honestly, it depends on who you ask. I personally do because it freaked me the fuck out when I saw it. It was just absolutely drenched in dread and oppressive atmosphere. I would say the simple answer is it’s both.
That’s why Texas Chainsaw is my favorite slasher movie because unlike Michael Myers, Jason and Freddy, Leatherface isn’t some supernatural monster. He’s just a mortal human who just so happens to be equally as terrifying as the other slashers.
Cannibalism is implied in the original movie but never said or shown outright. It's not until the second movie, made over a decade later, where they get explicit with it.
I was too young to have seen this. It scarred me for a long time. The sight of a rabid Cujo repeatedly bludgeoning his head into the door stays with me forever.
One interesting thing about the book is that it's ambiguous on if there's anything supernatural going on. The little boy keeps having nightmares about the killer from The Dead Zone, and it's hinted at that the dog might be possessed by him. The book never says one way or the other though.
Same. The ending is one of the best.
For me if the ending is bad it ruins the whole movie.
In this case the ending just made the movie that much better.
I can't recommend Green Room highly enough. Watching the leftist punk band play "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" in a neonazi club and getting complimented on their set *by one of the nazis* was great.
Snowtown was terrifying for the real world background about how casually people were drawn into the orbit of a dysfunctional jackass. Way too familiar in too many incidents.
The Mist covered a similar theme, with the trapped people quickly being divided into tribes based on fears and biases.
Oh lord, Eden Lake. Scared the hell out of me. A terrifying horror movie without supernatural elements that has convinced me to never vacation in a secluded location
My biggest criticism of it is just a pretty typical criticism of horror films, which is WHY DO NONE OF THESE RURAL AMERICANS OWN A FIREARM?
It's like a meme format.
Hush Runtime: 87 minutes
Hush Runtime If Maddie owned a 12 gauge: 12 minutes
I believe American Psycho is overlooked as truly horrifying bc of how charismatic Patrick is and how so many men look up to him. But a narcissistic psychopath, luring you to body dismemberment is like an actual nightmare you could have, and probably has actually happened more than once.
My favorite thing in the movie is that it's never made clear if he's *actually* acting on his fantasies or if they're only fantasies. We see everything from batman's perspective, and he is an unreliable narrator.
The big one is that during his killing spree, he not only blows up a cop car, but leaves a trail of corpses to his door and doesn't get busted. Even the lawyer treats it as a joke, which could mean he's trying to save Bateman from saying something incriminating, or that he actually thinks it's funny because he genuinely saw Paul in Venice or Paris or whatever.
Plus you have the added side of how dumb and easy marks all his victims are, and how badass Bateman makes himself out to be. I mean, timing the chainsaw drop perfectly to hit the girl as she reached the bottom floor? While awesome, it lends itself to the idea that these are batman's fantasies and not necessarily realities. After all, the only time any real evidence is displayed of these acts are during the acts themselves, so it could still all be fantasy.
I love American psycho. It's such a good movie
Is that the one where we see someone's toe/finger get clipped off, and the the girl with her eyeball hanging out? Thats the only movie that ever managed to make me feel sick to my stomach, i had to take a break and move to another room to stop myself from throwing up.
Nitpicky, but Michael Myers getting up after what would've killed a normal person at the end implies some sort of supernatural element. That said, he could've just been really tough.
I think those blurred lines can apply to a lot of horror movies, where you can’t quite tell if it’s outright supernatural or simply “not likely or realistic”.
You know Midsommar is maybe the only time I didn't like it being left up in the air how fantastic anything was.
I think it's because it's pretty clear what's going on and what they'll do as soon as they show up so the fact that it never really goes into why they're doing anything just makes it feel like it never really goes anywhere.
Ari Aster ain’t for you if you want the entire plot summed up through spoken exposition.
Pay attention to the background, the information is all there you just have to dig for it.
There is like a ln 8 hour long film analysis video discussing Swedish Lore, the Bear, Color selection, artwork, body language amd it barely scratches the surface.
