It’s horror movie season in the US and my favorite type is zombies. I also love campy B movies. Watching Dead Snow 2 right now and I think it ranks up there with Shawn of the Dead and Evil Dead 3: Army of Darkness.

What is your top pick for whatever genre?

  • Teils13@lemmy.eco.br
    1·
    13 minutes ago

    The Witch (2015)

    Since you asked the favorite, i will have to describe it, trying to avoid the spoilers.

    It is a masterpiece on many aspects at the same time. It is a historical movie, focusing on an isolated devout settler family living on the frontiers in the beginnings of US history. It is a dramatic and heavy movie with believable people, showing their realistic hardships in everyday living, how they really live and think the world through their strict religion, and how they react realistically to the supernatural events that unfold. It is a Horror movie that gradually builds the mystery, tense and fear thorough the relatively long stretch of time it takes (months i guess), and the actual terror moments felt deserved (i.e. not a cheap scary gag).

    For all that, it is considered one of the more ‘artful’ horror films out there, and i’m sure it will (or already is?) considered one of the Greats in the genre with Dracula 1932 and The Exorcist 1973. It however leans on being slow and heavy, not good if you seek a lighthearted film.

  • Nikls94@lemmy.world
    2·
    38 minutes ago

    It’s not a movie, rather a game: Layers of Fear

    We played it at a friend (well, he played and we watched) back in… 2018? Or maybe 19?

    Long story short, I try to forget it to experience it again later in 2030.

  • Subtracty@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 hour ago

    Signs (2002) is my favorite horror movie to watch during spooky season. While it was mocked so perfectly in Scary Movie 3, I feel like the atmosphere it creates is still so unnerving. The humor in the movie adds an element of B movie campiness to an otherwise serious movie.

    Cabin in the Woods (2011) disassembles the horror tropes in a hilarious way. Inspired by the Evil Dead movies.

  • zero_gravitas@aussie.zoneEnglish
    9·
    2 hours ago

    Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010) and The Cabin in the Woods (2012) (go in spoiler-free with this one) are both good comedy horror.

  • nocturne@sopuli.xyz
    4·
    2 hours ago

    Braindead/Dead Alive is always in my top horror movies. Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn is a really good movie too. Both have an amazing number of fantastic one liners.

    28 Days and 28 Weeks Later are great zombie movies that are less camp and humor.

    • friek@sh.itjust.worksOP
      2·
      2 hours ago

      I’m a huge Bruce Campbell fan. The 28 pair is a good call, too. I’d take 28 days over 28 Weeks Later.

      • nocturne@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        2 hours ago

        Originally i really disliked 28 Days, it was not until i begrudgingly saw 28 Weeks and really liked it that I went back and rawatched Days and thoroughly enjoyed it.

  • ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world
    12·
    4 hours ago

    Alien is my favorite horror movie by far. I really dig Hellraiser too. I watched Pontypool recently and was surprised how good it was. And The Shining is fab.

  • Drathro@dormi.zoneEnglish
    7·
    3 hours ago

    Oh baby, time to proselytize the masses of Lemmy and introduce a whole new set of suckers to “Fido”. It’s zombies with big Fallout vibes and is unironically one of the best C to B tier movies I’ve ever seen. It’s the kind of movie where it looks like everyone involved was just having fun with it, ya know? Check it out and make sure to let me know what you think!

    • Subtracty@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 hour ago

      I just read the description on IMDB, and good lord what a fever dream. But the real selling point for me is the disembodied head of Billy Connolly being a loyal companion to a family. Consider me signed up.

  • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
    3·
    3 hours ago

    Return of the Living Dead (1985)

    Fright Night (1985)

    The Reanimator (1985)

    • friek@sh.itjust.worksOP
      1·
      2 hours ago

      The original Romero zombie movie series deserves its own discussion IMO. Dawn of the Dead is my favorite.

    • trainsaresexy@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 hours ago

      Return of the Living Dead (1985)

      I watched this recently. Actual not-dumb characters is sooo nice. I’d written this off as just yet another Romero style zombie movie but it has it’s own thing going on. I think given how much I liked Tusk (saw it last night) and Dale and Tucker vs. Evil I have a soft spot for R rated horror comedy.