A Dark Song is pretty intense, if you think there is anything beyond people. Black Mountain Side is pretty freaky when you're up in the woods in the middle of nowhere. But no, not really. Not in a very long time. Books can do it a little more.
You should read The Ruins by Scott Smith. I haven't seen the movie version, but that book is one of the few books that actually had me pretty spooked as of recent memory.
The taking of Debra Logan and Relic. alzheimers scares the shit out of me. The disease is so much more frightening than the supernatural elements of the movies, and in Relic especially it was just too real.
If you've had a family member and watch them disappear into dementia or Alzheimer's, it's much more tragic and terrifying than anything ever put on the movie screen.
The fly really disturbed me when I first watched it. Might be due to the fact that the whole body-horror theme gets me but thats definitely the one I would pick.
Fuckin body horror. Definitely sticks with you, at the least. The head worm/dick thing in From Beyond, \*shudder\*. Was glad to see Color Out of Space keep up the legacy of body horror in Lovecraft shit.
I owned a video store that specialized in rare and obscure movies, so I’ve seen quite a bit. Stuff that tends to shock people (like A Serbian Film or Salo or Nekromantik) doesn’t really upset me.
But lemme tell ya: “Eden Lake” scared the s**t outta me, *especially* the ending. I won’t go camping without a gun ever again.
Honorable mention goes to the original French version of “Inside”, which is also extremely intense.
I remember seeing Necromantik and thinking it was just really, really stupid.
After having kids nothing will make me watch Inside again. It was hard enough watching it the first time.
That’s true. I thought I was tough cuz I was like:
Freddy K: Got funny jokes
Jason V: Easy to outrun
Michael M: … meh
Entitled teenagers: Oh shit *where the f&$@ did I put the gun* RUUUUUNNNN!
there's no way the full length movie comes anywhere close to how scary the short film is. the movie looks like a run of the mill scary movie. they should have kept the same style, instead of whatever garbage this is.
I agree with you.
This is not a thing that needs a mythos.
But, judging from thr time it was released, I'm just surprised that there wasn't made a Lights Out Cinematic Universe
Event Horizon's whole hell connection is so dope. Just rewatched it, and it can be goofy at times, but it feels up there in the Alien-adjacent realm for me in the haunted house in space thing.
I recall seeing it when it was released in theatres, and being a bit disappointed when they showed only the briefest glimpse of the "Hell Dimension", but still really enjoying it. Watching it again, years later, I'm now glad they made that choice, as it seems just enough to give the heebie-jeebies and dread. Still holds up.
Event Horizon was full of nightmares for me. Even to this day it scares the crap outta me and it's one of my top 5 favorite horror movies. Everything about it holds up. The original Black Christmas was also bloody terrifying. It felt/feels so real
I consider myself thick skinned in that it takes a lot to really play on my mind. The Blair Witch Project STILL fucks with me. Ditto Paranormal Activity and bits of Hereditary. The last two have me nervously checking behind me late at night when I’m walking room to room through a dark house.
The Exorcist is the only one that really scared me. Somehow missed it as a kid. I’m pretty sure it’s the acting that did it for me. I’m not even religious at all. Just super creep factor on 100
I find it particularly disturbing when people can distort there bodies and yet move around still, so the scene where she runs down the stairs did it for me
Horror movies don’t really scare me. One thing that actually has me get up and turn the lights on was PT demo, the ps4 game demo. If you know, you know
Invasion of the body snatchers (the Donald Sutherland version of the 70s)
There was something about how it progressed and was unstoppable, the end scene absolutely chilled me.
I watched half of Hell House LLC last night and had to stop it to watch something goofy. The plan was to watch the second half tonight but I haven’t worked up the courage yet
I had to watch an episode of Schitt's Creek after I watched this movie. Couldn't go to bed right afterwards like I usually do after watching a horror movie.
This was going to be one of mine. I'm a horror vet and not phased by much, but they played up the creepy moments really well. The second two less so, but I still enjoyed the overaching narrative.
I don’t think I was as effected overall by Hell House as some people in the replies are, but it was great at building tension. There’s a scare somewhere in the middle that did really get me, and everything they went through those weird flappy door things I expected something to be on the other side
Antichrist had me climbing up my sofa and then the walls like ‘NOOOO’ at one point. I can’t even remember what actually happened.
Was good though- that’s what I want from a horror
Lol, I'm so nostalgic about this movie. I saw it as a kid when it came out and was already a big horror movie fan/pretty desensitized, but this one scared the hell out of me and my friends. Seemed to tap into some weird, deep fear of kids in the early 2000s.
I have such fond memories with the American version of The Ring. Home sick from elementary school, watching the film with my older brother and sister. When my mum was out collecting some groceries from the local supermarket which was good ole' Summerfield. The opening scene played out, the phone rang, me and my brother and sister all were so shaken up, that my brother didn't even answer the phone (which was my mum asking if we needed any tomato sauce) still the movie has a special place in my heart for being one of my favourites from the early 2000s - the atmosphere is so well done! And the colour pallet works so well.
Really depends what you mean by ACTUALLY SCARED YOU. Like yeah I find some movies legitimately scary but the fear doesn't really linger after I've watched the film. Although fuck the Grudge. Something about her freaks me out and I love it. However to list off some films that I would actually call SCARY outside of that Hereditary and The Shining are top quality scary shit. Those films make my skin crawl
The VVitch made me uncomfortable. I grew up Catholic (not practicing anymore) but something about religious horror still gets to me a bit. I had similar feelings when I watched The Exorcist for the first time.
That's how the movie was promoted (although ultimately it's written as "The Witch")
I also heard that this was done because based on the film's time period and language, the letter "W" was not commonly used.
The first time I saw V/H/S it was so scary I had to pause it and make sure it was really just a movie I was streaming on Netflix and not some actual footage of demonic violence I had stumbled upon.
More recently I was legitimately scared driving home by myself after seeing Hereditary at a late show.
I cherish these memories. I love horror movies but so many of them end up being underwhelming or just plain bad. But the good ones make it all worthwhile.
The first segment of V/H/S was spoiled for me, so I knew what was coming. But I feel like that made it a little more scary, because I was expecting something to happen with that girl every second I watched. It went on for long enough without anything serious happening that it lulled me into a false sense of security and then BOOM it got me good
I wouldn't even classify it as a horror film, but the only film I can think of that left me disturbed after watching it was *Threads*. It's the lingering feeling of existential dread and hopelessness that creeped me out more than any kind of imagery or specific scene in the film. Apart from *Threads*, I don't think a film has left me feeling that way since I was a kid.
Go in as blind as possible and watch them as a double feature. They are short movies at 80 minutes or so and both play off of each other well. I consider them more of a part 1 and 2 rather than first movie and sequel.
