r/horror

I absolutely hate watching body horror, and I'm not sure why. It might be a sensory thing.

BUT, I absolutely love The Thing. I consider it a pitch perfect horror movie, and it's one of my favorite horror films ever made.

Again, not really sure why. Maybe it's because the movie focuses more on the paranoia than the actual transformations, but it's still pretty nauseating, so I'm not really sure why I like it so much.

Hostel 1 was always a good movie about ignorant Americans looking to exploit a foreign culture. I don't think it's a surprise that it came out during the GWOT, when America started invading countries with people who had no clue about those cultures, and were accused of trying to exploit them for their resources. The idea of a bunch of bros heading to a European country where all the men died in a war leaving nothing but lonely, horny women they can exploit is pretty gross.

But Hostel 2 never really had any great cultural connection. But if you watch it today, it really holds up well during the online manosphere era. The jacked middle aged dude convinced that once you kill someone it changes you is very reminiscent of the Joe Rogan TRT types telling older guys they need to do combat sports or do those weird "make me a man" bootcamps. The loser nerdy "nice guy" who really wants to hurt women because his wife is assertive and he's a wuss. It's not a good movie, but I think it holds up really well.

Favorite kill was definitely the corn on the cob. But like also incest and just the whole thing felt super weird. Like I know the mom has stupid strength but also, wow so insanely dramatic reactions. Can someone explain to be the nature of the relationship between the mom and son? Is this a kink thing or is it just straight up incest?

I think I’m guilty when I very first seen the chainsaw massacre series ( I was young )

But more recently I have rewatched some gems that i definitely didn’t appreciate the first time around

I need you lads to reccomend me the most blood curdling movies you can think of - I’ve already seen ‘A Serbian Film’ ‘Martyrs’ ‘Hereditary’ etc. I need something really insane

When it comes to the slow burn, unsettling horror genre, i am easily hypnotized. Today it is rainy and gloomy outside, I was about to put on “VVitch” for the 56th time. But instead, I paused. Figured maybe I’d try something that parallels my favorite horror movie of all time. This is a post that is begging for suggestions of all kind that fit the type of horror that Ari Aster created in his first 2 films or the type of dread Robert Eggars has sustained throughout all of his movies. All suggestions are welcome and very much appreciated! Help me find something to watch on this gloomy day!

Went to this in the cinema, and it's from Julia Ducournau who made Raw and Titane. Raw was very obvious "body horror" stuff. Titane didn't really work, felt like it was apeing the concept of the Dougie Jones storyline in "Twin Peaks". Alpha might be the best of the three because it has body horror stuff but also some good characters and themes.

The film takes place in a world that has a new blood-borne virus that causes people to progressively turn into stone and their blood to sand, before killing them. Alpha, a teen, gets a sketchy tattoo on her arm at a party, and her mom, a doctor, freaks out because she has treated people with the virus and is worried that her daughter was infected. At the same time, the mom's skeletal junkie brother comes to live with them to detox. Alpha doesn't remember him from when she was young, and didn't even know her mom had a brother.

Alpha also faces bullying at school when it's suspected she might be infected. This element coincidentally felt similar to The Plague that was out this year.

This is actually pretty decent. It has a few problems, but with how "asked and answered" movies are lately, if something gives you anything to ponder afterwards, that's a plus for me.

The framing, the range of shots, the editing, the voice effects, and of course Brad Dourif's performance. An underrated masterpiece

I’m curios, since i really enjoy both movies and i feel like this is quite the hot take, especially for the Beginning. I honestly think that these two movies are the best entries of the franchise, right after the Original.

But i have to admit, that most of my enjoyment for these movies probably come from R. Lee Ermey as Sheriff Hoyt, who might be my favorite character of the whole series.

I feel like I am looking for something very specific, like a mimic or human-like creature that is obscured in shadow for most of the film. I want something with more of a slow burn. Most if the movies somewhat like this that I have found have been very poorly made and even corny, so is there anything like what im looking for?

I believe horror can be cathartic and I'm a big atmosphere guy. I really revel in the atmosphere when it's good. For my no. 1 it's John Carpenter's The Thing. The atmosphere, the Antarctic cold, the isolation. I watch it probably once a month or so on average.

