Horror film and television show recommendations.

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Hmm. You might also like Citizen X. It's kind of freaky because it's based on true events. The serial killer Andrei Chikatilo near Rostov in Russia.

It's actually a made for TV HBO movie. Moderate TV budget but great cast with Stephen Rea, Donald Sutherland, Max Von Sydow, and Jeffrey DeMunn.

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I rented that movie years ago, and I highly recommend it.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

I wound up buying the book The Killer Department by Robert Cullen that the movie was based on. Helluva read. Damn.

I like the Japanese horror movies:'The Ring' and 'the Grudge' (and its remake). 'The Fog' (the original John Carpenter one, not the rotten,rotten remake) is great,but my favourite is an oldie 'the Haunting' (once again,not the rotten,rotten,foul, disgusting,useless remake) which I think is unsurpassed for eerie,mounting horror...and yet without actually showing anything.

The original The Haunting was genuinely scary. The remake was just crap.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Movies
The Ring
The Omen
Ghost House
The Watcher in the Woods
Cube
Saw series
Hostel
Hostel 2
Orphan
The Hills Have Eyes
Carrie
The Grudge

TV
American Horror Story
The Twilight Zone
Weird Or What
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

Insidious, The Forsaken. The Grudge and Cursed are great horror films. TV. Not really scary but good. Buffy the vampire slayer.

I've started watching Buffy on netflix. I'm on the second season, still not super into it, but I'm going to continue watching.

While I liked Buffy The Vampire Slayer, I much preferred it's spinoff, Angel.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Here are some of the horror movies that I like:

Night of the Living Dead (the first remake and the original)
Day of the Dead (the original)
Dawn of the Dead (the remake, I didn't really care for the original)
Land of the Dead
Hell of the Living Dead (kind of a bad rip-off of the original Dawn of the Dead but pretty entertaining)
28 Days Later
Zombie (also known as Zombi 2)
The first Resident Evil movie (the rest are crap)
The Shining
The Exorcist
The Blair Witch Project
Paranormal Activity
Ju-On: The Grudge
Ju-On: The Grudge 2
The Ring
The Others
The Skeleton Key
Carnival of Souls (an old black an white movie but a good classic)
The Last House on the Left (the new one, I haven't seen the original yet)
Sleepy Hollow
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (be warned that it is a musical, but it's pretty bloody and dark)

I've seen all those except for Hell of the Living Dead and Carnival of Souls, they're all pretty good. I agree with you about the Resident evil movies. The first one was okay, but all the rest are just so awful. My friend and I keep watching each one that comes out to see how hilariously worse and worse they get.

The first five horror films I would recommend to anyone:

Nosferatu (1922)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Alien (1979)
The Shining (1980)
The Thing (1982)

I'd also recommend some of the better Hammer horror films:

The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
Horror of Dracula (1958)
The Mummy (1959)
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)

I think you should check them out if you ever get the chance.

Hell of the Living Dead isn't a great movie by any means, but it's one of those "so bad they're actually good" kind of horror movies from the 80's. It's an Itallian film with bad voice overs and cheesey dialog and it's full of bloody gore. It even goes as far as to illegally copy the music from Dawn of the Dead and has the same type of characters: a SWAT team and a female reporter and her cameraman boyfriend. The movie is about the reporters travelling to New Guinea to do a story about a strange virus infecting the natives and turning them into flesh-eatting zombies and they meet a team of elite SWAT commandos who are in the country on a top secret mission, and they end up helping each other to survive.

Carnival of Souls is a pretty good classic. Basically it's about a woman who survives a fatal car crash in which she was the only survivor and when she moves to a new town and gets a new job she starts being haunted by visions of some scary-looking ghouls who chase her and she feels drawn to an old abandon carnival. It's an old movie like the original Night of the Living Dead but it's actually pretty good in my opinion.

Alright, if I find them I'll check them out.

Oh! There are so many good ones! Off the top of my mind:

Evil Dead
Dead snow (Norwegian)
The Ring
The Omen
Hostel 1 + 2
Orphan
The Hills Have Eyes
Bedevilled (Korean)
The uninvited
A tale of two sisters (Korean)
Confessions (Japanese)
Scream
I know what you did last summer
Sorority row
Nightmare street
Phone (Korean)
Dead end
Case 39
Tremors
Gossip
Long time dead
Shaun of the dead
Beneath
Boo
Short cut
Fear of the dark
The good son
Wake wood

Bubba Hotep was a hoot.

ruveyn