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8 hours ago, irishtexan said:

It’s the season for scary movies, so I watched “Under the Shadow” on Netflix tonight. It’s Iranian and set in the Iran/Iraq war. Very, very well done. Some genuinely spooky/scary parts. It’s about a woman and her daughter that are haunted by djinn as their high-rise apartment is shelled by Iraq. I recommend it.

Fantastic movie

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Liked It Follows and Cabin in the Woods.

Saw2 (best of the Saw movies imo)

As Above So Below (I don’t know why that one freaks me out but it just does)

Halloween Kills (second one of the recent ones)

Critters (lmao) -also it’s from the 80’s and not particularly scary but it’s hilariousl and underrated

Bone Tomahawk

 

 

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My son and I watch horror movies together. Recently, we really liked Barbarian and Smile. The original Goodnight Mommy (the 2014 Austrian version) was great. The Naomi Watts remake was fine and I think I'd have liked it better had I not seen the original, but it's worth a watch on Prime.

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On 10/30/2021 at 1:33 PM, TommyGufano said:

I recall liking It Follows

 

On 10/30/2021 at 2:52 PM, hobbes2702 said:

It Follows

 

On 11/1/2021 at 11:08 AM, yoladu said:

It Follows

 

On 10/19/2022 at 3:27 PM, Lymanward said:

It Follows is excellent, also, Splinter is well done. 

I cannot stress enough, if you don’t watch a lot of horror movies and you are thinking “I’m feeling a bit Holloween, I’d like to watch a horror movie that will scare me, but also is legit good. But no torture porn”:

It Follows is that movie. It has a crazy clever and thought provoking premise. And at least one jump scare that will possibly make you piss yourself.   Like first time watching Blair Witch basement scene level scary. 

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This should keep you busy. I have several hundred listed on my Letterboxd account - Wutang75

Favorites:
- Hereditary
- The Orphanage
- The Wailing
- Kill List
- Rec 1 and 2
- Triangle
- The Loved Ones
- Bone Tomahawk
- Raw
- Session 9
- Let the Right One In
- Train to Busan
- The Cabin in the Woods
- You’re Next
- Ready or Not
- Gerald’s Game
- Hell House LLC
- Lake Mungo (Some love it some hate it)
- Bloody Hell
- The Mist (Crazy ending)
- Hunter Hunter (Crazy ending)


Others worth checking out:
- The House That October Built (not amazing but filmed in East Texas which is cool)
- Trick r Treat
- Host
- Green Room
- Hush
- Gerald’s Game
- The Autopsy of Jane Doe
- Unsane
- The Devil’s Candy
- Eden Lake
- The Collector/The Collection
- The House of the Devil
- May
- Behind the Mask
- Martyrs
- The Ritual
- The Invitation
- The Blackcoat’s Daughter
- The Taking of Deborah Logan
- Terrified (Argentina)
- Mandy
- A Dark Song
- I See You
- Last Shift
- Summer of 84
- Calibre
- Incident in a Ghostland
- Crawl
- Saint Maud
- Sputnik
- Creep/Creep 2
- Let Us Prey
- Excision
- I Saw the Devil
- Gonjiam
- Come to Daddy


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Adding some more recent stuff to this list - really enjoyed Barbarian, X was pretty good, but I freaking loved Pearl. Holy shit what a performance.

Not Toni Collette in Hereditary but damn close.


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Just watched Speak No Evil - yikes.  Fairly slow moving throughout, but it pays off to be super disturbing in the end.  
Reminds me of The Invitation, which I also recommend (the 2015 one; I haven’t seen the 2022 one), in that you don’t really grasp what’s fully going on in the movie and then it just goes crazy real fast.

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7 hours ago, TexLonghorn said:

Just watched Speak No Evil - yikes.  Fairly slow moving throughout, but it pays off to be super disturbing in the end.  
Reminds me of The Invitation, which I also recommend (the 2015 one; I haven’t seen the 2022 one), in that you don’t really grasp what’s fully going on in the movie and then it just goes crazy real fast.

The Invitation (2015) is one of my favorite movies of the last 10 years.

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I cannot stress enough, if you don’t watch a lot of horror movies and you are thinking “I’m feeling a bit Holloween, I’d like to watch a horror movie that will scare me, but also is legit good. But no torture porn”:
It Follows is that movie. It has a crazy clever and thought provoking premise. And at least one jump scare that will possibly make you piss yourself.   Like first time watching Blair Witch basement scene level scary. 

I saw this and liked it but don’t know which scene you are referring to. Was it



When the tall man comes through the door?

 

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Please be careful about inflicting some of these movies on young kids.

My dad was on the road a lot. Mom would go to the drive in and take me. When I was 7 she went to see In Cold Blood dragging my ass along. I had nightmares for years from the Clutters being murdered in their beds. Still get the creeps.

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On 10/29/2021 at 6:22 PM, Sbbruin said:

I have seen most of the classics, but very few since 2000, and there seems to have been a renaissance in that period of horror Felix.  Want to watch something I haven’t seen before.  Recs?

I saw Sinister, The Conjuring, and Insidious together in about a two week span so they blur together.  Upon further review Insidious gets the edge as it is the most intense. 

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22 hours ago, Texzilla58 said:

Please be careful about inflicting some of these movies on young kids.

