That's a rare movie moment that makes me so angry that I've forgotten it every.single.time. Watched this thing four times now and each time I was ready to rage quit at that scene.
The director said his goal with that movie is to break every rule that keeps an audience watching. There’s a scene where a woman is in shock after a death and the camera stays on her staring at the floor for a literal 6 minutes.
A lot of movies make us feel negative things, but this movie, it’s like it’s trying to get you to stop watching by breaking cardinal sins - buildup with no payoff, random purposeful breaks of logic (the remote), bores you to tears in other scenes. The directors idea was to make it clear from the start that this movie will be just this, so why are you still watching?
That and the painfully long single-shot scene of the parents dealing with it afterward. The dad’s breakdown and sobbing is too painfully real. Movie is pure art 👌
Yes. I’m a semiotics scholar and made some writing on Haneke. The movie is very repulsive, but it’s the very moment you realize there are two dorks _inside a movie_ that shifts the perspective and it becomes more digestible.
What Haneke is telling is that we, the normal people like the family, love to watch a family being tortured in the movies — it’s fun, until it isn’t, because he just goes way overboard and breaks all the boundaries of genre: kids and dogs don’t die, dad becomes a hero, family escapes in the end etc.
If you take notice, they are all the time playing the role of an audience, as maniac as all of us in this sub!
And they make us accomplices from the beginning when he breaks the fourth wall winking to us.
“Why don’t you kill us?”; “Don’t underestimate the value of entertainment”.
The remote scene is telling, but not so much as the ending by the boat.
When we watch a movie, we spend two hours sitting down and usually move on to… eat something? Yes. “I’m hungry!” are the final lines.
Haneke loves to play with the existential interplay of medium and audience, and this is a great example of it.
THANK YOU!
I keep telling people Funny Games is a pitch-black comedy and they look at me like I’m insane.
First time watching it: nausea/ with a bit of wait minute?
Second time: Ohhhhh Haneke you coy, nihilistic bastard. You used my own curiosity against me and called me out for it.
Never have I felt so *seen* by a film before (especially a horror film), and called out for being primitively human.
Just like a car crash, morbid curiosity will drive some of us to look, but Funny Games looks back.
Can I cheat and say Chernobyl on HBO?
I’ve never felt more dread in my entire life than in the first few episodes of that show. Highly recommend it lol
I kinda wish I had known beforehand about the death rate and that just about everyone who went in an around that reactor died. It would’ve cemented the sacrifice guys like the naked miners made (although they might not have been aware).
I loved this show. So many great scenes, like the people watching the “snow” fall in the opening episode, kids playing in it.
Also I find it so satisfying as a concept when the weight of a real events takes over human bullshit. They are constantly like “well it’s not that bad” and the guy is like well no actually this is as bad as it gets.
It was an aspect of game of thrones I loved and hence why I was disappointed at the end, all the political manoeuvring, all the treachery and murder but the real shit was at the wall, all their very human issues were about to be rendered pointless.
And then they ruined it.
I've rewatched it so many times just to recapture the sense of dred. Starting from the first episode I just can't help but tense up the whole runtime knowing these people are all dying the more time passes simply because they're in the vicinity.
Great answer. The men shoveling the radioactive graphite on the roof scene was awful. Knowing it really happend and how much the Soviet Union covered this up. They tried everything to find a solution to not having to use real people, but there was nothing.
All these men working to save their country were heroes and no one even gave them a thank u. They got a small bonus check for basically giving themselves cancer and all guaranteed to die horrible deaths. Gorbachav said Chernobyl started the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The actual HBO doc on Chernobyl reveals so much more from secret KGB files made public. The extreme they would go to contain the truth.
It's the
"DON'T LEAVE ME ALONE WITH THEM!"
And the not knowing what to do with the insanely complicated thing that filled me with dread.
And the hair at the end.
I really need to rewatch this.
I thought it was good, but not great.
I feel like I missed something, because everyone seems so blown away by it.
Wouldn’t be the first time I felt differently about a movie after a couple watches.
I'm with you. It was good with a few stand out excellent scenes but overall the protagonist acting so stupidly was annoying and I also felt somewhat frustrated jumping into an established lore/fully built world where these possessions and the avoid at all coasts outcome, special people and instruments needed to end them, all known in film but unknown to us. It was like a reverse-hitchcock, I guess (where usually we, the audience, are in on details that are driving the plot but the characters are not).
I don't know. I will certainly rewatch again and see how I feel but given what caused my dissatisfaction it could be I'll enjoy it more precisely because I can now see the bomb under the table, as it were.
