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The achilles heel scene in Hostel yeah, that stuck with me too.

I'd say for pure gore, I was effected by Martyrs, the original French movie. There's a few scenes that compare to Hostel but I felt in the end Martyrs had a reason behind it. It'll all in the ending.

Someone remade it in the unreal engine and i have played both desktop and vr. Its the most terrifying thing. link to dudes page Edit: there is still hope for people who wanna experience it.

It's certainly a major trend, but I'd argue the current mainstream Horror equivalent of the 80s slashers are the Blumhouse-style jump scare ghost movies. Teens love them, and they make tons of money relative to their cost, and it's what people looking for a quick buck try to get in on.

I do think the last decade of 'slow burn' psychological adult-oriented Horror is how we're going to look back at this era, though, in the larger history of Horror aesthetics.

Oh, and I, too, love this kind of Horror film. My Letterboxd rankings might have some films in the subgenre you might have missed?

I think it benefits from a true story about the Enfield Poltergeist, I was first scarred by that story with Ghostwatch so I loved the story coming back in Conjuring 2.

Identity is a great movie and all takes place at a road side motel.

The Innkeepers if you want more usual spooks

A lot of people are getting it from Amazon Instant Video, but also on iTunes, Vudu, and others. It’s a digital rental for now. I’m going to try to get it so that it appears quicker when Googling. It just went up today, so may take a couple days for it to be found easily on Google.

Amazon Instant Video

I made a list of period Horror films in chronological order, if you're looking for some ideas. There's probably a hundred older gothic Victorian and Samurai ghost films that aren't on there, but it's not a bad place to start.

for The Endless, watch Resolution first!

I also want to add Timecrimes to the suggestions with those movies, I loved Triangle & Coherence.

Adam Wingard will pay the first person $400 to find the map that was lost in the original movie. It is an easter egg that apparently even the executive producers couldn't find, and they were told what part of the movie it was in. http://www.fandango.com/movie-news/the-blair-witch-filmmakers-will-pay-you-if-you-can-find-this-hidden-easter-egg-751321

I don’t think he hated horror films. The issue for him was that so many horror films are subpar. As much as I love Silent Night, Deadly Night...come on...its not a good movie.

Here’s what a quick google search illustrates about horror films he enjoyed. Some are classics, some are just fun...but I think it indicates he didn’t blindly hate horror.

https://letterboxd.com/31nitesofhorror/list/horror-films-that-roger-ebert-liked/

I suggest Lights Out as a good start.

https://vimeo.com/82920243

If you are interested in these kind of short scares, you can hop on over to /r/shorthorror for the collection some redditors and I are compiling.

Rawhead Rex is a fun monster horror movie from the 80s and filmed in Ireland.

Also, Murder Party is by the director of Blue Ruin and Green Room but I never find anyone who's see it as well.

This is probably one of my favorite "WTF, why did someone make this" videos on Amazon. It's still available so if they're getting rid of amateur content, they've got a ways to go.

https://www.amazon.com/Vicktey-Vitch-Its-Halloween-Poem/dp/B07H493V73/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=halloween+poem&qid=1548012470&s=Prime+Video&sr=1-1-catcorr

If you do try, use this link for how to get a 60 day free trial.

And try this link for what's available on Shudder

PSA: It took some digging, but Behind the Mask is actually on Amazon Prime!

https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Mask-Rise-Leslie-Vernon/dp/B0771ZZDNZ/ref=sr_1_1?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1514223440&sr=1-1&keywords=behind+the+mask

I was very pleasantly suprised when I saw this. If you have a prime subscription, check it out!

I'm a big fan of the movie, as well. I enjoyed that it didn't romanticize paganism in any kind of way. These are people putting toads in their mouths to cure sore throats and killing people to prevent crop failure. I'm not saying that Christianity was an improvement or anything, only that the ancient heathens weren't crystals, rainbows, and lollypops, you know?

It's hard to find a movie that strikes these same chords, but I'd recommend "Black Death": a historical dark fantasy film starring Sean Bean. Trailer here.

Finally, if you really want to keep the party going, you should buy the soundtrack. I listen to it a good bit.

An aside: I played a druid based on Lord Summerisle in the last D&D game I participated in. The DM had set it in Ravenloft, the demi-plane of horror, so an arrogant, manipulative druid with a yen for human sacrifice fit in with very few problems.

