Personally, Last shift (2014).
Not meant movies get under my skin but that one really did.
As an adult I generally don’t really find horror all that unsettling.
Some that I don’t think have been mentioned:
Speak No Evil / Gæsterne (2022) - Even before things really escalate, there is a very uncomfortable atmosphere.
Audition (1999) - If you do watch this one, go in blind and do not look for additional information.
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) - This is more of an audio/visual experience than a horror movie.
As others have mentioned Possessor (2020) can also be very uncomfortable in a more implict way, both the core themes/plot and the depressing dystopian environment. Infinity Pool (2023), also by Brandon Cronenberg, has some of that, but it’s not as good as Possessor, IMO.
I feel like movies by Michael Haneke would make me uncomfortable (Funny Games reminds me of Speak No Evil), but I’ve never gotten to watching any of Haneke’s works.
I think it’s just because I watched it when I was a kid and it freaked me out so bad, but Event Horizon still scares the shit out of me to this day.
I watched this movie going in blind without knowing it was a horror movie - and that made it all that much more if a mind fuck.
I can’t wait for my kids to get just a little older so I can sit down with them to watch “my favorite sci fi movie” mwahahaha
Saaaaaaaaaaame. Had no idea, was 13 or 14 at the time and was home alone for the weekend. Yeah. FUuuuuuuu…
Yeah I think it was a new movie that came on HBO on a Friday night at like 8:00. I remember always eagerly awaiting to see what the movie was going to be that week.
At first I was like “Hell yeah, spaceships and mysteries! This is dope!”
Then I was like “Oh no”
I went into it knowing it would be extreme and I still get freaked out by it.
Event Horizon.
Yes. I accidentally watched it a few years ago. It had played some video games and now I zapped around the tv stations a bit. On one there was a warning like „the following movie contains disturbing scenes and violence, viewer discretion is adviced.“
Those weren’t that common, as movies with a higher age rating were required to be broadcasted late at night and usually tv stations didn’t need to show such warnings here. So it peaked my interest. And holy shit. Going in completely blind not knowing what to expect was a ride. It wasn’t helping that I just played dead space right before.
I am compelled to share this whenever Event Horizon is brought up
https://ukfilmnerd.wordpress.com/2016/10/28/what-could-have-been-26-event-horizon/
Yep. Nightmare fuel.
The descent, a >! Monster movie!< Inside of an already tense horror situation
The international/British ending is even better than the American version, in case that’s the version you watched
I just rewatched this in September and it held up much better than I expected. It is a really solid movie.
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TIL that’s not how you do spoilers on lemmy
That one scene from The Thing makes me jump every single time, it’s a masterclass in tension and making you instantly poo a little bit
Any idea on if the remake of The Thing was any good? I watched the original 80s version last year and loved it. Also, I read somewhere that Quinton Tarantino’s Hateful Eight was loosely based on The Thing, and after rewatching that I can see it.
The Thing from the 2000s is a prequel. It could be mistaken for being a remake because the plot mirrors the original in a lot of ways, but it happens before the 80s version. It’s not bad, but it’s not better than the original, it doesn’t add much either, but it isn’t bad. Additionally, the 80s version is actually a remake.
Influenced by. It’s splitting hairs, I know. But the idea of a group of people trapped together that can’t trust each other is ridiculously fertile ground that I’m surprised more people haven’t farmed.
To answer your question, the remake of The Thing was fine. Not good. Not bad. It’s fine. I wouldn’t turn it off if it were on but I wouldn’t go seeking it out.
The Head has entered the chat.
If you haven’t seen this 2020 series, do not look up any info or spoilers, just watch it.
I would also recommend watching The Head without getting any more info. It’s a solid, albeit flawed experience.
Agree - it does stumble but overall it’s a good ride. Someone also informed me that there are 2 more series - I thought it was a self-contained limited series. So back in I go
I can’t really remember the remake. But the original was burned into my brain so I think that is a review in itself?
Wait, I’m pretty sure the 80s The Thing was a remake of a movie from the 50s? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044121/
As far as I know it wasn’t an original. So the 2000s one would be a remake of a remake. Remake squared?
