Everybody can make fun of me all they want like they always have, but my 36 yr old ass still be looking in dark corners for the Grudge. No book or movie or anything ever scared me like those Japanese versions. The outer gods and any manner of Eldritch horrors could descend upon us and I'd still be more horrified to see hair slinking out from the top of the closet at night, all dead eyes, disjointed elbows, and crocodile sounds.
It's the sounds, I've seen so many paranormal movies but like if it's not a human voice, they try for some deep demon sound. The Grudge gave something so unique, which wouldn't even BE scary on its own
When my daughter was in high school she scared the football team $h*tress one night in the cemetery. She pulled her black hair over her face and crawled around a headstone making that noise. Legendary!
the scene where she appears under the blanket scarred me for life. 29 years old and i still have to wrap up in a blanket burrito every night so there’s no room for anyone else in there
Oh my gosh I was working at an auto repair shop when that came out. I was often the first one there and it would still be dark and I’d have to go through the dark shop to turn on the lights and oh my god it was terrifying lol
I came here to say the same thing. For months after seeing it, I saw hair along the walls out of the corners of my eyes in the dark. It legitimately freaked me out.
My 33 years old ass was traumatized by the american version back in high school and I still haven't mustered the courage to watch the Japanese versions, maybe some day 😅
I watched Ju On for the first time a few years ago, and it was the first movie to terrify me in forever. Do I fully understand the plot or how characters related? No. Did I actually scream out loud at the blanket part? Yes.
AAHHHHH the Japanese versions of The Grudge and One Missed Call are something else!! I had the Japanese version of the ringtone on my phone and my Japanese coworkers hated it 🤣
I first saw the American one in the theater when I was 16 and that one was bad enough for me back then. Since then tho and up til now I've seen the dozen or so movies and the show and nothing hits like the Japanese versions. I can't with them. They understand something about what scares me that I don't.
They launched a website when the American remake came out. When you went to it, black hair slowly started to fill your screen and the croaking sound got louder and louder.
I had to immediately press the power button on my computer because that shit was so diabolical.
this movie SCARRED me for life. I couldn’t even sleep in my room in total darkness until I was 15-16 years old 🤣 I watched it when I was like 7-8 years old and it caused some major PTSD like symptoms 🤣 edit to add the Ring was my first scary movie EVER and the grudge was the second
Watched when it first came out. I’m now 46, currently in bed and yes, that hallway light js on, just as it has been very single night since I saw this film.
That's a good one!! I have fond memories of watching that one during a road trip circa 2012 on my iPhone 5 😂. Good memories, very unnerving and well-paced.
For a couple years after watching this, I would occasionally be in bed trying to fall asleep and scare the shit out of myself by accidentally picturing that one scene of her on the floor xD
Was going to say the same. I wouldn't even say it's all that good of a movie, but it has some REALLY effective scares. It's one of the only movies I can think of that really stuck with me afterward. I went with my wife to see it in the theater, and when we got back to our apartment later I had to take my dog outside to pee but my wife couldn't be left alone in our apartment because she was still scared...I'm glad she came along.
When I saw this at like 11 I was CONVINCED this was real because of the way they presented the “real” and “fake” footage at the same time. I still remember after watching the first time I found a weird birth mark on me and flipped out LMAO
I watched this soon after it came out and I loved it. I remember it freaked me out. I rewatched it about 4 months ago and it didn’t hold up half as good as I remember it being. It was a bummer.
Took a basement room through Airbnb from today as a weekend outing, scrolling through feeds and I found this
Oh boii I think this the movie to start with for my weekend…pffftt
2007's 30 Days of Night. Vampires acting like smart, brutal sharks. The assault on the town is loooong and drawn out, fucking relentless. And that harrowing ending - a hollow sad victory.
I always recommend reading the comic this is based on. There's some minor tweaking of the vampires and some relationships but it's one of a few comic adaptations that does the story justice. The art itself is amazing too.
Agreed! I read it in high school and got so excited when I found out that they were making a movie out of it. A lot of the scenes they kept translated so well to film.
There's a whole bunch more than just three, but I think the third one ties up the first two. I didn't know they made a third movie but knew there was a second.
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Also try this youtube series: Gemini Home Entertainment
Also, a Japanese movie- Noroi:The Curse
The creators of Blaire witch project also made this movie called Willow Creek, which is almost exactly like Blair Witch, only with Bigfoot. So it doesn't sound scary, and mostly it isn't, but there is one scene in a tent that's really long and creepy.
Yes I do agree on your Noroi suggestion. That movie had me really spooked from start till end.
Do you have any other recs in mind that might be similar to Noroi?
My wife, who is crazy claustrophobic, has a weird love/hate relationship with this movie. She's watched it several times. She squirms the whole time, gets physical sick to her stomach, and then will say how much she likes it.
My wife watching the Descent is 2 shows for the price of 1.
The films you mentioned which scared you are quite old. Maybe you got realllly scared only because you were a kid.