I love the jump scares in the Insidious series, last night I rewatched Insidious: Chapter 3 and really enjoyed the jump scares right til the end.

If anyone is curious, the drawings are charcoal on Bristol paper.

I know it’s kinda lame to self-promote on here, but I made a Kickstarter to get the decks printed if anyone's interested in helping out.

Walmart has sold one for a while now.

the documentary Screaming in High Heels: The Rise & Fall of the Scream Queen Era talks to 3 scream queens who love their history to different levels. It's interesting and talks about other queens who didn't want the title and the following of girls who only want the title.

Took me about 15-20 minutes during my lunch break, I've posted it in comments and had good responses to the streaming links so thought could help some US redditors pick movies for Halloween. I'm trying to get to 31 movies by the end of the month and will be binging on the coming weekends.

Hey all, Ryan here, the project lead for Spectre, a horror multiplayer game active on Kickstarter.

You may remember my earlier post sharing Spectre's concept art:

I'm back again to reveal our new character model for the game, made by Fabrizio Bortolussi, a hollywood creatures artist who's worked on blockbusters like the Silent Hill saga, Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, and District 9. I hope you like our new creation! You'll be able to play as this thing and chase your friends in the game.

Please don't forget to check out Spectre's kickstarter page! We have 5 days to go, and we're almost at our goal! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1260566890/spectre-virtual-reality-horror?ref=live

Oh nice, I made this version of it on trakt and the posters have lil play buttons below them for ones available online, clicking will let you see where they are available.

Some alien space horror that's not the Alien series:

Event Horizon (1997)
>In 2047 a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship 'Event Horizon' which disappeared mysteriously 7 years before on its maiden voyage. With the its return, the crew of the 'Lewis and Clark' discovers the real truth behind the disappearance of the 'Event Horizon' – and something even more terrifying.

Life (2017)
>The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected.

Small documentary recommendation, episode 3 of James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction focuses in on Monsters and he does a great piece on how different time periods have adapted Frankenstein to express fear of the current technology.

>From Frankenstein to Stranger Things, what terrifies us about monsters in science fiction? Guillermo del Toro, Ridley Scott, Milla Jovovich and others explore why we like being scared so much.

These are my favorite types of horror movies–by drawing out the horror over the course of the entire runtime, with little to no respite, these movies tend to stick with me a lot longer. I made a list on Letterboxd with some of my favorites. It could use some updating with recent entries, which I'd love to get here :)

Carl Theodor Dreyer has what I think is the best quote about slow-burn, atmospheric horror:

"Imagine that we are sitting in an ordinary room. Suddenly we are told that there is a corpse behind the door. In an instant the room we are sitting in is completely altered; everything in it has taken on another look; the light, the atmosphere have changed, though they are physically the same. This is because we have changed and the objects are as we conceive them. That is the effect I want to get in my film."

I love that idea–that far beyond the initial scare of something horrific, that these unnatural elements can forever shape the way one sees the world just based on mere power of suggestion.

I've rated 311 horror movies here and I'm always looking for the next one.

I've never thought I've run out of films to watch, I'd check my own watchlist for ones I've added and forgotten about or I browse user lists of horror films for ideas

I loved Hereditary and I've seen 500+ horror movies and ratings for 300+ of them (I only rate things I watch since signing up). I think if you watch a lot you see the different types of horror that exist, you can have the right frame of mind for how the story is being told instead of being frustrated it's not how you wanted it.

FYI the site JustWatch.com is a great resource! Look up any movie you can think of and you can find where you can stream or rent it.

For example, here's the results for The Witch.

For those of you who subscribe to Kindle Unlimited, Off Season is available for free right now.

Idea: if users gave their letterboxd or trakt username, you could pull using an api, compare ratings and give a data driven answer.

Else I'd like I'd go with a Top 100 or so, like the Reddit Top 250

There are hundreds of D-Rated horror movies on Amazon that I've tried to give a chance but it's like watching a student film project so I've given up. I just tried watching Bell Witch and it was pretty bad.

The worst horror movie that I made all the way through? Probably Charlotte. It was still a fun one though, I like anthologies.

