Hello /x/. Please take a moment out of your day to stop being insane and answer one simple question. What do you think is the best horror film of all time? Note I don't actually think it's The Exorcist.
>>17512484
I think it's pic related. It's not strictly a horror movie and has a fantastic sense of dark humor, but the way it presented its material really stuck with me.
>>17512511
I like that film too and I do believe that is a horror. It's about a sociopath who pretends to be normal and kills people when he can get away with it. The horrifying part is at the end when we discover he can get away with it just fine. Don't think it's the best horror film of all time though.
>>17512572
I felt American Psycho was more about Bateman's futile efforts to stand out and break away from his world of meaningless consumerism where he and his contemporaries were so caught up in being fashionable, wearing the right things, doing the right things, and being in the right places that not even his closest friends could tell him apart from another in his group. The horrifying thing wasn't that he could get away with these crimes, it was that try as he might, he couldn't NOT get away with them. Possibly this was clearer from reading the novel than it was watching the movie.
It Follows or Lake Mungo.
I'm joking.
Or am I..?
The Thing
>>17512614
The real question is did Bateman even do all the shit he says he did? He's the classic unreliable narrator - it's more prominent in the book but the movie touches on it too.
Maniac (1980)
I wouldn't call it horror, it's more of a slasher that has some pretty suspenseful moments.
Probably one of my favorite slasher movies
The Thing, easily.
The Exorcist
>>17512618
I love both of those
>>17513661
Seconded.
>>17512484
The Thing for sure. Nothing is scarier than the concept of that alien.
I agree, The Thing is great. Texas Chainsaw Massacre is good too. The original one.
Hard question. I'll admit I'm not that familiar with the classics of the genre, but my two cents regarding a few more "experimental" movies I think are worthwhile.
The Blair Witch Project (I know, it isn't groundbreaking now but it was when it came out) is maybe the most Lovecraftian and "philosophical" horror movie I've ever seen. The Witch as the Kantian Thing-in-Itself that we surround and wrap in tales and fragmentary accounts, the narrative noumenon becoming (hyper)reality and our lives being affected by our inventions - it really is an astounding movie, even on the technical side of things: it reminds me of Mekas's experimentation, or more generally the more autobiographical side of the New American Cinema.
Another mandatory pick is I Can See You, maybe one of the most lysergic horror films I've ever seen (well, excluding maybe Begotten and Pop Skull), one that manages to both unnerve and amaze. Few other movies, I think, managed to capture the uncanny that is so fundamental in contemporary horror.
Gvozdi (NAILS) by Iskanov is maybe more of a divertissement than a real GOAT, but it's cheesy and violent and edgy in the best possible way - I don't think I've ever seen a post-2000 movie so true to the diy ethics of real underground horror.
Tetsuo: The Iron Man, while not being purely an horror, has managed to make everybody I've watched it with squirm and writhe on their seats; plus, it's a joy for the eye, only comparable to Electric Dragon 80.000v.
Last (because I can't keep going ad infinitum) I'll say Uzumaki. While being more of a comedy than anything else, I still feel like this side of horror should be represented: the campiness, the ridicolousness, the inherent absurdity of body horror. If you liked it, I recommend checking out the original manga, as well as Junji Ito's other stuff (especially Gyo).
Maybe not the best, but the first two REC movies were amazing. I could see something like that actually happening as far as the government giving you the big fuck off and locking you in with some sketchy shit. REC 1 also handled the religious side of the story well. It didn't feel forced, and the history of Madeiros was legitimately creepy.
Also, The Exorcist. It's the vanilla answer, but few movies have that unsettling reality to them without using a found footage style or relying on the false true story statements.
Alien.
>>17515006
Just adding two other movies real quick:
The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears is perhaps the greatest Giallo movie to ever come into being, and bar none THE MOST visceral film I've ever seen, cinematography- and photography-wise. You can feel the cardiac rhytm of colors, the schizoid rupture of logic and perspective - I yearn for a "true" horror director to be inspired by this masterpiece.
The Nightmare, while getting a lot of flak on here for its religious-spiritual take on Sleep Paralysis (which, I agree, it's an act of extreme theleological incorrectness by the director[s]), still manages to be one of the most interesting horror movies of the last couple years, especially for its metafilmic qualities (which tie incredibly well into the whole "multidimensional" subtext, could go on about this forever) and the reappropriation of external footage - the legacy of Debord and its detournement, it just occured to me, and it makes me love it even more.
as above so below/ it was the scariest in terms of cheap jump scare(which can be fun.) But the themes that it had, and the sure insanity of some of thee situations just made it amazing to me.