I just commented that as my top recent one!! I think we all knew the scene with was coming but it was *so* realistic (I think) and shot *so* well, it’s one of the scenes that really stayed with me. One of *many*.
This was the first movie that came to mind. I recommended to this a friend who loves horror and she couldn’t finish the trailer. It looked way too bleak for her.
It's what would happen with a realistic protagonist struggling with his past, too. Like, Pedro is the last person you want handling things in an emergency.
Eden Lake pissed me off more than any other movie I can remember. JFC, that ending was just brutal to the viewer. So, fucking bleak and so humanly inhumane.
The original Blair Witch Project. Well, particularly the final 5 minutes the original Blair Witch Project.
Watched it back when it first hit vhs. I was alone in my room in the dark. It's silly, but I remember kinda just sitting there a minute, not really wanting to get off of the bed. Lol
I saw this in theaters, truly believing it was real found footage because it was the first footage film ever seen. My sister was so scared and upset afterwards that as we walked through the parking lot of the movie theater she cussed out someone thinking they tried to run us over (which they didn't) then she cussed me out and left me to walk home in the dark as she got in her car and drove away. She's a real piece of work, but anyway that walk home was terrifying.
>I saw this in theaters, truly believing it was real found footage because it was the first footage film ever seen.
Had the same experience. The marketing was also wild since nobody really had the internet and even of they did you couldn't just look things up, so you'd just get these commercials for this 'documentary' crew that went missing. Kinda sad that we'll never be able to create an experience like that again
I also had the movie experience BUT if I remember correctly there were some small lore pieces you could look at on a website that creeped me out before I saw it. I was 14 and had no media literacy so I went in ready to be scared.
I ended up going FUCKING CAMPING the night I saw it in the theater, fully thinking it was real footage as well. It rained and I stepped in mud, so I got stuck sitting outside all night thinking every sound would be my violent, horrifying end.
When my husband and I first watche The Blair Witch Project, when it finished, we're just kinda sitting there quiet staring at the tv and he goes "When does this have to be returned?" I replied "Tonight." **long pause** "We can just pay the late fee". He agreed. We were just both that spooked that going out in the dark at night was pretty unappealing.
My (now husband) took me spelunking a week after that movie! It was so dark, painful from jagged rocks and some makeshift 90 year old ladder that if nothing you fell down to an endless crevass, more scaling spikey cold dark valleys, It was freezing, I ate a half a banana but the asshole guide extended the tour by 2 hours for fun, that was a ramble and I'm sorry lol but literally worst movie to watch especially the leg break part, thats all I could think about hahaha
After reading all the bad reviews of this, I decided to put it on one night while I was home alone, just thinking it'd be a cheesy scary movie to entertain me. Nope
The scene where they're crawling through that super to spot to the get to the tunnel and the guy starts panicking. Fuck that.
I'm super claustrophobic and realize my breath was matching his and the thought of not being able to push myself up at all and omg no thank you.
Also, when they see that figure walk by at the end of one tunnel. Oof.
When I saw it in theater I laughed internally at some of the jump scares. I walked out really disliking it. I saw it alone without friends recently and was amazed by it. The opening scene is incredible. I REALLY love that movie now. Sometimes I have to see horror films alone without friends to be impacted by them.
It Follows is definitely more "vulnerable" to seeming worse if you watch it with others, mostly because the central premise is so easily turned into a joke ("STD ghost").
Did you see how they were advertising for 2? Random creepy smile ppl in random crowds like at sports events etc? So deadly 🤘
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I’ve talked to people who thought it was really stupid and just didn’t get it. They had never taken acid so they didn’t understand how some of the characters could make the logical leaps they were making.
I watched it a few weeks ago and was glued to the screen saying “ohhhh noooo” for the entirety of it. Definitely go in blind; I knew the full plot before watching and can’t imagine how wild it would be to go in blind.
As I get older i do this with all movies. Like I pretty much don’t read reviews or watch trailers these days. The downside is that it can be hard to find movies to watch lol.
I usually watch half of a trailer, I can usually tell if I'm interested by then. I also have a shitty memory, so I know that I'll eventually forget what I've seen as well as spoilers.
1408 gets to me because he is truly trapped. Almost any other horror movie has some realistic sense of “well they could run here” or “they could hide here” but 1408 has none of that. There’s nowhere to go. That’s what really bothered me about it
So my mum watched that years before me and after constant nagging I finally sat down and watched it. I enjoyed that movie way more than I thought I would. Very creepy movie.