Yes, the scene in the 80s version of The Thing where they’re all tied next to each other is mind-blowing (and I guess poop-inducing too). I imagine that’s the one you’re talking about.
Horror doesn’t work on me. Take that as a challenge if you like.
That said, I give the nod to The Ring (the American remake of Ringu). Overall I thought the movie was kinda dull, but I liked how the jump scares worked and looked. I didn’t feel cheated by them, and the practical effects of making the girl look scared to death + seven days’ water logged was downright freaky. I have a behind-the-scenes shot from the intro, when the camera zooms in on her and her face morphs. You can go frame by frame on the Blu-ray and that image isn’t there, so I imagine makeup took the picture or someone else on set. You get more detail. Anyway, that image haunted me for years. I had it saved on my computer. (Still do in fact.) Now I look at it in awe, like “that’s the image that got to me.”
The scariest movie I watched was about child abuse, but that answer feels like a cop out for a horror community. Doesn’t really matter which one. People being shitty to each other is what really gets under my skin.
… can we see it?
I assume you mean the behind-the-scenes image? I didn’t know how to share images here, but I see the upload image button. (Sorry, I’m still a bit new to Lemmy.)
Much smaller than I remember. But this is the original file I got. Not sure where I found it. You could get a better shot by going to the 4K Blu-ray, going to about 8 minutes in (that’s from memory, it’s the very end of the cold open when the girl goes upstairs, it’s gonna change scenes to inside the room, then the camera is going to rush the door as the girl opens it, and there is like a third of a second of transition (so like what, 8 frames?) before it cuts to the title. The scene everyone remembers is when the mother says “I saw her face” and it shows you the girl in the closet and that shot lasts a few seconds, but this one was way scarier, IMO. Like freezing the frame and just looking at it, like holy shit they did not need to go so hard on a shot most people would miss.
I came in here just to mention The Ring. I haven’t seen it in almost 20 years, but was talking about it with my coworker earlier today! That scene where (spoiler) the main character is talking to her son and says “it’s over, I helped her” And he says “you weren’t supposed to help her” sticks with me to this day.
Chills.
It was Ringu that fucked me for months when I was younger.
Any shadow that was five or six feet high just made me think of Sadako, such was the mastery of the film. It was particularly challenging at night when shadows from the trees outside my window cast very tall and slim shadows.
It never really rattled me at the time either - the scene that royally stunned me was the reflection in the TV towards the end of the film.
Brilliant film fair play.
I saw The Exorcist in my early teens, I don’t know how well it’s aged but at the time that shit was scary.
As an adult I don’t find movies scary, but Annihilation has probably come the closest.
My mom mentioned that she saw the Exorcist in the theaters in the 70s and people were legitimately freaking the fuck out like running out of the theater.
I saw it much later in the 90s and the effects didn’t continue to hold up compared to more modern movies, so it didn’t really do much for me.
Kind of reminds me of the concept of Seinfeld is Unfunny where something is amazing at the time but then is copied by everything that follows, making it impossible to go back and look at the original in the same way.
I actually just checked, and sure enough that’s an example listed.
The Exorcist: First-time viewers today can appreciate the film’s quality, but likely won’t be all that impressed because so many of the things that were new about it when it came out, the things that led many of the sellout crowds who waited on line for hours to see it even if they threw up and fainted, have been so widely imitated and emulated that they don’t come across as shocking the way they did in 1974.
Watching Alien when I was a kid gave me nightmares that lasted decades, long past the time when horror movies actively scared me. I was fully aware of all of the aspects of movie making, I was in school for film, knew everything it took to make the original film and STILL would have nightmares. It dug into my hind-brain and didn’t let up.
The one that hit me hardest was Poltergeist. Saw that in the theater the night before 5th grade started and it wrecked me for two weeks. Watching it again last year, it’s still pretty freaky.
Can’t say it was the scariest, but I think Alien is all-time best. We’re all used to the memes and jokes, but have a sit down in a dark room and really let yourself get into it.