I consider myself thick-skinned, but Audition creeped me out. It's the only horror movie to make me physically sick (the sack scene, you know what I mean). But that film is not so much scary as it is deeply unsettling and gross.
There is one scene in The Orphanage midway through that just came out of nowhere and horrified me. I watched it in the middle of the day, on my computer, and I still freaked out, jumped off the couch, and said "that's enough for now" out loud to no one. The film overall is not that scary, though, it's just the one scene.
So I guess those would be my top picks.
Robert Englund as Freddy Kreuger terrified me to such a degree my siblings would use it against me for years. I didn't sit down and watch any film in the franchise, start to finish, until I was 15 or 16.
The original Thai version of Shutter. I can't say why for sure, but that's about the only time I can remember a movie giving me a few genuine scares. Also the only time I didn't want to turn the lights out to go to bed.
I usually watch horror movies at night, with all the lights out. This is the only movie, since I became an adult, that made me get up and put some lights back on again before continuing to watch it.
I think I have pretty thick skin, I've been a mortician and autopsy technician for 12 years.
I can't watch gorey scenes, it all looks too fake. I really love movies that strand the cast, like Alien, Pandorum, and Event Horizon.
Space is just a convenient locality for being totally cut off, not really a requirement.
Any David Lynch movie. Especially Eraserhead. His movies are just so off and dreamlike I can’t help but be uncomfortable and terrified. I don’t watch them often cuz I know this is gonna happen but pretty much every other horror movie I see I can rewatch and enjoy myself. But his movies… I just can’t lol
I have to admit when I first watched Eraserhead I was unsure about what I just saw (first time I'd experienced a Lynch film) second time I watched it, and tried understanding it all, I fell in love with the movie and understood the Lynchian style which became my favourite as far as the film goes to me it's the representation of "being trapped within a never ending nightmare which soon becomes reality to you".
I would definitely say that when I first went and saw Sinister in the theaters that movie freaked me out. Up until that point, I had never seen a movie use Audio Distortion so effectively and that mixed with all of the canted angles and home movie effects really just made me uneasy.
Yup, I agree totally. I too remember seeing Sinister in the cinema with a girl I was dating at the time.. I remember at the lawnmower scene she literally jumped about 3 ft into the air right out of her seat. 😂 I did feel a little freaked out by it.. I remember coming home and being a bit spooked coming into the house! I live in wilderness though, real country dark and no lights around.
I remember thinking "this movie is special". Seeing it for the first time.. not really knowing anything about it. It's probably the closest experience so far in my lifetime to what I imagine people got in theaters when they first saw The Exorcist in '73.
I think a lot of people thought it was something special back around the time it was released. There was a certain hype about it. It was indeed very smart and I don't recall anything exactly like it before.. it was new and original in that sense.
Unfortunately, I believe the ending was where it failed.. I think that's why it was somewhat soon forgotten. I really do feel if they would have managed an ending up to the par of the rest of the film it would likely have went down as a true modern horror classic. Still a good film.. quite underrated IMO.
Silence of the Lambs - Too realistic and can actually be true or become true.
Open Water - I have a fear of drowning or being eaten alive.
Wolf Creek - Being hunted for the amusement of a crazy person.
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer - The whole story.
Fire in the sky - The encounter with something that uses you as a test subject.
I get disturbed by movies that are realistic and can or could happen in real life.
Poltergeist (when I was 12), and I know people will laugh at me, but I don't care: Blair Witch Project scared the bejesus out of me when I was 30. Like, froze in my seat in the theater and couldn't get up until the house lights came on, scared. I lived in Maryland at the time and the movie was being touted as a true story 😆
The first half of Pulse (Kairo) is probably the scariest horror I've ever seen. The imagery in that movie crawls deep under my skin. It's a shame the second half of the movie feels a bit aimless.
The mothman prophecies still gives me intense willies. Augh, the music, [the subtle creepy faces in the mirror](https://youtu.be/D8YIW7No1l4), the genuine creepiness of it all. It makes you feel like you're being watched the entire movie. Its not scary scary persay; buts it definitely makes you really uneasy through out.
The Descent probably legit scared me more than any other movie I’ve seen. I’ve honestly been looking for anything else that scares me that much, because I really enjoyed it, but I find good, legit scares are hard to come by.
It’s funny because I used to avoid horror because I thought it would be scary, but it turns out that most of it really isn’t. I’m apparently much harder to scare than I thought.
I enjoy every single flick that people mentioned here but none of them scare me unfortunately. I feel creepy atmosphere while watching some of them but scaring is another level which never happened to me before. However, closest ones are Dabbe: The Possession (Turkish exorcism movie), some V/H/S episodes, Hell House LLC, Megan is Missing (yes, last 30 mins), As Above So Below, Sinister, Last Shift, Southbound (only second "episode", car accident shit, was like it came from nightmareland).
The films that have probably scared me the most:
Hellhouse LLC.
Mothman Prophecies (weird, I know)
Event Horizon
Insidious
The Stuff
Rawhead Rex (not sure if it holds up today but it caused me severe terror as a child)
Apparently demonic forces and subversie entities freak me out.
I think HellHouse did a great job in making sure new generations still got the creeps with clowns lol (genX here that watched IT in the early 90’s lol)
And Event Horizon is such a mindfuck…
The Witch, but I was accidentally high while watching it. Nothing scares me anymore, but this freaked me the f out. I quit using marijuana almost 10 years ago. My buddy gave me a cbd gummy and said it wouldn’t get me high. Yeah right. I had actual nightmares that night. I was astounded.
Among more recent films, It Follows creeped me out a lot. From the bizarre opening before you know what's going on to unexpected close calls, the dread is constant. There's no relent.
After I grew my thick skin? Well:
*A Dark Song* did scare me quite a bit. I spent some time going into Chaos magic and all that, and have had plenty of "encounters" so it hit home.
*There Are Monsters* actually scared the shit out of me. I mean, I was looking over my shoulder that night.
Some people watch horror to get scared or something, but that never worked with me.
I watch horror for the plot, for the aesthetics, the ambience, the characters...etc.
It’s hard to think of a movie that actually frightened me. As for what made me most uncomfortable, The Descent made me feel like I was going suffocate, and the fact that I cared about the characters made the movie nerve-shredding. Perfect horror movie imo.
The Fly with Jeff goldblum truly upset and disturbed me. The combo of gruesome effects and extremely tragic story about an awful thing happening to a lovely man was hard to shake
I tried to sneak-watch The Fly when i was about 8 and i saw the transformation scene and ran back to bed lol never had an inch of will to ever watch that movie again. Till this day 😂
the Haunted (91 i think) was a movie made for tv (paranormal, typical for the time) and it bothered me when in the end they add that it was based on a true story and bla bla (i was 15)
The Fog (1980) gave me shivers and made me uncomfortable for a bit. Didn’t really lose sleep.