The first half of Barbarian. IMO it is the greatest example of tension building I've ever seen. I was just wondering when the other shoe was going to drop and what was going to happen
Hush. I think any horrors centred around an attack on you in your own home, at random, gets to me the most. My home is my safe haven, I don't even like having visitors, I was brought up in the very edge of a nature reserve, woodland is my peaceful place. So to see both factors at play genuinely stressed me out, I was literally sat bolt upright on the edge of my seat throughout.
Lol. No joke, I started to have a panic attack after Biden's horrible shutdown and had to get up and make a drink. I felt anxious all night. Worse than any horror movie I've watched recently.
God, like, I know it's satire, but something about Wallace's horrific groans at the end gets me.
Not quite horror, but I need to watch Boxing Helena again to form an opinion on it. Watched it as a gay teen because of Sherilyn Fenn.
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
The main characters are actually smart and do everything right, but are still doomed because the force they are dealing with doesn't want to be reasoned with.
I second that, this movie fucked me up after. It was the fear of being gaslighted that you are losing your sanity and slowly going crazy. If you take anti-depressants, even worse.
With the original ending, right? Man that movie left me with a sense of dread for days after I saw it with the original ending. I don't think it hits with the actual ending cut off to accomodate sequels
Bug is frightening because it highlights just how any of us can fall into the depths of madness. Judd seems so normal and it’s a slow creep.
That scene in the room where they are both just launching into the most insane conspiracies and it all makes perfect sense to them is so terrifying and heart breaking
Invisible Man 2020. It starts you off with maximum dread and never lets you relax, they did such a good job drawing the audience into pov of the Elizabeth Moss character
When Evil Lurks is the first horror movie in a long, long time that has truly given me that sense of dread. It establishes early on that no one is safe, and for the rest of the film you're constantly wondering who will die next.
Not necessarily a horror but Threads, the original British apocalypse movie that The Day After tried to copy.
The Day After - had a message at the end of the film stating that although the scenes were disturbing to watch, the effects of a real Mutual Assured Destruction scenario would be far worse than they could depict on screen.
Threads did not need that message. Beyond messed up film
The first time watching The Thing. The tension of not knowing who was human and who wasn’t left a pit in my stomach. And not knowing how the ones who were assimilated off screen got killed made me anxious as well.
the film gives you a bit of a picture of Kevin being awful to his mom but the book really goes into just how much he absolutely *despises* every fiber of her being. it was a good book but god it stuck with me for awhile it was intense
i just watched it the other night. felt more like comedy horror to me especially with all the overly done special effects! but yes, i can see how it can mess me up if i had watched it in my childhood.
Lol when longlegs trailer came out I was blown away and had to see what OZ Perkins was all about. Popped up Blackcoats and I’m absolutely here to verify and tell you his movies are str8 up gut wrenching and absolutely cringe in horrific way. I think you’ll like it if you have patience. If Oz won’t scare you with a jump he will scare you with horrific imagery or odd moments that make u tear up… My hype for Longlegs is higher than any move trailer I’ve seen. I’m an absolute sucker for dark and mundane thrillers and Longlegs looks like an all timer. Glad your starting at square 1
Barbarian was good. I think maybe because I inherently don’t trust Bill Skarsgard that I spent the entire moving waiting for something bad to happen. Good twists. Some weird extra fluff tossed in with Justin Long, but who doesn’t love a Justin Long moment
I second this one. >!Truly the best take on not necessarily just how sad grief is, but mostly the dread that comes with it. Nothing more horrific than losing a child or being responsible for a sibling death and that film captured what I imagine it’d be like perfectly.!<
The mom shrieking outside is pure dread I haven’t really seen matched. Also the scene in midsomnar when the firefighters are in the house
Also martyrs beating scene
I saw this opening night when it came out and I sat slack jawed and unable to finish my popcorn after Charlie died.
It’s been how many freaking years now and sometimes at night I still freak myself out thinking about Annie up on the bedroom wall or Charlie standing in the corner.
I’ve never experienced another movie that sat with me for so long the way this one has.
House of a thousand corpses. I save that one for October and every time I have to stay up late watching something lighthearted and funny. It’s so uncomfortable. Also Silence of the Lambs. All the Male encounters Starling has
I started watching it and the mock interviews are laughably bad- almost feels like satire. But him abducting that kid was horrifying and I haven’t turned it back on since. The digital look to it - with its views of Poughkeepsie were awesome for sure tho
The Blair Witch Project. I still believe it to be the scariest movie ever produced. One has to be immersed for it to be effective though, there are no jumpscares.
Dealing with mental health issues, The Babadook tied me in knots. Hoping it was a straightforward horror film, but knowing it was the mother losing her mind and terrifying her child who was just trying to cope. Argh. Really did a number on me.
