Can anyone recommend some survival horror films?

[dead-ced-dead]

The more obscure or maybe even foreign the better.

I've been watching a lot of survival horror films, either contained ones (the remake of The Evil Dead for example) or open wide/wilderness set ones (Wolf Creek, Dog Soldiers etc.), and now I'm looking for ones that aren't as mainstream or well known. I watched Southern Comfort the other day, which is like Dog Soldiers, just with Cajuns instead of werewolf, and it was a hell of a romp.

Thanks in advance.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

It's not all that obscure, but I have vague memories of 30 Days of Night being a pretty good film in this... vein. A town in the Arctic circle is attacked by vampires during the titular sunless winter month. Gory violence ensues.

[Hand Solo]

Maybe these are well known but.. Calibre, Eden Lake, What Keeps You Alive, Hush, The Survivalist, Rust Creek, Blue Ruin, I Spit On Your Grave, The Last House On The Left, Calvaire, The Strangers, Backcountry, Alone.

[El Unicornio, mang]

The Hunt (not to be confused with the 2012 Danish film) from this year was not bad, at least worth it for Betty Gilpin's performance.

[Bazooka]

The Silent Hill, Resident Evil and Alone In The Dark films leave the thread...

[dead-ced-dead]

Thanks for some really good recommendations. I'll be jumping on these.

[Panbaams]

The Hunt (not to be confused with the 2012 Danish film) from this year was not bad, at least worth it for Betty Gilpin's performance.

I've just seen this, and I'd second the recommendation.

Ready or Not is a similar kind of film and I would say it's also worth a look, albeit it's a bit more cartoony.

[gib]

The Last House On The Left

1972 or 2009?

[dead-ced-dead]

I've just seen this, and I'd second the recommendation.

Ready or Not is a similar kind of film and I would say it's also worth a look, albeit it's a bit more cartoony.

I love Ready or Not, and I think it's aided by its cartoony nature. I also love when horror filmmakers (who are mostly oldskool leftwing hippies at heart) get on their soapbox about the evils of society and Ready or Not has that in spades.

[ASFTSN]

The Battery (2012)

Ultra low key and 'mundane' zombie film made with a budget of $6000 that's actually really good.

[dead-ced-dead]

The Battery (2012)

Ultra low key and 'mundane' zombie film made with a budget of $6000 that's actually really good.

Ooh, that's just what I'm looking for. Something off the beaten track. Nice.

[ASFTSN]

Calvaire

This is brilliant and feckin' 'orrible

[Hand Solo]

1972 or 2009?

I watched the original first, but the Jesse Pinkman one is passable, same goes with I Spit On Your Grave.

Just saw a new one called Run has a good score on Rotten Tomatoes, but as usual the trailer gives away almost the entire plot.

[RicoMNKN]

Koko-di Koko-da
Saw it described as a cross between Funny Games and Groundhog Day.  Which is about right.

Think it just about falls under survival horror.

[lipsink]

Inside (2007) is an extremely tense and disturbing home invasion movie that I'd highly recommend. It came out around the same as 'Martyrs' which was a similarly fucked up nasty French horror film. I'd also recommend 'Switchblade Romance'.

[studpuppet]

Two 'S's: Severance and Salvage, both weirdly British (one with Lord Percy and Danny Dyer, the other filmed on the Brookside set), but Severance has a European feel, partly from location and also because it was a German co-production.

[Hand Solo]

Two 'S's: Severance

Directed by Christopher Smith, as was Triangle, which is Sci-Fi but I suppose counts as a Survival Horror.. bloody good and very rewatchable it is too.

[frajer]

I love Ready or Not, and I think it's aided by its cartoony nature. I also love when horror filmmakers (who are mostly oldskool leftwing hippies at heart) get on their soapbox about the evils of society and Ready or Not has that in spades.

I really liked Ready or Not for the same reasons. Went in thinking it would be a fairly entertaining but po-faced horror thriller, but its streak of wicked humour was perfect and really elevated it.

The bit after the

Spoiler alert

final posho bloodbath, when the devil does actually appear and Samantha Weaving's reaction is just a weary eye-roll

[close]

was fucking great.

[TrenterPercenter]

I love Ready or Not

Then check out You're Next, which is it's spiritual predecessor.  Also Martyrs for some holyshit wtf, The Platform for something a bit different and Terrifier for just a really good baddie.

[Black Ship]

The Shallows?

Never heard of it before, but someone put a supercut of it on Facebook, so I skimmed through it.

[studpuppet]

Directed by Christopher Smith, as was Triangle, which is Sci-Fi but I suppose counts as a Survival Horror.

In total agreement with you there.

[dead-ced-dead]

Directed by Christopher Smith, as was Triangle, which is Sci-Fi but I suppose counts as a Survival Horror.. bloody good and very rewatchable it is too.

Christopher Smith has to be one of the most consistently decent British horror filmmakers (I know he made that one kids film about Father Christmas, but 90% of his output has been horror so I feel safe calling him that).

[Dave The Triffids]

Triangle is a great film and (I think has already been said) stands up to repeated viewings.  Martyrs, though.. (the French original, not the US remake).. wow.. incredibly savage.  I loved it though.

[SteveDave]

Inside (2007) is an extremely tense and disturbing home invasion movie that I'd highly recommend. It came out around the same as 'Martyrs' which was a similarly fucked up nasty French horror film. I'd also recommend 'Switchblade Romance'.

A second for "Inside" It features one of the greatest head explodings in cinema history.

[Hand Solo]

A second for "Inside" It features one of the greatest head explodings in cinema history.

Way to spoiler, Poindexter!

[Jerzy Bondov]

I liked Revenge. Loads of blood.

[gib]

The Hunt (not to be confused with the 2012 Danish film) from this year was not bad, at least worth it for Betty Gilpin's performance.

I enjoyed this a lot, although the whole 'liberal elites' angle was a bit odd.

[gib]

The Last House On The Left

I watched the 1972 original like you told me and it was fucking horrible, and not in a good way.

[Hand Solo]

I watched the 1972 original like you told me and it was fucking horrible, and not in a good way.

Dated you mean? I Spit On Your Grave is a lot better in that regard.

Let me know how you get on with the Jesse Pinkman version though!

[gib]

Dated you mean? I Spit On Your Grave is a lot better in that regard.

Let me know how you get on with the Jesse Pinkman version though!

not so much dated just really exploitative in a completely unnecessarily way. And this is coming from me, a person who normally doesn't care about shit like that. I don't think i want to watch the remake.