I love horror games and I do enjoy horror movies but, I don't watch much of anything, like movies or TV. Any recommendations for things that may make me jump outta my seat this Halloween?
It truly depends on your sensibilities. Film/TV is so subjective, especially horror and comedy. What we perceive to be frightening may not be for the next person, same with humor.
The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix is a good horror television series. If you don't mind subtitles check out, Dark. Great German horror/Sci-fi series. Kolchak: The Night Stalker is the series that inspired another great series, The X-Files, and of course the original Twilight Zone, Twin Peaks, Tales From the Crypt, The Stand mini-series, Tales from the Darkside, and Ash vs Evil Dead.
Horror comedies: Night of the Creeps, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, Housebound, Extra Ordinary, Evil Dead films, Cooties, What We Do in the Shadows film/TV series, Re-Animator, Fright Night (1985), Bubba Ho-tep, The Final Girls, Shaun of the Dead, Love at First Bite, Return of the Living Dead, Krampus, John Dies at the End, Deathgasm, Ed and his Dead Mother, Drag Me To Hell, The Monster Squad (fun movie if you have kids btw), The Voices, Sightseers, Slither, Lake Placid, Better Watch Out (if Home Alone was a horror film), The Cabin in the Woods, House, House II: The Second Story, Teen Wolf, and a great deal more I could list here.
Random Gems/Indie flicks/classics/haunted houses: Let's Scare Jessica to Death, Spring, Trick r' Treat (2007), You're Next, Ready or Not, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, The Changeling, The Exorcist III (best one in the series in my opinion), The Frighteners, Wake in Fright, Phenomena, Stage Fright, Magic, Starry Eyes, Lovely Molly, Mandy, Color out of Space, John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness, John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness, The Devil's Candy, The Hallow, The House of the Devil, The Wicker Man (1973), A Dark Song, The Void, The Descent, The Sacrament, Eden Lake, Halloween III: Season of the Witch (no Myers, it's bonkers, silly, cheesy, and fun), Kill List, The Mist, Frailty, The Canal, It Follows, V/H/S 1 and 2, Summer of '84, Alone in the Dark (1982), We Are What We Are (2013), Oculus, Willow Creek, The Guest, The Innkeepers, Tragedy Girls, Ghost Stories (2018), Cheap Thrills, The Invitation, Bone Tomahawk, The Babadook, Haunt (2019), Z, The Neon Demon, The Wailing, The Battery, The Ring, The Shining, John Carpenter's The Fog, Stir of Echoes, The Others, Dawn of the Dead original and the remake, The Dead Zone, Pan's Labyrinth, 28 Days Later, I Saw the Devil, Trollhunter, 1408, Funny Games, Event Horizon, Mr. Brooks, The Legend of Hell House, The Hitcher (original), Ravenous, What Lies Beneath, Black Death, Cube, Race With the Devil, Fire in the Sky, Rec, Fallen, Open Grave, Triangle, Maggie, A Horrible Way to Die, and countless others.
Slashers: Of course the big daddy series Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, and Friday the 13th. My favorites in those would be the first Halloween, New Nightmare, and Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, The Burning, Tourist Trap, Road Games, Raw Meat, The Strangers, Maniac (2012), Child's Play (1988), Scream series, Candyman, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, Psycho (1960), Dressed to Kill, and Black Christmas (1974).
Body Horror: Obviously John Carpenter's The Thing, Alien/Aliens, The Fly, Videodrome, From Beyond, Basket Case, The Brood, Under the Skin, Scanners, Dead Ringers, The Blob (1988), Hellraiser I and II, Society (easily one of the most disgustingly enjoyable flicks ever), Possession (1981), Suspiria (2018), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Bad Milo, The Ruins, Bug, Honeymoon (2014), Overlord, and many more.
Werewolves: An American Werewolf in London, The Howling, Wer, Dog Soldiers, Ginger Snaps, The Beast Within (technically not a werewolf movie, but it's got Ronny Cox playing as a angst riddle guy who turns into a monster), Stephen King's Silver Bullet, The Wolf of Snow Hollow, Bad Moon, Wolfen, The Curse of the Werewolf, Wolf, the werewolf genre is slim pickings for great flicks though.
Vampires: Fright Night (1985), Stakeland, 30 Days of Night, anything Christopher Lee and Hammer related, From Dusk Till Dawn, Paperhouse, John Carpenter's Vampires, Let the Right One In and the remake Let Me In, Near Dark, Cronos, The Night Stalker (1972), Shadow of the Vampire, Salem's Lot (1979), From the Dark, and several others I just can't think of right now.
Mainstream horror of late: The Conjuring series, Insidious 1-3, Light's Out, Doctor Sleep was damn good too, though not on the level with The Shining, Midsommar, A Quiet Place, Get Out, Us, The Invisible Man, Sinister 1 and 2, Annabelle: Creation, Annabelle Comes Home, The Ritual, Apostle, Ouija: Origin of Evil, It Comes at Night, Don't Breathe, Green Room, Hereditary, It and Chapter Two, and The Witch.
I know that's a lot, haha Countless others I just can't think of I am sure. Oh and anything Hammer Films made in the 50's and 60's is worth a look. In the 70's they started to drop in quality significantly.