Ouija: Origin of Evil. Mike Flanagan is one hell of a director, even his shows ooze dread and have a generally tense atmosphere once the story gets going. It feels like just about anything can happen.
Everyone's mentioned most of the good stuff but a recent film, that I found pretty disturbing throughout, is this 2021 Norwegian film called The Innocents
(De uskyldige). There are many fucked up things done by kids in that film and all i can say is that if you love cats (like me) DO NOT watch this film.
Also the original French film Martyrs and also The Loved Ones.
Funny games 1997. The whole egg scene was so disturbing. The entire movie was just awful in the sense that I felt miserable the entire time.
The rewind scene pissed me off so bad!
That's a rare movie moment that makes me so angry that I've forgotten it every.single.time. Watched this thing four times now and each time I was ready to rage quit at that scene.
I love that scene, but I l really enjoy subversion.
I want to scream every time.
Such a horrible hopeless sad movie
The director said his goal with that movie is to break every rule that keeps an audience watching. There’s a scene where a woman is in shock after a death and the camera stays on her staring at the floor for a literal 6 minutes. A lot of movies make us feel negative things, but this movie, it’s like it’s trying to get you to stop watching by breaking cardinal sins - buildup with no payoff, random purposeful breaks of logic (the remote), bores you to tears in other scenes. The directors idea was to make it clear from the start that this movie will be just this, so why are you still watching?
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That and the painfully long single-shot scene of the parents dealing with it afterward. The dad’s breakdown and sobbing is too painfully real. Movie is pure art 👌
Yes. I’m a semiotics scholar and made some writing on Haneke. The movie is very repulsive, but it’s the very moment you realize there are two dorks _inside a movie_ that shifts the perspective and it becomes more digestible. What Haneke is telling is that we, the normal people like the family, love to watch a family being tortured in the movies — it’s fun, until it isn’t, because he just goes way overboard and breaks all the boundaries of genre: kids and dogs don’t die, dad becomes a hero, family escapes in the end etc. If you take notice, they are all the time playing the role of an audience, as maniac as all of us in this sub! And they make us accomplices from the beginning when he breaks the fourth wall winking to us. “Why don’t you kill us?”; “Don’t underestimate the value of entertainment”. The remote scene is telling, but not so much as the ending by the boat. When we watch a movie, we spend two hours sitting down and usually move on to… eat something? Yes. “I’m hungry!” are the final lines. Haneke loves to play with the existential interplay of medium and audience, and this is a great example of it.
That is a great analysis. I still hate it, though.
THANK YOU! I keep telling people Funny Games is a pitch-black comedy and they look at me like I’m insane. First time watching it: nausea/ with a bit of wait minute? Second time: Ohhhhh Haneke you coy, nihilistic bastard. You used my own curiosity against me and called me out for it. Never have I felt so *seen* by a film before (especially a horror film), and called out for being primitively human. Just like a car crash, morbid curiosity will drive some of us to look, but Funny Games looks back.
Oh my god. The egg scene.
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I genuinely find that to be one of the most haunting like, 5-10 seconds in movie history. The casual way they just shove her unsettled me to my core.
Ciao bella!
It was a very depressing, disturbing movie.
Can I cheat and say Chernobyl on HBO? I’ve never felt more dread in my entire life than in the first few episodes of that show. Highly recommend it lol
No, this is legit - the night of the reactor meltdown was intense, otherworldly at times, and crafted in horror fashion, I feel
When that firefighter picked up that radioactive piece of rubble…I could only envision myself in that situation. Had no Fucking idea
I kinda wish I had known beforehand about the death rate and that just about everyone who went in an around that reactor died. It would’ve cemented the sacrifice guys like the naked miners made (although they might not have been aware).
I loved this show. So many great scenes, like the people watching the “snow” fall in the opening episode, kids playing in it. Also I find it so satisfying as a concept when the weight of a real events takes over human bullshit. They are constantly like “well it’s not that bad” and the guy is like well no actually this is as bad as it gets. It was an aspect of game of thrones I loved and hence why I was disappointed at the end, all the political manoeuvring, all the treachery and murder but the real shit was at the wall, all their very human issues were about to be rendered pointless. And then they ruined it.
I've rewatched it so many times just to recapture the sense of dred. Starting from the first episode I just can't help but tense up the whole runtime knowing these people are all dying the more time passes simply because they're in the vicinity.
Anything that sounds like a geiger still immediately fucks with my head.
Great answer. The men shoveling the radioactive graphite on the roof scene was awful. Knowing it really happend and how much the Soviet Union covered this up. They tried everything to find a solution to not having to use real people, but there was nothing. All these men working to save their country were heroes and no one even gave them a thank u. They got a small bonus check for basically giving themselves cancer and all guaranteed to die horrible deaths. Gorbachav said Chernobyl started the collapse of the Soviet Union. The actual HBO doc on Chernobyl reveals so much more from secret KGB files made public. The extreme they would go to contain the truth.
