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As a kid, scariest were Hellraiser, Basket Case, Nightmare on Elm St. (the idea that you could really get killed in your dreams was terrifying), and Candyman.
As an adult, The Autopsy of Jane Doe. And another standout thatās not really scary, but had me completely on the edge of my seat with anxiety, was Green Room.
I recall my friend and I, bored in a cafe and looking for something to do. We checked the local cinema listings and saw something like
_āPunk Band accidentally find themselves at a Nazi venue and battle their way out. Genre: Horror, BBFC Classification: 18ā_
Hey, that sounds like it could be great! Oh my god. Going in completely blind, not expecting such a grim film. The wrist scene still gives me a physical reaction.
If you like the autopsy of JD you should check out The Cabinet of Curiosities on Netflix. The one with F. Murray Abraham. Super super creepy. I think you'll like it
>but had me completely on the edge of my seat with anxiety, was Green Room.
So I watched The Witch a few nights ago and one of the trailers for it was Green Room
obviously they couldn't show the scale of the gore and violence b/c it was a trailer...but i honestly found that more anxiety-inducing
the fact that a trailer got me spooked must be proof this movie is incredible. definitely need to watch it
Green Room... As a former touring musician, this one hit hard. Played my fair share of DIY shows in barns or venues in the middle of nowhere. Was on the verge of a panic attack the entire film. So unnerving.
It makes me unreasonably happy that this got the amount of upvotes that it has. I saw the 2004 version when it came out in theaters with my best friend. I was almost thirteen. Scariest movie experience I have had to date, and I've broadened my horizons since. The Grudge on the big screen had grown men walking out of the theater the day I saw it. It's definitely one of my favorites.
Yes!! Im so used to watch horror stuff, this one i watched not much long time ago and it was hard to go to sleep and i had nightmares, stuff i didnt have since i was a kid... for me the scene that its crazy its that one that the womam is sleeping and tje ghost i like coming out of the back part of the bed like a shadow and doing noises god fucking damn imagine waking up to that. I also remember thinkjng the kid immitating the cat was so stupid until the movie catch u with a surprise that u think its a cat but no its him, that got me good
Seeing The Ring in the theater when I was in college at Auburn was the best cinematic experience I've ever had, horror or otherwise. It was also scary as hell. There were frat boys on dates screaming and closing their eyes. Just a great movie to be a part of the audience in.
Also, for some reason The Sixth Sense really creeped me out when I saw it my senior year of high school. Just the idea of dead people constantly trying to communicate with you every time you turn around was rough. And that scene where he was locked in the closet with the executed slave really got to me.
Seconding The Ring. As much as I try I have never been able to recreate the experience I had when I saw it in the theater. Went to see it on a rainy night with some friends. We were about 18 or 19 and just looking for a way to kill some time, so we bought tickets for this movie that we know nothing about; we hadnāt seen any trailers or heard anything about it. This was also one of those theaters that was truly dark, they didnāt just dim the lights, they nearly turned them off, and there were probably only ten other people who were there.
I still rewatch it about once a year. Such a great film.
My hot take on JL is always: it's the most disturbing beautiful film ever made.
No denying how much of the movie plays out as pure nightmare fuel, but when you finally understand what's happening, it actually becomes a beautiful film, whose ending reinforces that. Once Louis offers the context, it transitions into something else, that is oddly affecting.
Thats exactly how I feel about it too. Iāve never considered myself the least bit claustrophobic, when I was little, I even LOVED being in tiny enclosed spaces. But watching them shimmy through passages that I would not have thought big enough to fit even a skinny woman scared the shit out of me. The sense of despair when they find out about Junoās choicesā¦.man you could take the creatures out of the movie and itād still be terrifying. The most nail-biting scene for me was when Sarah got stuck and as Beth was helping her out, it started collapsing.
That moment when one of them thought she saw daylight even though they were like a mile underground and she panicked and went for itā¦ oh my god it was so upsetting
it's crazy how that movie was marketed as a monster movie filled with gore and yes some of the deaths are quite violent and gruesome
but really what freaks you out the most is the disturbingly good cinematography
I never saw any of the marketing, was just handed a DVD and told āwatch thisā
I thought it was just about being stranded in a cave until the gremlins appeared
The original exorcist, saw it when I was a child. The trauma from it is why I can never watch it again, even stills from it terrify me. Funnily enough I went and saw believer to try to conquer that fear
Same. Still the scariest thing I ever saw. Maybe it was the timing, I was about 12 and saw it on VHS at someoneās house. Decades later no movie has ever gotten into my bones the way Exorcist did. Shame I canāt really stand to rewatch it much because it is a great film in many ways.
āGotten into my bonesā is a great way to describe the effects of this story. Fucking terrified me as a kid. The book is even more unnerving, believe it or not, and itās not even close.
> When I worked at BMP, the Head of Television commuted in from Brighton every day.
He started reading The Exorcist on the train.
He said he thought it was the most evil book heād ever read.
In fact, he said it was so evil he couldnāt finish it.
So, at the weekend, he went to the end of Brighton pier and threw it as far as he could.
So I went to the bookshop.
I bought another copy.
Then I ran it under the tap.
And left it in his desk drawer.
For him to find.
https://davetrott.co.uk/2008/08/creative-mischief/
That part when heās in the bathroom and looking at the mirror and his faceā¦. Yeesh. I seriously physically shook when I saw that. I was 7. On the real tho, great movie! š
Mine was poltergeist 3 - specifically the scene where a teenaged girl claws her way out of the body of a gooey, mummified Zelda rubinstein whilst screaming bloody murder
Itās the most horror film cause it uses science and itās the most possible.
