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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.
Requiem for a Dream
That fridge though
That’s not the scene ppl remember
Huh? What is then? I watched it relatively recently and don’t remember anything that spooky apart from that. What like the arm?
ASS TO ASS
Meh. Who hasn’t done that?
You will never seen Jennifer connelly get fucked like that again, trust me.
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.
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 :)
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.
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.
Oh god that terrified me too. I haven’t seen it in years but I remember it pretty clearly. I remember screaming the first time you see thr monster
Have to ask if the version you watched is the extended (or proper) ending? There’s the US version which cuts off the true ending which is shown in the UK (at least) version. The truer ending makes it even more disturbing.
Never fea I’m british so I’ve seen the true ending. And can confirm disturbing as fuck
If you liked The Descent, you should try As Above, So Below. They felt very similar to me.
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!
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 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.
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.
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.
I’ve always had a soft spot for The Exorcist.
I have so far refused to see the exorcist. I don’t think I could handle it.
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.
+1
Watching that as a little kid was not a good idea lol
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!
Loved that fun buddy cowboy movie. Such a great time… until
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.
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.