House of the Head was based on a short story written by Josh Malerman (the author of Bird Box) and can be found anthologized here.

Hey all, Ryan here, the project lead for Spectre, a horror multiplayer game recently launched on Kickstarter. I'm back to share some of our concept art for the game, made by Fabrizio Bortolussi, a hollywood creatures artist who's worked on blockbusters like the Silent Hill saga, Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, and District 9. His concept art depicts what kinds of goulish spirits you can expect to find haunting you in Spectre. I hope you like it! And please check out Spectre's kickstarter page! We need your support!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1260566890/spectre-virtual-reality-horror?ref=live

I use the website JustWatch, and they have an app too (on iOS at least). It's great because you can select Netflix and whatever else you have access to and try to find something decent in any given genre.

I have the perfect lists for you, a Hammer and a Universal monster movie list. I also label the ones that have historically been seen as the best of the best. Let me know what you think! Been studying horror for a little while know so I can help with other information if you need!

Lot of good movies in both decades; I've got more movies on my 2010s Top List than my 2000s Top List so I guess I'd say I find it "better", but I've still got lots of things to catch up on.

I'm too lazy to pick out individual films so here, have my Favorite Horror of the 2010's list. Hopefully you find something you haven't seen.

This will answer your question. It will also explain the film which is great and underappreciated. https://mubi.com/topics/as-aboveso-below-a-meditation-in-horror-aesthetics-hermeticism-and-dantes-inferno

The Nightmare (2015) is about sleep paralysis and the shared experiences of those with it in its extreme form.

Trailer

I have really enjoyed Saw Something Scary's reviews of The Exorcism of Emily Rose and The Exorcist. On Emily Rose they give a protestant view of demon possession that struck me as really unique, considering Catholicism is the usual religious motif in these films. I recommend listening to both episodes!

>Michael Myers being born a psychopath with no help from society is integral to the character.

Maybe it's just me, but a realistic killer is scarier than an abstract embodiment of evil. And, for what it's worth, Zombie nailed the realism.

The sociology of what causes killers to kill is documented thoroughly. Three key ingredients:
1) a witness to violence.
2) coached or encouraged into violence or delinquency.
3) a victim of trauma.

Read that book. Every serial killer falls into patterns that shaped them. They aren't born evil.

And that's what makes Zombie's take better than you're giving it credit for. He nails the key elements of what makes a real killer.

If you enjoyed Annihilation, I highly recommend the book trilogy. I’ve only read Annihilation and I’ve started Authority, but I can tell you, the film was great, but the book is even better! They’re almost nothing alike either, so it’s a completely different experience. The trilogy is called Southern Reach, but there’s a hardcover that contains all three called Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy.

Just got remastered:

https://www.amazon.com/Thing-Collectors-Blu-ray-Kurt-Russell/dp/B01GSW5VD4/ref=tmm_blu_title_1?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1517847903&sr=8-6

And yeah, your horror fan card is definitely suspended until you've watched this.

Someone on Letterboxd recently did up the list for people to check out too. Useful if anyone wants to track it there or have a visual to go with it.

There's this one I made earlier that's similar: https://vimeo.com/64762621 It was just recently I decided to try and really focus on horror and get good at it. Judging by the reactions so far it seems I'm on the right track at least.

[REC] (2007)

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

https://www.justwatch.com/us/new

You can filter it to show what they have.

I love it, but I also watch a lot of "shitty" horror movies. Been subscribed about 8 months. There will be a few redundancies with Prime. 'PRACT' will get you 30 days free if you sub outside of Amazon.

There’s also the 1982 Broadway tour recording of Sweeney Todd which is far superior to Burton’s film and stars Angela Lansbury.

Sweeney Todd Broadway

Read Stephen King's On Writing if you haven't, the back half has an excellent nuts and bolts breakdown of how to write.

A few times I've gotten fun lines and character ideas from going to the coffee shop and eavesdropping on people or observing them and making up a back story - then I add a monster.

Mod from /r/shorthorror here. Check us out. That's what we specialize in, and I personally actively look for.

Vimeo is also excellent for this kind of thing. Let me start you off with a good one called "Bedbug"

http://vimeo.com/77816949

There's also the top voted short which gets posted quite a bit here on /r/horror, called "Light's Out"

https://vimeo.com/82920243

The Invitation [NETFLIX](US)

A nice little thriller about a suspicious dinner party. A sense of unease and paranoia permeates the entire film to give a slightly surreal take on dealing with grief and loss.

