There’s one thing that has stuck with me for more than a decade (probably). It was a very short youtube video. It was just a man and women in bed back to back. After a second it pans to the woman’s side of the bed and shes a scary looking monster demon lady. I think about it once or twice a week. Specifically when laying in bed with my lady and shes not facing me.I have no idea what its from. Youtube used to have alot of randomly terrifying content.
I have two movie, one of them not exactly scary but it shook me up severely.
Trigger warning: violence, sexual violence:
The French movie Irréversible (2002) is a thriller that tells the story of a guy taking revenge for the rape of his girlfriend. The story is told in reverse order and begins with the protagonist smashing the perpetrators head with a fire extinguisher and ends with him witnessing his girlfriend being raped.
For some stupid reason I had a phase in school were I was into edgy, gruesome french movies so I watched this. It left me kinda traumatised because of the rape scene. For some reason, right after I watched the movie we had a German lesson were we were asked what we did on the weekend. Stupid me thought it would be a good idea to tell the class about this movie and while retelling the stor, I bursted into tears…
The second movie is more fitting, I think: The Colour out of Space with Nick Cage is a lovecraftian horror movie that, for me, was so scary I could only watch it in bright daylight because I wasn’t even remotely able to anticipate what would happen next. With most horror movies I kinda figure out the “rules” and the style of the movie so that I kinda have an idea what might happen next so I’m less likely to be scared. Not with TCooS: The movie is all over the place and drastically changes its style and tone during the story. It’s great though and Nick Cage is completely crazy and off the rails in his role.
“Das Millionenspiel”, a German movie from 1970. It basically predicted modern media with a hint of squid games to it. It was so well done, people called in to the TV station to complain because they thought it was real.
Surprised no one has mentioned the French horror movie “Martyrs”, it’s famous for being one of those movies you never want to watch again. I used to watch more extreme horror until I watched Martyrs, it shook me up for a solid week and I haven’t been able to watch horror as casually I used to ever since. It’s not very gory or in line with typical shock content, just very sad and upsetting.
Yeah thats a particularly rough one. I saw it awhile ago.
Honestly, at the time, The Blair Witch Project.
I still think it’s a great horror movie.
Pretty sure you’re trying to forget Bedfellows
FUCKING AH. I guess I reversed the genders. What a horrible trip down memory lane.
Dread, by Clive Barker.
A short story. Ain’t telling you anything about it.
I do very much like Clive Barker.
For the horror readers, it’s in “Books of Blood, Volume 2.”
The Enigma of Amigara Fault aka the holes comic is pretty high up there.
The author is super famous but I’m not sure I’ve ever actually read any of his works.
I own a couple of Junji Ito’s works and I love them. His art style and timing really lends itself to the horror genre
I’ve heard hes excellent and I’m positive I’ve consumed some media directly from him or directly influenced by him. I’ve never read a Manga though.
Honestly I find myself liking his short stories more than I like the big series he’s famous for (Tomie, Uzumaki, Gyo, etc.) Amigara Fault is one of his short stories that’ll only take you a few minutes to get through if you ever think about checking out his manga.
I’ll look into it!
Honestly, Sphere (the book). On the surface it really appears to be standard Michael Crichton sci-fi/monster stuff, but when you realize what’s going on, the deeper the horror gets because it’s so much harder to face your fears when they physically manifest, especially in an already difficult environment.
SOMA continues to bother me. Much more about the ideas than the actual gameplay. It’s relevant. It feels more possible every year.
It’s either that or Stingers from Satisfactory, which are zero percent philosophical nightmare and just pure AAAAAA SHITSHITSHIT
The scariest aspects of SOMA apply to everyone regardless of scifi brain transfer/copy technology if you think about it. In the years immediately following the release of the game I followed discussions about it which largely converged on the comforting explanation that the idea of a transfer is a delusion, and continuity of consciousness must be always tied to the original body. But unless you somehow rule out the idea that it is an emergent property of the information being processed in our heads, there isn’t a lot of reason to think that would be the case. A copy of you with all your memories and brain patterns has equal claim as an original. But we don’t even have quite the same pattern as a moment ago, so maybe our own claims to continuity or self aren’t as strong as we rely on them being.
It calls into question basic intuitions about the nature of our existence that people have a very difficult time bringing themselves to question, something the game pretty brilliantly depicts with its robots that are deeply offended, hostile and defensive about the suggestion that they are robots.
SOMA was amazing. It’s in my top 3 greatest games I have ever played. The ending broke me.
There’s only one film that has ever really given me the creeps and that’s The Descent. I think it’s the combination of the creatures and being stuck underground in those cave systems (plus the claustrophobic nature of it all). Plenty of times it gave me full on spine tingling shivers.
Also I will also say watch the full version with the extended (proper) ending.
As Above So Below got me for similar reasons: the underground inescapability and claustrophobia. Parts of it felt a tad liminal too.
Very scary movie
Event Horizon.
The unofficial Warhammer origin movie of the unofficial trilogy, followed by Sunshine (2007) and Pandorum (2009)
Edit: optional 4th: The Black Hole (1979). Disney’s original take on the space opera is actually just a worse version of Event Horizon
I absolutely loved Sunshine - until the last part where the nemesis isn’t the sun anymore, but just a generic crazy dude.
But is he generic? He’s survived without enough supplies and in intense heat. I also loved Sunshine up until then, as I wasn’t a fan of the supernatural ending. But same with Event Horizon. And Pandorum… Maybe it’s my mistake for falling for it 3, no, 4 times. I forgot The Black Hole (1979) is Event Horizon
But is he generic? He’s survived without enough supplies and in intense heat.
The heat shield on Icarus 1 is intact.
When Icarus 2 receives the distress signal, the crew mention that Icarus 1 is self-sufficient for water and oxygen, has all the solar power it needs, and food for a full crew for 3 years, so there’s plenty for one guy for 8 years.Alright, I’m mistaken on the supplies. And yes, I remember the heat shield was there, hence the ship was still there, but I remember something about it being hot. Wasn’t there still something supernatural about how he moved? And how he seemed to take control of the other person?
I saw that movie as a teenager and I thought it was stupid. I really think I’d enjoy it more as an adult. I don’t remember much of what happened. I remember it being disturbing as hell. I have the DVD, might be time to re-watch it.
There is a small amount of dodgy CGI due to the time it was released, but the ship designs, the character behavior, and the horror elements all hold up.
Plus, a biblically accurate warp engine!
“This ship… is fucked”.
Cool movie for sure
haha
Lights Out is an oldie but a goodie horror short. Could do without
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the goofy creature reveal
at the end though.
Curve is another really good short that builds a sense dread and hopelessness. No cheap jumpscares, overused tropes (looking at you overly exaggerated smiles), or complicated lore. Just good old fashion universal horror.
Wonderful
Do you happen to be frequently. On the edge of sleep deprivation? Either by continually running short on total hours and/or by ignoring the first wave of sleepiness? In my experience, such habits bring upon The Horrors. I’ve recently been honing in on those as random bouts of artistic endeavor. If I’m gonna dream it up, I may as well put it to paper
Anyway, my suggestion is The Jaunt by Stephen King. I think it’s only about 20 pages, part of a collection of other short stories. I have yet to read it myself
Anyway, my suggestion is The Jaunt by Stephen King. I think it’s only about 20 pages, part of a collection of other short stories. I have yet to read it myself
It’s longer than you think!
my own life
The really unsettling one for me was Beyond the Aquila Rift
I saw it on Love, Death, and Robots and it really creeped me out.
Ooh yeah, that was a fantastic one.
