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re: How would you organize a major horror movie list? (UPDATE end of page 1)
Posted on 9/22/24 at 6:20 pm to SlowFlowPro
Posted on 9/22/24 at 6:20 pm to SlowFlowPro
Jfc,
How much adderall you take today?
How much adderall you take today?
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Posted on 9/22/24 at 6:49 pm to CovingtonTigre
None, why?
Posted on 9/22/24 at 7:18 pm to SlowFlowPro
Aliright I’m gonna play the game. Not arguing just asking for understanding sakes.
Isn’t Giallo just basically “foreign slasher”?
I disagree with a millennial category. Might as well have a decade category. If you want to make a young/old or nostalgia vs new is better category.
Ps pleas don’t put the menu in this list. It’s not a horror. It’s a thriller.
Isn’t Giallo just basically “foreign slasher”?
I disagree with a millennial category. Might as well have a decade category. If you want to make a young/old or nostalgia vs new is better category.
Ps pleas don’t put the menu in this list. It’s not a horror. It’s a thriller.
Posted on 9/22/24 at 7:38 pm to CovingtonTigre
quote:
Isn’t Giallo just basically “foreign slasher”?
Not quite. It's more hyper-stylized, Italian crime-thrillers, typically, but Suspiria is Giallo and it's paranormal/witch all the way.
And you have the crime-thriller issue. The 2 easiest non-Giallo examples I can think of are Seven and Silence of the Lambs (Spoiler: both are making that subgenre). The same "where is the line?" with the crime-thriller subgenre applies to a lot of crime-based Giallo movies.
quote:
I disagree with a millennial category. Might as well have a decade category. I
I don't know a decade that has the same issues/banality as the millennial era. It was a very bad era for horror (in America at least, but then America just started ripping of J-horror to fill the void).
There is a specific style to the Kevin Williamson derivative, style horror that followed Scream.
quote:
Ps pleas don’t put the menu in this list. It’s not a horror. It’s a thriller.
It would only make elevated horror anyway, which is going to have a lot of those sorts of movies in it.
Posted on 9/22/24 at 7:52 pm to SlowFlowPro
Posted on 10/3/24 at 1:14 pm to SlowFlowPro
Since Cokes called me out...
The aim of this project is to create a reference point for horror movies for this board. I am going to try to sort horror movies into two different listings. The first will be by genre and the second will be by style. The point of this list/project is to be able to update over time. I plan on dedicating a page to each genre and each style. Hopefully that gives plenty of characters to keep this updated in the future. If I get froggy I may include links to previous threads on here discussing each movie.
Genres organization becomes problematic because so many horror movies are multi-genre, especially when science fiction is involved. I am curating the list (and can edit the list in the future based on commentary) so I’m picking the genre and subgenre I feel most represents the movie. I plan on giving mini-reviews of some of the listed movies, and I hope to include other possible genres into which the movie could fall. I obviously can’t do this for every movie (I haven’t even seen all of the movies on this list). Each genre will get a MISC/Potpourri grouping for movies that are too unique to fit in one specific subgenre.
The second listing will be by horror style. Style is more focused on how the story is presented which permits lots of genre-mixing. For instance, genres found in Giallo range from standard crime thrillers all the way to extreme supernatural (Suspiria). Found footage basically can apply across the board as well. In addition to the presentation style, there may be a certain style for an era (like Millennial horror).
Lastly, I will do my best to put movies into genres that do not spoil any climactic reveals, so if you see a movie with a spoilerific resolution in a genre that you wouldn’t initially associate with it, that’s why. When commenting/discussing, please be mindful of spoilers and give clear spoiler warning when anywhere close to discussing them.
The aim of this project is to create a reference point for horror movies for this board. I am going to try to sort horror movies into two different listings. The first will be by genre and the second will be by style. The point of this list/project is to be able to update over time. I plan on dedicating a page to each genre and each style. Hopefully that gives plenty of characters to keep this updated in the future. If I get froggy I may include links to previous threads on here discussing each movie.