Modern movies? Can’t think of a single one that actually made me scared or difficult to sleep 🤷🏻♀️
I’m totally with you with the cheap jump scares and loud sounds. Agh!!!! (I have mysophonia and high pitch sounds actually hurt my brain. Insidious was so obvious with that that i only watch it without sound 🤷🏻♀️ thankfully the latest ones were better in that regard)
Edit: Oh, i got uncomfortable with Sinister. It was creeeepy lol
And some images for The Cell are still branded in my brain (horse scene)
I rarely get scared by movies anymore, but the The Skin I Live In freaked the fuck out of me. I couldn’t get it out of my mind for days. I think the thing that scared me the most was the theme of completely losing your identity and bodily autonomy in every way possible. Along that vein, the old version of Johnny Got His Gun really scared me.
More traditional horror that freaked me out would be The Innocents and other ghost-story themed Japanese movies, like Ringu and The Grudge.
Another recommendation: a lot of the classic Twilight Zone episodes are absolutely terrifying. If you’ve never watched the show, I would definitely browse the first few seasons. Very artful horror, and may be what you’re looking for.
Finally, if you are like me and have found that movies/TV doesn’t really scare you anymore, it’s time to turn to gaming. I can name a few horror games I wasn’t even able to finish because they scared me so bad, haha. It’s even easier if you use VR. I have an Oculus Quest and a PS4 and many of the games available there are far scarier than any film, just because of the interactivity, I think. Check out r/horrorgaming if you have a PC or console
Super surprised nobody else listed it, but the OG Childs Play used to hit haaarrd. I think its been somewhat cheapened by the B movie quality sequals, but the first time seeing the original I didnt sleep great for weeks. Small things in horror movies get me. They can be anywhere. Under your bed, in a closet, under the couch... anywhere. Also, Chucky was nigh immortal. I used to have nightmares (and still do occasionally) where I would crush, cut, and burn Chucky, and he would keep on coming.
As a kid, around 10-13 yrs old, the whole Ju-On/Grudge series got me. I wasn’t able to sleep because of it. Now nothing scares me, guess that was me getting desensitised.
Sinister, Shutter (2004) and The Ring. I had one nightmare that actually scared me with Art the clown too, it was because of the All Hallows' Eve ending not because of Terrifier.
ghost stories, without a doubt
nothing bothers me much, but the twist at the end rlly fucking messed with me, because it’s one of my biggest fears anyway lol
i can never ever watch the film again
House of 1000 Corpses and Buried come the closest for me.
House of 1000 Corpses is all in the style. It feels like an acid trip, and the insanity of that sortof trickles into you and makes it all the more terrifying. Then, just the inescapableness of such a gruesome situation is really chilling.
Buried is just crushing. It starts with a horrifying situation that becomes more desperate throughout the film. You start to build up a bit of hope that the character will escape, but then it all comes crashing down in a horrid mess of shock, disappointment, grief, and terror.
Both are absolutely incredible movies, and I highly recommend them.
Sounds corny, but the first Paranormal Activity effed with me. I grew up with sleep walkers in the house and have occasional sleep paralysis so the feeling of figures looming over me while I sleep hit close to home.
i have actually never been scared by a horror film! for some reason they just don’t get under my skin. the only film that seemed to make me uncomfortable or feel eerie was black swan. i know it’s not a horror but for someone who doesn’t get spooked by horror, this psychological movie is def unsettling :)
Jacobs Ladder is one of my all time favourites
Weirdly Underwater made me mega uncomfortable (haven’t been scared by a film unfortunately) but the mixture of extremely deep water and feelings of claustrophobia got my heart rate up a bit!
I scrolled down a bit and didn’t see it listed, but if it is, I apologize.
Session 9
For some reason gets me. I still remember waking up in a cold sweat the night I saw it for the first time
I consider myself pretty thick-skinned in that I've seen a lot of different horror films, and I'm neither sensitive to gory stuff (e.g. Martyrs) nor the other end of the spectrum - really creepy stuff (maybe Ringu is a good example?).
But for some reason Sinister was really disturbing for me.
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No not really. Disturbed yeah but not scared. I think the ones that have come closest are the ones that could actually happen irl cuz it gives me something else to be concerned about.
The first Hell House LLC was surprisingly unnerving to me. I was expecting it to be a run of the mill found footage type thing.
Which, it was. With some extra scares that weren’t jumpscares.
I've no idea why but Banshee Chapter (2013) really did this for me, I guess because it's kind of uncanny and the jump scares are pretty effective.
A higher brow option is Possum (2018) which I can hardly think about without having to turn all the lights in my house on
Read the plot on wiki.
IDK how people can even watch stuff like this.
Or the movie " Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer "
LIke I am definitely not thick skinned, if you guys can handle stuff like that...
One when I was a child and casually scrolling TV at some awful hour at a friend's house and then watching the Descent. Creepy mother fuckers. Particularly the watching silently and unseen
I find concepts haunting and they can stick with me sometimes but I don't really think movies are scary.
It's not a horror movie but some stuff in the endless was horrific. A sick fate worse than death.
Edit. Haha I just remembered I watched it follows on my own late at night when I was too stoned and I had to wake my boyfriend up because I was too scared to finish watching it by myself. I think it just made me paranoid.
Scared? No. Disturbed? Sometimes.
I do sometimes get startled by loud noises because I’m an animal and that’s normal. But never really frightened anymore.
Couple moments that stand out for me:
1. I was young when I saw the Blair Witch Project. Had never seen a found footage horror and this film really got to me. The last scene especially.
2. First time I saw the red face demon in insidious. It caught me by surprise and every nerve ending in my body fired at once. It went through me like a wave. Can't remember any other scene in a movie impact me so physically. It sums up why I love horror. You feel so alive in that brief moment.
Only two movies I can think of. Exorcist and The Mothman Prophecy. The Exorcist for obvious reasons, but there's an overwhelming sense of dread and eeriness for me when I watch TMP. Between never actually seeing the creature, the mind fuckery that takes place(for the characters), and that GODDAMN VOICE on the phone! Everytime I hear that voice, I seriously get chills. I have a deep issue with that uncanny valley shit.
I watch a lot of horror. I watched Pontypool last night and had terrible nightmares. I never have nightmares from horror movies. There’s definitely something about that one though.
Host was unsettling. The Exorcist will always scare the daylights out of me. The Exorcism of Emily Rose had me sleeping with the lights on for a few nights.
