The nice thing about the Fangoria site is that they also have a huge news area that keeps you up to date on all of the horror on the horizon!

More often than not, the horror movies I have seen show some girl in the shower washing her body.

Then, in the next scene, the same woman is standing in front of a mirror when something scary makes an appearance.

The characters in horror movies also do the stupidest of things.

Why is it that so many movies have the same scenes in them?

Where’s the originality?

you forgot running up the stairs when you could obviously run outside on the phone while screaming… whos there… in a night robe to someone having a vision on a plane about crashing into zombies …

I agree …

and they have the same scenes in them because its a proven formula that works for audeinces . you know .. like a cookie recipe …. it brings them there to watch it you dont change a recipe that works unless you are sure of what your doing .. The Problem is of course people get prettty fuking sick of cookies and want some motherfuking Chips ..

WIth DIp .

(P.S. disregard the comment about Cry_Wolf. That movie sucked. There, I saved you your time and money).

I hope you like the following list. Not all of these are "horror" in the traditional sense, but they all contain elements of horror. Many are foreign. Release dates are to the best of my memory. The ones with stars (*) next to them are particularly "dreamy".

1. The City of Lost Children (1995, French Movie). *

2. Little Otik (early 90s, by Jan Svankmejer) *

3. Let the Right One In (2008, Swedish)

4. Delicatessen (early 90s, by makers of City of Lost Children) *

5. Tales From The Gimli Hospital (late 80s, directed by Canadian Guy Madden) *

6. Careful! (early 90s? directed by Guy Madden) *

7. Naked Lunch (early 90s, by Cronenberg) *

8. Eraserhead (1977 I believe, by David Lynch) *

9. Come and See ("Idi i Smotri"- very dreamy, disturbing Russian war movie about the WW2) *

10. Flight of the Innocent (1993, Spanish)

11. I’m Not Scared (2005 I believe, Itallian movie)

12. The Orphanage (recent movie, spanish, Guillermo Del Toro)

13. The Devil’s Backbone (90s movie by Guillermo Del Toro) *

14. Jacob’s Ladder (1990) *

15. Son of the Shark (1993, directed by Agnes Merlet, French)

16. Paper House (late 80s, called "the thinking man’s "nightmare on elm street") *

17. Afraid of the Dark (early 90s, french, very creepy) *

18. Manhunter (1986, first appearence of Hannibal Lecter, directed by Michael Mann)

19. The Other (1972)

20. The Cold Hard Light of Day (90s movie, foreign)

21. Lar’s Von Trier’s "The Kingdom" (aka "Riget", early 90s) *

22. The Exorcist 3 (I found the third movie much creepier than the first, w/ awesome dream sequences!) *

23. The Changeling (1980, I believe, with George C Scott)

24. Audrey Rose (came out in the 70s, about reincarnation- I liked it!)

25. Mute Witness (90s I think- takes place in Russia, I think…)

26. Running Scared (2007 or so- action but with horror/fantasy elements- not what I was expecting at all, Cameron Bright is awesome in this!) *

27. The Eye (chinese movie, less than 10 years old- NOT the american remake!) *

28. Dark Water (2002, from Japan, very creepy ghost movie)

29. The Grudge (Ju-on: original, not the remake)

30. Ringu (inspiration for the amercian remake "The Ring")

31. The Ring

32. The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (70s movie with a very young Jodie Foster- not so dreamy, but still good).

These are more or less obvious but I want to include them…

The Shining (1980)
A Clockwork Orange
Eyes Wide Shut
28 Days Later
Interview with the Vampire
Akira
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The top 5 I think you would like:
1. City of Lost Children
2. Afraid of the Dark
3. Paper House
4. Come and See
5. Eraserhead