Genres organization becomes problematic because so many horror movies are multi-genre, especially when science fiction is involved. I am curating the list (and can edit the list in the future based on commentary) so I’m picking the genre and subgenre I feel most represents the movie. I plan on giving mini-reviews of some of the listed movies, and I hope to include other possible genres into which the movie could fall. I obviously can’t do this for every movie (I haven’t even seen all of the movies on this list). Each genre will get a MISC/Potpourri grouping for movies that are too unique to fit in one specific subgenre.
The second listing will be by horror style. Style is more focused on how the story is presented which permits lots of genre-mixing. For instance, genres found in Giallo range from standard crime thrillers all the way to extreme supernatural (Suspiria). Found footage basically can apply across the board as well. In addition to the presentation style, there may be a certain style for an era (like Millennial horror).
Lastly, I will do my best to put movies into genres that do not spoil any climactic reveals, so if you see a movie with a spoilerific resolution in a genre that you wouldn’t initially associate with it, that’s why. When commenting/discussing, please be mindful of spoilers and give clear spoiler warning when anywhere close to discussing them.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 1:15 pm to SlowFlowPro
b]HORROR GENRES[/b]
Psychological
Psychological horror focuses on mental and emotional states.. They range from internal topics like phobias and madness, all the way to home invasion. This is a “low distraction, must focus” style, so the viewer can fully buy into the output.
Madness:Your protagonist is either going to lose its mind or will be terrorized by someone losing their mind.
Survival :Typically in a home,alone, or a small group. The distinction between the survival and the Killer genres is the focus being on the stalking of the protagonist(s) more than any direct threat/kill. The killer is often masked and not revealed until the climax (if revealed at all).
Body Horror: Synonymous with David Cronenberg, this genre focuses on violation of the human body. Mutation, transformation, destruction, and/or degeneration of the body are common. Body horror focuses on the internal impacts of the violation, while the viral subgenre focuses on the outward threats by the infection.
Isolation: The protagonist is alone in a terrible situation and the cost to survive will be great. Typically set in a natural setting.
Killers
The killer genre focuses on a human(ish) killer and human victims. This genre has the largest gap in quality. Some of the most iconic and best horror movies of all time are in this genre, as well as most of the worst horror movies of all time. Slashers exploded in the 80s with VCRs, which led to an insane demand for constant content, which explains this gap. By the 90s, this had become more refined until Scream went meta on the genre and it never really returned to its roots outside of some nice entries.
Slashers: There is a maniac on the loose and it is killing people. The focus is often on the creativity in how your victims (often teenagers) can be killed. Another common meme is multiple sequels for the successful first entry.
Crime-Thriller : There is a fine line when a crime thriller becomes a horror movie, and noo ne is particularly good at defining this line. There will be an investigation (typically police) of killings which may lead to questions of supernatural causes. Serial killers are typical. Unlike other movies in the genre, the focus is on the investigation, and often the horror emerges from the toll of the investigation (overlapping with psychological horror).
Backwoods: A subgenre of the slasher film but set in remote, wooded areas, triggering our fears of isolated and downtrodden rural populations.
Science Fiction
Sci-fi horror may be the most fruitful genre of horror following the 80s slasher era. The vast canvas that sci-fi permits allows venturing into all sorts of other genres, with no real limits on what threats/terrors can be created. Some of the most celebrated horror movies of all time fall in this genre.
Space Horror: Your typical horror movie, but in space. The blend typically involves aliens, isolation, and psychological horror. Your setting will be in a spaceship or a planet that is not Earth.
Infections: The threat is a pathogen. The effects vary, from full on zombie-style takeover to a malevolent outside force controlling or replacing humanity. Let the great 28 days later debate begin.
Aliens (and invasions): Aliens on earth, whether it be a small incident or with a full-scale invasion as the threat. Will often involve survival, action, and monster tropes.
Monsters
A completely traditional genre that is self-explanatory. Humans are threatened by non-humans. Those non-humans range from normal animals to undead creatures to 400-foot tall mutations that can destroy a city.
Vampires: Vampire-based horror is one of the oldest and expansive genres in horror. Undead creatures who rely on the life force of normal humans to survive. The rules change with each work, but sunlight is typically a threat.
