Quick! Recommend some really scary horror movies (available on DVD) to me

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I'm just browsing around on Amazon doing a bit of t'shopping, and I need to get a Christmas present for one of my nieces. She's 17, and is into really scary horror movies - the scarier the better.

What shall I buy?

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

'cannibal holocaust'

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

merry xmas!

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

Rosemary's Baby
Original versions of Ring, The Haunting or The Grudge.

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

This is scary on a whole different level.

http://thecia.com.au/reviews/s/images/shark-boy-and-lava-girl-poster-1.jpg

― Spink, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

PS2 + Resident Evil 4

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

seriously tho, there are no really scary movies ?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

Cannibal Holocaust sounds really gruesome!

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

There might be, but every movie Ive seen in the last 3 years has been ruined by spoilers or cretinous monkeys in the back of the theatre making whooping noises.

― Spink, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

Cannibal Holocaust is indeed rather gruesome, might be worth a shot.

The original Amityville Horror
The Thing
Halloween 1
Se7en
The Omen

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

'cannibal holocaust' -> Uh that was just plain GROSS. not really scary. but it's def. a classick.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Oh, the ironing... finally a chance to say CALUM TO THREAD, but he's not here any more.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

The UK version of Cannibal Holocaust has all the real life animal snuffs excised - it is quite an interesting movie, pre-Blair Witch self-reflexive blahdiblah, but is not esp. spooky/scary

i wld suggest these Italian horror flicks instead, all of which can be quite frightening in the right set/setting:

Suspiria (Dario Argento - ultra-stylish supernatural spookfest w/ high gore quotient - great great soundtrack too)
The Beyond (Lucio Fulci - dreamlike necro gutchomping)
Bay of Blood (Mario Bava - one of the first body count movies, ripped off for Friday the 13th)

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

the eye.

not much spooks me but this did.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

i wouldn't really rate The Beyond as being scary, but it had some neat gore moments.

American Werewolf in London, enjoy the dream sequences. A great film to boot.

The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is still one of the most disturbing movies I've ever seen.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is still one of the most disturbing movies I've ever seen.

Too much screaming, gets annoying after a while.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

yeah but that spooky old grandfather guy, when they're trying to get him to hammer the girls head. just wrong.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

just wrong

Yeah, but at the same time so right!

i do really like the film for it's shock content, but it's just the constant screaming that grates.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

If you want to endear yourself to her parents, buy her Audition. (Don't buy her Audition.)

American Meh-wolf In London is OK, I guess, tho I'm down on it mostly because everyone hypes the living shit out of it, and when I finally saw it, I was let down. The transformation sequence is still !!!

A really good werewolf flick of recent vintage: Ginger Snaps. Canadian teenage werewolves are awesome! Don't know if it's all that scary, but it's a fun flick.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

"Jacob's Ladder" is a good movie. It's one of those psychological horror movies, if that is the sort of horror movie she is into.

― Sengai, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

dawn of the dead

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

If she doesn't equate horror with gore:

http://www.dvdtown.com/discdetails/vallewtonhorrorcollectionthe/17092/

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

FUCKING WOLF CREEK. Jesus christ.

― chap, Sunday, 14 September 2008 15:20 (seventeen years ago)

Ils (Them)

― Vision, Sunday, 14 September 2008 15:27 (seventeen years ago)

Boondock Saints while sober

― The 69, 666, 420th Beatle (latebloomer), Sunday, 14 September 2008 15:36 (seventeen years ago)

The Ordeal is pretty fucking scary, and has the best bar scene in cinema

― spaghetti, Sunday, 14 September 2008 15:40 (seventeen years ago)

Sleepaway Camp (no, seriously)
April Fool's Day (It's fun but the ending is kinda cool and weird)
God Told Me To (Not really a horror movie, but dude...see it anyway)
Mulberry Lane (this was part of the Afterdark Film Fest and was one of its best entries)

― Officer, I Just Shot Seven People (Bo Jackson Overdrive), Sunday, 14 September 2008 15:51 (seventeen years ago)

Oh, and Skinned Deep. It's probably the strangest horror film I've ever seen

― spaghetti, Sunday, 14 September 2008 16:01 (seventeen years ago)

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