When Evil Lurks.
The dog scene is the most anxiety inducing scene I've ever watched
It's the "DON'T LEAVE ME ALONE WITH THEM!" And the not knowing what to do with the insanely complicated thing that filled me with dread. And the hair at the end.
The hair!
That was a memorable one along with the goat scene
I really need to rewatch this. I thought it was good, but not great. I feel like I missed something, because everyone seems so blown away by it. Wouldn’t be the first time I felt differently about a movie after a couple watches.
I'm with you. It was good with a few stand out excellent scenes but overall the protagonist acting so stupidly was annoying and I also felt somewhat frustrated jumping into an established lore/fully built world where these possessions and the avoid at all coasts outcome, special people and instruments needed to end them, all known in film but unknown to us. It was like a reverse-hitchcock, I guess (where usually we, the audience, are in on details that are driving the plot but the characters are not). I don't know. I will certainly rewatch again and see how I feel but given what caused my dissatisfaction it could be I'll enjoy it more precisely because I can now see the bomb under the table, as it were.
That film went to a couple places I don't think a lot of American horror films could dare go to, especially violence-wise
Yeah which is why I love foreign film. I’m glad Argentina is getting more attention. As a Latina it makes me proud.
The continuous, oppressive feeling of impending doom grabbed me by the throat and never stopped squeezing. PERFECT example of “dread.”
I just commented that as my top recent one!! I think we all knew the scene with was coming but it was *so* realistic (I think) and shot *so* well, it’s one of the scenes that really stayed with me. One of *many*.
Came here to say When Evil Lurks. The only horror film that genuinely scared me in years
This was the first movie that came to mind. I recommended to this a friend who loves horror and she couldn’t finish the trailer. It looked way too bleak for her.
It's what would happen with a realistic protagonist struggling with his past, too. Like, Pedro is the last person you want handling things in an emergency.
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Eden Lake and The Dark and the Wicked were pretty dread inducing.
Eden lake for sure!
Eden Lake pissed me off more than any other movie I can remember. JFC, that ending was just brutal to the viewer. So, fucking bleak and so humanly inhumane.
Right?! All I could think of was magneto getting revenge finally
Good answer. But I have a natural fear of English children. Those creepy acsents...
The original Blair Witch Project. Well, particularly the final 5 minutes the original Blair Witch Project. Watched it back when it first hit vhs. I was alone in my room in the dark. It's silly, but I remember kinda just sitting there a minute, not really wanting to get off of the bed. Lol
I saw this in theaters, truly believing it was real found footage because it was the first footage film ever seen. My sister was so scared and upset afterwards that as we walked through the parking lot of the movie theater she cussed out someone thinking they tried to run us over (which they didn't) then she cussed me out and left me to walk home in the dark as she got in her car and drove away. She's a real piece of work, but anyway that walk home was terrifying.
>I saw this in theaters, truly believing it was real found footage because it was the first footage film ever seen. Had the same experience. The marketing was also wild since nobody really had the internet and even of they did you couldn't just look things up, so you'd just get these commercials for this 'documentary' crew that went missing. Kinda sad that we'll never be able to create an experience like that again
I didn’t find out it wasn’t real footage until the MTV movie awards where the cast showed up! I was so so confused.
I also had the movie experience BUT if I remember correctly there were some small lore pieces you could look at on a website that creeped me out before I saw it. I was 14 and had no media literacy so I went in ready to be scared.
I saw it in the theater too. Drove the 30 minutes home with my dome light on. Absolutely terrified
I ended up going FUCKING CAMPING the night I saw it in the theater, fully thinking it was real footage as well. It rained and I stepped in mud, so I got stuck sitting outside all night thinking every sound would be my violent, horrifying end.
Why would you do that? Lol.
I’ve never put my children in the corner because of this movie.
I was 15 when that movie came out and I had to sleep with a light on for MONTHS after that hahaha
When my husband and I first watche The Blair Witch Project, when it finished, we're just kinda sitting there quiet staring at the tv and he goes "When does this have to be returned?" I replied "Tonight." **long pause** "We can just pay the late fee". He agreed. We were just both that spooked that going out in the dark at night was pretty unappealing.
the descent honestly. being stuck in a cave w your friends who then turn on u and try to kill u? lmao what
My (now husband) took me spelunking a week after that movie! It was so dark, painful from jagged rocks and some makeshift 90 year old ladder that if nothing you fell down to an endless crevass, more scaling spikey cold dark valleys, It was freezing, I ate a half a banana but the asshole guide extended the tour by 2 hours for fun, that was a ramble and I'm sorry lol but literally worst movie to watch especially the leg break part, thats all I could think about hahaha
As Above So Below was super anxiety inducing through most of the film. I also have a huge phobia of being underground so I am sure that added to it.
