I am a big horror fan and now that we're nearing Halloween I figured it was time to spend my night alone with a couple blood-baths. I think that the key to a truly great horror movie is a film that doesn't purposely try to scare you with stuff jumping out of the shadows, but does scare you in un-obvious ways. At this point The Blair Witch Project is my favorite horror movie, though Jason is the coolest slasher. If you've seen those, here's a few you might like.

High Tension

Well, it's ain't something you sit down and watch with grandma, but it's worth watching. I kept thinking this movie was somewhat slow paced, but then I looked at the time and realized I had been watching for 50 minutes already. It does start sort of slow, but the ending is no doubt worth staying around for. This movie is very worthy of its title. I have no clue what the motivation behind releasing the theatrical cut as half dubbed in English and half in French with subtitles, but I usually watch with subtitles anyway so it didn't bother me (features are included to have all French or English, but like I said the theatrical was half-and-half). Overall, good movie, definitely recommended for the Halloween season.

Slither

Wikipedia bills this film as a "horror-comedy" and I would say that's about accurate. The only problem is that the comedy was pretty funny, but the horror wasn't so horrifying. Kind of a nod to Alien meshed with a B-horror movie. Acting was alright, and it was truly funny, but that was unfortunately overshadowed by the fact that the story was just dumb. If you want a good horror-comedy go for Shawn of the Dead instead.