I'm not going to recommend the classics since I assume most people have seen them already. There is also no reason to further recommend the more well known recent movies like Mama, The Conjuring, The Cabin in the Woods or 1408 since they have already been mentioned.

So I'll go with some good (well, at least I liked them) but lesser known (because except for the first one none of them are Hollywood) movies:

Orphan
Byzantium
Sennentuntschi
Blood Glacier

Hmmm. i'm tempted to make a short film of tearing up page after page of old phone books...

It would be... Tearrifying! :P

"comedy drumroll"

Witness the horror of myriad phone numbers torn to shredded digits!

Now that Geralt_of_Rivia mentioned Orphan, I remembered that El orfanato (The Orphanage) and Los ojos de Julia (Julia's Eyes) are worth at least one watch.

How about "In the mouth of madness"? I found that quite scary when I saw it in the cinema years ago.

I'm quite sure he has seen it:

like others said: the descent! Nothing clever and mostly jumpscares but they are very effective. It really scared me in the movie theater.

Many have said "the conjuring". While it's good enough I prefer Insidious 1 and 2. These are nicely connected and quite clever and scary without overly depending on jumpscares. I really believe that james wan is the only director in hollywood at the moment that knows how to make a horror movie
Seconded 1408 because you said you liked the shining. Both are written by Stephen King and have the same vibe. I Always considered 1408 the short story version of the shining...

You mean "the omen" ? Or a movie which title is actually "the malediction" in english ?

"The omen" is brilliant (and its sequels are amusing), though I haven't seen the remake. That film was my first though when I learnt the death of Jerry Goldsmith.

Apart from that :

"1408" made me laugh. It starts well, but then it become Stephen-King-when-nobody-keeps-him-in-check. That is, going A TAD overboard.

I have seen "Riget" a couple of times, and my gf is a von Trier fan, so no way I escaped "Antichrist".

I am oddly not sure I've seen "the Exorcist III". I don't remember any Exorcist without Blair. I might have to check on that.

"Kairo" and the "Three extremes" films were on my list to watch. I'll add "Home", "Dorm" and "A tale of two sisters". If by "Vampyr" you mean the Dreyer one, I can't say it had absolutely terrified me.

The "Orphan" plot reminds me too much of "Murderer", which is also one of these films that made me laugh at the wrong places. It's a delicate theme, or twist, to handle. "Phone" did it well, in its own way, but I don't think I can take it seriously enough from a 'materialist' movie... I might check "Sennetuntschi" and "Blood Glacier", though.

I'll also check "Shadow of the vampire", but this one, with "Let the right one in", will be the LAST vampire movie I'll see. I really OD-ed on these.

Okay, I feel forced to watch the "Fright Night" remake at some point, just to see the Doctor posing as Peter Vincent, but this is completely off topic here, as I expect it to be as scary as a buffy episode...

Thanks for the compliment! :)

Yes it's terribly sad and unfortunate that Kirsten Rolffes died before the production of the third and final part was to take place. I really hope that Trier eventually decides to publish the script.

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Oh, and I just noticed that Telika had in fact already mentioned Don't Look Now.

Thing is, I'm not even certain there is one. I do love that series, but didn't strike me as a totally thouroughly cunningly-planned-from-the-beginning-to-the-very-conclusion sort of plot.

I suspect he would have to quickly invent an ending, in order to sattisfy us.

or thathe has a change of heart and will push forward with riget 3 if only to finish the story

but von trier is uncompromising n his fishion so that will never happen

and shadow of the vampire isnt really a horror movie or a vampire movie
it operates on the idea of what if von shreck was an actual vampire during the filming of nosferatu ?

Cool, then I recommend that you watch Epidemic (which in many ways is an early precursor to Riget) - it's an extremely underrated film and one of my personal von Trier favourites.

George C. Scott has the leading role. That's all you need to know. ;)

Yep that's the one I'm talking about.

if only they stuck to their guns with halloween 3

So you haven´t watched "The Thing" (1982) or "The Fog" (1980) ooooohh!.....

By the way, I love horror movies but never got interested in the ones that called themselves "horror" movies but were just gore like Jason movies, I watched some of them yes, but at the time I was most afraid of how the next person was going to be chopped than feeling afraid of the unknown.....
...though with real horror movies I was afraid of what unexpected thing was going to happen next and these movies delivered, plus I like movies like "And then there were none" so "The Thing" kinda fulfills both ranks. "The Fog" must have been the union of three things I "like", "zombies" and "pirates" and "horror".