Horror movies have invariably been the preferred genre of many film lovers around the globe. Regrettably horror films don’t receive the respect from film critics that some other genres get. It’s very difficult to come up with a great and frightening horror movie. The listing of horror films that come worth it isn’t very long. Slasher flicks attempted to substitute horror flicks about 20 years ago but those aren’t real horror motion pictures. On any list of horror flicks that do not suck you will see some truly nightmarish motion pictures. Here is my list of horror films that are worthy of seeing.
“Rosemary’s Baby” might be a little bit dated these days and may not really give you the kind of chills it did when it initially came out, but it’s still among the excellent atmospheric films ever made and still can creep you out. “Psycho” may have been the very first slasher film but it’s a true scary movie and has all the gothic trademarks of excellent horror films plus a dangerous and cheesy contemporary setting that everyone who has ever spent the nights at a roadside motel can verify.
“The Exorcist” certainly is still at the peak on anyone’s list of horror motion pictures that don’t suck. If you have never watched it, then you need to drop anything and everything you’re doing and go purchase it right now. Put it on your big flat tv screen tonight and watch it with someone else that has never seen it. It is still the most unsettling and significantly frightening film ever made by a longshot and will certainly keep you awake for several nights to come. This flick is certainly not for young children and not for the faint of heart. It is very brutal and very disturbing.
“The Blair Witch Project” was probably the greatest grossing film of all time in any genre since it cost so very little to produce and yet generated hundreds of millions of dollars. Making use of handheld shaky video cameras the movie is a mock documentary about a group of students filming a documentary on the well-known “Blair Witch” in the Maryland forest. The 3 students get lost deep in the forest and experience some truly frightening things out there. Without spoiling it you should stick with this one till the very end.
2009’s Blair Witch Project was a little independent film called “Paranormal Activity” and is about a suburban couple that discover their San Diego residence haunted by an evil demon (are there any other kinds?) and they once again make use of handheld cameras and night vision cams to film the ghostly circumstances. This is a movie that begins slowly but builds to a surprising final act. This movie joins our list of horror flicks that don’t suck as it will definitely scare you. Many of the directors of these motion pictures have gone on to greater glory outside the independent horror arena. Directors including Ethan and Joel Coen (The Big Lebowski) as well as Sam Raimi (Spiderman) have started out in the independent horror world only to discover themselves with big Hollywood careers.