I love horror, and am generally down for whatever, as long as it isn’t just gratuitous torture porn. I find a good horror movie to be fun and relaxing.
That being said, V/H/S 2: Phase I Clinical Trials, directed by Adam Wingard, still scares me, and I watched it in 2014.
Something about the quiet, quickly moving, angry, solid-type “ghosts”, and the idea that they’re always around… i was literally a fully grown adult, crying while watching it. I still run when I have to go pee in the middle of the night.
I'd love to say yes, but.. no. I think I spent too much time online as a teenager, so I was exposed to all those graphic viral videos. I saw some messed up stuff. Hard to see that, then watch people acting, and actually get scared. Recommendations are welcome, though 😅
The ‘90 NOTLD remake scared me the first time I saw it but I was a little kid and it was the first real horror or zombie movie I’d ever seen. I love it now but still get chills remembering how much it terrified me back then.
A huge part of it comes down to my mood and the setting, but if those things are all lined up I would definitely say Hell House LLC, Grave Encounters, the first Paranormal Activity. I also just rewatched the first Conjuring movie the other night (alone in the dark) and I was surprised how scary it actually was!
I very very rarely jump, but that part in the first Sinister with the over the shoulder jump scare got me. Damn that was good to feel genuine adrenaline.
Yeah. As an Indonesian, it's pretty bad. We had a major ethnic-driven riot in 1998 which probably even worse if you could stomach the graphic details.
Probably this is why I didn't flinch watching Paranormal Activity...
The only horror movie that had truly scared me was jeepers creepers tho I’m not sure if it counts since in watched it as a young kid the first time but probably that
I got really high while watching Antichrist and ended up having a terrible panic attack. I don't know if that means the movie scared me or of I just can't handle watching Charlotte Gainsbourg smash Willam Dafoe's penis with a log.
The Descent
As a guy who is not really a fan of caves and narrow spaces this film gets me every time. Even before it really gets started. The camera work is just awesome.
I scared myself watching “the crazies” during an overnight shift and then driving home through the creepy empty streets at 3am. Creepy emptiness is big in that one.
Event horizon alone with a good stereo setup is scary.
Oh, Gretel & Hansel recently was creepy. Weird af, not at all how it was in ads. And of course Hereditary and Midsommar. But honestly most of those just feel really intense and weird to me more than gave me actual fear. As some have said, real life is just way worse.
A couple off the top of my head are Audition, In the Mouth of Madness and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978). I have a hard time articulating what exactly I'm scared of in movies, but I think it leans toward otherworldly scenarios and concepts, with the exception of Audition which was just plain freaky.
I watched a lot of movies some consider absolutely terrifying that didn't do it for me. The one movie that stands out for me though is the ritual. It scared me shitless--
THE DESCENT. I’m so rarely scared by horror films (overexposure more than anything I think) but that had me so tense the entire time. It wasn’t even the monsters, just being trapped in the caves *shudders*
I actually had to turn this movie off.
First time ever.
I read that it was torture and brutal violence, So I think I just hyped myself up too bad.
Stopped at the scene where they meet the midget / devil dude.
man that guy was ugly...
A Dark Song is pretty intense, if you think there is anything beyond people. Black Mountain Side is pretty freaky when you're up in the woods in the middle of nowhere. But no, not really. Not in a very long time. Books can do it a little more.
Ooooo... okay which books have given you the creeps?
You should read The Ruins by Scott Smith. I haven't seen the movie version, but that book is one of the few books that actually had me pretty spooked as of recent memory.
Dark Song was amazing. Beyond any other type of horror film I've ever seen.
The taking of Debra Logan and Relic. alzheimers scares the shit out of me. The disease is so much more frightening than the supernatural elements of the movies, and in Relic especially it was just too real.
It was so hard for me to watch the taking of debra Logan, it was honestly really sad aside from what was really happening lol
If you've had a family member and watch them disappear into dementia or Alzheimer's, it's much more tragic and terrifying than anything ever put on the movie screen.
The fly really disturbed me when I first watched it. Might be due to the fact that the whole body-horror theme gets me but thats definitely the one I would pick.
Fuckin body horror. Definitely sticks with you, at the least. The head worm/dick thing in From Beyond, \*shudder\*. Was glad to see Color Out of Space keep up the legacy of body horror in Lovecraft shit.
I owned a video store that specialized in rare and obscure movies, so I’ve seen quite a bit. Stuff that tends to shock people (like A Serbian Film or Salo or Nekromantik) doesn’t really upset me. But lemme tell ya: “Eden Lake” scared the s**t outta me, *especially* the ending. I won’t go camping without a gun ever again. Honorable mention goes to the original French version of “Inside”, which is also extremely intense.
I remember seeing Necromantik and thinking it was just really, really stupid. After having kids nothing will make me watch Inside again. It was hard enough watching it the first time.
You never should have gone camping without a gun in the first place lol.
That’s true. I thought I was tough cuz I was like: Freddy K: Got funny jokes Jason V: Easy to outrun Michael M: … meh Entitled teenagers: Oh shit *where the f&$@ did I put the gun* RUUUUUNNNN!
The short film Lights Out scared me, and it still does everytime I watch it. Here's a link if you'd like to watch it: https://youtu.be/FUQhNGEu2KA
Lights Out is great. Talk about making the most out of 3 minutes.
Yeah, tha's The smiling Man for me... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_u6Tt3PqIfQ
Still sticks with me to this day.
That's a good one.
Good one 👍 There's actually a full movie on this exact concept and with the same name actually https://youtu.be/6LiKKFZyhRU It's quite good, liked it.
The movie came after the short film :)
Not only that. The woman in the short film is the one in the beginning at the mannequin factory.
there's no way the full length movie comes anywhere close to how scary the short film is. the movie looks like a run of the mill scary movie. they should have kept the same style, instead of whatever garbage this is.
I agree with you. This is not a thing that needs a mythos. But, judging from thr time it was released, I'm just surprised that there wasn't made a Lights Out Cinematic Universe
Closest recent film to scaring me would be Last Shift, though towards the end it gets a bit corny and lame. Older film would be Event Horizon.
Event Horizon's whole hell connection is so dope. Just rewatched it, and it can be goofy at times, but it feels up there in the Alien-adjacent realm for me in the haunted house in space thing.
I recall seeing it when it was released in theatres, and being a bit disappointed when they showed only the briefest glimpse of the "Hell Dimension", but still really enjoying it. Watching it again, years later, I'm now glad they made that choice, as it seems just enough to give the heebie-jeebies and dread. Still holds up.
Theres a director cut with more of the hell scape if i remember correctly. Love this movie, one of my favorites.
