Not a big horror fan, personally. I like the ones that are a bit more tongue in cheek, horror/comedy. Tucker and Dale vs Evil, or Slither, for example. Tucker and Dale is a fun subversion, where the "hillbillies" are the good guys, against the retarded college kids. And Slither is just a fucking good movie. Scream is fun too.
Sleepy Hollow is probably the closest to traditional horror, of the top of my head. 90's Johnny Depp/Tim Burton. Cinema. Might watch it tonight, now that I think of it.
There are a few others, but they're not popping into my head at the moment. But, yeah, I'm the wrong guy to ask when it comes to horror anyway.
Damn, I forgot about Tucker and Dale. Maybe I should have mentioned that as my favorite scary movie of the '10s.
We need more movies portraying retarded college kids and urbanites as evil horrific monsters and murderers. It's a better reflection of reality than the hordes of movies about evil rural people that Hollywood has produced.
It's a better reflection of reality than the hordes of movies about evil rural people that Hollywood has produced.
Right?
Not saying the rurals are always the good guys, but it's amazing the people with the stereotype of 'leave me to mine' are somehow the bad guys. I'm more likely to have something in common with them than the college kids.
Its the culmination of the liberalization of media. Rurals are constantly shown to be uneducated, racist, and traditional in all their values in the media. This is the most terrifying thing possible to a soft Leftie urban bug, someone who not only rejects their political pedestal but also is immune to their shaming tactics to get them into line.
As such, these "hicks" can be assigned every negative trait under the sun for any horror you want. Want them to be cannibals? Texas Chainsaw got you covered. Gay rapists? Deliverance got it. Literally deformed demons? Wrong Turn is here!
What the Southerners/Rurals/Hillbillies actually are or believe is irrelevant. What's important is the Lefties consider them subhuman, so bad writers can just slap random evil on them and no one will raise an eyebrow about it.
It also serves to propagandize to the masses that the cities they live in are much better and safer than that horrid countryside. That they're not covered in filth and disease, that they're not populated with crazed killers who would sooner shoot or stab you as look at you, and that you won't disappear forever if you so much as step into the wrong place. No, it's the COUNTRY that's like that, stay away from there! And don't question why the cities have all those problems in exponentially greater numbers or why no one's doing anything about them.
That and they absolutely cannot have people going out and interacting with such folks directly, that would break their entire narrative into pieces. Because once they see that those rural folks aren't mindlessly hateful, might even be "progressive" to some extent (lord did I know a few hardcore Dems down the Bayou) and are downright kind to their neighbors in a way cities don't have, they will be unable to keep up the charade of a boogeyman.
So you write movies that paint them as so insanely violent and territorial that people fear even driving through those places, and are on edge waiting for the shoe to drop talking to anyone around there.
I have similar feelings on the genre. I guess I just can’t suspend my disbelief enough to ever find them scary, so I also gravitate to cheesy or funny "horror" movies.
I will add Army of Darkness and Gremlins to your list. And Jason X has always been a guilty pleasure.
Edit: The Frighteners is another one I just remembered liking quite a bit too.
Yup, Army of Darkness is fun. I will say, controversial opinion, I think it's overrated. But, considering it's very highly regarded, "overrated" still means it's a good series.
Its one of those movies that every good line has been quoted and referenced into the ground, likely before you even knew where it was from. So it can never actually be as good as it was to watch back in the day or as a youngin who didn't have the time to here all of that.
2010s: Cabin in the Woods. I liked this film when I first saw it and found it fun and creative. Over time, however, my impression of it has diminished. It's just Joss Whedon bitterly ranting about how it's all TOXIC CONSUMERS' FAULT that nothing original is ever made anymore! But we all know consumers never have a say in what gets produced or released, especially nowadays. Unfortunately, I can't think of any other decent horror films I've seen from this decade; just some miserable Saw sequels or something forgettable like The Crazies, so Cabin just sort of wins by default.
2020s: Final Destination: Bloodlines. It also wins by default of being the only horror film I've watched this decade (or even remember watching). I mean, I guess it's okay; didn't find anything obnoxious about it. But it's not something I'll ever consider a horror classic.
I think the original Alien still gives it a run for its money, but I'm hard pressed to think of many creature flicks that can even approach The Thing, much less compete with it. I remember watching it again a few years back and going "man, that was really good. I want to watch some more films like that." and then just looking around and realizing there was absolutely nothing on that level despite it having been 30+ years since it was made. What the fuck is the movie industry even doing if it can't make something that good on the regular?
