Two Horror films a enjoyed

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I just watched two horror films and really enjoyed them.
The UK movie Shaun of the Dead, it's a romantic zombie comedy loosly based, or a spoof of Dawn of the Dead, or just about every zombie movie made.

A quite different and extremely disturbing movie I just watched is Hostle. I highly recomend this movie if you can handle extreme gore and blood.

What are some other well done horror/sci-fi movies I should check out, or anything really disturbing?

-E

If you wanna be disgusted, how about the "Silent Hill" movie? I'd recommend the games though, as excellent psychological horror. "Project Zero" ("Fatal Frame" for the Yanks) is also good.

As to movies, have you watched the Japanese version of "Ring"?

I really liked "Silent Hill" and "Shaun of the Dead," the former for its great visuals, monsters, atmosphere, music, etc. and the latter because it had a very interesting transition from extremely funny to extremely serious and disturbing. However, I dislike the gore in both films...I just don't like a lot of blood and gore. I can tollerate it if I love everything else about the movie, but I can't tollerate extreme cruelty. Thus I have no interest in "Hostel," which seems basically like torture porn to me.

Some other horror/disturbing stuff I recommend:
-Unleashed (not horror, but disturbing as hell. Very sweet, though, and with so much heart...the film's strength is that it juxtaposes these two contrasting tones so well)
-Sleepy Hollow (just for the incredible visuals)
-The Devil's Backbone (I posted about this in a thread about what movies we saw last, it's a great Spanish film)
-Evil Dead II (hilarious but really sick, sometimes at the same time, such as the scene where SPOILER SPOILER Bruce Campbell's hand turns evil and starts attacking him, so he has to remove it with a chainsaw...really yucky, but the way the hand makes those squirrley noises and bashes plate after plate against Bruce/Ash is funny as hell. Think of it as "Beetlejuice" meets "Shaun of the Dead," or a demented Marx Brothers type of thing.)
-Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (not horror, but rather dark humor that's funny and sick at the same time. I.e., Robert Downey Jr. gets his finger cut off, sewn back on, cut off again, and then it gets eaten by a dog! The tone's light and crazy enough for this to actually be funny instead of just yucky, though. My mom even liked the film and she hates nearly everything that's violent, so...yeah.)
-North Country (again, not horror, but disturbing as hell! There is so much cruelty, injustice, and sexism in this film that it's appalling. Basically a movie about women's rights being abused in a mine, etc.)

Of course, there's plenty of really creepy horror films I've never seen and don't want to see. I've heard that a lot of David Lynch's movies, especially "Eraserhead," are really disturbing.

I like scary movies too. Recently i saw the Devil's Rejects. It has a lot of action and a really creepy clown in it.

I've been meaning to see that. I'm a big Rob Zombie fan

I like most of David Lynch, and at times consider him to be more of an artistic director than a typical director. His films also seem to be out-of-sync with many NTs. I know that a couple of people have wondered if David Lynch was aspie. He definitely has to be a visual-spatial learner, though ... and I've read he was an artist before that. I know many NT people who have turned his movies off, saying that they could not understand them. The thing is, though, a couple of aspies in my group said the same thing. I could even wonder if his movies are like fit for schizophrenics or something. I won't say they're made for aspies, though, since they are not exactly that scientific or rational, and he uses a lot of visual metaphors that some aspies probably wouldn't understand. I just happened to be one who can, and I still think Lost Highway is the most bizarre and confusing movie I have ever seen.

- Ray M -

I watch lots and lots of horror films, from all kinds, from blood and guts to monster movies to whatever.

Just saw Wolf Creek ... Really good. It was marketed as a true story, but find out later that wasn't true. Hostel I have not yet seen.

Shaun of the Dead is sort of like those Scary Movie movies. I do not like comedy for the most part.

I'll name 10 others that I have seen, and I have seen many more in the past:

(1) Suspiria (maybe the best by Dario Argento)
(2) Scream (the first is the best; all are good)
(3) Blood Feast (HG Lewis -- totally hard to find 60s flick and extremely sick, with a sequel out just last year)
(4) Twitch of the Death Nerve (Italian horror flick -- forget Friday the 13th, this was more like the predecessor)
(5) Misery (maybe the best by Steven King, as well as Dolores Claiborne)
(6) Zombi (Lucio Fulci Italian horror flick -- forget Night of the Living Dead, this is much sicker with lots of sequels)
(7) Nail Gun Massacre (So, I like movies with unusual weapons)
(8) Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (Has a comical edge, but not overdone, really funny, bizarre and sick)
(9) Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl O Rama (Another comical one, but not with the comedy overdone)
(10) Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (Probably the best slasher flick, loosely based on Henry Lee Lucas)

- Ray M -

Another Italian film y'all sickos might wanna check out could be "Cannibal Hollocost." Heard that that one's disturbing beyond belief.

EDIT: Erp, I just wanted to say I'm not meaning offense when calling y'all "sickos." It's said jokingly. ^.^

Ringu
Shaun of the Dead
Misery
Blair Witch Project
Sleepy Hollow
Evil Dead II

I've always loved Braindead. Half of it is a 1950s New Zealand period piece, the other half a gorefest. One of the goriest films ever made.

Cannibal Holocaust is a deeply unpleasant little film. Good soundtrack, though.