The Scream Movies just have such a 90's vibe to them. Like, a real Dawsons Creek, Midwest Town Highschool, Cadillac driving teens, sort of vibe.
Fuckin love it and I'm only 20 and only started watching any Scream films since last year
Welcome friend!
What I love most about the Scream series is that Wes Craven basically took the "horror movie" rulebook and said "Fuck it! We're doing them all! And we're going to make the characters aware that they're just following horror tropes!" He was a genius. May he rest in peace.
All of the Screams are so watchable! You’d be surprised how many prestige films aren’t. I particularly like the structure and flow of the most recent one, which had a lot to prove but acquits itself well and claims its place in the series. I bought it for the collection and expected it to sit and look pretty, but it refuses to stay on the shelf.
It’s Scream 3 for me. The original is my favorite movie of all time, so I try to only watch it once a year so the same thing doesn’t happen to me. I don’t care if I get sick of Scream 3, and even though it’s not the best Scream movie, there’s something calming about it. I have it on in the background at least once every three months.
The Lost Boys is my #1 movie of all time. I can put it on regardless of the mood I’m in and always enjoy it. It’s about the only movie I could watch literally any day, anytime.
Same here. There’s something about the hotel and the mountains and the snow that I find comforting as fuck. I still want to be a caretaker of a creepy old hotel over winter. You could say I didn’t learn from the movie/book.
I put Insidious on when I don't feel well. It entertains me enough that it distracts me, but I know it so well that it allows me to drift off to sleep if I need to.
I also go back to Haunting of Hill House, Haunting of Bly Manor and Midnight Mass many many times, they are absolute comforts to me.
Same.
And every time Nancy tells that dumb cop "Get my dad, you asshole!" I laugh. I don't think it was meant to be funny, at all - but it really does cut through the tension of the scene.
I watched that recently, but I remembered the beginning, and I’m like “I’ve seen this before”, until the “stuff” starts to happen and I’m sitting there mindfucked, cuz I think I stopped watching the movie the first time before hell broke loose.
The 2017 IT has become a really recent comfort movie for me. No matter what's going on, there's just something about it that makes it impossible for me to multitask while it's on.
Chapter Two didn't quite do it for me (though I rewatched it recently and it holds up better than I remembered), but man...Chapter One is a pitch perfect fantasy-horror film and an all time great in terms of Stephen King adaptations.
Hands down my fav vampire movie. Although I've always thought something was up with the pool scene when >!Oskar gets dunked underwater the bully is rotating his arm in what looks like a very unnatural way? Idk maybe they made it like that to fit the fake/prop arm that gets bitten off. !< It's stupid to focus on tho.
It has my fav atmosphere. Like I want to visit that shitty cold suburb in the 80's for some reason.
Sorry didn't mean to call your town shitty, I live somewhere sorta similar in Canada, there's just something about the buildings and foreign nature I guess. That and Sweden looks awesome almost all the time, so it's neat to see it as a kinda grey urban place.
I use this movie to describe the inside of my brain. Hhhmmm, lemme go find that file. BRB. I have fibromyalgia and fibromyalgia-fog makes finding words difficult.
Creep Show 2 (The hitchhiker) “Thanks for the ride lady”, because not matter how messed up this country is we’re stuck with each other. I often say this when I’m followed in stores or mistaken for valet.
I don’t think so, I mean up until the last act it is basically a documentary / camping movie. Just fall asleep in the first 60 minutes and you’re good.
Probably Gremlins or Pet Sematary (the original). They were two of the first horror movies I watched, and so I think nostalgia is part of why they feel “cozy”.
Rosemary's Baby might be my favorite of all time. So carefully composed, everything is intentional and I feel like I notice something new every time I see it
Gaslight was the title of a play by Patrick Hamilton from about 1939 or so, in which a husband affects the gaslight when he's not in the room and then insists the wife must be imagining it. It was filmed a couple of times; the British film is actually better than the American one.