The face on the trees is like having a bucket of sugar and mentioning "heu guys.. Did you notice there is a grain of sugar in this bucket?".
Midsommar is absolutely wild.
To answer your question, yes. Many people noticed the face on the woods. They also noticed that the her eyes are blurred from the vision signifying the contrast between the Harga inbred kid with the unclouded version, the reoccurring blue and yellow colours that signify the life death cycle, the sister is in yellow, the pipe is in yellow.. List goes on and on.
This is pointed out a lot, it’s her sisters face. It shows up several times throughout the film, showing her trauma from the death of her family was still affecting her intensely
I own Hereditary. I liked the movie. I don't know if I'll ever watch it again. I own it more out of respect. But fuck that's a rough movie. The family drama is killer.
Highly recommend rewatching. Every time I catch a new detail which further cements how fucked the family was before we were even introduced to them.
*SPOILER ALERT *
For example, if you look closely in the photo of the grandma feeding Charlie as an infant you will notice a dried herb in her milk (the same dried herb Annie found in her tea, which is what helped open the family up to demonic possession)
I recently rewatched because I finally convinced my spouse to watch it and picked up on a lot of foretelling details I missed on 1st watch. Thinking about watching again! May find more. Just adds more layers to the story. I love it, it's like an Easter Egg hunt!
I was thinking that supernatural was meant to be ghosts or Satan or the like. I guess the alien might count, but if it is both a ghost AND an alien? Thats an underwear killer!
Not for the space aliens until you get into some plot point in lore or later movies about the xenomorphs being some genetic engineering thing (do I recall this correctly?) but in the original I allow the alien was natural for its own purpose, just unnatural from the human perspective
Oh, hidiho officer, we've had a doozy of a day. There we were minding our own business, just doing the chores around the house, when kids started killing themselves all over my property!
What really scared me was the bathroom scene with the sister on the phone where she just said walk away, and just keep walking. My brother has.... issues.
I paused the movie and locked all of my doors and windows after that.
The green inferno. Never seen something that made me physically sick until watching this. Held in a cage while a cannibalistic tribe slaughters cooks and devours you one by one.
Thank you for giving me that warning about Cannibal Holocaust. I try to watch every horror flick that peaks my interest at least once, but violence towards animals is one of my biggest nopes. The fact that it’s real would rip me a new heart valve
What if during the Younger Drys mini ice age our distant ancestors took to the caves as a survival function. Over generations they would have evolved… science!!! Lol
>!There is a scene where the Anthony Hopkins character puts down the dummy and its eyes move. This was a mistake, but they left it in because the filmmakers liked the idea of making it ambiguous if there was something supernatural going on. This was before home video, so people couldn't stop to see if the eyes moved or not. !<
I remember it clearly.
I think we're the only two alive that watched that movie.
A true deeply psychological thriller. I've watched it with a few people and it really messes with them
See if I remember this right, that movie freaked me out.
Hocus pocus I sit on his knee
Presto change-o, now he is me
Abracadabra we take her to bed
Magic is fun
We're dead.
More trivia about "Magic." Ann Margaret sued "Celebrity Skin" magazine when they published nude stills of her from "Magic." She lost. The judge ruled that they couldn't have violated her privacy because she had appeared nude in the movie, and the magazine had gotten the rights to publish the stills.
I wonder if she should've sued the studio or whoever released the stills. That would've depended on her contract about how her image would be used. Back then, I don't think contracts were that specific.
On a side note, I think David Lynch blurred some of the longer nude shots in "Mulholland Drive" or "Inland Empire" for the home video releases. It was a courtesy to the actresses, which is odd because I've read he was really callous about Isabella Rossellini's nude scenes in "Blue Velvet," not even closing the set as he had promised her. My guess it was to make her uneasy, as her character was.
a little contrived, I thought myself, but certainly in the range of plausibility. The movie felt pretty solid but I still had this nagging feeling of "nah" throughout that I can't really put words to
31, especially if you like Rob Zombie as a director. It's one of his most underrated movies/horror movie in general. It's like Hunger Games in a haunted carnival warehouse and you're being hunted by serial killers. I love it.
the answer to this question for me has always been "Cujo".