I spend time digging around on Letterboxd and IMDB, but there's also sites like UHM that track films in production.

Do a double bill of Hellraiser 1 & 2 before watching the documentary about them, Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II

No because Skyscraper wasn't aiming to scare you with heights. It wasn't filmed or shot to put you in the position of the star to fear your life, you're watching The Rock save his family and not have any real issues, you're watching an action movie. The likes of Frozen (2010) would be a horror with respect your fear of heights.

Like any genre, having a robust understanding of the works that influenced modern works, and the works that influenced them, is essential to engaging with horror on a deeper level. It's not perfect, but I think this list does a great job of hitting all the essential viewing (though it does have a bias toward more artistic films than the commercial 80s slasher classics).

I assume you mean audiobook since you're driving? You should check out World War Z, even if you've read it. It's really well produced and fully cast with a different voice actor for every character. I listen to a lot of horror audio, and this was my favorite by far. Stephen King audiobooks are usually really good too. If you Google it, you can find a whole lot of classic horror authors for free as well, like H.G. Wells, Bram Stoker, William Hope Hodgson, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley and even some Lovecraft. Check out Librivox

I think it's Option Paralysis, where there are too many choices, and you can't decide which to choose. Back in the TV/Blockbuster days, our selection was pretty limited, so it was easier to decide or give into randomness/channel surfing. I really miss things like MonsterVision with Joe Bob Briggs.

Check out a website called Pluto.tv, it's kinda like the TV guide channel was back in the day. There is a Horror24/7 channel on there with some fun movies; a movie called Chemical Peel is about to start... never heard of it, but I'm gonna watch it! (http://pluto.tv/watch/horror-247)

You talking about They Live?

He can have opinions on capitalism, I doubt he started making films for money, more that money came from making films.

Is it not ok to have differing opinions and debate them instead of shutting out opinions you don't like?

Martyrs (2008)
>A young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.

Rift/Rokkur is an Icelandic horror film that came out recently that centers around a gay couple. Haven't seen it yet, but I've been meaning to. It's also streaming for free right now if you have Amazon Prime.

There's also Lyle, which is also free on Amazon Prime right now and stars Gaby Hoffmann. It's like a Rosemary's Baby sort of thing, but with a lesbian couple. That's another one I haven't seen yet, but have been meaning to.

I feel like I'm forgetting a big one.

On Writing.

As much as I love his fiction, this is my absolute favorite book of his and the only one I've read more than once. It's a compelling read, a great book about writing, and an even better book about life.

https://letterboxd.com/houndovhell/list/werewolves-worth-watching/ This is my list of werewolf films I recommend to people that aren't big on werewolves.

Thinking that, in a party setting, you'd want lots of action or comedy and very little "between" periods, these are the ones that really come to mind:

Dog Soldiers is basically a war film with soldiers versus werewolves. Its action packed and has amazing costumes.

Wolfcop is the most fun werewolf film I could possibly think of. It keeps the action and hilarity going and the werewolf is our protagonist.

American Werewolf in Paris is one of my favourites, but a lot of people don't like it. Has rather cheap cgi, but its super fun.

Trick R Treat isn't all about werewolves, but a part of it is. This is a good film that keeps the action and interest up. This is definitely required viewing around Halloween.

Cursed. Not the best film, but has hilarity, a good costume, and some good kills.

If sort of slow cheesy bad movies are a go, then Big Bad Wolf (2006) is definitely up there. Featuring a cussing werewolf, Chloe Grace-Moretz's brother in one of the few films he starred in, the bad dudes name is literally Toblat.. Talbot backwards, and Marnie from Halloweentown is in it if you're like me and grew up with those films. Really bad though, only good in the "this is so absurd" way.

If I had to pick a couple to show a group of people on Halloween, it would definitely be Trick R Treat and WolfCop. Trick R Treat cause Halloween, and WolfCop cause of how fun it is.

I tried going through several lists, and there's really not a whole lot of lighthearted werewolf films with comedy. Unless you include Monster Squad and What We Do In The Shadows, which don't primarily feature werewolves.

