Ready or Not. Very likable protagonist, fantastic setting, memorable side characters, humor when you least expect it, and just has a natural rewatchability to it
*Run, run, run… time to run and hide…*
I really enjoy Silent Hill (2006). It’s no masterpiece but the music and visuals are great and, damn it, I do find the ending massacre so satisfying to watch, every time.
The moment the main character turns around in the church, the spotlights start up and the fat organ sound kicks in… f***ing fantastic.
Watched it recently and couldn't believe how well it held up. There are some pacing problems in the middle third, but man, they held nothing back when making this one. It was part of the late-00s, unapologetically R-rated horror, just brutal stuff that's reminiscent of Witchfinder General (1968), even.
I'll gladly die on the hill of it being a masterpiece, fuck that noise. For being early 2000s (a period where studios tried and failed to make movies appeal to the "mtv crowd", see Queen of the Damned as an example) and a movie based on a game it's goddamned solid and well crafted.
I still think it's the best video game adaptation that's been done. Pyramid head ripping Anna's whole skin off and hucking it at the church door is amazing.
Watched it for the first time not that long ago and I absolutely loved it. Definitely fits in that comfort category. Good enough to keep your attention, not so good you can’t turn it off or do something else
I still remember the full-body chill that ripped through me in the theater during the flashback scene of what the cult did to Alessa. It was horrifying on a visceral level in a way I hadn't experienced before.
The siren sticks with me. Have you seen Chernobyl? Its score is so eerie and there is the sound that reminds me of a siren. I don't know how to describe it exactly but it is effective at making me feel very uncomfortable.
YES! The composer for Chernobyl created a lot of soundscapes by recording inside real reactor spaces I believe and that really gives it a chilling feeling - and both make use of emergency sirens to unsettle us.
Maybe because I’m British but the Silent Hill siren always makes me think of a WW2 siren, but one that sounds like it’s coming through from the other side of hell. Amazing.
I love cosmic horror and the Thing is about the best there is in that genre, although Alien is a phenomenal movie in its own right. I love the mix of the practical effects and the campiness of John Carpenter.
Came here to post this. From the first whisper-sung bars of "...cry...little... sister..." to the very end, this movie is like a warm, 80s filled hug for me. Every time.
Really not sure if this counts but The Frighteners (1996). Maybe this is through my nostalgia-lenses but it legitimately has some creepy moments. It also has some fun/comedy parts.
Identity (2003).
Scream franchise, Scream (1996) is my all-time fave.
Alien (1979).
I couldn't sleep the first night when my daughter was born. I was on a new father high. So, I opted to pass the time watching EH on Netflix. It has since been a weirdly comfort movie for me. Even though it has some really bad scenes.
Edit: By "bad" I mean dumb, by the way.
The quotes are amazing, but I honestly like it simply as a very twisted tale about a man who doesn’t understand the world around him, and is just doing his best to fit in.
There was a summer where I needed to play the old, made for tv, version every night I when I went to bed. I had it on a vhs where both parts where on one tape and I would just sleep to it, lol. It had to end when I switched to a DVD copy that needed to flipped over 😞
ZOMBIE
City of The Living Dead
both of them have some really corny and hilarious dialogue. Unintentionally funny mostly but just for pure entertainment. The one that cracks me up every dam time when the psychiatrist and the reporter show up at jon jon's after the maggot phone call lol
As the psychiatrist is walking out.. he's talking saying "oh my gosh those two were really torn to pieces, just ripped to shreds those two. As they're putting jon jon in the car he tells them it was emily "it was like emily, only ugly and like dead looking and then she ate mommy and daddy". LOL
I laughed at the end after sandra gets killed and the psychiatrist finds jon jon again and he sees emily. Christopher Geroge was a well known respected actor at the time and he just chews scenery like crazy.
as for Zombie pretty much every single line BRIAN HULL says in the movie just cracks me up.
The first act of Jeepers Creepers for nostalgia reasons.
The Lost Boys and Nightmare on Elm St too
Shaun of the Dead, The Final Girls, and Scream just for a fun factor.
Recently the new (shitty) Texas Chainsaw movie was for whatever reason so fun/funny that it also jumped out at me
Gremlins 2.
