#unfortunately i am incapable of going overboard when u give me free reign w horror movie recs

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🦇 rae's horror recs 🦇

ok per the request from this anon here is a list of horror movie recs loosely sorted into categories!!

🩸femininity + horror

the love witch (2016) - a beautiful witch tries to find the man of her dreams (one of the most visually beautiful movies i have ever seen + topically so so smart)

jennifer's body (2009) - repressed lesbianism + demon cannibals, my favorite flavor combination

the craft (1996) - teen witch cult! one of my favorite movie villains ever <3

teeth (2007) - super christian teen discovers her vagina has teeth (one of my favorite movies of all time)

mother! (2017) - a movie that feels like a fever dream-turned-nightmare; pregnant woman's husband keeps inviting guests into the house

ginger snaps (2000) - sisters obsessed with death suddenly have to reevaluate some things when one of them gets bitten by a werewolf (another all-time fave of mine)

season of the witch (1972) - another movie that is so so visually stunning; suburban house wife tries to fill the void in her life with witchcraft

lyle (2014) - kinda like rosemary's baby but lesbian

raw (2016) - vegetarian veterinary student has to contend with her sudden growing hunger for meat

the witch (2015) - solitary pilgrim family gets tormented by an unknown force

the neon demon (2016) - if america's next top model was a horror movie

🧠 zombies! this one needed sub-categories

smart (zombie movies that are doing something a little different/with a twist)

seoul station (2016) - my personal favorite horror movie!! a young woman tries to navigate the sudden outbreak of a zombie apocalypse in seoul

cargo (2017) - a father has 48 hours after getting infected with a zombie virus to find someone to care for his daughter

the girl with all the gifts (2016) - a girl with miraculous immunity to the zombie virus tries to find safety with her teacher when their compound is overrun

here alone (2016) - a woman attempting to survive the apocalypse alone encounters some strangers

ravenous (2017) - survivors search for safety in a zombie apocalypse

deadgirl (2008) - ok be warned with this one!! like i know this is a list of horror movies i'm assuming anyone watching horror knows what triggers they need to check for first but. extra warning for this movie bc it is notoriously fucked up and disgusting. that being said it is also one of my favorite zombie movies not in terms of like....being enjoyable to watch, but in terms of everything it's doing with gender. like absolutely ripe for analysis + discussion + i have read some really interesting zombie theory abt this particular film but. yeah recommending w a LARGE grain of salt

the rezort (2015) - in the wake of a zombie virus, tourists visit an exclusive resort for the chance to kill zombies recreationally

classic

train to busan (2016) - my favorite like...classic setup + execution of a zombie movie <3

day of the dead (1985) - for better or for worse, romero's movies did pioneer the genre. in this one, a military base gets overrun

28 days later (2002) - a man wakes up alone in a hospital only to discover that a mysterious virus has swept the country

night of the living dead (1968) - the classic of all classic zombie movies. a group of survivors gets stuck in a house.

dawn of the dead (2004) - haven't seen the original, but i enjoyed this one just fine! group of survivors gets stuck inside a mall

comedy

one cut of the dead (2017) - film crew trying to shoot a movie in one cut get attacked by zombies

anna and the apocalypse (2017) - zombie christmas musical

zombie for sale (2019) - if warm bodies was actually good

little monsters (2019) - elementary school teacher protects her students from zombies

night of the living deb (2015) - deb's one-night stand just wants to get rid of her; unfortunately, the zombie apocalypse has started

👻 hauntings + possessions

the babadook (2014) - a single mother tries to figure out what to do when her son becomes convinced that there's a monster in their house

his house (2020) - a refugee couple move into a new house only to discover that something already seems to be living there

la llorona (2019) - a guatemalan general accused of genocide is trapped by protestors in his mansion with his family, where something begins to haunt them (NOT to be confused with the american movie of a similar name)

the shining (1980) - jack accepts a job as caretaker of the overlook hotel and moves in with his family, only to discover it might not be entirely empty

it follows (2014) - jay has sex only to discover that in doing so she's become the recipient of a deadly curse, and the only way to get rid of it is to pass it on to someone else

metamorphosis (2019) - a demon terrorizes a family by impersonating different members

🔪 slashers

scream (1996) - perhaps the epitome of classic teen slasher movie

the cabin in the woods (2011) - five college friends decide to spend a weekend at a cabin; things get progressively weirder

black christmas (1974) - sorority christmas slasher with one of the best unsettling endings

i know what you did last summer (1997) - four friends involved in a hit and run think they've buried the evidence until they start receiving mysterious + threatening messages

🕸️ psychological (i'm using this term loosely ok a lot of these ones didn't fit elsewhere)

get out (2017) - a man visiting his girlfriend's family for the first time can't ignore their increasingly strange behavior

us (2019) - a family visiting their beach house receive unexpected guests

creep (2014) - a man accepts a filmmaking job only to arrive at the location and encounter increasingly alarming red flags

the invitation (2015) - a couple attends a friend's dinner party only to grow increasingly uncomfortable as the night wears on

gerald's game (2017) - a sex game gone wrong leaves jesse handcuffed to a bed with no food, no water, and no way to free herself

midsommar (2019) - typical europe-trip-with-friends gone wrong

👽 sci-fi

alien (1979) - a spaceship on its way back to earth stops to intercept a distress signal, only for one of the crew to be attacked by a mysterious creature

aliens (1986) - sequel to alien; this time colonists are terraforming the planet where the alien was discovered, and when contact is lost ripley is sent on a mission to find out what happened

thing (1982) - a group of researchers in antarctica rescue what they think is a dog

nope (2022) - siblings on a ranch try to get photographic evidence of an unusual phenomenon (honestly not sure if this counts as sci-fi or not but...whatever i'm putting it here)

annihilation (2018) - a biologist joins an expedition into a dangerous and unexplored territory