Old thread, but I just have to throw Tusk into the ring. It's unsettling, weird, unrelenting and has a great build up.
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Blair Witch Project. But only as a kid. Stuff hits different when you’re 12…and an idiot. You have to buy into the “this movie is real” bullshit juuuuuuust long enough until the credits roll.
Every fall I seek out horror as a franchise* and there are a lot of amazing horror movies that are good movies in themselves or projects on YouTube or well made crime podcasts. I love the feeling of glooming dread, which I actually hunt for once a year. But nothing is scary anymore as it was as a kid.
*)accept video games. I cried like a bitch in RE8 in that baby basement. I left the lights on when I played Iron Lung. And even thinking about playing Alien Isolation makes me hyperventilate. I can’t handle any of this. No thanks.
As a kid in the early 90s I taped tons of horror movies from TV to VHS, so I was kind of used to the scary stuff. In 1999 I had just turned 16 and was finally allowed into the cinema to watch horror (16+). I'm from a small town without a cinema, so me and a friend took the train to the big city.
We knew nothing about The Blair Witch Project other than from the posters. It was surreal walking out of that movie, back into a bustling city where no one had any idea of what we had witnessed. That movie felt so damn real. No other visit to the cinema has been able to live up to that.
Probably The Cube from 1997. I watched far more graphic and "loud" horror films, but The Cube still remains one of the most unsettling and genuinely scary for me.
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.
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
My mouth just dropped Holy hell
This one of my absolute favorite. I have no idea why. It's absolutely fucked.
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.
Came here to post this.
I woke up sweaty and screaming from nightmares about the ending several times, up to 6 months after seeing it.
I may have been particularly susceptible, though, because I was living in Sheffield at the time and was badly affected by birth trauma.
Like a couple people in the comments, I've been watching horror for a long time, and I'm always looking for a real good scare. I'm having more and more trouble finding something that really hits the spot.
Scariest is tough because the scare fades after the first watch. Scariest is always the one you're watching now.
Quarantine was so stressful we had to stop halfway through because my wife was worried that she was going to have a stroke. The concern was due to an ongoing medical issue and not just the stress from the movie. However, that never happened before or since. We finished it the next day.
Insidious was good.
I liked Talk to Me, and I just watched Bring Her Back, and it was really unsettling.
Smile
The Orphanage
Probably the first movie that scared me was an incredibly cheesy B-movie comedy/horror that scared the hell out of me when I was a very young kid. Invasion of the Saucer Men. Had me jumping into my bed from the doorway for years.
Event Horizon.
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.
Communion with the whole 'im doing nothing scary but just standing here, being all alien sleep paralysis demon' did leave a mark
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.
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.
Haven't seen it. I'll have to check it out.
Final Destination as a kid.
Sinister, it was my first horror movie ever and it took like 10 years until I was ready to watch another.
Signs with Mel Gibson, because I didn't know that I had an irrational fear of aliens at the time and so going into that unprepared got me so shook that I was clutching my girlfriend and shaking.
Also, Cats the original Broadway recording, but that's only because I'm a sane and rational person, and the instant I see furry singing, I lose my shit.
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
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
Permanent scar. No therapy will ever fix that. Sorry for your troubles.
Try Nuovo Orden. Just a film I saw lately that stayed in my mind a bit longer.
Honestly I'm really terrified with one film called Hatred (as I remember, maybe not 100% accurate), a film about Ethnic hates and cleansing on eastern Europe. It takes on the time during WW2, but god . . . Many scenes of the films is really makes me sick for nearly half of a day (or night at the moment when I watch that film)