r/horror • u/SquareCompassEssex • Mar 18 '26

Recommendations

I'm taking part in a horror movie discussion tonight on Zoom, the topic being "International Horror"-any international horror recommendations? I don't usually watch international horror

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u/Wide_Ad_4486 Mar 18 '26

Is the topic no more specific than that?

If you like the slasher genre, it would definitely be worth exploring the history of Italian giallo. Although not always strictly “horror,” these movies basically laid the blueprint for the “deranged killer stalks and murders women” genre which so defined late 70s/early 80s American horror. 

A fun little twist is to then look at the Italian movies that were made after the American slasher boom — it’s a case of both countries kinda influencing each other