Werewolves: Lycanthropy is a horror that has existed since at least Ancient Greece, however the number of quality movies is relatively sparse compared to other monster subgenres.
Zombies: Until Night of the Living Dead, zombie films were typically constrained to a Caribbean setting and voodoo being applied on unsuspecting victims. After NOTLD, the genre changed to unstoppable hoards of the undead, in various iterations.
Giants/Kaiju : Godzilla. King Kong. Big monsters. Don’t complicate things.
Animals/Nature: Lions, tigers, and bears…and sharks, birds, frogs, sloths…The threats in these movies must be real animals and they must be attacking humans.
Atmospheric
Atmospheric horror would be a subgenre of psychological horror, if not for the vast sub-content within the genre. The setting is paramount, as well as the hidden malevolence (which is often not revealed until the climax). In these movies, the danger is real and external, while in psychological horror, that horror is more internal to the character.
Gothic : The gothic genre is very difficult to define in words, because so much of the style involves heavy reliance on a specific atmosphere. Traditional gothic content will be set in the 18th or 19th century at European estates or castles, with on loss, grief, repression, revenge, and decay (social and personal) driving the story.
Folk Horror: The focus of folk horror is the clash of old society and modernity. A modern-urban protagonist enters a society that has been left alone and allowed to practice the old ways. Unlike the occult, the ancient religions are pagan and not specifically evil, like the occult genre.
Cosmic Horror: You are an insignificant speck within the cosmos that cannot comprehend what terror is being revealed. The genre popularized by H.P. Lovecraft requires real internalization, which blends with psychological horror. Can be found relying on sci-fi, fantasy, occult, or monster tropes.
Post-Apocalyptic : The world is over, now what? This genre is typically a crossover with sci-fi and survival.
Supernatural/Paranormal
This genre stands in stark contrast to the Killer genre. The horror in this genre is not human and is outside of human control, often with characters entering into realms and gaining knowledge that they should not dabble in.
Possession: Unlike the infection subgenre, the possessing agent here is supernatural (typically demons or ghosts). The central conflict here is the possession itself (in contrast to the occult/demonic subgenre, which may have that as a climactic threat).
Ghosts and Haunted Houses: Like with the giant monster subgenre, don’t complicate things. There will be an actual house and there will be actual ghosts/spiritual entities haunting that house.
Witchcraft and Witches: The witch subgenre typically involves a female practitioner of some form of magic. You’ll find spells, curses, brooms, and black cats. Due to the history of Puritans in America, the mythology of witches is its own subgenre outside of the occult/supernatural that it overlaps with.
Occult and Demons: Black magic. Cults. Satanism. Will have lots of overlap with other supernatural subgenres, as well as monster and psychological genres.
Dark Fantasy: A subgenre of fantasy that blends horror elements with fantasy tropes. Typically the scares aren’t extreme, and this can be a gateway subgenre for younger children to start to understand horror.
Psychological
Psychological horror focuses on mental and emotional states.. They range from internal topics like phobias and madness, all the way to home invasion. This is a “low distraction, must focus” style, so the viewer can fully buy into the output.
Madness:Your protagonist is either going to lose its mind or will be terrorized by someone losing their mind.
Survival :Typically in a home,alone, or a small group. The distinction between the survival and the Killer genres is the focus being on the stalking of the protagonist(s) more than any direct threat/kill. The killer is often masked and not revealed until the climax (if revealed at all).
Body Horror: Synonymous with David Cronenberg, this genre focuses on violation of the human body. Mutation, transformation, destruction, and/or degeneration of the body are common. Body horror focuses on the internal impacts of the violation, while the viral subgenre focuses on the outward threats by the infection.
Isolation: The protagonist is alone in a terrible situation and the cost to survive will be great. Typically set in a natural setting.
Killers
The killer genre focuses on a human(ish) killer and human victims. This genre has the largest gap in quality. Some of the most iconic and best horror movies of all time are in this genre, as well as most of the worst horror movies of all time. Slashers exploded in the 80s with VCRs, which led to an insane demand for constant content, which explains this gap. By the 90s, this had become more refined until Scream went meta on the genre and it never really returned to its roots outside of some nice entries.
