Recommend a "Modern" Horror Movie

[Thierry Henry]

"Modern" as in, let's say, 2000 onwards.

A few I enjoyed were:

-Exorcism of Emily Rose
-The Conjuring
-The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
-Vacancy
-The Skeleton Key


And please no recommendations for Justin Bieber LIVE in Concert!

[Exhuminator]

Since 2000, these are the only ones I've truly enjoyed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_9

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprint_% ... _Horror%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranormal_Activity

[Thierry Henry]

^^
I'll definitely check them out! Thanks.

[Nemoide]

Here are some:
High Tension - If you can look past what I consider a dumb ending, you have what might be the best slasher film ever made. All I really remember about the basic setup is that a young woman visits some people and then a crazed murderer shows up, death happens, and he ends up pursuing her. This movie put Alexandre Aja (director of the Hills Have Eyes remake) on the map.

Inside - A pregnant woman is terrorized by an insane woman with a giant pair of scissors bent on cutting out her baby. It's twisted and visceral.

Jennifer's Body - This one's more "horror comedy" than straight-up horror and you should be aware that it's written by Diablo Cody of Juno fame. She created Juno to exemplify what she loves about teenage girls but Jennifer's Body is what she hates about teenage girls. A teenage girl is trying to sleep with an indie rock band and lies about being a virgin but they actually kill her to sacrifice to a demon to boost their career. Since she wasn't a virgin she comes back to life possessed by that demon. I think there's enough social reflection about teenage experiences to make this a pretty good movie.

Land of the Dead - George A. Romero's return to the zombie genre. Some people really hate this movie but I think it has a lot of merit; it has good zombie action and like the earlier Dead movies, has a social message. If you're a fan of Romero's earlier work, I'd recommend it as a worthy entry to the Dead series. (At least it's way better than Diary of the Dead and Survival of the Dead... IMO you can skip those.)

The Mist - Directed by Frank Darabont, the guy I trust most to handle Stephen King adaptations, this movie is one people tend to love or hate. I emphatically loved it. The story is pretty basic: in small town in Maine a mysterious mist appears and it's chock full of monsters. A man and his kid are in a supermarket at the time and they stay there for safety, along with other residents. Then folks start turning against each other...

Orphan - an excellent "evil little kid" movie. A couple decides to adopt a little girl. Little girl is bad. That's all you need to know.

The Orphanage - a fantastic Spanish movie about ghosts. I don't remember the story well enough to give an interesting synopsis (woman visits her old home... finds ghosts) but I remember being really impressed.

Trick 'r Treat - a Halloween-themed anthology film. And maybe one of the best anthology horror films ever made, right up there with Creepshow and Black Sabbath. It captures the Halloween spirit in a very R-rated way. If you like Halloween, see this movie.

[Ack]

There are a few in here that I wouldn't recommend personally...but there are also a few I really enjoyed. I'll throw my hat into the ring with a few more offerings!

The Descent - A group of spelunkers, one of whom survived a traumatic car accident a year before that killed her husband and child, enter a cave. That's when everything goes to hell. Trapped, scared, injured, they then have to contend with the cave itself and the things that live within.

Stake Land - Vampirism runs over the world like a plague. In the aftermath a young orphan ends up wandering the American heartland with a vampire hunter just trying to survive. Unfortunately people are often far worse than the monsters, and they soon wind up facing off against a fundamentalist militia/cult.

Infection - This is the English title for the Japanese film Kansen. Basically a bizarre virus that causes people to go insane and liquefy into green goo infects an understaffed Japanese hospital during the night shift. This movie is gross. Really gross.

Evil Dead - This is the for pseudo-remake/reboot/continuation of the Evil Dead franchise that was released in 2013. It is...something. I will never watch this movie again. I don't want to. It's good, don't get me wrong. It's just...I'm good. Yeah, I don't need to see this again.

You're Next - A family gets together for dinner. That's when the killing starts. The nice thing about this movie is the shift it goes through as one character reveals more and more about herself. She makes the movie worth watching.

There are others I can think of that some of us having been raving about lately, such as The Cabin in the Woods and The Babadook. And there have been a lot of remakes in the last fifteen years, though of those, Maniac is probably the most interesting. And then there's been a lot of torture movies, like Saw. If you watch any of those, see the first and leave it at that.

[TSTR]

House of the Devil
Cabin in the Woods
The Strangers
first Texas Chainsaw reboot
The Devil's Rejects

[Exhuminator]

Here's one I forgot about:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housebound

It's a comedy horror hybrid, I enjoyed it.

[Ack]

I'm waiting for noise to come in and drop knowledge.

[Thierry Henry]

Thanks guys!

A quick glance at the posts above and so far I'd say Session 9, Trick 'r Treat and The Descent looks like they might be right up my alley.

I'll look into the others as well and see which of those appeals and hopefully can find it off of the likes of Netflix/Hulu/Amazon Prime.

[TSTR]

I'm waiting for noise to come in and drop knowledge.

Or try and explain why RZ's Halloween II is good. Either way, he needs to get in here.