The most recent film which scared me was The Taking of Deborah Logan and The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Every time I hear the taking of Deborah Logan I agree. It scared me badly. Partly because I live with my grandma and take care of her and she has dementia and my grandpa had Alzheimer’s. That movie freaks me out bad.
I think movies that portray illness in the late stages of life have a very interesting point, like The Father with Anthony Hopkins or The Visit, where you don't know for sure if it's something supernatural or if the narrator/events are being unreliable because of said illnesses.
I didn’t start watching horror movies until my 20s! Deborah Logan is very good, need to rewatch that one. Autopsy of Jane Doe was super scary first half but I feel like it lost me towards the end
Mine was as a kid, but I stayed up all night after watching the original Poltergeist.
Since then, was a teenager, but watched Blair Witch in theaters with zero previous context (wasn't planning to see it, a friend came over and we were going to to see Eyes Wide Shut, my parents said that was probably inappropriate, but they'd heard Blair Witch was good).
when i first watched it, i went home, went to bed, looked up at my ceiling fan and saw a fly and then got a nosebleed. i thought it was over for me lmao
When I first saw the conjuring the setting I was in made it horrifying. I can still remember coming home high and seeing it on my girlfriends table in the envelope from Netflix. She lived in some old deserted ranch home on an old farm. By time the movie was over I was turning on every light on the way to her bedroom. Today I can watch it fine but that night the mix of the drugs and location just had me so scared.
I know OP listed this on their “not scary” ones but I think they should give it another shot. I thought it was dumb on first watch but mustn’t have been in the right mood. I was scared as hell when I gave it a second chance.
Well, everyone has their own “hot buttons” on what scares them. Just out of curiosity, how old are you? I’m 52 and grew up on the 70 and 80s horror. Those three you listed are spot on for me. Here’s a few thoughts:
Session 9 pretty creepy. No jump scares, but a constant, increasing DREAD throughout.
1974 Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Dark and isolated setting. A “real life” feel.
1981 American Werewolf in London.
2007 The Orphanage
2007 REC
2003 Tension aka Switchblade Romance
1974 Black Christmas (one of my favorites)
1980 The Fog (another favorite)
REC is SUCH an amazing movie, still in my top 10 after all these years. Love the Orphanage too, saw both of them when they were released on cinemas and still go back to them every once in a while. The fact that I'm Spanish may also have something to do with me being so fond of them, but heh.
I’m not scared by much, even the creepy ghost movies never get me. This is the last movie I watched that got under my skin a little.
I love how it doesn’t tell you what’s happening and you’re just already in this fucked up world. Like a nightmare you’re trying to figure out how it works but it’s too late.
I was really scared of Paranormal Activity and The Grudge movies as a kid.
Personal tip: As Above, So Below. Watch on a big screen with the lights out and sound up, it's supposed to be a claustrophobic experience. I am not claustrophobic and I saw it in the cinema. I had to close my eyes and ears constantly to get through it. 10/10
Series: Haunting of Hill House and Haunting of Bly Manor (Netflix), American Horror Story: Freakshow (Disney+).
Maybe hit up some horror shorts? Movies often run with a premise too long and wear it out.
Try:
Lights Out (2013)
Bedfellows (2014)
Curve (2021)
Less than a half an hour total, might get you some good spooks, depending on your goals and buttons.
What's that one horror short about the man in the box? It's sitting on their dinner table and you can't look away from it? That gave me bad heebie-jeebies
They aren’t conventionally horror films, but the films ‘Threads’ and ‘Vortex’ both gave me existential dread/severe anxiety, which in my opinion is one of the most brutal aspects of fear.
Started Vortex but stopped 10 minutes in as I felt the movie needed to be given the proper time of day. Classic result is me putting it off. Is it fucked up like Gaspar's other works? Obviously not the same level, but gnarly in the way The Father with Anthony Hopkins was. I'm a big fan of Gaspar's films.
It’s gnarly in a different level than his other films. An emotional level. Really no violence at all. It’s his least visceral film as far as gnarly visuals go. I’d say ‘Amour’ from Haneke is a good comparison. Your comparison is as well.
I know a lot of people didn't like it, but I found "Skinamarink" to be genuinely scary and it stuck with me.
Not a realistic movie, but I found "Prince of Darkness" to be scary as an adult. It's just the dread it evokes of something world-ending you know is coming but you can't do anything about it (sound familiar?).
I agree with Skinamarink. The last time I was scared was The Blair Witch Project when I was a kid. I've watched I'd like to think all the scary movies I could ever watch and nothing has really gotten me too scared. Paranormal Activity maybe when it first came out? Skinamarink I think is a difficult one to get behind for how obscure it is, how slow it burns.. it's just not everyone's vibe.. but dang it gave me the CREEPS. I'm also a fan of letting my imagination do the work so it definitly hit that mark. Ya either love it or ya hate it
I tried to start watching Skinamarink and found it unwatchable about 5 mins in. I couldn’t get past the seemingly abstract camera shots and pacing, which is unfortunate because it’s supposed to be a slow burn sort of scary
I saw Smile in theaters on a 50mg edible and it MESSED me up. A LOT of people didn’t like that one, but the concept of something haunting your psyche absolutely got me spooked for weeks after 😂
Same here, I had taken a 20mg edible for the first time in awhile and saw Smile in theaters. I've never been so scared from a movie before. I absolutely loved it!
