Name a single actually scary horror movie.
Name a single actually scary horror movie
The Grifter
This one is pretty good.
too soon
if you are not watching them alone in the dark with the volume loud you are basically cheating.
Gone girl
this only works for horror vidya. movies arent actually scary.
My TV is always at max loudness often I wear earplugs because of it. My neighbour is a faggot.
texas chainsaw isnt really scary but its disturbing. i cant think of an actually scary horror movie. texas chainsaw evokes the strongest emotion of disgust in me out of any movie so ill just say that
A serbian film
That's not actual horror, that's cheap goyslop nervous system manipulation
Women Talking
paranormal activity 1
The japanese version of the grudge is pretty scary
What are some good horror movies that came out recently? I don't think I've been genuinely spooked since I watched hereditary when it came out, honorable mention to annihilation with the bear scene wish the whole movie was like that.
I have the same problem with midsommer it basically tries to go the shock factor route with the gore which made it disturbing but I never felt any dread it never built up and delivered the scares
Annihilation
Such an underrated gem. Fucking chuds shitting on it only because of the full female cast. Which admittedly sucks, but the movie is still good.
Last time I sincerely felt spooked and had trouble sleeping was after watching the owl demon in Under the Silver Lake. She truly scarred me, can’t explain why, but she gave me the same sensation Lynch movies give.
Scariest "movie" i've ever seen is pic related documentary about sleep paralysis because it's fucking real and happens to people often. Turned it off half way through and didn't sleep for nights because I was paranoid I'd induce it
Annihilation had a couple good scenes. The bear scene was obviously great but I found the part where they found the footage of the fellas and they were cutting him open and it was all squirmy to be pretty good.
The Shining. I somehow coerced my mother to let me watch that at my 10 bday party sleepover and it definitely fucked some kids up.
sleep paralysis is a disproportionately a woman's trouble
for that reason, I tend to believe it's not a real phenomenon
Where did you get that info nigger
I'm a male and as a child I had a shadow figure of a large man watch me in my bed in my doorway
Whoever made the OP image is a gay loser
nemo in dreamland
Have you ever considered there was actually a man there?
Otherwise right now you sound like a woman complaining about having "alopecia" to explain your baldness, without mentioning you wore a tight braided weave every day for 30 years
What are you talking about? you're fucking brown
There are none. But people arent ready to have that conversation
I watched it. What did I think?
with headphones, and front door unlocked. enjoy.
I've had sleep paralysis, you cunt. I know several men who have too. Honestly I always assumed it was something everyone faces at least once in their life, like a migraine
/thread
I really enjoy the Smile movies but they aren't scary at all. They're incredibly campy, actually
I'm a man and I've had it several times. Anon is probably one of those solipsist retards. He can't imagine what it would be like to not have breakfast this morning.
Thought the sequencing and creature design in the first one was fantastic and quite affective, even now. Horror is going to come across as campy to people, so whatever.
This is the answer horrorfags don't want to accept. Games are 1000x more scary than movies. Actually getting immersed, you controlling the action, you deciding to go down the dark corridor, you having to think and make decisions under stress while the monster is after you. All combine to make it a far more intense experience compared to passively watching someone on the screen that you mock as stupid for not knowing the killer is hiding behind the couch
put a gun to your head with your finger on the trigger for bonus points
my vlog diary desu
It's a great design and well-done sequence, yeah, but it's not scary as the OP requested. And a lot of the human smiles in the movies are very silly. However, I forgot about the sister jumpscare in the first film when I posted my first reply. I'll admit that that was one of the most effectively done scares I've seen in a long time
I like both and everyone I know who could be considered a "horrorfag" does too.
Spoorloos/The Vanishing
There's something about getting chased in a horror video-game that never fails to physically activate my fight-or-flight response. It's like a rollercoaster. I don't think I've ever even come close to that level of tension in a horror movie
surprised no one has mentioned sinister or lake mungo
Haunting of Hill House had the best scares
Scary horror films include Occult, Lake Mungo, Ring and Possum
a lot of the human smiles in the movies are very silly
Well, naturally I don't think it came down to casting people who had perfectly scary smiles, although the main chick who played Laura is great. At least they're not CG ones like Truth or Dare. Not scary? Again, that's entirely subjective. People say The Exorcist or Hereditary are scary and they didn't phase me at all.
Some of the scenes were really effective, it reminded me of the fears I had as a kid about what could be in the dark or dolls being alive.
It brought back some of those sleep paralysis moments I had as a kid.
