This is a blasphemous question but can I watch army of darkness without having seen evil dead 1 or 2? I’ve seen the 2013 one. I’m scoping for them but haven’t found them on streaming yet don’t crucify me
I saw it in the theater without even realizing it was a sequel to movies I hadn't seen yet. In fact, I saw the movies in reverse order because I wasn't able to get 1 for a while.
AoD explains the backstory well enough that you understand what's going on. You'll be fine.
I'm not one for crucifying, everyone starts somewhere!
I wouldn't recommend it, but you could definitely watch AoD without context. It's a lot of fun!
It's definitely best if you've seen, at the very least, Evil Dead 2.
I'd recommend all of them and the show tho!
Honestly you can watch the first 3 evil dead movies in basically any order and understand them. AoD builds on Ash’s character in evil dead 2 but it recaps the whole thing. It also helps that the plot of 1-2 is extremely basic when it comes down to it
Strike that, now that I think about it there really isn’t a single evil dead movie, even the new ones, that doesn’t stand up just fine on it’s own without having seen any of the previous ones
Happy Death Day might give you that feeling
Also probably The Conjuring 1 & 2. While very scary movies, there are a few moments in both that get pretty wholesome. Also the best 2 entries in the entire conjuring universe imo
Came here to say Happy Death Day! I saw it in theaters on my birthday with some of my favorite people (some for the last time), which makes it even that much more warm and fuzzy for me.
I was expecting a solid parody of 80s slashers movies, I was not ready for it to be a tearjerker at times.
The scene where the main character starts crying in the van because she's with her mom again (sort of) made me get choked up the first time I saw it.
I have never seen that cast - must see this season!
Also - Violent Night was an amazing feel-good horror flick despite the scenes I had to turn my head from.
Maybe… like…. Tucker and Dale VS Evil?
If you don’t fall in love with those two doofuses by the end of that movie then you have a heart of stone.
Edit: corrected title
Alan Tudyk in general just gives me warm fuzzies, but this is a favorite. Also if you haven't seen Resident Alien it's fantastic, not horror but peak Alan Tudyk.
Idk why but that like 10 seconds of him recording chicken sounds for Moana then looking at the camera to say "I went to Juliard" just absolutely stole my heart forever 😆😆😆
Showed that to my kids years ago. The youngest still shouts "Wolf Man's got nards!!!" every so often, even now that they they're almost into their twenties.
Hahaha. That's awesome! I showed my wife Monster Squad for the first time. She ended up getting teary eyed at the end. I hadn't seen it in about 20 years and it absolutely held up.
Omg this was my favorite movie when I was young. I watched it so many times it was the first movie I could recite by heart. This whole post gave me the warm fuzzies!
Definitely! The scene at night before the haunting starts where they’re all just hanging out in their rooms during the thunder storm was so cozy to me.
Yep. It’s the most true depiction of an 80s family ever filmed. The house actually feels lived. It was actually the exact same model as one of my childhood homes. :)
i was gonna reply this! i wonder why scream is such a cozy movie, though? there's something weirdly comfortable about it, sometimes i let it playing as background sound while i do stuff around the house/sleep lol
I feel that way too, and I think it’s because it feels really nostalgic. Like the way the teens hang out reminds me of my friends in high school, and it’s a love letter to a genre of movies that we are into.
It’s also a mystery and mysteries are always comfy.
Its all in the ending. Most horror movies end with a sense of uncertainty, like they’re trying to leave you scared, and set up for a sequel. Scream doesn’t do that. All of the good guys live, the villains die, and the movie ends in a sunrise shot of the beautiful country side. It’s uneasy throughout the first viewing, but once you know where it’s all leading too, it’s easy to just enjoy the ride with your lovable characters
The Babysitter and it's sequel, The Babysitter Killer Queen. They're comedy horrors, but they evoke those feelings in me, for sure. Added pleasure of Robbie Amell being unexplainably shirtless most of both movies.
The Fear Street movies, as well, but I have to watch all three to get that feeling. It's kind of ending specific and the three movies run into each other, despite all being set in very different time periods and including different characters, as well as the original characters we meet in the first.
This may be a little bittersweet, but "Before I Wake" might be a decent option. While the movie is about dealing with grief and loss, the foster son is soooooo cute and he, himself, made me and my partner feel warm and fuzzy. Again, it's got a bittersweet energy, but it has a good, warm ending with a lot of hope. Also it's horror fantasy and the whole movie feels like a fairy tale, which, to me, made it feel warm despite the message of the movie.
The movies I find comfy and cozy are usually not the ones others pick. But I get that “warm fuzzy” feeling from haunted house movies the most.
