I am a longtime horror fan who’s searching for a good horror movies to watch. A movie like The Exorcist that actually made me feel scared. Something that’s inherently scary, and not because of jump scares. I have watched many popular horror movies and movie series like the Anabelle, The Insidious (my favourite), The Conjuring (another favourite), The Babadook and more. I am looking for movies set in 90s, 70s or earlier, that is not talked about much.

  • ace_garp@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    16 days ago

    Return of the Living Dead Part II(1988)

    Go old-school. Classic, underground, teen, zombie flick.

  • shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works
    English
    6·
    16 days ago

    A few off the beaten track movies that come to mind:

    • Haute Tension
    • The Descent
    • Rec
    • A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
    • AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      16 days ago

      Enthusiastically seconding The Descent, OP. One of the most original, well-done indie horrors I know of. Go in blind for best results.

      • lemmylemonade@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
        1·
        16 days ago

        I have watched The Descent. I didn’t know it was an indie movie. Is this the same movie about thrill seeking women who go cave exploration and get stuck inside with alien like creatures? The ending was ig appropirate for the movie but I wish she had gotten a happy ending.

  • MyBrainHurts@piefed.caEnglish
    5·
    16 days ago

    It’s going to sound crazy but after reading your comment about not wanting gore, the perfect movie might be the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original.) It’s just super creepy throughout but with impressively little gore etc.

    Last Night in Soho is a mishmash of films but gorgeously shot with a sense of style, in some ways a love/hate letter to London in the 60s.

    And finally, a weird one that I really dug, It Ends. It’s not at all like anything else. I saw it called a hang out horror which is as good a description as any.

    • lemmylemonade@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      0·
      16 days ago

      Haha. I do not believe you. Texas Chainsaw Massacre surely has a lot of gore. Last Night in Soho look visually appealing l might watch it someday.

  • whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    16 days ago

    The original slasher Black Christmas (1974) holds up well; unsettling, bleak, and scary imo

    Rec, it’s a pov Spanish language horror from 2008 but set in a building that could easily be a setting for 70s-90s. Kinda like Blair witch in a haunted house. Some jumps but the suspense is built for the bigger scares.

    Candyman (1992) it’s not exactly unknown but I think it’s recognition falls behind other 90s horror movie& series. Philip glass soundtrack, multiple conflicting myths & legends, scares that are suspenseful and gory and unexpected.

    There are a couple alternate soundtracks to Nosferatu (1922) that make it more scary and less dated

    Edit: for more thriller less bloody I’d go with Hitchcock & the movies he helped inspire like Brick, Blue Velvet, Dark Passage, Basic Instinct

    • statler_waldorf@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3·
      16 days ago

      Horror movies rarely scare me but the end of REC was pretty rough. I had friends over to watch, they left afterwards, my roommate wasn’t home, and about 5 minutes later the power went out in the neighborhood.

    • usernamefactory@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      16 days ago

      There are a couple alternate soundtracks to Nosferatu (1922) that make it more scary and less dated

      I’m intrigued, any particular recommendations?

  • Katrisia@lemmy.todayEnglish
    5·
    16 days ago

    The Others (2001), The Orphanage (2007), 1408 (2007), The Skeleton Key (2005), A Dark Song (2016).

  • Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    16 days ago

    I love horror movies, but haven’t found much time for them in recent years. The two I have watched relatively recently were Hereditary and The Ritual. Both were pretty good for different reasons.

  • Send Pics of Sandwiches@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    16 days ago

    The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988): takes place mainly in Haiti, where an american anthropologist is attempting to study rumors of zombie resurrection only to find himself caught between the combination of the Tonton Macoute and Voodoo occultism

    Salem’s Lot (1979): The original miniseries (2 parts iirc) This one has one of my all time favorite Nosferatu style vampires, along with Richard Straker, a very proper and suspicious antiques dealer played by James Mason

    Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986): Silly as it may seem to recommend a sequel like this, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 is pretty wild and introduces Chop-Top played by Bill Moseley who is simultaneously disturbing and hilarious, always in a horror-y way.

    These are probably like a 5-7 out of 10 for scariness, but are some of my personal favorite horror movies, one more recommendation which I’d give a somewhat higher scare value, but isn’t in that era is

    Frankenstein’s Army (2013): Neat storyline, and some really cool practical effects. (Not army of frankensteins which is another film entirely from 2014)

  • AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    16 days ago

    Saint Maud, a fanatically zealous Christian girl moves in with an aging ballet dancer to care for her. Religious mania and weird supernatural shit ensue.

    The Ritual, 3 friends on a hiking trip become lost in an increasingly creepy and haunted Scandinavian forest.

    Suspiria (remake), a German dance academy hides a bloodthirsty coven of witches. Not nearly as visually striking as Argento’s 1970s original, but MUCH more coherent as a story.

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    16 days ago

    top would be sinister. im not easily disturbed by horror movie but this one did a good job. Its from 2012 and takes present day but also crosses time. its a bit hard to explain and its best not to.