The Sinnister
Most stuff doesn’t scare me, but I thought The Boogeyman from a couple years ago had some really solid scares. It’s worth watching just for David Dastmalchian’s scene alone, he’s so good.
I like how this movie's poster blatantly ripped off Cry of Fear's
The most scary movie of all time : Real life
I didn’t like Smile 2 due to the ending which revealed most of the movie didn’t happen, but the opening of that movie is so fucking good. It’s one of the best horror movie openings I’ve ever seen, probably the best desu.
The Navidson Record
that maze stuff was pretty spooky
lake mungo
I kind of pushed that one from my memory it was too much for me. Don't really care for sinister it had some good moments but the ghost kids running around ruined it for me.
why does she look like a rabbit
>Annihilation
Yeah, the cuck blacked shit out of nowhere was pretty scary indeed
Sinister is one of those movies I used to love, but really soured on as I grew up and understood that the studio forced them to include all that bullshit that drags the movie down. You know what bullshit I’m talking about.
That said, I think the plot of Sinister 2 is genuinely genius for a sequel but is a shittily put together movie.
That said, I think the plot of Sinister 2 is genuinely genius for a sequel
How so?
The plot is about Deputy Corporal Ray Person from the first film who feels guilt over being unable to save Ethan Hawke. He knows about Mr. Boogey and knows how he works, so he becomes an independent investigator looking for any houses that may fit the pattern and burning them to the ground - ensuring the demon can’t spread and take another family. Except he comes across one house where he’s too late and that already has a new family in it.
It’s a genuinely great way to continue the plot established in the first film as opposed to just repeating the same thing again with new characters.
oh yes what a great movie not a total piece of shit or anything
I recently watched Lake Mungo. Recommended.
I think that there's a distinction between scary and dread. Scary, in my definition, includes the grotesque and jump scares and loud sounds and all the shock stuff. Great when used sparingly (like the closet scene in The Ring) but perhaps easily overdone. Great if that sort of thing works for you.
Dread is that sense of unease and being out of the known experience. When something different and wrong is happening. That is pretty rare and for me this film achieved it. That is what makes a horror film special to me.
Kairo (Pulse) is another film with this feeling.
Hell House LLC is more of a conventional horror film and was really good.
Does anyone know the horror short where the POV is someone peeping at an apartment block from another apartment block, witnesses a supernatural murder and then a few seconds later has something pounding on his door? It was Russian or something and was obviously inspired by Polanski's The Tenant.
It was Russian
It's brazilian. At least the version i saw. Maybe more than one people did a short like this.
I like both and I've never not accepted whatever bullshit you're saying troll
I've had sleep paralysis several times mostly when I was too stressed to sleep it's a wierd feeling but I didn't see any shadow people
Watched this hungover and felt like I was getting the Ludovico Treatment from clockwork.
inb4 it’s not horror
Yeah it is.
Curse of the Blair Witch
The Grudge is one of those rare exceptions where the "Hollywood" version stands toe to toe with the original. I put that in quotes because it's really the same movie made by the same director and crew filmed back to back with the original, but they flew American actors out to the set to make an alternate version for the western market. Arguably the English version works better as a standalone film since they incorporated the necessary background info from The Curse.
The Annihilation bear is by far the scariest movie monster we've gotten in the last 20 years. Personally hated Hereditary but if that spooked you I'd recommend the new Nosferatu. I was smiling like an idiot through the entire movie and some sequences are plenty spoopy.
Hate to admit that I fell asleep during Lake Mungo. I also fell asleep during Noroi, but from what I saw of it they actually did a good job blending the general feeling of dread while incorporating some really offputting visuals.
I checked out Kairo without having heard of it, though the cashier commented that it was really good when I picked it up. Had no idea where it was going and ended up being more intrigued than frightened, though I'll grant it that the suicide jump was such a convincing shot that it startled me more than pretty much any jumpscare. Ended up rebuying the movie just to get the special edition that breaks down how they pulled that effect off.
Hell House didn't have enough of a payoff at the end for me to feel like it was worth watching, even as a found footage fan.
Is the other TV mockumentary in the series worth going out of my way to find? I always liked this one and the additional footage they included on the website, which sadly no longer works even though it was up and running at least as recently as when the last movie came out.
And if you're a big fan who hasn't seen it yet, I'd highly recommend the 25th anniversary remaster. I always assumed BWP was just an interesting bad looking movie, but apparently that's because Artisan and later Lionsgate were using a transfer that had been copied back and forth between film and digital several times for every release. Original crew went back and made a new master that looks amazing which Lionsgate wouldn't even take for free, but Second Sight used it for their collector's edition.
