Horror General

I guess I need some torrents or something.

Here is the synopsis, tell me this isn't pretentious.

This tbh. It's scary when you're actually taking part in the horror. Movies haven't scared me since I was a kid.

What is the general consensus on this movie? does it have potential?

So it's kinda like Noroi the curse?

What's really scary is that people like you actually exist

Very little I would say

Out of interest have there been any decent horror movies released that are available on torrent in the past year or so?

Not without Cary Fukunaga.

They canned him because he wanted to put in a loli rape scene and that was too edgy for the reddit horror movie they wanted to make.

You gotta be 14 or something to still play horror games.

On one hand I'm glad I only wasted 10 minutes of my life on this trash.
On the other hand I wasted 10 minutes of my life on this trash.

Nah, Noroi was much better. Noroi had an excellent mood I've not seen in any other film and it didn't really built up as much as it got more and more intense. The point of Noroi was never the final scare but rather the evocative tone that the entire film has all the time that started your imagination.

The Void very obviously builds towards something and then gets erectile dysfunction in the final part when they go into the cellar.

It's gonna suck.

Got any good asian horror recommendations, anons? Last time I saw a film based on a rec from here in the genre it was great, can't remember the title but it was about demonic possession and it ended with the devil in a cave.

The first ten minutes are the only part that is even remotely watchable.
It's literally just
*cricket noises: the movie

It will probably be a fun outing with friends. Just for nostalgia sake I guess.

Is that the version where It's final form is a sea monster?

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this

The Host

The Void is pretty decent, user. Check it out.

Movie doesn't know what it wants to be.

I've noticed that on a few Korean movies, they start one way then they take a sharp turn and go full horror/action/drama, but I don't see it in a bad way, it's well executed. I still think it's pretty good tho.

Another one of their best recent horror movies is Train to Busan and I'm rather picky when it comes to zombie/infestation movies

Hey

BOO

That trailer spoils a lot.
Great movie, I'm looking forward to see what the director will churn out next.

Fast zombies suck.

Begotten is just an edgy arthouse film.

I liked Pontypool, except for the end bit.

Didn't like this much.

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That would make a very interesting horror film, a band of superheros doing superhero shit but one of them is a psychotic sex killer (add rest of the plot here.)

But we'd need to get whoever owns marvel to absolutely fuck the marvel future movie profitability to hell.

>That ending where the main character sacrifices himself with the "ALL KOREAN STYLE multiple instant replay cuts in different angles" scene

Korean movies suck because of pretty cheap techniques that hardcore "K-addicts" would consider (((kino))). Their (((style))) is "successful" only because of a literal cult leader literally manipulating the government through their president to make sure that K-Pop, K-Drama, K-Cinema and pretty much K-Anything spread like wildfire through the international scene.

No need. They could make "Elseworlds" type stories that either happen FAR into the background of the MCU or straight-up non-canon Marvel movies like what I think they're planning to do with DC.

Tried to watch BEGOTTEN THOT once, it was pretty shitty.

No one I know knows or likes korean shit, only good movies I've seen were oldboy and The Host and the host wasn't that good.

I don't think Begotten is a film you watch, i don't know what you are supposed to do with it, but i know it isn't for watching.

That is a fantastic idea for a movie, a weird coven of sexless feminists running a country by nagging the prime minister into supplication.

That spooked me pretty hard, user.

I've seen that, was that supposed to be a horror film? It was okay, I liked the bleak but funny tone it had. I'm more looking for ghost movies, the American ones are all garbage.

There's actually a very strong connection between witches and feminists.

In sweden Feminists from the 70's used to be called "Dye Witches"

Want real horror kino? Watch Jacob's Ladder, that's some real shit.

Jacob's ladder is GOAT.

Sinister 1 is pretty good too. Don't know about Sinister 2 though, I don't remember if I saw it or not. But definitely Sinister 1, that's a good watch.

That movie is absolute kino. Anybody who knows their shit who ever said that Alien Covenant "did Lovecraft well" should immediately take back everything they said and flog themselves for giving A:C more credit than they deserved after seeing this.

I found it really funny that the guys behind The Void only did horror-themed comedies before they went directly for horror. I guess it takes pretty deep knowledge of something to be able to parody it.

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Movies get better, whether or not they're shit, when you don't watch their trailers. The guys doing them are pretty much always outsourced from whoever made the movie and their goal is mostly just publicity and the shekels from making a movie ad. You're just basically watching something that's been engineered to try to get you to spend money on something.

I'm in an opposite situation. Almost everyone around me is too much into Korean shit one way or another. The weird thing is that their like for those things is basically just because it's "Korean".