Slashers: There is a maniac on the loose and it is killing people. The focus is often on the creativity in how your victims (often teenagers) can be killed. Another common meme is multiple sequels for the successful first entry.
Crime-Thriller : There is a fine line when a crime thriller becomes a horror movie, and noo ne is particularly good at defining this line. There will be an investigation (typically police) of killings which may lead to questions of supernatural causes. Serial killers are typical. Unlike other movies in the genre, the focus is on the investigation, and often the horror emerges from the toll of the investigation (overlapping with psychological horror).
Backwoods: A subgenre of the slasher film but set in remote, wooded areas, triggering our fears of isolated and downtrodden rural populations.
Science Fiction
Sci-fi horror may be the most fruitful genre of horror following the 80s slasher era. The vast canvas that sci-fi permits allows venturing into all sorts of other genres, with no real limits on what threats/terrors can be created. Some of the most celebrated horror movies of all time fall in this genre.
Space Horror: Your typical horror movie, but in space. The blend typically involves aliens, isolation, and psychological horror. Your setting will be in a spaceship or a planet that is not Earth.
Infections: The threat is a pathogen. The effects vary, from full on zombie-style takeover to a malevolent outside force controlling or replacing humanity. Let the great 28 days later debate begin.
Aliens (and invasions): Aliens on earth, whether it be a small incident or with a full-scale invasion as the threat. Will often involve survival, action, and monster tropes.
Monsters
A completely traditional genre that is self-explanatory. Humans are threatened by non-humans. Those non-humans range from normal animals to undead creatures to 400-foot tall mutations that can destroy a city.
Vampires: Vampire-based horror is one of the oldest and expansive genres in horror. Undead creatures who rely on the life force of normal humans to survive. The rules change with each work, but sunlight is typically a threat.
Werewolves: Lycanthropy is a horror that has existed since at least Ancient Greece, however the number of quality movies is relatively sparse compared to other monster subgenres.
Zombies: Until Night of the Living Dead, zombie films were typically constrained to a Caribbean setting and voodoo being applied on unsuspecting victims. After NOTLD, the genre changed to unstoppable hoards of the undead, in various iterations.
Giants/Kaiju : Godzilla. King Kong. Big monsters. Don’t complicate things.
Animals/Nature: Lions, tigers, and bears…and sharks, birds, frogs, sloths…The threats in these movies must be real animals and they must be attacking humans.
Atmospheric
Atmospheric horror would be a subgenre of psychological horror, if not for the vast sub-content within the genre. The setting is paramount, as well as the hidden malevolence (which is often not revealed until the climax). In these movies, the danger is real and external, while in psychological horror, that horror is more internal to the character.
Gothic : The gothic genre is very difficult to define in words, because so much of the style involves heavy reliance on a specific atmosphere. Traditional gothic content will be set in the 18th or 19th century at European estates or castles, with on loss, grief, repression, revenge, and decay (social and personal) driving the story.
Folk Horror: The focus of folk horror is the clash of old society and modernity. A modern-urban protagonist enters a society that has been left alone and allowed to practice the old ways. Unlike the occult, the ancient religions are pagan and not specifically evil, like the occult genre.
Cosmic Horror: You are an insignificant speck within the cosmos that cannot comprehend what terror is being revealed. The genre popularized by H.P. Lovecraft requires real internalization, which blends with psychological horror. Can be found relying on sci-fi, fantasy, occult, or monster tropes.
Post-Apocalyptic : The world is over, now what? This genre is typically a crossover with sci-fi and survival.
Supernatural/Paranormal
This genre stands in stark contrast to the Killer genre. The horror in this genre is not human and is outside of human control, often with characters entering into realms and gaining knowledge that they should not dabble in.
Possession: Unlike the infection subgenre, the possessing agent here is supernatural (typically demons or ghosts). The central conflict here is the possession itself (in contrast to the occult/demonic subgenre, which may have that as a climactic threat).
