Saw Anthony Hopkins in an interview today talking about his new movie "The Rite" and he said it right off the bat, it's a very scary movie.

ill second this one, does a great job of showing the helplessness of the victims. pretty creepy.

What about zombie films like Dawn of the Dead, and Dead Snow

The Broken
After.Life
Dark Corners
Frozen
Hellraiser, all movies
nine miles down
The Crazies
The Haunting in Connecticut
Farmhouse
The Grude, 1,2,3
The Ruins
The Cabin, 1,2 ( 2 is a little humorous )

Those come to mind when people ask me for a good suggestion.

That is a bit too hardcore. Maybe start him with a few snuff films first so he is at least ready for something like this.

Check Hostel 1 and 2
Saw
Wrong Turn 1,2 and 3

Other people mentioning some earlier classics got me to thinking about very early horror-
30's horror films-
Todd Brownings "Freaks" - still disturbing today.
Island Of The Lost Souls - based on the book by HG Wells, i'd put this in top 20 all time.
Later 50's-60's horror films-
Night Of The Demon - you don't see alot but it is intense.
The Innocents - horror-ghost story, very creepy.
The Haunting - another one where its what you don't see...

And one other new one you should see is a Canadian film called "Pontypool"
I've never seen anything like it, goes far beyond the zombie genre.
Trailer-

Most horror films bore me... never scary, stupid effects, stupid characters, etc.

Two that stick out for me in recent years that I actually found entertaining, if not scary are:

Let the Right One In (not the American remake)
Antichrist

Since when has Anthony Hopkins done anything lately other than cash checks in crap movies? Of course he'll say it's scary in his press junkets. He's paid to.

Dead Set, the 5 part British mini-series about a zombie apocalypse. That was pretty awesome.

It's not post 2000, but the original "Halloween" is classic.

A few of my friends did a LOT of consulting and other work for Session 9.



Do you want movies in English?

Let the Right One In was an awesome Swedish(?) movie and the English version(Let Me In) was almost as good, but not quite.

High Tension

the kids are all right

why not pre2000? its where the best horror movies are made

Wrong Turn

House of 1000 Corpses.

Wrong Turn is also very good.

I think that Rob Zombie is GOD but I didn't like Halloween much. I thought his characters in the first 15 minutes are great but after that its too much violence for no reason at all. You don't care about the characters, and the violence is just too violent somehow...

Then again I loved DEAD ALIVE. Probably the goriest movie I've ever seen (mass killings of zombies with the business end of a lawnmower! So great..)

The Evil Dead - (Part One only)
The Exorcist - (Editor's Cut)
Mausoleum
I Spit On Your Grave
PIN : A Plastic Nightmare
Friday the 13th - (Parts I and II only)
Black Christmas (1974)
Hostel

Hi Antonio,

Try watching this clip:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FgyGE...eature=related

If you can handle it, you're ready for a full on horror movie.

Exactly. That's too rough of a start. Maybe have the dude watch several versions of Faces of Death and Red Asphalt first to get him ready for that move :winkwink::1orglaugh

And Hellraiser inferno I found particularly good.

I will watch Martyrs and the Ring - both sound like good movies, I hope I don't freak out

The first 2 Hellraisers - I get bad dreams and think about going to church after watching these
The Ring - solid jump out of your seat movie
The Shining - the thinking man's scary movie. Just a well made movie
The Thing (original) - this movie is just bad ass. Gross, scary and suspense
Carrie - just creepy

Oh The Ring is creepy... good choice. IT from Stephen King got me freaked out for weeks. The Shining and The Exorcist are classics that you shouldn't really miss. And since you're Dutch what about good old De Lift from Dick Maas :1orglaugh (excellent special effects... haha)

If you want to see a combination between Martial Arts and Gore I suggest
Rick-Oh http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102293/

http://www.moviemobsters.com/wp-cont...he-shining.jpg

http://www.culturegreyhound.com/wp-c...he-Shining.jpg

Here's another vote for The Shining.