I've always had a soft spot for The Exorcist.
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I have so far refused to see the exorcist. I don't think I could handle it.
The Serpent and the Rainbow. It's been 20 years since I've seen it so I don't know if it holds up.
Oh shit that's the name of that movie! I was a teenager when we had it on VHS. Maybe deserves a rewatch now that I know the name again.
as far as feature films go, probably the shining. I found the blood coming down the hallway to be really unsettling. also, since I'm a huge wuss, there were a couple analog horror series that freaked me out; in particular, dreams of an insomniac by pastra on youtube. I'd highly recommend that one, mainly due to how cool the art direction is.
A Serbian Film wasn't scary but it was the most horrific thing I've ever seen and would never watch it again.
Hard to say what the scariest is because I don't personally find movies scary.
- The Exorcist (1973).
- Funny Games (1997).
- Eden Lake (2008).
- Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008).
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Threads (1984). I was in shock for a week when I first saw that. No horror film has come close.
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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.
Man, it is such a sleeper! The title doesn't make it obvious as a horror film, and it isn't one of the bigger successes, but it is awesome
Heard this title my while life, only today learned it's a horror movie.
It is, indeed :)
The only horror that has really had an effect on me is The Descent. I think it’s the claustrophobic nature of being underground and then hunted by those things. I can’t think of any other horror that has sent a shiver literally all the way down my spine before.
If you liked The Descent, you should try As Above, So Below. They felt very similar to me.
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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!
I'm not sure that's a very good measure of fear, though.
If you showed me an average jump-scare-infused "horror" flick of the variety that gets tossed out by the film-making industry every five minutes or so, you'd see my blood pressure and heart rate spike each time, but five minutes after the end I'd likely not even be able to identify that film it was I'd watched.
On the other hand, The Thing (the John Carpenter version) keeps me feeling unsettled each time I think of it (and has the occasional starring role in my rare nightmares). During the movie, though? Maybe a blood pressure increase, and a slight increase in heart rate. But nothing compared to the jump-scare fodder.
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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?”
The OG was from 1951. You mean the 1982 remake.
I had the 2011 reboot in mind :P
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 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!
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The 2004 Thai movie Shutter.
Still haunts me.
Honestly the closest to reality that drove me sick was the OG, Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It’s so fucking gross and terrifying.
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!
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Bone Tomahawk. I am forever scarred and wish I hadn't seen a certain part.
This one took me by total surprise & will never forget ‘that’ scene!
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This has two answers.
First, which film scared me the most when I watched it: To my shame it's Gamera. (I was a young child.)
Second, which film I consider the scariest now: Probably John Carpenter's The Thing.
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.
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.
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
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