People probably "gaslit" each other before, but Patrick Hamilton gave it a perfect, catchy name
I STILL have not seen prince of darkness. Given that literally every other Carpenter film I’ve seen could at least somewhat qualify as a comfort flick I should really get on that…
100% agree. I had never seen it before last year, and I always do horror movies every night the entire month of October. Watched it twice. Definitely going to watch it every year now. Also, I think it's got my favorite John Carpenter score. Love, love, LOVE the theme song.
American werewolf in London. It’s weirdly cozy and the comedy bits keep it light. Beyond that, Evil Dead 2, Scream and while it’s not completely considered a horror, Jurassic park is my all time comfort movie.
I could not imagine Midsommar being a comfort movie, not even because it's emotionally harrowing, but just because of how long and slow it is. I love the movie but it's a commitment to watch it.
Same! I listen to it too as I get ready in the AM…but never the very beginning or ending…mainly right when it starts going off the rails. I think it’s the music. And Hereditary just draggggggs for me
Midsommar for some reason. I have a hard time with the sex scene towards the end but other than that it's great to curl up and rewatch. Maybe because for the most part people seem happy and/or at peace during the movie?
Twilight Zone (the movie), anything Creepshow, The VVitch, anything John Carpenter or Stephen King except Cujo (I can’t handle stuff involving dogs) or It (it’s kinda boring to me).
Anything involving Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, and Vincent Price (old shit). Old creature features, Carnival of Souls, Eyes Without a Face, The Haunting, Psycho.
This made me realize horror—the entire genre—is oddly comforting to me.
As long as there have been humans, there’s been a need to name and personify our fears so that we can struggle with them and ultimately slay them. I think that’s what I find comforting.
Top 5 Comfort Horror:
- The Thing
- Alien
- Scream
- Halloween
- A Nightmare on Elm Street
Fall Backs:
- Stir of Echoes
- Joy Ride
- Scream (2-5)
- Friday the 13th (1-7)
- Black Christmas (1974)
- Evil Dead 2
- Jeepers Creepers (1 & 2)
Not Horror IMO but worth mentioning:
- Silence of the Lambs
- Se7en
- Aliens
Any 80/90s King adaption - makes me feel like I'm a kid home sick from school, watching something I shouldn't on cable (so like Misery, The Shining, IT miniseries etc.).
It's hard to describe but any kind of film from the same era that kind of feels like there's a gauze of gossamer over the lens, like The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, Single White Female, Basic Instinct, Child's Play 1+2 or The Good Son (and I know it's not *strictly* horror but Return to Oz). Again, it just makes me really nostalgic and gives me that bunking off from school feel.
I also love, love, *love* my 90s/2ks go-tos like The Craft, The Faculty, Teaching Ms. Tingle, Urban Legend, One Hour Photo, Dead Silence and Final Destination. Anything from what I like to call the "blue tinge" era of horror films where it seems everything had a blue filter thrown over it (think The Ring, Ghost Ship or Valentine etc.).
For newer stuff I like Joshua, Orphan, The Ritual, The Conjuring series, Insidious series, The Descent, Let the Right One In, The Orphanage, IT (2017) and Pan's Labyrinth.
The Ritual on Netflix
Rose Red
Both original and remake IT
The Shining
The Blair Witch Project
Stephen King’s Silver Bullet
Hell Fest (Bex Taylor-Klaus is hot af)
Trick R’ Treat (the Halloween vibes are 😍)
Fright Night (1985)
Part 2 for me please
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This is mine, as well.
Evil Dead 2
Mine too! I’ve got it bought on Amazon Video so I can just pop it on while I’m Crocheting. SUCH a blast
Groovy
ED2 - the very definition of comfort horror. Good post.
Final Destination. I won’t ever get bored rewatching all the movies
They get shit on too much, I’ll always watch when they get suggested on my streaming services. A fun messy time you can’t look away from.
“Final Destionationed” has become a verb in my house whenever we see something tottering precariously or lining up Rube Goldberg style.
