Below is my list of modern horror movies to watch, compiled from recommendations you’ve made on HMS videos. Please note that only recommended movies that I haven’t seen before have been included in this list (so if you recommended a movie and it’s not on this list, I’ve probably already seen it). If a title has a strike through it, it means I’ve finally watched it and have crossed it off the list.
The “To-Watch” List:
1922
A Warning to the Curious
Aenigma
After Midnight
All Is Lost
Almost Human
Alter
American Nightmare: A Celebration of Films from Horror’s Golden Age
Amityville Vibrator
Aniara
ARQ
Asphyx, The
Atrocious
Attack of the Beast Creatures
Atticus Institute, The
Audrey Rose
Backcountry
Bad Batch, The
Bad Moon
Banshee Chapter
Barbarian
Barge People, The
Beast Must Die, The
Big Bad Wolf
Black Cat, The (1989)
Black Mountain Side
Blackwell Ghost, The
Blink Twice
Bliss (2019)
Blood Glacier
Blood Red Sky
Blood Sucking Freaks
Bloody, Bloody Bible Camp
Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell
Blue Sunshine
Bone Sickness
Bones and All
Boys of County Hell, The
Bullet Head
Butcher, The
Butterfly Kisses
Cabin by the Lake
Call of Cthulhu, The
Captive, The
Carnival of Souls
Cat Sick Blues
Chained
Christmas Bloody Christmas
Church, The
Cleansing Hour, The
Cold Fish
Cold Ground
Comeback, The
Crimes of Passion
Crowhaven Farm
Cry of the Banshee
Cthulhu
Cthulhu Mansion
Cut
Cute
Dark, The
Dark Heritage
Dark Place, A
Dark Secret of Harvest Home, The
Dave Made a Maze
Dead, The
Dead Inside, The
Deadly Spawn, The
Death Bell
Death Ship
Deep House, The
Demonia
Demon Seed
Demons of the Mind
Devil’s Rain, The
Devonsville Terror, The
Doc of the Dead
Doghouse
Domestics, The
Dream Home
Dylan Dog: Dead of Night
Eat
Eat Locals
Effects
Eli
Entrails of a Beautiful Woman
Ernest Scared Stupid
Etoile
Evil Dead Trap
Evil Geniuses
Extraordinary Tales
Exorcism of God, The
Eyes of Fire
Final Stab
Flesh and Blood: The Heritage of Hammer Horror
Food of the Gods, The
Footprints on the Moon
Forbidden
Frankenstein: The True Story
Fresh
Fright
From Within
Full Eclipse
Gallowwalkers
Ghost Actress (aka Don’t Look Up)
Ghost Shark
Ghost Story
Ghost Watch
Ghostkeeper
Grave Encounters 2
Green Knight, The
Grimm Love
Haunting of Julia, The (aka Full Circle)
Horror (2003)
Horror at 37,000 Feet, The
Horror Express
Horror Story (2013)
House (aka Hausu)
House at the End of Time, The
House of 9
House of Clocks
House of Dark Shadows
House of Darkness
House of the Long Shadows
House on Willow Street
Howard’s Mill
I Am Thinking of Ending Things
Images
Innocent Blood
Interview, The
Invasion (2005)
Island of Dr. Moreau, The (1977)
Jessica Rabid
Kidnapped (aka Sequestrados)
Killer Coach
Killer Movie
Kristy
La Haine
La Piel Que Habito
Last Sentinel, The
Last Shark, The
Late Night with the Devil
Late Phases
Leaving D.C.
Legacy, The
Legend of Hell House, The
Legend of the Werewolf, The
Let My Puppets Come
Let Us Prey
Level 16
Lillith
Lodgers, The
Love Me Deadly
Lucker the Necrophagous
Lux Aeterna
Machine Girl, The
Madhouse
Manhattan Baby
Mark of the Devil
Mausoleum
Meet the Feebles
Memento Mori
Memories
Memories of a Murderer
Messiah of Evil
Mikey
Mind Hunters
Mine Games
Monster, The
Monster Club, The
Monsters of Man
Murder of Mary Phagan, The
Mutant Girls Squad
Naked Blood
Naked Space (aka Spaceship, aka The Creature Wasn’t Nice)
Necro Files, The
Nefarious
New Order (aka Nuevo Orden)
Next of Kin
Night Killer
Night of the Seagulls
Night Shots
Nightcomers, The
Nightmare Sisters
Night of Dark Shadows
Nine Miles Down
Noah
Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight
Nosferatu (1979)
One Cut of the Dead
Outpost
Outpost: Black Sun
Outpost: Rise of the Spetsnaz
Oxford Murders, The
Paganini Horror, The
Parents
Penda’s Fen
Phantom of the Paradise
Phase IV
Piper, The
Pod People (aka Extra Terrestrial Visitors)
Pool, The
Power, The (2021 UK)
Premonition
Premutos
Project Metal Beast
Psycho Ape!
