you got great taste Spinning, idk wht that catagory is but it one of my faves.
Psychedelic Horror? Stuff like: Mandy, Midsommer, Beyond The Black Rainbow, Man Bites Dog, Enter The Void, The Holy Mountain, Jacob's Ladder, Berberian Sound Studio, Videodrome, and House(1977.)
Ohhh I found a great list. There's some stuff on here I've never even heard of: https://letterboxd.com/mr_ugli/list/psychedelic-horror/
and Psychedelic Horror is apparently the term
Thanks. And that is an interesting list, though I think it both included and omitted some odd choices. I have also heard it referred to as "cerebral horror," but I am not one for labels, just as long as the movie is decent.
I didn't want to retread anything previously mentioned in the thread, but I have definitely seen a decent amount of what has been mentioned and was also in the aforementioned list linked. Ones that I enjoyed or some omissions (some of which I own, as well):
Hereditary, Midsommar, The Void, Harbinger Down, Requiem For A Dream, It Follows, The Shining, The Thing (2011), The VVitch, The Lighthouse, Pontypool, Amer, The Original Dead trilogy and most of the remakes, Mother!, The Lords of Salem, Splinter, Dave Makes A Maze, All seasons of Channel Zero (I highly recommend Dream House and Butcher's Block), Goodnight Mommy, Get Out, Us, and both seasons of The Terror.
I am also a glutton for punishment for found footage horror, though most of it is admittedly heavily derivative of the original Blair Witch and somewhat unwatchable because of it. The one that I would definitely recommend is The Bay, mostly because I have lived near Maryland (location of the movie) most of my life and the story almost seems like it could be plausible, which helps with the underlying sense of dread.
Of course, I have also indulged in most of, if not all of The Nightmare on Elm Streets, Phantasms, Exorcists, Paranormal Activities, Evil Dead series, VHS series, and Resident Evils - I could take or leave most of these, although some of them weren't half bad. I could probably keep going, but a lot of what I have watched I can't necessarily remember all of, including the title for some of them.
edit: I almost forgot it, mainly because it's still waiting to be released (more than likely because of COVID, of course), but I am eagerly anticipating Adult Swim's animated version of Junji Ito's Uzumaki. I read the manga and found it to be very creepy. Also, Colin Stetson is supposed to be doing the soundtrack. You may recognize his name from having done the soundtrack for Hereditary, which along with A Dark Song are my two favorite horror OSTs currently.