You might find something you haven't seen on this Esoteric Slashers of the 1980s chart

Monster Squad (1987)

>You know who to call when you have ghosts but who do you call when you have monsters?
>
>Count Dracula adjourns to Earth, accompanied by Frankenstein's Monster, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and the Gillman. The uglies are in search of a powerful amulet that will grant them power to rule the world. Our heroes - the Monster Squad are the only ones daring to stand in their way.

the movie pages on trakt have links to what platforms have them & at what prices/if included in subscription. I'm in Ireland so my platforms would only confuse the majority US redditors.

Most if not all the Nightmare on Elm Street posters were done and designed by a guy called "Matthew Peak"

here's a little article on the poster and the artist behind it. https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/movie-poster-of-the-week-wes-craven-s-a-nightmare-on-elm-street-and-the-posters-of-matthew-peak

The Mist

Trick 'r Treat

Ginger Snaps

Ju-On

[REC]

Saw

Splinter

30 Days of Night

Sunshine (loosely fits horror, but I still list it among the others)

28 Days Later

Final Destination

Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon

Cloverfield

Dagon

House of the Devil

The Devil's Backbone

Let the Right One In

Session 9

Battle Royale (again, very loose definition of horror here)

Lake Mungo

Noroi: The Curse

Cabin Fever

The Orphanage

Dawn of the Dead

Shutter

That's a quick Top 25, throw in Shaun of the Dead if you want to add comedies to the mix too. HERE is my complete listing from the decade in case you're curious about where some other movies fall on the list. Some that don't get enough love: All the Girls Love Mandy Lane, Suicide Club, Book of Shadows, May, Feast, The Last Winter, and Infection.

Because it's a movie and I loved creature effects when I was small, I like gore films for seeing how real they can make it look, the artistry in the make-up and execution.

After that it's the story left behind so Martyrs has great gore and is a great movie because there's a story behind why these people are being put through awful torture. Again for Seven Days, it's a father who's child was raped and murdered, he is exacting revenge on the killer using his skills as a surgeon. The gore makes it feel more real and so you think about how the father is right to want revenge & justice but is this the right kind?

I think you want different things form your horrors. I'm never scared of any when watching them now, I'm too old (in reddit sense, 30s) and seen too many to be scared now. I watch for well made films and stories. It's more like Sci-Fi to me, it's interesting and has the best storytelling posibilities but i don't count it a failure if I'm not scared.

Here's a list of all my horror movie ratings starting with highest first, you'll probably see our tastes differ there.

oh yeah, agreed, I'll post lil summaries for /u/kenzbtch

Pandorum (2009)
>Two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they've been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon discover they're actually not alone – and the reality of their situation is more horrifying than they could have imagined.

Europa Report (2013)
>A crew of international astronauts are sent on a private mission to Jupiter's fourth moon.

I would strongly suggest reading Stephen Kings "On Writing" if you haven't already. Beyond that just keep reading and reading beyond the genre in order to continually draw inspiration and pick up good writing habits.

Well, you're missing the entire thing really.

I can't stress this enough. Read the fucking book. I don't read 99% of the horror garbage out there. This makes the short list with non-genre books for me. IT is probably King's finest work besides On Writing.

> It's a miniseries of about 5 hrs and you would have to stream it illegally or torrent it

For those in the US, you can watch it on Crunchyroll.

You might enjoy Algernon Blackwood's short story Wendingo. Blackwood was a masterful writer; Lovecraft thought that Blackwood's The Willows was the best short story in the entire genre.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10897/10897-h/10897-h.htm

Have you seen all of these? If so then I dunno what to tell you. While I'd say this year hasn't been super strong so far, I do not at all feel that the last few years have been bad by any means.

I go through on a computer and add stuff to a watchlist. At least they have an Amazon rating and IMDB rating displayed.

Really, letterboxd + justwatch is the best way to find stuff streaming in my opinion. For example, this list of weird/b-movie stuff on Prime.

I still have to get to Belko Experiment, Alien: Covenant, A Cure for Wellness, and It Comes At Night when it comes to big releases from this year

Also: All of these

I loved it, it had my full attention all through and the small details made it for me. I felt it was really well made, tension was built really well and the ending was a great payoff. I thought it could have done without the speech explicitly explaining what was happening with the son tho. Yeah, 9/10 from me and one of the best of the year.

