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Not sure what flavor you're looking for but here's some of the ones I enjoyed:

• Pan's Labyrinth - fairy tale horror
• Gretel & Hansel -fairy tale horror
• Babadook - dramatic horror
• Mothman Prophecies - dramatic horror
• Hereditary - dramatic horror
• The Descent - adventure/action horror
• Jeepers Creepers - adventure/action horror
• The Mist - adventure/action horror
• The Crazies - adventure/action horror
• 10 Cloverfield Lane - adventure/action horror
• This is the End - comedy horror
• Shaun of the Dead - comedy horror
• Zombieland - comedy horror.

On my Halloween movie list this year I'm planning on watching

• Little Otik (fairy tale horror with stop motion & live action - looks artsy)
• Lamb (supernatural horror)
• Tigers are not Afraid (supposed to be similar to Pan's Labyrinth)
• Midnight Meat Train (Clive Barker horror- one of Bradley cooper's earlier movies)

Saw some other good ones already posted here - Event Horizon, Midsommar - so I think you'll get a good list.

Event Horizon (1997)

The Thing from 1982 and Annihilation are two of my favourites. The Thing is just well shot and interesting and Annihilation has some gorgeous surreal visuals.

Creepshow (1982), best horror movie ever

My favorites are mostly classics: Alien, Return of the Living Dead, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 version has Leonard Nimoy!), Shaun of the Dead, The Thing (1982), Tremors, and Hellraiser usually make my rewatch list.

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The Void is great if you like campy lovecraftian stuff

Midsommar is one of my favorites, or you could try It Follows if you haven't seen either of those. Midsommar is a slow burn intrigue sort of thing, but quite realistic, most of the most horrifying things about it could happen to you for real.

It Follows is a very creative movie, very much about the fear of being chased by an entity that never stops, extremely interesting premise

All of the Hellraiser movies (some are great, some are not so great, but it's worth it to work through all of them in order). The newest was kind of a re-imagining and you can start there if you want).

The Thing - the 1982 film is a classic, but the newest one is a prequel that came decades after the original movie- I'd recommend watching both, starting with the original.

All the alien movies. Some don't consider Sci-Fi horror to be true horror, but these are essential watching. I consider it to be the best complete horror series of movies ever made.

Vampire's Kiss (Nicholas Cage) - this is truly bizarre and if you are a Nick Cage fan it should be considered required watching.

Barbarian (2022) - simultaneously mind blowing and absolutely terrifying. Probably the best horror of the past 5 years.

The Mist - and mainly just for the ending which was a total mindfuck.

Train to Busan - This is a Korean made film (with subtitles) in the zombie genre, and is absolutely riveting.

World War Z - an outstanding zombie genre movie - one of the first zombie movies to feature fast moving parkour capable zombies as opposed to the slow moving classic zombies.

American Psycho - scary because this could (and does) happen and you could be standing right next to the next American Psycho right now and not even know it.

Maximum Overdrive - doesn't get recommended a lot, but it holds up and is a great machine-uprising type of horror.

Event Horizon - propped up as SciFi Horror but this is a classic true horror just with a scifi backdrop.

I WISH there would be a modern remake of "Scanners". Scanners is great horror from decades past but it just doesn't hold up well to modern standards-it desperately needs a modern remake.

I'm a fan of slasher flicks! I love the Scream franchise the most. Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, and Halloween are all classic slasher franchises, though because there's so many there's some real terrible movies in there (Jason X...omg). But the crummy camp is part of the charm.

A lot of contemporary horror is psychological, sometimes with one or two gory/violent/jump scare scenes. If you like that, watch recent ones like Talk to Me, Relic or the Babadook (all Aussie incidentally).

Hereditary is probably the best horror of the past decade, and before that, my 21st century favourite was Kill List. But there were so many more excellent horrors, slashers, psychological thrillers, and ghostly dramas last century.

Night of the Living Dead invented the zombie genre and is still probably my favourite movie of all time. Dawn of the Dead skewers consumerism and is similar but in lurid colour. The slasher craze of the 80s started with Halloween in '79 and continued with Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street and the many sequels from those franchises.

Other good ones in no particular order: High Tension aka Switchblade Romance, Dead Snow, Eden Lake, It Follows, Green Room, Hush, The Strangers, Martyrs, and if you're really looking to punish yourself AND read subtitles, check out the works of Gaspar Noe, especially Irreversible. Deeply disturbing. Enjoy!

Host (2020) short and fun

If you haven't seen any of the classic late 60s/early 70s horror movies, they are worth checking out. 'Rosemary's Baby', 'The Exorcist, 'Don't Look Now', or 'The Omen' are all fantastic.

Smile. Seems cheesy, I know, but it's actually real good. The plot is that someone is trying to stop a curse that cause people to kill themselves, but the thing is, it's like a virus, so when someone sees the infected person kill themselves, they become infected and do the same.

I occasionally do Halloween film marathons in October (haven't gotten around to it this year, unfortunately), but if you want some good recommendations, check out the archives of my review blog.

If you're on mobile, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "View web version." On the right is a Blog Archive category with dates. Expand each year and click on October. You'll see a list of all my scary movie reviews.

Be aware, some reviews have spoilers. I'm pretty good about mentioning it in advance in the review, but you can check at the end of the review, in the Labels section. If it says spoiler, avoid that review unless you want that film spoiled for you.

Hmm... maybe I should make a Halloween movie marathon label so people can quickly browse scary movie reviews. I'll work on that later today.

As Above, So Below.

Basically: trying to find the philosopher's stone inside the Paris catacombs: hijinks ensues.

The Bay

The Ritual

Van Diemens Land

I don't have many movie recommendations, but I can't express how much I enjoyed the miniseries that Mike Flanagan has on Netflix. My order of favorites being Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass, and Midnight Mass. They're all excellent though! He also is coming out with his take on The Fall of the House of Usher that premiered on the 12th. Haven't gotten around to it to give my take though!

Smile

Basically any documentary about climate change. No jump scares, but leaves you with an existential dread that fiction can't just quite match.

not too scary but thought id drop a recommendation for dellamorte dellamore

Autopsy of Jane Doe was very memorable.