I similarly agree about what you said about The Host and I thought that Oldboy was okay kino-wise. I thought that he heavily overreacted when it came to the twist though. She doesn't know, he didn't know, both of them enjoyed the sex and the "bad guy" even waited until she was of "legal age". The sex was even done by a guy that, in a previous scene, either tortured, beat up or straight up killed somebody in earlier scenes. How does it even matter if it was his daughter at that point especially when he a) doesn't know her at all; and b) didn't even raise her?

The Korean Oldboy had a better approach than the Western one, though. The motivations of the main antagonist made more sense considering the lengths that he went to do terrible stuff to the protagonist.

It feminism, SJW-ism and general (((political correctness))) wasn't actually directly involved in Korea's case. What actually happened was that a literal cult leader's daughter was in direct control of the president, which is why she ended up getting impeached.

You make a very good point, either way. Although, even if it's closer to sexless cult fanatics than sexless feminists, what's even the difference, amirite?

You'd be pretty fucked up if you were locked up in isolation, fell in love with a girl, had sex with her then was revealed that it was your daughter, he was already pretty on edge as is and then gets smacked with ultimate shamefur dispray.

How would the directors other film The Occult would compare to the Void. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occult_(film)

Apples and oranges really. The Void had a much higher budget, especially for their other dimension footage. On the other hand I think Occult is the superior lovecraftian film, it's much more subtle and the cosmic horror more effective since it is more grounded.

I don't think you should compare the two though. The closest thing to The Void I've seen was Dagon and that was far superior.

I'll check it out thanks dude.

Thanks for the heads up man, won't watch that trailer.

Don't watch any trailer.

I haven't seen The Void so I can't speak on it. I liked the Occult though I felt the ending was kind of laughable. I get what they were going for but it looked silly to me.

Yeah, it was a shame because the explosion before was top notch.

less than one minute into The Void and they've already shown a lit cigarette igniting petrol.
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Well this has escalated quickly.

Begotten is creepy, but it's not really scary.
It's just an artsy retelling of Biblical stories.

Babadook and Cabin in the Woods are essential for anyone in the horror genre.

That's a joke right?

Shit taste detected

They're not bad movies, but to call them essential? You have no fucking taste.

The Thing, The Blob, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Shining, Evil Dead, The Exorcist, Jacob's Ladder, Halloween 1 and 2, In The Mouth of Madness, Friday the 13th, Nightmare of Elm's Street, Phantasm, Hellraiser, Event Horizon, Sinister, Poltergeist, Alien, Dawn of the Dead, An American Werewolf in London, Videodrome, those are essential fucking horror movies.

Babadook is good, but not the essential horror genre movie. And Cabin in the Woods? It was alright and I liked the references, but the campy horror film has been done way fucking better. Evil Dead 2, Killer Klowns from Outer Space are some examples of that.

Nice list of contrarian hipster shit.

Yeah critically acclaimed movies in not only the horror genre but in film making in general, contrarian hipster shit.

Are you going to recommend people watch Get Out now?

It's 2017 grandpa, go to sleep and stop reminiscing.

You want good modern movies then you ADHD faggot?

The Conjuring, Sinister, Oculus, the Babadook, It Follows, Ouija 2, Annabelle Creation are some good modern horror movies. Far from "essential" though, way from it.

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A Scooby Doo movie version of Cabin of the Woods would be pretty tight. The early Scooby Doo animated movies were kino.

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A more worthwhile watch than fucking Cabin in the Woods if you want horror. On same terms with Babadook.

I see you missed the joke user, Cabin in the Woods is a parody of Scooby Doo, go watch it

14 year old detected.
Must be a sad existence.

Once was enough.

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Just finished the void, can confirm that it's a very good film well worth a watch. I agree on not spoiling yourself or seeing the trailer either.

Forgot to say thank you a great recommendation. Also 2.40am after watching that film is not a good time to here something huge and plastic sounding being dragged down my road and not being able to see what it is… second time that's happened tonight.

Just finished watching it. I thought it was OK.

Thanks, thread for the recommendations.

Old horror movies are automatically better, all else being equal

Be me "because fuck you" bored lurking the torrent and found it had nothing better to watch so i decide to use some internet on ti. Went in blind just from the cover didnt watch trailer or review or anything. Well lad i was pleasantly surprised by this one. And really enjoyed it. Especially the first half was super fucking strong. Really pull me in the sense of mystery at the start. It was a good story, well crafted and the acting was good.
The downside for me was the second half maybe the last 30min. For me movie went from 10to5 really quick it felt rushed like the script was written by another guy (maybe it was dunno) the mystery that pull me in went away and was kinda predictable. And after it as a horror fan i was kinda mad because that was the first 2010+ horror that i watched who really pull me in. It was different original story and i felt like it has so much potential if the second half has the same quality as the first.