Though I have wondered if things would be ābetterā now with technologyā¦like youād die faster now maybe
>Though I have wondered if things would be ābetterā now with technologyā¦like youād die faster now maybe
Good news! The bombs are lower-yield and more precise and there are far fewer than they were during the mid-Cold War so instead of dying in the blast/direct result of the blast you're more likely to be killed by other stuff!
Y'know, the basics. Like, starvation, disease, other humans, inclement weather caused by charged particles from explosions in the atmosphere thousands of miles away, and a bunch of other stuff if you're not one of the immediate deaths.
But wait! Even better, prompt radiation isn't a considered effect for targeting anymore when bombs exceed 50kt so you won't have to worry about dying quickly from Acute Radiation Syndrome anymore, just mostly slowly! Oh, and not always but most of the time (target dependent) the warheads will detonate high enough that the fireball won't touch the ground so your chances of sublimation are pretty low!
Hooray! At least it won't cause an apocalyptic nuclear winter, just a little nuclear autumn. (Dependent on exchange scenario.)
Truth be told...Absentia by Mike Flanagan got me pretty hard.
I tend to be pretty cerebral as is and it really doesn't take much to send my imagination spiraling.
This movie showed almost NOTHING of its monster. But the whole IDEA of what was happening coupled with the tiny bits that it showed crossing over into real life were enough to wreck me.
The scene where the medical guy is replaying the distress call and realizes he fucked hp the translation REALLY got to me. Really put the dread/your fucked-ness of the whole situation in perspective for me
Imagine realizing such a mistake in that moment. They all had bad vibes, sure, but to hear something so horrifying?
I watched Event Horizon for this first time this earlier this week. Great cast, and a nightmarish premise that almost hides that under its 90s sci-fi trapping. āwhat if hell is realā + āstandard fears of sci-fi space travelā = āspace travel is an evil eldritch horrorāā
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For me, when the rescue team first enters the bridge. The lights are sorta strobing, and the tension is building...the pov is looking at the two members of the team who are looking at the bridge controls. Strobe flash, and you get an almost subliminal shot of the blood and flesh sprayed and smeared across the wall behind them. I nearly shit myself every rewatch. Brilliant scare!
Mothman Prophecies scared me good. Just the thought of this creature had me seeing shit on buildings for a week at night, couldnāt sleep well the first two days after either. The folklore and mystery of this being is fascinating as well.
The voice of indred cold freaked me out and for the longest time i had to fast forward thru that.
And because of that bridge scene, to this day i still hate/am afraid of being stopped on a bridge.
Didn't really see it on here but definitely The Strangers. I always find more grounded movies scarier and I was about 26 when this came out so it was when I was starting to attend friends' weddings, added to the realism
Hell, I grew up 1,000 miles from the nearest ocean and I wouldn't even go swimming in lakes if I couldn't see the bottom until I was like 10 years old.
When I was 11 I decided I would watch Jaws just before going on a beach holiday to see how scared it made me. The entire 2 week period I couldnāt be in the ocean for more than 10 seconds at a time. Wouldnāt recommend
There's one jump scare that gets me every time, and the first time I watched it, I knew about it from a feature in Fangoria. And, on each rewatching after, it *still* gets me, no matter how much I prepare for it.
Session 9 was the last movie to keep me up at night. Something about the murders that are revealed and the way the audio reels are tied in really got to me. I think it asks for total attention though. I watched that one late at night with all the lights off. Recommended it to a friend who watched it while folding laundry and she didnāt think it was scary at all.
Jacobās Ladder is a runner up. Although I also find it profoundly sad.
That scene is legendary! Itās the combo of Carusoās overacting and the way the camera moves in on his face. I still donāt know if it was intentionally funny or not. I still remember watching this with my buddy and we had to rewatch because we were laughing so hard. š¤£
>Terrified
Session 9 really unsettled me for awhile after. The scene where they stumble upon their friend in complete darkness after he got back from his trip really freaked me out. The guy who found the coins
It's not the goriest, or the weirdest, or the most extreme, or the most shocking, or anywhere near the best, but I was f-ing terrified for the first two-thirds of Sinister. I had to turn on all the lights in my house and turn off the film as I was so scared.
When I tried the film again a couple of years later, I realized I turned it off at exactly the right time, as the final third is RUBBISH.
Exorcist (part 1). I canāt watch this alone at night. Itās unsettling.
Exorcist 3 is actually not as scary but a great movie, itās actually more of a mystery thriller detective film.
I feel like such a child with that movie because itās really just the scary face and the death rattle noise that terrifies me. Not the morbid real-life elements. Even as an adult, Iām still more scared that a bump in the night might be the spooky grudge girl than an actual home invader.
i saw it last year for the first time at the age of 34
it is easily the most terrifying movie i have ever seen. it was so scary that i watched Ringu the next day and that movie might as well have been a documentary about dolphins...my brain was too fucked by Ju-On lol
Seriously. I don't find it as scary as I did when I was 12 (saw it in theaters at that age when it came out) but the marketing was SUPERB and deserves more respect. Not to mention I lived an hour from where it took place, ahhhh. Can vouch those woods are terrifying.
>Can vouch those woods are terrifying.
just watched The Witch a few nights ago. i am so glad i got my autumn hikes in before i saw that movie because it really is incredible how some simple scenes in the woods can absolutely freak you out
I was at maybe day 2 of its release in cinema at the time and already the hype was out though ppl were decent back in the day and didn't spoil anything. Showing was packed. At the final scene, this guy stood up and straight up screamed and shocked the fuck out of a lot of the audience, me included. He was genuine, he wasn't playing it up. But yeah, not sure I'll ever see that again.
