- Hellraiser (mainly 1 and 2, but 3 is good too if you are in the mood for something more silly. There is a cenobite that literally shoots dvds out of its chest lol).
- Evil Dead 2 (tho 1 is cool, I personally really like it when movies have to be creative bc of their low budget)
- Evil Stepsister ( Cinderella inspired horror movie. It made me gag like 2 times and that never happens. May be slight PL but I've worked with a LOT of bodily fluid and gross real life wounds, and nothing had affected me like this. It's probably the closest to the Grimm's brothers original story)
- The Grudge (is it scary? No. But it made me anxious. Also the croaking sound the ghost makes....)
- Opera by Dario Argento (One of his more "normie" movies but easier to follow the narrative.....or maybe I was too high when I watched the other ones. A man gets obsessed with an opera singer, also great visuals)
- Suspiria 2022 version (it's basically a remake of Suspiria by Dario Argento but it incorporates the other 2 films that are part of the triology. The original suspiria is a delight to watch when it comes to aesthetic and music, but I found it very "awkward" and slow. This remake really hones in on the horror and the actress is PHENOMENAL)
- Possesion (1981) (a classic. Husband gets cucked by a demon and the ending is just wtf)
- Hausu (surrealist 70's japanese horror movie about a haunted house. It's a very unoriginal premise tbh, but something that I love about old horror movies is the special effects. Also, iirc, the director co wrote this movie with his 5 year old daughter and you can tell the parts that the kid wrote )
- Incantation (more of psychological horror than anything. Retarded vloggers disrespect a god and mess with things that should be left alone)
- Audition (A man decides to go back into the dating scene after a long while and gets lost in the BPD pussy. Also psychological horror with a little bit of surrealism bc this is Takashi Miike so of course there is gonna be weird stuff mixed in. There is only one scene with blood and it made me queasy )
- Tokyo Gore Police (In the future there are criminals that become "engineers" and the privatized japanese force has a special squad for dealing with it. LOTS of body horror and LOTS of blood, so perhaps you should leave this one for last)
- Stopmotion (A stopmotion arstist goes mad after losing her mother. Uses one of my favorite mediums PLUS there is a complicated mother- daughter relationship? Yeah, OF COURSE I recommend this)
- Mad God (I think this is more horror adjacent, but it's a stop motion movie about a man that basically goes down to hell. It's bizarre, I don't even know if there is any true plot, but anything that is stop motion I'm gonna eat it up)
- Jacob's Ladder (you know silent hill? Well, it got most of it's inspo from this movie: viet soldier with ptsd starts hallucinating monsters. Body horror)
- The Fly, the David Cronenberg version (another classic. I wouldn't say it's scary at all, but it's pretty gross. Again. lots of body horror)
- The classics too: Friday the 13th, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, etc
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