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>>17514955
Based. The Thing is my favorite movie of all time.
The pacing is perfect, I watch it at least twice a year and it still puts me on the edge of my seat.
Stake Land is pretty good, it's about a post-apocalyptic America where vampires roam free and a few pockets of humans survive. It follows a group as they try and survive and make it to a safe area further north where less people live due to the cold.
Apart from the final twenty minutes it's a really good film and worth a watch.
>>17513661
This guy knows what he is talking about.
It is not hands that summon us. It is desire.
Hellraiser2 is god tier as well.
>>17512484
>one simple question
>simple
well someone's new here
apart from the fact that none of us can even agree on the meaning of the word "best". Go on, try. Get back to me when you've all figured that one out.
>>17512618
I really liked Lake Mungo although not strictly as a horror movie.
I haven't watched a horror movie in a while, but the last one that I watched, The Conjuring, was really fucking good. Would love to watch it again.
I give it a 10/10.
is the exorcist really THAT scary? i've never seen it, but every person i talked to about it was either fucking traumatized by it or found it boring.
could you fellow /x/ gentlemen give me a honest opinion?
>>17515462
At the time it probably was, but for our generation and culture, I think you'd have to be hyper religious to even come close to being truly scared of it.
Definitely creepy though, at least on some level.
>>17512484
I'm surprised nobody's said the original Halloween. I've always considered that to be the epitome of primal fear. Something completely and utterly human, and yet completely and utterly not. Unkillable darkness in the form of a man. It combines our fear of humanity's own dark nature and potential, but takes it so far that it's practically Lovecraftian in its sense of hopelessness, mystery, and motives that go beyond our comprehension.
My favourite horror movie is 'A Tale of Two Sisters'. If you haven't seen it, and don't mind subtitles, then it's the one movie I'd recommend everyone to see.
It's a masterpiece. The twists and ending left me stunned. I had to watch it twice before I even fully realised the 2nd, and most haunting, twist.
It's not scary at all imo.
>>17515516
k, thanks i'll check it out
The Witch was fucking badass. One of the only horror movies that actually scared me in days afters seeing it.
Begotten.
not sure it's horror... not really sure what it is. best i can come up with is it's a bad trip full of very disturbing imagery.
>>17513661
/thread
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
Pretty fucking freaky
>>17513661
Agreed
>>17512618
It Follows was complete shit,
My experience watching
>wtf this makes no sense
>ok std
>creepy shit appears
>pretty dank, spooky,
>brief moment of actual horror stops after playground scence
>killing paranormal entity in a pool with toasters?
>end
>disappoint
>1/10
>>17513661
the 2011 or 1980s version?
Suspiria
not very spoopy by today's standards but still a very good film
>>17516942
Are you retarded?
>>17516960
i haven't seen either. what one is better?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG_bMvPbaeE
Audition
>>17512484
Probably The Exorcist.
Either that or the original Amityville Horror.
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>>17512614
He didnt actually do the murders. Some of the stuff actually happened, but most of it didnt. He didnt kill Paul Allen or have that crazy shootout at the end. It was just about him being crazy and just thinking about killing everyone. That becomes clear when he talks to his lawyer in the final scene. The main story of all the real shit that happens is mixed in with the fantasy in his head.
Great, great movie. One of my personal favorites.
I remember watching the newer House on Haunted Hill and being scared. I watched it recenty and it isnt actually that scary.
The best horror movie to me, the one I can watch over and over and its still kinda scary and a great fuckin movie is the Shining.
Hocus Pocus
>>17517029
7/10
Would watch on Halloween. Its weird to think Sarah Jessica Parker played the hot witch.
>>17517045
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEYgyWC_BpM
>>17515055
That one was ok, the idea of dying in the catacombs right under people who are goung about their daily lives is also weird for me to think about
>>17515554
Check out the Japanese versions of Kairo and Dark Water. You'll like them if you like this.
>>17513670
Author confirmed he did actually murder.
>>17516965
John Carpenter's "The Thing". The 2011 prequel/sequel/remake/whatever it was, is trash.
