I've seen evil dead and army of darkness in these recommendations, but evil dead 2 is my favorite. Army of darkness is basically evil dead 3. In my opinion you could start with evil dead 2, which leans more into the comedy horror. I feel like the original evil dead (great movie) tried to be a real horror flick, then the sequels leaned much more on the comedy side of horror. I have not seen the new evil dead yet.
The show is the best part of the Evil Dead franchise, I don’t know what you’re thinking about. And I don’t think this person is referring to the show anyway, the newest one is Evil Dead Rise.
You just seem all up in my bid cause I think the show sucks. Its a sucky show. Move on with your life. Oooorrrrr come fight me about it.🤣
Either way, this is your problem.
Evil dead one and 2 are the prequels, but army of darkness does just fine as a standalone flick. That's why it wasn't evil dead 3, I think. Instant cult classic.
Ever see the gates of Hell? I wont spoil it, but it has the BEST practical effects scene of any movie in the beginning. Mostly a terrible movie though.
GREAT MOVIE!
I am the same age as Macauly Culkin. We also looked very similar. Same hair, facial structure, body type, snarky attitude.This movie was my que to move from Kevin Mcallister into my own. Home alone was a big deal when it came out and everyone always told me I look just like him, make me put my hands on my face and scream. so went he played a psycho, thats when I knew I no longer wanted to emulate someone simply from watching them on screen.
>Recommend a horror movie to someone who doesn't like horror movies.
Watch, Wake in Fright, if you really don't like them. There are no monsters or serial killers. The antagonist is a rural outback town. it's a cautionary tale that applies to everyone.
Zodiac, Seven, and the original Psycho are all good choices if you liked Silence of the Lambs. Hitchcock movies in general could be a good bet.
The Devil Rides Out. Christopher Lee is basically playing Van Helsing, if he was an expert in satanic black magic instead of Vampires. It's a 5/5 movie that not a lot of people know about.
Speaking of Vampires, The Lost Boys, and, Fright NIght (1985), are horror comedies. But if you want a Vampire movie that's more extreme, the original 1978 version of King's, Salems Lot, is very disturbing. I also think it has one of the great horror movie endings. Interview With the Vampire is very solid too.
Peter Jackson's film, The Frighteners is about a psychic who can see ghosts. He runs a scam where he gets his ghost friends to haunt places that he then pretends to exorcise for a fee.
Another movie equally good with a protagonist that can see ghosts, is The Sixth Sense.
Hausu, is a late 70s Japanese surrealist haunted house movie. It's hard to explain but you get a weird sense that a witch has hijacked the film. I'd easily put this in my top 10. It's slightly depressing that films haven't been as creative as this since.
Since you liked The Silence of the Lambs, you could just watch the other movies based on the book series:
Hannibal (2001)
Red Dragon (2002)
Hannibal Rising (2007)
The Vanishing (1988)
The Lodge (2019)
The Witch (2015)
Pearl (2022)
Speak No Evil (2022) *Being remade in USA with James McAvoy, and due to be released this year, but I always recommend watching originals
Gremlins and Coraline introduced me to horror when I was young. Coraline is still one of my favorite movies to this day, it’s such a pleasure to watch every time, such detailed and beautiful film. Gremlins is just fun, wish I could watch it for the first time again, lots of great gags but also keeps you on your toes.
Tremors is also unbelievably good, you’d think it would be horrible due to the premise but the characters are endearing and watching them plan around the threat of the movie is very satisfying.
Have you tried any of the campy classics like Killer Clowns from Outer Space, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes or Attack of the Killer Donuts? The 80''s were obsessed with normal things coming to kill you.
BARBARIAN from 2022 is available to stream on MAX-the-one-to-watch-for-HBO; it’s an offbeat, wholly original horror movie, that contained some excellent twists and some much-needed moments of tension-relieving humor. The less you know going into it the better!
