Kevin Cleveland wrote:
28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later are the two horrors that always come to mind first. Love The Descent, too.
Pretty much everything George Romero has ever made
Trick 'r Treat
Ils ("Them" in French)
Eden Lake
The Paranormal Activity movies
The Mist
The Blair Witch Project
Zombieland (not really horror, but...)
I haven't seen a ton of these, but After Dark Horrorfest is a yearly indie horror festival where eight movies get distributed each year. Some have been bad, some have been good, but they at least always cover a huge spectrum of the genre.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Dark_Horrorfest
There are so many admittedly average or worse, forgettable horrors I have seen that I enjoyed while I was watching them. I just love the genre.
Lake Dead --JPZ
Them, and Wolf Creek -- RyGuy
And of course, Triangle -- Kev
I know there is more. Fright Night, the OG one, does that belong on a list like this? I used to think that Child's Play was really good, but it doesn't hold up as well now that's I'm older. But the first one was very solid, for being a dead doll.
The Strangers. More thriller type, did anyone like that? I thought it was pretty good. A newer one that I thought was decent was Devil. Way better than I expected, not really scray tho. Gotta be more that I am forgetting.