Ghosts and Haunted Houses: Like with the giant monster subgenre, don’t complicate things. There will be an actual house and there will be actual ghosts/spiritual entities haunting that house.
Witchcraft and Witches: The witch subgenre typically involves a female practitioner of some form of magic. You’ll find spells, curses, brooms, and black cats. Due to the history of Puritans in America, the mythology of witches is its own subgenre outside of the occult/supernatural that it overlaps with.
Occult and Demons: Black magic. Cults. Satanism. Will have lots of overlap with other supernatural subgenres, as well as monster and psychological genres.
Dark Fantasy: A subgenre of fantasy that blends horror elements with fantasy tropes. Typically the scares aren’t extreme, and this can be a gateway subgenre for younger children to start to understand horror.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 1:15 pm to SlowFlowPro
HORROR STYLES
Giallo:
Elevated:
Millennial:
Found Footage:
Gore/Splatter:
Elevated:
Horror Comedy:
Giallo:
Elevated:
Millennial:
Found Footage:
Gore/Splatter:
Elevated:
Horror Comedy:
Posted on 10/3/24 at 1:15 pm to SlowFlowPro
Psychological
Madness
Repulsion
Carrie
The Shining
Jacob’s Ladder
Session 9
Black Swan
Babadook
Unsane
The Lighthouse
Survival
High Tension
The Descent
The Purge
The Strangers
You’re Next
Green Room
As Above So Below
Ready or Not
Body Horror
The Fly
Dead Ringers
Tusk
Raw
Possession
District 9
Under the Skin
Isolation
Misery - writer crashes and is saved by a fan, who ultimately does not like his ending to her favorite series.
Gerald’s Game - a woman is handcuffed and her husband dies of a heart attack. She tries to escape while facing her inner demons.
Hush - a deaf woman is stalked and attacked in her isolation
Speak No Evil - a Danish family visits a Dutch family they meet on vacation. The Dutch family pushes social boundaries and makes the Danish family so uncomfortable a question of whether or not their safety is in jeopardy.
Alone - a woman driving cross-country is stalked by a man on isolated country roads.
10 Cloverfield Lane
MISC/Potpourri
The Vanishing - the search for a man’s missing girlfriend is reinvigorated
Goodnight Mommy (2014) - two brothers question whether the woman whose face is bandaged after surgery is really their mother.
Hereditary - a family struggles after a tragedy
Get Out
Coherence
The Sacrament
Found
Martyrs - the apex of French Extremity. A girl flees from a warehouse of torture, grows up, and seeks answer to why she was kidnapped and tortured.
The Invitation - a man is invited to a dinner party by his ex-wife, which starts strange and becomes quickly unsettling
Madness
Repulsion
Carrie
The Shining
Jacob’s Ladder
Session 9
Black Swan
Babadook
Unsane
The Lighthouse
Survival
High Tension
The Descent
The Purge
The Strangers
You’re Next
Green Room
As Above So Below
Ready or Not
Body Horror
The Fly
Dead Ringers
Tusk
Raw
Possession
District 9
Under the Skin
Isolation
Misery - writer crashes and is saved by a fan, who ultimately does not like his ending to her favorite series.
Gerald’s Game - a woman is handcuffed and her husband dies of a heart attack. She tries to escape while facing her inner demons.
Hush - a deaf woman is stalked and attacked in her isolation
Speak No Evil - a Danish family visits a Dutch family they meet on vacation. The Dutch family pushes social boundaries and makes the Danish family so uncomfortable a question of whether or not their safety is in jeopardy.
Alone - a woman driving cross-country is stalked by a man on isolated country roads.
10 Cloverfield Lane
MISC/Potpourri
The Vanishing - the search for a man’s missing girlfriend is reinvigorated
Goodnight Mommy (2014) - two brothers question whether the woman whose face is bandaged after surgery is really their mother.
Hereditary - a family struggles after a tragedy
Get Out
Coherence
The Sacrament
Found
Martyrs - the apex of French Extremity. A girl flees from a warehouse of torture, grows up, and seeks answer to why she was kidnapped and tortured.