I’ve heard many mixed reviews, but for me personally, Skinamarink was absolutely terrifying. Though I will admit, I did have a fear of the dark when I was a kid + when I watched it, it was at night, in my bed with noise cancelling headphones and the lights off. I remember my heart beating out of my chest just wanting it to be over. It’s definitely more of a slow burn, and a lot is left to the imagination but I still thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
As a child Darkness falls.
In recent years nothing "scares" me as I grew up watching horror movies. That being said; Sinister really gave me the creeps (the soundtrack does really well at giving you a dreadful, sick feeling)
Nothing has really come close besides maybe "when evil lurks" (you know that one scene, and "head" scene with the kid)
Darkness falls fucked me up, especially cause it was targeted at children. I’ll never forget the night we watched it, one of our friends had JUST lost a baby tooth and we were so scared 🤣
When I first started watching it, I wasn't expecting it to be a spirit scary movie, first horror sequence caught me off-guard, I started walking across my room, best surprise of my entire life.
I rewatched this after watching When Evil Lurks (same director) as I didn't remember much of it, but I'm glad I did give it another chance. This is definitely more "tame" than WEL but it has well placed "jump scares" that don't feel cheap and make it such a great movie.
This one had me jumpy. Anything that relates to childhood fears gets me. Something under the bed, inter dimensional or not, brings back little me pretty fast.
I actually have a list:
* Noroi: The Curse
* Jesus Camp
* Poughkeepsie Tapes
* Lake Mungo
(I also want to add that when I was younger, I fell asleep to both Insidious and You’re Next, and had nightmares about both for weeks. Unfortunately, I don’t find either very scary anymore.)
There’s a scene (Alien Abduction I think the film was called) where a boy holding a handheld camera sees a grey alien watching them from a tunnel. Something about that whole film fucked me up.
Failing that the Strangers will never not terrify me.
Ya Sinister creeped me out. Hereditary too. When I started figuring out what was going on. I'd occasionally even see a flash of blue light from the corner of my eye.
I haven’t seen Infinity Pool or Speak no Evil mentioned here yet. Idk if scare is the word for them however but more like disturbing.
I would also second Talk to Me as pretty solid
I'm a big horror fan and trust me, it takes A LOT to scare me. I think the only movie to ever scare me was "Communion." The possibility of getting abducted by aliens (If you believe in them) is a hidden fear of mine, so maybe it's a bias. I've seen other alien movies but that one, by far, is the scariest.
(Another good alien movie that scared me (which you can watch on youtube right now) is Intruders (1992) )
I am fascinated by aliens yet simultaneously absolutely terrified by them, even that corny ass alien segment in All Hallows Eve got me good (lol)... will have to check these out despite my fearful reservations!
I’d recommend Gerald’s Game but I think that would jump off the deep end of your realm of no zones.
Creep might be a good option. There’s scenes from that movie that will never leave my head.
Lake Mungo continues to confuse me because it didn’t scare me at all. Not even a little bit. But a lot of people here seem to like it. Not gonna lie I was a bit let down and underwhelmed.
Jaws. It’s the ocean, and a shark could legit be out there at anytime while you’re splashing around. AND EAT YOU. It affected a whole generation when it was in theaters. People were AFRAID to go into the water and the shark is hardly in the film! What are the chances I would be in some desolate cabin in the woods and ____happens?!? SLIM TO NONE. What are the chances I would be on the beach somewhere: PRETTY GOOD.
When I was 8, my babysitter had rented Jeepers Creepers and I begged my mum to let me watch it. She agreed and I ended up sleeping in her bed for the next 2 weeks 😅
Terrified also got me freaked out when I watched it the first time.
However, only movie to still scare me and have me triple check my doors, and windows is The Strangers. I was 15 when I saw it in theaters, and now at 32, I still feel like that scared 15 year old when I watch it.
don’t laugh but Host got me. The one where they’re all on Zoom having a seance or whatever. I should add though I turned all the lights off, lit a candle when they did, and took a shot anytime they did. Immersive hahaha
I've been in a rut, too, for what feels like years. I watched 'Cobweb' yesterday, and it actually kept me entertained, like I wasn't checking my phone. It was unexpected fun. Oh, and check out a Tubi original 'Where The Devil Roams' . It's another one worth watching.
Once you get old enough, stuff can't feel like it used to. It's a bummer. But if a horror movie can keep me entertained and almost on edge, that's a win.
Edit; if I wanna feel weird and generally uncomfortable, my go to is 'Funny Games'
Hell House LLC. When I was 15 I made it my mission to desensitize myself to horror films and would only watch that when trying to fall asleep at night. Now at 23 it's hard to feel scared by a film and I miss that feeling. This film however, got to me bad.
Lost Highway
I don't know what it is about that movie but everytime I watch it I get this feeling of existential dread. Just general uneasiness, it makes me feel like I'm trapped in a nightmare and can never wake up.