>>17515016
My nigga.
>>17513661
Can't go wrong with that.
>>17515767
Pretty meh to me with an over reliance on gore.
>>17517011
The exorcist was good. And Amityville horror was too.
>>17517766
The ending is about how Bateman was an elitist in a cabal watching over him and he's unaware of it. Identifying the cabal (hidden organization) is out of the question and left for the reader to figure out.
The question is, what cult (cabal) remains inherently all powerful to the degree that it can cover up murders and reduce blow back of any kind?
>illuminatius triliogy RAW
also, Event Fucking Horizon
>>17515421
Lake Mungo isn't really a horror film.
It's more of a psychological scarring drama.
There's one jump scare in the entire film
>>17515516
That's amusing because the demon in the exorcist isn't even from the christian religion.
He's some weird African demon
>>17515460
Really? Obvious troll is obvious m8
>>17513661
Solid choice.
Humor, setting, plot, good characters and awesome special effects
>>17515006
Uzumaki was a terrible adaptation, and even on its own merits, it's still a boring movie.
If you want a campy, ridiculous body horror movie, then watch Tusk.
So, speaking of The Thing, was Childs a thing at the end of the movie?
and another question, at the end, Dr Blair was a thing, but how long had he been one?
He was locked up, and there was no traces of anything entering, so was he actually a thing when he was locked inside that room?
If he was, then how come he went mental, trying to stop everyone from getting away from the base?
>>17518372
Sumerian Demon m8, it's Pazuzu
>>17513661
Most overrated horror movie on 4chan
>>17518644
Maybe. Still really good though.
>>17517070
this was exactly the only scary thing about that movie. the rest was just bullshit in its truest term.
The Grifter
If you can stomach it. It gets pretty sick, but it's a classic film.
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>>17512484
A Tale of Two Sisters, no doubt. In fact, I think it's one of the greatest films of all time.
>pic related, maybe
>>17518717
dunno about that, watched it the first time and I had about the same opinion as you, watched it the second and third time and it was yawn-fest each time. Best horror films don't age like that IMO
>>17518366
jump scares don't define a horror film
>>17513661
The Thing is a masterpiece
>>17515554
>>17518717
These guys know.
[spoilers]
The whole movie is warped. The girl is home alone with her grieving father for the entire film. There is no evil step mum, or little sister. It's all in her head. A hallucination. Rewatching it makes the movie seem sadder imo. Her father is going through hell watching his daughter decend into madness, yet the audience is made to hate the bumbling fool.
Fucking masterpiece.
Thankfully, the american remake went unseen by everyone.
Session 9
>>17512484
Bubba Ho Tep,bruce cambell rocks!!!
>>17515554
this is a good movie.
But Kim Jiwun's name is romanized impropely
>>17518527
Dr. Blair wasn't a Thing, he just knew about the possibility of the Thing spreading across the world and destroying humanity. He knew he had to do the hardest thing and that was to permanently quarantine the base from the rest of the world.
Scream
>>17519094
I get that, but at the very end, when they go into the room he's locked in, they find a tunnel under it, leading to a homemade UFO or something
Then he shows up and kills some of them before his body distorts in fucky ways like all the things did
But if he was a thing then, that means he was a thing when he was locked up
So i'm thinking maybe Blair-thing checked the computer to learn the potential it had on this planet, and when it realized it was feasible, he decided to cut off all contact with the outside world, so the humans couldn't warn others before he killed them all
I realize i may be reaching, but he -was- a thing at the end, and there were no traces of anything breaking in there
>>17519134
no but seriously
>>17519134
The remake is so much better than the original.
>>17519100
yaaaas
>>17517120
awesome movie, but i wouldn't consider it to be an horror
it's more of a thriller
>>17512484
BEST HORROR FILMS OF ALL TIME IN NO ORDER:
THE THING
JACOB'S LADDER
ERASERHEAD
NOROI
and The VVitch is the best horror movie in the past ten years.
prove me wrong faggots
>>17519437
Anyone knows why there aren't any streams for The Witch? I mean, it's strange.
>>17519597
It isn't out on dvd yet
>>17519616
OK, makes sense. Thanks.
>>17519631
Yeah it just left theaters.
>>17518644
I agree completely, actually found it hard to not do other shit because of boredom.
>>17519311
The remake was shit though.