Psycho Gothic Lolita
Razor Blade Smile
Redeemer: Son of Satan, The
Red Room (1999)
Repo! The Genetic Opera
Riget (aka The Kingdom)
Ripper: Letter From Hell
Ripper: Letter From Within
River of Fundament
RoboGeisha
Robot Ninja
Rose Red
Sabor a Sangre
Saint
Saint Sinner
Salome
Savageland
Save the Green Planet!
See No Evil (1971)
Sentinel, The (1977)
Sharkenstein
Sheitan
Shunned House, The
Skull
Slashers (2001)
Snuff: A Documentary About Killing on Camera
Something in the DirtSuperhosSomething in the Dirt
Spell
Spirit Animal
Split Second
Spree
Sputnik
Stalked by my Doctor
Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence
Stone Tape, The
Stonehearst Asylum
Storm Warning
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne, The
Strange Darling
Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh, The
Stung
Suckling, The
Superhost
Symptoms
Synchronic
Terrified
Terror at Red Wolf Inn
Terror at Blood Fart Lake
Tesis
Thin Blue Line, The
Things
Time Lapse
Time Trap
Tombs of the Blind Dead
Tortured, The
Tunnel, The
Twice Dead
Unborn, The (1991)
Unmasked Part 25
Unnamable, The
Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl
Vertiges (aka High Lane)
Vicious Fun
Video Violence
Vivarium
Werewolves Within
Whisperer in Darkness, The
Whispering Corridors
Wicked City
Wilderness
Willy’s Wonderland
Wind, The
Wind Chill
Wishing Stairs
Witch, Part 1: The Subversion, The
Wither
Wolf of Snow Hollow, The
Woodchipper Massacre
YellowBrickRoad
Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead
Zombie Bloodbath 2
Zombie High
Zombie Love
Below is a list of pre-1970 horror recommendations from HMS viewers. These are mostly excellent-to-classic films. I have seen many of these already; I include them here for your edification. (Special thanks to Kenneth Connally, who is responsible for the vast majority of these recommendations.)
Pre-1970 Horror Recommendations
A Study in Terror
At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul
Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, The
Birds, The
Black Cat, The
Black Sabbath (1963)
Black Sunday
Blob, The (1958)
Blood and Black Lace
Blood Feast (1963)
Body Snatchers, The (1945)
Boo!
Bride of Frankenstein
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The
Carnival of Souls
Cat People (1942)
City of the Dead
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Curse of Frankenstein, The
Curse of the Cat People, The
Curse of the Demon (aka Night of the Demon)
Curse of the Undead
Dead of Night
Devil and Daniel Webster, The
Devil Rides Out, The
Diabolique
Die Monster Die
Dracula (1931)
Dracula’s Daughter
Eye of the Devil
Eyes Without a Face
Face at the Window, The
Fall of the House of Usher, The (1928)
Fangs of the Living Dead
Fantasia
Fiend Without a Face
Fly, The (1958)
Frankenstein (1931)
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Freaks
Ghost of Yotsuya, The
Girl Who Knew Too Much, The
Godzilla (aka Gojira) (1954)
Golem, The
Hands of Orlac, The (1924)
Haunted House of Horror, The
Haunted Palace, The
Haunting, The (1963)
Haxan
Hour of the Wolf (aka Vargtimmen)
House of Frankenstein
House of Usher, The
House of Wax
House on Haunted Hill
Housemaid, The (aka Hanyeo)
I Married A Witch
Innocents, The (1961)
I Walked With a Zombie
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Invisible Agent, The (1942)
Invisible Man, The (1933)
Invisible Woman, The (1940)
Island of Lost Souls (1932)
It’s Alive (1974—post - 1970!)
King Kong
Kuroneko (Yaba no naka no Kuroneko)
Kwaidan (aka Kaidan)
Last Man on Earth, The (1964)
Mahal
Masque of the Red Death, The
Most Dangerous Game, The
Mummy, The (1932)
Mummy, The (1959)
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Mystery of the Wax Museum
Night of the Demon
Night of the Hunter
Nosferatu (1922)
Old Dark House, The
Onibaba
Peeping Tom
Phantom of the Opera, The (1921)
Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
Plague of Zombies
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Psycho
Queen of Spades, The (1949)
Raven, The
Repulsion
Revolt of the Zombies
Son of Dracula
Son of Godzilla
Son of Ingagi
Spirits of the Dead
THEM!
Thing from Another World, The
Time Machine, The
Tingler, The
Tomb of Ligeia, The
Two Thousand Maniacs!
Uninvited, The (1944)
Vampyr
Village of the Damned
Viy
Wait Until Dark
War of the Worlds
White Zombie (1932)
Witch’s Mirror, The (1962)
Wolf Man, The (1941)
X the Unknown