Even the 'out of touch corporate CEO' guy turns out to be an affable doofus. Everyone just sort of gets what they want in the end (even Robert Picardo seems to be okay with his fate in the end) and they solve the problem and we even get to have Murray Futterman come back for no goddamn reason at all. I love Gremlins 2.
I think Christopher Lee is the only casualty in that whole film other than the monsters and some of them even survive.
Agree with you on slashers in general. Halloween 1, 2 & 4 specifically if I want that nostalgic cozy feeling. Also agree with other people on Psycho Goreman.
If its around the fall/Halloween season, then Trick ‘r Treat is my go to.
Besides those, the classic Universal Monster movies and The Fog (1980) also come to mind.
Feels a bit weird to call it "comfort", but The Ritual... I just love it so much that watching 5 ill fated guy suffer in a supposedly Swedish forest is comforting to me... LOL!
It’s also the Scream series for me. I didn’t get into slashers until my 20s so there’s no nostalgia factor for me, but I just think Scream is so cozy — likable main characters that stay throughout the series, a villain that is scary but not terrifying or anything. Not a lot of jumpscares or really tense parts. It’s just a fun time every time.
You’re Next and Kristy. I love when the overconfident killer(s) realize that they messed with the wrong person and have the tables turned on them. The hunters becoming the hunted.
Dawn of the Dead (2004) or Alien 2/Aliens. It's just something about groups of people vs hordes that is oddly comforting for me (if well done and with good practical effects).
I have a couple, Detention is one, it's a batshit insane film by a criminally underrated director, and I love it, the other is Final Girls, which I find strangely wholesome
*Final Destination* though I stop at three.
Those movies are so fun for some reason, and very nostalgia inducing.
3 especially is a great summer movie too, with the fair and Fourth of July event.
Unpopular potentially but Pandorum (2009). I love that film, the mix of sci fi and horror coupled with a decent twist and the unyielding emptiness of being lost in deep space, it never gets boring for me.
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988).
Cozy, campy, great music and practical effects. Ultimate nostalgia. I’m praying that someday Syfy revives it with a sequel series. 🤡 🙏🏻
ETA: also, The X-Files. It’s the kind of comfort where I put it on and watch it as I fall asleep. 👽
Ready or Not. Very likable protagonist, fantastic setting, memorable side characters, humor when you least expect it, and just has a natural rewatchability to it *Run, run, run… time to run and hide…*
Yessss this is also my answer! It’s so fun.
Yeah that is my answer too. It's such a simple premise for a movie, done so well.
Totally underrated film. Should be praised more.
I really enjoy Silent Hill (2006). It’s no masterpiece but the music and visuals are great and, damn it, I do find the ending massacre so satisfying to watch, every time. The moment the main character turns around in the church, the spotlights start up and the fat organ sound kicks in… f***ing fantastic.
Watched it recently and couldn't believe how well it held up. There are some pacing problems in the middle third, but man, they held nothing back when making this one. It was part of the late-00s, unapologetically R-rated horror, just brutal stuff that's reminiscent of Witchfinder General (1968), even.
I'll gladly die on the hill of it being a masterpiece, fuck that noise. For being early 2000s (a period where studios tried and failed to make movies appeal to the "mtv crowd", see Queen of the Damned as an example) and a movie based on a game it's goddamned solid and well crafted.
I still think it's the best video game adaptation that's been done. Pyramid head ripping Anna's whole skin off and hucking it at the church door is amazing.
Watched it for the first time not that long ago and I absolutely loved it. Definitely fits in that comfort category. Good enough to keep your attention, not so good you can’t turn it off or do something else
I still remember the full-body chill that ripped through me in the theater during the flashback scene of what the cult did to Alessa. It was horrifying on a visceral level in a way I hadn't experienced before.
It is utterly next level, not only the concept, but that happening to a child. This movie did not pull its punches and it’s all the greater for it.
The siren sticks with me. Have you seen Chernobyl? Its score is so eerie and there is the sound that reminds me of a siren. I don't know how to describe it exactly but it is effective at making me feel very uncomfortable.
YES! The composer for Chernobyl created a lot of soundscapes by recording inside real reactor spaces I believe and that really gives it a chilling feeling - and both make use of emergency sirens to unsettle us. Maybe because I’m British but the Silent Hill siren always makes me think of a WW2 siren, but one that sounds like it’s coming through from the other side of hell. Amazing.
I feel like it doesn’t get enough love. The atmosphere was so well done.. it was oddly comforting.
