I have been on a scary movie adventure and would love other suggestions!

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    A lot of contemporary horror is psychological, sometimes with one or two gory/violent/jump scare scenes. If you like that, watch recent ones like Talk to Me, Relic or the Babadook (all Aussie incidentally).

    Hereditary is probably the best horror of the past decade, and before that, my 21st century favourite was Kill List. But there were so many more excellent horrors, slashers, psychological thrillers, and ghostly dramas last century.

    Night of the Living Dead invented the zombie genre and is still probably my favourite movie of all time. Dawn of the Dead skewers consumerism and is similar but in lurid colour. The slasher craze of the 80s started with Halloween in '79 and continued with Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street and the many sequels from those franchises.

    Other good ones in no particular order: High Tension aka Switchblade Romance, Dead Snow, Eden Lake, It Follows, Green Room, Hush, The Strangers, Martyrs, and if you’re really looking to punish yourself AND read subtitles, check out the works of Gaspar Noe, especially Irreversible. Deeply disturbing. Enjoy!

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      Hereditary is good, but man, I just don’t understand the insane hype around it. It was an enjoyable watch, but it wasn’t all that much better than the typical modern horror movie.

      Different strokes, I guess.

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        I rewatched it recently and became aware of how much I’d missed the first time, which made it a rich experience up there with some of the best films of any genre. It’s pretty striking. Sometimes a universally respected piece of cinema doesn’t grab me either though - a horror example that comes to mind is The Exorcist.

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        I agree with the other person that it is one of my favorites as it’s one of the only movies to ever actually creep me out (though not a fan of the ending) as I feel horror should.

        My wife is a big horror fan, and I can say that a majority of the ones I’ve seen with her are extremely predictable and rely on cheap tricks like jump scares most of the time, so outside of campy horror stuff or classics that I grew up with, it just doesn’t do anything for me.