The Ring remake (not the original Japanese one) takes the cake for me. I couldn't sleep the first nor second nights I saw it.
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βHostβ fucked me up and is the reason I donβt watch horror movies anymore. Iβm a huge baby though.
I really enjoyed Pandorum and The Babadook.
May be Apostle? It's one of the memorable ones among recent horror.
I'm noticing a distinct lack of Terrifier and Terrifier 2 in these comments. Art the Clown is perhaps the best antagonist I've ever seen in the horror genre and true originality is rare in the modern horror filmscape.
The Ring is also good for originality as far as modern classics, though it's a whole book series in Japan.
Edit: I also liked The Shrine, forgot to mention that one. Again, originality.
Megan is Missing (2011) is one of the most horrifying films I've ever seen. Fair warning though, the last ten minutes are excruciatingly painful to watch. It is not for the faint of heart.
In the gore porn genre Cannibal Holocaust (1980) and Hostel (2005) are vile, but so pointlessly gorey the actual horror (the brutality of men) is almost entirely lost.
Funny Games (1997), or the 2007 American remake for those who don't love subtitles, is another unnerving portrayal of ultra violence. It's not gore porn, but is graphic. The original version's pacing will make you squirm in your seat.
Hush (2016) and Creep (2014) are two of my movie-night-with-friends films. Still very much about the human monster, but not overly graphic and prefers to build by making the viewer a partial participant. You have to be a certain level of broken to enjoy some of the others on my list, but these two are disney movies compared to Cannibal Holocaust.
My vote goes to The Vanishing (1988).
- The Descent
- The VVitch
- The Shining
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
- Audition
I just recently watched Saltburn. Truly and genuinely disturbing. It's a psychological thriller. If you're not into that, well..
Made me think of something that Brett Easton Ellis would write.
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