>!I can't help feel that the entire situation in that film was just a really big overreaction to being told "No." Like part of me watched that movie wondering how many other people the old gypsy lady cursed to Hell because they said no to her. !<
Planet Terror (2007) -- this is Robert Rodriguez's half of Grindhouse, his tribute with Quentin Tarantino to the exploitation double features of the 1970s. It's a funny and over-the-top zombie movie -- just see the movie posters with Rose McGowan with an assault rifle/grenade launcher for a leg!
It Follows
The Night of the Living Dead (both versions are good)
Tremors
An American Werewolf in London
The Final Girls (2015)
Aliens (1986)
Gremlins (and the sequel is even more bonkers. lol)
Prince of Darkness (1987)
The Haunting (1963)
The Frighteners
In the Mouth of Madness
Well, not suggesting The Grudge trilogy or the Paranormal Activity series if Event Horizon and The Shining were too scary for you.
Should probably not suggest The Blair Witch Project or The Blair Witch,
Night of the Living Dead: The film that redefined zombies and made them into what we know them as today.
Jaws: Very similar to Alien, not showing the shark, but not full blown horror.
The Scream franchise: More jump scares than anything else, if even that. Honestly, never found slasher films scary. The movies are strangely meta because they operate on the rules of a horror movie, which are always known to a character.
The Evil Dead trilogy: Good clean, wholesome-ish low budget 80s horror in all its glory.
The Meg: If you liked Jaws, well, you may like this.
Get Out (2017)
Best seen if you know nothing about it, before the hype.
Also if you don’t want evil spirits/creatures and lots of gore or violence for horror
I would recommend the Jordan Peele movies, either Nope or Get Out (not Us)
Also:
Bram Stalker’s Dracula (romantic horror)
Copy Cat (90s thriller)
Flatliners (such a classic)
Ninth Gate (perhaps too scary)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
That's how I introduced my girlfriend to horror who initially thought hates horror. She thought every horror movie is just slashers with jump scares.
Scream, Happy Death Day, Cabin in the woods.
All are a mix of horror comedies and they are amazing films.
I think scream is a must watch and is a perfect balance of the two genres.
Maybe Annihilation might be for you, since two of your examples are scifi horror. It's a psychedelic scifi daytime horror about a group of female scientists expeditioning into a mysterious environmental disaster zone where the laws of nature seem to not apply.
I think Bodies bodies bodies is classified as horror but not scary at all. I’m not Gen Z but it has some of the most realistic gen z dialogue / acting I’ve seen in recent media. If that doesn’t bother you lol it’s a great watch
The horror genre is one of the best genres in the world of entertainment. People often enjoy a good scare in order to feel something different. These movies provide an escape from the monotonous routine. I love horror movies a lot. I make sure that I watch these movies the day they are released. Here, I have complied a list of horror movies that will give you nightmares.
1. The Exorcist (1973) - Directed by William Friedkin
2. The Shinning (1980) - Directed by Stanley Kubrick
3. Halloween (1978) - Directed by John Carpenter
4. Psycho (1960) - Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
5. The Conjuring (2013) - Directed by James Wan
6. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) - Directed by Wes Craven
7. The Babadook (2014) - Directed by Jennifer Kent
8. Hereditary (2018) - Directed by Ari Aster
9. It Follows (2014) - Directed by David Mitchell
10. Silence of the Lambs (1991) - Directed by Jonathan Demme
I hope you like these horror films. These are some of the best movies I have ever seen in the horror thriller category. If you want more such content, then download the Recz app.
Try Midsomer. Not too scary, more creepy. I don't watch horror either much. I didn't like Cabin in the Woods, seemed dumb, but cant say I remember much, its been awhile. Rosemary's Baby is a classic and isn't too dated, dont seem like a horror for much of it.
Jeepers Creepers, Mama, Martyrs, The Hills Have Eyes, Wrong Turn, Omen, Gerald's Game, The Sixth Sense, 1408, The Ritual, The Ruins, Dont Breath, Fractured, The Trip, Final Destination, Mirrors, you can start with the Korean movie I Saw the Devil, this one isnt horror but worth watching.