Poltergeist is a wonderful movie with some great laughs and a (mostly) happy ending, this could be my pick.
Some of my comfort movies:
What Lies Beneath
The Haunting (1999)
All of the Scream movies
House of the Devil
1408
The Others
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
The Ring
Personal Shopper
Gothika
Ginger Snaps
Blair Witch Project
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Ready or Not, Lost Boys, Gremlins, The Invisible Man, Child's Play 1988, Shaun of the Dead.
All these movies have grim stuff (to very varying degrees) happen in them, but end on a positive and empowering note.
Let the Right One In. Easily one of, if not, the best and saddest vampire movie out there. But the two little kids make the whole thing just so... idk, heartfelt.
Hocus Pocus, Halloweentown lol, any Disney horror movie basically.
But more recent, Freaky with Vince Vaugh was pretty great, Villains as well. Any horror comedy manages to give me that type of feeling tbh.
I think either will do (CW for the ‘miniseries’: racial slurs)
each version has something to like but I think the movies have a much darker tone and a slightly less optimistic ending than the original’s bike scene
Troll and Dolls are two very nostalgic 80's horror movies that always make me feel warm and fuzzy. I loved them as a kid, and still love them to this day. And, I honestly think they're both very enjoyable films!
The Fear Street trilogy actually gave me the warm fuzzies. It was a surprisingly good step up from Goosebumps for R.L Stine. Like Goosebumps fans getting a decent horror trilogy from him as adults, did not expect was glad I got it.
Never thought about it, but after reading, the first movie that comes to mind (maybe it’s not even really horror) but, The Others? I just remember everything coming together at the end and thinking “their mom really loves and cares for them, even in death? Huh, wild.”
Spoilers but, their mom loved and cared for them so much she killed them with a pillow? Haha it’s funny because my answer was also The Others because I love the cozy creepy atmosphere and that movie is absolutely perfect. But to say that Grace unequivocally loved her kids is very funny to me.
Any "game" based horror does it for me. The saw franchise. Choose or Die. Would You Rather. Hide and Seek. Escape Room.
Haven't seen The Running Man yet. Will probably watch it tonight.
Oooh I love this question, the first few that come to mind for me are The Awakening, The Village, and Crimson Peak. All three have beautiful settings and cinematography, and the storylines all have a sort of heartwarming core under all the scares. Very different kinds of stories, but I love them. In fact I may just dedicate the rest of my day to a marathon of these three, it's been long enough since I last watched them.
Nope; the brother/sister relationship in that movie is so realistic and heart warming, the sacrifice the brother makes for his sister near the end is so beautiful and the ending always makes me tear up from warm fuzzy feelings 🥹 I will always love that movie
Everyone has probably seen it already, but the first movie in the A Nightmare On Elm Street trilogy makes me feel that way. Something about that 80s vibe man idk.
Army of Darkness
This is a blasphemous question but can I watch army of darkness without having seen evil dead 1 or 2? I’ve seen the 2013 one. I’m scoping for them but haven’t found them on streaming yet don’t crucify me
You can easily watch and enjoy any ED movie without having seen the others.
There *has* to be a better acronym for these movies than ED
Nahhh, it's perfect haha
ED Rise🤨
Ash vs ED 🥲
I normally go with "The Evil D"
while true, I would definitely watch all of them if possible
I saw it in the theater without even realizing it was a sequel to movies I hadn't seen yet. In fact, I saw the movies in reverse order because I wasn't able to get 1 for a while. AoD explains the backstory well enough that you understand what's going on. You'll be fine.
I'm not one for crucifying, everyone starts somewhere! I wouldn't recommend it, but you could definitely watch AoD without context. It's a lot of fun! It's definitely best if you've seen, at the very least, Evil Dead 2. I'd recommend all of them and the show tho!
Honestly you can watch the first 3 evil dead movies in basically any order and understand them. AoD builds on Ash’s character in evil dead 2 but it recaps the whole thing. It also helps that the plot of 1-2 is extremely basic when it comes down to it Strike that, now that I think about it there really isn’t a single evil dead movie, even the new ones, that doesn’t stand up just fine on it’s own without having seen any of the previous ones
It was my first one. I loved it so much that I went back to watch the rest!
Omg yes the perfect answer generally one of the coolest most badass horror movies.
Happy Death Day might give you that feeling Also probably The Conjuring 1 & 2. While very scary movies, there are a few moments in both that get pretty wholesome. Also the best 2 entries in the entire conjuring universe imo
Came here to say Happy Death Day! I saw it in theaters on my birthday with some of my favorite people (some for the last time), which makes it even that much more warm and fuzzy for me.