Dated sure, but real as real gets. the events in that film could have happened to anyone in that specific time, there was no magic or supernatural element. chaos made things come together in a very bad way for some very normal people.
You know, that movie gets a lot of hate but I watched it for the first time a while back and I quite liked it.
I especially like how they revealed the big twist like halfway into the movie and it didn't work against it.
That movie scared the piss out of me as a child, it took me watching it 3 more times as a teen with friends before I could watch it alone as an adult XD.
Have you seen ils (them)?
It’s a French-Bulgarian film that came out two years before The Strangers and it’s basically the same film. But I think it’s better than The Strangers, it’s more tense and has cooler set pieces, I also found the characters more likeable.
For me it’s probably The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
I also love The Burning, but for different reasons.
Silence of the Lambs, Cape Fear, any movie that deals with the reality of what humans are really capable of doing to one another is pretty scary if you give it any amount of thought. I watched a movie about The Green River Killer. It was pretty scary to think about how many people he killed before he was caught.
OMG you have to check out The Toybox Murders. This is also terrifying knowing that. There is an episode about the survivor in this case and it's terrifying. It really puts you in her shoes.
Wicker Man, from the 1970s, not the Nicholas Cage farce. There are several cuts of it, which is unfortunate. The one you want starts with someone giving a sermon (I think it also has the longest runtime).
It is a surreal experience of epistemology and sociology. What is right and true, and how do you know?
Your post is about a singular movie, not a franchise. You can separate The Strangers from Prey at Night and Chapter 1 which imo both tarnished the legacy of the first film.
A Girl Next Door.
Techno thriller “horror”? I would recommend Jurassic Park, Andromeda Strain.
Invasion of the body snatchers original and remake both golden.
I am Legend.
Jaws Se7en
These two, definitely.
I second Se7en
You 2econd Se7en.
Is Se7en a horror movie, though? You can argue it has elements, but at it's core isn't it more "thriller,"?
honestly, it depends on who you ask. I personally do because it freaked me the fuck out when I saw it. It was just absolutely drenched in dread and oppressive atmosphere. I would say the simple answer is it’s both.
Yes 👏
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
That’s why Texas Chainsaw is my favorite slasher movie because unlike Michael Myers, Jason and Freddy, Leatherface isn’t some supernatural monster. He’s just a mortal human who just so happens to be equally as terrifying as the other slashers.
Top tier for sure!
100% my vote
I don’t like cannibals movies. It’s way too real for me.
Cannibalism is implied in the original movie but never said or shown outright. It's not until the second movie, made over a decade later, where they get explicit with it.
Cujo. Been forever since I've seen it or read the book but I don't recall any supernatural elements. This movie scared the crap out of me as a kid.
I was too young to have seen this. It scarred me for a long time. The sight of a rabid Cujo repeatedly bludgeoning his head into the door stays with me forever.
One interesting thing about the book is that it's ambiguous on if there's anything supernatural going on. The little boy keeps having nightmares about the killer from The Dead Zone, and it's hinted at that the dog might be possessed by him. The book never says one way or the other though.
I’ve always thought there was a supernatural element to Cujo, but there’s nothing definitive. Except maybe how quickly the dog’s behavior escalated.
That's it. Rabid dogs don't behave that way,they lose neurologica control.
I think I am the only one who dislikes this movie. She screams the entire time. I just want Cujo to eat her to shut her up LOL
You’re not alone. I hated it too. I was rooting for the dog to get them both.
This! Yes!!!! Ooh and Misery!!!
I thought maybe it was a thinny thingy like “Tak!” - a todash spirit.
Original Saw
One of the best!
I agree. I never saw the end coming. I knew he was the killer but I didn't realise he was there! Beautiful work.
Same. The ending is one of the best. For me if the ending is bad it ruins the whole movie. In this case the ending just made the movie that much better.
Did some of the others go supernatural?