Still will highly recommend it for sure one of the better horrors in the last few years. That kinda went under the radar because it had no promotion and marketing at all.

Glad you enjoyed it, user. There are some good horror kino out there, like "The Autopsy of Jane Doe" as mentioned by , that's another good one.
"Bone Tomahawk" is not a movie I'd call straight up horror, but it gets pretty damn close. Same with "Green Room", both really good movies. Might wanna check those out too.

Was there more footage or an uncut version of that "hell scene"? The descriptions that were given of the shit they had to cut were fucking amazing. Shit about hiring actors who had missing limbs so they could "hack off" body parts and use stumps to fuck one another and the interdimensional rape and shit sounded really fucking out there.

There was like 20 minutes+ of extra footage or something, sadly the film was lost then found destroyed in a salt mine somewhere in eastern Europe.

Horror movies all have the same cinematography and soundtrack, which why they suck.

"the road" is pretty scary. Or isn't that a horror movie?

I liked Green Room.

I liked The Road too. It certainly has many elements of horror movies in it.

I would recommend Kill List because I usually don't see it brought up on this board. Great soundtrack.

I want to bump the thread and mention that I didn't like the ending of Kill List. But having a bad ending doesn't usually bother me as much as it seems to bother other people. Also, I've heard several people say they like the ending so whatever.

Spooky bump.

Traps are gay

saw this last year first time.. what an underrated movie

what a PROBLEMATIC film

It Comes at Night

GoodBadFlicks covered that part in one of his reviews of the movie, unfortunately most of the material was recovered, but fucked beyond repair. I think it'd add to the "glimpse of Hell being an absolute chaos dimension" vibe to it.

Din of Celestial Birds is quite alright.

Ricky truly is /ourguy/

IT'S TERROR TIME AGAIN

So how about giallo

ffs

This is you

That is essentially all Nip fiction, going all the way back to The Tale of Genji. Japs make overwrought, convoluted, unrealistic plots with no cohesion; taking forever to arrive nowhere.

Japanese film and literature is all about mood and style, and in that it often hits the mark.

Did anything even happen in the past 20 30 years?

a literal nazi became president of the US, thats scarier than any horror movie

If only that were even remotely true. In reality Trump's positions are indistinguishable from Jimmy Carter's.

In the last forty years political discourse has been so thoroughly kiked that any ruler who's not a Marxist is presented to you as a political catastrophe, and you'll agree with it.

he's history's greatest monster!

Did someone say surrealist horror kino?

Finns are pretty terrifying tbh.

Well I watched House with Laughing Windows and that didn't make any goddamn sense and I'm not sure what happened but it sure was interesting

I really liked some of the segments in VHS 1 and 2. VHS viral was bad tho. Dunno why people have so much hate on them.
For me Amateur Night, Safe Haven, 10/31/98 where really good segments.

VHS is just about the most millennial thing I've ever seen. I was actually angry watching it.

1 had its moments but 2 was so bad it's one of the few movies I stopped watching halfway through and have no intention of finishing.

I didn't like VHS 1 due to it being a found footage movie. The 2nd story in it didn't make any sense to me. Why set up this big murder to run off with your lesbian girlfriend when you can just divorce the guy and run. Also, what was the point of the intro? A bunch of douchebags break into some old guys house but the tapes never connect to the house or why he has them. Their just random.

I remember watching a Japanese horror movie called Kakashi about living scarecrows that was pretty good.

I've been looking all over the internet for it but still haven't found a working link.

Triangle is pretty decent I think.
It has time travel fuckery though so avoid it if that sort of shit triggers your tism.

I agree with this. I can at least remember a few scenes from the first one like the succubus' face, and the scene where the cultists are standing in a circle and they all shoot one another in the head at the same time.
I remember exactly nothing from 2.

I saw it on youtube back in the day so maybe it got taken down.

Actually now that I think about it the cult suicide might have been from the second one.

That bugged me too. Really the only reason anything happens in any of them is to set up whatever the plot twist is. I remember in the slasher movie segment the characters basically explain all the exposition directly to the camera so the audience 'gets' it.

I remember watching Grave Encounters. I liked the first one, the second while still entertaining left me scratching my head when you try to think it through. About how the spirits could contact you through the internet

I've always wanted to see a campy slasher movie set in Finland.

