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Halloween is coming up so maybe this thread isn't completely off the cuff.
I'd say I'm not a big fan of horror because I loathe slasher films, but there's several in the genre that I'll put on in the background and enjoy on the regular.

Dog Soldiers - The best werewolf movie and unironically one of the best infantry team films ever.

Paranormal Activity series

Mothman Prophecies - I need to get a DVD of this film. It's perfectly creepy.

The VVitch and The Lighthouse - Needless to say I am beyond excited for Nosferatu

There is something to be said for absolutely terrible horror movies just for fun. The entire Leprechaun series springs to mind, or Wishmaster.

And of course Army of Darkness, although I'm not sure many would consider it horror. It is definitely a tremendous amount of fun.

Hammer Boxed Set

The Amicus Portmanteaus

Folk Horror type stuff.

I’ve a wide taste in horror, but those are my hardy perennials.

 Gitzbitah wrote:
There is something to be said for absolutely terrible horror movies just for fun. The entire Leprechaun series springs to mind, or Wishmaster.

And of course Army of Darkness, although I'm not sure many would consider it horror. It is definitely a tremendous amount of fun.

I'd call the first Evil Dead flick horror, but not so much after that. Well, at least for the next two.

Wishmaster is a favourite of mine. A very nearly classic horror character, particularly in the first movie. It does get rapidly silly from there though.

A Cabin in the woods

Freddy vs Jason

Tucker & Dale vs Evil

Slithers

Those are horror movies that don’t take themselves seriously as horror movies or are outright parodies but are still good movies by themselves, unlike Scary movie for example, which is just trash.

The Scary Movies are very zeitgeisty. For those of us there at the time? The pop culture references are now nostalgic.

If you weren’t there at the time? Probably baffling. The whole Budweiser “Wassup” campaign hadn’t arrived in the UK at the time for instance, so that whole sequence left me baffled for a few months.

For fun creature features I'll add Deep Rising and Eight Legged Freaks. I guess whether you think of them as horror movies probably depends on how you feel about deep sea fauna and spiders respectively.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
The Scary Movies are very zeitgeisty. For those of us there at the time? The pop culture references are now nostalgic.

If you weren’t there at the time? Probably baffling. The whole Budweiser “Wassup” campaign hadn’t arrived in the UK at the time for instance, so that whole sequence left me baffled for a few months.

Well, I was there at the time and watched Scary movie 3 at the cinema... it's still all kinds of dumb and the worst side of US humor if you ask me, right there with everything Adam Sandler from about the same period... though Sandler still does the same stuff today

I cannot enjoy modern-style horror which is either slasher/murder-mayhem or the dead-horse beating of 'jumpscares'. (and especially the latter I find degenerate)

I really like horror in the uncanny' realm, such as Ari aster's movies.
Another specific movie that comes to mind is 'Oculus', waiting for part 2, hopefully its good. There was also a fanversion of this movie that was pretty good, though short.

Then in the field of older movies, there's some classics that come to mind which have been absolutely ruined by modern retakes if not ongoing series.. but nothing specific to name here that others don't know about.

I also always enjoyed Korean movies (of all kinds) and those have some decent horror movies in the more psychological corner of which a good one was the strangely part-german titled "hansel and gretel" with an absolutely awesome and memorable character called Daecon Byun Ji-wan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansel_and_Gretel_(2007_film)

If I had to name a single movie that comes to my mind when thinking Horror, it's probably the original child's play, it terrified me as a kid to the point of no longer wanting dolls in my room, after all I saw was a just-before-bed-time commercial for it (showing chucky crawling out of a garbage truck, eep)

'Trilogy of Terror', specifically the third act ('Amelia') starring Karen Black and the killer Zuni fetish doll!

That Zuni doll lives in Gen X’s collective unconscious.

I like the sort of classic ultra campy horror that appears on MST3K

The first Hellraiser, Suspria (I like both), 1997 Cube, The Lighthouse is a favorite as far as newer stuff goes.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
I like the sort of classic ultra campy horror that appears on MST3K

I don’t disagree, camp (especially accidental camp) horror can be very entertaining. But MST3K itself annoys me, as sometimes it’s the only way you can readily find those films, and I’d prefer to see it for myself without the commentary.

Horror Express is a really fun one.

There's a wealth of middling but occasionally entertaining found footage horror films in the world and they're not the worst way in the world to kill time/use for background noise.

The Hunted.
The Pyramid
The Red Woods
The Monster Project
Kaos Theory
The Char Man

Honestly more than I can name. They're a dime a dozen but they have their entertainment value.

* The Thing - awesome film (and a fun one to watch people do so for the first time)
* Ravenous - really enjoy it.
* Gremlins - dark fun
* Silent Hill

* Dog Soldiers - good call

Not sure if Dark City Qualifies

I absolutely hate slasher/torture porn like Scream - especially when it pretends to be clever but is nothing more than torture porn

I can strongly recommend the Amicus Portmanteau films. Namely…

Dr Terror’s House of Horrors*
Torture Garden
The House that Dripped Blood
Tales from the Crypt
Asylum
Vault of Horror
From Beyond The Grave

*not to be confused with Dr Terrible’s House of Horrible. Which is a fantastic, often forgotten, TV show by Steve Coogan.

They’re all pretty camp, but being a collection of short stories they move at a decent clip.

In the same vein

Tales That Witness Madness
The Monster Club

House on Haunted Hill or really anything with Price in it is gold.

 Easy E wrote:
House on Haunted Hill or really anything with Price in it is gold.

Especially The Abominable Dr. Phibes and Dr. Phibes Rises Again.

A Werewolf In England.

An intentionally crap horror movie that goes for gold and knocks it out of the park. One scene is so horrific that it truely gives new meaning to "a fate worse than death". You might want to actually chicken out and instead watch The Thing or Alien with the kids...

Terrorfier wasn't scary of throw up worthy, definitely a masterpiece though. And the 80's and 90's ones