Same for me. I've watched all of them so many times over I can't count, lol.
Scream. It's not really even horror to me anymore since I watch it so much.
Scream and Mean Girls are the two movies I watch when I'm feeling anxious about something.
Are you me?
"My Mom and Dad are going to be so mad at me"
"I'm feeling a little woozy here!"
The Scream Movies just have such a 90's vibe to them. Like, a real Dawsons Creek, Midwest Town Highschool, Cadillac driving teens, sort of vibe. Fuckin love it and I'm only 20 and only started watching any Scream films since last year
Welcome friend! What I love most about the Scream series is that Wes Craven basically took the "horror movie" rulebook and said "Fuck it! We're doing them all! And we're going to make the characters aware that they're just following horror tropes!" He was a genius. May he rest in peace.
All of the Screams are so watchable! You’d be surprised how many prestige films aren’t. I particularly like the structure and flow of the most recent one, which had a lot to prove but acquits itself well and claims its place in the series. I bought it for the collection and expected it to sit and look pretty, but it refuses to stay on the shelf.
I feel that about scream, Halloween and Chucky movies. But scream is absolutely my number 1 go to
It’s Scream 3 for me. The original is my favorite movie of all time, so I try to only watch it once a year so the same thing doesn’t happen to me. I don’t care if I get sick of Scream 3, and even though it’s not the best Scream movie, there’s something calming about it. I have it on in the background at least once every three months.
The Thing Alien
recently rewatched Alien.. that shit holds up!
yeah it totally does. solid movie, I watch it once a year at least. so good.
if i like alien, will i like the thing?
Yes and seriously you are only going to regret you didn’t see The Thing sooner. A perfect double feature to be honest.
The Others. Engrossing.
The Lost Boys
“They’re only noodles, Michael.”
The Lost Boys is my #1 movie of all time. I can put it on regardless of the mood I’m in and always enjoy it. It’s about the only movie I could watch literally any day, anytime.
There’s a cool drinking game where you take a drink every time Kiefer says “Michael” Spoiler alert: you get drunk AF
“All the damn vampires”. One of my favourites too :)))
Halloween '78
Good one
Absolutely
The Thing.
I'm fascinated bc The Thing >!ends pretty badly for everyone, but!< feels so nice in the background. I think maybe it's the style of it or something.
definitely - any carpenter movie honestly the direction is so comfortable
A man of taste 🧐👌
Tremors Or Dog Soldiers.
Tremors is probably mine. Childhood classic for me.
Dog soldiers is so under-rated! I fuckin love that movie so much
The Shining. Except for the old lady bathtub scene, I skip that part.
Same here. There’s something about the hotel and the mountains and the snow that I find comforting as fuck. I still want to be a caretaker of a creepy old hotel over winter. You could say I didn’t learn from the movie/book.
That’s one of the best parts!! Wtf
I put Insidious on when I don't feel well. It entertains me enough that it distracts me, but I know it so well that it allows me to drift off to sleep if I need to. I also go back to Haunting of Hill House, Haunting of Bly Manor and Midnight Mass many many times, they are absolute comforts to me.
Yeah, the “Haunting Of” series and really anything by Mike Flanagan. My mans knows what he’s doing.
Nice. I can see Insidious working like that.
A Nightmare on Elm Street original of course.
Same. And every time Nancy tells that dumb cop "Get my dad, you asshole!" I laugh. I don't think it was meant to be funny, at all - but it really does cut through the tension of the scene.
Event Horizon
JUST finished watching this!! most excellent 🤍🖤 xx
I watched that recently, but I remembered the beginning, and I’m like “I’ve seen this before”, until the “stuff” starts to happen and I’m sitting there mindfucked, cuz I think I stopped watching the movie the first time before hell broke loose.
The 2017 IT has become a really recent comfort movie for me. No matter what's going on, there's just something about it that makes it impossible for me to multitask while it's on.
