Super Scary 'supernatural' movies.

DanH84

DanH84

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Hey, my brother has a liking for scary movies (he wets himself but still enjoys watching them). he's not so much into serial killers but ghosts, possessions, exorcisms really get him going. Sadly when he's asked for my recommendations for movies i have no idea where to start on the subject and as you're all so knowledgeable i thought i'd turn to you for advice :)

any ideas?
 
Darkness Falls. Its watchable enough dross, there's a guy here at work who refuses to watch it after watching the 1st 5mins scared the crap out of him, but each to there own.
 
Shutter - the Japanese version. One of the most scary films I've seen, and I've seen a lot! It's not things jumping out of corners and big scary monsters, it's far more subtle than that. The whole film is imbued with a sense of dread and creeping fear.

And if Gilly comes in this thread and says 'Alien' I'm going to track him down and whack him over the head with a pliant haddock.
 
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Watch the 1982 flick, "Superstition" if you can find it. Fantastic horror movie about a family terrorised by the spirit of a witch killed near their home. Plenty of gore and it's a ridiculously mean-spirited film.
 
ringu series - japanese versions not the rubbish american versions
hell just about all recent 'scary' films are based on the original jap versions.
 
Capn' $qu!ff said:
13 Ghosts

It's worth watching to see Matthew Lillard get his spine snapped in two
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Oh dreary that was seriously one poor horror film. Not the worst but I don't recall it being horror at all.

I think in terms of "scary" horror, Ring 2 (jap version) was a lot scarier than the original. First Ring film was a lot more than just a ghost story, and Ring 2 had a lot more genuinely creepy moments.

Generally speak I think Asian horror are the best because they're a lot more subtle and they experiment with the very concept of creepiness more and they tend to do it with very everyday stuff so that it gets you looking over your shoulder for weeks.

Westerner horror I find rarely scary and the odd one that worked for me (The Orphanage), the frights all stayed in the cinema.
 
Is 13 ghosts the one in the glass house where the rooms move around?

That was rubbish.

So are thge Jap/Korean versions of The Ring, and that's supposed to be the scariest film?
 
Pretty much most Asian horror films, Chinese, Japanese or Korean I find are much better in terms of overall creepiness and the whole psychological factor. Especially when they factor in their culture and with their own myths or legends. American horror films are mostly about blood, violence, some female nudity, i.e. pretty much all the cliches for slasher flicks. Sure, there are some decent American horror films, but most of those are from decades ago.
 
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