The Invitation - a man is invited to a dinner party by his ex-wife, which starts strange and becomes quickly unsettling
Posted on 10/3/24 at 1:15 pm to SlowFlowPro
Killers
Slashers
Psycho
Black Christmas
The Town that Dreaded Sundown
Halloween Franchise
Friday the 13th Franchise
Nightmare on Elm Street Franchise
Candyman
Child’s Play
My Bloody Valentine
Scream
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Hatchet Franchise
X
Here are some random 80s slasher movies.
The Burning
Maniac
Sleepaway Camp
Slumber Party Massacre
Prom Night 1 & 2
Crime-Thriller
Dressed to Kill
Silence of the Lambs
Seven
Manhunter
Cure
Cape Fear
Longlegs
Backwoods
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
The Hills Have Eyes
Wrong Turn
Hostel
Bone Tomahawk
Eden Lake
House of 1000 Corpses - Rob Zombie’s attempt to remake TCM. Extremely uneven and graphic at times.
MISC/Potpourri
April Fool’s Day
American Psycho
Audition
Kill List
Creep
Posted on 10/3/24 at 1:15 pm to SlowFlowPro
Science Fiction
Space Horror
2001
Alien
Aliens
Sunshine
Event Horizon
Pandorum
Pitch Black
Life
Infections
Shivers
Cabin Fever
28 Days Later
Splinter
Black Death
District 9
Pontypool
Contracted
The Sadness
Aliens (and invasions)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
The Thing
Predator
Fire in the Sky
They Live
Alien Abudction
Signs
Attack the Block
MISC/Potpourri
The Terminator
The Toxic Avenger
M3GAN
Pulse
Scanners
Prince of Darkness
Space Horror
2001
Alien
Aliens
Sunshine
Event Horizon
Pandorum
Pitch Black
Life
Infections
Shivers
Cabin Fever
28 Days Later
Splinter
Black Death
District 9
Pontypool
Contracted
The Sadness
Aliens (and invasions)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
The Thing
Predator
Fire in the Sky
They Live
Alien Abudction
Signs
Attack the Block
MISC/Potpourri
The Terminator
The Toxic Avenger
M3GAN
Pulse
Scanners
Prince of Darkness
Posted on 10/3/24 at 1:16 pm to SlowFlowPro
Monsters
Vampires
Dracula (1931)
Martin - this almost belongs in psychological horror, but it brings a reality and madness to the vampire genre.
Fright Night
The Lost Boys
Near Dark
From Dusk Till Dawn
30 Days of Night
Let the Right One In
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night - If you ever thought you could not combine Iranian cinema with a Western setting and vampires, you would be wrong.
Werewolves
The Wolfman
American Werewolf in London
The Howling
Wolfen - Werewolves….in New York City
Silver Bullet - your typical 80s setup with a kid/teen investigating paranormal activity.
Dog Soldiers - British soldiers v. werewolves in the Scottish countryside.
Ginger Snaps -
Zombies
Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead
Zombi 3 / Zombie
Return of the Living Dead
Reanimator
Night of the Creeps
World War Z
Train to Busan
Braindead
Shaun of the Dead
Giants/Kaiju
Godzilla
King Kong
Cloverfield
Animals/Nature
The Birds
Jaws
Alligator
Mako: The Jaws of Death - a Jaws ripoff that’s only included because my father worked on it.
Crawl
Jurassic Park
Backcountry
Anaconda
Arachnophobia
The Happening
MISC/Potpourri
The Fog
Pumpkinhead
A Quiet Place 1 & 2
It Follows
Phantasm
The Host
Troll Hunter
Tremors
Vampires
Dracula (1931)
Martin - this almost belongs in psychological horror, but it brings a reality and madness to the vampire genre.
Fright Night
The Lost Boys
Near Dark
From Dusk Till Dawn
30 Days of Night
Let the Right One In
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night - If you ever thought you could not combine Iranian cinema with a Western setting and vampires, you would be wrong.
Werewolves
The Wolfman
American Werewolf in London
The Howling
Wolfen - Werewolves….in New York City
Silver Bullet - your typical 80s setup with a kid/teen investigating paranormal activity.