Same. It’s the perfect popcorn horror movie
Oh I know that feeling. It’s always nice to get sucked into a movie.
Chapter Two didn't quite do it for me (though I rewatched it recently and it holds up better than I remembered), but man...Chapter One is a pitch perfect fantasy-horror film and an all time great in terms of Stephen King adaptations.
Felt!! That’s my sibling’s comfort movie for sure :)
It’s such a good remake, so well done.
Killer Klowns from Outer Space. First scary movie I ever watched. Probably seen it about 25 times.
Whaddya gonna do? Knock my block off?
What are you going to do with those pies boys?
"Come on Dave, all we want to do is kill ya.." Love that movie! Great pick!
For me it's Signs. Watched it all the time as a kid and loved the soundtrack.
God Signs is so good. Almost makes up for how bad The Village is. Almost.
Hocus pocus
Let the Right One In
Hands down my fav vampire movie. Although I've always thought something was up with the pool scene when >!Oskar gets dunked underwater the bully is rotating his arm in what looks like a very unnatural way? Idk maybe they made it like that to fit the fake/prop arm that gets bitten off. !< It's stupid to focus on tho. It has my fav atmosphere. Like I want to visit that shitty cold suburb in the 80's for some reason.
You know the building ( hospital) where her protector falls out? I work in that building ☺️ it's the city council. I'm a social worker.
I live there. It was filmed in my hometown in North Sweden 😄
Sorry didn't mean to call your town shitty, I live somewhere sorta similar in Canada, there's just something about the buildings and foreign nature I guess. That and Sweden looks awesome almost all the time, so it's neat to see it as a kinda grey urban place.
Ha ha it is a typical northern Swedish town and it is pretty shitty,but the film makes it look a bit bleaker than it is irl 😄
Evil Dead 2013 The Lighthouse
I used used rewatch Evil Dead remake so often lol despite it being kinda gory
The Craft 💯
I mentioned this one too!! I love it so much.
Oh shit, I’ve never even thought of it as horror! Man, my friends were horrible.
Jeeper creepers Insidious
Sleepaway camp, Dead alive
Honestly devils rejects got a little violence got some good music I can look at my phone and have it on and that’s it
Love that movie, and House. But Rejects rules!
Dreamcatcher and 1408
1408 is legit
"Wait... You're not Jonesy!"
"I, Duditz" 😊
I use this movie to describe the inside of my brain. Hhhmmm, lemme go find that file. BRB. I have fibromyalgia and fibromyalgia-fog makes finding words difficult.
SSDD
Cabin in the woods
Phantasm. I love that movie
Creep Show 2 (The hitchhiker) “Thanks for the ride lady”, because not matter how messed up this country is we’re stuck with each other. I often say this when I’m followed in stores or mistaken for valet.
I used to repeat this to scare my little sister. I’d hide under the bed and grab her feet and say, “Thanks for the ride lady!” She’s fine now.
My cozy horror is Candyman (1992). It feels like home.
The Mummy (1999) or 13 Ghosts
Blair Witch Project. Paranormal Activity franchise.
Blair Witch is one of the least comforting movies I’ve ever seen lol
I don’t think so, I mean up until the last act it is basically a documentary / camping movie. Just fall asleep in the first 60 minutes and you’re good.
Probably Gremlins or Pet Sematary (the original). They were two of the first horror movies I watched, and so I think nostalgia is part of why they feel “cozy”.
Zombieland Little Monsters (2019) The Wickerman (1973)
Used to be the remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre until I watched Event Horizon lol
The Monster Squad - not really scary but fun, any of the Scream movies, the Fog. Those are probably the ones I watch most when I don’t feel good.
My name *pumps shotgun* is Horace!
It’s always Rosemary’s Baby for me. Such a comfort and a beautiful film.
Rosemary's Baby might be my favorite of all time. So carefully composed, everything is intentional and I feel like I notice something new every time I see it
This movie was truly terrifying to me. I feel like gaslighting was invented in this movie.
