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Blair Witch Project is really good and, if you can find it, I'd also suggest Curse of the Blair Witch. That was a Sci Fi Channel Mockumentary ABOUT the first movie and people trying to find out if it was real or not. I know that sounds ridiculously stupid but it was really well done. This one might be an acquired taste, but I also really enjoyed The WNUF Halloween Special as a fun found footage flick. It's supposedly a broadcast of a local news channel's Halloween broadcast from a "Haunted' house. The real draw of this, to me, is a bunch of fake commercials that pop up during the broadcast. They're weird and funny and by the end of the movie they're helping to set the pace of the reveals and leave you on the edge of your seat waiting for the main show to come back. I know some people hated this movie, though.
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kntfkr posted:Suspiria, Hereditary, Rosemary's Baby, Possession, It Follows, The Wicker Man (70's) Suspiria is one of my favourite movies ever, it's a lot of fun and goddamn is it beautiful
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Traxis posted:I want to see a director fully commit to the found footage gimmick and film an entire movie and then leave it to be discovered in a random basement or storage unit. This is more likely than you might think. There is a long version of The Wicker Man out there somewhere - the orginal with Cristopher Lee. Apparently a lot of film reels got used as landfill under the M3 motorway in Britain. Here's a pretty long article about it: https://www.steve-p.org/wm/ I'll just copy and paste footnote 5 here. quote:Much rubbish has been spoken, and multiple half-cocked theories have been put forward regarding the supposed unexplained disapperance of film elements of The Wicker Man, relating to both the Long Version of the film and out-takes that went unused in any version.
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i thought hereditary was terrifying towards the end big fan of VHS/VHS2 though there's probably some jump scares in some of those
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Aardvark! posted:i thought hereditary was terrifying towards the end That VHS short with the sex offender prank bros is great
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Someone mentioned Tale of Two Sisters and I wanna second that. It’s beautiful and creepy, might have a jump scare or two but doesn’t depend on it. I loved it without even understanding the story very well. When I watched some dvd extras with the director he explained something I never would have guessed and I loved the movie even more in retrospect.
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•REC is a really claustrophobic nervous film worth a watch, and the American remake Quarantine isn’t too bad, either... except for the fact that the ending is spoiled on the movie poster 
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REC is superb but it definitely has jump scares. Just a solidly crafted horror movie.
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One not mentioned: John Carpenter's The Fog
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A Fancy Hat posted:Blair Witch Project is really good and, if you can find it, I'd also suggest Curse of the Blair Witch. That was a Sci Fi Channel Mockumentary ABOUT the first movie and people trying to find out if it was real or not. I know that sounds ridiculously stupid but it was really well done. Curse of the Blair Witch was kind of a precursor to viral marketing. And before the movie came out people did think it was real so a documentary about the lore and the town coming out ahead of the movie helped sell that illusion. That made the movie hit much harder as a 13 year old when that came out. It's probably still cool to watch but I have no idea how that will work outside of its original context. A lot of people really were convinced the movie was real until the actors started going on talk shows after it blew up. Have you seen Ghostwatch? I've never seen WNUF but the premise sounds similar. It was a BBC broadcast where a news crew investigated a haunted house. It ended up causing a War of the Worlds type reaction because they used actual tv personalities. Cool stuff. Ghostwatch is also a good entry for this thread in general.
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I don't remember VVITCH having jumpscares but I do remember it doing a great job of selling distress and emotional breakdown and it also has a cool goat
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Traxis posted:I want to see a director fully commit to the found footage gimmick and film an entire movie and then leave it to be discovered in a random basement or storage unit. The problem with doing this, is you completely lose all copyright. Some directors have considered this, for example Harmony Korine wanted to release Trash Humpers as VHS tapes left in random locations and video stores, but the loss of copyright was too much.