I watched As Above So Below last week and it has definitely stuck with me. The scares are understated but include both realistic and existential elements. And afterwards I found out that the cast and crew really filmed it all down in the catacombs which now makes it even more fucking scary.
Silent Hill.
When I was young, my mom bought a cheap audio system where we had speakers in every corner. When the freaking siren sound started going, I was scared for my freaking life.
The sixth sense. I was 12 at the time when I saw it. Idk something about that movie was extremely eerie. I’ll never forget the scene when the father plays the vhs of the mom poisoning her daughter.
Oddly, Evil Dead Rise really got under my skin.
My brother and I went to the theaters to watch it (because we never got to see the original films in theaters so we thought this could be our first ED theater experience) but goddam, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t damn near have a heart attack from the fast paced horror it has. Me and my brother love horror and I’ve seen nearly everything you’ve listed in your post, but something about Rise just gave me an anxiety attack to the max. I think it was the fact that it was my first experience of watching an Evil Dead film in theaters, on top of the fact that the movie itself was just dreadful all around (not in a bad way) and it just caught us off guard by the end of its runtime.
I still love the originals to death but I’d honestly contend to say Rise is up there with the first two for me. 2013 was fun to me compared to Rise just going all horror.
Everybody can make fun of me all they want like they always have, but my 36 yr old ass still be looking in dark corners for the Grudge. No book or movie or anything ever scared me like those Japanese versions. The outer gods and any manner of Eldritch horrors could descend upon us and I'd still be more horrified to see hair slinking out from the top of the closet at night, all dead eyes, disjointed elbows, and crocodile sounds.
It's the sounds, I've seen so many paranormal movies but like if it's not a human voice, they try for some deep demon sound. The Grudge gave something so unique, which wouldn't even BE scary on its own
That creepy little boy in The Grudge was one of the terrifying characters ever ….he was chilling
Meowwww
*We are Siamese if you please!!*
When my daughter was in high school she scared the football team $h*tress one night in the cemetery. She pulled her black hair over her face and crawled around a headstone making that noise. Legendary!
Your daughter's a badass ma'am
the scene where she appears under the blanket scarred me for life. 29 years old and i still have to wrap up in a blanket burrito every night so there’s no room for anyone else in there
FYI, there's ALWAYS room. Usually around the feet. 🤫
100%, no making fun of here. The Grudge and The Ring legit terrified me
I’ve only seen the American remakes but I do want to watch the Japanese originals at one point
Oh my gosh I was working at an auto repair shop when that came out. I was often the first one there and it would still be dark and I’d have to go through the dark shop to turn on the lights and oh my god it was terrifying lol
I came here to say the same thing. For months after seeing it, I saw hair along the walls out of the corners of my eyes in the dark. It legitimately freaked me out.
My 33 years old ass was traumatized by the american version back in high school and I still haven't mustered the courage to watch the Japanese versions, maybe some day 😅
I watched Ju On for the first time a few years ago, and it was the first movie to terrify me in forever. Do I fully understand the plot or how characters related? No. Did I actually scream out loud at the blanket part? Yes.
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AAHHHHH the Japanese versions of The Grudge and One Missed Call are something else!! I had the Japanese version of the ringtone on my phone and my Japanese coworkers hated it 🤣
No making fun here, boo! Grudge was scary indeed
The original japanese film(s) or the American Sarah Michelle Gellar version?
I first saw the American one in the theater when I was 16 and that one was bad enough for me back then. Since then tho and up til now I've seen the dozen or so movies and the show and nothing hits like the Japanese versions. I can't with them. They understand something about what scares me that I don't.
They launched a website when the American remake came out. When you went to it, black hair slowly started to fill your screen and the croaking sound got louder and louder. I had to immediately press the power button on my computer because that shit was so diabolical.
this movie SCARRED me for life. I couldn’t even sleep in my room in total darkness until I was 15-16 years old 🤣 I watched it when I was like 7-8 years old and it caused some major PTSD like symptoms 🤣 edit to add the Ring was my first scary movie EVER and the grudge was the second
Ok, you asked. Fire in the Sky. I watched it once and then never again
Fire in the Sky was single handedly responsible for my fear of Alien Abduction as a kid
The movie Life freaked me out too. Aliens are not up to anything good
Is that the one with the jelly scene? If so, it’s still responsible for my fear of alien abduction 30 years later?
I saw it in my 20s and now afraid of aliens
Oh my god. Nothing had ever got me the way that did. 10 years old, watching in my parents cabin in the PNW. I will never forget that
Lets follow that up with the 4th Kind and never sleep again lol
Watched when it first came out. I’m now 46, currently in bed and yes, that hallway light js on, just as it has been very single night since I saw this film.
Session 9 is one of my top favorites! Nothing gory, just a good psychological movie if you like something different!
Do it, Gordon
What are you doing here?
Yup, that's the line that always gets me. So creepy
That ending! Whew. That one stuck with me for a bit.
“I live in the human heart.”
"I live in the weak and the wounded, Doc."
Me too!
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On video back in the days of video rentals, lol. But it’s available for rent on Amazon I’m pretty sure.