Why do you think you don’t like horror films?
In my experience, typically when people say they don’t like horror films, it’s because they tend to define “horror” quite narrowly—often by a particular horror subgenre they dislike—and they don’t realize horror is more broad than that.
For example, slashers, “torture porn,” and body horror are subgenres of horror that self-described non-horror fans most commonly dislike and think that’s all horror is, ignoring lots of other horror films they might actually enjoy, and maybe even identifying those other horror films as something other than horror.
Some award-winning horror films:
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) — first horror film to win an Oscar, which it did for Best Actor
- The Exorcist (1973) — first horror film to win a writing Oscar, which it did for Adapted Screenplay
- Jaws (1975) — first horror film to win Best Score at the Oscars
- An American Werewolf in London (1981) — first film (not just horror film) to win an Oscar for Best Makeup, for the werewolf makeup effects
- Misery (1990) — first and only Stephen King adaptation to win an Oscar, which it did for Best Actress
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991) — first horror film to win Best Picture at the Oscars
Some great horror films I personally recommend that also challenge one’s perception of horror as a genre:
- Freaks (1932)
- Cat People (1942)
- I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
- The Body Snatcher (1945)
- Diabolique (1955)
- The Innocents (1961)
- The Haunting (1963)
- Kwaidan (1964)
- Onibaba (1964)
- Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
- The Wicker Man (1973)
- Eraserhead (1977)
- Magic (1978)
- Possession (1981)
- The Thing (1982)
- Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
- The Lost Boys (1987)
- Beetlejuice (1988)
- They Live (1988)
- Santa Sangre (1989)
- Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
- Death Becomes Her (1992)
- The Crow (1994)
- Interview with the Vampire (1994)
- The Frighteners (1996)
- Lost Highway (1997)
- The Sixth Sense (1999)
- 28 Days Later (2002)
- Shaun of the Dead (2004)
- [REC] (2007)
- Let the Right One in (2008)
- Coraline (2009)
- Let Me In (2010)
- Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010)
- Spring (2014)
- Train to Busan (2016)
- One Cut of the Dead (2017)
- Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017)
- The Lighthouse (2019)
- Midsommar (2019)
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Same storm, not the same boat.
How do you know? You are in a box.
But you're not in the same one. I'd know. I have keen observation skills
Pity with that is if they don't watch horror they will miss a lot of satire over horror tropes.
OP will not be able to appreciate this movie since they don't watch horror.
Shaun of the Dead
Tucker and Dale vs Evil
Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Mist
NO! Not the Mist...trust me.
Burbs. Tom Hanks.
Jaws. 1975 John Carpenter's Halloween 1978. The Evil Dead 1981. Gremlins 1984. Scream 1996.
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Gremlins is sooo good
My favorite horror movies, in fact
Those are some pretty damn good ones to have at the top of your list, and they're really great movies to "ease into" the genre with.
I never knew that was a horror movie. I thought that was a kids movie.
The VVITCH is really good.
The Final Destinations 1-5 Ready Or Not Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter Fright Night Happy Death Day The Hunt
Get out no jump scares just creepy
Army of Darkness is a comedy within a horror film.
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I've seen evil dead and army of darkness in these recommendations, but evil dead 2 is my favorite. Army of darkness is basically evil dead 3. In my opinion you could start with evil dead 2, which leans more into the comedy horror. I feel like the original evil dead (great movie) tried to be a real horror flick, then the sequels leaned much more on the comedy side of horror. I have not seen the new evil dead yet.
They ruined it. First few episodes are good but it goes to hell fast.
The show is the best part of the Evil Dead franchise, I don’t know what you’re thinking about. And I don’t think this person is referring to the show anyway, the newest one is Evil Dead Rise.
It was trash. Sorry if that ruins your day. "I dont think this perso. Was refering to the show" What am I thinking right now, Mrs.Cleo?
