Aiden’s “You Should Watch This” Horror List Part 1

kurgy:

being the avid horror fan i am and with how often i watch horror movies someone suggested i make a list of ones i like and i was absolutely thrilled with the idea so heres a list of some of my fave horror movies in no particular order

• Fatal Frame – Michi a student in a conservative all-girls school, must resolve the mysterious disappearances and deaths of her fellow classmates after they found an intriguing but haunting photo of Aya, the best singer of class, who apparently is being held locked in her room, physically but not spiritually… A death curse is placed on anyone who sees Aya’s photo, which seems to be taken with a “Camera Obscura” . Michi, with the help of her photography skills, might stop it before the spirit of Aya takes her life too and spreads to many more in & outside of the school.
• Mama – A young couple take in their two nieces only to suspect that a supernatural spirit named Mama has latched itself to their family.
• Ringu –  A reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it.
• Ju-on –  A teacher visits the house of one of his students after the boy goes missing, only to have a horrifying excuse for his absence from school.
• A Tale of Two Sisters – A family is haunted by the tragedies of deaths within the family.
• The Evil Dead – Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.
• Cadaver – Mai is a medical student who has a scary experience while working with an experimental cadaver while doing her anatomy research. After this, she becomes haunted by a woman ghost that keeps following her everywhere. While Mai is terrified of the fearsome ghost, her teacher, Dr. Prakit, is the only person who is willing to try and help her. But, when she deeply discovers the truth behind this unknown cadaver, it leads her to find a horrible story of a girl called Dawan who is somehow linked to the cadaver.
• Evil Dead (2013) – Five friends head to a remote cabin, where the discovery of a Book of the Dead leads them to unwittingly summon up demons living in the nearby woods.
• The Conjuring – Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse.
• Dark Water –  A mother and her 6 year old daughter move into a creepy apartment whose every surface is permeated by water.
• Maggie – A teenage girl in the Midwest becomes infected by an outbreak of a disease that slowly turns the infected into cannibalistic zombies. During her transformation, her loving father stays by her side.
• Audition – A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.
• Sinister – Washed-up true-crime writer Ellison Oswalt finds a box of super 8 home movies that suggest the murder he is currently researching is the work of a serial killer whose work dates back to the 1960s.
• Eyes Without A Face – A surgeon causes an accident which leaves his daughter disfigured, and goes to extremes to give her a new face.
• Shutter – A young photographer and his girlfriend discover mysterious shadows in their photographs after a tragic accident. They soon learn that you can not escape your past.

• Aliens – 
  Ellen Ripley is rescued by a deep salvage team after being in hypersleep for 57 years. The moon that the Nostromo visited has been colonized, but contact is lost. This time, colonial marines have impressive firepower, but will that be enough?

• The Babadook –  A widowed mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son’s fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari – Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.
• Kuchisake-onna – A suburban town in Japan is the victim of what is supposedly just an urban legend, a woman’s spirit with a horribly disfigured face who is intent on kidnapping children for unknown reasons.
• Devil In The Dark – Two estranged brothers find themselves stalked by a terrifying unknown presence while on a weekend hunting trip in remote British Columbia.
• The Ritual – A group of college friends reunite for a trip to the forest, but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that’s stalking them.
• Train to Busan – While a zombie virus breaks out in South Korea, passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan.
• Horror Stories – A teenager is abducted and forced to tell the scariest tales she knows, leading to this anthology of four stories: a brother and sister are under siege while home alone; a killer escapes police custody mid-flight; step-sisters take plastic surgery to nightmarishly macabre extremes; a paramedic and mother standoff over her infected young daughter.
• Exte – A beautiful young girl is found brutally murdered within a container full of hair. A man with an insatiable hair fetish steals the corpse, which grows hair endlessly, and fashions hair extensions to sell to salons. Little does he realize that the extensions carry the fury of the girl’s vengeance, killing anyone who wears them. Director Shion Sono (who also directed “Into a Dream”) ingeniously mixes comedy with fright in this hilarious and hair raising J-horror.
• Ringu 0 – In this prequel to Ring, a young Sadako becomes an actress in hopes of escaping her troubled past. But strange visions and terrifying powers begin to manifest.
• The Girl’s Ghost Story – In Su comes back to his hometown, where all his miseries of being able to see ghosts started. He tried running away but as In Su can’t help but taking grudges of ghosts, more ghosts swarm around him. He seeks advice from his uncle, Sun Il who also inherited the ability from their great grandfather. But Sun Il is of no help. In Su’s new high school life is another nightmare with bullies picking on weak classmates. His only consolation is a mysterious ghost girlfriend. One day, the bullies at school get attacked one by one by a gruesome-looking masked girl. In Su senses powerfully fierce grudge around the class and finds connection with a bullied girl who committed suicide. Associating with his dark past, In Su wants to make changes and engages deeper into the deadly case to unmask the secret.
• Ghost Mother –  Her brother is murdered and leaves her 3 nieces and nephew  in her care, then she is targeted and murdered as well, but cannot pass on and comes back to continue looking after the children as a ghost.
• [Rec] – 

  A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.

• Teke Teke – A young girl learns of the urban legend of Teke Teke after her friend is killed in a gruesome way. The legend tells of a female ghost that has no legs. When she visits the spot where her friend died she comes into contact with it.
  

• The Host – A monster emerges from Seoul’s Han River and focuses its attention on attacking people. One victim’s loving family does what it can to rescue her from its clutches.
• Cloverfield – (does this count as horror? w/e 

  A group of friends venture deep into the streets of New York on a rescue mission during a rampaging monster attack.

• Veronica –

  Madrid, 1991. A teen girl finds herself besieged by an evil supernatural force after she played Ouija with two classmates.

• 3 Doors of Horrors 2013/ 2014/2015 – not full movies, but a collection of short films 

• Halloween
  – Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield to kill again.