What would you recommend to someone who is just starting to watch horror movies?

hardcockforhitchcock:

Oh hell, yeah!! I love giving recs and I LOVE when people start getting interested in horror. I’ll give you recs in a few different categories so that you don’t watch anything you wouldn’t enjoy:

Early Horror Movies (Most Are Black and White, 1900′s-1950′s):

• Nosferatu (1922) (silent film)
• Cat People (1942)
• Freaks (1932)
• White Zombie (1932)
• The Man who Laughs (1928)
• M (1931)
• Rear Window (1954)
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) (silent film)
• Metropolis (1927) (silent film)
• Frankenstein (1931)
• The Wolf Man (1941)
• Dracula (1931)
• Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
• Dead of Night (1945)
• The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
• Strangers on a Train (1951)

Personal Favorites From the 1960′s (Suspenseful):

• Eyes Without a Face (1960)
• Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
• Night of the Living Dead (1968)
• Psycho (1960)
• The Birds (1963)

Must-Sees of the 70′s (The Beginning of the Golden Era):

• Carrie (1976)
• The Exorcist (1973)
• Suspiria (1977)
• Jaws (1975)
• The Omen (1976)
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
• Alien (1979)
• Halloween (1978)

1980′s Cult Classics (The decade of good special-effects make up):

• Re-Animator (1985)
• The Shining (1980)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
• An American Werewolf in London (1981)
• The Evil Dead (1981)
• The Thing (1982)
• Hellraiser (1987)
• Children of the Corn (1984)
• Friday the 13th (1980)
• The Lost Boys (1987)
• Silver Bullet (1985)
• Poltergeist (1982)

Horror-Comedies:

• What We do in the Shadows (2014)
• Shaun of the Dead (2004)
• Deathgasm (2015)
• Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010)
• Zombieland (2009)
• The Trouble With Harry (1955)
• The Killer Condom (1996)
• Dead Alive (1992)
• Young Frankenstein (1974)
• Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
• Idle Hands (1999)
• Dead Snow (2009)
• Eight-Legged Freaks (2002)
• American Psycho (2000)
• The Faculty (1998)
• Drag Me to Hell (2009)
• Slither (2006)

Best of 2000′s-now:

• The Loved Ones (2009)
• Battle Royale (2000)
• Trick R Treat (2007)
• American Mary (2012)
• The Babadook (2014)
• Let the Right One in (2008)
• Ginger Snaps (2000)
• Martyrs (2008) (very gory, New French Extremity film)
• The Hole (2001)
• The Eyes of My Mother (2016)
• Funny Games (2007)
• The Descent (2005)
• Excision (2012)
• A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
• Inside (2007) (very gory, New French Extremity film)
• High Tension (2003) (very gory, New French Extremity film)

Other Favorites (AKA 90′s horror):

• La Ceremonie (1995)
• Scream (1996)
• Nightbreed (1990)
• Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
• The Sixth Sense (1999)
• The Blair Witch Project (1999)
• Audition (1999)