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While I enjoy contemporary horror/psychological thrillers, I also like the older/classics. I believe the directors and screenwriters faced the challenge of scaring/thrilling an audience, while still adhering to the social sensibilities of the period. A great example is 1962’s Carnival of Souls.
I remember seeing bits of this movie on late-night local UHF TV station in Boston, growing up, but had never watched the entire film. Then during a family trip to SLC, we stopped at the Great Salt Lake museum, where they highlighted the films production history, since key parts had been filmed there. We bought a copy on DVD, and watched it on my laptop in our room. Scary, suspenseful, and wholly appropriate for everyone except small children. My then 11yo daughter really liked it.
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I used to watch horror in my late teens. Enjoyed Silence of the Lambs and Night M. Shyamalan’s works. Read Stephen King a lot. There were two movies that scared me seriously and I had nightmares long afterwards: Blair witch project and Event Horizon.
I don’t watch horror anymore. I have enough nightmare material to last me for a lifetime 
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I feel as if I have been summoned to this thread
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Carnival of souls is a masterpiece and an important movie. It has influenced cult directors such as Romero or Lynch. A must see for horror fans
I used to watch horror movies all the time. It’s not the case anymore, only from time to time. Anyway the latest i’ve seen is an Australian one, Wolf Creek 2, a great sequel of a great movie 
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I will have to check Wolf Creek 1 and 2 out then.
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If you like the survival horror genre, it’s a good one! Plus, the australian desert landscapes are wonderfully shot.
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Last I saw was the new scream kinda thriller thing
It felt like a necessity cause I grew up with the scream franchise. But was disappointing you can tell Wes Craven didn’t finish it.
I love the Rob Zombie horror flicks. And old school stuff. You got your serious classics that need to be bestowed upon the younger crowd, psycho, the OG house on haunted hill. Etc.
Jon Carpenter is probably my absolute favorite I’m a huge Halloween fan, who knew a knockoff William Shatner mask could create such a great series
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I am such a horror movie fan. I used to watch all the Saw movies with my father. Jig saw was the best and let’s not forget all the Friday the 13th and the nightmare on elm street, nothing could really beat those classic but I did think the movie that gave me a scare when I was around maybe 15-16 was 13 ghost and Resident evil. I actually couldn’t eat or sleep for days thinking there was going to be a zombie apocalypse 
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Digging it! I love them. Have you seen the Rob Zombie remakes? Did you like them? Im a fan of his. 31 was crazy.
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Just watched Candyman (2021) and loved it, right amount of everything.
I love to watch horror movies!
Midsommar will be one of my favs, as an example
Hi there.
So, this is an old thread, but I hope no one will mind me resurrecting it with my first post here.
The original poster that started this thread way back in 2018 asked how we can use horror movies as a source of motivation. Going back to that, I’m only on my 33rd day of sobriety as of today (after almost twenty years of excessive drinking), but this time around, my love of horror movies is playing a really central role in my motivation and accountability for staying sober.
The thing for me was that, although I have loved horror movies since I was a little kid, I had gotten myself into a mindset whereby I couldn’t really enjoy them, or even think about watching one, without having a drink.
That really bothered me, because when I was young, I could enjoy all of the things I loved without alcohol—including horror movies. It really highlighted for me how alcohol sucks the pleasure out the things I enjoy and makes itself the main focus. The pleasure of socializing with friends or watching a movie, or music—whatever—had become secondary to the fact that I would be drinking while doing these things. It would be the drinking that I would be looking forward to most.
So, I decided to make it a personal mission to get back to the pure enjoyment of all things that I could appreciate before alcohol encroached on my life, and I decided to use horror movies as a kind of benchmark for that—making a conscious effort to watch and enjoy them sober—not while getting drunk, as had become habitual.
I started a journal (in the form of a blog) of the movies I watch to generate motivation and accountability, and also to reinforce a new self-image as someone who enjoys such things sober. I actually came across this thread by doing a Google search for the blog, trying to find out if it was searchable (it’s not), and I couldn’t resist posting because the thread is about exactly what I am doing: using horror movies for motivation. The blog is really just a journal for myself, but if anyone is interested it can be found at https://soberhorrorfan.blogspot.com/ (I hope it is not against the forum rules to post a link–if it is please let me know and I’ll delete it.)
It hasn’t been long—only about one month, but so far doing this has really helped me establish an image of myself in my own brain as a non-drinker. I have never attempted to write a blog before, or even posted on social media until now, so I think anyone could do something like this.
Anyway, that’s how horror movies are providing me with motivation to stay sober. Happy Halloween everyone!
Not a movie, per se, but I love me some classic “Twilight Zone”…or pretty much anything with Rod Serling’s stamp on it. “Night Gallery” scared the crap out of me when I was a little kid. Still does!
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Just starting Malignant. We’ll see how it is.
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I’ve seen Malignant, but it was when I was still drinking, so I don’t remember it very clearly. I vaguely remember it being OK, though, and that it reminded me of a certain notorious low budget horror movie from the early 80s (which I won’t name because it would be a pretty big spoiler!).
P.S. There is a slightly more active horror movie thread here:
Hell House LLC, Sinister, Evil Dead 2
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I’m am a Rob Zombie guy but the best freaky fun ever (for me) is Jacobs Ladder. Early Tim Robbins 91ish. Makes one think.
I`m not a big fan of Rob Zombie, except for Lords of Salem–which I absolutely love. It would be great if he made more films like that going forward. 
Jacobs Ladder is great. I remember seeing it in the theater when it came out.