The other great thing that edition brought us is an extra hour and a half of deleted scenes, which if you watch right after the movie basically provides an alternate look at their descent into madness in chronological order that focuses a lot more on the characters' feelings than the spooky environment. Mike has his own little confession to the camera scene after Heather that's basically one of the saddest scenes ever filmed for a horror movie and hits really hard towards the end of a three-hour block of watching the theatrical cut and then the alternate material. My next favorite thing in the collector's edition is a printed reproduction of Heather's journal, which was originally part of the defunct website I previously mentioned. It's nice to have that material back.
I liked this one when it was about creepy recordings of gruesome murders and a creepy aparation leering in. When the ghost kids began to show up I lost interest because they felt too "physical", too "material", it lacked the creepy factor the rest of the movie had at that point.
No, not really
Why it's cool
No such thing. Anyone who is frightened, in any way, by a movie has the emotional maturity of a child.
What is this
Nobody agrees on horror movies because you have to be in the right mood on the first watch or it doesn't work.
NPR parody
watching lake mungo at night in dark room
I only watch horror movies at night by myself, often with headphones.
People who watch horror movies with other people are pussies.
thats some real internet horror all right, 5/10
This is one tough SOB
i thought jacob's ladder was scary and I saw that as an adult, shining is pretty scary on first viewing though I saw that when I was a kid but I'm convinced its decent a decent scary movie
it was solid
t.major chud
and yes the cuck stuff was unnecessary and the female cast was weak, but despite that it was good scifi horror and the climax at the lighthouse was really wild, of course bear scene is a modern classic
that movie is funny not scary idiot
Ayy didn't junji ito do a story like this? I loved it but could never find it.
ive gotten sleep paralysis many times (used to get lots of bad nightmares and then my drug use caused the sleep paralysis often enough) the shadow entities that are out to get you are scary the ones that just kinda loom somewhere in your room, the ones that I really really hate are when you open your eyes and its like a scary face is staring directly at your face an inch from you like some freaky horror movie doll or ghost, that has happened to me like twice but its even worse than the shadow people
If you think that any "horror" movie is scary, you're an idiot. Jump-scares, shitty costumes, and "gore" isn't scary. You want scary? Watch The Hunt (2012). THAT is some scary shit.
Kidnapped
When Evil Lurks
Funny Games
Noroi The Curse
Melancholia
That's not even scary, because Mads handled that whole situation like a cuck, I would have handled it different
House on haunted hill 1999
too much for me
you don't mean too scary right? outside of the one scene it was a total slog for me
I forgot Speak No Evil (original version) probably the last horror movie to leave me with a sickening feeling
Loved this doc
I've always been fascinated with sleep paralysis to the point where I've tried to induce it, but nothing ever happens :/
This anon might be onto something, the only people I've know to have full blown sleep paralysis are females lmao
Agreed about The Grudge. I'd argue that the remake is better than the original, due to the better budget. Really creepy.
Hate to admit that I fell asleep during Lake Mungo....
Sounds like you've been on the quest and checking stuff out. Respect. Maybe you like faster-pacing and more scene variety. Assuming that you're OP, do YOU have any horror movies that you find genuinely scary?
Worth checking out. There's some stuff in that film that works very well. Grave Encounters has some tonal similarities and was a good, somewhat scary found footage film.
It's a tough recommendation because it's one of the few films that is genuinely scary for people for whom it's one of the few films that is scary, and it's boring for other people.
yeah hellhouse is more fun for a douchebag adult found footage horror but its not really that scary just has some fun classic visuals, did you see Grave Encounters that one had some really solid moments til they took it too far
Entire town turns against you because some little girl says you kissed her and now everyone thinks you're a pedophile
There's nothing you can do differently because women side with toddlers that dont understand anything
I watched Grave encounters like 10x, great movie as well. They made a sequel, it's not the best, but worth a watch.
Alternate from the Mandela Catalogue
yeah I kinda feel robbed by Lake Mungo, im not a huge hater type viewer I try to give everything its chance but Mungo wasn't doing it for me, I really want to experience it like th people who like it but now that I've seen it once and it was weak its over, kinda reminded me of some asian horrors ive seen but asians always do it right
Sweltering (1992)
shock =/= scary
do you take melatonin? try that and maybe set an alarm to wake you up before you'd be comfortable, part of triggering it is waking up in a period where you're supposed to be dreaming but you wake up too early
starring Kevin Nash?
