It's almost Halloween. I want to be scared.
5Dear my fellow mehtizens, I have come across a problem in my life and I require your urgent and very important assistance.
I have scoured the internet through Reddit and various Discord groups to try and find something that legitimately scares me or terrifies me.
The closest I have come is Pink Flamingos. The movie is GARBAGE but it repulses the life out of me.
I have seen everything from A Serbian Film to Slow Torture Puke Chamber. I have ventured Japanese with Ichi the Killer and I Saw The Devil. I’ve gone french (I think) with Martyrs. Not sure what language Dogtooth is but I’ve seen it and Killing of a Sacred Horse.
If I remember correctly one of the stories in V/H/S got me good. I’m looking for a friend always but being near Halloween it’s more appropriate to bring it up. So what’s up meh? Whatcha got for me?
Currently I’m watching Channel Zero Season 1 with The Haunting of Hill House is next.
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@compunaut @reclaimercube along the same lines, look up your/a friend’s/family member’s student loan balance.
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When you find something that is truly scary, let me know.
The last movie that I remember really giving me the chills was The Fourth Kind. I watched it at night, during a thunder storm, on the phone with someone also watching it. Their phone conveniently disconnected at a couple scary parts.
I did have a bad experience with Fire In The Sky as a kid, so it’s probably just mean aliens that freak me out. E.T. is fine. So was Alf.
Tuesday, November 6 is Election Day.
It’s not a movie, it will really happen.
Are you scared yet?
Different things scare different people. What scares you? Knives? Needles? Blood? Insects? Irrationality? Are you willing to overlook goofs or plot holes, or would that take you right out of a “willing suspension of disbelief”?
This properly belongs in the Villains thread, but there were two Robert Mitchum films that I now recall as totally freaking me out as a kid. One was of course Cape Fear, the other was Night of the Hunter. A film that really worked for me although I haven’t seen it in a long time was Wait Until Dark with Audrey Hepburn. It had good suspense, characters you cared about, and a strong twist at the end.
I find “scary” to be a tricky concept. “Shocking” is different, “surprising” is an important part of scary but can be overdone for me. Modern slasher pictures are too repetitive, and gross-out effects never really appeal to me. Too many modern (post-modern?) films don’t seem to know when to quit, they’re excess after excess to the point of boring me.
@aetris Nothing is scary to me. I’m trying to find something that is. I will look up the movies you listed. This is a half ass reply. To scare me I want to feel suffocated. That feeling of being alone, haunted, and afraid. I liked The Ruins and The Descent. Again, I will watch anything.
@aetris I totally forgot but a director that made me sick is Jack Ketchum. He did The Girl Next Door and if memory serves correctly it’s extremely rough to watch. However, that’s exactly what I want.
I won’t watch horror flicks after watching Alien. The OG face-hugger.
November 7th is looking pretty scary too. It’s like watching a car wreck in slow motion. And your children are inside the car.
Del Toro’s The Orphanage is my favorite horror film. More because I love del Toro’s storytelling than the scariness of it. I’ve got no use for the shock schlock and violence porn that makes up most of the so-called horror genre.
Read the book “the amityville horror”
Watch “the silent place”
@CaptAmehrican Do you mean A Quiet Place? I didn’t find that even slightly scary. Well acted, reasonably tense, and extremely irritating due to gaping logic holes. But not scary.
@moondrake yes wrong title.
I liked the idea behind it.
@CaptAmehrican @moondrake funny both of you mention this. I watched it today. Not scary but definitely good!
How did you feel after watching A Serbian Film?
@RiotDemon the first time shocked. The fifth and sixth time the shock value wore off. I showed my wife one time and she couldn’t stop laughing.
“It’s so fake, lol”
@reclaimercube wow. Just reading about it made me sick.
@RiotDemon Slow Torture Puke Chamber was similar. The one I haven’t made myself watch yet is “The Bunny Game”. There’s a trailer on YouTube.
@reclaimercube not sure if I want to go down the torture porn trail.
@RiotDemon I do own all the Saws on Blu-ray and parts 1&2 of human centipede. I don’t exactly get off on torture porn but it’s like a “safe” horror cliche. You’re Next was a surprise to the genre for me.
@reclaimercube I own the first 3 saw movies, then I kind of lost interest. Eventually I’ll watch the rest.
Human centipede was just stupid to me. I wasn’t scared. Grossed out, but I couldn’t get past the subpar acting.
Haven’t heard of most of the other movies you mentioned.
I saw the devil is on my list.
I was trying to remember the name of a film that seems like it belongs on your list, The Audition, and my search led me to this website and it’s film list of disturbing movies.
@moondrake Audition is another one of the Japanese movies that makes all the list. For some reason it’s one of the ones I haven’t seen. Thanks for the reminder! Happy Halloween friend
Also thanks for the list !
