Which horror movies are you planning to watch this month?

[VanVeleca]

I'm gonna go with my usual, my top 3 faves, because watching new things is scary.

Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Das Kabinet des Dr. Caligari
and of course, Puppetmaster 3

 

[rainchip]

Sean of the Dead.
The Walking Dead.
Various Disney Halloween specials.

 

[LeilaniOtter]

Creep
Hereditary
Smile 2
Naroi: The Curse (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Top of the heap in found-footage films))
Exhuma (Again, do watch!)
Train to Busan
Sinners (again...and again...)
The Fog
Halloween (well, duh)
The Thing
The Exorcist
and every Simpson's Treehouse of Horror.

 

[ThisAdamGuy]

Not really a horror movie, but I always watch Over the Garden Wall every October. I don't really know what else I'm going to watch. I only know of one good horror movie that's come out this year, and that's Weapons, so I might pick that up on DVD when it comes out later this month. Other than that, I've watched pretty much everything in my collection so many times that I'm burned out on them. But for anyone who's looking for some good scary movies to watch, I can recommend a few lesser known gems.

1. In the Mouth of Madness. Heavily inspired by HP Lovecraft, and one of the few movies that actually nails the style. Also, it's about an author who becomes God, so it might be a sort of wish fulfillment for some of the people on here.
2. The Color Out of Space (2019). It doesn't follow the book all that closely, but it's still a fun, spooky time. Plus, anything with Nicholas Cage in it is worth watching just to see Nicholas Cage be Nicholas Cage.
3. Annihilation. Another one of the rare films that really captures Lovecraft's style. Again, it doesn't follow the book all that closely, but it still manages to be a confusingly spooky good time.
4. Dead Silence. I love ghosts, but I hate possession movies, and ghost movies almost always devolve into lame, cookie cutter possession stories. Dead Silence doesn't do that, and it's one of my favorite scary movies because of it.
5. Hereditary. Slow burn horror, but it spends the entire movie building up this genuinely disturbing, oppressive atmosphere until everything hits the fan all at once in the end for an ending you'll find yourself thinking about and wishing you hadn't.
6. It Follows. I hate, hate, HATE movies that think they're good just because they're a metaphor. "No, you see, the bad thing represents a different bad thing! It doesn't matter that the characters are all insufferable, the special effects are laughable, and the plot is held together by wet toilet paper--it's a metaphor, and means it's good and I'm an artistic genius!" That's why The Babadook is pretty close to the top of my "worst movies ever" list. But It Follows manages to be a clever metaphor and a good movie with some of creepiest imagery I've ever seen in.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

My toddler

 

[LeilaniOtter]

Not really a horror movie, but I always watch Over the Garden Wall every October. I don't really know what else I'm going to watch. I only know of one good horror movie that's come out this year, and that's Weapons, so I might pick that up on DVD when it comes out later this month. Other than that, I've watched pretty much everything in my collection so many times that I'm burned out on them. But for anyone who's looking for some good scary movies to watch, I can recommend a few lesser known gems.

6. It Follows. I hate, hate, HATE movies that think they're good just because they're a metaphor. "No, you see, the bad thing represents a different bad thing! It doesn't matter that the characters are all insufferable, the special effects are laughable, and the plot is held together by wet toilet paper--it's a metaphor, and means it's good and I'm an artistic genius!" That's why The Babadook is pretty close to the top of my "worst movies ever" list. But It Follows manages to be a clever metaphor and a good movie with some of creepiest imagery I've ever seen in.

I put "It Follows" in the Top 20 list of greatest horror movies of all time and prove me wrong. The sheer simplicity of the story is overshadowed by some of the creepiest cinematography I've ever seen.

 

[BearlyAlive]

The longest-running horror show ever. News.

 

[RightThereInTheTitle]

Haunter is one of my all-time favorite movies. I like to call it a "reverse ghost story", in which a girl stuck in a time loop that only she recognizes as such quickly realizes that she's a ghost, and that her strange "visions" are glimpes of the present-day people living in the house she's inadvertently haunting. Trying to figure out how she died and why she's trapped makes for such a great movie. Plus, I'm a sucker for any kind of Groundhog's Day movie, especially when it changes genre (honorable mention goes to Happy Death Day from a few years after Haunter).

 

[Piisfun]

Watch movies? Why would I do that?

 

[VanVeleca]

Watch movies? Why would I do that?

for fun, dummy

 

[LeilaniOtter]

Haunter is one of my all-time favorite movies. I like to call it a "reverse ghost story", in which a girl stuck in a time loop that only she recognizes as such quickly realizes that she's a ghost, and that her strange "visions" are glimpes of the present-day people living in the house she's inadvertently haunting. Trying to figure out how she died and why she's trapped makes for such a great movie. Plus, I'm a sucker for any kind of Groundhog's Day movie, especially when it changes genre (honorable mention goes to Happy Death Day from a few years after Haunter).

I've been wanting to see "Happy Death Day's" sequel, but I heard it's not even close to the perfection of its predecessor. *^^*

Haunter sounds amazing too.. "Groundhog Day" meets "Hell House". *^^*