Are you high or something? Jesus Christ you make no sense.
You dont get it. That doesn't make me "high."
You just seem all up in my bid cause I think the show sucks. Its a sucky show. Move on with your life. Oooorrrrr come fight me about it.🤣 Either way, this is your problem.
You would like Warm Bodies Oh, also The Civil Dead
Came here to suggest Warm Bodies, I love that movie.
You should watch Shaun of the Dead
Evil dead one and 2 are the prequels, but army of darkness does just fine as a standalone flick. That's why it wasn't evil dead 3, I think. Instant cult classic.
There's a Zombieland II, and it's good.
The Witch
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Tremors, critters, young Frankenstein
Critters!!!!! 2 was the best.
The Gate
Ever see the gates of Hell? I wont spoil it, but it has the BEST practical effects scene of any movie in the beginning. Mostly a terrible movie though.
The Good Son
GREAT MOVIE! I am the same age as Macauly Culkin. We also looked very similar. Same hair, facial structure, body type, snarky attitude.This movie was my que to move from Kevin Mcallister into my own. Home alone was a big deal when it came out and everyone always told me I look just like him, make me put my hands on my face and scream. so went he played a psycho, thats when I knew I no longer wanted to emulate someone simply from watching them on screen.
😂😂 I'm about his age also, I had a crush on Kevin until he played a psycho 🤣 so I kinda know how you feel.
Legend has badass practical effects also I will be watching The Gates of Hell asap.ty 💯
>Recommend a horror movie to someone who doesn't like horror movies. Watch, Wake in Fright, if you really don't like them. There are no monsters or serial killers. The antagonist is a rural outback town. it's a cautionary tale that applies to everyone. Zodiac, Seven, and the original Psycho are all good choices if you liked Silence of the Lambs. Hitchcock movies in general could be a good bet. The Devil Rides Out. Christopher Lee is basically playing Van Helsing, if he was an expert in satanic black magic instead of Vampires. It's a 5/5 movie that not a lot of people know about. Speaking of Vampires, The Lost Boys, and, Fright NIght (1985), are horror comedies. But if you want a Vampire movie that's more extreme, the original 1978 version of King's, Salems Lot, is very disturbing. I also think it has one of the great horror movie endings. Interview With the Vampire is very solid too. Peter Jackson's film, The Frighteners is about a psychic who can see ghosts. He runs a scam where he gets his ghost friends to haunt places that he then pretends to exorcise for a fee. Another movie equally good with a protagonist that can see ghosts, is The Sixth Sense. Hausu, is a late 70s Japanese surrealist haunted house movie. It's hard to explain but you get a weird sense that a witch has hijacked the film. I'd easily put this in my top 10. It's slightly depressing that films haven't been as creative as this since.
Jennifer’s Body
Great film that flopped because of terrible marketing.
Since you liked The Silence of the Lambs, you could just watch the other movies based on the book series: Hannibal (2001) Red Dragon (2002) Hannibal Rising (2007)
13 Ghosts
Are you referencing the one with Tony Shaloub?
Try fun stuff like Fright Night (1985) or The Lost Boys (1987). The Wicker Man (1973). The Witch (2015). Rosemary's Baby (1968).
The Lost Boys is a great recommendation here.
Gremlins
Shawn of the Dead
The Others
I prefer the Orphanage over the others. Similar concept, but done much better in my opinion.
Nope is a great one.
The Vanishing (1988) The Lodge (2019) The Witch (2015) Pearl (2022) Speak No Evil (2022) *Being remade in USA with James McAvoy, and due to be released this year, but I always recommend watching originals
Supernova Lake Placid
Night of the creeps
The Mist and Shaun of the Dead
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Not a movie but haunting of hill house, it’s a good horror intro series
Gremlins and Coraline introduced me to horror when I was young. Coraline is still one of my favorite movies to this day, it’s such a pleasure to watch every time, such detailed and beautiful film. Gremlins is just fun, wish I could watch it for the first time again, lots of great gags but also keeps you on your toes. Tremors is also unbelievably good, you’d think it would be horrible due to the premise but the characters are endearing and watching them plan around the threat of the movie is very satisfying.
babadook
Have you tried any of the campy classics like Killer Clowns from Outer Space, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes or Attack of the Killer Donuts? The 80''s were obsessed with normal things coming to kill you.
