I love, love horror! However, any horror that deals with the devil usually takes the route of Catholic/Christian mythology and influence. Obviously, the '70s exorcism impacted horror and how viewers approach it and what they expect.

I'm familiar with the Jewish interpretation of the devil and how it differs from Christian mythology. My question is, has there been a horror movie that better represents the Jewish ideal of the devil? I can see this being tricky because the devil is somewhat non-existent in Judaism, but it does have a presence, often functioning more like a support cast to God. Almost like a lawyer against humans in a trial. It's different compare to christian version of the devil. A horror movie with that concept could be intriguing.

Unrelated. I have watched The Vigil. Sadly, I found it to be extremely slow and boring. However, I do think it has beautiful and sad moments. I read a lot of horror of Ashkenazi Jews myth stories; there's a lot out there, especially with the mythology and new retellings

Just watched Smile 2 yesterday on Max and it was incredible. Way better than the first with incredible scenes, twists, and superb acting from Naomi Scott.

I could feel the pressure the character faced in her everyday day life and how she tried so hard not to give in to the demon. Unfortunately as in the first movie, she was all alone fighting the powerful entity and ultimately, she lost.

Do you think the parasite has now divided itself and attached to everyone at the hall? Makes me excited for the next installment.

Inventive and unique and personally I found it pretty terrifying. Geoffrey Rush plays an old judge who has a stroke and finds himself in a care home that's terrorized by the brilliantly psychopathic, John Lithgow. This is the sort of film I think should be Oscar nominated. Anyhoo, check it out if you haven't seen it and are looking for something a little different to the usual reboots of the reboots, Saw part 27 etc.

As an addendum to my post, I just posted five minutes ago – “I need a good scare”, what did everyone watch last night - on a sweet horror movie Saturday night?? I was up to something else last night and did not watch… So curious!

I’m watching Piranha 3D right now and the Lake Victoria scene is pure chaos and very well done. Great kills, great effects. Trying to think what other movies pull this off.

Some that come to mind:

-Ghost Ship with the wire

-The Collected club scene

-Cabin in the Woods elevator scene

-30 Days of Night when the vampires attack the town

-World War Z… the whole movie basically

-Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) bus scene

-Silent Hill church scene

I’m sure I’m missing some, what would you add?

While I don't think many of the characters are super memorable, the effects and camera work more than make up for it. I am not kidding when I say this movie isn't for everyone. It gets DISGUSTING. Still a fan, though.

I'm thinking here of the townspeople murdering Freddy Kreuger and then everyone pretending it didn't happen. But I suspect there are a lot more movies where the town/village murdered someone or covered up a great wrong, and it's coming back to get them. Everyone knows about it, but no one says anything.

Off the top of my head I know of:

• Hot Fuzz
• The Fog
• Nightmare on Elm St franchise
• Eye of the Devil (1966)
• Harvest Home (fantastic book by Thomas Tryon)
• The Wicker Man

Putting aside cults and supernatural things, sticking with old-fashioned vigilante violence like with the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise... I'd love to see a movie where they killed the wrong person. The Skeleton Key has both, I guess.

I absolutely love cosmic horror but it's hard to find movies that actually fit this brand. I would love some ideas that represent exactly what cosmic horror is about. To be more specific, I'm talking things that deal with the vast and unknowable, forces/entities that make humans look insignificant as well as the terror of the unknown. Some examples of what I'm talking about are movies Event Horizon, The Empty Man, The Void, The Ritual, and book The Deep by Nick Cutter.

Edit: Obviously there's the "father of the genre" H.P. Lovecraft's work, but I don't want to engage with it due to the plethora of racism embedded into it

So I enjoy horror movies with religious/spiritual plot points or undertones, and especially seeing people grapple with them, regardless of belief system. So I saw people recommend Exhuma several times here and elsewhere for "scary" movies, and decided to give it a watch. MINOR SPOILER: (The scene where they discovered the second coffin and pulled it out and saw how utterly massive it was, actually made my heart sink for a moment) and it's stuff like that in movies, that really make me lock in. I don't care for gratuitous violence and frankly find it gross and off-putting, but true gut wrenching horror of an evil unleashed, an evil stalking, a discovery of evil, and then having the characters faces drop. Oh man, it's just so good.

