Please help grade these horror movies.

[Baitball Blogger]

I do have trouble committing to horror movies because I had no filters back in the Blockbuster days. Now I'm careful to review movie plots before watching them because I am totally dissatisfied with them when the innocent victims have absolutely no chance to escape what turns out to be two hours of sadistic demonic torture. I have had enough of that watching the news for the last four years.

Examples of movies that crossed that line are: The Wicker Man, The Skeleton Key and Most of the Hostel of Hostile Movies. I am okay if the woman, at the end, beats the bad guy, even though the arc takes her to a dark place -- which is the plot of one of the Hostel movies-- though I might have that all mixed up with another genre that involved a road rage sadist. It's a blur that I don't care to go back and research to correct.

So, I found a site that provided the best horror options on Netflix, but the explanations don't go far enough. I will list them below and if you have seen them and approve of the movies, based on my criteria, please let me know. I thank you in advance.


1) Gerald's Game

2) Creep

3) The Babadook

4) The Invitation

5) It Follows

6) Hush

7) The Disappointments Room

8) Raw

9) Would you rather

10) Occulus


https://www.bustle.com/p/12-of-the-scariest-movies-on-netflix-according-to-these-terrifying-wikipedia-synopses-9676844

[soothsayer]

1. Not sure but a bunch sound like they could be about drumpf

[kozar]

2. Im old school horror,

loved the older movies like Saw1 that was not all about the gore,but had a mental aspect to it that would draw you in. Even the Saw series digressed into gore by the time they ran out their series. I honestly have not watched new horror movies in about 5 years.


Koz

[Baitball Blogger]

4. I liked it up to the point where you realize who was responsible for sabotaging

the "tests." After that, it was too much gore for the pay-back.

[kozar]

8. agree nt

[Glorfindel]

3. I have only seen "Gerald's Game" from this list.

Based on your comments, I think you'd enjoy it.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Thank you.

[Bayard]

6. I didn't know this was made into a movie

It's a Steven King book. A good one.

Haven't heard of any of the others.

[grumpyduck]

7. I thought Oculus and The Disappointments Room

were pretty decent. They had believable characters (warts and all) and a story. No gratuitious gore or sex.

I'm very picky about horror movies too, and don't like slashers, zombies, or "four friends go to a cabin and do dumb things." And I haven't seen a found-footage one that I care for.

[happybird]

9. I've not seen it yet

but have read many comments/reviews about how good the Babadook is. That one, and a movie called The Witch (spelled VVitch).

I have always loved horror movies but haven’t been watching them since I now live alone. In the woods.

And am totally with you on the torture-porn direction scary movies took for about a decade. Give me freaky and psychologically disturbing, even jump scares, over that shit any day. I want to be legitimately scared, not thinking about how much it would suck to be tortured.

Good luck!