What's the MOST REALISTIC horror film?

Jabal-Tariq · Feb 21, 2012

In your opinions, whats the most realistic horror film there's ever been. My main reason for never being a horror fan was due to the fact that horror films are silly and unrealistic, with guys being shot and stabbed and coming back.

munchausen · Feb 21, 2012

Not sure if you would qualify it as a horror film or a thriller, but Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is very realistic and very disturbing.

MrG · Feb 21, 2012

I've always been a fan of the ones that don't have any supernatural component. The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a favorite, as well as Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses.

They're outlandish in the sense that there probably aren't murderous families hiding out in our rural areas and chopping people up, but they're realistic in that it's entirely possible that there could be such a thing. Also, the directors of those types of horror movies tend to stay away from the whole "shot 10 times and still coming at you" thing. In those movies, when you get slashed and hung on a meat hook, you're dead.

Joffrey · Feb 21, 2012

The Exorcist when your a pre-teen and catholic.

Harold falcon · Feb 21, 2012

Deliverance when traveling below the Mason-Dixon line.

xpress · Feb 21, 2012

+1 for the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Scared the hell out of me as a kid.

Neo_Version 7 · Feb 21, 2012

A Nightmare on Elm Street. It came out two years ago. You will not get any sleep afterwards.

mordecai · Feb 21, 2012

Away From Her

tagutcow · Feb 21, 2012

MrG said:
I've always been a fan of the ones that don't have any supernatural component. The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a favorite, as well as Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses.
They're outlandish in the sense that there probably aren't murderous families hiding out in our rural areas and chopping people up, but they're realistic in that it's entirely possible that there could be such a thing. Also, the directors of those types of horror movies tend to stay away from the whole "shot 10 times and still coming at you" thing. In those movies, when you get slashed and hung on a meat hook, you're dead.

Cabin Fever sticks out in my mind as a horror movie with no supernatural element- and, really, no malefic agent at all- that manages to be even more loopy and unrealistic because of it. I'm still not sure how to categorize it; in a genre where a self-aware sense of camp is typical, it stands apart. I'd say it's a horror-comedy where the comedy element is played completely straight.

Tangfastic · Feb 21, 2012

Joffrey said:
The Exorcist when your a pre-teen and catholic.

This is totally realistic until the head revolving which for me broke the suspension of disbelief.

Kubrick's the Shining is another good one,

Harold falcon · Feb 21, 2012

Neo_Version 7 said:
A Nightmare on Elm Street. It came out two years ago. You will not get any sleep afterwards.

Lol it came out like twenty years ago.

Neo_Version 7 · Feb 21, 2012

harvey_birdman said:
Lol it came out like twenty years ago.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179056/ :facepalm:

Harold falcon · Feb 21, 2012

Neo_Version 7 said:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179056/

Why would you watch that?

Edit: just checked, and the US release date for that ************* was the same as Harry Brown. Now maybe you saw both but if you saw that pile of garbage over Harry Brown then you hate movies. And Harry Brown was also undoubtedly more realistically scarier than an imaginary man with claws.

StephenHero · Feb 21, 2012

500 Days of Summer

tagutcow · Feb 21, 2012

Tangfastic said:
This is totally realistic until the head revolving which for me broke the suspension of disbelief.
Kubrick's the Shining is another good one,

But there clearly ARE supernatural forces afoot in The Shining. How did Jack manage to escape from the storage room if not for something opening the door from the other side?

There's an ambiguity throughout the film of what is garden-variety delirium, what is some supernaturally-provoked hallucination, and what is a genuinely supernatural occurrence. Arguably, this is part of what makes it unsatisfactory as a horror movie.

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