Dog Soldiers - British soldiers v. werewolves in the Scottish countryside.
Ginger Snaps -
Zombies
Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead
Zombi 3 / Zombie
Return of the Living Dead
Reanimator
Night of the Creeps
World War Z
Train to Busan
Braindead
Shaun of the Dead
Giants/Kaiju
Godzilla
King Kong
Cloverfield
Animals/Nature
The Birds
Jaws
Alligator
Mako: The Jaws of Death - a Jaws ripoff that’s only included because my father worked on it.
Crawl
Jurassic Park
Backcountry
Anaconda
Arachnophobia
The Happening
MISC/Potpourri
The Fog
Pumpkinhead
A Quiet Place 1 & 2
It Follows
Phantasm
The Host
Troll Hunter
Tremors
Posted on 10/3/24 at 1:16 pm to SlowFlowPro
Atmospheric
Gothic
Frankenstein - Clearly there are other genres in which this film could fall, but Frankenstein is often looked at as the archetypal gothic horror movie. This is one of the foundational planks of the horror genre.
The Haunting (1963) - One of the gothic staples prior to Hammer co-opting the genre entirely.
Hour of the Wolf - Berman does horror and his metaphysical themes fit in well within the genre.
Sleepy Hollow - Tim Burton attempts an unironic Gothic output, featuring Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula - I split up the two Dracula movies to give homage to its gothic roots.
A Tale of Two Sisters - Creepy plot in an asian-Gothic setting. Dark and has disturbing elements.
Crimson Peak - GDT does straight British-gothic horror. The atmosphere is the selling point.
Folk Horror
Blood on Satan’s Claw
Midsommar
Lamb
The Wicker Man
The Witch
The Wailing
Apostle
Final Prayer/The Borderlands
Cosmic Horror
The Mist
The Void
Annihilation
In the Mouth of Madness
Color Out of Space
The Empty Man
The Mist
Post-Apocalyptic
Omega Man/I am Legend/Last Man on Earth - a virus has destroyed society and our protagonist has not given up finding a cure. He must hunt the night walkers for his survival.
The Road - probably not something you watch to get in a good mood. The film version of McCarthy’s novel is done pretty well and shows the grim reality of a post-apocalyptic world.
Day of the Dead - while Night and Dawn still had society somewhat, Day shows how we respond after the world ends and zombies are running the world.
The Cured - a movie that poses the question of how society works once zombie-like infections are cured, and how those formerly infected reintegrate back into society.
Birdbox - a blend of cosmic and survival horror in the post-apocalypse. There is a malevolent entity/invasion of earth and if you see it, you are infected with madness.
Gothic
Frankenstein - Clearly there are other genres in which this film could fall, but Frankenstein is often looked at as the archetypal gothic horror movie. This is one of the foundational planks of the horror genre.
The Haunting (1963) - One of the gothic staples prior to Hammer co-opting the genre entirely.
Hour of the Wolf - Berman does horror and his metaphysical themes fit in well within the genre.
Sleepy Hollow - Tim Burton attempts an unironic Gothic output, featuring Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula - I split up the two Dracula movies to give homage to its gothic roots.
A Tale of Two Sisters - Creepy plot in an asian-Gothic setting. Dark and has disturbing elements.
Crimson Peak - GDT does straight British-gothic horror. The atmosphere is the selling point.
Folk Horror
Blood on Satan’s Claw
Midsommar
Lamb
The Wicker Man
The Witch
The Wailing
Apostle
Final Prayer/The Borderlands
Cosmic Horror
The Mist
The Void
Annihilation
In the Mouth of Madness
Color Out of Space
The Empty Man
The Mist
Post-Apocalyptic
Omega Man/I am Legend/Last Man on Earth - a virus has destroyed society and our protagonist has not given up finding a cure. He must hunt the night walkers for his survival.
The Road - probably not something you watch to get in a good mood. The film version of McCarthy’s novel is done pretty well and shows the grim reality of a post-apocalyptic world.
Day of the Dead - while Night and Dawn still had society somewhat, Day shows how we respond after the world ends and zombies are running the world.
