Ira Gaines Posted June 11, 2019 Share Posted June 11, 2019 Is this the best decade for horror? So many horror dedicated studios have popped up and are giving real quality movies. IFC Midnight and A24 are the main ones. This is a golden era. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted June 11, 2019 Share Posted June 11, 2019 5 hours ago, Principal Flutie said: Is this the best decade for horror? So many horror dedicated studios have popped up and are giving real quality movies. IFC Midnight and A24 are the main ones. This is a golden era. Rubbish! Nothing beats a good Hammer. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted June 11, 2019 Share Posted June 11, 2019 19 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said: Rubbish! Nothing beats a good Hammer. Tell that to Richard Challen 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted June 11, 2019 Author Share Posted June 11, 2019 35 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said: Rubbish! Nothing beats a good Hammer. Hammer movies are fun and there's the odd classic there, but I can't agree with the sentiment for the most part. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted June 11, 2019 Share Posted June 11, 2019 56 minutes ago, Principal Flutie said: Hammer movies are fun and there's the odd classic there, but I can't agree with the sentiment for the most part. I'm watching you! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted June 11, 2019 Share Posted June 11, 2019 1970s Alien the exorcist the omen jaws dawn of the dead salems lotEtc 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8MileBU Posted June 11, 2019 Share Posted June 11, 2019 Is this the best decade for horror? So many horror dedicated studios have popped up and are giving real quality movies. IFC Midnight and A24 are the main ones. This is a golden era. Yet to be convinced. Movies such as Alien, Halloween, The Shining, The Omen etc will take some beating for me. I don’t find a lot of time to watch horror films now as the missus doesn’t like them, but I can’t think of any that have jumped out at me (no pun intended) for a while. There may be a bunch that’ve sailed right by me though. From the ‘modern’ (post 2000, modern-ish) era, I think the first Saw movie was the last time I was quite impressed by a horror. Also seems a lot of the modern horrors went through a phase of just being plain sick or graphic gore, as opposed to being actually terrifying. Do like the genre in general though so feel free to post your best horror film recommendations and which platform to watch them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted June 12, 2019 Author Share Posted June 12, 2019 Those decades have the best horrors. But there's a lot more good horrors now. I'll post a list later. It Follows is the daddy though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpInTheAyr Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Suspiria, Hereditary, Annihilation, The House That Jack Built, & Mandy are the best recent horror movies I've seen that have left me scratching my head. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flybhoy Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 On 11/06/2019 at 09:45, Sergeant Wilson said: Rubbish! Nothing beats a good Hammer. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flybhoy Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 (edited) 22 hours ago, D.A.F.C said: 1970s Alien the exorcist the omen jaws dawn of the dead salems lot Etc The greatest horror movie ever made in my opinion, one of my top three films of all time as well. Edited June 12, 2019 by Flybhoy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted June 12, 2019 Author Share Posted June 12, 2019 43 minutes ago, UpInTheAyr said: Suspiria, Hereditary, Annihilation, The House That Jack Built, & Mandy are the best recent horror movies I've seen that have left me scratching my head. The Hole in the Ground is stunning. Takes a simple premise and just nails it perfectly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Saintee Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Bone Thomahawk. Would recommend. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 2 hours ago, Flybhoy said: The greatest horror movie ever made in my opinion, one of my top three films of all time as well. Definitely in my top ten. Probably my favourite zombie film, it’s perfection. I bought the soundtrack last year. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8MileBU Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Suspiria, Hereditary, Annihilation, The House That Jack Built, & Mandy are the best recent horror movies I've seen that have left me scratching my head. The Hole in the Ground is stunning. Takes a simple premise and just nails it perfectly.Netflix or....? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accies1874 Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Some of my favourites from this decade are Kill List, A Field in England, The Witch, The Babadook and Under the Skin (although I'm not sure if the final one counts). I like stuff that messes with my head but I don't know why it's doing that. Last year's Suspiria almost fell into this list but was bogged down by looooaaaaads of stuff. The first half of Hereditary was better than almost everything I've seen recently, but while I still thought the second half was good, it didn't quite reach its own standards. As bad as some of their output is (and oh boy is it bad), Blumhouse deserve a wee bit of credit for giving money to up-and-comers to make a horror film and not bothering about losses as something else will come along and blow these losses into insignificance. Happy Death Day, Split, Get Out and Hush were all pretty good, and one of these will come along while it's easy to weed out the shite they release. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpInTheAyr Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 49 minutes ago, 8MileBU said: Netflix or....? Annihilation netflix. Suspiria, Hereditary prime. Other two I'm not sure. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accies1874 Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Mandy's on Sky. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted June 12, 2019 Author Share Posted June 12, 2019 The Hole in the Ground isn't on anything yet. I caught it during it's brief cinema run. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accies1874 Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 I quite liked THITG but thought I'd seen a lot of it before. It did everything well without ever feeling new/fresh. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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