i wanna make a list of spookies to download for the next few weeks. please drop your favourite horrors or some obscure choices you like! mostly looking for like offbeat 90s-2000s stuff (earlier is cool too), wacky shlock is welcome but I’d love some actually scary picks too. really just anything you consider worth watching is good. thanks!
Most of these need CW tags, so I leave the googling of them as an exercise for the reader.
From Beyond. From the same people who made Re-animator. Less well known but the better of the two movies in my opinion. Most of the same cast too, including main stars Barbara Crampton and Jeffrey Combs who both knock it out of the park. Combs’ character is an assistant to a scientist doing literally Lovecraftian things (the opening scene is based on a Lovecraft story). Things go badly, Combs’ lab assistant character ends up in police custody, the police have no idea what to do, and Crampton’s character is the highly driven psychiatrist who takes custody of him, partly to figure out the situation and mostly to use him as a lab rat who can’t say no due to the criminal charges against him. Things get weird.
Rubber’s Lover. Japanese splatter-horror cyberpunk. It’s in black and white which somehow makes all the gory stuff completely cartoony and surreal. Some extremely unethical scientists work for a shadowy organization to develop psychic powers in people in a makeshift underground warehouse facility, using unwilling test subjects. One of the test subjects is a former colleague who went a little nuts when he saw one of his test subjects explode. The organization pulls the plug on funding and send a secretary to take custody of documentation to keep it secret. The scientists decide to simply use her as another test subject. Things get weird.
Beyond the Black Rainbow. A slow burn. An unstable middle-aged scientist has a young woman with mental powers held captive her whole life in what’s left of a 1960s/1970s hippy techno-utopian psychic research facility. It’s now the 1980s, and the place is down to three staff members: the elderly founding scientist, the aforementioned middle-aged scientist, and a Nurse Ratched type of assistant. The founding scientist spends his days drugged up in his dark office/bedroom rewatching old promo videos of the facility over and over again. The captive young woman was the daughter of another scientist at the facility and has never known life outside it. Things get weird.
Transylvainia Twist. A genuinely funny parody of all those classic Hammer Film Productions horror movies, especially the first Christopher Lee Dracula movie. This is the movie that Dracula Dead and Loving It wishes it were.