Disappointed you didn't put Splinter, The Mist or The Descent in the 2000s category. Though, I would probably have Rec 2 there, that movie felt like a badass throwback to John Carpenter's greatest hits.
Black Death would have been a good pick for the 2010s, though.
Yeah the first one was an intense horror-thriller, but the second one ramps things up significantly. It could almost be described as The Raid meets Resident Evil. It's an awesome film that's super intense, action-packed and horror-filled. I just wish we had more movies with that sort of premise and quality of execution.
I remember seeing part of tremors when I was in elementary school and being terrified by it. Finally got to see the whole thing when I was much older and man was it a good film. Even the sequels were fun, if way more campy. A real American classic of a film.
Saw is also probably my favorite from the 2000s, though I also really like 1408.
I saw Cabin in the Woods for the first time last week. I thought the movie was clever up until things go off the rails, but once they did it was clear they didn't really know how to end the film; and as a result it was a bit unsatisfying.
70s I would say Dawn of the Dead and some Italian horror movies like Susperia or Deep Red, Vincent Price in Dr Phibes.
80s is my favorite decade for movies period, The Thing is probably my favorite movie of all time. Shining is obviously great, Lost Boys, Near Dark, Evil Dead.
90s Ernest Scared Stupid. I’m serious! I liked Scream ok, can’t really remember a lot of 90s horror tbh.
00s I liked The Ring, Shaun of the Dead, there were probably some good J or Korean horror movies I liked.
The only recent horror movies I can remember seeing are:
1950s: Godzilla (I guess everyone picks this, but the original really was a fantastic film)
1960s: The Birds
1970s: Tough one here, because it's a tie between Alien and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but shoutout to The Car and The Crazies.
1980s: There are so many good ones here -- 80s was peak for horror, and looking through my list, I have about a dozen I could watch any day and love it from start to finish, but David Chronenberg's Scanners from 1981 has to be it. I love this movie so much. It's action packed, kinetic, gory, and uncompromising, right up there with The Thing. There has never been a horror movie remotely like this or close to the quality of this film since. Also respectful nod to Predator, Evil Dead II and From Beyond, the latter is probably one of the best sci-fi Lovecraftian films ever made.
1990s: Vampires, hands-down one of the most badass vampire movies ever made alongside Blade 1. The Prophecy is a really awesome neo-noir celestial horror film, we just don't get movies like this anymore so it's worth mentioning. ExistenZ is another movie that's a favourite from this era, but I'm not too keen on rewatching it, despite it being one of the best movies I've ever seen. But props to The Crow and In The Mouth of Madness, the latter is another awesome Lovecraftian horror masterpiece.
2000s: Pitch Black. I love when a horror movie has a badass anti-hero or anti-villain. Either one works in a horror setting, and it's so rare to see it done well in films, and Pitch Black nailed it perfectly. Honourable mentions to Dog Soldiers, Rec 2 and Highwaymen -- I can easily rewatch those films at about any time.
2010s: Stakeland. Not many good movies came out during the 2010s, but then again, I also avoided a lot of them because they went woke, but Stakeland is a worthwhile mention because it's a good movie about male role models, father figures, and doing what needs to be done when the chips are down. They really do not make movies like this anymore. Also, gentle shoutout to Train to Busan, Mandy and The Purge: Anarchy, all because Frank Grillo turned in a noteworthy and badass performance as a guy out for revenge while the purge is taking place.
2020s: Absolutely dreadful offerings, I have no favourite here other than maybe The Spine of the Night? It's worth a one-time watch but I doubt I will ever watch that one again. The woke-rot really took root and made most horror films during this era unwatchable.
Meh, I dunno about movies per decade but I want to shout out one of my favorite Werewolf movies: Dog Soldiers.
A bunch of British army grunts heading into the Scottish highlands for some sort of training exercise end up squaring off against a whole pack of werewolves while holed up in a farmhouse. It goes about as poorly as you might expect but it's rather well executed and understands the importance of the element of mystery when doing creature horror. I've gone back and rewatched it a few times and I think it has finally displaced Ginger Snaps as my favorite werewolf film.
90s: The mummy. I don't care that it's PG, as a kid it felt far scarier with the beetles under the skin and the open jaw scream of the desiccated walking mummy.
2000s: shaun of the dead. Nuff said.
