Recommendations

I was asked by a good friend of mine if I could recommend any genuinely scary films, he was wondering if such a thing still exists. I thought this would be a good blog post for a couple reasons. Firstly to open a few people up to some films they may not have heard of or seen, and secondly to give an idea of my tastes and what I think makes good horror. I set myself the rule that they all have to be made since the turn of the millennium, so this is by no means a comprehensive list, but I just wanted to prove that there is still good horror being made. Modern horror is not just The Conjuring and Insidious bullshit we see in the cinemas. 

Maniac

 

I’m going to kick this review off with a controversial statement. Re-makes are a good idea. I’m not saying all re-makes are good, or that all films should be re-made, but in some cases they can be great. Most genre films are so painfully unoriginal that they feel a title card away from a re-make anyway. Audiences sensibilities, the boundaries of what is acceptable and the technologies used to create them are always changing. So in the right hands, yeah, a Clash of the Titans re-make could have been pretty amazing. It wasn’t, it was a pile of steaming kraken shit, but it could have been. Here’s hoping the new Godzilla film will be testament to this. Let’s not forget, The Thing, The Fly and even Scarface were impeccable examples of the re-make being done right.