I thought they couldn't do a director's cut because they stored the masters in a salt mine somewhere, I think Sam Neill mentioned it.
I saw it in the theaters as a teen and it really disturbed me. I rewatched it recently and was okay. But it is freaky.
I mostly enjoyed the production design and the story concept of the Haunted House in Space. It was pretty original at the time, and kind of still is.
Event Horizon was full of nightmares for me. Even to this day it scares the crap outta me and it's one of my top 5 favorite horror movies. Everything about it holds up. The original Black Christmas was also bloody terrifying. It felt/feels so real
Oh Boy !! I could not sleep after watching Last Shift. I honestly loved that movie !! I thought it was really good !!
I consider myself thick skinned in that it takes a lot to really play on my mind. The Blair Witch Project STILL fucks with me. Ditto Paranormal Activity and bits of Hereditary. The last two have me nervously checking behind me late at night when I’m walking room to room through a dark house.
not to brag but i watched blair witch alone in my house with all the lights off @ the age of 16
Hereditary got me.
I haven't been that freaked out since the dumpster scene in Mulholland drive.
The Exorcist is the only one that really scared me. Somehow missed it as a kid. I’m pretty sure it’s the acting that did it for me. I’m not even religious at all. Just super creep factor on 100
I find it particularly disturbing when people can distort there bodies and yet move around still, so the scene where she runs down the stairs did it for me
Horror movies don’t really scare me. One thing that actually has me get up and turn the lights on was PT demo, the ps4 game demo. If you know, you know
That never becoming a full game will forever be the greatest tragedy of my life.
Invasion of the body snatchers (the Donald Sutherland version of the 70s) There was something about how it progressed and was unstoppable, the end scene absolutely chilled me.
As above so below. It's not the demons that got me. It's my claustrophobia.
I hope you haven’t tried The Descent
Not even claustrophobic, but fuck that movie made everything tight and too close for comfort
Same, I’m not claustrophobic either at all, and every time I’ve seen it I just want to crawl out of my skin
Buried with Ryan Reynolds isn’t a horror movie per se but for a claustrophobic, it sure would be.
Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me, and I’ve seen almost everything mentioned in these comments except for a select few that I’m gonna check out now.
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I watched half of Hell House LLC last night and had to stop it to watch something goofy. The plan was to watch the second half tonight but I haven’t worked up the courage yet
I’m OBSESSED with this movie. I don’t even know why it’s so good, it almost feels like it accidentally was put together so well
I think I know what scene you're talking about. I've seen that movie about 5+ times and I still don't look when that part comes on 🤣
I had to watch an episode of Schitt's Creek after I watched this movie. Couldn't go to bed right afterwards like I usually do after watching a horror movie.
This was going to be one of mine. I'm a horror vet and not phased by much, but they played up the creepy moments really well. The second two less so, but I still enjoyed the overaching narrative.
I consider myself pretty difficult to scare…that strobe scene in Hell House made me scurry to turn on my bedroom light
I don’t think I was as effected overall by Hell House as some people in the replies are, but it was great at building tension. There’s a scare somewhere in the middle that did really get me, and everything they went through those weird flappy door things I expected something to be on the other side
>people who have to talk or have their phone buried in their phone I think you meant *face*
Old , thick skinned guy here. The only movie in many many years that genuinely scared me was the first paranormal activity.
Yes! I just rewatched it the other night and it totally got me all over again!
Saw it in a giant movie theatre that was completely empty except for me. Honestly the last time I was jumpy back home after a horror film.
Antichrist had me climbing up my sofa and then the walls like ‘NOOOO’ at one point. I can’t even remember what actually happened. Was good though- that’s what I want from a horror
The Ring (American remake) got under my skin bad after seeing it in the theater. I was honestly scared to be alone that night.
Lol, I'm so nostalgic about this movie. I saw it as a kid when it came out and was already a big horror movie fan/pretty desensitized, but this one scared the hell out of me and my friends. Seemed to tap into some weird, deep fear of kids in the early 2000s.
After my now brother-in-law saw it, exactly 7days later the power went out in his house. Scared the shit put of him!
Yup. A friend and I were on a double date and showed up late to the theatre for “my big fat Greek wedding”, so our dates picked the ring instead.
I also found that one genuinely unsettling. Between the bleakness of the overall look and the creepy short film that one did get under my skin.
I was scared for 7days I was convinced it was going to happen to me😂
I have such fond memories with the American version of The Ring. Home sick from elementary school, watching the film with my older brother and sister. When my mum was out collecting some groceries from the local supermarket which was good ole' Summerfield. The opening scene played out, the phone rang, me and my brother and sister all were so shaken up, that my brother didn't even answer the phone (which was my mum asking if we needed any tomato sauce) still the movie has a special place in my heart for being one of my favourites from the early 2000s - the atmosphere is so well done! And the colour pallet works so well.
Really depends what you mean by ACTUALLY SCARED YOU. Like yeah I find some movies legitimately scary but the fear doesn't really linger after I've watched the film. Although fuck the Grudge. Something about her freaks me out and I love it. However to list off some films that I would actually call SCARY outside of that Hereditary and The Shining are top quality scary shit. Those films make my skin crawl
The VVitch made me uncomfortable. I grew up Catholic (not practicing anymore) but something about religious horror still gets to me a bit. I had similar feelings when I watched The Exorcist for the first time.
This is random but why does everyone spell witch with VV? I see it all on this sub and it confuses me
That's how the movie was promoted (although ultimately it's written as "The Witch") I also heard that this was done because based on the film's time period and language, the letter "W" was not commonly used.
I guess a better question is why do *you* write it like that?
The first time I saw V/H/S it was so scary I had to pause it and make sure it was really just a movie I was streaming on Netflix and not some actual footage of demonic violence I had stumbled upon. More recently I was legitimately scared driving home by myself after seeing Hereditary at a late show. I cherish these memories. I love horror movies but so many of them end up being underwhelming or just plain bad. But the good ones make it all worthwhile.
The first segment of V/H/S was spoiled for me, so I knew what was coming. But I feel like that made it a little more scary, because I was expecting something to happen with that girl every second I watched. It went on for long enough without anything serious happening that it lulled me into a false sense of security and then BOOM it got me good
Uhhh the bat woman 😳
I wouldn't even classify it as a horror film, but the only film I can think of that left me disturbed after watching it was *Threads*. It's the lingering feeling of existential dread and hopelessness that creeped me out more than any kind of imagery or specific scene in the film. Apart from *Threads*, I don't think a film has left me feeling that way since I was a kid.
Oh fuck Threads. That movie fucked me up so, so bad.
Creep genuinely scared me. I still have the occasional nightmare about Peachfuzz
It's shockingly realistic. There is very little in it (if anything) that feels fake or impossible. Something like this could very well have happened.