2010s: Apostle. By the same guy who directed the raid and the raid 2. Has some scenes that stuck in my head.
I'm not enough of a horror movie connoisseur to list by decade, but here are some random categories from me:
Best Scary Movie: Alien
Best Horror Satire/Deconstruction: The Cabin in the Woods
Best Dumb Horror Movie: Final Destination 4
Best Horror-Comedy: Tremors
Scariest jumpscare in a non-horror film: the sea leopard from 8-below
Shit that still has me a little fucked up to this day: The Ring
Shit that fucked me up as a kid: The Basilisk's voices from HP:Chamber of Secrets, The tunnel in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Worms eating people in the Jack Black King Kong movie, The Balrog
I'm putting Funny Games twice because it came out in 97 and 07 with the remake, and both are equally good sans small casting details. So that's two decades covered.
While it falls into the "fuck you for watching this" type of subversive film making we've come to know so well in recent years, its doing it well before that was a political jab and does it philosophically instead. And its still an all around good movie besides. The tension in a few scenes is so uncomfortably thick it will hurt you worse than any jumpscare or bloodbath.
I've also just got a soft spot for Stan Hellsing, no good reason. I just think it deserves better than being overshadowed by the Scary Movie series.
Not a big horror fan, personally. I like the ones that are a bit more tongue in cheek, horror/comedy. Tucker and Dale vs Evil, or Slither, for example. Tucker and Dale is a fun subversion, where the "hillbillies" are the good guys, against the retarded college kids. And Slither is just a fucking good movie. Scream is fun too.
Sleepy Hollow is probably the closest to traditional horror, of the top of my head. 90's Johnny Depp/Tim Burton. Cinema. Might watch it tonight, now that I think of it.
There are a few others, but they're not popping into my head at the moment. But, yeah, I'm the wrong guy to ask when it comes to horror anyway.
Anyway, HAPPY HALLOWEEN, guys!
Damn, I forgot about Tucker and Dale. Maybe I should have mentioned that as my favorite scary movie of the '10s.
We need more movies portraying retarded college kids and urbanites as evil horrific monsters and murderers. It's a better reflection of reality than the hordes of movies about evil rural people that Hollywood has produced.
Right?
Not saying the rurals are always the good guys, but it's amazing the people with the stereotype of 'leave me to mine' are somehow the bad guys. I'm more likely to have something in common with them than the college kids.
The scariest place I can think of is public transportation.
True and real.
The true real life version of Midnight Meat Train.
Its the culmination of the liberalization of media. Rurals are constantly shown to be uneducated, racist, and traditional in all their values in the media. This is the most terrifying thing possible to a soft Leftie urban bug, someone who not only rejects their political pedestal but also is immune to their shaming tactics to get them into line.
As such, these "hicks" can be assigned every negative trait under the sun for any horror you want. Want them to be cannibals? Texas Chainsaw got you covered. Gay rapists? Deliverance got it. Literally deformed demons? Wrong Turn is here!
What the Southerners/Rurals/Hillbillies actually are or believe is irrelevant. What's important is the Lefties consider them subhuman, so bad writers can just slap random evil on them and no one will raise an eyebrow about it.
It also serves to propagandize to the masses that the cities they live in are much better and safer than that horrid countryside. That they're not covered in filth and disease, that they're not populated with crazed killers who would sooner shoot or stab you as look at you, and that you won't disappear forever if you so much as step into the wrong place. No, it's the COUNTRY that's like that, stay away from there! And don't question why the cities have all those problems in exponentially greater numbers or why no one's doing anything about them.
That and they absolutely cannot have people going out and interacting with such folks directly, that would break their entire narrative into pieces. Because once they see that those rural folks aren't mindlessly hateful, might even be "progressive" to some extent (lord did I know a few hardcore Dems down the Bayou) and are downright kind to their neighbors in a way cities don't have, they will be unable to keep up the charade of a boogeyman.
So you write movies that paint them as so insanely violent and territorial that people fear even driving through those places, and are on edge waiting for the shoe to drop talking to anyone around there.
I have similar feelings on the genre. I guess I just can’t suspend my disbelief enough to ever find them scary, so I also gravitate to cheesy or funny "horror" movies.
I will add Army of Darkness and Gremlins to your list. And Jason X has always been a guilty pleasure.
Edit: The Frighteners is another one I just remembered liking quite a bit too.
Yup, Army of Darkness is fun. I will say, controversial opinion, I think it's overrated. But, considering it's very highly regarded, "overrated" still means it's a good series.