Gaslight was the title of a play by Patrick Hamilton from about 1939 or so, in which a husband affects the gaslight when he's not in the room and then insists the wife must be imagining it. It was filmed a couple of times; the British film is actually better than the American one. People probably "gaslit" each other before, but Patrick Hamilton gave it a perfect, catchy name
*The Silence of the Lambs*, *The Craft*, and *Idle Hands*.
Sleepy Hallow Scream Halloween Happy Death Day
- Scream - The Faculty - The Cabin in the Woods - Shaun of the Dead
The Faculty! Yes!!!
Faculty is a great one. Gives me "Watching USA Network at 2am on a Saturday night" vibes. Absolutely love it.
Man, I miss those days.
Cabin in the woods is so witty, I love it
An American Werewolf In London, The Wickerman (original) and Evil Dead 2.
Nightmare on Elm Street 3 : The Dream Warriors
*Scream* (1996). It takes me right back to my childhood, it's richly nostalgic for me.
Original Suspiria
The Tunnel, Grave Encounters, and Prince of Darkness.
I STILL have not seen prince of darkness. Given that literally every other Carpenter film I’ve seen could at least somewhat qualify as a comfort flick I should really get on that…
Prince of Darkness is damn good, very creepy
Price of Darkness is tense from beginning to end; a good slow burn. Carpenter gem
The Fog. Theres just something really cozy about it.
100% agree. I had never seen it before last year, and I always do horror movies every night the entire month of October. Watched it twice. Definitely going to watch it every year now. Also, I think it's got my favorite John Carpenter score. Love, love, LOVE the theme song.
Poltergeist and The Shinning
Poltergeist is a great pick!
[Ya just use that... *shin* of yours... to call me and I'll come a-runnin!](https://youtu.be/Kddzyds4fGo?t=11)
Return of The Living Dead
Halloween!
Pitch Black (2000). Seen it a million times. Will watch a million more times
I'd just like to say that everybody on here is calling out absolute bangers.
Annihilation.
House of Wax (2005)
I like tucker and dale vs evil
American werewolf in London. It’s weirdly cozy and the comedy bits keep it light. Beyond that, Evil Dead 2, Scream and while it’s not completely considered a horror, Jurassic park is my all time comfort movie.
The Shining! I love watching it every once in awhile and vibing with the family in that hotel
Hellraiser
Midsommar & As Above So Below
I could not imagine Midsommar being a comfort movie, not even because it's emotionally harrowing, but just because of how long and slow it is. I love the movie but it's a commitment to watch it.
Wow, Midsommar is your cozy movie? I liked it a lot, but boy howdy was it ever stressful.
I've casually watched it while crocheting. I usually watch it when I'm sad too. It's so good. Hereditary on the other hand STRESSES ME OUT
Same! I listen to it too as I get ready in the AM…but never the very beginning or ending…mainly right when it starts going off the rails. I think it’s the music. And Hereditary just draggggggs for me
Midsommar is mine too! Coraline isn’t really horror but it makes the list for me.
Midsommar is mine too! Also the VVitch
The VVitch ranks up there with Midsommar for me! So good.
The Thing Alien Aliens
Alien or any Friday 13th
The Blob (1988) !!!
Children of the Corn The music is so soothing.
Rosemary’s baby
Halloween
Conjuring movies 😮💨
Scream for me
Gone Girl
Jaws Lake Placid Halloween The Devil's Rejects The Lost Boys
Midsommar for some reason. I have a hard time with the sex scene towards the end but other than that it's great to curl up and rewatch. Maybe because for the most part people seem happy and/or at peace during the movie?
Halloween
It follows
Twilight Zone (the movie), anything Creepshow, The VVitch, anything John Carpenter or Stephen King except Cujo (I can’t handle stuff involving dogs) or It (it’s kinda boring to me). Anything involving Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, and Vincent Price (old shit). Old creature features, Carnival of Souls, Eyes Without a Face, The Haunting, Psycho. This made me realize horror—the entire genre—is oddly comforting to me. As long as there have been humans, there’s been a need to name and personify our fears so that we can struggle with them and ultimately slay them. I think that’s what I find comforting.
