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[-] Are_Euclidding_Me@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

For me, oddly, it's The Ring. The shitty american Ring that everyone agrees is really not very good and the ridiculous color filter slapped over the whole thing just makes it dreary and washed out and bad.

I know why this is, too. It's because I watched it in middle school before I had any experience with horror movies. The Ring was the first actual horror movie I ever watched and I didn't watch another until after college. As a result, I can't watch The Ring without being transported back to being a scared middle schooler. If I'd first watched it later, after I had a handle on the kinds of scares to expect from a horror movie, it wouldn't have affected me the same. Objectively, it's not that scary and is mostly just kind of bad, but fuck me if Samara climbing out of a TV isn't an image that scares me to this day, every time I think about it!

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 year ago

I hated the American remake of The Ring so goddamn much it made me learn how to pirate movies so I could get a subbed copy of Ringu, idk how you sat through that horsefucking nightmare of a remake lmfao

[-] Are_Euclidding_Me@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Well, I was in middle school and it was the first horror movie I ever watched. shrug-outta-hecks Ringu is significantly better, I don't disagree

[-] CindyTheSkull@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Honestly, I think The Ring (yes, the American remake) actually stands up pretty well and is a genuinely scary movie. It has plenty of cringe parts, the relationship drama was stupid and out of place, the whole overdone "spooky child" thing (with Aiden, not Samara, who really was terrifying) etc. It wasn't perfect. But the horror part really was good. It's one of those things that has been both copied and satirized so much that it seems like just a massive cliche. But it wasn't cliche at the time, at least not in American horror. The slow, determined and supernaturally inescapable girl in the TV emerging up out of the well and coming for you right through the medium that you thought would keep her separate, and the imagery and sound design they chose to frame it really was very good horror. I know people make fun of the video content of the deadly tape, but to me, it really is deeply unsettling imagery that gives me a certain feeling of the kind of tortured existence of Samara. It was decent story telling, and like I said, touched on some truly unsettling nerves.

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Damn, Euclid couldn't handle this one!

olimar-point

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago
[-] frogloom@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

Hereditary

mainly since after i biked home baked at 3am thinking about it

[-] HauntedBySpectacle@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Hereditary scared me most too

[-] AlkaliMarxist@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's old hat now but the movie that scared me the most is Ring - the Japanese one. The atmosphere is constantly threatening, the visuals are scary but not in an easily comprehensible way, like something primal but unknowably wrong. I feel like very few movies can do what it did.

[-] AlkaliMarxist@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh actually, I watched Hereditary recently and I think maybe it's scarier, but it's hard to judge because I'm like 15 years older than when I saw Ring.

I think if I'd first seen it at the same time as Ring, I would have been more scared by Hereditary.

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Probably Color Out of Space, based on the work by H.P. Lovecraft.

Really shook me by the end.

(The recent one, I mean.)

[-] Are_Euclidding_Me@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Ooh, I'm going to have to watch that! Color out of Space is probably my favorite Lovecraft story of all time, so a well-done movie adaptation could be extremely good!

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it was a great movie... but damn, I'm not used to horror movies, and that movie is "up there" in terms of horror.

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Honestly, for me, it's probably Poltergeist. I watched that movie waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too fuckin young, like, still in grade school, and television static STILL bugs tf out of me as a result

[-] CindyTheSkull@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

I watched that movie waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too fuckin young, like, still in grade school,

1st grade might be pretty early for that. But if by the time anyone in my school got to the 5th grade and hadn't seen every non-R-rated horror movie (and many R-rated ones too) the ridicule they'd get would be more traumatizing than any scary movie. I'm not saying that's good, quite the opposite. Just that it's crazy to me to think of grade school as being too young for something as tame as Poltergeist. I watched it repeatedly around 2nd and 3rd grade. It did scare the piss out of me at first, but I really liked it.

(On a side note, there is some very strange and tragic events that happened regarding that movie in real life, not the least of which being what happened to the actress who played Carol-Anne. CW if anyone looks further into it, child neglect, death, etc.)

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I think I was like 7, so that tracks. Like, TV static imprinted on my mind in a way that the likes of Jason, Freddy, or Pinhead couldn't come close to. (I do still adore the first four Hellraiser movies, though.) The happenstances around the real-world production are fuckin nutty though.

[-] dualmindblade@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

If you're claustrophobic: the descent might land you in the hospital. It's also really funny

[-] idkmybffjoeysteel@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I couldn't help myself but reply with a really long list. It has been a long time since I saw a scary movie, or one that scared me anyway, so the award is gonna have to go to Rec (2007), and prior to that The Descent (2005). Room 1408 (2007) also really scared me at the time, and I discovered when rewatching it last year that there are multiple different endings depending on the version you get.

