Anime horror/thriller recommendations . . .

macchinainterna · Post by **macchinainterna** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:02 pm

I have a friend at work and he's beginning to show an interest in anime and asked me for a few recommendations.

Thing is, he's a big horror buff and he was mainly asking me about some worthwhile horror/thriller animes I thought he would enjoy. I'm not a huge fan of horror, and I don't know a lot of quality titles in the genre. So I thought I'd ask here and see what horror animes you would recommend, excluding Elfen Lied and Perfect Blue (They are already on my list for him).

CorpseGoddess · Post by **CorpseGoddess** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:22 pm

Boogiepop Phantom. Weird, non-linear and very creepy.

Sukunai · Post by **Sukunai** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 1:31 pm

Claymore is sort of horror. Killing monsters in gruesome bloody style sure isn't comedy

Ninja Scroll, again, more or less one of the bloodiest animes I have ever watched. Not sure if it is "horror" or just bloody.

u_queen · Post by **u_queen** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:00 pm

Hellsing could fit in the horror category, but it's soft talking about jumping under the bed...
Try Hugurashi No Naku Koro Ni, if you can stand the first two or three episodes, you'll certainly watch all the anime.

LivingFlame · Post by **LivingFlame** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:01 pm

Well, I'm not very experienced with horror/thriller anime. With that said, I wouldn't call it horror, but I would consider Death Note to be a psychological thriller.

Also, a rather new anime that's out in Japan right now that I think would be considered horror is Mnemosyne. I believe you can find the first 2 episodes online somewhere. Here's the drawback to this one though: it's an OVA sequence with 6 episodes and it only airs once a month. So the third episode won't air until next month. It has been quite good so far, though.

Ringtails · Post by **Ringtails** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:10 pm

Gantz
Plenty of monsters, blood, and action.

Autraya · Post by **Autraya** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 10:48 pm

Some "Dark" anime:

de portrait la petite cosette (sp)
requiem from the darkness
witch hunter robin
beserk
parasite dolls
Silent Mobius
Ergo Proxy
Samurai X (OVA movies)
Highlander: the search for vengence
X (movie and TV)
Darker than Black
Black Lagoon
Lunar Legend Tsukihime
Blood +
Blood the last vampire
Vampire Hunter D: bloodlust (and the original movie)
ninja scroll
Akira
Virus

OropherZero · Post by **OropherZero** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 10:58 pm

death note

Autraya · Post by **Autraya** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:31 pm

some more that poped into mind:

boogie bop phantom
pale cocoon
paranoia agent
technolyze
SIN
Samurai Champloo (maybe if there were less studid episodes)
Darkstalkers revenge
ghost hunter
Mirage of Blaze
Gungrave
memories- (the short anime with the opera singer and haunted space station i forget it's name)

Purge · Post by **Purge** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 2:47 am

Ayakashi - Samurai Horror Tales
Mononoke
Shigofumi

anything with ghost in the title