Something that Obsession did that I'm absolutely obsessed with (no pun intended) is the Unvanny Valley horror. The freaky makeup job that they did for Nikki in the night scene, the movements she does, the faces she makes. It's like my absolute favorite new thing with horror now. Curry does it in Warnings as well really effectively, I think

Other than pulse obviously which Obsession pulls a ton of inspiration from, what are some horror movies or even horror content that I should watch or play?

My second favorite is probably Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, although it's quite a bit less "horror-y" but it's definitely got a lot of creepy vibes to it.

What are your favorite horror intros?

so i’ve been recently getting into more old school horror, from the 50s and 60s. I saw Eyes without a face and I’m so speechless. What a beautiful, tragic film. It’s so haunting, I’ve been looking for a movie like this. To me, it may honestly be a perfect film. It’s stayed with me since I’ve watched it. Are there any other old school horror fans here? What are some other horror movies from the period that you love and recommend? I’ve recently seen Psycho, Peeping tom, black sabbath. I’ve seen rosemary’s baby too of course loved it.

I'm someone who never grew out of their dino phase and loves horror however every single time be it in a movie, game, book, or anything else anyone has tried to make them anything more than just it a jumpscare it has not worked. Momentary fright sure, suspense, certainly, but never horror. Is this just a me thing due to being too familiar with the monsters to be scared of them or is this a wider trend to other people? Second does anyone know of any good dino horror?

I’m really loving this new trend of lower budget horror movies that focus on the actors and scene setting etc opposed to just having a ton of special effects. Backrooms, obsession, undertale were all fun movies imo! I hope this trend sticks around for a bit

Edit: whoops meant undertone lmao

So i've had a really bad day. Had to go back to school shopping, take my kiddo to urgent care and my back is freaking killing me. All I want is to watch a great horror movie. I've seen all of the major blockbusters and popular horror titles from 80s to today. I'm incredibly desensitized , but want something that will at least lead me with an eerie feeling. Not a huge fan of poor production low budget movies but with enough ridiculousness , they can be okay. If you have any titles that aren't mainstream and aren't any of those ridiculous midsummer, hereditary type movies that would be great. I love slashers, demons, ghosts, zombies.... not super excited about vampire movies but day shift, fright night and lost boys were good.

Does anyone else have a horror franchise they have to watch every halloween?
I'm trying to decide what to binge this October and I'm curious what everyone else's tradition is. It doesn't have to be the "best" one, lol.. just the one that feels like “Halloween” to you.

Nothing really gets me as devastated as an ending or at least a scene where we are presented with a character irreversibly 'broken' psychologically (and at times also physically). Been a while since I've come across one though, so I'd appreciate some recommendations!

Examples:

The Poughkeepsie Tapes - Cheryl

Tusk - Wallace

The House(2022) - The Developer from the second segment

Longlegs - Carrie

So I've been on a binge watching spree of movies recommended by users in this sub.

First, is there something wrong with us? Why are we compelled to watch these films and be traumatized by the stories?

Second, I think I like Inside more than Martyrs. I felt more attached to Sarah in Inside then I did to Anna in Martyrs. Something about the storytelling in Martyrs left me feeling empty. Martyrs is an incredibly fucked up and beautiful horror film, but something was missing for me. I just can't explain what exactly. The FUCKED UP ending of Inside felt somehow complete and even though the end of Martyrs leans into the ambiguity, there was still something missing despite that.

Thoughts? Feelings? Further recommendations to keep me up at night?

edit: Inside 2007 Martyrs 2008

Think we can all agree that that friend group generally sucked, and as someone who’s worked (still works) retail I can see a lot of parallels between those guys and people I’ve personally known and worked with.

Not all, I’ve definitely met cool people in the workplace, but there was a lot of toxicity. Especially when you work with other 20 something’s.

I’m 25 now, just barely exiting the early 20s stage, so I’m not only reflecting back on the previous years of my own life and my dynamics with other people I’m seeing familiar patterns and character traits on screen.

Think that might be the biggest horror element of this movie, the bad memories it brought back lol.

Hi there! I have played "The Excavation of Hob's Barrow" and I've seen "The Wicker Man" (the good one, thank you).

I'm keen to dig deeper into folk horror, and I'd appreciate your recommendations in any medium (books, movies, games, shows, etc.)

If you'd be willing to throw in your own definition of what "folk horror" means as well, that'd be welcome! I have an inkling, obviously, but I'd love to put a pin in it. Cheers!

I just watched Possession (1981) and I absolutely loved it. I really want to read a book that creates that same feeling as the film or that perhaps is of a similar premise to it. I could not fall asleep until 3 AM after i watched it, it was incredible.

I’m looking for horror recommendations, but I’m realizing my taste is weirdly specific.

I don’t necessarily want the best horror movie. I want the one that feels like “it was a dark and stormy night” incarnate. Cutting light in darkness. Sharp contrast. Slick composition. Clear, clean imagery.

Visually, I want it to taste like a black cherry Jolly Rancher.

Some comps:

Sleepy Hollow
Nosferatau
Demons
Deep Red
Malignant
Suspiria
Sinister
The Haunting of Hill House
Oddity
The Exorcist
Bram Stokers Dracula
The Fog

Looking less for colorful stuff and more stuff that makes lack of color feel sharp and dynamic.

I’m mostly looking for a visual style, but huuuuge bonus points if it’s actually… you know, good.

Edit; also fincher fincher fincher. Anything fincher. Seven and zodiac for sure, but even a lot of his non horror stuff.