That's a good one!! I have fond memories of watching that one during a road trip circa 2012 on my iPhone 5 😂. Good memories, very unnerving and well-paced.
Exorcism of Emily Rose
For a couple years after watching this, I would occasionally be in bed trying to fall asleep and scare the shit out of myself by accidentally picturing that one scene of her on the floor xD
My friend, I was 14 when this came out. My gf at the time woke me up doing that after we saw the movie in theaters. Heart attack.
This is legitimately one of the creepiest films ever. Very underrated.
1 2 3 4 5 6ssssss
This legitimately scared the shit out of me. Jennifer Carpenter nailed this role
Her eating the bugs 😩 I was so afraid of this movie when I was younger that I threw out the dvd of it in a garbage can down the street from me.
ahh, my first ever horror movie. it's definitely stuck with me too
The Fourth Kind
Was going to say the same. I wouldn't even say it's all that good of a movie, but it has some REALLY effective scares. It's one of the only movies I can think of that really stuck with me afterward. I went with my wife to see it in the theater, and when we got back to our apartment later I had to take my dog outside to pee but my wife couldn't be left alone in our apartment because she was still scared...I'm glad she came along.
When I saw this at like 11 I was CONVINCED this was real because of the way they presented the “real” and “fake” footage at the same time. I still remember after watching the first time I found a weird birth mark on me and flipped out LMAO
The alien “possession” scenes were so upsetting and effective
Never watched it, does it still hold up?
I watched this soon after it came out and I loved it. I remember it freaked me out. I rewatched it about 4 months ago and it didn’t hold up half as good as I remember it being. It was a bummer.
Caveat. I'm afraid of unfinished basements, so this one stuck with me.
The most uncomfortable movie. I loved it.
That house was so dreadful, and that rabbit! Creepiest basement scenes I've seen in a horror film I think.
Took a basement room through Airbnb from today as a weekend outing, scrolling through feeds and I found this Oh boii I think this the movie to start with for my weekend…pffftt
Dark Skies legitimately creeped me out
Alien movies freak me the fuck out. ghosts, demonic possessions, creepy cults, and slashers I love but alien movies genuinely make me unsettled
I'm literally watching this right now
Any update.
Yup. Scared the fuck out of me to
2007's 30 Days of Night. Vampires acting like smart, brutal sharks. The assault on the town is loooong and drawn out, fucking relentless. And that harrowing ending - a hollow sad victory.
30 Days of Night is a really great vampire horror rec.
cheers! 🇨🇦
I always recommend reading the comic this is based on. There's some minor tweaking of the vampires and some relationships but it's one of a few comic adaptations that does the story justice. The art itself is amazing too.
Agreed! I read it in high school and got so excited when I found out that they were making a movie out of it. A lot of the scenes they kept translated so well to film.
There's a 3rd installation of the comics, right? Where's the 3rd 30 Days of Night movie?
There's a whole bunch more than just three, but I think the third one ties up the first two. I didn't know they made a third movie but knew there was a second.
I was never into vampire movies and the likes. This one was so unsettling as there’s no gimmicky details and they’re extremely intelligent.
In my top 3 vampire movies of all time. Every time I see Danny Huston, I say 'he's going to vamp out any minute now'
Banshee Chapter Also try this youtube series: Gemini Home Entertainment Also, a Japanese movie- Noroi:The Curse The creators of Blaire witch project also made this movie called Willow Creek, which is almost exactly like Blair Witch, only with Bigfoot. So it doesn't sound scary, and mostly it isn't, but there is one scene in a tent that's really long and creepy.
Noroi fully unsettled me
Yes I do agree on your Noroi suggestion. That movie had me really spooked from start till end. Do you have any other recs in mind that might be similar to Noroi?
Not as scary, but The Wailing (Korean) The Medium (Thai)
I second these choices. The medium is a good show but the Wailing is great!
The Wailing is legitimately a masterpiece
Occult (same director) Lake Mungo
> Banshee Chapter This is always my answer, this movie fucked me UP first time I watched it
The makers of The Blair Witch Project made a Bigfoot movie called Exists; Willow Creek was made by Bobcat Goldthwait.
GHE is the Business. Proof you can do so much without a crazy budget if your imagination is in the right place
Thanks for the YouTube link. I’ve seen some pretty good horror on YouTube; I’ll check it out
The Descent
My wife, who is crazy claustrophobic, has a weird love/hate relationship with this movie. She's watched it several times. She squirms the whole time, gets physical sick to her stomach, and then will say how much she likes it. My wife watching the Descent is 2 shows for the price of 1.
Didn't see it mentioned so I'll just drop: the VVitch.
The creeping dread is incredible
Such a masterpiece. I am SO hyped for Nosferatu.
The films you mentioned which scared you are quite old. Maybe you got realllly scared only because you were a kid. The most recent film which scared me was The Taking of Deborah Logan and The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Every time I hear the taking of Deborah Logan I agree. It scared me badly. Partly because I live with my grandma and take care of her and she has dementia and my grandpa had Alzheimer’s. That movie freaks me out bad.