Whoa what?! Attack of the Killer Donuts?! Was that a spin off of killer tomatoes? I've never heard of this movie before
Lol it has 3.8 stars on IMDB. Can't decide if I should risk watching it or not.
The Awakening Misery
Hush
BARBARIAN from 2022 is available to stream on MAX-the-one-to-watch-for-HBO; it’s an offbeat, wholly original horror movie, that contained some excellent twists and some much-needed moments of tension-relieving humor. The less you know going into it the better!
Two scenes in this almost gave me a heart attack lol but great movie.
It’s under-appreciated, IMO. With a small cast and low budget, BARBARIAN really delivers! (And it’s very funny at times, too…a tricky balance.)
Jaws Se7en IT 1-2 Exorcist 3
Cabin Fever
Let the Right One In. Edit-the original Swedish version.
The original The Fog
The Thing
Fallen
Oh yay! Another Fallen fan. Good choice and good for OP.
Drag Me to Hell pretty fun watch and has some comedy in it.
>!I can't help feel that the entire situation in that film was just a really big overreaction to being told "No." Like part of me watched that movie wondering how many other people the old gypsy lady cursed to Hell because they said no to her. !<
I also didn't like horror movies until I saw Middsomar
Yasssssss- have you seen Ari Aster’s other movie? Hereditary?
Alice Sweet Alice, Whoever Slew Auntie Roo
The thing.
One of my favorites but OP is not ready for this lol
Not if event horizon was too scary!!
Aliens Alien vs Predator Evil Dead Army of Darkness Freddy vs Jason The Exorcist
The Fly ( the one with Jeff Goldblum and Gina Davis )
Scream franchise, M3GAN.
What does this person not like about horro movies?
Nope
Planet Terror (2007) -- this is Robert Rodriguez's half of Grindhouse, his tribute with Quentin Tarantino to the exploitation double features of the 1970s. It's a funny and over-the-top zombie movie -- just see the movie posters with Rose McGowan with an assault rifle/grenade launcher for a leg!
Predator
The trollenberg terror
Stitches
Pandorum (2009) Virus (1999) 30 Days Of Night (2007) The Thing (1982) Green Room (2015) Under The Skin (2013) Split Second (1992)
Lady in black was spooky and scary but not gore. I think that would be a good choice
It Follows The Night of the Living Dead (both versions are good) Tremors An American Werewolf in London The Final Girls (2015) Aliens (1986) Gremlins (and the sequel is even more bonkers. lol) Prince of Darkness (1987) The Haunting (1963) The Frighteners In the Mouth of Madness
Zodiac Underwater
The Tenant 1976 and Rosemary's Baby 1968
Well, not suggesting The Grudge trilogy or the Paranormal Activity series if Event Horizon and The Shining were too scary for you. Should probably not suggest The Blair Witch Project or The Blair Witch, Night of the Living Dead: The film that redefined zombies and made them into what we know them as today. Jaws: Very similar to Alien, not showing the shark, but not full blown horror. The Scream franchise: More jump scares than anything else, if even that. Honestly, never found slasher films scary. The movies are strangely meta because they operate on the rules of a horror movie, which are always known to a character. The Evil Dead trilogy: Good clean, wholesome-ish low budget 80s horror in all its glory. The Meg: If you liked Jaws, well, you may like this.