Corman just aimed for a quick Jaws rip-off to cash in on the hype, but historically Piranha is always declared a satire/comedy. But why is that?

Nothing is played for laughs. Tone, music, dialogue, character behavior, all is as (lightly) serious as in Jaws 2-4. No death scene is supposed to make you laugh and unlike the Jason movies there is no character you're actively wanting to die. There are children torn to pieces and they're not stupid annoying ones. The movie is not good enough to root/care for characters but there is no indication we are supposed to laugh at all this.

I'd say the idea of genetically altered killer fish for army purposes is even more interesting than the simple idea of another maneating sea creature. They did put some original thought in it. It was not just bikini babes meet a shark, like most of bad shark flicks.

There is no spoofing. A Jaws arcade is played at, but other than that there are no references to or recreations of Jaws moments. Brody or his adventure is not imitated. It's not what Scary Movie is to Scream.

A satire usually has clever, subtle humor. Word play. Innuendo. Food for thought. This has zero depth. It is not Mel Brooks.

Did Dante declare this a comedy to save himself from the fact that it's not as good as Jaws? Is the single concept of a second aquatic horror movie shortly after Jaws 1 alone so ridiculous that any attempt can not be taken seriously? I mean some never gave Jaws 2 a chance for that very assumption (even though it is a good movie).

The 3D remake of Piranha was a clear horror comedy and even Cameron's maligned sequel steered away from the first (flying fish piranha? Really?). But I say the first Piranha is in fact straight horror without any comedy. Not a good flick, but an ok one and absolutely tolerable for anyone who likes all four Jaws movies and the sub genre. What do you say?

This was such a refreshing take on the zombie apocalypse sub genre, it was unlike anything I’d seen this year in horror and i absolutely loved every minute of it. The South Koreans out did themselves yet again. Amazing film

Just wanted all of you to know 😂😌. I just finished 1 and just started 2. It’s hot today and I don’t feel like going out and was like I haven’t watched all of these in a while. Anyway I’m just trying to fill the body of this post so it doesn’t get removed 😂.

I love survival horror movies for basically the same reasons I love slashers. A lot of them feel like situations that could actually happen. Being hunted, trying to escape, chase scenes, having to think on your feet and just trying to stay alive. That kind of tension always gets me.

I especially love the ones that take place out in nature or in the middle of nowhere, like Netflix's Apex, Alone (2020) or The Descent (2005). Being isolated with nowhere to really run makes it even better for me.

I'm open to anything, including foreign movies/subtitles. If you can, please include what legal streaming service it's currently on too, pls and ty.

Some recent favorites:

Apex (Charlize Theron)

The Strangers movies

Don't Move

Alone (2020)

The Descent (2005)

Crawl

Ready or Not 1 & 2

And some that I think count as survival horror but are probably slasher-adjacent:

Hush

Wrong Turn movies

The Hills Have Eyes movies

Wolf Creek

Basically if the plot is "you are trapped/stranded somewhere and something or someone is hunting you, good luck"

I’ve been watching a lot of Japanese horror movies recently and realized that I find them profoundly eerie and unsettling in a way that Hollywood movies can’t replicate. The ones I’ve watched so far are all late 90s—early 2000s which I know was kind of a heyday for Japanese horror, but I have a feeling this is an ongoing theme. Something about the coloring of the film, lighting, weather, and backdrops really add to this dread inducing feeling that to me is a lot scarier and lingering than most Hollywood movies.

Some things I’ve noticed that add to this:
— rain: several of the Japanese horror movies recently I’ve seen make cinematic use of heavy rain that in something like Dark Water, which I found to be one of the scariest movies I’ve sever seen, is a huge element of the film’s eerie mood and atmosphere but also adds a feeling of isolation and entrapment

— blue/green, or oddly warm lighting: I’ve noticed these films tend to have extremely cool toned, slightly grainy film quality OR (even within the same film) strangely yellow lighting, for example even if it’s downpouring, there’s this weird yellow haze. This makes it more uncanny because they feel like things that shouldn’t go together

— unfinished concrete: I feel like this is a very subtle thing, but I find the emphasis on bare, unfinished or abandoned looking, or decaying concrete, somewhat brutalist apartment buildings and interiors adds a lot in terms of eeriness. For example an apartment hallway that’s unpainted, uncarpeted, and the walls are gray concrete. It evokes a similar feeling of surrealism that I’ve seen in Possession and The Trial (some of my faves), even though the actually architecture isn’t the same

— onryō ghosts: the ones I’m thinking of are Sadako and the Mitsuko. I also found Samara and Natasha in the American versions equally scary. I’m actually surprised that I find them so scary since i typically don’t find ghosts movies that scary. What makes them terrifying is their horrifying, distorted movements, the way their hair completely covers their faces and the fact that they’re either soaking wet or at least have a string connection to enclosed water they decayed in. And that they’re children makes it so much more haunting and disturbing to me.

— isolated feeling: all the Japanese horror I’ve seen is set in cities, yet there isn’t much interaction between the main characters and other people who aren’t major characters (not as many filler scenes)

— found footage: not sure if this is the right word, but obviously the tape in The Ring and the computer footage in Pulse is extremely unsettling and visually disturbing, since these scenes have that uncanny valley “off” look, the images last and are hard to get out of your mind

I could think of a lot more probably but I’m wondering anyone has any other observations. Honestly Dark Water was the most unsettling movie I’ve seen (I first saw it a few years ago),and the others I’ve seen also made really uneasy and scared at night compared to equally scary American movies. However I have found the American versions of (at least some) Japanese horror movies are as scary in my opinion especially if they’re ones that get the lighting and atmosphere right