Here's my horror ratings with the newest released movies first if you want to see what I've watched this year and compare ratings.

>has that deep smooth voice (assuming he can do an American accent)

He played Stringer Bell in The Wire so he can.

I really liked it, I watched Resolution first and The Endless is a sequel to that with a continuing storyline. You might need the background info to enjoy it to its fullest.

In fairness, that's a mediocre Nic Cage movie, you don't need to follow it as closely as Hereditary. Unless you meant Halloween III: Season of the Witch, then they should have watched all of it!

• Ravenous
• The Witch
• A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
• Event Horizon
• The Thing
• The Innkeepers
• Psycho
• Halloween (1978)
• Lake Mungo
• Berberian Sound Studio

That was really hard and any of them past the first three could probably be swapped with almost anything on this list and feel acceptable. I tried to pick the ones I most enjoy going back to rewatch.

Edit: Great list by the way, I think all those are on my master list just about lol. Black Christmas is one I really love, and now I'm second guessing myself but that's okay.

The Orphanage
>A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.

and Marrowbone for me
>A young man and his four younger siblings, who have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together, are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.

I'd agree with this, I loved The Void for its cosmic horror. I went back and watched Re-Animator (1985) and From Beyond (1986) afterwards, I would love more in the genre.

When I was a kid, my dad got a big box full of Creepy and Eerie magazines.

They sell archives of them on Amazon, now:

https://www.amazon.com/Creepy-Archives-1-Various/dp/1593079737

These things ... they're just so god damn cool.

It looks like it's not available to stream for free in the US, just rent and buy. But in the future, Justwatch.com will tell you what is playing where, you can see what was added to your streaming services and it's overall a great resource.

The festival reviews on Letterboxd are pretty positive - it was written by S. Craig Zahler, of Bone Tomahawk and Brawl in Cell Block 99, so it's almost certainly going to be gruesome, and while his films tend to be pretty ideologically right-wing, he seems to be libertarian enough in his approach that I'd be surprised if the Nazis were anything but inarguable villains (I'd like it if the puppets were actual villains instead of anti-heroes).

Suspira was theatrically released in Japan - I don't think it'd be too surprising that people making a Horror game were fans of Horror films of the era, and Goblin were big enough there to have Japan-only singles released.

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Session 9 is a pet hate of mine, we differ on taste then and you should try find the movies you like and build them up, not bitch about the ones you don't like. So negative.

edit: you can browse my ratings of 359 horror movies here if you want to judge mine.

Older horrors need you to think about the context, influence and year of release. Like what had been done before, what was this the first to do and why are people still talking about it today.

I decided to try get more informed on the matter and watched a good few documentaries about cinema and horror. Mark Gatiss' A History of Horror being one the best starters and then I made this list of horror documentaries to keep going forward.

How about watching a documentary about the movies of that time that will explain why it was important then and why it's important now by showing you examples of its influence?

• A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss (2010)
  

I recommend that as a start and then check out the documentaries here all about horror.

Here's a massive list of horror movie franchises, 793 movies, I'd say the 12th Witchcraft or the 9th Amityville might be worse than The Nun.

I'd recommend It Follows as well as the whole Ring franchise that starts in Japan and continues with the US adaptation, the original director of the Ring movies helped the US so it'd fit the series in a meta way.

If the internet was around back then I'd say people would shit on it for being a remake & saying they'll never do better than The Thing from Another World

It's a case of the writer needed them to escape for their story to take place and they didn't want to spend too much time writing about defenses or security protocols.

This trope/idea/cliche is parodied in Cabin In The Woods

It's hard to do worse than 1991.

Don't know about chinese specifically, but Hong Kong put out a ton of fun horror movies in the 70s-90s. Seeding of a Ghost and Boxers Omen are some recommendable ones I saw recently, otherwise there seems to be a pretty complete list here

RottenTomatoes. Seven reviews, all of them positive. 100% score. Dreadcentral also praises the film.

I see no reason to rag on Bloody Disgusting for the review when it pretty much says the same thing as other reviews do.

I think it might actually be quite good. The shaky cam is less shaky, and the last half of the film seems to be gory, claustrophobic and pretty scary.