Its one of those movies that every good line has been quoted and referenced into the ground, likely before you even knew where it was from. So it can never actually be as good as it was to watch back in the day or as a youngin who didn't have the time to here all of that.
50s: Godzilla
60s: The Birds
70s: Alien
80s: The Thing
90s: Tremors
2000s: Saw
2010s: Cabin in the Woods. I liked this film when I first saw it and found it fun and creative. Over time, however, my impression of it has diminished. It's just Joss Whedon bitterly ranting about how it's all TOXIC CONSUMERS' FAULT that nothing original is ever made anymore! But we all know consumers never have a say in what gets produced or released, especially nowadays. Unfortunately, I can't think of any other decent horror films I've seen from this decade; just some miserable Saw sequels or something forgettable like The Crazies, so Cabin just sort of wins by default.
2020s: Final Destination: Bloodlines. It also wins by default of being the only horror film I've watched this decade (or even remember watching). I mean, I guess it's okay; didn't find anything obnoxious about it. But it's not something I'll ever consider a horror classic.
YESSIR. Best all around horror movie of all time.
It's one of those movies that's pretty scary when you watch it as a kid or a teen, and absolutely terrifying when you watch it as an adult.
Yup. And imo the practical effects have never been equalled.
I think the original Alien still gives it a run for its money, but I'm hard pressed to think of many creature flicks that can even approach The Thing, much less compete with it. I remember watching it again a few years back and going "man, that was really good. I want to watch some more films like that." and then just looking around and realizing there was absolutely nothing on that level despite it having been 30+ years since it was made. What the fuck is the movie industry even doing if it can't make something that good on the regular?
we watched the birds in 9th grade and i just thought it was funny
Disappointed you didn't put Splinter, The Mist or The Descent in the 2000s category. Though, I would probably have Rec 2 there, that movie felt like a badass throwback to John Carpenter's greatest hits.
Black Death would have been a good pick for the 2010s, though.
Never saw Splinter, The Mist, or Rec 2. The Descent was fun, but I wasn't a fan of either of its endings, so it got docked.
Black Death...could be worthy. I remember not liking it for its bleakness at the time, but maybe age will have changed my impression of it.
Never seen Rec 2,but greatly enjoyed watching the first Rec.
Yeah the first one was an intense horror-thriller, but the second one ramps things up significantly. It could almost be described as The Raid meets Resident Evil. It's an awesome film that's super intense, action-packed and horror-filled. I just wish we had more movies with that sort of premise and quality of execution.
I remember seeing part of tremors when I was in elementary school and being terrified by it. Finally got to see the whole thing when I was much older and man was it a good film. Even the sequels were fun, if way more campy. A real American classic of a film.
Saw is also probably my favorite from the 2000s, though I also really like 1408.
I saw Cabin in the Woods for the first time last week. I thought the movie was clever up until things go off the rails, but once they did it was clear they didn't really know how to end the film; and as a result it was a bit unsatisfying.
Tough for me pin in down by decade,
70s I would say Dawn of the Dead and some Italian horror movies like Susperia or Deep Red, Vincent Price in Dr Phibes.
80s is my favorite decade for movies period, The Thing is probably my favorite movie of all time. Shining is obviously great, Lost Boys, Near Dark, Evil Dead.
90s Ernest Scared Stupid. I’m serious! I liked Scream ok, can’t really remember a lot of 90s horror tbh.
00s I liked The Ring, Shaun of the Dead, there were probably some good J or Korean horror movies I liked.
The only recent horror movies I can remember seeing are:
The Substance (good)
Late Night With the Devil (Pretty good)
The Terrifier movies (mediocre to good)
Maxxxine (ending sucked)
If you haven’t seen them, check out Terrified and Where Evil Lurks. Argentinian horror, very good imo.
Looks good, will do.
1950s: Godzilla (I guess everyone picks this, but the original really was a fantastic film)
1960s: The Birds
1970s: Tough one here, because it's a tie between Alien and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but shoutout to The Car and The Crazies.
1980s: There are so many good ones here -- 80s was peak for horror, and looking through my list, I have about a dozen I could watch any day and love it from start to finish, but David Chronenberg's Scanners from 1981 has to be it. I love this movie so much. It's action packed, kinetic, gory, and uncompromising, right up there with The Thing. There has never been a horror movie remotely like this or close to the quality of this film since. Also respectful nod to Predator, Evil Dead II and From Beyond, the latter is probably one of the best sci-fi Lovecraftian films ever made.
