Name more then 1 good horror movie that has...

The Ring

Wrong Turn.

DAWN OF THE DEAD I guess. Wasn't great, but didn't suck.

Can we count HOUSE OF A THOUSAND CORPSES and CABIN FEVER?

Yeah, WRONG TURN was good stuff.

The Ring
The Others
Dawn of The Dead
The Sixth Sense

BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (although some will debate)
MAY
CABIN FEVER
THE RING
THE OTHERS

MAY
TCM (yeah I liked it)
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT
THE OTHERS
THE GIFT
DAWN OF THE DEAD
INSOMNIA
FINAL DESTINATION 2

mind you said "good", not great and certainly not masterpieces. Although MAY and INSOMNIA (I know it's borderline) fall into the later for me.

Also THE MISSING is a fantastic western with supernatural elements.

yeah, I think you might be right on MAY. If it was theatrical very limited.

The Others. What a great movie.

The House on Haunted Hill. That last shot was really scary.

THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT?
Granted it was a great flick but more of a drama than anything. How is it a horror movie?

I'll add THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES and get my books dumped for it.

I thought the whole kiddie porn thing was once again very "horrific". The very idea of one person being able to alter parallel realities is embedded in metaphysics and the supernatural. The Kutcher character was basically not alive as told by the fortune teller and the ending.

I forgot about the MOTHMAN PROHECIES. Good one as well.

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STIR OF ECHOES

I thought The Mothman Prophecies was really good too. Cabin Fever was fantastic, DoD was good. 6th Sense was great.

I dunno, this seems like a lot of names. If anything, studio horror is very alive right now.

The House on Haunted Hill? Excessive CGI in a horror flick exempts it from competition in my book. The original is gold, however.

We have definitely suffered from the plethora of teen horror flicks and the dearth of quality Carpenter and Romero over the past 5-10 years.

HELLBOY

MAY was an indie flick.

The Ring
Dawn of the Dead

Hellboy was by no means horror, except maybe in spirit...a little.

Cabin Fever and May are not mainstream mmp releases. Cabin Fever was bought and released. These gotta be made by a studio.

I still think Wrong Turn was shit.
House on Haunted Hill was good, but not great. Ruined by the last fifteen minutes or so.
The Ring was, imo, great and better than the original (I know that's blasphemy here).
Insomnia wasn't horror. It was drama. If that's horror then so is CSI.
Mothman Prophecies and The Others were both good I guess, but just didn't do anything for me.
The Gift only really has two things going for it.
Dawn of the Dead, FD2, Sixth Sense, and TCM were all arguably great. Joy Ride...I'd like to have someone try and tell me that wasn't one of the best horror suspense films in years.

Why no mention of feardotcom?


I jest.

Damn at first i didn't see that last line and i already had a witty comeback now I have nobody to use it on so it'll make sense

Some may not agree, but here is my list from the last five years...

'28 Days Later'
'Blade 2'
'Jason X' (I will defend it as mindless fun...)
'Resident Evil' (Yes, I liked it. Deal with it.)
'The Ring'
'House of 1000 Corpses' (It's growing on me...)
'Identity'
'Wrong Turn'
'Dawn of the Dead'
'Hellboy' (I've yet to see a del Toro movie I didn't enjoy. And yes, that includes 'Mimic')

I disagree. It had tons of monsters, demons, Lovecraftian references ... How can it not be horror? Sure, it wasn't scary and had no gore but it still fits firmly within the genre. But as I have said in what must be a zillion threads by now there is no definitive definition of what is a horror film and what isn't. It always comes down to personal opinion.

Oh, and my list of good horror films in the last 5 years:

DAWN OF THE DEAD (Remake)
HELLBOY
TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (Remake)
28 DAYS LATER
HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES
MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

SUMMER OF SAM ... perhaps not what you might think of a "horror", but, it was an excellent film about a serial killer and the chaos left in his wake ...

STIGMATA should also be mentioned

Christ, there are some bad movies listed here, but put me down for

The Ring
28 Days Later
The Others

So we have a Japanese remake (starring an Aussie and a Kiwi), a British film, and one from a Spanish director (starring an Aussie). Oh.

And let's not forget END OF DAYS!!

Any film that references De Vermis Mysteriis I consider a horror film. I don't care if it's the funniest damn film of the year.

How about Feardotcom, that was pretty good.

Dawn of the Dead-Awesome horror action movie. Was a little "safe" in the gore department (no guts, minus the beginning)

The Ring-Not as great as people made it out to be, but well shot and had a cool, if contrived plot.

Blair Witch Project-Not a great film if viewed objectively, but a great idea that genuinely scared people and had them talking.

Sixth Sense-Moody and ominous atmosphere held through whole movie. Really great ending with some great scares.

Wrong Turn-Saw this on a whim and was really suprised how cool it was. Some genuinly inspired shots (car graveyard, the watchtower) with a great redneck slasher flick feel to the whole thing. I couldn't stop laughing once I started to think of the three bad dudes as LOTR characters. (Little golum like guy, dude who uses axes, dude with a bow and arrow)

28 Days Later-Great brit zombie movie. Good atmosphere but sort of fell apart at the end.

Resident Evil-Everything minus the little cybergirl AI and the licker was great fun.