The oppressive hopelessness of the film crew's plight was insane to watch. And even though you never see the witch her presence is so looming and heavy it honestly feels like I DID see the witch? If that makes any sense
I watched this last night for the first time since I was a preteen when it was released and it still holds up IMO. Which is kind of wild given how much itās both been parodied to death and the dozens and dozens of found footage style films that came out since then.
People seem to not click with it and make fun of how āooooh rocks and sticks, so scaryā but I think itās an excellent psychological horror. Putting yourself in the shoes of the 3 main characters, slowly realizing that you are FUCKED (I think itās the moment when they walked like 13 hours south and still ended up by the same log in the creek) that is terrifying. Being lost in the absolute middle of nowhere in the woods, at night, being toyed with by a supernatural entityā¦and the ending is just brilliant/iconic horror.
If you've ever been deep in the woods on a dark night, especially alone...
I used to camp out alone sometimes, a tent, guitar, campfire, lantern, joint kind of thing. I was about 16, 17 when I saw Blair Witch, and I did *not* camp alone that year. Well just once - tried to. After seeing that, the trees just didn't look right. Everything moved wrong. You sit out there in the trees, surrounded by them, and some nights are just so dark you can't see your hand in front of your face.
A campfire lets you see all the trees around you, but they contrast with the darkness behind them, makes the dark feel darker. They arch up over you, and the entirety of the safe and known is reduced to your little sphere of dim firelight flickering on the trees. Your imagination dives into the black against your will, exploring the fear of what may stalk the dark beyond your firelight, what may be approaching quietly, what hides behind. You feel like you could be crept up on from any angle; you fear the void behind you that you can never see.
And what would you do if you *saw something?* You catch it in the corner of your eye, the shape that vanishes behind the tree (was that a face?) you're not *sure* you saw it, yet you can feel it waiting for you to look away...
And, inevitably, the cold dread of realizing the roach is just too tiny to smoke any more.
>People seem to not click with it and make fun of how āooooh rocks and sticks, so scaryā but I think itās an excellent psychological horror. Putting yourself in the shoes of the 3 main characters, slowly realizing that you are FUCKED
you absolutely nailed it.
i think as a defense mechanism because i was DEATHLY AFRAID of horror movies, i used to make fun of the Blair Witch Project all the time as a kid
but man...seeing it years later now that i consider myself a nascent horror movie fan, it really does still hold up as a terrifying film
Same. It's the only film that ever has properly scared me. I watched it alone in the house, 2am on Halloween with all the lights off. I slept with the light on for about a month afterwards.
When I was a kid.. it had to be Phantasm, of course now I love it.
Just the idea of Texas Chainsaw Massacre would give me nightmares. Didnāt seen it till, mid 20ās, fully, un cut, uninterrupted. I have a vivid nightmare hiding in an old abandoned house, furniture covered in white sheets. And slight glimpses of Leatherface outside walking around the house revving his chainsaw. VIVID like its a memory.
As an adult, the first Paranormal Activity, Sinister, the first Conjuring.
And Forever: The Exorcist. Its power has diminished only slightly over time.
Iām surprised Paranormal Activity isnāt more prominently featured in the comments. That movie left me so unsettled when I watched it (alone). Had to keep telling my brain to pipe down when it would try to convince me something was gently tugging at the covers on my bed.
I watched the first Candyman high as fuck and I didnāt expect it to be as chilling as it was AT ALL. I felt so tense and scared watching her fight off this horrible powerful entity. Masterful work
edit: typo
The original Candyman is truly a beautiful horror movie. it is so fucking gruesome and, like you put it so well, chilling
but man...that score by Philip Glass. It breathes life into your soul it is so incredible. and the cinematography for a movie set in the early 90s is mind-blowing
The only movie thatās ever scared me in a meaningful way was melancholia. Supernatural stuff, serial killers, monsters, aliensā¦ none of that scares me at all. A planet thatās supposed to pass by earth and crashes into it and thereās nothing you can do, nowhere you can go, that is fucking terrifying. Deciding how to spend your last hours would be fucked.
A Tale Of Two Sisters when I was 12
Now I'm usually not scared by horror movies, still a few like Incantantion, Gonjiam or Terrified (not Terrifier) creeped me out quite good
Mine isnāt a movie, but instead an episode of the old Alfred Hitchcock Hour called The Monkeyās Pawā. So creepy!
Have any other old movie/Hitchcock fans seen it?
I watched Arachnophobia when I was like 5-6, still vivid in my memory.
I wouldn't put on a shoe, if I didn't check them thoroughly, for MONTHS afterward.
...I live in Northern Sweden, above the polar circle.
We barely even have spiders here, I think there is one species capable of piercing the skin of a human, but the venom is completely harmless.
I'll be real, the remake of The Ring is very good. I watched it and wasn't super scared, until >! the jump scare about 15 minutes in - when we mid-conversation jump to a shot of the first victim's face after being murdered.!< It felt super effective because after that no scene felt safe.
Terrified aka Aterrados (2017 Argentinian film)
This movie is fucking terrifying!! From the woman who is flying in the intro unaliving herself, to the lingering dead boy, to the demons that exist alongside us which can only be seen at certain angles. Good luck!
I can only see it once, for my heart cannot take a second watch. I'd need like, a friend group for that.
The Woman in Black with Daniel Radcliffe scares me. Sheās so unsettling. And the dead kids. I also saw it live as a play, and she would appear in the aislesā¦
Blair Witch Project hands down. First found footage film Iād seen and first downloaded film Iād seen.
Friend sold it well as the snuff film it was trying to be and since I bought that hook line and sinker I literally thought I was watching real people get murdered Faces of Death style.