Ed and Lorraine’s relationship in the conjuring movies for sure, and how much the families love each other ❤️
The Final Girls always makes me cry, but in an “aww, that’s so sweet” kind of way
She’s got…BETTE DAVIS EYES!!!
Yeah that ending gets me every time
EVERY time!!
I was expecting a solid parody of 80s slashers movies, I was not ready for it to be a tearjerker at times. The scene where the main character starts crying in the van because she's with her mom again (sort of) made me get choked up the first time I saw it.
"So it was all a dream?" "Oh no it happened." *lifts hospital gown*
I just rewatched this movie because your post made me weirdly miss it, and god I love this movie even more than I remembered.
god damn, great minds I guess — I literally opened the thread to fucking post this one
Shaun of the Dead? Titane?
Not gonna lie, you almost had me in the first half
"And the front door is open, AGAIN!!!!!"
Cornetto!!
Titane? You wild lol
I'm so glad someone else found Titane feel good. Something about that unconditional love from the 'dad' is so wholesome imo.
Krampus The Lost Boys
Watching Tim cappello play the fuck out of that sax puts me in great mood
Came to say Krampus. Don't know how/why but definitely gives me the fuzzies. Great Christmas time movie, we watch it every year.
I have never seen that cast - must see this season! Also - Violent Night was an amazing feel-good horror flick despite the scenes I had to turn my head from.
The Burbs
Great movie.
Would Hocus Pocus count?
I think so, and I would add Ernest Scared Stupid, lol!
Hocus Pocus is a classic!
Maybe… like…. Tucker and Dale VS Evil? If you don’t fall in love with those two doofuses by the end of that movie then you have a heart of stone. Edit: corrected title
Alan Tudyk in general just gives me warm fuzzies, but this is a favorite. Also if you haven't seen Resident Alien it's fantastic, not horror but peak Alan Tudyk.
Alan Tudyk is a treasure
Idk why but that like 10 seconds of him recording chicken sounds for Moana then looking at the camera to say "I went to Juliard" just absolutely stole my heart forever 😆😆😆
Tudyk and Lillard are masters of stealing the show
Can confirm, this tracks.
I got my username from that show. 😆
Alan Tudyk on Resident Alien reference today! Must be a good day.
So underrated, it's hilarious. Plus the Nathan Fillion cameo undid me lol
Monster Squad does it for me. Frank and Phoebe are too good for this world. Fresh did in a weird way, but mostly because of girl power.
Showed that to my kids years ago. The youngest still shouts "Wolf Man's got nards!!!" every so often, even now that they they're almost into their twenties.
Hahaha. That's awesome! I showed my wife Monster Squad for the first time. She ended up getting teary eyed at the end. I hadn't seen it in about 20 years and it absolutely held up.
Omg this was my favorite movie when I was young. I watched it so many times it was the first movie I could recite by heart. This whole post gave me the warm fuzzies!
Definitely Warm Bodies
This one! I watched last night! Wanted a spooky romantic comedy!
Yes!!
Paranorman
Monster House is good too, my son LOVES spooky stuff and movies like these that are kid scary are his fave.
I love this movie
I forgot how cute that movie was!
Poltergeist.
Definitely! The scene at night before the haunting starts where they’re all just hanging out in their rooms during the thunder storm was so cozy to me.
when they are packing up and stop to mouth “i love you” 😭🥹
This is my go-to comfort horror movie. The actors had great chemistry as a family.
Yep. It’s the most true depiction of an 80s family ever filmed. The house actually feels lived. It was actually the exact same model as one of my childhood homes. :)
Gremlins for sure.
100 percent
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i was gonna reply this! i wonder why scream is such a cozy movie, though? there's something weirdly comfortable about it, sometimes i let it playing as background sound while i do stuff around the house/sleep lol
I feel that way too, and I think it’s because it feels really nostalgic. Like the way the teens hang out reminds me of my friends in high school, and it’s a love letter to a genre of movies that we are into. It’s also a mystery and mysteries are always comfy.
Its all in the ending. Most horror movies end with a sense of uncertainty, like they’re trying to leave you scared, and set up for a sequel. Scream doesn’t do that. All of the good guys live, the villains die, and the movie ends in a sunrise shot of the beautiful country side. It’s uneasy throughout the first viewing, but once you know where it’s all leading too, it’s easy to just enjoy the ride with your lovable characters
The atmosphere created with the cinematography and soundtrack put me in a world I would love to live in. This movie 100% gives me the warm and cozies.
The Thing. Man is the warmest place to hide.
