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An error has ocurred. Please try againSome of these movies I'm not really so interested in seeing but I've still added them here because either there's an actor or actress in it that I'm really into or because the movie is largely considered as a horror classic or a horror movie you just simply can't miss but have to see. Some of them are part of a horror movie series and might be very poorly done sequels but I'll watch them just so that I'll have watched "a complete set".
I don't even know if all of these are even good, a lot of them probably aren't, but at least I can try them out and if they don't work for me I can try something else. When I've seen a movie on this list I'll delete it and add it on another one called "Horror movies that I´ve seen". I also delete movies if I feel they're not something worth watching after all.
Then of course there's horror & comedy mixed with each other. If the movie isn't in any way scary I'll call it comedy (like the franchise Scary Movie, I'll add them on comedy list) but if it has something creepy about it I'll place it in horror even if it makes me laugh at times. One could also come up with a separate genre of monster movies since not all of them are horror - quite a lot of them sci-fi - but I think I can safely link monsters under the horror genre, after all traditionally monsters are supposedly scary.
I did also generously put some movies on this list that were called horror but did not in my opinion horrify or scare at all, just bored me and made me roll my eyes. But I guess even bad "horror" is horror; maybe I've been watching too many horror movies to be creeped out by most of the stuff in them that would make others cry out loud where as I'm thinking "For crying out loud!"
See also my other list "Horror Movies I Have Yet to See" for movies I haven't watched yet but am considering and hopefully will watch at some point.
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The Atticus Institute (2015)
Truly frightening
I'm the kind of a horror movie viewer who wants the occasional scare but doesn't like too much gore or disgusting content. To me the best horror is something that's realistic and sneaks up on you slowly building up towards the end. For this reason I've grown fond of horror movies filmed as if they we're documentaries made by the people involved in the incidents that occur. I can even watch the gory parts if the movie isn't about the gore but about really truly scaring and creeping you out till your skin crawls and you have this feeling like something is itching on the back of your head.
Good examples of this kind of horror genre are Paranormal Activity and Rec and their sequels. The Atticus Institute in my opinion follows in their footsteps and is really under-appreciated and underestimated. I gave this movie 9 out of 10 points because it is almost perfect in it's subtlety and unsuspecting, almost drama resembling beginning that incorrigibly moves towards an irreversible unnerving ending.
The movie skillfully avoids overdoing it and relies on the weight of the threat evoking fears in the viewers mind about what is really out there or should I say below us. It's effectiveness is in the very simple truth revealed to us that this was overseen and documented by the very government which admitted that this was something they couldn't explain in any other way than this being an actual demonic possession. The accounts of the research scientists, family members and the government investigators or soldiers are convincing and serious as the story unravels towards the only possible outcome: destruction.