I haven't seen this, but The Descent put me on edge for the same reason. The darkness and claustrophobia of caving is a big hell no for me.
I just watched it last night! I was avoiding the debates, which I think would have been more stressful.
After reading all the bad reviews of this, I decided to put it on one night while I was home alone, just thinking it'd be a cheesy scary movie to entertain me. Nope
The scene where they're crawling through that super to spot to the get to the tunnel and the guy starts panicking. Fuck that. I'm super claustrophobic and realize my breath was matching his and the thought of not being able to push myself up at all and omg no thank you. Also, when they see that figure walk by at the end of one tunnel. Oof.
It Follows - I couldn’t trust any person on the screen. Surprisingly, Smile had that same effect on me
When I saw it in theater I laughed internally at some of the jump scares. I walked out really disliking it. I saw it alone without friends recently and was amazed by it. The opening scene is incredible. I REALLY love that movie now. Sometimes I have to see horror films alone without friends to be impacted by them.
It Follows is definitely more "vulnerable" to seeming worse if you watch it with others, mostly because the central premise is so easily turned into a joke ("STD ghost").
Watch it after a one night stand.
Okay, you've convinced me to watch it again alone. I loved the concept, my friend found it dumb... I'll probably enjoy it more on my own lol
The opening scene is just amazing to witness. I absolutely love this film.
I'm so excited for the sequel [They Follow](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29703112/)!
Sequel!!! ??
Smile haters can fight me. That was a damn good horror movie
I've never shrieked in a movie before but I did during smile. First time that super tall guy came billowing out of the house
Tall Man, the beach scene, the scene in the hospital... ALL of them got me!
Did you see how they were advertising for 2? Random creepy smile ppl in random crowds like at sports events etc? So deadly 🤘 [smile 2 advertising](https://x.com/ErikDavis/status/1573670514110889986?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1573670514110889986%7Ctwgr%5E5c530125efd2dff1935bda8ee602023defa4d414%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.polygon.com%2F24181195%2Fsmile-2-trailer-release-date-cast-sequel-concert)
The actual monster reveal was top notch imo
I wasn’t crazy about the monster reveal- but , the opening scene got me hooked, line, and sinker. That damn smile. It was haunting.
Climax by Gaspar Noe Holy shit that film is intense
I love how we’re just dropped in to these people’s evening and are helpless as we watch them descend into madness.
Watched this last night, I still kinda feel like I need to vomit
I still need to watch that one. Pretty much all of his films are anxiety inducing. And possibly seizure inducing lol
No one does dread like Gaspar
My roommate chose this for our movie night after I got high. Most stressful experience ever
I’ve talked to people who thought it was really stupid and just didn’t get it. They had never taken acid so they didn’t understand how some of the characters could make the logical leaps they were making.
I wish I could unsee this one, but only so I could see it again for the first time.
The Cell. Vincent D'Onofrio was terrifying
Those visuals are absolutely stunning though
I haven’t heard of The Coffee Table now I’m intrigued
I watched it a few weeks ago and was glued to the screen saying “ohhhh noooo” for the entirety of it. Definitely go in blind; I knew the full plot before watching and can’t imagine how wild it would be to go in blind.
DON'T LOOK ANYTHING UP!!!!
Ooh love a “Go Into It Blind” type of movie. Consider me intrigued
As I get older i do this with all movies. Like I pretty much don’t read reviews or watch trailers these days. The downside is that it can be hard to find movies to watch lol.
I usually watch half of a trailer, I can usually tell if I'm interested by then. I also have a shitty memory, so I know that I'll eventually forget what I've seen as well as spoilers.
I'm a big horror fan but Stephen King's 1408 is the ONLY movie that gives me nightmares EVERY time I watch it.
1408 gets to me because he is truly trapped. Almost any other horror movie has some realistic sense of “well they could run here” or “they could hide here” but 1408 has none of that. There’s nowhere to go. That’s what really bothered me about it
I get almost claustrophobic when I feel trapped or can’t move easily and that is what made the movie so scary for me.
So my mum watched that years before me and after constant nagging I finally sat down and watched it. I enjoyed that movie way more than I thought I would. Very creepy movie.
