Most recent one that comes to mind is ‘No One Will Save You’. It’s an alien invasion movie from the perspective of a lonely woman, and not a single line of dialogue is spoken in the entire movie. It absolutely nailed the extremely tense feeling like you’re with here and don’t know what to do.
All time favorite is probably the OG ‘The Thing’.
I’d never heard of it, how scary is it? I can’t handle too much psychological scariness
I saw The Fly (1986) last week for the first time.
Holy moly, what a good movie. If you can tolerate body horror, do yourself a favor and give it a watch.
28 days later! I loved the characters, the zombies, the storyline… it’s focused on both people and zombies as the threat. Absolutely love it.
The evil dead “trilogy”. The original is more or less a straight horror movie, with the second being a slightly more loose horror with intentional comedy notes. The third is full on batshit crazy Ash, and I love it despite it not being scary in any way.
I’m not knocking the horror classics, but for whatever reason, the first evil dead just works for me in a way that very little else does. A lot of it is the sound, I think. The way it’s mixed makes everything surreal, which bypasses my usual film geek filter where I’m enjoying how something was done as much or more than the end result with horror. At least, I think that’s what it is. But it’s one of the rare horror movies I can watch and get a little creeped out by.
If comedy horror is alllowed then:
Tremors II: Aftershocks. Peak of the series, although 1 and 3 are also good.
Love me Burt and giant worm gibs.
Was going to say Evil Dead. It starts off played so straight, but everyone kinda leaned into the ridiculous as they filmed and by the end it can’t really be called anything but iconic. Everything came together brilliantly. I also love the recaps at the beginning of 2 and 3.
The TV show wasn’t bad. I went into it with low expectations but the casting was perfect and the plot was just enough to keep things moving. Very much in the spirit of the trilogy.
The 2013(?) reboot legit left me feeling uncomfortable. It used the Evil Dead setting, but the tone was deadly serious. I talked my spouse (horror-averse) into watching the originals and she loved them. She noped out less than 5 minutes into the reboot. And that was the right call for her. I only gave it one watch and I’m not sure it’ll get another. Even though it deviated from the tone of the originals it was wildly successful at being a legit horror movie.
Last week we watched Good Boy 2025. I’ve never seen a dog actor show that kind of natural behaviour before. Good story too.
I liked that movie, but I can’t show my family because our dog would lose her shit if I played this on our big tv. Like she freaks out over a 2 second clip with a dog in the background, let alone a horror movie for dogs.
