Best Horror movies that are under the radar?

[pstall]

Best horror movie? Is that an oxymoron? Or is it just like beating a 3rd grader in basketball?

You should be an expert in oxymoron's. You of all people.

[Mr. Scot]

Very good movie.

[Hairless Cat]

Wolf Creek - an Australian movie - one of the creepiest Ive seen

another good one is American Psycho

[CharlotteBeer.com]

I've passed it over many times, but hearing Mr. Scot and others endorse "Session 9," I had to see what all the fuss was about.

I watched it last night and really enjoyed it. I thought the ending was pretty predictable, but I enjoyed the slow, building tension and the cinematography. There were some great shots in that one. I've always maintained that the best horror movies are those that leave you with a few lasting images, and "Session 9" did just that (with the chair on the cover being the most prominent of those images).

Tonight, I'll watch "The Waking Dead," which I recorded.

What did everyone else watch?

[boo7382]

I watched a couple of the Halloweens

Watched a couple of the Friday the 13ths- the new blood one? wtf was going on there?

[boo7382]

Carolina Panthers Football.

Scared the bejesus outta me.

pretty much the scariest thing I saw all day.

[The Saltman]

[Mr. Scot]

I watched a couple of the Halloweens

Watched a couple of the Friday the 13ths- the new blood one? wtf was going on there?

From what I've read, it was conceived as Jason vs Freddy but they couldn't get the rights to Freddy so they turned it into Jason vs Carrie.

Eventually, of course, they were able to get Jason and Freddy together. The result was actually a half-decent movie despite the fact that the two main characters had been turned into caricatures by their respective sequels.

[GreatPoupon]

i'm a big fan of john carpenters "the thing"

classic kurt russel with a giant sombrero.

you gotta love an alien that copy cats its host.

[Mr. Scot]

One of my favorite movies, and the video game is good too.

[j2sgam]

Sorry, Halloween3 is a piece of poo and Micheal Myers should hunt it down and destroy all copies of that movie.

I have always considered Angel Heart a horror movie, I can't believe they are going to remake it, can't be any bettter.

How cool would it be if they got Mickey Rourke to redo his role now? It is a stretch, but it could work...

[g5jamz]

I also like "Skeleton Key"

"Ring"

"Dead Silence" dolls freak me the f out.

[g5jamz]

"Night of the Scarecrow" will scare the crap out of you too. Bubba didn't do it.

[CharlotteBeer.com]

I just saw a pretty good "under the radar" horror film called "The Deaths of Ian Stone." It was part of 2007's "8 Films to Die For" After Dark Horrorfest.

The film is a strange mix of Groundhog Day and Jacob's Ladder. Everyday, Ian Stone is chased and inevitably killed by demonic, shapeshifting beings that follow him from one life to the next. I don't want to get into the specifics, but if you liked Jacob's Ladder you should like this one.

It's a fairly original film, and yet I couldn't help drawing some comparisons with Jacob's Ladder. In both films, a character is chased by demon-like characters, and the line between fantasy and reality is blurred (in part due to drug use -- again, in both films). The Deaths of Ian Stone borrows much imagery and symbolism from Jacob's Ladder as well, such as trains, light and dark, operating rooms, and some "impaling" scenes. Also, remember the creepy, super-fast head shakes from Jacob's Ladder? They're in this film as well.

Don't let these comparisons dissuade you from seeing the film -- it is by no means a rip-off of Jacob's Ladder.

I looked up the writer of this film and found he also wrote They, which was made back in 2002. There are some similarities between those two as well -- namely the use of fear and some of those same head-shaking techniques.

Two thumbs up.