@moondrake @reclaimercube from that list:
I just saw “We Need to Talk About Kevin” last nite. Very disturbing film mostly due to how the narrative unfolds with fragmented editing.
From list: “Requiem for a Dream” if you haven’t seen might fit onto your list.
Might I suggest the vashta nerada?
Doctor Who, “Quiet in the Library” - for best results, watch only the first episode (it’s a two-parter).
@Durago the missus and I started watching Doctor Who and got about six seasons in. There have been a bunch of creepy episodes to be honest with you. The Weeping Angels FREAKY
@reclaimercube The weeping angels are scary, yeah. Although in my opinion the library is on a whole different level of horror.
@Durago I also love Donna
so yes I definitely love the episode
I am not sure if the single episode would be very scary out of order… but on Westworld the episode “The Riddle of the Sphinx” (S2E4) still really creeps me out… still not even sure why.
As for a more traditional sorta fright… Halloween (2018) is very good.
@thismyusername seen all of Westworld already. I love it all. Remembering back to Dolores’ home and how the man in Black did what he did to her it was all pretty dark.
I had free passes to the new Halloween this week. I saw it in the wrong theatre because the audience ruined it by, well, being annoying as fuck. I did enjoy the movie though.
Movies aren’t scary because your brain knows it’s a movie. I can do or say things that can scare you but most are not very nice and are silly things to say and may also be illegal.
Or you can stay in some deep forest for a night. I think people don’t really want to be afraid, they want to feel that they can conquer their fear. They want the feeling of superiority and control that they get from watching something scary and not being afraid.
Fear is a negative emotion. Most of us don’t know what real fear is, to be imprisoned and constantly bombarded by fearful thoughts, and I hope we never do.
Have a safe Halloween.
@meh1198 what a great response. I think you’re absolutely right about it. Maybe I get some sick satisfaction by telling myself I have conquered fear. I have been deployed to Kuwait and Iraq and while that might have had a couple of scary moments I felt more annoyed than anything at times.
@meh1198 Real fear is an everyday experience even for people who live comfortable lives. Cancer. Alzheimer’s. Life altering accidents. Loss of someone you love. Even if these things aren’t a daily stressor, most people come up against them from time to time. I think we enjoy horror movies and their pretend scares as a kind of catharsis.
Wanna be scared, think about Trump being re-elected.
@rtjhnstn Hell, a Republican Congress after the midterms should scare the crap out of everyone. ACA gone. Medicare and Social Security cuts to pay for the Trillionaire Tax Cuts. Mitch McConnell already promised as much, cackling over how he rammed through Boofin Kavanaugh.
Have you started watching The Haunting of Hill House yet? I just read an online article saying it was so scary viewers were vomiting and coming close to passing out. Quite the “review.”
Most scary movies aren’t scary to me because their plots are usually so improbable as to be laughable. The only time I get unsettled is when something in the movie hits really close to home, i.e. is entirely plausible.
@lordbowen I’m on episode 8 currently. It’s quite wonderful so far. I’m not sure what episode is making them want to throw up though. It gave me goosebumps quite a few times.
Take of two sisters, the Chinese version is best. I don’t recall the detailsb of the story line any more but I do remember being scared
@reclaimercube How’s this for scary?
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If you really want to experience fear, you should probably do something dangerous instead of watching a movie. Go rock climbing alone and without safety equipment.
In terms of something you might actually do that are not traditionally considered “horror”:
You mentioned feeling suffocated and alone. I recommend the Stephen King/Richard Bachman novella “The Running Man.” It’s a great book, completely different from the movie, and there is a particularly tense scene where the protagonist attempts to escape a burning building. It would probably tick some of your boxes.
Another alternative take on what you’re looking for might be the Australian film “Alexandra’s Project.” I don’t want to spoil too much of it. It has absolutely nothing in common with “The Running Man,” but I found it pretty disturbing.
I’ve got a couple of things you could try- probably none of them will actually make you feel terror, but maybe scared or some degree of uncomfortableness.
There’s the Saw movies & Hostel, but unless one of the scenarios gets to you, it probably won’t do anything for you.
I’m sure you’ve seen them, but check out Audition & Cannibal Holocaust.
There’s the Cube series of movies- maybe try the first one. It’s nothing special in the horror department, but the whole vibe is somewhat chilling and foreboding.
Hereditary…while I am going to stop short of saying it’s a good movie, it definitely gave me some chills and the sense of darkness and discomfort is very much present.
@cubedweller I went to see that in the theater. I was unimpressed.
@cubedweller My gf brought that home the other night. I told her it was going to suck. She watched it. She confirmed my opinion afterward…
The new Halloween movie looks pretty promising. Have you or anyone been to see it?
@Targaryen I’m waiting for moviepass to cover it. Hahaha! Maybe they’ll surprise me? It was supposed to be available on Thursday but they hit their ticket limit before my box office opened. I went to see Old Man and the Gun instead.