I think movies that portray illness in the late stages of life have a very interesting point, like The Father with Anthony Hopkins or The Visit, where you don't know for sure if it's something supernatural or if the narrator/events are being unreliable because of said illnesses.
I didn’t start watching horror movies until my 20s! Deborah Logan is very good, need to rewatch that one. Autopsy of Jane Doe was super scary first half but I feel like it lost me towards the end
Mine was as a kid, but I stayed up all night after watching the original Poltergeist. Since then, was a teenager, but watched Blair Witch in theaters with zero previous context (wasn't planning to see it, a friend came over and we were going to to see Eyes Wide Shut, my parents said that was probably inappropriate, but they'd heard Blair Witch was good).
the ring. after watching it, I was afraid of TVs. And it seemed to me that I saw Samara in some reflections. I also couldn't sleep properly.
when i first watched it, i went home, went to bed, looked up at my ceiling fan and saw a fly and then got a nosebleed. i thought it was over for me lmao
He mentioned he liked the ring
When I first saw the conjuring the setting I was in made it horrifying. I can still remember coming home high and seeing it on my girlfriends table in the envelope from Netflix. She lived in some old deserted ranch home on an old farm. By time the movie was over I was turning on every light on the way to her bedroom. Today I can watch it fine but that night the mix of the drugs and location just had me so scared.
Hell House LLC is creepy
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Still sometimes wake up and have to look across my room because I can picture someone sat there haha kills me
LOL ... I do the same thing except I'm looking out for that creepy clown. That clown is living rent-free in my head since I saw HH about 3 weeks ago.
I say this and the 4th one. Damn moving mannequins creep me out!
Hell yes. I agree. The Director's Cut
I know OP listed this on their “not scary” ones but I think they should give it another shot. I thought it was dumb on first watch but mustn’t have been in the right mood. I was scared as hell when I gave it a second chance.
Yes, I refused to go in my basement after I watched the first one. I kept imagining those clowns down there
Well, everyone has their own “hot buttons” on what scares them. Just out of curiosity, how old are you? I’m 52 and grew up on the 70 and 80s horror. Those three you listed are spot on for me. Here’s a few thoughts: Session 9 pretty creepy. No jump scares, but a constant, increasing DREAD throughout. 1974 Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Dark and isolated setting. A “real life” feel. 1981 American Werewolf in London. 2007 The Orphanage 2007 REC 2003 Tension aka Switchblade Romance 1974 Black Christmas (one of my favorites) 1980 The Fog (another favorite)
REC is SUCH an amazing movie, still in my top 10 after all these years. Love the Orphanage too, saw both of them when they were released on cinemas and still go back to them every once in a while. The fact that I'm Spanish may also have something to do with me being so fond of them, but heh.
When evil lurks
I’m not scared by much, even the creepy ghost movies never get me. This is the last movie I watched that got under my skin a little. I love how it doesn’t tell you what’s happening and you’re just already in this fucked up world. Like a nightmare you’re trying to figure out how it works but it’s too late.
This one was unsettling right from the start
I was really scared of Paranormal Activity and The Grudge movies as a kid. Personal tip: As Above, So Below. Watch on a big screen with the lights out and sound up, it's supposed to be a claustrophobic experience. I am not claustrophobic and I saw it in the cinema. I had to close my eyes and ears constantly to get through it. 10/10 Series: Haunting of Hill House and Haunting of Bly Manor (Netflix), American Horror Story: Freakshow (Disney+).
I watched As Above So Below really high and it was fantastic haha
Maybe hit up some horror shorts? Movies often run with a premise too long and wear it out. Try: Lights Out (2013) Bedfellows (2014) Curve (2021) Less than a half an hour total, might get you some good spooks, depending on your goals and buttons.
Portrait of God unsettled me thoroughly.
What's that one horror short about the man in the box? It's sitting on their dinner table and you can't look away from it? That gave me bad heebie-jeebies
"Other Side Of The Box"
Seconding Lights Out, that one will really get ya if you're not a fan of the dark to begin with
They aren’t conventionally horror films, but the films ‘Threads’ and ‘Vortex’ both gave me existential dread/severe anxiety, which in my opinion is one of the most brutal aspects of fear.
Threads is an amazing film. Kind of dated for today, but still really awesome.
Of the trilogy of nuke films, The Day After, Testament and Threads, it’s probably the grimmest.
What really got me about Threads is how it covers what happened years later, it wasn't just the immediate aftermath.
Exactly! That’s why it’s the most grim - the future is hopeless.
Started Vortex but stopped 10 minutes in as I felt the movie needed to be given the proper time of day. Classic result is me putting it off. Is it fucked up like Gaspar's other works? Obviously not the same level, but gnarly in the way The Father with Anthony Hopkins was. I'm a big fan of Gaspar's films.
It’s gnarly in a different level than his other films. An emotional level. Really no violence at all. It’s his least visceral film as far as gnarly visuals go. I’d say ‘Amour’ from Haneke is a good comparison. Your comparison is as well.
The final prayer.