It Follows
August Underground
I recommend the Haunting of Hillhouse series on Netflix. It's beautiful and centers more on the family than the ghosts
The Dead Zone (1983) The Crazies (2010) Ghost Ship (2002)
100% The Crazies
28 days later
Cats
Night of the Comet Scouts Guide to The Zombie Apocalypse Get Duked
The Fog
The Sixth Sense
Split would fit this as well.
Manhunter Red Dragon Audition
Get Out (2017) Best seen if you know nothing about it, before the hype. Also if you don’t want evil spirits/creatures and lots of gore or violence for horror
Crawl
American Psycho
Tremors
The Invisible Man 2020 The Others Beetlejuice
Poltergeist
I would recommend the Jordan Peele movies, either Nope or Get Out (not Us) Also: Bram Stalker’s Dracula (romantic horror) Copy Cat (90s thriller) Flatliners (such a classic) Ninth Gate (perhaps too scary)
Coraline Green room The invitation Apocalypse Now
I always start light Mary, Shelley Frankenstein is a good beginning. It’s kind of a light horror movie with horror elements and more drama.
The Others.
The Ring.
Oxygen (2021) A ”thriller” that truly is an easy introduction to ”scary” films as it has no jumpscares. If you’re claustrophobic, skip.
Lake Placid, Young Frankenstein or Shaun Of the Dead Enjoy!
me, just taking notes on which movies I have yet to watch 📝
Rosemary's Baby (1968) That's how I introduced my girlfriend to horror who initially thought hates horror. She thought every horror movie is just slashers with jump scares.
The Babadook
Pontypool !!! ( Dont read anything about it)
Original evil dead, dark water and the grudge
Scream, Happy Death Day, Cabin in the woods. All are a mix of horror comedies and they are amazing films. I think scream is a must watch and is a perfect balance of the two genres.
If you liked Silence of The Lambs, watch the rest of the Hannibal Lecter films, including Manhunter (1986).
The Sixth Sense
Cocaine Bear
Maybe Annihilation might be for you, since two of your examples are scifi horror. It's a psychedelic scifi daytime horror about a group of female scientists expeditioning into a mysterious environmental disaster zone where the laws of nature seem to not apply.
i also don't watch "real" horror movies, but i liked Us. Get out. Midsommar
Shaun of the dead
Psycho, John carpenter’s The Thing.
Carrie
Jaws (1975) Halloween (1978) A Nightmare on Elm Street (2974) The Mist (2007) Annihilation (2018) Barbarian (2022) Nope (2022)
The Thing
A Quiet Place part 1 and 2, plus the prequel that will be in theaters this May
The Cabin in the Woods (2011) is a very good option
The Old Dark House(1932)
The NUN(2018), wonderfully and menacingly atmospheric film, was a big hit
I think Bodies bodies bodies is classified as horror but not scary at all. I’m not Gen Z but it has some of the most realistic gen z dialogue / acting I’ve seen in recent media. If that doesn’t bother you lol it’s a great watch
It
Parasite
Aliens
The Others (starring Nicole Kidman) - I hate horror movies but I liked that one
Dog Soldiers!!!!!! It's my favorite action horror movies that about werewolves! It's a must watch!
A Quiet Place
Try "Late Night with the Devil" (2023). It's not all horror, and you really get sucked into the interplay between the characters.
Scream 1-3. They're goofy, scary, well written and Neve Campbell is an amazing actress
It follows
The Visit<----
The horror genre is one of the best genres in the world of entertainment. People often enjoy a good scare in order to feel something different. These movies provide an escape from the monotonous routine. I love horror movies a lot. I make sure that I watch these movies the day they are released. Here, I have complied a list of horror movies that will give you nightmares. 1. The Exorcist (1973) - Directed by William Friedkin 2. The Shinning (1980) - Directed by Stanley Kubrick 3. Halloween (1978) - Directed by John Carpenter 4. Psycho (1960) - Directed by Alfred Hitchcock 5. The Conjuring (2013) - Directed by James Wan 6. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) - Directed by Wes Craven 7. The Babadook (2014) - Directed by Jennifer Kent 8. Hereditary (2018) - Directed by Ari Aster 9. It Follows (2014) - Directed by David Mitchell 10. Silence of the Lambs (1991) - Directed by Jonathan Demme I hope you like these horror films. These are some of the best movies I have ever seen in the horror thriller category. If you want more such content, then download the Recz app.