Rear Window mainly for the scene where he's looking through the other guys apartment and his girlfriend can see the other guy coming home early
gore ai can handle, jumpscares are cheap, extended uncomfortable situations kill me
hitchcock had a good balance for shock, gore, and disturbing, most modern stuff just goes for shock and gore because the writers can't write and the actors can't act
shock is why people say Martyrs is scary, i havent seen it but people hype it alot
Lake Mungo
Blair Witch Project
The Grudge (remake)
Rear Window is such a classic, a lot of people hype up Disturbia which I'm pretty sure is a straight copy
you guys really swear the Grudge (american) is genuinely scary? when it came out it felt like hollywood random girl type horror and I dismissed it, I'm gonna finally watch it cause of this thread
I have never seen a Hitchcock movie.
Spoorloos / The Vanishing
Kubrick said The Shining was child's play in comparison.
the one thing I hate in that movie and vertigo is that I don't like seeing jimmy stewart sad
I love Harvey because he's so happy but everyone I've watched it with thought it was creepy
its good - unlike remake of Ringu.
They're genuinely good
He made a comedy too, if you don't want scary, The Trouble With Harry
santa from the og miracle on 34th street is in it, it's fun
the og miracle on 34th street
Required December viewing.
A MAN'S GOTTA STAY WARM
thinking about it I'm fairly certain the woman who santa sends to a different store for the toy her kid wants but comes back to thank macy for putting helping her kid over money is in rear window too
rear window
vertigo
north by northwest
strangers on a train
psycho
theres your normie Hitchcock film package to go from where you're at to someone who knows and appreciates what hes done, a lot of people think of him as Psycho and Birds but those movies are definitely his outliers and Vertigo is his real classic, total mind fuck
Not the OP. Sleeping during Lake Mungo and Noroi was moreso just me being too tired to stay awake at the time I watched them. I'm actually a sucker for horror movies set entirely in samey environments since I also wrote that long post about the Blair Witch rerelease.
Haven't seen it but I've been meaning to check it out and I'm seeing good consensus ITT. Maybe it'll be next.
It falls more squarely into the "jumpscare horror" category than the original but it's by far the best movie in that style.
Also since I haven't seen anyone bring them up yet, I'm just gonna name drop 30 Days of Night and The Descent. Early 2000's horror was mostly geared towards shock and are only good if you're watching them as comedies, but there were a small handful that managed to by chilling while retaining the decade's signature style.
Ring is exactly what I'm talking about when I say Hollywood horror for chicks, that said I enjoyed it regardless cause the creepy video, well atmosphere, and the distorted photos, had decent atmosphere but again it wasn't really that scary, is Ringu actually "scary"
is Ringu actually "scary"
Not really, no. For the big two J-horror franchises, Ring has the better story, Ju-On has the better scares. They're both good but for different reasons.
not quite a horror but Picnic at Hanging Rock is a must see for anyone who likes unnerving atmospheric scary films, pretty old which is often a good thing with horror
hasn't seen Grave Encounters
you are in for a treat, its semi comedic but end of the day its a really solid spooky found footage team of adults film, doesn't do anything that'll surprise you but its really effective at its simple horror and the cast is amusing
Kolobos
it will always amaze me that psycho was so hated in concept that he had to pay for it out of his own pocket and have the crew from his tv show film it because no studio would fund it
One of the most fun things about older movies is just the relative lack of actors back then and noticing those fun little character actors in every third movie lol
Over one hundred replies deep and still no definite answer, part of it is because what people consider "scary" is subjective but I couldn't help but notice half the thread is about Lake Bungo which has a more feeling of unease/dread than scariness. Here are a couple movies I would consider "scary" although I don't get scared by movies.
Sinister
Insidious
Blair Witch Project
Noroi
Hell House
The Phoenix Tapes '97
The Wailing
The Conjuring
Rec
The Mist
Movies that give that sense of dread
Session 9
Cure
Pulse
The Taking of Deborah Logan
Event Horizon
The Road
The Witch
The Thing
The best movies would be able to pull one or both off flawlessly. To pick the scariest the people in this thread need to stop confusing dread, despair, etc. with fear. I enjoyed all the above movies which is why I listed them out but I'm still searching for more great movies.
Horror is a pornographic genre. It's mean to cause a visceral and shocking psychosexual reaction in your brain and play with your chemicals. No wonder the audiovisual mediums are the best at it. They are the best ways of control as well. If you enjoy horror games and movies you'd probably enjoy being sodomized as well.
lake mungo sucks imotbh
I think the thing counts as both
Not a resounding endorsement but enough to push me to finally check out GE2. Looks like some of the same writers and directors were involved so should be decent.
