Threads (1984). I was in shock for a week when I first saw that. No horror film has come close.
I saw that in Sheffield in my first year at university there.
The Thing (OG, of course) unreasonably scared me, so much so that while shivering during the blood test scene I was thinking to myself “This is literally all practical effects why am I so utterly terrified?”
I love that movie! IMO the practical effects make it more unsettling. It feels more real than CGI even if some of those effects look pretty fake.
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The OG was from 1951. You mean the 1982 remake.
I had the 2011 reboot in mind :P
Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
Doesn’t look like it but no single other film shattered me as much as this one when I first saw it, well, in the 90s.
This was my answer too - this film really got under my skin in a way that most traditional scary films don’t, and Tim Robbins is riveting, as always. I was not prepared.
This was my answer too - this film really got under my skin in a way that most traditional scary films don’t, and Tim Robbins is riveting, as always. I was not prepared.
Neither was I. Would you have known younger me of back then it would not have come as surprise to say I was a little more than receptive to this movie. Watching it, I was absolutely terrified and shattered. Like you said, Time Robin was amazing as he often is.
I did a super scientific study once where I monitored my heart rate while watching movies that were listed as being the scariest. The highest my heart rate went was during a scene in the movie Hereditary, where it went up to a whopping 85 bpm!
Yeah, I don’t get scared easily LMAO but the answer is Hereditary!
Scientific proof!
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The only time I have ever turned a horror movie off because of how uncomfortable it made me was when I was watching Jordan Peels “Us”.
All his films are worth a watch!
I’ve never heard of that what made you uncomfortable about it?
I couldn’t say exactly what it was, but I did find it unnerving. The whole tone of the movie just did something to me no other movie has done
I get that sometimes tone and atmosphere is bigger than words said
The 2004 Thai movie Shutter.
Still haunts me.
I’ve had 2 sleep paralysis episodes in my life and both of them were themed around The Grudge. I’ve never really been scared by horror movies before or since I saw that at the cinema as a teenager, but for some reason that movie rocked me. It also started my lifelong obsession with Ju-On (though I have never rewatched The Grudge) and Asian horror in general.
Kayako is the ultimate ghost villain; once you are cursed, you are fucked. There is no protection ritual, no solving of unfinished business, no escaping a haunted location. She can get to you anywhere, any time of day. She can distort reality to trap you and even time travel. I have goosebumps while writing this comment!
I’ve also had two episodes of SP but I didn’t know what they were until after the first one, which was a generic old “witch” sitting on my chest. However, by the time I got the second one I had read up enough about it that I thought it wouldn’t be so bad - nope, it was just as terrifying of not more so because I knew what was happening and couldn’t really do anything about it
my sp episodes usually consist of me being bound in some way, usually by and invisible force. my first one was really horrifying, with my vision going all red and black, and the one thought racing through my mind being “you have to wake up”. now they’re usually just met with feelings of annoyance that I can’t simply wake up, lol.
also recently began gaining the ability to lucid dream, which has had some scary results as well. one time where it happened, I was in a messed-up version of an old childhood house, and I kept calling out “hello” to see if anyone would help me. another one was where I was looking in the mirror, sad that I had three eyes. then, I became lucid because I remembered that I’m not supposed to have three eyes.
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Watching that as a little kid was not a good idea lol
SKINAMARINK.
Two kids wake up in the middle of the night, and things are just … Not right. The door’s not where it’s supposed to be, the chairs in the dining room aren’t right, mum and dad are acting odd…
It’s such a primal form of horror for me, when simple things are just - different… It’s either painfully boring for people, or uniquely terrifying.
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Nothing. It was shit.
I think if you’re expecting traditional horror, it’s more likely just going to frustrate for sure.
You either have the fear the director is trying to evoke, or you don’t.
I wasn’t expecting traditional horror, but I was expecting at least a traditional movie instead of like an hour and a half of the tops of doors with some grunting.
I’ve trawled many streaming services looking for horror, and I’ve watched some of the worst drivel imaginable in the far depths of Amazon Prime, but at least they were all still movies. This is more an arthouse thing.
Fair enough, a CBC News review said
“Even though [Skinamarink] has cemented its place as one of my favourite releases of 2023, I almost feel I’d have better odds playing Russian roulette with a fully loaded gun than finding someone to recommend it to who’d actually enjoy it.”
It’s not a narrative film as much as just a mood, an evocation, tapping into a very unique experience.
Lord that does sound scary
Never been one to get scared by horror movies. I just can’t get the buy in necessary to feel scared for the characters. However, the closest to traditional horror I can think of that really was effective was Green Room. It’s intense in its loud parts and tense in it’s quiet. It’s realistic modern cult horror.
If you expand the field out a bit and look to more of a ‘leaves you with dread about reality’ effect, ‘When the Wind Blows’ is very affecting. It’s animated but the story is quite realistic.
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The Woman in Black with Daniel Radcliffe is absolutely terrifying. not jump scarey, just intense dread and horror as some of the scenes linger on.
the sequel was alright but couldn’t quite match the intensity
I didn’t find it that scary but based on it’s popularity, I went to see the stage production in London - it was awful and pretty much all the “horror” relied on jump scares with loud music/noise stings.
Bone Tomahawk. I am forever scarred and wish I hadn’t seen a certain part.
Loved that fun buddy cowboy movie. Such a great time… until
This one took me by total surprise & will never forget ‘that’ scene!
As a kid, it was Pet Cemetery; but, like, the flashback part of the wife’s sick sister.
As an adult, it was The Fourth Kind. I had gotten pretty drunk and high before putting it on, and I didn’t know jack shit about it so I thought that the “real” footage was, you know, real and when they showed a guy floating off the couch in the therapist office with the “real” footage I freaked out. 🤣
The Babadook had me hiding behind my hands too scared to look at the screen. I was so uncomfortable with what was happening on screen
Personally “Cannibal Holocaust” but apparently “A serbian film” is worse in almost every aspect. I haven’t seen that one thought. But I believe that anything worse than these two would be actual snuff movies.
A serbian film is certainly worse. But it’s also kind of cringe, because it’s JUST bad. Like when i watched that movie all i could think about was 10 edgy guys sitting in a room and think about the worst shit they could put in a movie. Bro, “newborn porn” woah sick dude.
Yeah, you hit the nail on the head. Serbian Film isn’t scary, it’s just gross and controversial.