My dad was on the road a lot. Mom would go to the drive in and take me. When I was 7 she went to see In Cold Blood dragging my ass along. I had nightmares for years from the Clutters being murdered in their beds. Still get the creeps.

When we went to see Smile a few weeks ago, at the Lakeline Alamo, there was a family in front of us with a kid that had to be maybe 6-7 years old. We were hoping they were in the wrong movie, but no. After the first scary scene, maybe 20 minutes into the movie, he was sitting in one of his parents' laps. They stayed the whole time. I mean, WTF? There is some disturbing shit in that movie that was making grown-ass adults jump. That poor kid is probably still having nightmares.

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When we went to see Smile a few weeks ago, at the Lakeline Alamo, there was a family in front of us with a kid that had to be maybe 6-7 years old. We were hoping they were in the wrong movie, but no. After the first scary scene, maybe 20 minutes into the movie, he was sitting in one of his parents' laps. They stayed the whole time. I mean, WTF? There is some disturbing shit in that movie that was making grown-ass adults jump. That poor kid is probably still having nightmares.

Amazes me the kind of shit some parents inflict on their kids because they’re too cheap to get a sitter or simply are clueless.
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11 hours ago, Texzilla58 said:


Amazes me the kind of shit some parents inflict on their kids because they’re too cheap to get a sitter or simply are clueless.

when I was 5 my babysitter made me sit through the original IT.  her nephew was in it and she was proud of him.  my mother was non-plussed.

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On 10/21/2022 at 9:42 PM, dcbc said:

Doctor Sleep

Really liked the book, and read it twice.  But I'm a bit of a tough grader when it comes to film adaptations of Stephen King movies, at least the horror genre (movies like Stand By Me, Shawshank, and Green Mile were excellent).  So I've been on the fence about watching this one.  It's legit?

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11 hours ago, Texzilla58 said:

Amazes me the kind of shit some parents inflict on their kids because they’re too cheap to get a sitter or simply are clueless.

My ex was out of town one weekend and I started watching IT (the 2017 film).  My son, then in second grade, crawls into my bed and starts watching it with me.  I was clearly in the "clueless" category because I didn't turn it off or tell him to go into the kids' TV room to watch something else.  He couldn't go to sleep by himself for about three weeks after that.  My ex was justifiably furious with me.

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1 hour ago, South Austin said:

Really liked the book, and read it twice.  But I'm a bit of a tough grader when it comes to film adaptations of Stephen King movies, at least the horror genre (movies like Stand By Me, Shawshank, and Green Mile were excellent).  So I've been on the fence about watching this one.  It's legit?

I think it's decent, especially the director's cut that's on streaming

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My ex was out of town one weekend and I started watching IT (the 2017 film).  My son, then in second grade, crawls into my bed and starts watching it with me.  I was clearly in the "clueless" category because I didn't turn it off or tell him to go into the kids' TV room to watch something else.  He couldn't go to sleep by himself for about three weeks after that.  My ex was justifiably furious with me.

When I was 17, I had to babysit my 7 year old kid sister. Then I had some friends come over including a girl (Liz) I was interested in. to watch a movie. I told sis she could watch whatever movie we got with us. Turns out Liz really liked horror movies. We picked up The Hitcher. I couldn’t talk little sister out of watching it with us. She slept in my parents’ room for the next couple of weeks. That’s what you get for free babysitting.
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There’s a book called The Descent which has a very similar basic premise. So much so, I’m surprised that it doesn’t seem the production company was sued into oblivion. Anyway, the book is a fun read and worth your time. It has a central Texas angle in that Jacob’s Well is one of the pathways into the underworld.
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5 hours ago, South Austin said:

Really liked the book, and read it twice.  But I'm a bit of a tough grader when it comes to film adaptations of Stephen King movies, at least the horror genre (movies like Stand By Me, Shawshank, and Green Mile were excellent).  So I've been on the fence about watching this one.  It's legit?

Yes.  It stays pretty close to the book, but, as you probably noticed if you watched the trailer, ties in Kubrick's Overlook.  There's another tie in to King's work that's really great, but I won't spoil it.  Overall, I thought it was one of the better King adaptations (Stand by Me, Shawshank, and Misery being the benchmarks for me).  Rebecca Ferguson as Rose the Hat is perfect.

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26 minutes ago, dcbc said:

Yes.  It stays pretty close to the book, but, as you probably noticed if you watched the trailer, ties in Kubrick's Overlook.  There's another tie in to King's work that's really great, but I won't spoil it.  Overall, I thought it was one of the better King adaptations (Stand by Me, Shawshank, and Misery being the benchmarks for me).  Rebecca Ferguson as Rose the Hat is perfect.

Use spoiler tags if you like, but what's the other tie in?  I can't recall.

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7 minutes ago, Augustus said:

Use spoiler tags if you like, but what's the other tie in?  I can't recall.

My best recollection

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After Danny releases the Overlook spirits to take out Rose, they turn on him and possess him and we have a an ending very much like the ending of the Shining (novel).  Danny is chasing Abra through the Overlook, she reminds him of the boiler (they have set to blow rather than by accident).  He goes down to the boiler room to pull the pressure relief, but he regains control of himself (moment of clarity like Jack had in the Shining) and allows the boiler to explode, which kills Danny and burns down the Overlook.  Basically, the ending Stephen King always wanted.

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