The Cured - a movie that poses the question of how society works once zombie-like infections are cured, and how those formerly infected reintegrate back into society.
Birdbox - a blend of cosmic and survival horror in the post-apocalypse. There is a malevolent entity/invasion of earth and if you see it, you are infected with madness.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 1:16 pm to SlowFlowPro
Supernatural/Paranormal
Possession
The Exorcist
Christine
Oculus
Ghosts and Haunted Houses
The Amityville Horror
Poltergeist
Paranormal Activity
The Others
The Grudge
The Ring
The Sixth Sense
Sinister
Witchcraft and Witches
The Blair Witch Project
The Witch
Suspiria
Occult and Demons
The Evil Dead
The Evil Dead (2013)
The Omen
Rosemary’s Baby
Needful Things
Noroi: The Curse
[REC]
Where Evil Lurks
A Dark Song
Insidious
House of the Devil
Savageland
The Medium
Dark Fantasy
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Dark Crystal
Return to Oz
Legend
Solomon Kane
Possession
The Exorcist
Christine
Oculus
Ghosts and Haunted Houses
The Amityville Horror
Poltergeist
Paranormal Activity
The Others
The Grudge
The Ring
The Sixth Sense
Sinister
Witchcraft and Witches
The Blair Witch Project
The Witch
Suspiria
Occult and Demons
The Evil Dead
The Evil Dead (2013)
The Omen
Rosemary’s Baby
Needful Things
Noroi: The Curse
[REC]
Where Evil Lurks
A Dark Song
Insidious
House of the Devil
Savageland
The Medium
Dark Fantasy
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Dark Crystal
Return to Oz
Legend
Solomon Kane
Posted on 10/3/24 at 1:16 pm to SlowFlowPro
HORROR STYLES
Giallo
Elevated
Millennial
Found Footage
Gore/Splatter
Saw
Hostel
House of 1000 Corpses
The Devil's Rejects
Cannibal Holocaust
The Green Inferno
Elevated
Horror Comedy
Giallo
Elevated
Millennial
Found Footage
Gore/Splatter
Saw
Hostel
House of 1000 Corpses
The Devil's Rejects
Cannibal Holocaust
The Green Inferno
Elevated
Horror Comedy
Posted on 10/3/24 at 1:16 pm to SlowFlowPro
REFERENCES AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Official SPOOKY SEASON Horror Movie Discussion/Recs Thread
[This is where you link TD threads for reference and make lists, then advise where the movies are streaming]
Official SPOOKY SEASON Horror Movie Discussion/Recs Thread
[This is where you link TD threads for reference and make lists, then advise where the movies are streaming]
This post was edited on 10/3/24 at 1:17 pm
Posted on 10/3/24 at 1:20 pm to SlowFlowPro
I have been watching a lot of Italian horror and giallo over the last year, most of it on Tubi. I have really enjoyed most of it but my tastes tend to be outside of the mainstream.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 1:25 pm to Brosef Stalin
I plan on adding an 80s section to that section to mirror the millennial one
Giallo is interesting and has some movies people should watch, if only for the utter insanity involved (like Demons).
Giallo is interesting and has some movies people should watch, if only for the utter insanity involved (like Demons).
Posted on 10/3/24 at 2:48 pm to SlowFlowPro
I swear someone should do a study on why Halloween makes people want to consume large amounts of scary movies. Cause we don't do shite like this for Summer Blockbusters or Christmas movies.
But Halloween? Man I have found dozens of references to rankings, list, etc when making my own thread.
But Halloween? Man I have found dozens of references to rankings, list, etc when making my own thread.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 3:30 pm to ThoseGuys
quote:
I swear someone should do a study on why Halloween makes people want to consume large amounts of scary movies.
It's the Spooky Season?
quote:
But Halloween? Man I have found dozens of references to rankings, list, etc when making my own thread.
There are a lot more horror movies than the others you listed, but there are similar discussions for each seasonal period. There will be a bunch of Christmas movie suggestions/rankings threads in a few months.
Now, for me personally, Halloween and Thanksgiving are my 2 favorite holidays and horror movies are my favorite genre.
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