There's a nazi zombie movie that takes place in scandinavia.

Dead Snow and Dead Snow 2 are pretty good. Also Fritt Vilt is a breddy good slasher movie, the sequels are meh. Both of those just happen to be set in Norway.

The "horror" genre of movies is rarely scary once you're an adult. The only movies that actually scare me would typically be described as thrillers. There's a handful of legitimately terrifying horror games though but they have an inherent advantage in the medium.

The Handmaiden is easily the best Korean movie out there but Sympathy for Mr Vengeance comes close.

Seconding Green Room, and for anyone who liked it I'd recommend The Invitation which is even more on the thriller side than Green Room is but similarly appealing. Until I saw it I considered Green Room to be the most tense movie that I'd seen before but The Invitation takes it to another level with pure dialogue.

Dead Snow is pretty much Evil Dead except with some actual tension to it. Not amazing but worth a watch.

Just watched this off of this recommendation, it was pretty solid as a survival horror movie but the eldritch horror elements weren't really working in its favor, especially near the end. I was expecting a major plot twist too like everything being a hallucination to get the protagonists to kill each other but no such luck.

Dude, V/H/S is shit.
That one story with the bird girl was the one I hated the most.

Dead snow 2 is even better.

This tbh.
The practical effects were fantastic, but the characters were very lackluster – especially the main cop guy. If they hadn’t miscast him so terribly it would’ve helped.

They should have gone all in with the Eldritch horrors at the end – a nihilistic, pessimistic downer ending, with the characters realising the futility of it all, our own insignificance in the grand scheme of things – that there are forces we would perceive as gods who are indifferent to our existence at best, our that the reality we know is a dream or a hologram.

I can't take this seriously

Giger wasn't too subtle either, and sex is pretty scary.

Giger loved the idea of sex, making it creepy was a secondary goal to him.
He also drew porn.

that's pretty hot

Have some more.
>>>/xen/1406

This
I was expecting some twist involving it the entire time, but it never came.

Why is Alien cubed the best Alien?

I disagree with your comment about the main cop guy, he was good enough for that part.

Though I agree 100% with the idea of having the nihilistic ending, something akin to In the Mouth of Madness.

The Tunnel wasn't bad, can anyone suggest good Horror set underground? Creep built up well for the first 20 minutes and then revealed it was all a failed preternatural tunnel abortion gone wrong and just lost any real horror to it. Also has anyone got some good horror where the monster is never revealed, I enjoyed Don't Blink for it's ending.

Pic related is criminally underrated.
Also it's only like 40 minutes long. So it's perfect for recovering a viewing session if you just watched something that was dissapointing or bad.

These are pretty good.

Don't worry, evil Chuck E Cheese robots are only for pretend

I really liked The Descent, I almost want to subject myself to the sequel.

Artist name? Reverse image search just sends me to metal bands.

I'll give it a watch then, thanks.

Confirmed shit taste. There is literally no horror in that movie.

Don't know if it is any good but The Pyramid is nearly the same as As Above except set in egypt. I thought they were the same movie for a while.

That film was excellent.

There's an interracial couple, that's horror enough.

Watched the Descent once when I was suffering from real dissociative disorder due to coming off anti-psychotic pills (that I was erroneously prescribed) and suboxone. It was one of the most intense and dark experiences I've come to remember.

I also want to recommend The Void here. I made a thread about it before, but it's just too fucking awesome. Great special effects too, not just some blurry shit and then you get to the end and it was fucking nothing. This, The Witch, and Autopsy of Jane Doe were the best horrors I've seen in years… sadly.

Maybe its a cover for their albums.

Check the file names

Shit I'm retarded and only looked at the first two and assumed they were all imageboard file IDs. Thanks!

It's great up until near the end. They really nailed the claustrophobia and problems of cave exploring. Then they went Ninja Women fighting off morlocks with bones and pick axes

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flip girl was fucking her husband

While I concur with you, I don't see how it would have worked as a feature length film if they only ran for their lives and hid in the darkness.

IMO the short film format is the ideal one for horror - it is very hard to keep the tension for too long, and for the audience to become used to the horror on the screen.

Doesn't warrant killing your only ally to get the fuck out of that place alive.

be responsible.
Could be bretty gud

oy vey

fuck off

Am I the only one who got a Silent Hill vibe from that film?

Anyone got an exhaustive list of good Asian horror with summaries for each film? I don't care if it's a blogpost or whatever, I just want to watch some good spooked gooks and I kind of have a hard time telling what's out there and what's worthwhile.

