I am a big horror movie buff...I'm looking for a good one to rent this weekend....Any recommendations?

Question

I like slasher films better than psychological thrillers but if I get a good recommendation I'll watch either.

Answer 1

well i would go for the classics
the shining is my frst option, and if you won't get scared you will surely enjoy excellent acting provided by mr jack nicholson
the exorcist of course... though it could strike you as funny along the way..(from this area we have "the exorcism of emily rose" but don't get that one it's not focused necesarily on the horror part)
and if you don't mind some cheesy horrors you could go for some nightmare on elm street first or second of the series, night of the living dead the original.. that kind of stuff
oh and then there are also a bunch of poltergeist flicks similar to the exorcist, but not even close to it

Answer 2

Films like Hostel (2006), Saw (2004), House of 1000 Corpses (2003), The Devil's Rejects and the Australian film Wolf Creek (2005), took their cue from The Last House on the Left (1972), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), and The Hills Have Eyes (1977). The latter two have also been remade: The Hills Have Eyes, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Other notorious examples are Audition (1999) and the Saw movies, which specialize in highly disturbing, art-directed, stylized violence.

There has been a return to the zombie genre in horror movies made after 2000. 28 Days Later... (2002) has been partially responsible for not just bringing zombies back into the forefront but also updating their overall attitude. Where they'd always been slow, lumbering creatures, in this film they became agile, filled with intelligence and rage (rage being the cause of their condition, contracted from infected monkeys), and postulated that coming into contact with just a drop of their blood could cause infection in 20 seconds. Because of this movie, an updated remake of Dawn of the Dead (2004) was made as well as Land of the Dead (2005) and even a spoof: the comedy-horror Shaun of the Dead (2004). More recently the popular video game franchise Silent Hill (2006) was given the big screen treatment and features an original storyline and a host of disturbing creatures that really set it apart from other recent horror films.

Answer 3

No horror movies like the Japanese horror movies. I do recommend "The Ring", both the original and the remake. No guts and blood baths and greasy zombies, very few visual scares, yet so suggestive that I had to sleep with the lights on 2 weeks afterwards.

Answer 4

Try chinese movie Dumplings. Ugh, it made my skin crawl. Just icky and creepy in a not-too-gory understated way. Very good film. You can find it in the "Three... Extremes" DVD. There are two versions of Dumplings. However, I haven't seen the full version. I've heard its more gruesome. I don't care too much for the other films featured in the DVD, but Dumplings is a MUST. I also like UK psychological thriller "The HOLE" with Keira Knightley. It got a low rating, but managed to freak me out.

Answer 5

The movies that have scared me the most are the Alien movies - if you've never seen them, I'd recommend the first two - gave me nightmares for years.

Answer 6

It may be dated, but the scariest one I have ever seen is called the entity-true story apparently. It took me years to sleep with the light off again.

Answer 7

if you want a really good ghost story, see if you can find The Uninvited, an old b&w Ray Milland film set on the English coastline..it's got it all!

Answer 8

i love the SAW movies...1,2 &3 all of thems are fantastic

Final Destination is the best I've saw...#2 is the best, then #1, then #3

Wrong Turn is also great

Answer 9

Saw, The omen

Answer 10

if you want to see a really scary movie then watch the descent unrated it scared the **** out of me go rent it