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What are the scariest horror movies?

I love horror but apparently I don’t vibe with a lot of recommendations I find online.

I’d seen so much hype about Event Horizon and I absolutely hated it and didn’t find it scary. I just watched Late Night With the Devil and whole it was definitely enjoyable, it wasn’t the least but frightening. I also just watched Let the Right One In and really didn’t like it. It also was not a horror movie in my opinion.

I will say one of my favorites is Sinister or the first Conjuring. Sinister for the stomach twisting dread and suspence throughout and Conjuring for the same.

So, what movies do you find to be the scariest?

tuxed ,

Not sure how great it holds up today since it was a while ago I watched it last, but The Thing is for me still one of the best ones.

Canopyflyer ,

Not a horror film per se, but definitely leaning that way:

The original ‘ALIEN’.

The building of tension throughout the entire movie is brilliant.

Contramuffin ,

I liked Noroi: The Curse.

No jumpscares, but really quite unsettling

SexualPolytope , (edited )
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I don’t get scared easily, but Kothanodi had me watching through my fingers. It has four vaguely connected stories, and two of them are very fucked up. There’s a decent amount of infanticide and other atrocities inflicted on minors, so be warned if you have any childhood trauma.

Also by the same director, the movie Aamis is about cannibalism acting as a replacement for sex. It’s pretty fucked up as well.

Davel23 ,

Annihilation is great cosmic horror.

CutekittyAlexa ,

Rec (2007) and Climax (2018) are some of my personal favourites that have scared me to some degree

Xatolos ,
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The original Rec and Rec 2 are great, the third movie was terrible and the Hollywood remake of the first Rec is a disaster.

AceFuzzLord ,

Perfect Blue

I absolutely love and hate how they mess with your perception of not only time but what’s real because I could see myself in situations where I couldn’t tell you how long has passed and/or having to question if what I’m seeing is real or not.

DoctorButts ,

Thanks for reminding me about this movie. Been meaning to watch this for a while.

WanderingVentra ,

What I’ve learned from this thread as someone getting into horror again is that I really need to watch Hereditary and the original Candyman. Might just bookmark this for all the great recommendations. Only hard part is that my partner isn’t into horror so it’s hard to watch them.

coaxil ,

Soft & quiet.

Humans are a terrible thing

m.imdb.com/title/tt14557188/

scytale ,

It Follows. It isn’t the best horror movie, but the premise is one of the scariest for me. An entity that is inevitable, and you cannot get away from no matter what you do or where you go. It’s always there, walking towards you.

Kacarott ,

Is the entity an immortal snail?

OprahsedCreature ,

I’m noticing a distinct lack of Terrifier and Terrifier 2 in these comments. Art the Clown is perhaps the best antagonist I’ve ever seen in the horror genre and true originality is rare in the modern horror filmscape.

The Ring is also good for originality as far as modern classics, though it’s a whole book series in Japan.

Edit: I also liked The Shrine, forgot to mention that one. Again, originality.

Anissem , (edited )
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I’m pretty dead inside so not a ton can get through in the horror department, but I always thought 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later did a fantastic job making zombies a bit scary again.

Today ,

Cloverfield - not sure if thats horror

Frailty

Insidious

As a kid i loved the early Jason and Freddy movies.

MicrowavedTea ,

For me The Shining is one of the scariest movies and The VVITCH also comes really close to that feeling. For different types of horror I’d also recommend La Piel que Habito, Shutter and The Haunting of Hill House (the show).

And if you get the chance try the book version of Let the Right One In. It’s much better than the movie and more of a horror imo.

Anissem ,
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Love The Shining! Stephen King actually wasn’t a fan of the movie, but I think it’s because it’s based on some of his own struggles with addiction.

MicrowavedTea ,

It’s very different from his book but they’re both great on their own.

Mog_fanatic ,

I absolutely love horror movies and have a long list of fantastic ones but not very many of them actually scared me. Most of them have been named already but two I didn’t see were The Babadook (2014) and surprisingly a Netflix movie called His House (2020) was actually awesome. One of my favorites in the last few years.

JustAnotherKay ,

Yeah I actually think that my favorite horror movies are the ones that get me asking questions, rather than being scared. I like being intrigued by the evil, like in Smile (until the twist at the end, it was a perfectly good psychological horror that did not need a monster)

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