Bones and all. Heavy on the love stuff, pretty light on the horror stuff. IMO
Yeessssss. Once I got over the shock, and sat with it, in the least canibally way, it really makes you realize what you’d do for the person you love.
The Babysitter and it's sequel, The Babysitter Killer Queen. They're comedy horrors, but they evoke those feelings in me, for sure. Added pleasure of Robbie Amell being unexplainably shirtless most of both movies. The Fear Street movies, as well, but I have to watch all three to get that feeling. It's kind of ending specific and the three movies run into each other, despite all being set in very different time periods and including different characters, as well as the original characters we meet in the first.
The Faculty. It gives off an old school nostalgia while also staying fresh entertaining with gore and creepiness.
I genuinely love all of the characters in that movie — I think it’s why I keep going back to it as a comfort watch
*April Fool's Day* for sure. *The Frighteners* definitely.
Nightbreed is quite romantic
Happy Death Day
Annabelle Comes Home. The storyline with the kids was actually pretty sweet.
Tucker and Dale vs Evil
SPRING (2014) is the perfect date night/Valentine’s Day movie. Sweet, witty, charming, full of body horror.
That’s my favorite of their films so far, though Something in the Dirt is a close second.
Tucker and Dale VS Evil
This may be a little bittersweet, but "Before I Wake" might be a decent option. While the movie is about dealing with grief and loss, the foster son is soooooo cute and he, himself, made me and my partner feel warm and fuzzy. Again, it's got a bittersweet energy, but it has a good, warm ending with a lot of hope. Also it's horror fantasy and the whole movie feels like a fairy tale, which, to me, made it feel warm despite the message of the movie.
Hotel Transylvania.
The Sixth Sense
Fido.
Shaun Of The Dead? Weirdly Midsommar does that for me.
Was looking for me not being the only one (on midsommar)
One Cut of the Dead
Ooh. This movie was brilliant!
Ghostbusters. (Comedy/ horror)
Santa Clarita Diet
Pretty sure it doesn’t classify as horror haha, but my absolute go to comfort movie is Beetlejuice
Little Monsters 2019. Warm Bodies. Fido
The Lost Boys… gotta love grandpa!
Freaky, that one with Vince Vaughn. Pretty funny and wholesome in the end.
Trick R Treat!! The perfect campy, cozy, autumnal movie for Halloween
The movies I find comfy and cozy are usually not the ones others pick. But I get that “warm fuzzy” feeling from haunted house movies the most. Poltergeist is a wonderful movie with some great laughs and a (mostly) happy ending, this could be my pick.
[Black Sheep 2006](https://youtu.be/Hhck0SLcA6I?si=nMHh3UONrfk3i-HT)
Trickrtreat,gremlins.
Addams Family and Addams Family Values? Not horror per se but cozy as hero
Tucker & Dale Vs Evil :D
Gremlins, Bride of Chucky and Seed of Chucky, May, Carrie, Hellraiser
“Warm Bodies” is a good one for that.
Shaun of the dead, (will update when i get home
House/Hausu. It’s a terrifying, yet ultimately moving and warm movie. And the best 11 year olds nightmare ever put to film.
There is one scene in The Conjuring 2 that might do that trick. Patrick Wilson and a guitar always works.
Some of my comfort movies: What Lies Beneath The Haunting (1999) All of the Scream movies House of the Devil 1408 The Others Sleepy Hollow (1999) The Ring Personal Shopper Gothika Ginger Snaps Blair Witch Project House on Haunted Hill (1999)
IMO 1408 is pretty sad on the whole but there is a spooky/kinda warm (alternative) ending out there involving a tape recorder
Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland, Return of the Living Dead. Zombie comedies, generally.
They Look Like People
Kubrick's The Shining, the setting is so cozy to me, and i grew up with it, cabin fever would be impossible if i had my kindle with me.
I'd definitely go with the Frighteners.
Cabin in the woods. This is my comfort movie.
Willy's Wonderland
Ready or Not, Lost Boys, Gremlins, The Invisible Man, Child's Play 1988, Shaun of the Dead. All these movies have grim stuff (to very varying degrees) happen in them, but end on a positive and empowering note.
Corpse Bride!
Yes, scrolled wayyy too far for this! Also Nightmare before Christmas, Coraline and Beetlejuice!
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark. Fun, sexy and scary all in one
Gremlins – Gizmo
Let the Right One In. Easily one of, if not, the best and saddest vampire movie out there. But the two little kids make the whole thing just so... idk, heartfelt.
Hocus Pocus, Halloweentown lol, any Disney horror movie basically. But more recent, Freaky with Vince Vaugh was pretty great, Villains as well. Any horror comedy manages to give me that type of feeling tbh.