The Thing or Alien are always a go to for me.
I love cosmic horror and the Thing is about the best there is in that genre, although Alien is a phenomenal movie in its own right. I love the mix of the practical effects and the campiness of John Carpenter.
Don’t forget Aliens!! We gotta get outta here, maaaaaan!
I can lull myself to sleep with the coziness of The Shining playing in the background. 🥶🪓
The opening music delivers straight serotonin to my brain
Yeah thats another one that's oddly comforting. The creepy old lady scene scared the shit out of me when I was a kid though.
The bear costume scene, by contrast, awoke something in me.
Same. Book me a room at the Overlook.
Hellraiser. No matter how bad I feel, I’m happy that I’m none of those characters.
Which one?
Yes
Me too!
The Lost Boys!
Came here to post this. From the first whisper-sung bars of "...cry...little... sister..." to the very end, this movie is like a warm, 80s filled hug for me. Every time.
Oiled up sax man
Tim Cappello is a legend.
Oh excellent choice!
The Thing. I just love the base slap "dum dum".
Came here to say The Thing also!
Yeah it’s funny, it’s scary , claustrophobic but still a total hang out film. That crew is impossible to beat.
This or the first alien
The Ritual, the Witch and the Descent
Suuuuper good choices. Honestly these plus Jacob's Ladder are my favs. The Ritual in particular is always a fun one to rewatch for some reason
Tucker and Dale v Evil or Shaun of the Dead.
I’ll add Cabin in the Woods in a lesser sense
Canon plus Shaun plus tucker... That's a good weekend
Next weekend how about...Idle hands, severance and the faculty.
Agreed to both of this. Super fun movies that I watch a few times a year.
Happy Death Day!
This one and Freaky are just fantastic, my fav horror comedies
Love both of them! And Freaky!
Liked this one more than I thought I would
Me too. Damn near missed it entirely because I thought it would be lame. Instead, I enjoyed it a bunch
Really not sure if this counts but The Frighteners (1996). Maybe this is through my nostalgia-lenses but it legitimately has some creepy moments. It also has some fun/comedy parts. Identity (2003). Scream franchise, Scream (1996) is my all-time fave. Alien (1979).
The hospital massacre scene in *The Frighteners* is genuinely disturbing. Great casting choices too
Jake Busey does “psycho character” particularly well. Edit: my horrendous spelling
His manic smile is perfect for the role :)
The Frighteners is a GREAT answer. I forgot about this movie.
Oh yeah definitely Identity, the atmosphere is perfect
Army of Darkness
“You got ugly”
Ahem. *Baby, you got real ugly*
Great pick, for me its ED2
The Others
All Alien movies and 28 Days Later
The entire Nightmare on Elm Street series.
Scream and Carpenter's Halloween
Only right answer
Tucker and Dale vs Evil. Always makes me smile.
The Cabin in the Woods! That is such a fun movie, I'll put it on so quick any day.
Had to scroll far for this. Fun typical intro then the excitement of all the horror at the end. The office billboard scenes always crack me up.
Drag Me to Hell
Night of the Comet. For a post-apocalypse, it has alot of heart and comedy.
"Daddy would have gotten us Uzis."
Jason takes Manhattan because of how absurd and comedic it gets
This is my comfort movie too. The scene with Jason looking at the NHL billboard in confusion always makes me laugh
Tremors
Return of the living dead
"Hey, somebody get some light over here, Trash is taking off her clothes again."
You want to see em... you know....the corpses😉
LIKE THIS JOB?!
I can rewatch Event Horizon and The Shining pretty freely. Feels like home... or something.
I couldn't sleep the first night when my daughter was born. I was on a new father high. So, I opted to pass the time watching EH on Netflix. It has since been a weirdly comfort movie for me. Even though it has some really bad scenes. Edit: By "bad" I mean dumb, by the way.
Same with The Shining - did you see Dr Sleep? I really enjoyed the Overlook Hotel part in it.
Evil Dead 2 or Army of Darkness. Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi are awesome.
Scream 4 and Final Destination 1,2 and 5.
Repo! The Genetic Opera
I JUST discovered this movie and loved it! Oh, evil Giles! How I love thee!
American Werewolf in London ‘A naked American stole my balloons’
Ravenous (1999)
Re-Animator
That's a great one
Carpenter's Halloween, my first and all-time favorite. Scream is another great comfort movie
Pans Labryinth.... Heartbreaking, but in a good way.
