Eden Lake (2008) for a pacey slice of bleak British horror with no redeeming feel-good factor whatsoever,

Cabin in the Woods (2012) for something a little bit different,

August Underground trilogy (2001, 2003, 2007) for found footage faux-snuff at it's very best or very worst depending on your point of view,

10, Rillington Place (1971) for a creepy old British suspense thriller about real-life serial killer John Christie,

Dead Hooker in a Trunk (2009) for highly entertaining low-budget grindhouse pulp,

American Psycho (2000) to see how an un-filmable novel can still be a great movie,

Halloween (2007) and Halloween II (2009) for a stark, unpolished and brutal take on the 80s classics,

Thirst (2009) for a westerner-friendly intro to Korean horror... slow paced but very absorbing and cinematically lush,

Cannibal Holocaust (1980) for an essential addition to any collection of controversial cinema ... an absorbing and intelligent film that's still notorious even 35 years on and made a statement about media monsters 14 years before Oliver Stone thought of it.

The Haunting (1963)
Village Of The Damned (1960)

Thanks for your help, everyone!

I actually didn't think I'd find such a cool community when I signed up, :)

I did not really like Zombie's version of Halloween. I think Zombie gave it a good shot and it really did have some excellent ideas, but ultimately, the film had problems that resulted in it being below quality. First, is character development. What made the original film and even some of Zombie's other excellent films so excellent was character development. This film barely did that with the exception of Myers and that guard in the prison. I could care less about any of the characters. Second, he destroyed too much of the mystery. He, essentially, explained why Myers did the killing. This is what made the original slashers including Halloween so excellent. That you did not know why. It was more like a personification of evil (in the original Hallowen series). Funnily enough, he was very successful in doing this in his films House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects. Third, I think he attempted to make it scary, but I do not think that he was successful. It was mainly cheap scares, which did not even work on me (not that he had to be scary to be good). Also, the mask was not really that good, in my opinion, but that is purely a personal perception. These are the main problems I had with the film. Not that there aren't others, but this were the main ones. It felt more like a generic modern horror movie. I love when directors try to do something new, especially with remakes, but I felt that, ultimately, it really was not that unique or even entertaining. Some have raised the criticism that it was too violent, while it was violent, that part did not really bother me. I mean what would you expect from a Rob Zombie film? Not that there is anything wrong with that, just an observation. In truth, I do not understand why this seemed to be the case because the things this film lacked were things Zombie did quite well in his two previous films. I will also make clear that I think Zombie is an excellent director. I thoroughly enjoyed his films The Lords of Salem, House of 1000 Corpses, and The Devil's Rejects, but felt he simply fell short on this film. I have not seen the sequel, so I do not have an official opinion on it.

I loved House of 1,000 Corpses! I now own quite a large dized Captain Spaulding. But I've yet to see Lords of Salem, now, because of the wealth of material suggested here, I gotta somehow narrow this down to seven more films!

All good points and material for an interesting discussion but I'm sure there must be a thread re; these films already on the site where we could carry this on :-)

Although Sid Haig has a role in Lords there's no Captain Spaulding or any of the other characters from House or Devil's ... Lords has no connection with those two films in that sense, I mean it's an entirely different story.

I don't see any Hellraiser on your list. I would check out the Hellraiser movies, particularly part 1 and 2. The series get pretty erratic after that, but I do like part 5 Inferno. It looks like you dig modern horror, but if you really want to broaden your horizons, I would get into the classics. From German Expressionism, Universal monster classics, Val Lewtons RKO classics, Hammer's classic monster revival, Japanese folk horror of the 60s, to name a few classic genres. There are too many individual movies to name, but I could rattle off a few if you wanted.

Here's a few flicks that I feel a lot of horror fans overlook:

Alone In The Dark (1982)


Deranged (1974)


Dead & Buried (1982)


Demons (1985)

Yea, several have suggested entire labels or catalogs rather than individual films, so it's gonna take me a while looking up and sorting through them all. And that's because stores here don't have very much that's pre-90's.

Yea, Peeps, he said to just name one film to add to the list of DVDs he currently owns. :p ;)

For me, there's films I would rent, and enjoy, but not own. And then some I would own, because I've enjoyed viewing them multiple times. That's certainly a subjective thing. But it's good question to ask horror fans, "Of the horror films you own, and glad you own because you've watched them multiple times, which one do you like the best?"