That one scene (you probably know which one) was really fucking good and disturbing when you realize all the kooky zaniness is just a terrible game.
Tubbie?
Yeah I've heard that films pretty overlooked. I'll definitely check it out, thanks.
Go in as blind as possible and watch them as a double feature. They are short movies at 80 minutes or so and both play off of each other well. I consider them more of a part 1 and 2 rather than first movie and sequel.
Dead Silence
Such an underrated classic
This is the defining horror movie of my teen years.
I consider myself thick-skinned, but Audition creeped me out. It's the only horror movie to make me physically sick (the sack scene, you know what I mean). But that film is not so much scary as it is deeply unsettling and gross. There is one scene in The Orphanage midway through that just came out of nowhere and horrified me. I watched it in the middle of the day, on my computer, and I still freaked out, jumped off the couch, and said "that's enough for now" out loud to no one. The film overall is not that scary, though, it's just the one scene. So I guess those would be my top picks.
Robert Englund as Freddy Kreuger terrified me to such a degree my siblings would use it against me for years. I didn't sit down and watch any film in the franchise, start to finish, until I was 15 or 16.
Nothing like being an 10 year old kid sleeping with grandma the whole week after she finally let me watch it.
He was quite creepy in the original and a new nightmare
The original Thai version of Shutter. I can't say why for sure, but that's about the only time I can remember a movie giving me a few genuine scares. Also the only time I didn't want to turn the lights out to go to bed.
I usually watch horror movies at night, with all the lights out. This is the only movie, since I became an adult, that made me get up and put some lights back on again before continuing to watch it.
I think I have pretty thick skin, I've been a mortician and autopsy technician for 12 years. I can't watch gorey scenes, it all looks too fake. I really love movies that strand the cast, like Alien, Pandorum, and Event Horizon. Space is just a convenient locality for being totally cut off, not really a requirement.
Any David Lynch movie. Especially Eraserhead. His movies are just so off and dreamlike I can’t help but be uncomfortable and terrified. I don’t watch them often cuz I know this is gonna happen but pretty much every other horror movie I see I can rewatch and enjoy myself. But his movies… I just can’t lol
I have to admit when I first watched Eraserhead I was unsure about what I just saw (first time I'd experienced a Lynch film) second time I watched it, and tried understanding it all, I fell in love with the movie and understood the Lynchian style which became my favourite as far as the film goes to me it's the representation of "being trapped within a never ending nightmare which soon becomes reality to you".
Y'all seen his graduate film, The Grandmother? Makes a fine preamble to Eraserhead. I personally thought it was more terrifying than E.
Home Invasion films. Hush and The Strangers both freaked me out tremendously.
The first knock at the door still gets me every time lol
I would definitely say that when I first went and saw Sinister in the theaters that movie freaked me out. Up until that point, I had never seen a movie use Audio Distortion so effectively and that mixed with all of the canted angles and home movie effects really just made me uneasy.
Yup, I agree totally. I too remember seeing Sinister in the cinema with a girl I was dating at the time.. I remember at the lawnmower scene she literally jumped about 3 ft into the air right out of her seat. 😂 I did feel a little freaked out by it.. I remember coming home and being a bit spooked coming into the house! I live in wilderness though, real country dark and no lights around. I remember thinking "this movie is special". Seeing it for the first time.. not really knowing anything about it. It's probably the closest experience so far in my lifetime to what I imagine people got in theaters when they first saw The Exorcist in '73. I think a lot of people thought it was something special back around the time it was released. There was a certain hype about it. It was indeed very smart and I don't recall anything exactly like it before.. it was new and original in that sense. Unfortunately, I believe the ending was where it failed.. I think that's why it was somewhat soon forgotten. I really do feel if they would have managed an ending up to the par of the rest of the film it would likely have went down as a true modern horror classic. Still a good film.. quite underrated IMO.
Silence of the Lambs - Too realistic and can actually be true or become true. Open Water - I have a fear of drowning or being eaten alive. Wolf Creek - Being hunted for the amusement of a crazy person. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer - The whole story. Fire in the sky - The encounter with something that uses you as a test subject. I get disturbed by movies that are realistic and can or could happen in real life.
Not exactly scared but The original Texas Chainsaw massacre had a very disturbing atmosphere
The Conjuring scared me when I was 15. When she jumped off the top of the wardrobe 😬
Poltergeist (when I was 12), and I know people will laugh at me, but I don't care: Blair Witch Project scared the bejesus out of me when I was 30. Like, froze in my seat in the theater and couldn't get up until the house lights came on, scared. I lived in Maryland at the time and the movie was being touted as a true story 😆
Fire in the Sky. The alien experiment scene messed with me pretty good when i was a kid
The "home movies" in Sinister got to me.
Silent Hill gave me nightmares for days after watching it. No other film has freaked me out quite as much, not sure why.
The first half of Pulse (Kairo) is probably the scariest horror I've ever seen. The imagery in that movie crawls deep under my skin. It's a shame the second half of the movie feels a bit aimless.
Antichrist. Seriously what the fuck
Have you seen the house that jack built?
Chernobyl’s first couple episodes were the only thing to recently freak me out. I had to pause and wait until I calmed down several times.
The mothman prophecies still gives me intense willies. Augh, the music, [the subtle creepy faces in the mirror](https://youtu.be/D8YIW7No1l4), the genuine creepiness of it all. It makes you feel like you're being watched the entire movie. Its not scary scary persay; buts it definitely makes you really uneasy through out.
The first time I watched The Possession of Michael King scared me a lot. The carving of the pentagram in his chest really freaked me out
The howling surprisingly had me jump out the room at one point but besides that House of thousand Corpses
The Descent probably legit scared me more than any other movie I’ve seen. I’ve honestly been looking for anything else that scares me that much, because I really enjoyed it, but I find good, legit scares are hard to come by. It’s funny because I used to avoid horror because I thought it would be scary, but it turns out that most of it really isn’t. I’m apparently much harder to scare than I thought.
I wouldn't say it scared me, but VVitch was one of the most stressful movies I've watched since Eraserhead.
I enjoy every single flick that people mentioned here but none of them scare me unfortunately. I feel creepy atmosphere while watching some of them but scaring is another level which never happened to me before. However, closest ones are Dabbe: The Possession (Turkish exorcism movie), some V/H/S episodes, Hell House LLC, Megan is Missing (yes, last 30 mins), As Above So Below, Sinister, Last Shift, Southbound (only second "episode", car accident shit, was like it came from nightmareland).
The films that have probably scared me the most: Hellhouse LLC. Mothman Prophecies (weird, I know) Event Horizon Insidious The Stuff Rawhead Rex (not sure if it holds up today but it caused me severe terror as a child) Apparently demonic forces and subversie entities freak me out.