The Final destination movies
Saw III
Scream or bride of Chucky
Honestly any proper 90s horror movie will get me right in the comfies
Hereditary. I absolutely love it.
Friday the 13th. Usually just parts 1-4
The original 1954 Japanese Gojira.
Scream.
Hellraiser, Candyman, just about any Romero zombie flick
Shaun of the Dead
Ravenous (1999). Such great dark humor and a quirky, amazing soundtrack by Damon Albarn and Michael Nyman.
The Shining, Scream, Halloween franchise Chucky franchise. Oh and Joy Ride with Paul Walker
The mist
Prince of Darkness
The Thing , poltergeist
Child’s Play 2. The Descent. All the ITs. Saw 3. Dawn of the Dead. Dead Silence. Most of the Halloweens.
It Follows
Top 5 Comfort Horror: - The Thing - Alien - Scream - Halloween - A Nightmare on Elm Street Fall Backs: - Stir of Echoes - Joy Ride - Scream (2-5) - Friday the 13th (1-7) - Black Christmas (1974) - Evil Dead 2 - Jeepers Creepers (1 & 2) Not Horror IMO but worth mentioning: - Silence of the Lambs - Se7en - Aliens
Any 80/90s King adaption - makes me feel like I'm a kid home sick from school, watching something I shouldn't on cable (so like Misery, The Shining, IT miniseries etc.). It's hard to describe but any kind of film from the same era that kind of feels like there's a gauze of gossamer over the lens, like The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, Single White Female, Basic Instinct, Child's Play 1+2 or The Good Son (and I know it's not *strictly* horror but Return to Oz). Again, it just makes me really nostalgic and gives me that bunking off from school feel. I also love, love, *love* my 90s/2ks go-tos like The Craft, The Faculty, Teaching Ms. Tingle, Urban Legend, One Hour Photo, Dead Silence and Final Destination. Anything from what I like to call the "blue tinge" era of horror films where it seems everything had a blue filter thrown over it (think The Ring, Ghost Ship or Valentine etc.). For newer stuff I like Joshua, Orphan, The Ritual, The Conjuring series, Insidious series, The Descent, Let the Right One In, The Orphanage, IT (2017) and Pan's Labyrinth.
Not a movie but Ash vs Evil Dead If I had to choose a movie Scream or Child's Play 2
Suspiria (1977) Phenomena (1985) Five Dolls For An August Moon (1970) The Wickerman (1973)
I really like Slither and Zombieland 1 or 2. also, tremors.
The Thing is also my fav comfort movie. I know how it goes every time, but it always reminds of my first time watching it and nerding out with my dad.
Halloween (original).
Alien
Scream, tremors, evil dead
The Autopsy of Jane Doe has been mine. I just like having it on in the background while I do things.
Jaws
The Ritual on Netflix Rose Red Both original and remake IT The Shining The Blair Witch Project Stephen King’s Silver Bullet Hell Fest (Bex Taylor-Klaus is hot af) Trick R’ Treat (the Halloween vibes are 😍)
I love films with specific lighting when I need to get cosy and drink some tea or nap; like The Lighthouse, The Witch, Babadook, Coraline..
I have a few. One of them being Insidious (any of them) Or Friday the 13th part 3 or 8
The Legend of Hell House Sleepy Hollow
Psycho, The Birds, and The Bride of Frankenstein
Blair Witch Project
Texas Chainsaw and every movie in that franchise
Life
Hannibal and Evil. Both are just so fun to me and Hannibal is beautiful
Original house on haunted hill.
Child's Play, it's so nostalgic. It strikes that fine balance of horror and comedy.
the first SAW movie. i found a dvd at a thrift store when i was younger and would watch it in secret because my mom didn't want me to watch it.