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As something of a flipside to the above thread, what movies/shows/books/et cetera do you feel capture an essence of horror by offering a 'true sense of terror' for the audience? (It may or may not be in the horror genre, of course! There's plenty of drama and sci-fi flicks that I've found far creepier than anything labeled as such.)

No Country for Old Men. It's the only film I have ever watched that I had to turn off because a particular scene disturbed me so much.

I'm pretty easily spooked by ghosts, so most ghost movies will do it for me, but if you want a classic 'The Innocents' really freaked me out. Especially the lake scene.

For not-ghosts, the one movie I remember completely noping out of because it freaked me out was 'Eraserhead'. Nothing makes senses and nothing's happening but absolutely everything is horrible. It's a genuinely nightmarish movie, in the sense of 'I think I'm having a really bad dream and I would like it to stop now'.

slightly OT but a thought on Eraserhead. IMHO that's one of those movies that, whether you like it or you don't, you kind of have to have seen it in order to have any cred as a film geek; what I would call a rite of passage movie.

da - a few years ago, an art/design exhibit I was at included different movie scenes on loops, on small video panels, with 2 individual headphones for audio. These were in a large space with movable walls set up, creating a sort of maze with different “rooms” you could enter.

And in one room, there was a lone kid maybe 9-12 years old, just sitting on the ground, headphones on, and deeply, deeply engrossed in the panel showing clips from “Eraserhead”. I can only assume that was a bit of a formative moment.

Event Horizon is genuinely scary. It builds up the fear, and then the reveal is scary and the terror keeps up right to the end. The idea of an entire dimension of horrors where you and everyone around you torment and kill each other is horrifying. And a possessed ship you can't escape from dragging you to that dimension is scary too.

The first two Halloween movies are scary to me. A serial killer who doesn't show any emotion, who can't be persuaded or distracted, who is completely focused on his target. If you are the one he wants, he'll stop at nothing to get you. And he seems nearly unstoppable.

Brightburn. If Superman was evil. Shows you just how scary the idea of a superhero can be because if someone genuinely evil had the powers, it wouldn't be like the comics. It would be scary.

Wickerman (the original). The suspense that builds. Beautifully done. And then the utter shock of the ending. But even when you know, it is still scary on rewatches because of how well done the movie is and just how scary the character's fate is.

Silence of the Lamb. Just has some beautifully scary moments. Even though Red Dragon is actually my favorite movie of the series, Silence is definitely scarier.

And finally, Oculus. Another movie that does so great with building the terrifying suspense. Such a great modern horror movie.

I like Wicker Man and Oculus a lot too.

The first two Halloween movies are scary to me. A serial killer who doesn't show any emotion, who can't be persuaded or distracted, who is completely focused on his target. If you are the one he wants, he'll stop at nothing to get you. And he seems nearly unstoppable.

Yes. And the way he calmly, deliberately walks towards you. Doesn't chase you, doesn't say a word once he sees you. Just quietly stalks you until he goes in for the kill. And even if you try to run, you still feel like you won't make it away in time.

The movie Zodiac by David Finchner. So many terrifying moments, but especially the baby scene. https://youtu.be/eDhJ-xXsbHc

Oh, lord, this scene... I saw this movie for the very first time about a month or so ago, and I don't think I breathed once during this scene. I was sitting here peeking out through my eyes and everything. Tense. As. Hell.

The original Wicker Man. That ending will stay with me until I die.

Alan Wake.

The dark, the fleeting safety of the failing lights. Played on hard mode... Jesus it scared me.

I like the book, but I've only read it a couple of times because there are some ideas and imagery from it that mean for weeks afterward I am anywhere from unsettled to downright freaked out around drains.

Also, that scene in Alien with Dallas in the ducts while they are tracking the alien, just the tension, the suspense, the build-up, all of it is almost overwhelming. My breathing changed just thinking about it.

And The Thing from Another World, the 1951 black-and-white movie, terrified me when I watched. I did not have the same reaction to John Carpenter's 1982 The Thing, though it is based on the same book - I mean, it's scary, but not on the same level for me.

The film "Frailty" has always terrified the shit out of me. I think the idea that there is someone out there who does believe his murdering is the work of God really scares me. Maybe the fact that I'm not religious it gets to me? I don't have much issue with religious people except knowing how organized religion has been used by powerful figures to do whatever they wanted and to control the masses. I guess on a personal level I've never understood religion much? I've always been instilled with too much of my dad's skeptical worldview. But I do find people's personal relationship to faith interesting.

Japanese horror in general I can't handle well.

I also think anything James Wan does relating to horror he's really good at it.

This is probably just me but Bird Box. I was terrified of the premise and the film not ever showing *what* was making people kill themselves (scarier than just something else murdering you) was too unnerving for me. I could have laughed at ridiculous boogeyman designs, but no! Fuck that film, I hated it (and people laugh at me because that was the stupid meme movie), I wish I had never seen it.

"We Need To Talk About Kevin" (movie) not jumpscare scary but bone chilling. As if pregnancy wasn't horrifying alreadt...

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What pieces of media are genuinely scary?

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It (the book).

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