The first half of Barbarian. IMO it is the greatest example of tension building I've ever seen. I was just wondering when the other shoe was going to drop and what was going to happen
Hush. I think any horrors centred around an attack on you in your own home, at random, gets to me the most. My home is my safe haven, I don't even like having visitors, I was brought up in the very edge of a nature reserve, woodland is my peaceful place. So to see both factors at play genuinely stressed me out, I was literally sat bolt upright on the edge of my seat throughout.
Yes!
Last nights debate.
I'm so stupid. I was searching for "Last Nights Debate" on imdb for a good minute.
😂😂😂 I love that. I laugh because I can totally see myself doing that lolol
Lol. No joke, I started to have a panic attack after Biden's horrible shutdown and had to get up and make a drink. I felt anxious all night. Worse than any horror movie I've watched recently.
I couldn’t even make it to the end. I’ve never shut off a horror movie in my life. But the presidential debate got me
Dude that 404 consciousness not found error 10 minutes in shook me to my core.
Actually the correct answer
Night of the Living Dead
TUSK 😔😢
God, like, I know it's satire, but something about Wallace's horrific groans at the end gets me. Not quite horror, but I need to watch Boxing Helena again to form an opinion on it. Watched it as a gay teen because of Sherilyn Fenn.
The Autopsy of Jane Doe The main characters are actually smart and do everything right, but are still doomed because the force they are dealing with doesn't want to be reasoned with.
The Orphanage has had a chokehold on me for 15 years
Sinister. All of the found footage of the kids. Lawnmower scene still gives me chills
Speak no evil. Hands down
I don't think I've been angrier at a movie than this one
That ending... ugh!
 Yes
God, I hated how I felt after watching this movie!!
Is that the Danish one? There seems to be a few
I always make this comment but if you’re a parent, just don’t watch this movie
If you are parent or if you find it hard to say NO to a person, please stay away. If you are both, dont even think about it.
I think they should in fact watch the movie. Reminder (albeit dramatic) that you should trust your gut, especially with your kids.
Yea lol that movie was really upsetting. I will absolutely never watch it again.
It is a thriller, but The Invisible Man. The concept just terrified me to my core. I had to break the film up in several days.
Those 10-15 opening minutes. Once I realized what was happening I felt like I couldn’t breathe.
The Lodge comes to mind
I second that, this movie fucked me up after. It was the fear of being gaslighted that you are losing your sanity and slowly going crazy. If you take anti-depressants, even worse.
The descent, naturally
With the original ending, right? Man that movie left me with a sense of dread for days after I saw it with the original ending. I don't think it hits with the actual ending cut off to accomodate sequels
Possum
Bug gave me insane anxiety
Bug is frightening because it highlights just how any of us can fall into the depths of madness. Judd seems so normal and it’s a slow creep. That scene in the room where they are both just launching into the most insane conspiracies and it all makes perfect sense to them is so terrifying and heart breaking
Invisible Man 2020. It starts you off with maximum dread and never lets you relax, they did such a good job drawing the audience into pov of the Elizabeth Moss character
The restaurant scene is so great. Actually laughed out loud, in a good way.
For me, I have to say Jacob's Ladder.
When Evil Lurks is the first horror movie in a long, long time that has truly given me that sense of dread. It establishes early on that no one is safe, and for the rest of the film you're constantly wondering who will die next.
Not necessarily a horror but Threads, the original British apocalypse movie that The Day After tried to copy. The Day After - had a message at the end of the film stating that although the scenes were disturbing to watch, the effects of a real Mutual Assured Destruction scenario would be far worse than they could depict on screen. Threads did not need that message. Beyond messed up film
Hands down the Babadook. I legit was afraid I was going to watch her kill her kid.
Martyrs, Hereditary (doubt I'll ever watch this one again)
Yessss martyrs was one of the first horror movies i really got that pit in my stomach watching and even now is one of my favs !
Mulholland Dr. and Witch in the Window.
Mulholland Drive - That diner scene may have been the epitome of dread And done so calmly.... almost hypnotic somehow, too
The first time watching The Thing. The tension of not knowing who was human and who wasn’t left a pit in my stomach. And not knowing how the ones who were assimilated off screen got killed made me anxious as well.
Lake Mungo.
Pulse (2001)
Suspiria (Original) Session 9 The Killing of a Sacred Deer We Need To Talk About Kevin It Follows
The book *We Need To Talk About Kevin* deeply depressed me when I read it. The film is also good, but the book is something else.
the film gives you a bit of a picture of Kevin being awful to his mom but the book really goes into just how much he absolutely *despises* every fiber of her being. it was a good book but god it stuck with me for awhile it was intense
The Birds...I'm old.