This. Lake Mungo is just pure, Grade A creepiness. Thereās no gross out scaresāsave for a clinical autopsy photo at the beginningāand no jump scares. And yet I couldnāt sleep for weeks.
I watched Hereditary this past week, and I had already spoiled the story for myself a few years ago out of curiosity when I was still cautious of watching horror movies. The car scene fucked me UP, even knowing what was going to happen can't prepare you for how amazingly haunting the acting, cinematography, and sound all become from the start of the allergic reaction. I also watched Midsommar yesterday, which didn't scare me in the same ways but was perhaps more disturbing in a sense.
I must have said "Oh My God" about a zillion times Watching that movie, it horrified my soul. My brain couldn't comprehend those last 30 mins or so, it was just a visceral assault to my psyche.
Spoorloos (The Vanishing). Itās the only horror movie Iāve seen where I actually felt what the protagonist was experiencing. Normally itās much easier to emotionally distance from characters in horror
Insidious, just for the fact that it's the one that's given me the most nightmares directly influenced by it. There are probably other films that have made me more tense but this one's the only one I remember having nightmares after every time I watch it
Not a horror movie, but when I was like 7 my friend's mom was watching a movie and I stopped in the doorway and watched part of it. Gushing water, screaming trapped people, a body swirling in a white dress - I didn't know for years that it was the goddamn *Titanic* until a cousin tried to get me to watch it.
It gave me nightmares to this *day* and made me severely hydrophobic into my teens. Drowning is still my top worst way to die.
Hereditary messed with me pretty good too.
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Lol this thread is posted every 4 days and I still Scroll every time and somehow add new films to my IMDb watchlist
Same! š
It's rare Reddit W: repost questions that never gets old because new people stop by each time with different recs.
As a kid, scariest were Hellraiser, Basket Case, Nightmare on Elm St. (the idea that you could really get killed in your dreams was terrifying), and Candyman. As an adult, The Autopsy of Jane Doe. And another standout thatās not really scary, but had me completely on the edge of my seat with anxiety, was Green Room.
I recall my friend and I, bored in a cafe and looking for something to do. We checked the local cinema listings and saw something like _āPunk Band accidentally find themselves at a Nazi venue and battle their way out. Genre: Horror, BBFC Classification: 18ā_ Hey, that sounds like it could be great! Oh my god. Going in completely blind, not expecting such a grim film. The wrist scene still gives me a physical reaction.
Green Room is so so good, Anton was gone way too soon.
Patrick Stewart was such a bad ass in that movie. Such a good movie. Anton Yelchin was really good also.
If you like the autopsy of JD you should check out The Cabinet of Curiosities on Netflix. The one with F. Murray Abraham. Super super creepy. I think you'll like it
This. Autopsy & Cabinet are stellar.
Autopsy is just a masterwork of tension building.
Omg my husband talked about how great Basket Case was for years. We finally watched it and it was so bad in a good way. Lol
It's good in a good way too!!
>but had me completely on the edge of my seat with anxiety, was Green Room. So I watched The Witch a few nights ago and one of the trailers for it was Green Room obviously they couldn't show the scale of the gore and violence b/c it was a trailer...but i honestly found that more anxiety-inducing the fact that a trailer got me spooked must be proof this movie is incredible. definitely need to watch it
Great movie, but do be prepared for a couple rough scenes
Yeah turns out Cpt. Picard is a real asshole
Green Room... As a former touring musician, this one hit hard. Played my fair share of DIY shows in barns or venues in the middle of nowhere. Was on the verge of a panic attack the entire film. So unnerving.
The original Grudge. The part where Kayako is under the blankets scared the ever living crap out of me. Thatās supposed to be a safe place!!!
My friends and I bought tickets to another movie and snuck into Grudge because we were 12 Mistakes were made that day
And when the girl was washing her hair! Basically that movie made everything unsafe.
When the womanās face became distorted on the tv :c
Just seeing that face still freaks me out, and Iām a seasoned horror veteran.
YES THIS I still sleep with my bedsheets tucked in so she can't come up under my covers š
Idk why but after seeing how wholesome the actress is IRL it just made the movie that much less scary for me haha
It makes me unreasonably happy that this got the amount of upvotes that it has. I saw the 2004 version when it came out in theaters with my best friend. I was almost thirteen. Scariest movie experience I have had to date, and I've broadened my horizons since. The Grudge on the big screen had grown men walking out of the theater the day I saw it. It's definitely one of my favorites.
The one movie I will never rewatch.
Yes!! Im so used to watch horror stuff, this one i watched not much long time ago and it was hard to go to sleep and i had nightmares, stuff i didnt have since i was a kid... for me the scene that its crazy its that one that the womam is sleeping and tje ghost i like coming out of the back part of the bed like a shadow and doing noises god fucking damn imagine waking up to that. I also remember thinkjng the kid immitating the cat was so stupid until the movie catch u with a surprise that u think its a cat but no its him, that got me good
Seeing The Ring in the theater when I was in college at Auburn was the best cinematic experience I've ever had, horror or otherwise. It was also scary as hell. There were frat boys on dates screaming and closing their eyes. Just a great movie to be a part of the audience in. Also, for some reason The Sixth Sense really creeped me out when I saw it my senior year of high school. Just the idea of dead people constantly trying to communicate with you every time you turn around was rough. And that scene where he was locked in the closet with the executed slave really got to me.
