myDeaconmyhand
First man to get a team of horses up Bear Mountain
70s horror movies have a different vibe and are a lot more disturbing than they are explicitly scary. Rosemary's Baby, Exorcist, Omen, Wicker Man etc. just kind of stay with you and can be pretty damn creepy if you let yourself get immersed in the worlds that they're representing. 80s flicks are kind of hard to pin down, but they're a lot more self-aware, IMO, which is great for craft and less great for actual scares. Some big exceptions, IMO, are The Shining, The Thing, Poltergeist, Nightmare on Elm Street, Hellraiser, and I'm not sure if you would call them horror movies, but I also love The Fog, Aliens, Videodrome, and Evil Dead 1-3.
I don't know what you've seen, but I find myself returning to The Descent a lot. Some more recent flicks that might fit the bill: Conjuring 1 and 2, The Witch, Creep (it's worth the wait, IMO), Don't Breathe, Goodnight Mommy, It Follows, Session 9, Antichrist, Drag Me To Hell, and - for Scream-like genre satire - You're Next.
I really want to see Kill List, Inside, and I Saw the Devil before the month is over. Any thoughts on those, Pit?
Any other recs?
I recommend Martyrs over Inside, but they are both ridiculous. Kill List is awesome, but not really a horror film.
For current horror films I highly recommend: The Wailing, Clown, We Are Still Here, The Taking of Deborah Logan
Some of my all-time favorites (that you didn't list already)are: REC, Session 9, The Brood, Martyrs, Pontypool, High Tension, Splinter, Frailty, The Babadook, The Beyond,
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