Probably Jacob’s ladder, 1990. Maybe not the ‘scariest’ but the most… unsettling/frightening one.
One of my favourites. I should probably watch that again sometime.
By all means (but be prepared, I wasn’t that less… impacted the second time I watched it)
This one hit me like a truck…
Indeed.
Possibly Martyrs. If you don’t know, then maybe avoid it.
The famous ending
The movie ends with the main character getting their skin surgically cut off their entire body.
Just watched this one last night and wish I hadn’t. Though I don’t think it’s actually scary, just disturbing torture porn
Threads.
I like horror because it’s fantasy and it stops being scary as soon as the movie ends, kind of like a carnival ride.
This is not fantasy, and it is truly horrible.
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Event Horizon.
I watch a lot of scary movies but the scariest by far has to have been Lake Mungo. It’s a real slow burner that essentially has just one scare, but it’s a pretty effective and existential one that actually kept me up at night. I don’t think I’ve ever had that happen since.
Just watched a review of this film with spoilers after reading your post. Yeah, that’s a pretty creepy concept and it looks like its execution was well done.
It definitely was. I went in completely blind, that probably added to the experience.
I’m gonna have to say Communion because it was the first one that popped into my head.
I don’t think it’s a scary or maybe even particularly good movie as an adult but I was a kid at the age where I was still worried about monsters under my bed or in my closet when the lights are switched off. So I’m sure the abduction scenes added fuel to my already over active imagination.
Other than that, I’m not sure if I really get genuine fear from horror movies. And I don’t really count jump scares as genuine emotion. I think I’d describe what these kinds of movies make me feel as “anxiety” rather than “fear”. I think it’s why I also prefer supernatural or fantasy type horror to Saw type shit. In a movie like Saw, the anxiety is just unpleasant.
I’ve never watched Saw, I think it would be too graphic for me.
Yeah those kinds of movies are just too much cruelty for me personally. I’ve seen the first one but I’ve pretty much avoided everything else like it since. I prefer spooky and suggestive.
Communion with the whole ‘im doing nothing scary but just standing here, being all alien sleep paralysis demon’ did leave a mark
Sinister, it was my first horror movie ever and it took like 10 years until I was ready to watch another.
Smile. The sequel is also quite scary but the first one is just…well fuck, it still haunts me. I’d say my tolerance for horror is medium maybe medium high. Some friends of mine can handle far worse, but for me the right amount of existential dread and horror is Smile.
Just the advert for that creeped me out it looks way too scary for me
If I think a movie is going to be too scary, or just don’t have time to watch the full movie, I usually just watch Ryan Hollinger’s review of it on YouTube. He’s a great Film Critic that specializes reviewing the Horror genre, and if you don’t mind spoilers and just want the plot and analysis of horror films/games, he’s a great resource.
Here is his channel link.
When I saw Smile 2 in theaters I thought I was going to have a heart attack. That movie has the most intense jump scares I’ve seen in quite a while
The reason I think the first one is more frightening is for one, the sequel is…the sequel, we’re aware of the nature of the entity is by the time we’re watching the sequel and because of that, the discovery phase of the horror is slightly dulled. Don’t get me wrong, its still terrifying, but part of the horror of the first movie is the absolute brutality of the reveal at the end. In the sequel, we can more reasonably suspect exactly how it’s going to go down, with some admittedly intriguing caveats that keep the second movie interesting.
Secondly, I just feel like the protagonist of the first film is far more relatable than the protagonist of the second, but that’s just a personal take. I think most fans of the franchise actually disagree with me on that one.
I will say that the sequel is very well done though and is just different enough from the first film to garner a watch as it’s not solely a repeat of the beats from the first film.
I do very much love the Smile series as you can probably tell, and horror isn’t usually my jam. Just this one…it did manage to terrify me in a unique way that I don’t think I’ll ever forget.
Paranormal Activity the original, while sitting alone in the middle of my friend’s living room watching on his projector. The one and only time.
That’s a great way to watch it
Old thread, but I just have to throw Tusk into the ring. It’s unsettling, weird, unrelenting and has a great build up.
I just googled think it’s too much for me…
Try Nuovo Orden. Just a film I saw lately that stayed in my mind a bit longer.
The Notebook
Bored at home by myself one summer
Decided to snoop through my parents stuff
Find an unmarked VHS cassette in a cabinet
Sweet! A movie I haven’t seen before
Pop it in the VCR
It’s my parents conceiving me