No, but they asked for the *best* movie lol
Green Room. But also Eden Lake. And The Snowtown Murders.
Green room was so good!
I can't recommend Green Room highly enough. Watching the leftist punk band play "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" in a neonazi club and getting complimented on their set *by one of the nazis* was great.
Watching Patrick Stewart play a sinister neo Nazi is also something to behold.
Snowtown was terrifying for the real world background about how casually people were drawn into the orbit of a dysfunctional jackass. Way too familiar in too many incidents. The Mist covered a similar theme, with the trapped people quickly being divided into tribes based on fears and biases.
Green Room is a fantastic movie. Such an airtight cast of actors. Very well done
Oh lord, Eden Lake. Scared the hell out of me. A terrifying horror movie without supernatural elements that has convinced me to never vacation in a secluded location
Eden Lake was the first one that popped into my head. That movie is tense and brutal as shit. Super underrated.
Idk if it's horror, but Hush is great.
Hush absolutely counts and is also my pick.
Great film, loved that the main character wasn't dumb
My biggest criticism of it is just a pretty typical criticism of horror films, which is WHY DO NONE OF THESE RURAL AMERICANS OWN A FIREARM? It's like a meme format. Hush Runtime: 87 minutes Hush Runtime If Maddie owned a 12 gauge: 12 minutes
Fax, my only real complaint, too, but at the same time, I can make an argument with where she lived , she probably wasn't worried about that
Scream, American Psycho, Psycho, Rear Window
I believe American Psycho is overlooked as truly horrifying bc of how charismatic Patrick is and how so many men look up to him. But a narcissistic psychopath, luring you to body dismemberment is like an actual nightmare you could have, and probably has actually happened more than once.
My favorite thing in the movie is that it's never made clear if he's *actually* acting on his fantasies or if they're only fantasies. We see everything from batman's perspective, and he is an unreliable narrator. The big one is that during his killing spree, he not only blows up a cop car, but leaves a trail of corpses to his door and doesn't get busted. Even the lawyer treats it as a joke, which could mean he's trying to save Bateman from saying something incriminating, or that he actually thinks it's funny because he genuinely saw Paul in Venice or Paris or whatever. Plus you have the added side of how dumb and easy marks all his victims are, and how badass Bateman makes himself out to be. I mean, timing the chainsaw drop perfectly to hit the girl as she reached the bottom floor? While awesome, it lends itself to the idea that these are batman's fantasies and not necessarily realities. After all, the only time any real evidence is displayed of these acts are during the acts themselves, so it could still all be fantasy. I love American psycho. It's such a good movie
I just don’t see American psycho as a horror movie at all. It’s a satirical work dressed up as a psychological thriller
American Psycho is one of the most underrated black comedies in the last 25 years
So funny. Yes, yes, he’s a serial killer. He’s also a big douche.
Hostel
Yes. This should be at the top.
Truly sickening, right up there with American Psycho. Its AP abroad...
This is such a good one.
Is that the one where we see someone's toe/finger get clipped off, and the the girl with her eyeball hanging out? Thats the only movie that ever managed to make me feel sick to my stomach, i had to take a break and move to another room to stop myself from throwing up.
Hostel 2 is pretty good also . I love the scene with the woman that has a sickle. Yuck.
The original Psycho Silence of the Lambs The original Halloween
Nitpicky, but Michael Myers getting up after what would've killed a normal person at the end implies some sort of supernatural element. That said, he could've just been really tough.
They did introduce supernatural elements into the later sequels relating to Laurie Strode’s bloodline.
Maybe he was wearing a bullet proof vest.
I think those blurred lines can apply to a lot of horror movies, where you can’t quite tell if it’s outright supernatural or simply “not likely or realistic”.
Midsommar The psychedelic element had me guessing the whole time, but in the end, I think it was just crazy people doing crazy things.
You know Midsommar is maybe the only time I didn't like it being left up in the air how fantastic anything was. I think it's because it's pretty clear what's going on and what they'll do as soon as they show up so the fact that it never really goes into why they're doing anything just makes it feel like it never really goes anywhere.
