Recommend good horror movies/books I should see/read?

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Exactly! It's been embarrassing a few times but it's usually funny. I sometimes just tell people I love "scary movies" to save myself some trouble. And it comes up often, because I can steer any conversation towards horror movies. I think everyone who's ever met me knows that I love horror movies. It's such an unfortunate word for me to be unable to pronounce.

Anyway, back to the topic. I thought of another book that I can't believe I forgot in the first place:
-I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. This was the first audiobook that I ever listened to and it was truly chilling. I enjoyed it immensely and it got me hooked on audiobooks. Unfortunately my standard for audiobook voices was set too high because few have been able to add as much to the story as that guy added to I Am Legend.

i always thought "reanimator" was delightfully over the top. same for "seconds..." as well as "what ever happened to baby jane?"

I actually have the exact same problem. Whenever I say "horror" out loud it either comes out "whore" or I have to over enunciate, making it sound incredibly awkward...

That's amazing, I thought I was definitely alone with this particular quirk.

I don't particularly like horror movies more than other genres, but "Alien" is definitely one of the greatest movies I have ever seen. If you haven't seen it yet, watch it ASAP.

Ooooh, yes, I forgot to include that in the list! I don't think of alien movies as horror movies somehow... they're their own genre to me.
But yes, all the Alien films are definitely some of the best.

Awesome to see Session 9 mentioned. Great list.

My favorites:
-Jacob's Ladder
-A Tale of Two Sisters
-Chasing Sleep

My college room mate clung to me and yelled for about a minute during one particular scene in Chasing Sleep...

My absolute favorite:
-Spider

It's not a horror film, however this movie has haunted me ever since I watched it. I give it a showing every month or so...it lies in my subconscious as a mediated symbol of my greatest fears. For many aspies I expect the imagery will resonate strongly. For others it will probably just bore them tears.

I love Spider! I actually sat down just now with the intent to watch it but I decided to come here first. Ralph Fiennes is my number 1 favourite actor. Spider deserves more recognition, everybody I've mentioned it to has never heard of it, or they think I mean Along Came A Spider. Definitely not a horror though, but haunting certainly.

I'll have to check out Chasing Sleep, I've seen the others you mentioned.

I found it to be one of the most criminally boring films I've ever seen. That's to be expected given my current tastes, but I saw it when I was in a very-slow-films-in-which-nothing-takes-place phase (think Bela Tarr, Van Sant's Death Trilogy, etc), and I thought it was abysmal even then. Pity, because I've enjoyed Cronenberg's other films.

One film that deserves a mention here is the wonderful Ravenous. It's not scary or creepy, but it's still a masterpiece, and has one of the best soundtracks ever. The whole thing's on youtube, last time I checked.

Secret Window
The Ninth Gate
Sleepy Hollow
From Hell

Just so you know, all of them star Johnny Depp as the leading man. But would you really expect anything else from me?

I couldn't bear to watch Quarantine. It was terrifying. I hear Rec is even more scary.

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Oh dear.

Or what about this?

I'm feeling the Fulci love! I just watched the new Blu-Ray of "City of the Living Dead" and loved it more than ever. However, Fulci is kinda an acquired taste/advanced viewing.......

Films I would recommend are

-Let the Right One in
-Audition
-From Beyond
-The Thing
-Henry:Portrait of a Serial Killer
-Re-Animator
-Ringu-Japanese not the remake
-Pulse(Kairo) -Japanese not the remake
-Near Dark
-The Original Romero Zombie Trilogy (Night, Day and Dawn)

Ditto to "28 Days Later", "Silence of the Lambs", "The Exorcist", "Jacob's Ladder", "Ring" ( the japanese version ), "The Shining", "The Thing", and Cronenberg, especially "The Fly", ... but also "Scanners", and "Rabid", aswell as "Don"t Look Now" ( Nicholas Roeg ), which is brilliant and terrifying, "Prince of Darkness" and "The Fog" by Carpenter again, ( of "The Thing" ), plus "Dark Water" ( japanese version again ) and "The Omen".

Favourite horror books; King definitely, ( eg. "Dreamcatcher" ), and Peter Straub's "Ghost Story" made an impression, and the ghost stories of M.R. James too, also "The Green Man" by Kingsley Amis, and Philip K Dick's short stories often seem like horror stories to me, ( amazing ).

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