korean)

    Cheers

    Danny B

    singletrackmind
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    R Point.
    Korean sub titled film set in the Virtnam war. Its odd but also clever in a subliminal way

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