1990s: Vampires, hands-down one of the most badass vampire movies ever made alongside Blade 1. The Prophecy is a really awesome neo-noir celestial horror film, we just don't get movies like this anymore so it's worth mentioning. ExistenZ is another movie that's a favourite from this era, but I'm not too keen on rewatching it, despite it being one of the best movies I've ever seen. But props to The Crow and In The Mouth of Madness, the latter is another awesome Lovecraftian horror masterpiece.
2000s: Pitch Black. I love when a horror movie has a badass anti-hero or anti-villain. Either one works in a horror setting, and it's so rare to see it done well in films, and Pitch Black nailed it perfectly. Honourable mentions to Dog Soldiers, Rec 2 and Highwaymen -- I can easily rewatch those films at about any time.
2010s: Stakeland. Not many good movies came out during the 2010s, but then again, I also avoided a lot of them because they went woke, but Stakeland is a worthwhile mention because it's a good movie about male role models, father figures, and doing what needs to be done when the chips are down. They really do not make movies like this anymore. Also, gentle shoutout to Train to Busan, Mandy and The Purge: Anarchy, all because Frank Grillo turned in a noteworthy and badass performance as a guy out for revenge while the purge is taking place.
2020s: Absolutely dreadful offerings, I have no favourite here other than maybe The Spine of the Night? It's worth a one-time watch but I doubt I will ever watch that one again. The woke-rot really took root and made most horror films during this era unwatchable.
70s: Alien
80s: Evil Dead or Evil Dead 2
90s: Silence of the Lambs
2000s: Paranormal Activity
2010s: The Witch
2020s: Weapons so far
60s: Night of the Living Dead
70s: Alien
80s: The Thing
90s: Event Horizon
00s: Inland Empire
10s: Color Out of Space
20s: Tough to say, especially as the decade is only half over. I think I'll go with The Substance for now but I'm not sure.
Meh, I dunno about movies per decade but I want to shout out one of my favorite Werewolf movies: Dog Soldiers.
A bunch of British army grunts heading into the Scottish highlands for some sort of training exercise end up squaring off against a whole pack of werewolves while holed up in a farmhouse. It goes about as poorly as you might expect but it's rather well executed and understands the importance of the element of mystery when doing creature horror. I've gone back and rewatched it a few times and I think it has finally displaced Ginger Snaps as my favorite werewolf film.
60's: Japan's Longest Day 70's: Godfather 80's: Transformers
90s: The mummy. I don't care that it's PG, as a kid it felt far scarier with the beetles under the skin and the open jaw scream of the desiccated walking mummy.
2000s: shaun of the dead. Nuff said.
2010s: Apostle. By the same guy who directed the raid and the raid 2. Has some scenes that stuck in my head.
70s: Alien
80s: The Thing
90s: Event Horizon
00s: 28 Days Later
10s: Hereditary
20s: When Evil Lurks
I'm not much into horrors but event horizon was (whilst still having cheap jump scares) interestingly scary.
I'm not enough of a horror movie connoisseur to list by decade, but here are some random categories from me:
Best Scary Movie: Alien
Best Horror Satire/Deconstruction: The Cabin in the Woods
Best Dumb Horror Movie: Final Destination 4
Best Horror-Comedy: Tremors
Scariest jumpscare in a non-horror film: the sea leopard from 8-below
Shit that still has me a little fucked up to this day: The Ring
Shit that fucked me up as a kid: The Basilisk's voices from HP:Chamber of Secrets, The tunnel in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Worms eating people in the Jack Black King Kong movie, The Balrog
Scariest Game I've Ever Played: F.E.A.R.
I'm putting Funny Games twice because it came out in 97 and 07 with the remake, and both are equally good sans small casting details. So that's two decades covered.
While it falls into the "fuck you for watching this" type of subversive film making we've come to know so well in recent years, its doing it well before that was a political jab and does it philosophically instead. And its still an all around good movie besides. The tension in a few scenes is so uncomfortably thick it will hurt you worse than any jumpscare or bloodbath.
I've also just got a soft spot for Stan Hellsing, no good reason. I just think it deserves better than being overshadowed by the Scary Movie series.
70s : Halloween
80s : Fright Night
90s : Sleepy Hollow
2000s: 1408
Killing KlKES From Outer Space
Nothing is as scary as our future in 20 years.