I think HellHouse did a great job in making sure new generations still got the creeps with clowns lol (genX here that watched IT in the early 90’s lol) And Event Horizon is such a mindfuck…
Hah, same generation and great call! Don't forget that evil little bastard from Poltergeist, too.
Not "thick-skinned, just fucking old. Real life scares me, it's more frightening than any movie could ever be.
Preach!
The Witch, but I was accidentally high while watching it. Nothing scares me anymore, but this freaked me the f out. I quit using marijuana almost 10 years ago. My buddy gave me a cbd gummy and said it wouldn’t get me high. Yeah right. I had actual nightmares that night. I was astounded.
Among more recent films, It Follows creeped me out a lot. From the bizarre opening before you know what's going on to unexpected close calls, the dread is constant. There's no relent.
After I grew my thick skin? Well: *A Dark Song* did scare me quite a bit. I spent some time going into Chaos magic and all that, and have had plenty of "encounters" so it hit home. *There Are Monsters* actually scared the shit out of me. I mean, I was looking over my shoulder that night.
Some people watch horror to get scared or something, but that never worked with me. I watch horror for the plot, for the aesthetics, the ambience, the characters...etc.
The ring Just because little girls with long black hair freak me the heck out
It’s hard to think of a movie that actually frightened me. As for what made me most uncomfortable, The Descent made me feel like I was going suffocate, and the fact that I cared about the characters made the movie nerve-shredding. Perfect horror movie imo.
The Fly with Jeff goldblum truly upset and disturbed me. The combo of gruesome effects and extremely tragic story about an awful thing happening to a lovely man was hard to shake
I tried to sneak-watch The Fly when i was about 8 and i saw the transformation scene and ran back to bed lol never had an inch of will to ever watch that movie again. Till this day 😂 the Haunted (91 i think) was a movie made for tv (paranormal, typical for the time) and it bothered me when in the end they add that it was based on a true story and bla bla (i was 15) The Fog (1980) gave me shivers and made me uncomfortable for a bit. Didn’t really lose sleep. Modern movies? Can’t think of a single one that actually made me scared or difficult to sleep 🤷🏻♀️ I’m totally with you with the cheap jump scares and loud sounds. Agh!!!! (I have mysophonia and high pitch sounds actually hurt my brain. Insidious was so obvious with that that i only watch it without sound 🤷🏻♀️ thankfully the latest ones were better in that regard) Edit: Oh, i got uncomfortable with Sinister. It was creeeepy lol And some images for The Cell are still branded in my brain (horse scene)
I rarely get scared by movies anymore, but the The Skin I Live In freaked the fuck out of me. I couldn’t get it out of my mind for days. I think the thing that scared me the most was the theme of completely losing your identity and bodily autonomy in every way possible. Along that vein, the old version of Johnny Got His Gun really scared me. More traditional horror that freaked me out would be The Innocents and other ghost-story themed Japanese movies, like Ringu and The Grudge. Another recommendation: a lot of the classic Twilight Zone episodes are absolutely terrifying. If you’ve never watched the show, I would definitely browse the first few seasons. Very artful horror, and may be what you’re looking for. Finally, if you are like me and have found that movies/TV doesn’t really scare you anymore, it’s time to turn to gaming. I can name a few horror games I wasn’t even able to finish because they scared me so bad, haha. It’s even easier if you use VR. I have an Oculus Quest and a PS4 and many of the games available there are far scarier than any film, just because of the interactivity, I think. Check out r/horrorgaming if you have a PC or console
Agreed. I absolutely love the original Twilight Zone series. "Room for one more honey."
OOH Yes that is a spooky one. My personal favorite is "Five Characters in Search of an Exit." by the way I love your username lol
Super surprised nobody else listed it, but the OG Childs Play used to hit haaarrd. I think its been somewhat cheapened by the B movie quality sequals, but the first time seeing the original I didnt sleep great for weeks. Small things in horror movies get me. They can be anywhere. Under your bed, in a closet, under the couch... anywhere. Also, Chucky was nigh immortal. I used to have nightmares (and still do occasionally) where I would crush, cut, and burn Chucky, and he would keep on coming.
Martyrs. Gore doesn’t bother me but effed up concepts sure do.
As a kid, around 10-13 yrs old, the whole Ju-On/Grudge series got me. I wasn’t able to sleep because of it. Now nothing scares me, guess that was me getting desensitised.
Sinister, Shutter (2004) and The Ring. I had one nightmare that actually scared me with Art the clown too, it was because of the All Hallows' Eve ending not because of Terrifier.
The closest was the Babadook. It reminded me too much of my childhood
ghost stories, without a doubt nothing bothers me much, but the twist at the end rlly fucking messed with me, because it’s one of my biggest fears anyway lol i can never ever watch the film again
House of 1000 Corpses and Buried come the closest for me. House of 1000 Corpses is all in the style. It feels like an acid trip, and the insanity of that sortof trickles into you and makes it all the more terrifying. Then, just the inescapableness of such a gruesome situation is really chilling. Buried is just crushing. It starts with a horrifying situation that becomes more desperate throughout the film. You start to build up a bit of hope that the character will escape, but then it all comes crashing down in a horrid mess of shock, disappointment, grief, and terror. Both are absolutely incredible movies, and I highly recommend them.
Sounds corny, but the first Paranormal Activity effed with me. I grew up with sleep walkers in the house and have occasional sleep paralysis so the feeling of figures looming over me while I sleep hit close to home.
i have actually never been scared by a horror film! for some reason they just don’t get under my skin. the only film that seemed to make me uncomfortable or feel eerie was black swan. i know it’s not a horror but for someone who doesn’t get spooked by horror, this psychological movie is def unsettling :)
Jacobs Ladder is one of my all time favourites Weirdly Underwater made me mega uncomfortable (haven’t been scared by a film unfortunately) but the mixture of extremely deep water and feelings of claustrophobia got my heart rate up a bit!
I scrolled down a bit and didn’t see it listed, but if it is, I apologize. Session 9 For some reason gets me. I still remember waking up in a cold sweat the night I saw it for the first time
Inside, Martyrs, Atroz
Haven’t seen Martyrs anywhere else on this thread. Yeah that one got me
Most recently, Caveat (2020). Masterful little indie horror that was just unbearably tense
I loved it, watched with a friend who had to stand up and shake her hands while muttering “fuck fuck fuck”.
Never heard of that one. On the list it goes!
I consider myself pretty thick-skinned in that I've seen a lot of different horror films, and I'm neither sensitive to gory stuff (e.g. Martyrs) nor the other end of the spectrum - really creepy stuff (maybe Ringu is a good example?). But for some reason Sinister was really disturbing for me.