Anyway, I've been trying to find movies like that ever since and have watched a good amount of Korean horror movies like Svaha, The Priests, etc and while some of them have been pretty good. Nothing has done what Exhuma did for me, just that building of tension slowly throughout the film. So I'm here, begging, pleading for recommendations.

It doesn't matter the region of the world they come from, pretty sure I've seen every western religious/spiritual horror movie with a creeping evil for the most part, but feel free to recommend anyway in case I missed something. Thank you!

Here come the downvotes but I’m late to the party with ’The Heretic’, I watched it yesterday evening and tbh was blown away by how intricate the script was and how I was on the edge of my seat all the way through!

Anyone else got any thoughts? Would love to know what you guys thought of it

I rewatched Child’s Play (1988) today and the reveal scene where Andy’s Mom finds the batteries is just so good.

The lead up to it where Andy is considered the primary suspect and she just can’t accept that her son would be capable of murder, also the protective instinct we have makes me feel so much for her, relating to it more so as a parent myself. She actually thinks this doll could be alive. She feels part crazy, part desperate but still rational when it responds “I liked to be hugged” after screaming at this inanimate object, laughing at herself.

She takes a drink of water to calm down and looks at the box. Once those batteries fall out the tension and fear she must have felt builds so well over the next minute or two until leading to such a great couple scares.

What other reveals in a horror film can you think of are masterful like that? So well built up and executed that you are on the edge of your seat as it unfolds?

Edit: Adding a link of the scene I’m referring to.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a4BA92AS0fA

What really stood out was how Exhuma treats its supernatural elements with serious reverence. No cheesy jump scares, just eerie atmosphere, heavy symbolism, and a genuine respect for the old ways. The film feels so ancient, which is in the best way possible. Every chant, every object, every ritual has meaning.

https://youtu.be/ffU7pglo5os?si=Kt0xSOB5yYgAdmSY

Mexican post apocalyptic zombie film in theaters now. Checked it out on a whim and absolutely loved it. Scary, funny, heartfelt, etc. Batshit crazy, expect a wild ride. The main female zombie might be my favorite zombie performance ever. Highly recommended.

I mean, really think about it, one the things that made Alien Isolation so terrifying is how despite being given the means to attack the Xenomorph, you still felt helpless, had to hide to avoid etc

Imagine that with Michael Myers? You play as a random character, and you have to only hide from him with only a few means of stunning him. That would be the perfect Halloween game

The Oscars don't respect horror so we will vote one by one for what we think should have won the Oscar. This week is the Best Cinematography!

The newest winner is for Best Film Editing “Silence of the Lambs”

1. Best Orginal Screenplay: Scream (1996)
2. Best Adapted Screenplay: The Thing (1982)
3. Best Visual Effects: The Thing (1982)
4. Best Sound: Alien (1979)
5. Best Short Film: The Strange Thing About the Johnson’s (2011)
6. Best Production Design: Suspiria (1977)
7. Best Costume Design: Bram Stoker Dracula (1992)
8. Best Original Song: “Cry Little Sister” From Lost Boys (1987)
9. Best Original Score: Halloween (1978)
10. Best Animated Feature: Perfect Blue (1997)
11. Best Makeup and Hairstyle: The Fly (1986)
12. Best International Feature: Train to Busan (2016)
13. Best Film Editing: Silence of the Lambs (1991)
14. Best Cinematography:
15. Best Director:
16. Best Supporting Actor:
17. Best Supporting Actress:
18. Best Actor:
19. Best Actress:
20. Best Picture:

The rules: - Has to be a horror film or horror adjacent - The movie with the most upvotes wins. - You can make as many comments as you want just make sure every film you suggest is a separate comment. - It can be any horror movie doesn't matter if it didn't win/nominated for an Oscar. The movie can come from any year.