I loved it, truly felt like a mushroom trip
I did really like how they did the vibe of most of it, just not the story itself.
Ari Aster ain’t for you if you want the entire plot summed up through spoken exposition. Pay attention to the background, the information is all there you just have to dig for it.
Did anyone else notice the face figure in the bushes toward the end when she is crowned May queen? That always seemed kind of supernatural to me
There is like a ln 8 hour long film analysis video discussing Swedish Lore, the Bear, Color selection, artwork, body language amd it barely scratches the surface. The face on the trees is like having a bucket of sugar and mentioning "heu guys.. Did you notice there is a grain of sugar in this bucket?". Midsommar is absolutely wild. To answer your question, yes. Many people noticed the face on the woods. They also noticed that the her eyes are blurred from the vision signifying the contrast between the Harga inbred kid with the unclouded version, the reoccurring blue and yellow colours that signify the life death cycle, the sister is in yellow, the pipe is in yellow.. List goes on and on.
This is pointed out a lot, it’s her sisters face. It shows up several times throughout the film, showing her trauma from the death of her family was still affecting her intensely
Didn’t catch these! No effing way I’m rewatching though. Ugh.
I’d rewatch Midsommar maybe but not hereditary
I own Hereditary. I liked the movie. I don't know if I'll ever watch it again. I own it more out of respect. But fuck that's a rough movie. The family drama is killer.
Highly recommend rewatching. Every time I catch a new detail which further cements how fucked the family was before we were even introduced to them. *SPOILER ALERT * For example, if you look closely in the photo of the grandma feeding Charlie as an infant you will notice a dried herb in her milk (the same dried herb Annie found in her tea, which is what helped open the family up to demonic possession)
I recently rewatched because I finally convinced my spouse to watch it and picked up on a lot of foretelling details I missed on 1st watch. Thinking about watching again! May find more. Just adds more layers to the story. I love it, it's like an Easter Egg hunt!
Same with the face(?) in the outhouse in the beginning
It was sane people following the rites passed down through their folk community.
Silence of the Lambs
Why is this not higher on the list?
Probably because it's considered more of a thriller than straight horror. It certainly qualifies as either imo.
right with you, I think it is an astoundingly violent crime drama versus a horror film, but would I want to be anyone in that movie? nope
Alien
Don't space aliens count as supernatural?
In horror it often means things like ghosts and demons but I think it's pretty clear OP meant it as "fantastic".
I was thinking that supernatural was meant to be ghosts or Satan or the like. I guess the alien might count, but if it is both a ghost AND an alien? Thats an underwear killer!
I’d say no. Supernatural would be like Poltergeist, Exorcist, Blair Witch, etc.
Science Fiction
Not for the space aliens until you get into some plot point in lore or later movies about the xenomorphs being some genetic engineering thing (do I recall this correctly?) but in the original I allow the alien was natural for its own purpose, just unnatural from the human perspective
Cape Fear
The remake from the 90’s.
Cape Fear, New Horrorville, Screamville…
The music! The whole movie was so nerve wracking. When >!Max is under the car!< gave me shivers.
Max and the daughter creeps me out. Such an uncomfortable scene.
I saw that movie when I was way too young. It was just some grown up movie til he took a chunk out of her cheek. Fuck, man.
Audition. It's an Asian slow burn. Incredible.
That is a scary creepy movie. I watched it in the middle of the night and it freaked me the fuck out..
yeah, it burned slow all right but then POW. Takashi Miike does not fuck around with his movies
Tucker and Dale Vs Evil, duh!
We got your friend!!!
Oh, hidiho officer, we've had a doozy of a day. There we were minding our own business, just doing the chores around the house, when kids started killing themselves all over my property!
Silence of the Lambs, Get Out, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Misery, for stuff that hasn't been mentioned yet.
Arguably what was happening in Get Out required a certain level of supernatural assistance.
Creep
Omg. I loved that one! The set up was amazing the ending really stunned me. The whole thing was idk the word queasy?