Beyond Reanimator
Cube (has some gore elements though is not actually horror)
DawnOfTheDead kicked major ass
Deathwatch
DogSoldiers (top 5 greatest gore films for me)
DeepBlueSea (dumb fun)
EventHorizon (know Anderson get some flak, don't care, just a very good movie)
FinalDestination 2
GingerSnaps 1&2
HauteTension (partial to this one as i am french..)
JeepersCreepers (first one is classic imho, that opening car sequence never gets old)
TheRing (obviously)
Session 9
Undead

half the movies in your list are not hollywood, hell there's australian, french, english, and canadian. and alot of the others arent really hollywood-ish.

I'd have to agree with you there, I can't honestly think of a single good 'horror' movie (to place in the company of e.g the Omen, the Exorcist, the Thing, Alien etc).
There are some interesting ones (Session 9) and the usual Hollywood rehash (Ring, TCM, DoD etc), but nothing truely memorable or good.
Everybody is too easily pleased these days!

WB, sarcasm will get you nothing but a spank ... I liked STIGMATA, and think it can be accurately described as "good" ...

Patrica Arquette alone makes it "good" ...

The Ring, certainly.

Dawn of the Dead '04 kicked much, much ass.

I'd say these are both major, high-profile Hollywood releases.

ETA: Forgot to add The Mothman Prophecies, which is a highly underrated piece of work.

Otherwise, much of the best horror is coming from outside the US or outside the studio system.

Dawn Of The Dead
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Others
6th Sense
The Ring
Stir of Echoes

Nice try, but BEYOND REANIMATOR was made in Spain from Yuzna's Fantastic Factory on a very modest budget.

I never felt CSI was set amougst such a foreboding atmosphere as INSOMNIA. I love the sense of the unknown. The very idea of not being able to escape your demons in the blanket of night and not having a cathardic dream state as an outlet for the many repressed fears facing aging detective Dormer. It's a perfect set up for psychotic dementia, and serial killer boogeymen.

Your confusing 'good' with 'classic' (the Excorcist, Alien, The Thing, etc... are not simply good movies but trancend the genre and have had an enormous impact on both the genre and other films). And to be honest, 5 years is almost to short of a time to refer to something as a classic.

Will 28 Days Later, The Ring, or the Others become classics? Possibly, but only time will tell. Right now, I put them in the very good movies camp.

The other thing to note, is classic films should be relatively rare within a given time period. On my own list for 1990-95, only Silence of the Lambs and Seven are horror classics.

^^^ Good point. The 90s were a lot worse!!

I think the point made before is valid - I think horror is in a bit of a resurgence, although most definitely from outside the Hollywood studio system (Kairo, A Tale of Two Sisters, Dog Soldiers, Haute Tension, Ju-Ons, etc etc)...but is this necessarily a bad thing?

When we're excited about Dawn of the Dead '04 being "okay as an action film", then we really ARE a bit too easily pleased. But there's great stuff out there, just not out of Hollywood at the moment. But I think the risks involved with aspiring to make a truly great horror film are normally ones no studio with any business acumen would take. It's easier to churn out Freddy vs Jason vs Daffy Duck and decide what colour your next Ferrari will be...

Ginger Snaps
Ginger Snaps II:Unleashed
Ginger Snaps III:The Beginning

I know those weren't very majour, but GS got released veeery limited in the US, and pretty majourly here in Canada, same as GSII, GSIII was only at film festivals though.

A mythical grimoire invented by HP Lovecraft - sort of taken the place of the Necronomicon as the "cool insider's reference."

Not to nitpick (well maybe just a little) but...

Mysteries of the Worm was actually created by Robert Bloch (as was the author Ludvig Prinn). Lovecraft came up with the Latin title.

Sorry, Lovecraft is my thing.

28 Days Later and Session 9 get my vote.

neither of them are hollywood.

I Would Like To

Yeah I would just like to also say Stigmata as I think it is a brilliant film and one of my favourites. I have watched it a few times and enjoy it 100% each time.

Rauri

fixed your typo.

I might be in the minority but I liked the remake of House on Haunted Hill. 13 Ghosts was kind of good too. I also enjoyed the Blair Witch Project.
Will any of these ever be regarded as "classic" years from now? I doubt it, but I thought they were good.



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My picks would have to be:
The Ring--Well done movie. Cool to watch on Halloween.
Dawn of the Dead--As it was said before, more less, awesome as an action flick, cool as a horror movie
Joy Ride---Kick ass! Need i say more
The Others--Creepy as hell.
Final Destination 2----Awesome death scenes, Fulci would be proud (wipes tear from eye)
The Gift---Brought to us from the greatest director of all time, in my opinion, Sam Raimi
Texas Chainsaw Massacre----A hell of a lot better than we all thought
Wrong Turn-----Cool, fun flick
House on Haunted Hill---Cool movie with awesome slick visuals
Hellboy---Horror or not, it was cool Del Toro's the man
Blade 2----Thank you, Mr. Del Toro for such an awesome movie
Jason X---Funny in a stupid and sad sorta way
Resident Evil----In my opinion Anderson's only good movie. AVP sucked anus
Identity---Any movie with the last letters in the title being t-i-t-y is good. (okay that was lame ) Cool movie good twists
Jeepers Creepers---Cool movie kinda reminded me of the movies of the seventies. That was before everybody was claiming their movie was a seventies throwback

Now, I liked these but the movies I truly love are Indie horror movies. These movies were cool and good, but movies that I consider modern classics are mostly Independent horror movies. Also, a lot of the movies you guys are mentioning I would consider Indie movies like May Cabin Fever and House of 1000 Corpses