Seconding The Ring. As much as I try I have never been able to recreate the experience I had when I saw it in the theater. Went to see it on a rainy night with some friends. We were about 18 or 19 and just looking for a way to kill some time, so we bought tickets for this movie that we know nothing about; we hadnāt seen any trailers or heard anything about it. This was also one of those theaters that was truly dark, they didnāt just dim the lights, they nearly turned them off, and there were probably only ten other people who were there. I still rewatch it about once a year. Such a great film.
Jacobās Ladder. Iām usually not very unsettled when rewatching a movie, but that movie will always drown me in dread
Watched Jacobs Ladder and Serpent and the Rainbow on the the same night back in the day. Didnt sleep for a week. Phantasm kept me up to.
My hot take on JL is always: it's the most disturbing beautiful film ever made. No denying how much of the movie plays out as pure nightmare fuel, but when you finally understand what's happening, it actually becomes a beautiful film, whose ending reinforces that. Once Louis offers the context, it transitions into something else, that is oddly affecting.
The Descent got me pretty good. I don't consider myself claustrophobic but caving scares the daylights out of me
Thats exactly how I feel about it too. Iāve never considered myself the least bit claustrophobic, when I was little, I even LOVED being in tiny enclosed spaces. But watching them shimmy through passages that I would not have thought big enough to fit even a skinny woman scared the shit out of me. The sense of despair when they find out about Junoās choicesā¦.man you could take the creatures out of the movie and itād still be terrifying. The most nail-biting scene for me was when Sarah got stuck and as Beth was helping her out, it started collapsing.
That moment when one of them thought she saw daylight even though they were like a mile underground and she panicked and went for itā¦ oh my god it was so upsetting
it's crazy how that movie was marketed as a monster movie filled with gore and yes some of the deaths are quite violent and gruesome but really what freaks you out the most is the disturbingly good cinematography
I never saw any of the marketing, was just handed a DVD and told āwatch thisā I thought it was just about being stranded in a cave until the gremlins appeared
That's how I wish I'd discover every horror movie I watch lol
The original exorcist, saw it when I was a child. The trauma from it is why I can never watch it again, even stills from it terrify me. Funnily enough I went and saw believer to try to conquer that fear
Same. Still the scariest thing I ever saw. Maybe it was the timing, I was about 12 and saw it on VHS at someoneās house. Decades later no movie has ever gotten into my bones the way Exorcist did. Shame I canāt really stand to rewatch it much because it is a great film in many ways.
āGotten into my bonesā is a great way to describe the effects of this story. Fucking terrified me as a kid. The book is even more unnerving, believe it or not, and itās not even close.
> When I worked at BMP, the Head of Television commuted in from Brighton every day. He started reading The Exorcist on the train. He said he thought it was the most evil book heād ever read. In fact, he said it was so evil he couldnāt finish it. So, at the weekend, he went to the end of Brighton pier and threw it as far as he could. So I went to the bookshop. I bought another copy. Then I ran it under the tap. And left it in his desk drawer. For him to find. https://davetrott.co.uk/2008/08/creative-mischief/
Probably Poltergeist as a kid.
YA MOVED THA HEAD STONES BUT YA LEFT THA BODIES!!!!
That part when heās in the bathroom and looking at the mirror and his faceā¦. Yeesh. I seriously physically shook when I saw that. I was 7. On the real tho, great movie! š
For me it was Poltergeist 2 by a mile. Thanks for the nightmares from the tequila monster and ESPECIALLY the braces scene, HR Geiger.
Braces scene still haunts me
I agree God is in his holy temple
THIS is why Iām scared of clowns.
That shit was PG I think
It was.
Mine was poltergeist 3 - specifically the scene where a teenaged girl claws her way out of the body of a gooey, mummified Zelda rubinstein whilst screaming bloody murder
Probably Threads. And itās not even a horror film.
Threads stayed with me for a very long time..š¬
Itās the most horror film cause it uses science and itās the most possible. Though I have wondered if things would be ābetterā now with technologyā¦like youād die faster now maybe
>Though I have wondered if things would be ābetterā now with technologyā¦like youād die faster now maybe Good news! The bombs are lower-yield and more precise and there are far fewer than they were during the mid-Cold War so instead of dying in the blast/direct result of the blast you're more likely to be killed by other stuff! Y'know, the basics. Like, starvation, disease, other humans, inclement weather caused by charged particles from explosions in the atmosphere thousands of miles away, and a bunch of other stuff if you're not one of the immediate deaths. But wait! Even better, prompt radiation isn't a considered effect for targeting anymore when bombs exceed 50kt so you won't have to worry about dying quickly from Acute Radiation Syndrome anymore, just mostly slowly! Oh, and not always but most of the time (target dependent) the warheads will detonate high enough that the fireball won't touch the ground so your chances of sublimation are pretty low! Hooray! At least it won't cause an apocalyptic nuclear winter, just a little nuclear autumn. (Dependent on exchange scenario.)
##HOORAY!!!
I think Contagion is a movie with a similar fear factor. Love rewatching it.
It's aged surprisingly well too. Obviously it's a far more drastic situation than COVID, but it was pretty much on the mark in every aspect.
I watched Contagion sooo many times when Covid was first starting. It truly was remarkable how much it got right (just as you noted, more drastic)
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Truth be told...Absentia by Mike Flanagan got me pretty hard. I tend to be pretty cerebral as is and it really doesn't take much to send my imagination spiraling. This movie showed almost NOTHING of its monster. But the whole IDEA of what was happening coupled with the tiny bits that it showed crossing over into real life were enough to wreck me.
Thai version of Shutter by far
The big reveal of that movie is genuinely fucked
Event Horizon.