Most such stories have two antagonistic forces: zombies/aliens/monsters/robots/weather AND other survivors. A lot of stories focus on the nastiness that is revealed when people are trying to survive. Things like bandits, despots, r@pe gangs, slavers, etc.

I don't want to see that. I'd like to see people cooperating in the apocalypse. It can still be gory and scary, but I want the threat to come from outside humanity.

Any recommendations for that kind of thing?

Which horror director should I check out if I'm looking for good B horror films or fun guilty pleasures? If you can't think of a director, you can simply list a few of your favorites b-horror movies.

A - Alien (Second Place: As Above, So Below)

B - Blair Witch Project (Second Place: Blade)

C - Cabin in the Woods (Second Place: Candyman - 1992)

D - The Descent (Second Place: Dawn of the Dead - 1978)

E - The Exorcist - 1973 (Second Place: Event Horizon)

F - The Fly - (Second Place: Final Destination)

G - Today’s letter!

Post your favorite horror movies one per post. You can make multiple posts.

The most upvoted post wins!

Did you guys watch it? What do you think about it? I think it was fun, a bit hollow and no depth but fun. Kevin Bacon was of course amazing and the supporting cast was great. Jennifer Nettles turn out to be a great actress.

The violence it’s good but not on the same level than Ash vs evil dead which it’s pretty comparable to it. The comedy it’s not great. The writing it’s not that good either.

It was sold as a limited series but clearly they’re waiting for an approval of a second season which I hate.

If they green light a new season I hope the writing improves. It’s fun but I don’t see a bright future for it.

I can't remember the name of it for the life of me, might contain files. From what I can remember, it has hundreds of episodes. An agent of some sort of government branch is going through files that have been recorded by different people that have gone through some weird stuff.

One of the stories is about a guy who was given a box on holiday and told to keep hold of it.

That's all I can remember but I do know it's quite a good series. Could anyone help with finding it? Thank you :)

I have been watching the films from the series as I always do at the end of October, and it seems like my affection for these three sequels increases every time I see them. Maybe the depths of ineptitude reached in the recent David Gordon Green trilogy makes them seem better in comparison, but I really do enjoy the whacky supernatural angle that gets worked into the Michael Myers story with the whole "Cult of Thorn". Shit really goes full-on bonkers in Part 6, and it seems like the filmmakers were really flying by the seat of their pants with this. I also think these three films in particular have some of the best autumnal atmosphere of any entries in the franchise.

I recently watched Death of a Unicorn and it reminded me of this recent trend in horror cinema to have foreshadowing or characterisation be conveyed through the main characters accidentally hitting an animal with their car.

I was thinking Get Out, Sissy and Talk to Me being the recent films to specifically do this, but I'm curious as to if there's loads of other examples in this genre in particular. Death of a Unicorn isn't a horror movie consistently but it homages horror movies quite a lot and plenty of scenes invoke it via jump scares or attack sequences. So I almost counts, but it also bases the entire movie around it rather than just doing it and moving on, so it's different.

I know Cursed counts, though obviously that's again a film where it kicks off the plot rather than being used in a less direct way.

I was listening to a podcast talking about final destination 5 which is a movie that I have a lot of love for especially for a franchise that almost lost me in the 4th movie.

Making the whole movie be a stealth sequel is such a genius idea which made me wonder. What other horror movies sequels made a really bold choice in its ending?

New nightmare also comes to mind one of the greatest meta movies imo.

Preferably if the movie is good not just bold and poorly doing it.

I watched it as a child, the film sums it up: A team of people is hired to make a horror film, but they are really killers and everything that is filmed are real deaths!! In the end the protagonist is placed alive in a crematorium! I know there was a plot twist with a girl in the middle of the film