Edit: to say this could be movies, games or other media. I'm working through the Resident Evil series at the moment and the atmosphere of 4 is amazing.

Some that come to mind:

• The Cube - The premise itself is the game. Locate the exit of the Cube, avoid the traps, and don't get killed by other players/prisoners. Unlike other versions of this, the players are able to collaborate and there isn't a sole winner.
• Battle Royale - The Battle Royale is a tournament where students are forced to participate in an elimination style battle where only one survivor is allowed to leave the game. Everyone has bomb collars so that if they try to leave the island or enter a "forbidden zone" their heads will explode. As an added bonus everyone gets 1 item which range from useful to pointless (one person gets a paper fan another gets a machine gun with ammo.
• Hunger Games - Similar to Battle Royale, main changes are the items you get are located at a central location in the map, the matches are televised with the added wrinkle of viewers can pay to send you gifts.
• The 8 Show - 8 Contestants are in a Big Brother style game where each contestant is given a room on a floor of the game space 1 thru 8. Each contestant generates an amount of money for the contestant per an algorithm (Floor 1 earns ~$7 per minute, Floor 8 earns ~$250). Time is limited, and can only be gained >!if they are "Entertaining enough"!< which is something the contestants don't figure out till later in the show. The big twist on this premise is that if anyone dies or if time runs out the show ends and they take the money they've accrued with them out of the game.
  • They can purchase anything with their money from their room, but it can't leave their room. They can use time to purchase items that are allowed to go anywhere. Except for food and water.
  • There are no bathrooms or amenities.
  • Food and water is given to the person in Floor 8 who then gives the remainder to Floor 7, and that proceeds until they get to Floor 1. The amount of Food and Water is equivellent to 12 servings leading to people hoarding food.
  • Being Entertaining means they actively have to do interesting things, starting with a talent show but quickly devolving into one of the players keeping the others in a perpetual state of torture
• Escape Room - Premise is in the title, players are put into deadly escape rooms and must solve puzzles in order to not die. Some of them include laser trip wires that are powerful enough to cut through flesh and a quick sand trap.
• Saw - Classic one is probably the reverse bear trap where the guy needed to cut out his own eye to get a key that unlocks the trap. There is also the house from Saw 2 where the mansion is trapped and if people examined the traps before going in them they'd for the most part be able to get the cures to the poisons that they were given, one of them being a hand trap gadget where you can put your hand in, but if you pull out you slice your arm.
• Squid Games - Essentially, games for school kids, but if you fail you die. So many classic ones:
  • Red Light Green Light
  • Tag/Hide and Seek
  • Tug of War
  • Jump Rope
  • Rock Paper Scissors Minus One
  • Squid Game
  • Sky Squid Game
• Alice in the Borderlands - An abandoned version of Tokyo with games spread across the city:
  • Tag
  • Escape Rooms
  • Social Deduction game to find the traitor
  • Capture the Flag
  • Logic Puzzles
• Yugioh Manga - Before the card game, the "Season 0" of Yugioh involved a lot of "Shadow Games" where the loser straight up died.
  • Explosive Hockey - The players played air hockey with an explosive embedded in ice and the table was a hot grill. Whoever's side had the explosive on it when the ice melted blew up.
  • Knife game - The players have a stack of cash placed on top of their hand and they get to keep as much money as they can get with the knife, but if they stab themselves they lose.

Any other games people can think of?

I mean books and comics technically are silent horror but I wanna experience something else. I mean it should happen on the screen without any music, without any dialogue and without any text.

Haven't came across any silent horror video ever. I want to experience the horror in silence. I really think people can make wonders in this sub genre.

I've read horror books and horror comics, played horror games and watched horror movies, listened to horror podcasts, been to haunted house rides and gone on spooky walking tours.

But I've never seen a scary play.

I know Sweeney Todd's a bit macabre, but I'd hardly call it scary, it's not even trying to be really.

To be fair, I'm not much of a theatre guy, probably only been to about ten plays in my life, but still. You'd think there'd be one at least one super famous scary play.

Is there?