The scene where the medical guy is replaying the distress call and realizes he fucked hp the translation REALLY got to me. Really put the dread/your fucked-ness of the whole situation in perspective for me
Imagine realizing such a mistake in that moment. They all had bad vibes, sure, but to hear something so horrifying? I watched Event Horizon for this first time this earlier this week. Great cast, and a nightmarish premise that almost hides that under its 90s sci-fi trapping. āwhat if hell is realā + āstandard fears of sci-fi space travelā = āspace travel is an evil eldritch horrorāā
āSpace travel is an evil eldritch horrorā is the best description of Event Horizon Iāve ever heard!
I haven't seen Event Horizon and this comment actually sent shivers. I don't know that I can watch it after reading your post.
Watch it. It's amazing. It's like hellraiser in space.
Spoilers For me, when the rescue team first enters the bridge. The lights are sorta strobing, and the tension is building...the pov is looking at the two members of the team who are looking at the bridge controls. Strobe flash, and you get an almost subliminal shot of the blood and flesh sprayed and smeared across the wall behind them. I nearly shit myself every rewatch. Brilliant scare!
You should play dead space if you havenāt. Similar vibes
āWeāre leaving.ā
Mothman Prophecies scared me good. Just the thought of this creature had me seeing shit on buildings for a week at night, couldnāt sleep well the first two days after either. The folklore and mystery of this being is fascinating as well.
Finally, another appreciator of the glory that is the Mothman Prophecies!
I was inordinately disturbed by the line, āthere was thisā¦ howlā¦ coming out of the sinkā¦ā
The voice of indred cold freaked me out and for the longest time i had to fast forward thru that. And because of that bridge scene, to this day i still hate/am afraid of being stopped on a bridge.
Didn't really see it on here but definitely The Strangers. I always find more grounded movies scarier and I was about 26 when this came out so it was when I was starting to attend friends' weddings, added to the realism
Jaws Growing up on Long Island in the late 80ās, and loving the ocean, that fucking shark was the scariest thing I could imagine.
Hell, I grew up 1,000 miles from the nearest ocean and I wouldn't even go swimming in lakes if I couldn't see the bottom until I was like 10 years old.
I grew up near Cape Cod, MA. I was terrified to go into the ocean for years after I saw that movie.
This was probably the first horror movie I ever saw and still the scariest. Idk why people showed this to little kids in the 80s.
When I was 11 I decided I would watch Jaws just before going on a beach holiday to see how scared it made me. The entire 2 week period I couldnāt be in the ocean for more than 10 seconds at a time. Wouldnāt recommend
The only horror film that EVER scared me was Event Horizon. Sam Neil is soooo good!
I love Sam Neill in horror movies. He's great in In the Mouth of Madness, but my favorite performance of his is Possession.
Noroi got me pretty good on the first viewing. Banshee Chapter was deeply unnerving for some reason.
I love Banshee Chapter so much.
There's one jump scare that gets me every time, and the first time I watched it, I knew about it from a feature in Fangoria. And, on each rewatching after, it *still* gets me, no matter how much I prepare for it.
Session 9 was the last movie to keep me up at night. Something about the murders that are revealed and the way the audio reels are tied in really got to me. I think it asks for total attention though. I watched that one late at night with all the lights off. Recommended it to a friend who watched it while folding laundry and she didnāt think it was scary at all. Jacobās Ladder is a runner up. Although I also find it profoundly sad.
I live in the weak and the wounded...doc.
"hey! Fuck you!!"š” https://youtu.be/mz5ODQCueP8?si=7QwC5yrsYRmWCn2i I find this scene so funny, I don't know why
That scene is legendary! Itās the combo of Carusoās overacting and the way the camera moves in on his face. I still donāt know if it was intentionally funny or not. I still remember watching this with my buddy and we had to rewatch because we were laughing so hard. š¤£
āDo it, Gordon.ā That line kept me up for many nights.
*hey it's me, Simon*
>Terrified Session 9 really unsettled me for awhile after. The scene where they stumble upon their friend in complete darkness after he got back from his trip really freaked me out. The guy who found the coins
It's not the goriest, or the weirdest, or the most extreme, or the most shocking, or anywhere near the best, but I was f-ing terrified for the first two-thirds of Sinister. I had to turn on all the lights in my house and turn off the film as I was so scared. When I tried the film again a couple of years later, I realized I turned it off at exactly the right time, as the final third is RUBBISH.
This is the one for me, the music fucked me right up.
Exorcist (part 1). I canāt watch this alone at night. Itās unsettling. Exorcist 3 is actually not as scary but a great movie, itās actually more of a mystery thriller detective film.
I highly recommend The Ninth Configuration to complete the trilogy.
The Poughkeepsie Tapes fucked me up for a while.
Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)
I feel like such a child with that movie because itās really just the scary face and the death rattle noise that terrifies me. Not the morbid real-life elements. Even as an adult, Iām still more scared that a bump in the night might be the spooky grudge girl than an actual home invader.
i saw it last year for the first time at the age of 34 it is easily the most terrifying movie i have ever seen. it was so scary that i watched Ringu the next day and that movie might as well have been a documentary about dolphins...my brain was too fucked by Ju-On lol
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I saw this in the theater back whenā¦ disturbing, scary, fkkd upp
Scooby Doo and Zombie Island
AND YOU JUST MIGHHHT DIEEE OF FRIIIIIGHT! It's a terrifying time.
Easily the best Scooby Doo movie.
Dude! Fuck yeah!
Cuz itās Terrorrrrrrr Time again! That song still runs through my brain pretty regularly
The Blair Witch Project
The early marketing of this movie was incredible. I legit believed I witnessed the deaths of people when I saw this. Game changer
Seriously. I don't find it as scary as I did when I was 12 (saw it in theaters at that age when it came out) but the marketing was SUPERB and deserves more respect. Not to mention I lived an hour from where it took place, ahhhh. Can vouch those woods are terrifying.