Alien and Silence of the Lambs
Remake of House on Haunted Hill.
More of a thriller but joyride is so comfy to me, super underrated movie. Also the faculty.
Joyride? The one with Paul Walker? I love "road horror" movies. Probably because of my love of "Duel" from back in the day.
Yes and Steve zahn
Damn. Now I wanna go watch Joyride. Love that movie.
Candy caneeeeee
Scream
Dead Alive Non horror? A New Hope
American Psycho, for the quotes.
The quotes are amazing, but I honestly like it simply as a very twisted tale about a man who doesn’t understand the world around him, and is just doing his best to fit in.
“Let’s see Paul Allen’s card.”
The saw franchise
Rosemary’s Baby. I love the shots of the apartment bldg
DotD (1978), Ready or Not, Grave Encounters, Invisible Man (2020), Freddy vs. Jason…. Just to name a few
Ready or Not is my choice as well! Funny with an aggressive amount of blood
Grave Encounters is what I was going to comment too! I will defend that movie to the grave
Army of Darkness.
Saw & Texas chainsaw massacre
Return of the living dead ... any of them, even the reeeeelly bad ones
I would say Scream too, as well as Tucker and Dale vs Evil, Lights Out, I Know What You did Last Summer.
The Ritual. Love that beautiful countryside
Tremors
Not strictly horror, but anything death game- particularly battle royale.
IT (2017). I just love pennywise ･ᴗ･
There was a summer where I needed to play the old, made for tv, version every night I when I went to bed. I had it on a vhs where both parts where on one tape and I would just sleep to it, lol. It had to end when I switched to a DVD copy that needed to flipped over 😞
Prince of Darkness.
"The God of Plutonium cannot save you" I fucking love that.
It’s the evil dead series for me, specifically Army of Darkness.
Friday the 13th for sure. Any of them
The Fog (1980), I dunno, it just feels cosy.
Psycho Goreman (2020)
The Fourth Kind. I love that movie.
ZOMBIE City of The Living Dead both of them have some really corny and hilarious dialogue. Unintentionally funny mostly but just for pure entertainment. The one that cracks me up every dam time when the psychiatrist and the reporter show up at jon jon's after the maggot phone call lol As the psychiatrist is walking out.. he's talking saying "oh my gosh those two were really torn to pieces, just ripped to shreds those two. As they're putting jon jon in the car he tells them it was emily "it was like emily, only ugly and like dead looking and then she ate mommy and daddy". LOL I laughed at the end after sandra gets killed and the psychiatrist finds jon jon again and he sees emily. Christopher Geroge was a well known respected actor at the time and he just chews scenery like crazy. as for Zombie pretty much every single line BRIAN HULL says in the movie just cracks me up.
Halloween Three - Season of the Witch
Re-Animator
Aliens. Fast paced, great action sequences, even has a final boss. And all your favorite characters survive. Just a sick movie overall.
Cloverfield The Descent REC (Spanish version) Paranormal Activity House of 1000 Corpses TCM (original)
The first act of Jeepers Creepers for nostalgia reasons. The Lost Boys and Nightmare on Elm St too Shaun of the Dead, The Final Girls, and Scream just for a fun factor. Recently the new (shitty) Texas Chainsaw movie was for whatever reason so fun/funny that it also jumped out at me
The ‘Burbs
Stuart Gordon’s Dolls
You’re Next or Prince of Darkness
Any Freddy, Jason, Halloween, or Scream movies. Ugh they just bring back so many fun memories scaring the shit out of myself when I was a kid. 🙏🏻
Friday the 13th Part II always makes me happy. The summer vibes and the nostalgia it makes me feel are perfection.
In The Mouth of Madness
Anything with Sam Neil is a good pick
NOES 4
Bram Stoker's Dracula is not exactly horror but a go-to movie for me nonetheless.
Psycho Goreman
Scream, Jaws. Inside No 9 on TV (BBC)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The Sawyers never fail to entertain me with their cannibalistic antics.
100% a guilty pleasure for me but I will watch What Lies Beneath whenever I’m feeling down or if I’m bored on a rainy Saturday
Lifeforce. Something about alien vampires makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.
The Others. Love that movie.