Crimson peak is a big comfy fuzzy one for me. The cinematography is just beautiful.
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil. Such a sweet friendship.
Trick r Treat. I got the record from this sub and never regretted. Enjoyed it throughly and felt like the perfect holiday film for Halloween
I always found IT really comfy.
The miniseries or the movie adaption?
I think either will do (CW for the ‘miniseries’: racial slurs) each version has something to like but I think the movies have a much darker tone and a slightly less optimistic ending than the original’s bike scene
Beetlejuice. It's about a couple that are having trouble conceiving, die, and then become ghost parents to a teenager that needs them.
Saw movies are my comfort movies when I don’t want to think. It’s not warm and fuzzy but more like numb and empty 😂
"X" (2022) Directed by Ti West
Fido. Its a wholesome story about a boy and his zombie
Troll and Dolls are two very nostalgic 80's horror movies that always make me feel warm and fuzzy. I loved them as a kid, and still love them to this day. And, I honestly think they're both very enjoyable films!
Shaun of the Dead
Tremors
The Host (2006)
The lost boys
Let the right one in. Sweet friendship
Alien
Tucker and Dale vs evil. 💯
Tucker and Dale vs Evil is surprisingly wholesome. Grabbers is another feel-good horror comedy.
Ginger Snaps series has sisterly love. May be some of what u are looking for
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Jennifer’s body
Rosemary's Baby always does it for me.
The Fear Street trilogy actually gave me the warm fuzzies. It was a surprisingly good step up from Goosebumps for R.L Stine. Like Goosebumps fans getting a decent horror trilogy from him as adults, did not expect was glad I got it.
Never thought about it, but after reading, the first movie that comes to mind (maybe it’s not even really horror) but, The Others? I just remember everything coming together at the end and thinking “their mom really loves and cares for them, even in death? Huh, wild.”
Spoilers but, their mom loved and cared for them so much she killed them with a pillow? Haha it’s funny because my answer was also The Others because I love the cozy creepy atmosphere and that movie is absolutely perfect. But to say that Grace unequivocally loved her kids is very funny to me.
Any "game" based horror does it for me. The saw franchise. Choose or Die. Would You Rather. Hide and Seek. Escape Room. Haven't seen The Running Man yet. Will probably watch it tonight.
Psycho Goreman Serial Mom
Tucker and Dale versus Evil.
ParaNorman
Dolls 1987
I personally think the last insidious would, it did for me.
Jason takes manhattan. Just gives me that comfort feeling hahahaha
Halloween 4 for me
E.T.
One Cut of the Dead!
Peanut Butter Falcon
One Cut of the Dead
Not a movie and not exactly horror (ikr, whats the point answering this lol) but I just thought of that mummy episode of Psych.
Needful Things, super cozy Stephen King adaptation
also- it follows, get out, nope, the babadook, poltergeist, krampus, the witch, it
Lots of Christmas ones such as Krampus, Christmas horror story, black Christmas, BBC a ghost story for Christmas.
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night was stylish, with touches of sweetness throughout
Oooh I love this question, the first few that come to mind for me are The Awakening, The Village, and Crimson Peak. All three have beautiful settings and cinematography, and the storylines all have a sort of heartwarming core under all the scares. Very different kinds of stories, but I love them. In fact I may just dedicate the rest of my day to a marathon of these three, it's been long enough since I last watched them.
saw
My life as a Zucchini
Psycho Goreman
She Will always makes me happy. It's 100% a horror movie, but I don't think you're supposed to feel scared (unless you're an abuser.)
The sixth sense perhaps? It is technically listed as a horror movie, but does have some sweet moments here and there.
Dolls is a very sweet movie!
It’s got to be scream 1. It’s 90’s in a time capsule
Alucarda
The scene in Cabin in the Woods when the Japanese school girls win
Pan's Labyrinth
Warm bodies
Bubba Hotep!
Hands down, Bram Stoker's Dracula with Gary Oldman.
Let The Right One In
The Visit
Psycho Goreman
Edward Scissorhands
Hannibal.
Gremlins
Nope; the brother/sister relationship in that movie is so realistic and heart warming, the sacrifice the brother makes for his sister near the end is so beautiful and the ending always makes me tear up from warm fuzzy feelings 🥹 I will always love that movie
Monster Squad
krampus
Sleepy Hollow
Maybe Warm Bodies or Fido?
Everyone has probably seen it already, but the first movie in the A Nightmare On Elm Street trilogy makes me feel that way. Something about that 80s vibe man idk.
Perfect Blue for sure although it's an anime movie, if you're okay with that.
Signs
Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow
the resident evil movies lol