User blog comment:EmpyrealInvective/Halloween Horr-tacular 2019/@comment-10502460-20190930022251

Horror movies have never been my thing. In fact, I believe the only ones I've ever seen other than some really old black and white monster movies that I watched passively if there was nothing better on TV are the first Paranormal Activity and a made-for-TV movie called The Haunted.

So beyond those, the best I can recommend are other movies with strong thriller elements. The notion of "scarier than any horror movie even though it's not classed as horror" is a cliche, I know, but for my money these are some of the best films ever made in terms of chilling realism. Even if you don't watch them for Horrortacular they are still movies I would recommend seeing.

My first recommendation is an old Cold War thriller called Fail-Safe. They did do a live TV-remake in 2000 which was alright, but it failed to capture the full intensity of the original, so the 1964 version is the one to go with.

My other two recommendations are Zero Day and We Need to Talk About Kevin, both of which center on school massacres, but which are very different in both style and substance. Zero Day in particular is a very good found footage movie.