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Its aged a bit now but there was this TV movie which aired in the UK in the 90s called Ghostwatch. I still maintain it’s one of the scariest films I’ve ever seen. The movie was shown on Halloween night 1992 and was presented and marketed as a live on air investigation into a haunted house. Like they actually pretended it wasn’t a movie and was in fact just some family friendly reality tv thing and they even got a few UK TV personalities in to play themselves to really sell it. Except the investigation ends up getting out of hand when the ghost turns out to be both real and extremely violent. There’s also sections set in a studio where the public were calling in reacting to what they were seeing plus some other things I won’t spoil. Again this was all fake too but presented as real. It came out before things like Blair Witch and such made found footage type movies well known so at the time it was very effective. The fact that its set in a normal British house not unlike the one most people watching would have been living in made the whole thing scarier too. If you can find the movie anywhere I recommend it. Its not that hard to find legally to say its a 30 year old TV movie.
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Cloverfield Lane really owns and it's the only good thing about the whole "franchise"
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You Are A Elf posted:The Serpent & the Rainbow (1988) Both of these are great! Also, yeah Martyrs is bonkers and will probably stick with ya for a while I haven't seen it, but Frontieres is similar I think
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Wizchine posted:One not mentioned: John Carpenter's The Fog Agreed. This is my favourite one of his SilvergunSuperman posted:Suspiria is one of my favourite movies ever, it's a lot of fun and goddamn is it beautiful Suspiria is one of my favourite movies too. The remake is also pretty good but a very different movie, but that works for it because it doesn’t try to replicate the style original its just its own thing You Are A Elf posted:The Serpent & the Rainbow (1988) I need to watch this again. I also watched it young but the only thing that stuck with me is the nail through the balls I’m sure theres more to the movie than just that
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Triangle is a really creepy little movie that never gets enough love when people talk about horror movies. YellowBrickRoad might be good. I honestly don't remember if most of the movie is absolute garbage but there are a few scenes that are extremely eerie.
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Funky See Funky Do posted:Triangle is a really creepy little movie that never gets enough love when people talk about horror movies. Hell yeah, Triangle is really good!
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Colonel Cancer posted:Cloverfield Lane really owns Nthing The Ring, both the Japanese version and the American one. I definitely recall there being some jump scares but overall the atmosphere in those movies is creepy and unnerving.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vR9WiqXnnk The Fly
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The Exorcist is not just the best horror movie ever made but one of the best movies in general.
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Pumpkinhead also has a lot of atmosphere.
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Turpitude posted:The best one is We Need to Talk About Kevin, masterfully made horror film. This just sounds like misery porn, glad I read the wiki and didn't watch it. There's another movie I forget the name of, the first hour or so is just misery porn, it's awful, but at the end there's a payoff and denoument and you get some sweet, sweet, devil action. Hereditary! yeah, first chunk of that movie thoroughly unenjoyable. This Kevin movie sounds like there's no payoff. Yeah, it's horrifying but in a lot of ways that's even cheaper than jump scares. anyone can create a 50 car pile-up of miserable events or find a horrible biography of some monster to copy. Frank West's wikipedia was so horrifying I couldn't finish reading it and someone could make a "horror" movie out of those events but it'd just be deeply unpleasant start to finish.
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There are a couple things you might call jump scares in Cube but that's not why it is what it is Which is good
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I think there's a difference between a movie having one or two jump scares and a movie that uses them heavily enough where it relies on them. Chrs posted:Its aged a bit now but there was this TV movie which aired in the UK in the 90s called Ghostwatch. I still maintain it’s one of the scariest films I’ve ever seen. I mentioned this already but mentioning it twice (now three times!) is good because people should watch it.
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kazr posted:The Ritual Ooh, yeah! The Ritual was really good! I put it on as background video while I worked and ended up being too distracted to work. The creature design is superb. Also backing up both versions of The Ring and the new Suspiria. I appreciate the old one, but it is very much Italian horror. The new one is more in line with the atmospheric horror OP's after. And a weird rec, but I enjoyed American Zombie. It's a mockumentary about humans and zombies living together and going to Zombie Burning Man. It's funny and strange, but there's this distinct feeling of being in a room with a dangerous animal while the movie explores how zombies are fighting against that bias.