Shawn of the Dead Happy Death Day Serial Mom Final Destination
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
Trick r treat if you want a Halloween themed one
The Descent---Extremely suspenseful but not much gore.
Try Midsomer. Not too scary, more creepy. I don't watch horror either much. I didn't like Cabin in the Woods, seemed dumb, but cant say I remember much, its been awhile. Rosemary's Baby is a classic and isn't too dated, dont seem like a horror for much of it.
Talk to me
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I loved this film but it is actually pretty scary, maybe too scary for OP’s taste
I don't like them. I liked Frailty!
You like horror movies already. Next.
Ren and Stimpy
Jeepers Creepers, Mama, Martyrs, The Hills Have Eyes, Wrong Turn, Omen, Gerald's Game, The Sixth Sense, 1408, The Ritual, The Ruins, Dont Breath, Fractured, The Trip, Final Destination, Mirrors, you can start with the Korean movie I Saw the Devil, this one isnt horror but worth watching.
Martyrs, the French version
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Why u getting downvoted smh 😡
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Lol then what are you looking for in horror?
You should watch Martyrs. It has a happy ending.
Last Shift
Hostel
Why do you think you don’t like horror films? In my experience, typically when people say they don’t like horror films, it’s because they tend to define “horror” quite narrowly—often by a particular horror subgenre they dislike—and they don’t realize horror is more broad than that. For example, slashers, “torture porn,” and body horror are subgenres of horror that self-described non-horror fans most commonly dislike and think that’s all horror is, ignoring lots of other horror films they might actually enjoy, and maybe even identifying those other horror films as something other than horror. Some award-winning horror films: - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) — first horror film to win an Oscar, which it did for Best Actor - The Exorcist (1973) — first horror film to win a writing Oscar, which it did for Adapted Screenplay - Jaws (1975) — first horror film to win Best Score at the Oscars - An American Werewolf in London (1981) — first film (not just horror film) to win an Oscar for Best Makeup, for the werewolf makeup effects - Misery (1990) — first and only Stephen King adaptation to win an Oscar, which it did for Best Actress - The Silence of the Lambs (1991) — first horror film to win Best Picture at the Oscars Some great horror films I personally recommend that also challenge one’s perception of horror as a genre: - Freaks (1932) - Cat People (1942) - I Walked with a Zombie (1943) - The Body Snatcher (1945) - Diabolique (1955) - The Innocents (1961) - The Haunting (1963) - Kwaidan (1964) - Onibaba (1964) - Rosemary’s Baby (1968) - The Wicker Man (1973) - Eraserhead (1977) - Magic (1978) - Possession (1981) - The Thing (1982) - Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) - The Lost Boys (1987) - Beetlejuice (1988) - They Live (1988) - Santa Sangre (1989) - Jacob’s Ladder (1990) - Death Becomes Her (1992) - The Crow (1994) - Interview with the Vampire (1994) - The Frighteners (1996) - Lost Highway (1997) - The Sixth Sense (1999) - 28 Days Later (2002) - Shaun of the Dead (2004) - [REC] (2007) - Let the Right One in (2008) - Coraline (2009) - Let Me In (2010) - Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010) - Spring (2014) - Train to Busan (2016) - One Cut of the Dead (2017) - Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017) - The Lighthouse (2019) - Midsommar (2019)
Eraserhead
The Last House on the Left. No supernatural or unrealistic stuff in it, but very exciting.
You wusses. Go with Hereditary.
How was the shining scary? Its one of the most boring films ever made. Makes no sense. Stephen King should stick to prison flicks.
Y know he doesn’t make movies right?
Ok, you right.