>>17519100
Nigger are you trolling? Scream is a deliberate parody of slasher movies.
>>17519437
ErasureHead isn't horror....epic Lynch....but not horror....
>>17519843
it's a movie designed to be scary, don't be such a pretentious faggot if you cannot even write.
>>17519848
What. Not him, but it definitely wasn't designed to be scary.
NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET
Why the fuck has no one said this. Do you know how many people were scared to sleep when this first came out? It had the same effect jaws did with beach goers. Some people are adults and are still scared of freddy.
>>17518527
Childs was the thing. John carpenter has confirmed it
Phantasm
Night of the Living Dead
Horror can be funny too, so Shaun of the Dead
>>17519930
At the time it was THE scariest shit ever made. Have you re-watched it recently? It's lost it's mojo senpai. It's almost a horror comedy, something I never realised as a shit-scared 10 year old.
Stephen Kings "IT" was far scarier imo. I literally almost pissed my 11 year old self after watching it because I refused to go to the toilet alone. I re-watched it recently and it wasn't scary at all.
Some shit don't age well. Films like "The Shining", or "The Thing" seem to stay scary regrdless of their age.
>>17520084
"The Poltergeist"was scary as fuck back then.
>Pet Cemetery
>Society
>Candyman
>Silence of the Lambs
>>17516906
>can't make sense of it
>no CGIs
>stylized movies make me herp
>can't appreciate new concepts
go kill yrself anon
>>17519819
you playin, Doofy?
>>17515462
the movie itself never scared me, but when the screamer videos were going around one of them used the little girl demon's face and that shit stuck with me for months.
Rosemary's Baby, anyone?
>>17516906
>>17520521
Sucked. They didn't even show the fucking baby.
>>17520618
>being this much of an ADD underage faggot
Jacobs ladder
>>17520521
are you a woman? that movie is awful
>>17512511
checked
>>17516906
I agree it was pretty awful.
>>17517024
>He didnt actually do the murders
that's really more your opinion, as the movie's ending is supposed to be open-ended. for example, the apartment he uses to murder people/store bodies is up for rent but there are also flower arrangements everywhere, a trick real estate agents use to cover up foul smells (such as dead bodies). etc etc
>>17512484
I came into this thread to post the thing but it looks like all of 4chainz beat me to it. The fly with jurassic park guy is pretty fucking insane
>>17516985
Damn just finished watching this one and it was really good.
>>17520618
>being this underage
>>17519913
(not him) maybe not scary, but it was surely designed to be disquieting
>>17515006
>divertissement
Don't let me catch you using this word again anywhere on 4chan or we're gonna have a problem.
The only correct answer to OPs post is obviously The Exorcist or secondarily, Jaws. Everything else is subjective and incorrect.
>>17515604
The one that came out this year ? I found that to be more like a drama/mystery about religion/folklore. Not saying it's a bad movie tho.
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>>17517854
etc...
For any of you who are not aware, there exists a short story called "The Things" by Peter Watts that describes the events of The Thing from the alien's perspective.
It's probably the best short story I've ever read.
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/
>>17512484
THE HITCHER,is a top film.
Dreamaniac
>>17519437
Eraserhead isn't horror. Just very unsettling
>>17512511
Holy fuck
>checked
>>17512484
The Texas chainsaw massacre
>>17520084
I have all of them. I fucking love them.
>>17515414
Just so you're aware, you're a fucking enormous faggot. Reconsider your life.
>>17512511
Checking those sexual dubs.
>>17518667
what movie?
>>17523197
What exactly is wrong with my use of the word.
Saw The Babadook recently. It was pretty decent. Also if you like nore realistic horror, i though The Visit was great
>>17515767
Basically a horror comedy, not a scary film
Pic related is one of my favorites. Also Jacobs ladder, and gozu
>>17525844
Check'd
>>17526448
The real horror in The Babadook was how annoying the children in the movie were.
>>17520105
yeah, i love Pet Sematary. But the zombie baby was too adorable to be afraid of.
>>17521701
>Jurassic Park Guy
this guy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYAguOfDjmo
Tetsou the Iron Man is really creepy and graphic
Just watched "Don't Deliver Us Fron Evil" which is an older film about two girls who pledge allegiance to Satan and commit many sins. Really interesting
>pic related
>>17518398
what's wrong with the conjuring?