I have a feeling that if I'd watched it during the daytime, or with other people, or in a different mood - it wouldn't have hit the target quite so well.
Martyrs is the only film I've seen that I don't really have a word for. It's an awful mindfuck of an experience that I'd prefer to get out of my brain. Maybe the word is traumatic, if that word wasn't watered down. Or hideous. This is all meant as a compliment - tremendously effective film in every regard.
Weirdly, Noroi did nothing for me. The biggest takeaway from that film was "don't let other people hype you too much" because I think I'd have liked it better without high expectations. Had some great lore and locations.
Good lists.
Oh my heckin' science my heckin' scary unwholesome sleep paralysis!
The Exorcist.
The demon guy is scary looking but the movie itself being about evil kids is lame as hell
You are probably thinking of this one junjiitomanga.fandom.com
The Exorcist III
Yes this is it..
Society by Brian Yuzna and Screaming Mad George
Ring has the better story, Ju-On has the better scares
perfect summary
Bros I’m watching Twin Peaks right now and I’m scared as FUCKJNG SHIT BALLS FUUUUUUCCCCK
Terrified is an Argentine film that is actually scary in terms of creepiness with a mix of a few jumpscares and horrifying visuals. It’s a true horror movie in that it’s not going for gore or shock value. Fair warning though, it’s scary. By the same director of When Evil Lurks.
haunting of hill house. the netflix series. masterpiece
This/
Gerald's Game is both one of the most underrated and most terrifying fucking things I have ever seen, do not look up ANYTHING about it and just go watch it blind. the movie's best scare can be ruined with a single image so dont research anything, just watch it
that one with mel gibson in the corn field
YOU SAID IT WASN'T REAL
The exorcist.
Played so many horror games but the ones that actually had me getting fully sweating and completely immersed in fear is dead space 2
I think its really the combination of having tools/weapons to fight back and still have that extremely ominous atmosphere makes it really click
Games that are just run and hide or just stealth end up losing that tension and just end up being frustrating, even the best of this genre (alien isolation) gets annoying instead of scary.
And strong light exposure isn't nervous system manipulation? Don't be silly.
the light's out short was scary
everyone I've sent it to told me it spooped them
genuinely spooked since I watched hereditary
This and It Follows are peak reddit 'horror'. Fucking trash.
movies arent actually scary
DS2 is scary in moments but is not a great pick for your scariest game. It absolutely fucking rules, though, possibly one of the best sequels to ever exist in any medium.
That's not sleep paralysis, is just you being too scared to move.
I know this to be true because although I do not play horror games, I've occasionally gotten so immersed in this one relatively realistic FPS I play that it actually made me jump or get surprised/scared irl in way no movie ever really has. I really wanna play alien isolation, would you guys recommend it?
I really enjoyed this. It starts off so generically but the gradual reveal was very satisfying and unexpected.
pic
very good moments but the third act was disappointing
Except the problem that is just barely there in a movie becomes insurmountable in a game. Why the fuck would I go down that corridor?
I played the first resident evil when I was 7 and when I got to the first zombie cutscene, I just ran back out into the dining hall. Didn't think the fucker would follow me out there. He did and I switched the game off.
they hold up unbelievably well and will make you realise how dogshit a lot of modern movies are, and I say that as someone who likes a lot of modern movies. Rear view is an absolute must watch.
People missed the point so bad
The Grudge is one of those rare exceptions where the "Hollywood" version stands toe to toe with the original. I put that in quotes because it's really the same movie made by the same director and crew filmed back to back with the original, but they flew American actors out to the set to make an alternate version for the western market.
I agree and this would be my personal choice for op.
Don’t know that information but it totally makes sense why the remake was so good, arguably more frighteningly than the original.
I’ve watched as many jap horror as I can get my paws on and nothing comes close to that.
I can’t work out what the still is frok
Yeah, I agree. It had great scares though. Also happy to see my rabbit is still somewhere.
"Oddity".
What movie?
Underrated actually.
See
Forgot to green text what a faggot
Sorry
Movie is great for the first hour or so. The ending is incredibly shit.
As someone with it, there's a huge portion of complete bullshit and exaggeration.
the feeling of someone in the room, the figure standing there, yeah, auditory hallucinations like banging on doors, the inability to move, all true, but not scary past the age of 15 once you realize what it is, then it's more like Kill Bills "wiggle your big toe" scene.
but whatever the cunt with the aliens, or that dude who got molested, nah.. these cunts are bullshitting
Dark Water [2005] is a weak ghost story but authentically depicts the horror of low income American housing.