Here's the problem: horror films aren't family friendly. They're gory, they're violent, and they're vulgar. Even setting that aside, there really aren't very many "conservative" movies overall and there are almost no truly "conservative" horror flicks. Still, as a Right-Wing horror film aficionado, I can at least make a few solid recommendations that might have some extra-added appeal for conservatives.
A "Right-Wing horror film aficionado"? Nothing against the movies he picked, which are okay, or whether they really qualify as horror films (Cloverfield? No.) but what kind of messed up nutty right-wing guy do you have to be to not concede the point that horror is the most conservative of movie genres. If you have sex, you die. If you drink, you die. If you do drugs, you die. If you watch too much television, television will kill you!
And if you're going to include Silence of the Lambs as a conservative horror film, why leave off Se7en? The guy kills people who break deadly sins! What about Saw? The entire franchise revolves around the idea that you can torture people to improve themselves, not unlike -
Once the harsher techniques were used on [detainees], they could be viewed as having done their duty to Islam or their cause, and their religious principles would ask no more of them," said the former official, who requested anonymity because the events are still classified. "After that point, they became compliant. Obviously, there was also an interest in being able to later say, 'I was tortured into cooperating.' "
Regardless, any list of recommended horror films is incomplete without the inclusion of -
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