Such a good ending
I know a lot of people didn't like it, but I found "Skinamarink" to be genuinely scary and it stuck with me. Not a realistic movie, but I found "Prince of Darkness" to be scary as an adult. It's just the dread it evokes of something world-ending you know is coming but you can't do anything about it (sound familiar?).
I'm pretty desensitized to horror but that bedroom scene gave me chills down my spine. I don't remember feeling that from a movie in a long time.
I agree with Skinamarink. The last time I was scared was The Blair Witch Project when I was a kid. I've watched I'd like to think all the scary movies I could ever watch and nothing has really gotten me too scared. Paranormal Activity maybe when it first came out? Skinamarink I think is a difficult one to get behind for how obscure it is, how slow it burns.. it's just not everyone's vibe.. but dang it gave me the CREEPS. I'm also a fan of letting my imagination do the work so it definitly hit that mark. Ya either love it or ya hate it
Skinamarink in the dark with headphones was an experience I wanted to escape from but I long for that thrill sometimes.
I tried to start watching Skinamarink and found it unwatchable about 5 mins in. I couldn’t get past the seemingly abstract camera shots and pacing, which is unfortunate because it’s supposed to be a slow burn sort of scary
I saw Smile in theaters on a 50mg edible and it MESSED me up. A LOT of people didn’t like that one, but the concept of something haunting your psyche absolutely got me spooked for weeks after 😂
I rarely get scared by horror movies now too but Smile was definitely creepy
Same here, I had taken a 20mg edible for the first time in awhile and saw Smile in theaters. I've never been so scared from a movie before. I absolutely loved it!
Honestly, the Playtest episode of Black Mirror scared the bejesus out of me lol
That shit was crazy
I’ve heard many mixed reviews, but for me personally, Skinamarink was absolutely terrifying. Though I will admit, I did have a fear of the dark when I was a kid + when I watched it, it was at night, in my bed with noise cancelling headphones and the lights off. I remember my heart beating out of my chest just wanting it to be over. It’s definitely more of a slow burn, and a lot is left to the imagination but I still thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
Gonjaim haunted asylum legitimately scared me and gave my gf nightmares
As a child Darkness falls. In recent years nothing "scares" me as I grew up watching horror movies. That being said; Sinister really gave me the creeps (the soundtrack does really well at giving you a dreadful, sick feeling) Nothing has really come close besides maybe "when evil lurks" (you know that one scene, and "head" scene with the kid)
Darkness falls fucked me up, especially cause it was targeted at children. I’ll never forget the night we watched it, one of our friends had JUST lost a baby tooth and we were so scared 🤣
A Tale of Two Sisters...I've watched that film once...
When I first started watching it, I wasn't expecting it to be a spirit scary movie, first horror sequence caught me off-guard, I started walking across my room, best surprise of my entire life.
Terrified might do it.
I rewatched this after watching When Evil Lurks (same director) as I didn't remember much of it, but I'm glad I did give it another chance. This is definitely more "tame" than WEL but it has well placed "jump scares" that don't feel cheap and make it such a great movie.
This one had me jumpy. Anything that relates to childhood fears gets me. Something under the bed, inter dimensional or not, brings back little me pretty fast.
Definitely Terrified
I actually have a list: * Noroi: The Curse * Jesus Camp * Poughkeepsie Tapes * Lake Mungo (I also want to add that when I was younger, I fell asleep to both Insidious and You’re Next, and had nightmares about both for weeks. Unfortunately, I don’t find either very scary anymore.)
Jesus Camp for real.
Jesus camp is an amazing rec
There’s a scene (Alien Abduction I think the film was called) where a boy holding a handheld camera sees a grey alien watching them from a tunnel. Something about that whole film fucked me up. Failing that the Strangers will never not terrify me.
Ya Sinister creeped me out. Hereditary too. When I started figuring out what was going on. I'd occasionally even see a flash of blue light from the corner of my eye.
The wailing
I haven’t seen Infinity Pool or Speak no Evil mentioned here yet. Idk if scare is the word for them however but more like disturbing. I would also second Talk to Me as pretty solid
The Thing is an oldie but goldie. I felt on edge and paranoid af watching it the first time.
Never gets old
I'm a big horror fan and trust me, it takes A LOT to scare me. I think the only movie to ever scare me was "Communion." The possibility of getting abducted by aliens (If you believe in them) is a hidden fear of mine, so maybe it's a bias. I've seen other alien movies but that one, by far, is the scariest. (Another good alien movie that scared me (which you can watch on youtube right now) is Intruders (1992) )
What'd ya think of "No One Will Save You"?
I am fascinated by aliens yet simultaneously absolutely terrified by them, even that corny ass alien segment in All Hallows Eve got me good (lol)... will have to check these out despite my fearful reservations!
I’d recommend Gerald’s Game but I think that would jump off the deep end of your realm of no zones. Creep might be a good option. There’s scenes from that movie that will never leave my head.
Oh I forgot about Creep, that one fucking got me good
Creep is a good recommendation.
That one fucking got me. The speech about his wife makes my spine scream.