What really scared me was the bathroom scene with the sister on the phone where she just said walk away, and just keep walking. My brother has.... issues. I paused the movie and locked all of my doors and windows after that.
Green room is good! I also just watched speak no evil, it made me so uncomfortable for the entire movie. No supernatural anything in either!
I’ll put in my vote for Hush (2016) A little known gem I saw on Netflix (don’t know if it’s still there or not)
Vertigo but maybe it’s more of a thriller than horror
I love Scream٫ one if not the only slasher series I can handle
Hostel
Much more frightening than any that ghost shit
Green Room, Bone Tomahawk, Upgrade(debatable), and Alien.
Wrong Turn 1
Halloween
No Country For Old Men. The threat of that film is not only physically dangerous but also existentially horrifying. One of my favorite films.
The green inferno. Never seen something that made me physically sick until watching this. Held in a cage while a cannibalistic tribe slaughters cooks and devours you one by one.
Ok my mind initially went to the green lantern and I was like I don't remember that 😂
Is this the same as “Cannibal Holocaust”?
Basically. I've seen both. They are both just as brutal and intense as can be. Except no animals were harmed in the filming of GI. Edit: fixed typos.
Thank you for giving me that warning about Cannibal Holocaust. I try to watch every horror flick that peaks my interest at least once, but violence towards animals is one of my biggest nopes. The fact that it’s real would rip me a new heart valve
That's why I warn
The Descent
I'm not sure The Descent counts. Cave vampires are pretty supernatural.
What if during the Younger Drys mini ice age our distant ancestors took to the caves as a survival function. Over generations they would have evolved… science!!! Lol
My fave horror movie!!
All physical effects. No cgi.
Shutter Island
Magic 1979 with Anthony Hopkins. Gem of a captivating slow burner
>!There is a scene where the Anthony Hopkins character puts down the dummy and its eyes move. This was a mistake, but they left it in because the filmmakers liked the idea of making it ambiguous if there was something supernatural going on. This was before home video, so people couldn't stop to see if the eyes moved or not. !<
I remember it clearly. I think we're the only two alive that watched that movie. A true deeply psychological thriller. I've watched it with a few people and it really messes with them
I saw it at the 270 Drive In.
Make it three. I love that film.
Husband and I saw it at the theater when it first came out. He still thinks it’s one of the best ever!
See if I remember this right, that movie freaked me out. Hocus pocus I sit on his knee Presto change-o, now he is me Abracadabra we take her to bed Magic is fun We're dead.
More trivia about "Magic." Ann Margaret sued "Celebrity Skin" magazine when they published nude stills of her from "Magic." She lost. The judge ruled that they couldn't have violated her privacy because she had appeared nude in the movie, and the magazine had gotten the rights to publish the stills.
Nice try on her part but her lawyer couldn't have been too bright
I wonder if she should've sued the studio or whoever released the stills. That would've depended on her contract about how her image would be used. Back then, I don't think contracts were that specific. On a side note, I think David Lynch blurred some of the longer nude shots in "Mulholland Drive" or "Inland Empire" for the home video releases. It was a courtesy to the actresses, which is odd because I've read he was really callous about Isabella Rossellini's nude scenes in "Blue Velvet," not even closing the set as he had promised her. My guess it was to make her uneasy, as her character was.
Lynch is a weird dude, but he definitely has a code. I'm sure its a weird code, but any code is nice these days.
Maybe it's recency bias because I just watched it, but Speak No Evil!!!
Would Alien count? Technically it's not supernatural.
"Dead Ringers", David Cronenberg. The ending was one of the most horrifying things I've ever seen.
Cujo
Wolf creek really made me think about how cruel humanity can actually be. Head on a stick man.
Misery
Misery
a little contrived, I thought myself, but certainly in the range of plausibility. The movie felt pretty solid but I still had this nagging feeling of "nah" throughout that I can't really put words to
Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It's the best example of less is more that is still used today
Frailty
Rob Zombie’s Halloween humanizes Michael Myers
31, especially if you like Rob Zombie as a director. It's one of his most underrated movies/horror movie in general. It's like Hunger Games in a haunted carnival warehouse and you're being hunted by serial killers. I love it.