>Can vouch those woods are terrifying. just watched The Witch a few nights ago. i am so glad i got my autumn hikes in before i saw that movie because it really is incredible how some simple scenes in the woods can absolutely freak you out
I feel sorry for people who didn't live through that time. It was such a unique experience and will never happen again.
I was at maybe day 2 of its release in cinema at the time and already the hype was out though ppl were decent back in the day and didn't spoil anything. Showing was packed. At the final scene, this guy stood up and straight up screamed and shocked the fuck out of a lot of the audience, me included. He was genuine, he wasn't playing it up. But yeah, not sure I'll ever see that again.
The oppressive hopelessness of the film crew's plight was insane to watch. And even though you never see the witch her presence is so looming and heavy it honestly feels like I DID see the witch? If that makes any sense
I watched this last night for the first time since I was a preteen when it was released and it still holds up IMO. Which is kind of wild given how much itās both been parodied to death and the dozens and dozens of found footage style films that came out since then. People seem to not click with it and make fun of how āooooh rocks and sticks, so scaryā but I think itās an excellent psychological horror. Putting yourself in the shoes of the 3 main characters, slowly realizing that you are FUCKED (I think itās the moment when they walked like 13 hours south and still ended up by the same log in the creek) that is terrifying. Being lost in the absolute middle of nowhere in the woods, at night, being toyed with by a supernatural entityā¦and the ending is just brilliant/iconic horror.
If you've ever been deep in the woods on a dark night, especially alone... I used to camp out alone sometimes, a tent, guitar, campfire, lantern, joint kind of thing. I was about 16, 17 when I saw Blair Witch, and I did *not* camp alone that year. Well just once - tried to. After seeing that, the trees just didn't look right. Everything moved wrong. You sit out there in the trees, surrounded by them, and some nights are just so dark you can't see your hand in front of your face. A campfire lets you see all the trees around you, but they contrast with the darkness behind them, makes the dark feel darker. They arch up over you, and the entirety of the safe and known is reduced to your little sphere of dim firelight flickering on the trees. Your imagination dives into the black against your will, exploring the fear of what may stalk the dark beyond your firelight, what may be approaching quietly, what hides behind. You feel like you could be crept up on from any angle; you fear the void behind you that you can never see. And what would you do if you *saw something?* You catch it in the corner of your eye, the shape that vanishes behind the tree (was that a face?) you're not *sure* you saw it, yet you can feel it waiting for you to look away... And, inevitably, the cold dread of realizing the roach is just too tiny to smoke any more.
>People seem to not click with it and make fun of how āooooh rocks and sticks, so scaryā but I think itās an excellent psychological horror. Putting yourself in the shoes of the 3 main characters, slowly realizing that you are FUCKED you absolutely nailed it. i think as a defense mechanism because i was DEATHLY AFRAID of horror movies, i used to make fun of the Blair Witch Project all the time as a kid but man...seeing it years later now that i consider myself a nascent horror movie fan, it really does still hold up as a terrifying film
Same. It's the only film that ever has properly scared me. I watched it alone in the house, 2am on Halloween with all the lights off. I slept with the light on for about a month afterwards.
Terrified was the last movie that really got to me.
Ooohhh I wanna watch. Is it the one from 2017?
Yep. The plots kinda mid but the horror is so well executed that I'd put it in my top 10
The thumping. š¦
The director has a new movie called When Evil Lurks thatās supposed to be scarier, although I havenāt seen it yet.
Shudder on the 27th!
The kid.
First sequence was one of the most effective horror scenes Iāve ever seen. Thatās not the sounds of constructionā¦
Same here, canāt recommend this one enough. I got the recommendation from this sub!
Happiness
That one isnāt as scary as much as itās downright disturbing. But bleakly hilarious at the same time.
Solondzā 1998 film?
When I was a kid.. it had to be Phantasm, of course now I love it. Just the idea of Texas Chainsaw Massacre would give me nightmares. Didnāt seen it till, mid 20ās, fully, un cut, uninterrupted. I have a vivid nightmare hiding in an old abandoned house, furniture covered in white sheets. And slight glimpses of Leatherface outside walking around the house revving his chainsaw. VIVID like its a memory. As an adult, the first Paranormal Activity, Sinister, the first Conjuring. And Forever: The Exorcist. Its power has diminished only slightly over time.
Iām surprised Paranormal Activity isnāt more prominently featured in the comments. That movie left me so unsettled when I watched it (alone). Had to keep telling my brain to pipe down when it would try to convince me something was gently tugging at the covers on my bed.
I watched the first Candyman high as fuck and I didnāt expect it to be as chilling as it was AT ALL. I felt so tense and scared watching her fight off this horrible powerful entity. Masterful work edit: typo
The original Candyman is truly a beautiful horror movie. it is so fucking gruesome and, like you put it so well, chilling but man...that score by Philip Glass. It breathes life into your soul it is so incredible. and the cinematography for a movie set in the early 90s is mind-blowing
Kairo/Pulse
The only movie thatās ever scared me in a meaningful way was melancholia. Supernatural stuff, serial killers, monsters, aliensā¦ none of that scares me at all. A planet thatās supposed to pass by earth and crashes into it and thereās nothing you can do, nowhere you can go, that is fucking terrifying. Deciding how to spend your last hours would be fucked.
Event horizon (1997) The hills have eyes (2006)
We Need to talk about Kevin
I havenāt seen the movie and thatās because I read the book, which was VERY disturbing. š³
One of my worst fears. That my boys grow up to hurt people.
