Current Events > Horror/thriller movies with a case to be made that they're better than The Thing

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Haxan (1922)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Freaks (1932)
Rear Window (1954)
The Blob (1958)
Eyes Without a Face (1960)
Peeping Tom (1960)
Blood Feast (1963)
Repulsion (1965)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
The Devils (1971)
Straw Dogs (1971)
Tombs of the Blind Dead (1971)
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972)
The Last House on the Left (1972)
The Wickerman (1973)
Black Christmas (1974)
Deathdream (1974)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Blood Sucking Freaks (1976)
Carrie (1976)
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)
House (1977)
Suspiria (1977)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
I Spit on your Grave (1978)
Magic (1978)
Alien (1979)
Driller Killer (1979)
Phantasm (1979)
Tourist Trap (1979)
Zombi 2 (1979)
Altered States (1980)
Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
Maniac (1980)
Motel Hell (1980)
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
The Beyond (1981)
Evil Dead (1981)
Possession (1981)
Scanners (1981)
Der Fan (1982)
The House on Sorority Row (1982)
Poltergeist (1982)
Videodrome (1983)
Day of the Dead (1985)
Guinea Pig 2: Flower of Flesh and Blood (1985)
Re-Animator (1985)
Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
Evil Dead 2 (1987)
Hellraiser (1987)
The Church (1989)
Society (1989)
Child's Play 2 (1990)
Misery (1990)
The Reflecting Skin (1990)
The People Under the Stairs (1991)
Candyman (1992)
Dead Alive (1992)
Cemetary Man (1994)
Tales from the Hood (1995)
The Craft (1996)
The Manson Family (1997)
Audition (1999)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Trouble Every Day (2001)
High Tension (2003)
Let the Right One In (2008)
Martyrs (2008)
You're Next (2011)
It Follows (2014)
The Lure (2015)
The Witch (2015)
The Love Witch (2016)
Raw (2016)
Get Out (2017)
Hereditary (2018)
The Lighthouse (2019)
Midsommar (2019)

Movies I've never seen, but from their reputation(s) I can assume could potentially be better films:

M (1931)
Diabolique (1955)
Vertigo (1958)
Black Sunday (1960)
Jigoku (1960)
Psycho (1960)
Kwaidan (1964)
The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
Onibaba (1964)
Persona (1966)
Hour of the Wolf (1968)
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
Bay of Blood (1971)
The Blood on Satan's Claws (1971)
Torso (1973)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
The Tenant (1976)
Alucarda (1977)
Eraserhead (1977)
The Brood (1979)
Fascination (1979)
The Visitor (1979)
The Changeling (1980)
Baby Blood (1990)
Singapore Sling (1990)
Kairo (2001)
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
Tigers are not Afraid (2017)
Climax (2018)
Color out of Space (2019)

Absolutely not to a lot of that list. I'm on a horror podcast so I've seen some of those, and a lot of em don't even come close.

Nothing can topple The Thing, it is the king of horror films.

The Color Out of Space?

r u fucking kidding me. this is 100% just a list of movies that:

1. you've seen
2. you like

edit: black christmas???? the blob???? CARRIE???? MAGIC??? BLACK FUCKING MAGIC???!?!?!?! rear-are-you-fucking-crazy-window.

I can give you some of them:

Rosemary's Baby
Alien
Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Others are good, but nowhere near the thing (High Tension).

Then you leave out Halloween and Friday the 13th. Both of which have several installments almost as good as The Thing.

THEN the lack of other Carpenter movies is distressing.

smh smh smh

I've seen at least half your list and most of them aren't even fucking close to the Thing. Even stuff that I love, like Dr. Phibes or the People Under the Stairs, are not on that level.

And WTF at putting Dawn & Day of the Dead on the list but leaving off the genre defining Night of the Living Dead?

Is this trolling?

Blair Witch over The Thing? Jesus christ......

What was the motivation for this topic?

bobbaaay posted...

Climax (2018)

huh

I don't get this one. It had a scene that was like 15 minutes of dancing and I was like "okay cool these characters are all dancers I get the point" 10% of the way through it and it just dragged on and on and on. It felt longer than 15 minutes and I had to fast forward some of it. After that it was just a visual hallucinagen trip fot the rest of the movie (and literally that's what it was also >_>). I dunno. I wasn't a fan. The style was just a big swing and a miss for me. The long single-take shots were definitely impressive, so respect to all the actors for that (including the dance scenes I didn't care for. Still really impressive), but otherwise it just felt like a chaotic mess that overstated its point.

Robot2600 posted...

The Color Out of Space?

r u fucking kidding me. this is 100% just a list of movies that:

1. you've seen
2. you like
edit: black christmas???? the blob???? CARRIE???? MAGIC??? BLACK FUCKING MAGIC???!?!?!?! rear-are-you-fucking-crazy-window.

I can give you some of them:

Rosemary's Baby
Alien
Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Others are good, but nowhere near the thing (High Tension).

Then you leave out Halloween and Friday the 13th. Both of which have several installments almost as good as The Thing.

THEN the lack of other Carpenter movies is distressing.

smh smh smh

No it's not. This is a list of films I firmly believe there's a case to be made for. There are lots and lots of movies I like that I would never include on this list. Lots of the films I don't even think there needs to be a case to be made, like it should be blatantly obvious they're better films - Rear Window, Cannibal Holocaust, American Werewolf in London, Martyrs, Candyman, Audition, Repulsion, Possession, etc.

And Halloween is massively overrated and most of the sequels are so milquetoast and bland. Friday the 13th films are okay, but they're not like critically well made films that have much to offer.

EDIT: wait, how is Black Christmas a shocking inclusion?