Fire In The Sky (1993). My goofball dad took me to see this in the theater when I was under 10 and I have recently downloaded it because I want to see if it was really all that scary. I still cannot bring myself to watch it.
I don’t know if scary is the word I would use, but it is creepy… Watch it, it’s a pretty good movie.
Is that the one with the eyeball? I’m not much older than you and that movie fucked me up.
Yes. It’s the eyeball. I wish I could forget.
Same here but we watched it at home, so I associated it with our house. Alien abduction stories seemed to be all the rage in the nineties, so I was already primed to be freaked out. Cue a few years of recurrent abduction nightmares.
Read the book Communion. It’ll mess with your head.
I did, and saw the movie too. I was a willing participant in my own traumatization.
Martyrs is up there
Yikes, came here to see if anyone would mention martyrs.
Scarring. Truly, concretely horrifying. Watched it once, and nearly every scene is still burned into my mind.
What year? I just looked it up and there are several Martyr titled flicks
2008, starring morjana aloui.
I thought about rewatching it several times, but I can still remember it very clearly and in sequence.
One day. Maybe.
Thanks!
You got it. Brace yourself.
I watched it for the first time last month and sincerely regret it. Not the “scariest” movie I’ve seen, but probably the most fucked up I’ve seen
Yyyyup, i watched it over a decade ago and feel the exact same way.
True horror.
I remember that viewing more clearly than movies I watched yesterday.
Fuck. That. Shit.
That movie was rough to watch. Well done though and good ending.
Martyrs along with Funny Games, Requiem for a Dream occupy this niche place in my brain. I intend to never watch them again, but think of them regularly. Like someone else mentioned, scenes remain clear in my head many years later in a way that isn’t true for most movies
The Skin I Live In, Benny’s Video are in that space with those movies as well.
I’m glad I saw them, but I will never ever watch them ever again.
I’ve been waiting to be in the right frame of mind for The Skin I Live In
Never heard of Benny’s Video. But I see it’s by Hanneke so I’ll add it to my list of films that I’m waiting to be in the right frame of mind for
The Blair Witch Project, but 1) I really hadn’t seen much horror at that point (not too long after it came out), and 2) it made me really motion sick, so I’m not sure how much that affected things. I stayed clear of the woods for a week or two afterwards, though.
The biggest thing that made Blair Witch scary was all the marketing and hype about it. They created a whole fake conspiracy theory online with fake news articles and everything that made it sound plausible. It was in the early days of the Internet so there wasn’t the instant fact checking that would happen today.
You could probably get away with telling kids today that it was real, but wouldn’t able to generate the same hype.
The movie for me was scary but not much for a long while, especially not until the ending. The context of these strange happenings make all the difference to me. So while one could think that there might be just a lunatic out there, who does all this shit for his sadistic satisfaction (which would give give a purely human reason to everything), the ending however shifted everything and made it MUCH scarier, at least for me.
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When she ran into this empty scary house in the middle of the night in the middle of the woods, shortly before the climax, and she suddenly sees her missing friend apparently deliriously standing in the corner of some basement room in complete darkness for who knows how long, facing the walls, is so uncanny to me that it almost made me shit my pants. It is a great ending scene since it tops all the events with a heavy surrealistic touch, without explaining anything to the viewer, so your imagination has to fill in the gaps. Was there a real Witch after all? What happened to him? Is there something unexplainable out there?
Not actually a horror movie, for me it is “Coherence”.
It creates this strange feeling something is off and something wil happen any moment now, aaany moment. Not going to spoil what is happening though.
I was thinking about Coherence, too. Though not technically scary, but in a nature-is-off eerie way. Like, stranger in a strange world.
My tops have been mentioned, so I’ll mention movie scenes that stayed with me…
Signs - the birthday party scene makes my skin crawl
Poltergeist 2 - I didn’t want braces FOR YEARS from the one scene
Hereditary - the girls death in the car is so unexpected
Hostel - the cut Achilles gets me everytime
Audition - needles in the eye
I never considered Signs a horror movie until I tried to rewatch it recently with my son. Got to that birthday party scene and he immediately noped out.
Fire in the sky