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This movie called Ritual from Indonesia is good too. Don't read anything about it more than the IMDB synopsis. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2182019/?ref_=tt_sims_tt_t_1
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Nth'ing Ghostwatch as well. That's a fun one to watch, then watch again and realize you missed a lot of creepy background details the first time. Also nth'ing The Fog. I used to think this was a boring movie, but I watched it last Halloween and it really clicked. Maybe it was because the isolation of that small town hit a lot harder or something, but I really enjoyed it. The soundtrack is, of course, completely awesome, too. Another fairly recent one I've seen on Shudder - Train to Busan. I think there's one jump scare, though. But it's so good, even coming as someone who's pretty sick of zombie movies (and especially fast zombies).
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The greatest horror movie of all time is John Carpenter's The Thing. It has a few jump scares (including the best jump scare in history, do not read this spoiler if you haven't seen the movie that loving blood shrieking and jumping out of the dish, I know it's coming and I still flinch every time) but the main selling point to me has always been the dread and isolation and creeping understanding of the stakes they are playing for. There's no help coming, you're up against something you don't understand at all, it's incredibly lethal, you have almost no tools to deal with it, and you're located somewhere just being outside for a few minutes can be deadly. It's just complete loving horror perfection in every way and if there are humans in a thousand years people are still going to be praising it to the heavens. Also if you haven't seen it don't look anything at all up about it and just go in completely blind. Ah, I am so jealous of people who haven't seen The Thing. John Carpenter has such sights to show you.
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My favorite, favorite scene in The Thing is when they go to talk to Wilford Brimley and that goddamn noose is hanging between them and no one breathes a word about it. What a loving amazing scene, holy poo poo!
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Block Island Sound is a pretty low budget movie that came out last year, I don't know if you can really call it horror as opposed to suspense but it definitely built and awesome atmosphere. Just don't read the synopsis, if you know the ending it will likely ruin it for you.
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A Fancy Hat posted:Also nth'ing The Fog. I used to think this was a boring movie, but I watched it last Halloween and it really clicked. Maybe it was because the isolation of that small town hit a lot harder or something, but I really enjoyed it. The soundtrack is, of course, completely awesome, too.  I first saw The Fog as a cynical young teenager and thought it wasn’t bad, but wasn’t very good, either. Just forgettable. I watched it again recently and it’s just sooo enjoyable and well crafted. The first appearance with the fisherman seeing the dilapidated Elizabeth Dane sail by and hearing the anchor drop while they call out to black figures in the mist might be one of the best build-ups to a kill ever put to film. It’s absolutely brutal. Re: OG Suspiria: it’s good, Das Boo posted:but it is very much Italian horror. The second film, Inferno, was such a loving chore to get through that I don’t even remember the last half of it. I mean, it moved at a snail’s pace and I just kind of checked out. Should I give it another chance, and should I finish the Three Mothers trilogy by watching Mother of Tears?
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I forgot about The Ritual somehow when its probably my favorite horror movie!! Seriously if you haven't seen The Ritual its really, really good
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On the whole, I do not like Italian horror movies. Movies like Zombi or The Beyond do nothing for me. And I know a lot of people enjoy Night of the Demons but I just find it gross and unpleasant to watch. That said, I absolutely love Suspiria and Tenebrae. Deep Red is also fun, but not quite on that level for me. And Phenomena is worth a watch, even though I still don't know if I'd consider it a good movie. That said, it's the only movie I can recall where Donald Pleasance has a helper chimp and where that same chimp stops the killer at the end to get justice for Donald Pleasance so I absolutely suggest watching it just for that. But I do suggest dipping your toe into Italian horror because it might be your thing, a lot of people love these things.
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Has anyone said the evening news yet?
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Pontypool was a pretty good zombie movie with an unique way of transmission.
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You Are A Elf posted:The second film, Inferno, was such a loving chore to get through that I don’t even remember the last half of it. I mean, it moved at a snail’s pace and I just kind of checked out. Should I give it another chance, and should I finish the Three Mothers trilogy by watching Mother of Tears? Inferno is kinda dull from what I remember. I’ve seen it twice and also couldn’t tell you what happens in it. Might as well give it another try. Mother of Tears however is an absolute poo poo pile.
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