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The Great Underrated Horror Films Thread

shoddysolutions said:
The Mind Benders
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This sounds kinda cool. The review on Imdb compared it to Seconds which is a cool film from the sixties about a guy who gets a second shot at life... Not really a horror film thou. More a dark thriller.

Am I alone in thinking that the Devils Backbone isnt really that good. I'd admit that its really very shot and has well-rounded characters and that - but it isnt really scary. (it is supposed to be a horror film - right?)

Plus: Mouth of Madness. I kinda half-watched it on tv a while back and it just seemed really chessy. Especially the ending. Is that just me?

And: Don't Look Now?

Waaay too well-known for this thread.
 
i too think 'prince of darkness' is an underrated classic, first time i watched it (about 10 years ago) it really freaked me out.

the best horror (kind of) film i've seen for ages is 'session 9' - well made and genuinely creepy.
 
akirajoel said:
Am I alone in thinking that the Devils Backbone isnt really that good. I'd admit that its really very shot and has well-rounded characters and that - but it isnt really scary. (it is supposed to be a horror film - right?)

Plus: Mouth of Madness. I kinda half-watched it on tv a while back and it just seemed really chessy. Especially the ending. Is that just me?
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Devil's Backbone is a pretty good film, although personally i wouldn't really call it a horror film, although it does have a supernatural element to it, and there are some moments that are meant to be scary i suppose.

I thought In the Mouth of Madness had a really good ending :(
 
Rodders said:
the best horror (kind of) film i've seen for ages is 'session 9' - well made and genuinely creepy.
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Glad to see someone else liking it! I've mentioned it a few times on message boards and got an indifferent response from the few people who had seen it...personally I liked the fact that all the fucked-upness derived from the characters.

White Of The Eye - only seen it once but it left a lasting impression of intense, seedy creepiness.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094320/
 
Mrs Miggins said:
There's also a really good old horror film that centres around someone passing a spell to you without you noticing and then a terrible beast coming for you. Great scene on a train at the end where the main bad guy is trying to pass the spell to the hero and he's trying to avoid taking it. Can't for the life of me remember what it's called :confused:
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Got my dad to post me a copy 6 months ago, brlliant.
 
Another vote here for "in the mouth of madness" and "fallen"


Tiiiii-iiiii-iiii-iiime is on my side, yes it is ;)
 
Whoever said Exorcist III's got it right. Almost filled my trousers when whoever it was got their head chopped off down the corridor. :eek:

And as for the demented grannies walking on the ceiling.... :eek: :eek:

Excellent underrated horror.
 
Strawman said:
Another vote here for "in the mouth of madness" and "fallen"

Tiiiii-iiiii-iiii-iiime is on my side, yes it is ;)
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That bit where he's walking down the street is just brilliant. (Not that I want to give away why on here)
 
SonOfGoatboy said:
The Devils Backbone! That's an amazing movie. Guillermo del Toro just nails it. Plus the title was cool in Spanish: 'el espinazo del diablo.'
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Guillermo Del Toro - he directed Cronos didn't he? Excellent fiilm that was, really original ( at least I thought it was). If that one qualifies as 'underated' then that's my contribution.

Hmmm...I was debating whether or not Cronos was spelt with a 'K' and it reminded me of a film I saw quite a few years back*. A group of young folk move into a mysterious Big Brother type house with footage being broadcast on t'internet, and end up getting cut up/mutilated and killed in a variety of novel ways - I particularly liked the acid comin through the shower, the guy's screams alone were convincing enough to stick the shits up ya! Not sure if it really qualifies as a horror, but...

I'm positive that the film was called Kolobos although imdb is only coming up with some film that isn't in anyway related. :confused:
 
Louloubelle said:
what's that film IMMIC set in eastern europe that includes a bizzare scene of a woman having sex with an amorphous squidgy monster? early 80s film

I think I used to have it on VHS and it was called Possessed, but it must have other names as it's hard to find.

Pretty obscure, but known to horror film buffs.
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I really like Possession as well and it's available on DVD from the US. More of a surreal art film along the lines of David Lynch's work than straight forward horror, in it Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neil go through a violent marriage break-up in (what was then) West-Berlin. They communicate almost exclusively by screaming and by stabbing knifes into each other. He falls in love with a school teacher who looks exactly like his wife and she may or may not have given birth to a murderous creature who looks half carrot/half octopus with whom she starts having an affair. The high point is a protracted scene where Adjani completely looses it on the Berlin Underground and goes into convulsions for a good five minutes.

In Cannes Adjani won the award for best actress for her performance, but that didn't stop the Mary Whitehouse addled idiots from the BBFC to ban Possession as a "video nasties".

The DVD includes an interesting commentary track where director Andrzej Zulawski alleges that Adjani was almost as crazy in real life as she was on film.
 
jiggajagga said:
The Haunting...original....not the remake cack.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057129/

Black and white, strange dark corners, strange angles, wierd sounds, dark woods. You never really 'see' anything. Robert Wise masterpiece.
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for me it was the lack of special effects and the lonesome narrative of Eleanor that made this movie scarey. Certainly wouldn't class it as underrated.
 
Rodders said:
the film is called kolobos - i used to own it before it got nicked. the ending was a bit poo but yes, some of the deaths were imaginative.

strange that it's not on imdb, but amazon have it for sale http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004WI7Q/026-7565760-9445206
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Hmm. On closer inpspection the film listed on imdb IS the same as the one I was thinking of.

*slaps forehead with back of hand*


Umm...another one worth which I don't think is a *horror* as such is Little Otik. Czech film (I think) about a childless couple who adopt a wooden baby that the husband has carved from the root of a tree. The 'baby' begins to show life and to grow, and iirc, there is a scene where a social worker gets eaten by a tree/baby type monster.
 
Yeah - The Haunting is wicked. And as far as I remember you never actually see anything...

Those booming footsteps (or whatever they were) really made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. Brrrrrrr.
 
Another great 60's haunted house film is The Innocents, an adaptation of Henry James' Turn of the Screw starring Deborah Kerr.
 
Any more recommendations? I want to watch something a scary/thriller so thought I'd bring this thread back from the dead for halloween.
At the moment I've got The Sentinel ready to go but it's directed my Michael Winner :( so I'm not expecting much.
 
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