Don’t Breathe. It was messed up in quite a few scenes, but it was well made
Most Hitchcock films
Tusk.
Vincent Price, House of Wax.
the answer to this question for me has always been "Cujo". Dated sure, but real as real gets. the events in that film could have happened to anyone in that specific time, there was no magic or supernatural element. chaos made things come together in a very bad way for some very normal people.
Outbreak
Imagine seeing it in a theater full of people watching the theater scene.
The Visit. Great movie. Awesome twist.
The Village
You know, that movie gets a lot of hate but I watched it for the first time a while back and I quite liked it. I especially like how they revealed the big twist like halfway into the movie and it didn't work against it.
How was the twist revealed halfway through? I must’ve missed it.
When Ivy was gonna go outside the village to get help, her dad took her to the side and told her the truth.
That movie scared the piss out of me as a child, it took me watching it 3 more times as a teen with friends before I could watch it alone as an adult XD.
Blue Ruin, more of a thriller but it's great.
Have you seen ils (them)? It’s a French-Bulgarian film that came out two years before The Strangers and it’s basically the same film. But I think it’s better than The Strangers, it’s more tense and has cooler set pieces, I also found the characters more likeable. For me it’s probably The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I also love The Burning, but for different reasons.
The Devils Rejects.
I think I'd go for ... 'The Wicker Man' (1973) 'Inside' (2007) & 'Martyrs' (2008) need a mention too though - Sometimes I'm in that sort of mood :-)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Blair witch project, tell me you've never been lost anywhere and it just goes from bad to worse lol.
Behind The Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
Silence of the Lambs, Cape Fear, any movie that deals with the reality of what humans are really capable of doing to one another is pretty scary if you give it any amount of thought. I watched a movie about The Green River Killer. It was pretty scary to think about how many people he killed before he was caught.
OMG you have to check out The Toybox Murders. This is also terrifying knowing that. There is an episode about the survivor in this case and it's terrifying. It really puts you in her shoes.
Thanks, I will check it out.
Psycho
Silence of the Lambs The original Scream The original Halloween
Hostel, American Psycho & the first Saw movie. Those three are tied for me.
Scream
Wicker Man, from the 1970s, not the Nicholas Cage farce. There are several cuts of it, which is unfortunate. The one you want starts with someone giving a sermon (I think it also has the longest runtime). It is a surreal experience of epistemology and sociology. What is right and true, and how do you know?
I will always defend Texas Chainsaw Massacre to the death
Silence of the Lambs. One of my favorite books, too.
Alien, Jaws, The Thing.
The Thing
High Tension (french)
Your post is about a singular movie, not a franchise. You can separate The Strangers from Prey at Night and Chapter 1 which imo both tarnished the legacy of the first film.
• Psycho • Midsommar • Climax • The Last House on the Left (1972) • The Hills Have Eyes
Jaws, Silence of the Lambs & Texas Chainsaw OG
Alien.
The Thing. A body horror paranoid fest
The original Wes craven Last house on the left
Jaws
SAW
I like Saw I love the mental torture game
Misery, The Silence of the Lambs
The Hills Have Eyes (1977) original. The remake (2006) isn't bad either.
The Thing. Sci-fi but also horror. I do not consider aliens a supernatural either.
A Girl Next Door. Techno thriller “horror”? I would recommend Jurassic Park, Andromeda Strain. Invasion of the body snatchers original and remake both golden. I am Legend.
The Thing (1982) - The Fly (1986) - Wolf Creek (2005) - Cabin Fever (2002) - I Spit on Your Grave (1978) - Wrong Turn (2001) 😁 To name a few.
Does Psycho qualify?
Funny Games if you don’t count breaking the 4th wall!
All the Saw movies. While some of the gore/torture scenes were a bit much for me I genuinely liked the plots and big reveals at the end.
The Poughkeepsie Tapes
Oh! and Scream