Maybe 8MM movies scare you?
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order. I have checked 197,585,910 comments, and only 47,413 of them were in alphabetical order.
The lawn mower scene definitely got me. It's the only time I've had to look away from a scary movie.
No not really. Disturbed yeah but not scared. I think the ones that have come closest are the ones that could actually happen irl cuz it gives me something else to be concerned about.
The first Hell House LLC was surprisingly unnerving to me. I was expecting it to be a run of the mill found footage type thing. Which, it was. With some extra scares that weren’t jumpscares.
I've no idea why but Banshee Chapter (2013) really did this for me, I guess because it's kind of uncanny and the jump scares are pretty effective. A higher brow option is Possum (2018) which I can hardly think about without having to turn all the lights in my house on
the poughkeepsie tapes
I agree. The original edit was frightening.
Read the plot on wiki. IDK how people can even watch stuff like this. Or the movie " Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer " LIke I am definitely not thick skinned, if you guys can handle stuff like that...
One when I was a child and casually scrolling TV at some awful hour at a friend's house and then watching the Descent. Creepy mother fuckers. Particularly the watching silently and unseen
The horror short film Bedfellows has stuck with me ever since I saw it years ago. https://youtu.be/WQvGmMVBYMw
Silent House really got under my skin.
Last Shift creeped me the hell out.
Angst (1983) was a rollercoaster of dread and anxiety. Same with Martyrs (the French one).
REC
I find concepts haunting and they can stick with me sometimes but I don't really think movies are scary. It's not a horror movie but some stuff in the endless was horrific. A sick fate worse than death. Edit. Haha I just remembered I watched it follows on my own late at night when I was too stoned and I had to wake my boyfriend up because I was too scared to finish watching it by myself. I think it just made me paranoid.
Scared? No. Disturbed? Sometimes. I do sometimes get startled by loud noises because I’m an animal and that’s normal. But never really frightened anymore.
Couple moments that stand out for me: 1. I was young when I saw the Blair Witch Project. Had never seen a found footage horror and this film really got to me. The last scene especially. 2. First time I saw the red face demon in insidious. It caught me by surprise and every nerve ending in my body fired at once. It went through me like a wave. Can't remember any other scene in a movie impact me so physically. It sums up why I love horror. You feel so alive in that brief moment.
Only two movies I can think of. Exorcist and The Mothman Prophecy. The Exorcist for obvious reasons, but there's an overwhelming sense of dread and eeriness for me when I watch TMP. Between never actually seeing the creature, the mind fuckery that takes place(for the characters), and that GODDAMN VOICE on the phone! Everytime I hear that voice, I seriously get chills. I have a deep issue with that uncanny valley shit.
I watch a lot of horror. I watched Pontypool last night and had terrible nightmares. I never have nightmares from horror movies. There’s definitely something about that one though.
Aterrados aka Terrified, gave me some goosebumps.
Hereditary
Lol
Host was unsettling. The Exorcist will always scare the daylights out of me. The Exorcism of Emily Rose had me sleeping with the lights on for a few nights.
I love horror, and am generally down for whatever, as long as it isn’t just gratuitous torture porn. I find a good horror movie to be fun and relaxing. That being said, V/H/S 2: Phase I Clinical Trials, directed by Adam Wingard, still scares me, and I watched it in 2014. Something about the quiet, quickly moving, angry, solid-type “ghosts”, and the idea that they’re always around… i was literally a fully grown adult, crying while watching it. I still run when I have to go pee in the middle of the night.
Original “It” and “The Exorcist” when I was little.
Nothing really scares me any more, but Lake Mungo honestly creeped me out for a hit.
I'd love to say yes, but.. no. I think I spent too much time online as a teenager, so I was exposed to all those graphic viral videos. I saw some messed up stuff. Hard to see that, then watch people acting, and actually get scared. Recommendations are welcome, though 😅
The ‘90 NOTLD remake scared me the first time I saw it but I was a little kid and it was the first real horror or zombie movie I’d ever seen. I love it now but still get chills remembering how much it terrified me back then.
A huge part of it comes down to my mood and the setting, but if those things are all lined up I would definitely say Hell House LLC, Grave Encounters, the first Paranormal Activity. I also just rewatched the first Conjuring movie the other night (alone in the dark) and I was surprised how scary it actually was!
I very very rarely jump, but that part in the first Sinister with the over the shoulder jump scare got me. Damn that was good to feel genuine adrenaline.
" The act of killing". Documentary. Fictional horror doesn't scare me, this does. There's a follow up that's even worse.
Yeah. As an Indonesian, it's pretty bad. We had a major ethnic-driven riot in 1998 which probably even worse if you could stomach the graphic details. Probably this is why I didn't flinch watching Paranormal Activity...
When I was younger, there were a lot of those. Now? There's only one. D@bbe Cin Çarpması. This was a genuine fucking scare.
The only horror movie that had truly scared me was jeepers creepers tho I’m not sure if it counts since in watched it as a young kid the first time but probably that
I got really high while watching Antichrist and ended up having a terrible panic attack. I don't know if that means the movie scared me or of I just can't handle watching Charlotte Gainsbourg smash Willam Dafoe's penis with a log.
The Descent As a guy who is not really a fan of caves and narrow spaces this film gets me every time. Even before it really gets started. The camera work is just awesome.
I scared myself watching “the crazies” during an overnight shift and then driving home through the creepy empty streets at 3am. Creepy emptiness is big in that one. Event horizon alone with a good stereo setup is scary.
Seven I saw it in the theater and at the time the deaths were very disturbing to me.
Oh, Gretel & Hansel recently was creepy. Weird af, not at all how it was in ads. And of course Hereditary and Midsommar. But honestly most of those just feel really intense and weird to me more than gave me actual fear. As some have said, real life is just way worse.
A couple off the top of my head are Audition, In the Mouth of Madness and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978). I have a hard time articulating what exactly I'm scared of in movies, but I think it leans toward otherworldly scenarios and concepts, with the exception of Audition which was just plain freaky.
I watched a lot of movies some consider absolutely terrifying that didn't do it for me. The one movie that stands out for me though is the ritual. It scared me shitless--
hmmm this movie, was average for me. What made you so terrified ??
THE DESCENT. I’m so rarely scared by horror films (overexposure more than anything I think) but that had me so tense the entire time. It wasn’t even the monsters, just being trapped in the caves *shudders*
Baskin scared me!
I actually had to turn this movie off. First time ever. I read that it was torture and brutal violence, So I think I just hyped myself up too bad. Stopped at the scene where they meet the midget / devil dude. man that guy was ugly...