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The Conjuring was the best one of recent times for me. The 2nd part wasn’t great but I enjoyed the 1st one.

Also The Ritual was great for about ¾ and then went off the rails and fizzled out with a terrible ending, which seems to be a problem with most modern horrors, they just can’t seem to stick the landing.

Event Horizon is a classic, shat myself watching that back in the day. Same with Salem’s Lot. Creep, the one about the lass stuck in the London underground overnight was pretty good iirc.

    LT42 Salem’s Lot

    That TV series gave me nightmares for while. All that tapping at the window and the rocking chair bit where his eyes lit up.

    i read salem’s lot when i was maybe 16 or 17. had to quit reading before bed, it freaked me right out.

    nicksneddon the book is better

    The Shining, despite King’s consternations, is the only example I can think of where I prefer the film. The book is not King’s best but I think Kubrick’s film is a masterpiece.

      mono-stereo I stopped watching that and never got round to finishing it, will have a sniff around that - was pretty good from memory.

      That case was waaaay too disturbing to watch a movie or TV show about. Seriously fucked up shit.

      Yeah, there was an interesting program about it on radio 4 a couple of years back. The witness they interviewed comes across as being a pretty level headed guy:

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4GjC93L35KcswfsR13Gvj8F/what-it-s-like-to-meet-a-poltergeist

      The show itself is really well done. There’s a part which is generally unnerving when the child starts talking like an old bloke, giving specific information about how “he” died.

        I’m seeing a lot of love online for a horror from 1972 with Donald Pleasance and Christopher Lee called, Death Line.

        “A very unsettling, grubby, masterpiece”

        I’m gonna check it and see

          I love some of the the English horror films from that era, others are absolute shite mind

          • Dan replied to this.

            Under The Skin. Fucking hell, possibly the strangest film I’ve seen. Scarlett Johansson drives around Glasgow in a white van picking up single men, then taking them home and processing them for ( I’m guessing ) food. Too many questions, not enough answers

              LT42 Christopher Lee

              One of the best Bond villains. Great actor.

              • Dan replied to this.

                nicksneddon I had to stop watching half way. The scene with the toddler left on the beach when the tide is coming in. 🙁

                Watched it again a few years later and yep, No Country for Old Men is still one of the most overrated films of all time.