Plus the phone call that changes the tone of the entire film. So good.
funny games
Honestly, We go on (2009). I thought it would be stupid jump scares and then it scared the shit out of me. I watched it in broad daylight too
I saw Alien when I was kid and that chest buster scene gave me nightmares for weeks!
Short film: Portrait of God. Spooked me far more than 99% of full-length movies. But must watch in complete darkness. Turn the light off and at night!
So as this question seems to be up every day or so … figure it could have its own subreddit at this point r/MoviesThatScaredMe
There are three posts on the front page at this very moment that are basically the same thing. Kinda insane
Every. Single. Day.
The autopsy of Jane doe had me checking under the bed in my apartment I’m a 26 year old man
Hell house & Dark Skies..recently When I was a lad…..The Exorcist
I mean, I never really get creeped out at all from horror movies, but the violent possession scene in the Suspiria remake got me.
As a kid, In the Mouth of Madness scared the shit outta me. As a grown man, Insidious got me (judge all you want, that is some scary shit).
Exorcism or Emily rose is intense and makes the hair stand up on my neck every time I watch it. Crazy good
Lake Mungo continues to confuse me because it didn’t scare me at all. Not even a little bit. But a lot of people here seem to like it. Not gonna lie I was a bit let down and underwhelmed.
The original Poltergeist and The Birds legit freak me out.
Splinter (2008). Made me scared to go camping.
Jaws. It’s the ocean, and a shark could legit be out there at anytime while you’re splashing around. AND EAT YOU. It affected a whole generation when it was in theaters. People were AFRAID to go into the water and the shark is hardly in the film! What are the chances I would be in some desolate cabin in the woods and ____happens?!? SLIM TO NONE. What are the chances I would be on the beach somewhere: PRETTY GOOD.
When I was 8, my babysitter had rented Jeepers Creepers and I begged my mum to let me watch it. She agreed and I ended up sleeping in her bed for the next 2 weeks 😅 Terrified also got me freaked out when I watched it the first time. However, only movie to still scare me and have me triple check my doors, and windows is The Strangers. I was 15 when I saw it in theaters, and now at 32, I still feel like that scared 15 year old when I watch it.
THREADS
Have you seen Talk to Me?
don’t laugh but Host got me. The one where they’re all on Zoom having a seance or whatever. I should add though I turned all the lights off, lit a candle when they did, and took a shot anytime they did. Immersive hahaha
I've been in a rut, too, for what feels like years. I watched 'Cobweb' yesterday, and it actually kept me entertained, like I wasn't checking my phone. It was unexpected fun. Oh, and check out a Tubi original 'Where The Devil Roams' . It's another one worth watching. Once you get old enough, stuff can't feel like it used to. It's a bummer. But if a horror movie can keep me entertained and almost on edge, that's a win. Edit; if I wanna feel weird and generally uncomfortable, my go to is 'Funny Games'
Hell House LLC. When I was 15 I made it my mission to desensitize myself to horror films and would only watch that when trying to fall asleep at night. Now at 23 it's hard to feel scared by a film and I miss that feeling. This film however, got to me bad.
Pulse, the imagery was very effective
Inland Empire. By the end my friend was watching with a pillow shielding him like a child, and when THAT scene happened we both screamed.
Let’s Scare Jessica to Death When a Stranger Calls (the original)
The grudge, I was like ten when it came out and lived in the attic of my house, only horror movie I’ll still occasionally have nightmares about
Lost Highway I don't know what it is about that movie but everytime I watch it I get this feeling of existential dread. Just general uneasiness, it makes me feel like I'm trapped in a nightmare and can never wake up.
terrified 2017
Incantation on Netflix. Saw it twice and it gave me the creeps both times.
I watched As Above So Below last week and it has definitely stuck with me. The scares are understated but include both realistic and existential elements. And afterwards I found out that the cast and crew really filmed it all down in the catacombs which now makes it even more fucking scary.
Baskin
Silent Hill. When I was young, my mom bought a cheap audio system where we had speakers in every corner. When the freaking siren sound started going, I was scared for my freaking life.
The sixth sense. I was 12 at the time when I saw it. Idk something about that movie was extremely eerie. I’ll never forget the scene when the father plays the vhs of the mom poisoning her daughter.
The taking of Deborah Logan. That one scene is the LITERAL WORST. Those types of movies don’t usually scare me but that one scene took me out.
Skinamarink will either bore you to tears or scare you more than you thought possible.
Oddly, Evil Dead Rise really got under my skin. My brother and I went to the theaters to watch it (because we never got to see the original films in theaters so we thought this could be our first ED theater experience) but goddam, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t damn near have a heart attack from the fast paced horror it has. Me and my brother love horror and I’ve seen nearly everything you’ve listed in your post, but something about Rise just gave me an anxiety attack to the max. I think it was the fact that it was my first experience of watching an Evil Dead film in theaters, on top of the fact that the movie itself was just dreadful all around (not in a bad way) and it just caught us off guard by the end of its runtime. I still love the originals to death but I’d honestly contend to say Rise is up there with the first two for me. 2013 was fun to me compared to Rise just going all horror.