You are all fucking plebs

The only 'good' gook horror is their fucked up pornos - squids, toads, eels, etc.

Might as well say all horror is trash then. American horror is garbage, the European scene is ded, niggers, well…

No, there have been many good American and European horror films in the past; none from Asia.

Such as?

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Just five examples.

I support bullying weaboos but that's no reason not to mention some Asian horror movies

Posting Matango because it's the first thing I thought of

I watched the latter two of Carpenter's "Apocalypse" trilogy. My excuse for only watching them now is that I don't watch horror movies often.

I didn't really like In the Mouth of Madness. It used some great ideas, like a work of fiction causing insanity in the more unstable members of the society from The King in Yellow, but it didn't execute any of them well. It was uncouthly meta but didn't have anything interesting to say about the genre. Also it wasn't scary at all and the monsters looked boring. Only thing I liked was the part where the main character was at the brink of an empty blackness and another character narrated what he saw and heard in it, but then the scene was ruined by showing the monsters. I guess it showcased how unseen or barely seen monster was more spooky than something clearly visible, but doing mistakes isn't thoughtful commentary about those mistakes.

On the other hand I found Prince of Darkness great. It was enjoyable to watch and maintaned constant tension. I liked the mix of superstition and sci-fi, even though using catholic imaginery for horror atmosphere has been exploited to death. The plot and premise made sense and the movie didn't try to fool the audience by being confusing. Though, mirrors being portals to an alternative reality was rather too anthropocentric after the movie had explained the basic gist of theoretic physics as the background for what was happening. And anti-God having a red rubbery hand straight from budget bin Satan costume was all too mundane. I still liked the ending (the grill being stuck in the alternative reality was genuinely horrifying) and the transmissions from future were cool. I rate it about the same as The Thing: worth a watch.

Calling these movies a trilogy does disservice to the first two, to be honest.

worst movie of the year tbh

What are some essential horror films?
I've lived a sheltered life and the only ones I've seen are The Thing and The Fly, so I want to watch some more this Halloween. I've already decided to watch the original Halloween, but what else?

Hammer Horror is absolutely kinomatique.

Got a good list here

Prince of Darkness needed Kurt Russel in the lead role.

Anything from the 80's.

Makes you think.

The visions from the future were so scary it felt real in a bizarre way.

80's slasher films were utter garbage.

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if you want grisly shit: texas chainsaw massacre, i spit on your grave(1978) and zombie(1979)

if you want atmosphere: carnival of souls, the shining and suspiria

if you want a something a little comedic: the return of the living dead, the monster squad and re-animator

meant for>>881595

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True. It felt like the actual movie was paused for a relevant informational broadcast. Top notch unnerving execution.

They could base a whole movie about such causality violating messages. The last one was damn spooky even though I knew what was going to come out of the door.

more like horror casual

nah

I agree, I never understood why the shitty one is so overrated and the actual good one is so underrated.

PoD is basically just a ripoff of Nigel Kneale’s (superior) The Stone Tape

I want to argue with you but it's honestly kinda difficult

I'll third PoD being underrated, also shouldn't They Live count as an apocalypse movie, as much as The Thing anyway?

It's tough to narrow down and you have to apply some common sense as to what your taste/interest is. You could break it down by era, nation, different sub genres etc.

70s > 80s

Thanks for the recommendation. I liked it, but I wouldn't say Prince of Darkness is inferior or a rip-off. The premises are only similar in that both involve people using modern scientific equipment to investigate supposedly supernatural phenomena in an old building. The movies are structurally very different. The Stone Tape is more of a paranomal themed old style sci-fi, mostly about people in a laboratory talking about the thing they are researching, while Prince of Darkness is straight up horror movie through and through, with lab talk only as quick means to deliver exposition between atmosphere building and action. The Stone Tape shows anxious and terrified people, but doesn't really use any horror movie methods to unease the audience. Now, many of these methods are tricks, blatant cheats, so I will accept the opinion that movie not using those is superior, but I don't agree in the case of these two films.

Because it's existentialist and spiritual horror with the alien being a stand in for the devil. Alien relied too much on mystery and the unkown which didn't hold up when it both got famously iconic and had sequels and prequels. Aliens was a cheap action flick.

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I honest to God haven't watched a horror movie that's made me feel afraid or think in a long time. I wonder if its just me being desensitized?

It was honestly meh, which makes me sad. Cryptid horrors always seem like they could be great, but always end up being b movie tier borefests like pic related. Which makes me sad, cause I used to love reading about cryptozoology.