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Ah shit everypony else already suggested the best italian ones.
Well since I have been beaten to the best of Fulci and Argento, allow me to throw a curve ball and recommend the first two films in the
Ju-On/The Grudge franchise.
Ju-on The Curse Part 1
Ju-on The Curse Part 2
Shot on crappy VHS tapes, sufficient quantities of cheap homemade gore, zero cinematic polish, poor lighting and fuzzy sound design, yet are unironically my favourite japanese horror films, and the ones I am most likely to rewatch, and in my opinion are significantly creepier than their more famous follow ups of
Ju On The Grudge 1/2 and ESPECIALLY the american
Grudge series since there is less of the cliche cinematic horror schtick going on, and the locations all look perfectly normal an nonthreatening which makes it all the more jarring when bad shit happens.
That being said I recommend you watch
Part 2 from 29:13 since the first half hour is literally just a TLDR version of
Part 1.
Oh yeah and you should probably also watch the two shorts that were made a few years earlier which would become the basis of the whole series since they explain what happened to two of the main characters in
Curse Part 1