I need some help with mild horror movie suggestions

I want to send in a list for the upcoming MoFo Horror Movie Countdown, but as many of you know, I'm not a fan of horror movies. Hopefully some of you can help me out by suggesting some mild horror movies.

Here are some guidelines that might help:

The key thing to remember is that I don't mind movies that scare me, but I don't like gory movies.

Also, I'm not good with subtitles, so only suggest English movies please.


I like suspense thrillers and psychological thrillers.
I like a good ghost story, as long as it's not gory.
Murder mysteries are good too, as long as they're not too graphic.
Sci-fi movies are great if they're not too graphic.


I don't like slasher movies.
I don't like blood and guts.
I don't like gory movies.
I don't like anything disgusting.
I don't like movies with bugs, spiders, or anything "creepy-crawly".
I don't like movies where any animals get hurt or killed.


I can't guarantee that I'll watch all the suggestions, but I'll try to watch any of them that sound like they might be closer to the type of mild horror that I might like.

Thanks in advance for your help.

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First ones that come to mind:

The Exorcist (1973)
The Changeling (1980)
The Entity (1982)
The VVitch (2015)
The Omen (1976)

Don't Look Now
The Haunting
House On Haunted Hill
Carnival Of Souls
Night Of The Living Dead (It does have some blood and guts, but it's fairly tame. I believe anyone who's a horror fan should see this one.)
Carnival Of Souls
Dr. Caligari
Dracula (1931)
The Mummy (1932)
Cat People (1942)
Cult Of The Cobra
The Thing From Another World
Invaders From Mars
The Quatermass X-periment
Quatermass 2
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956)
The Incredible Shrinking Man
The Blob (1958)
The Fly (1958)
13 Ghosts (1960)
The Little Shop Of Horror (1960)
Panic In Year Zero
The Birds
The Last Man On Earth
Eraserhead
The Amityville Horror
Amityville 2
Tourist Trap
Altered States
Jacob's Ladder
Pet Sematary
Tales From The Crypt: Demon Knight
Pi
Ringu
Idle Hands (If you don't mind any humorous ones)
The Eye (The original, not the cheesy-looking remake)
One Point O
Fragiles
Silent Hill (Less violent than you'd think)
1408 (I freaking love this movie, one of the most underrated modern horrors)
The Orphanage
Let The Right One In
Dear Mr. Gacy
Rubber
The Skin I Live In (Probably the type of movie you'd appreciate the most)
The Babadook
A Cure For Wellness
Thelma

Wanted to mention The Omen too, but pahak already did.


Enjoy!

Thanks for the suggestions.

I've heard a lot about The Exorcist and The Omen for years, and I know that they're both very highly rated but I've never seen them, so I'll probably watch both of those.

I think I saw The Changeling a while back, but I don't remember anything about it except that it starred George C. Scott. I'll probably rewatch it.

I don't know anything about The Entity or The VVitch, so I'll have to look into those movies.

Thanks for the suggestions.

I've seen a few of the older movies on your list, including most of the old Universal Monster movies, and a few of the old sci-fi movies.

I might watch Idle Hands because Hubby likes it and he has the DVD. I don't mind horror comedy if it's fun, but my sense of humor is kind of unique, so it's tough to find good comedies. (I saw a horror comedy called Student Bodies many years ago, and I thought it was very funny.)

I saw Jacob's Ladder years ago, and I'm still trying to understand it.

I live on Long Island, so I know a lot about The Amityville Horror, and I've been on the street where the actual house is, but I've never seen the movie. I might finally watch it.

I haven't heard of many of these movies, so I'll look into them.

How do you define 'mild horror'? Do you mean less gore and violence, or less darker themes?

Less gore, blood and guts, and not too graphic.

I watch a lot of police dramas on TV, so I've seen a lot of violence. It's basically the gore that I hate. Also, I won't watch anything with animal cruelty, or anything bad happening to animals.

Oh okay. Well my favorite horror movie is The Skin I Live In (2011). It doesn't have much blood and guts, but the psychological horror and dark themes are taken to an extreme, so I wouldn't call it mild in that sense, if that's okay for you.

As for animal cruelty, an animal is killed for a science experiment, but you don't see it, and it's just explained through dialogue, after the fact, if that's okay.

That sounds like a movie I might be able to watch. I'm usually okay with psychological thrillers, so a psychological horror might be good. I'll give it a try.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Sure. But as far as blood goes, you do see some in containers in a lab type setting, and one of them taken from the dead animal as well, if that is okay.

I'm okay with blood in containers. It's when the blood is coming out of a body, or a limb, or some other body part that I can't watch it.

The blood and guts stuff is what gives me bad nightmares.

Oh okay.

And even though their is not much blood and guts other than things like that, it does deal with themes of rape, if that is okay.

That should be okay. I see that on TV all the time.

Okay, hope you like it.

I might get a couple wrong here and there but I don't think any of the following contravene what you asked to avoid.

The Lost Boys (1987)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Dracula (1931) and (1958)
Frankenstein (1931)
Nosferatu (1922)
The Witches (1966)
The Reptile (1966)
The Plague Of The Zombies (1966)
Interview With The Vampire (1994) They kill a rat, but other than that I don't think there anything.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Cat People (1942)
House of Wax (1956)
The Haunting (1963)
Black Sunday(1960)
The Innocents (1961)
Planet Of The Vampires (1965)
The Wicker Man (1973)
Poltergeist (1982)

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Skip Pet Sematary, although I love it.

I took some time to organize this, I hope it helps. I've seen all of these films and liked them all! You and I seem to have similar taste, so there's nothing super gory here.

Paranormal/supernatural/ghost
The Uninvited (1944)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
The Omen (1976)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
The Innocents (1961)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
13 Ghosts (1960) William Castle
Carnival of Souls (1962) Ghost
Dracula (1931)
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
White Zombie (1932)
Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)


Mentally Deranged stuff:
Psycho (1960)
Strait-Jacket (1964)
Homicidal (1961)
House of Wax (1953)
Eraserhead (1977)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Mr. Sardonicus (1961) William Castle
The Body Snatcher (1945)
The Old Dark House (1932)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)


Sci Fi Horror classics and solid B's:
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)
The Tingler (1959) William Castle
The Monolith Monsters (1957)
The Devil-Doll (1936)
The Fly (1958)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
The Last Man on Earth (1964) Vincent Price
4D Man (1959)
Attack of the Puppet People (1958)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
Five Million Years to Earth (1967)
Frankenstein (1931)
Island of Lost Souls (1932)
King Kong (1933)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)
The Birds (1963)


Well known 1970s-80s Sci Fi & Horror:
The Shining (1980) lots of blood though
The Thing (1982) gory though
The Fly (1986) touching film though gross at times
Alien (1979)
Psycho II (1983) maybe a little gory
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Poltergeist (1982)


Roger Corman & Vincent Price made four good films based on Edgar Allen Poe stories:
House of Usher (1960)
Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
The Raven (1963)
The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

10 Rillington Place (1971)
Burning Bright (2010)
The Changeling (1980)
The Collector (1965)
Curse of the Demon (1957)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Gaslight (1944)
Kwaidan (1964)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Megan is Missing (2011)
Night of the Hunter (1955)
Lake Mungo (2008)
The Little Stranger (2018)
The Others (2001)
Rebecca (1940)
Rope (1948)
Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
Searching (2018)
The Spiral Staircase (1946)
The Undying Monster (1942)

Gbg, make sure you give When A Stranger Calls (1979) an airing if you can.