so many recommendations already said and im sure many more to go.

Three that i didnt see mentioned that i enjoyed were:

Martyrs- French Version The Visit Session 9

Scenes from martyrs have been memed out of context so i think its fairly familiar. i hadnt watched it until recently and i think one time through was good enough for me. i’m not into a lot of torture style suspense.

The visit was particularly scary for me because If you’ve ever been in that scenario of being dropped off with familial strangers those initial reservations you have running through your head do make you uncomfortable and blossom into horrific thoughts. in the case of this movie a bit more so ;)

Session 9 i watched during the golden age of netflix. it isnt amazing but it was enjoyable.

“Host” fucked me up and is the reason I don’t watch horror movies anymore. I’m a huge baby though.

May be Apostle? It's one of the memorable ones among recent horror.

I really enjoyed Pandorum and The Babadook.

can recommend Coherence

Soft & quiet.

Humans are a terrible thing

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt14557188/

I'm noticing a distinct lack of Terrifier and Terrifier 2 in these comments. Art the Clown is perhaps the best antagonist I've ever seen in the horror genre and true originality is rare in the modern horror filmscape.

The Ring is also good for originality as far as modern classics, though it's a whole book series in Japan.

Edit: I also liked The Shrine, forgot to mention that one. Again, originality.

Megan is Missing (2011) is one of the most horrifying films I've ever seen. Fair warning though, the last ten minutes are excruciatingly painful to watch. It is not for the faint of heart.

In the gore porn genre Cannibal Holocaust (1980) and Hostel (2005) are vile, but so pointlessly gorey the actual horror (the brutality of men) is almost entirely lost.

Funny Games (1997), or the 2007 American remake for those who don't love subtitles, is another unnerving portrayal of ultra violence. It's not gore porn, but is graphic. The original version's pacing will make you squirm in your seat.

Hush (2016) and Creep (2014) are two of my movie-night-with-friends films. Still very much about the human monster, but not overly graphic and prefers to build by making the viewer a partial participant. You have to be a certain level of broken to enjoy some of the others on my list, but these two are disney movies compared to Cannibal Holocaust.

My vote goes to The Vanishing (1988).

Talk To Me. I would also say Sinister and The Conjuring are my favorites, and I also struggle to find scary movies that genuinely scare me. Watch this alone in the dark the first time. It is now my all-time favorite scary movie, and it's fairly recent.

I just recently watched Saltburn. Truly and genuinely disturbing. It's a psychological thriller. If you're not into that, well..

• The Descent
• The VVitch
• The Shining
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
• Audition