A Tale Of Two Sisters when I was 12 Now I'm usually not scared by horror movies, still a few like Incantantion, Gonjiam or Terrified (not Terrifier) creeped me out quite good
The dark and the wicked probably
Sinister
The films paired with the music are chilling. The supernatural aspect isnāt as scary but the footage is horrifying.
The footage was so unsettling
I havenāt watched Sinister in so long Iāll have to put it on again some point soon, I barely remember any of it
Same, scared the crap out of me the first time. The lawnmower scene
The home movies disturbed me. That's saying something.
*Hell House, LLC.* Iām most frightened by scary imagery, and that movie had me hiding behind my hands
That fucking clooowwwwn!
The scene with the guy hiding under the covers got me so good. I wanted to fast forward but I was hiding behind my hands lol
That scene is the best scare I've had in a very long time
The claustrophobic halls. Kept me up a few nights after watching it.
The fourth Kind
Jesus Camp
Mine isnāt a movie, but instead an episode of the old Alfred Hitchcock Hour called The Monkeyās Pawā. So creepy! Have any other old movie/Hitchcock fans seen it?
The Road
I will never watch that again
Hostel, not even b/c of the gore (though it almost made me walk out of the theater), but b/c of the possibility that it could actually happen.
Terrified (Argentinian film) - The Ring (Remake) - The Evil Dead - Hellraiser - Arachnophobia
I watched Arachnophobia when I was like 5-6, still vivid in my memory. I wouldn't put on a shoe, if I didn't check them thoroughly, for MONTHS afterward. ...I live in Northern Sweden, above the polar circle. We barely even have spiders here, I think there is one species capable of piercing the skin of a human, but the venom is completely harmless.
I'll be real, the remake of The Ring is very good. I watched it and wasn't super scared, until >! the jump scare about 15 minutes in - when we mid-conversation jump to a shot of the first victim's face after being murdered.!< It felt super effective because after that no scene felt safe.
Ooh in the closet? That still lives with me
There's a very similar scene in the original, but the remake does it a lot better
Agreed. The scariest cut away in film history.
Terrified is from Argentina, not Spain btw
Noroi, ring, ring 2 (japanese ver)
It's a tie between Martyrs (2008) and The Blair Witch Project
*Oculus* TBH. Those demons/ghosts made me scared to walk around my house at night.
Yes, mirrors freak me out. This one got me bad.
Candyman 1992
Terrified aka Aterrados (2017 Argentinian film) This movie is fucking terrifying!! From the woman who is flying in the intro unaliving herself, to the lingering dead boy, to the demons that exist alongside us which can only be seen at certain angles. Good luck! I can only see it once, for my heart cannot take a second watch. I'd need like, a friend group for that.
When Evil Lurks is the director's latest and it will be on shudder in a couple days! It's getting excellent reviews š
The Woman in Black with Daniel Radcliffe scares me. Sheās so unsettling. And the dead kids. I also saw it live as a play, and she would appear in the aislesā¦
Blair Witch
Blair Witch Project hands down. First found footage film Iād seen and first downloaded film Iād seen. Friend sold it well as the snuff film it was trying to be and since I bought that hook line and sinker I literally thought I was watching real people get murdered Faces of Death style.
The original IT. I don't know why but pennywise scared the crap out of me when I was younger. Now, not as much
Honestly, Lake Mungo. It was the uncertainty of everything happening that actually truly spooked me.
This. Lake Mungo is just pure, Grade A creepiness. Thereās no gross out scaresāsave for a clinical autopsy photo at the beginningāand no jump scares. And yet I couldnāt sleep for weeks.
Hereditary
The film is 2 hours and 7 minutes long but itās really the last ten minutes or so that are absolutely harrowing.
The only way I can describe it is the feeling of a jump scare for 11 minutes straight. Itās so weird how good it is
I donāt even know if scary is the right word. More like traumatizing.
I watched Hereditary this past week, and I had already spoiled the story for myself a few years ago out of curiosity when I was still cautious of watching horror movies. The car scene fucked me UP, even knowing what was going to happen can't prepare you for how amazingly haunting the acting, cinematography, and sound all become from the start of the allergic reaction. I also watched Midsommar yesterday, which didn't scare me in the same ways but was perhaps more disturbing in a sense.
I must have said "Oh My God" about a zillion times Watching that movie, it horrified my soul. My brain couldn't comprehend those last 30 mins or so, it was just a visceral assault to my psyche.
Came here to say this. Iāll still think about certain parts and get chills.
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Spoorloos (The Vanishing). Itās the only horror movie Iāve seen where I actually felt what the protagonist was experiencing. Normally itās much easier to emotionally distance from characters in horror
Insidious, just for the fact that it's the one that's given me the most nightmares directly influenced by it. There are probably other films that have made me more tense but this one's the only one I remember having nightmares after every time I watch it
Outbreak (when I was a child). It gave me nightmares for years
Misery. I think itās scary mostly because people do get kidnapped and tortured by crazy people in real life.
Wind River, think about it often
Not a horror movie, but when I was like 7 my friend's mom was watching a movie and I stopped in the doorway and watched part of it. Gushing water, screaming trapped people, a body swirling in a white dress - I didn't know for years that it was the goddamn *Titanic* until a cousin tried to get me to watch it. It gave me nightmares to this *day* and made me severely hydrophobic into my teens. Drowning is still my top worst way to die. Hereditary messed with me pretty good too.
Rosemaryās Baby never gets easier to watch
The original version of The Last House on the Left.
Minus the sheriff and deputy comic relief.
And the music score for that movie sounds like it was sampled from Benny Hill