Ringu. it just builds and builds on the dread
House that Jack Built
Lived in Pittsburgh at the time and saw 28 Days Later. I had nightmares about trying to get out of the city.
The Strangers. The methodical pacing of it had me bricking it throughout.
drag me to hell, that honestly gave me nightmares as a child
MFW somebody's childhood was *Drag Me to Hell* 
i just watched it the other night. felt more like comedy horror to me especially with all the overly done special effects! but yes, i can see how it can mess me up if i had watched it in my childhood.
Black coats daughter
Watching this for the first time tonight....
Lol u getting prepared for long legs ?
Hahaha how did you know?!
Lol when longlegs trailer came out I was blown away and had to see what OZ Perkins was all about. Popped up Blackcoats and I’m absolutely here to verify and tell you his movies are str8 up gut wrenching and absolutely cringe in horrific way. I think you’ll like it if you have patience. If Oz won’t scare you with a jump he will scare you with horrific imagery or odd moments that make u tear up… My hype for Longlegs is higher than any move trailer I’ve seen. I’m an absolute sucker for dark and mundane thrillers and Longlegs looks like an all timer. Glad your starting at square 1
Eraserhead
Recently, the dark and the wicked.
Barbarian was good. I think maybe because I inherently don’t trust Bill Skarsgard that I spent the entire moving waiting for something bad to happen. Good twists. Some weird extra fluff tossed in with Justin Long, but who doesn’t love a Justin Long moment
Truly? Hereditary (Ari Aster). If you've never watched it, definitely go into it blind and don't watch any promo. The ending especially was difficult.
I second this one. >!Truly the best take on not necessarily just how sad grief is, but mostly the dread that comes with it. Nothing more horrific than losing a child or being responsible for a sibling death and that film captured what I imagine it’d be like perfectly.!<
Toni Collette was just perfect in that role
If there was ever a mother to just embody a *mother* on screen it was her
Her dinner scene is astounding. I’ve long believed she should have been nominated for all the awards for this movie.
The mom shrieking outside is pure dread I haven’t really seen matched. Also the scene in midsomnar when the firefighters are in the house Also martyrs beating scene
I saw this opening night when it came out and I sat slack jawed and unable to finish my popcorn after Charlie died. It’s been how many freaking years now and sometimes at night I still freak myself out thinking about Annie up on the bedroom wall or Charlie standing in the corner. I’ve never experienced another movie that sat with me for so long the way this one has.
Hereditary was just fucking depressing the entire time. Just this DREAD. I love Ari Aster.
House of a thousand corpses. I save that one for October and every time I have to stay up late watching something lighthearted and funny. It’s so uncomfortable. Also Silence of the Lambs. All the Male encounters Starling has 
Devil’s Rejects only got worse. It was a terrible feeling watching it.
Prince of Darkness. The visions from the future were nightmare material
Rosemarys baby
Paranormal activity. All the found footage movies fill me with dread.
Have you watched The Poughkeepsie Tapes?
I started watching it and the mock interviews are laughably bad- almost feels like satire. But him abducting that kid was horrifying and I haven’t turned it back on since. The digital look to it - with its views of Poughkeepsie were awesome for sure tho
When Evil Lurks
For me, Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
The Blair Witch Project. I still believe it to be the scariest movie ever produced. One has to be immersed for it to be effective though, there are no jumpscares.
Vivarium
Cliche answer but The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (original), the opening credits made me nauseous and that feeling kept going until the end.
Dealing with mental health issues, The Babadook tied me in knots. Hoping it was a straightforward horror film, but knowing it was the mother losing her mind and terrifying her child who was just trying to cope. Argh. Really did a number on me.
Hereditary and Midsommar. Kill List. Talk to Me.
Threads.
A Serbian movie. Don't watch it.
As a new father, I recently watched the original Amittyville Horror, and was thoroughly disturbed and filled with dread!
The Handmaids Tale
Caveat. Especially the last half hour or so.
Midsommar
Audition.
The Descent. The claustrophobia is as scary as the cave people.
The Strangers movies and the newer IT movies.
Eyes of my mother
Talk to Me. I watched it last year, and even talking/thinking about it now, I get a pit in my stomach.
Ouija: Origin of Evil. Mike Flanagan is one hell of a director, even his shows ooze dread and have a generally tense atmosphere once the story gets going. It feels like just about anything can happen.
Everyone's mentioned most of the good stuff but a recent film, that I found pretty disturbing throughout, is this 2021 Norwegian film called The Innocents (De uskyldige). There are many fucked up things done by kids in that film and all i can say is that if you love cats (like me) DO NOT watch this film. Also the original French film Martyrs and also The Loved Ones.