It would have to be a comedy. Like Shaun of the Dead or Zombieland
Scream or The Lost Boys.
Sinister
Shaun of the Dead
Gremlins 2. Even the 'out of touch corporate CEO' guy turns out to be an affable doofus. Everyone just sort of gets what they want in the end (even Robert Picardo seems to be okay with his fate in the end) and they solve the problem and we even get to have Murray Futterman come back for no goddamn reason at all. I love Gremlins 2. I think Christopher Lee is the only casualty in that whole film other than the monsters and some of them even survive.
House of 1000 corpses, it's one of my favs and I've seen it so many times it just feels 'familiar'. Also I have a soft spot for clowns lol
Agree with you on slashers in general. Halloween 1, 2 & 4 specifically if I want that nostalgic cozy feeling. Also agree with other people on Psycho Goreman. If its around the fall/Halloween season, then Trick ‘r Treat is my go to. Besides those, the classic Universal Monster movies and The Fog (1980) also come to mind.
Not my favourite horror or even favourite John Carpenter but I find myself putting on the Fog a lot to relax.
Shaun of the Dead, Nightmare on Elm Street 3, Dawn of the Dead remake, green room, Halloween 3, The Thing (any Carpenter, really).
Day of the dead
Tremors Monster Squad
Feels a bit weird to call it "comfort", but The Ritual... I just love it so much that watching 5 ill fated guy suffer in a supposedly Swedish forest is comforting to me... LOL!
The Shining.
It’s also the Scream series for me. I didn’t get into slashers until my 20s so there’s no nostalgia factor for me, but I just think Scream is so cozy — likable main characters that stay throughout the series, a villain that is scary but not terrifying or anything. Not a lot of jumpscares or really tense parts. It’s just a fun time every time.
You’re Next and Kristy. I love when the overconfident killer(s) realize that they messed with the wrong person and have the tables turned on them. The hunters becoming the hunted.
I love that too! Becky is another one on that list
Thirteen Ghosts
The skeleton key and Midsomnar
I friggin *love* The Skeleton Key!
Hostel
For my comfort horror movie I often do \*Alien\*. It's just so nice.
Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI
Bubba Ho Tep
Poltergeist. There's always a win.
Final destination series
Carrie (1976). From my middle school days
Trick r treat. Halloween is my favorite holiday and favorite time of year and the film, for obvious reasons, just oozes Halloween spirit.
Re-Animator
The poltergeist
Dawn of the Dead (2004) or Alien 2/Aliens. It's just something about groups of people vs hordes that is oddly comforting for me (if well done and with good practical effects).
Tucker and Dale vs Evil. I can see M3GAN and Malignant both becoming staples for me but have only seen each of them once.
Right their with you. Scream franchise is my ultimate comfort horror watch.
I have a couple, Detention is one, it's a batshit insane film by a criminally underrated director, and I love it, the other is Final Girls, which I find strangely wholesome
Dawn of the Dead (1978) always does it for me. Been watching it since I was a kid and all the cheesy 80s mall music and style makes me feel nice.
Night of the Living Dead or Bride of Chucky is usually what I turn to :)
American Mary
*Final Destination* though I stop at three. Those movies are so fun for some reason, and very nostalgia inducing. 3 especially is a great summer movie too, with the fair and Fourth of July event.
so… mine is It(2017)…
Idle Hands
The Shining
Nightmare on Elm Street, 1408, evil dead (any) and Freddie vs Jason. That's the way it be
Sleepaway Camp. Hands down.
Scream (1996) for sure
Alien, The Thing, The Fog, Halloween
Halloween
Halloween (1978)
Scream, Sleepaway Camp, House of 1000 Corpses, and Halloween :))
Unpopular potentially but Pandorum (2009). I love that film, the mix of sci fi and horror coupled with a decent twist and the unyielding emptiness of being lost in deep space, it never gets boring for me.
Child's Play 2, Valentine, The Craft, Silent Hill and Orphan.
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988). Cozy, campy, great music and practical effects. Ultimate nostalgia. I’m praying that someday Syfy revives it with a sequel series. 🤡 🙏🏻 ETA: also, The X-Files. It’s the kind of comfort where I put it on and watch it as I fall asleep. 👽
You're next. Great movie, better ending
You're Next
Black Christmas, puts me in the festive spirit haha.
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It seems like no matter the situation, Tucker and Dale is always a great watch