Other honrouable mentions:

  • The Blair Witch Project
  • Event Horizon
  • Alien
  • Aliens
  • The Ring
  • The Grudge
  • Eraserhead while high as a teenager was genuinely traumatising
  • Arachnophobia if you are at all scared of spiders
  • Jaws when the head pops out
  • It (1990)
  • 28 Days Later
  • 28 Weeks Later when he pops his wife's eyes out
  • The Dead Outside is another one that I was too high when watching to remember the plot of, but it was also very traumatising
  • Deathwatch is set in the trenches of WW1, and the scariest thing is other people

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Special shout out to American Horror Story opening credits, which never fail to make me feel deeply unsettled

If I am really honest though the things that scare me the most are movies like Hostel where people are getting tortured ;_; the guy getting his achiles tendon sliced through stuck with me for a very long time

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Probably that move Mirrors. I just saw it at the exact right age for that jaw ripping scene to scare the fuck out of me

[-] booty@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

The Last Airbender

[-] Yurt_Owl@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When I was young it was the grudge, i had to sleep on top of the bed covers for ages. But recently rewatched it and its deffo more of an unintentional comedy.

Possum terrified me because its so very well made but its not the traditional kind of horror.

UK version of the office because my dad showed it to me and said "this is what life is like after school" yeah not a movie but yeah.

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

the grudge has haunted me from a very young age, I just don't like that noise holy fuck what a nightmare

[-] Comradesexual@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My mom used me for translating horrors from a very young age. It didn't desentisize me at all. It gave me fear induced insomnia.

The Ring / Onryo cursed me for years until I had a dream that I killed the girl with a sofa by shoving her with it against a wall really hard, but it was very late into my teenage years and prior to that it kept me unable to sleep very frequently.

I also agree on the Mirror movie. It's very fucking scary.

I think the scariest movies take an element of an everyday life and then twist it. I watched the Descent and liked it. What keeps me scared is having my view of everyday things poisoned, so I start being apprehensive of them.

I dont know the horror name but I saw a meme of a horror where I assume a parental figure is replaced in bed with a monster and a child is reaching out to wakeup said parental figure without knowing. This is terrifying to me.

Another one which fucked with me was the one which is named like Ikea furniture. I couldn't even finish on my own and watched analysis after analysis.

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago
[-] Comradesexual@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago
[-] Egon@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I would've been surprised, but it's the only IKEA name movie I could think of

[-] Comradesexual@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago

You mean that horror movie, named after a pre-school song?

[-] Comradesexual@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, I think.

[-] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Movie isn't even that scary, but I watched it in elementary school and was terrified by everything for like a month afterwards. One Missed Call

[-] homhom9000@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Ima go out on a limb and say the only movie I can't watch, to this day.

The Barney Movie in the 90s where they have the egg and go to egg land. Something about that movie freaks me out. The scene where they're looking for Barney and call his name, then the shower turns on and the kids are looking around and Barney appears in the tub. Hate it.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 5 points 1 year ago

Don't Look Up

[-] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

It depends on what you mean by "scary". When it comes to the concept of fear and tension, i like Jacob's Ladder. Pure "can't stop looking at the screen"? Either Shivers or Tetsuo: The Iron Man.

[-] Weedian@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago
[-] duderium@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Movies not to watch if you have ever been clinically depressed.

Well, uh lemme see...

Jeepers Creepers 2. I saw it as a child

[-] Diablosmacc@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

The Wailing. Amazing movie but def a feel bad flick

[-] Kolibri@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind, it's just like too much

[-] Owl@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

I don't watch much horror and most of it just makes me laugh. But The Descent actually got to me.

[-] duderium@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

The abduction sequence in Fire In The Sky is genuinely disturbing.

[-] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

For some reason my parents let me watch both IT and The Stand when they were on TV in the 90s, and both traumatized the shit out of me. Still love them both, and both hold up pretty well in my opinion.

For more recent horror, I found Oculus really unsettling. The concept of not being able to trust your own mind/perception/memory is very scary, and anything that plays with that really does it for me.

[-] Leegh@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom. The heart scene scarred the shit out of me as a kid.

[-] D61@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Scared, scared? Probably any horror slasher movie with dolls/toys when I was a kid. Child's Play, Puppet Master, Contact (which I don't thnk was billed as a horror movie but literally gave me a waking nightmare) etc.

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