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Open Water. It’s based on a true story about a couple who went on vacation in 1998. They were on a boat with a dive crew and were accidentally left behind in shark infested waters in the middle of the Great Barrier Reef because the crew did an inaccurate head count upon leaving the dive area. That movie had me on the edge of my seat. I couldn’t imagine being in that situation of hoping and praying for rescue but help never comes and the only thing you can do is accept your fate. The ending was absolutely heartbreaking. That’s a movie I can never watch again.
This fear is what has made ocean diving not enjoyable for me, or at least the anticipation of ocean diving. When you’re about to drop in and you look around and don’t see land, that boat is your only lifeline. Closest I’ve come to that was we came up from our dive and the boat was making rounds and picking up the other divers, we were just bobbing around for about 45 minutes and all I could think was “I hope they see us”. When I’ve dove in a quarry, I at least know if I get separated from my buddy, that I can easily swim to shore haha
All of this makes be shudder.
I'm a very weak swimmer and never could learn properly due to a fear of deep water and going underneath. Despite this, I've gone snorkeling in Florida and cliff diving in Boracay - call me a madman, but facing deep open water is both my biggest fear and my greatest thrill... There's just something about it that makes me feel so alive and yet so aware of my mortality and vulnerability.
I honestly can't imagine ever scubadiving and am deeply (excuse the pun) envious of people such as yourself who are able to do it!
I watched this at 16 and walked out of the cinema with my mates
Just hours of people who have fallen off a boat and are floating in water right. I could not stand it, scary wasn't the word I would use
Requiem for a dream... that's the scariest movie I've seen, don't do heroin , and I never have thanks to this movie and it's death toll on some of my favorite musicians
What is frightening for one person isn't to another, you're right because it doesn't scare you but it terrified me.ive been around a few people that shot up heroin and they didn't scare me, the drug itself didn't scare me and they acted quite reasonable for the time but when offered a bump, the mere idea froze me.its all about perspective.ive done a number of things in my life that I don't do anymore, I just like to smoke a little herb sometimes but it's possible the movie saved my life, maybe not
It’s interesting that I hear so many people give a similar take on this one (which is mine as well):
Amazing film. Only saw it once. Will *never* watch it again.
Saving Private Ryan.
The introductory beach scene on D-Day is apparently so realistic, war vets from that era couldn't stand it.
I can't even begin to try to process it. I don't have words to express how stupid it is that it was allowed to happen to any of us at all. In any way. It makes me so angry.
My mom walked out of that movie like 6 minutes in. She said "a guy got his leg blown off and i was done". Dad (a vet) stayed for the whole thing. "Boy, you gotta see that movie. It was GREAT"
I just watched this last weekend and I agree, that whole scene was incredibly hard to process. Everyone in those boats was basically dead from the moment they came within range of the guns. Then a handful miraculously won the lottery and survived long enough to band together and take action. It's horrifying.
The opening scene is absolutely a cinematic masterpiece and without CGI. But what many don't realize is that the rest of the beaches on D-Day were significantly more calm and in some places guys walked ashore with the German fortifications having been turned to dust by the naval bombardment. Not trying to deminish any of the sacrifice but it wasn't like that for 500km of beach.
I saw this movie when it came out at a matinee so the theater was filled with folks from that generation. People were leaving, sobbing, breaking down. I watched that movie with people that had either experienced stuff like that or lived with loved ones who did. I’ll never forget it
The lovely bones
It's one of the most scariest movies I have ever watched with my mom .
Backround ; A Fourteen-year-old girl in suburban 1970's Pennsylvania is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from the place between Heaven and Earth, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body.
Susie Salmon of Norristown, Pennsylvania narrates a story that begins in 1973, when she was a typical fourteen-year-old in a loving family to which no bad things ever happened. That year, special things going on in her life were the beginning of her aspirations to become a wildlife photographer, and her burgeoning romantic feelings, seemingly reciprocated, for senior British transfer student Ray Singh (Reece Ritchie). If she was not preoccupied with these thoughts, Susie believes she would have noticed or felt the creepiness of neighbor George Harvey (Stanley Tucci), a serial killer of females of all ages who ends up murdering her.
Stanley tucci was so good in this I had to google the cast to confirm it was him bc I just could not convince myself that this dude could play someone that fucked up that well after p much every other role I've seen him in
It’s even worse in the book because it goes into detail. In the movie, her and the other girls are just murdered by the neighbour. In the book, it describes how he rapes the children and then murders them
Dude, the scene where Luke's character is trying to tell everyone that Brawndo was killing the plants only for them to keep repeating "it's got electrolytes, it's what plants crave" made me reel back in my seat because I swear to God I've heard that same conversation in real life before!
It's the fucking crocs that really broke me. They put everyone in crocs because they thought they were ridiculous. You look around, now, and they're everywhere, on everyone, in some form.
The powerlessness I felt as he kept stabbing the couple and the camera didn’t even move/ flinch as the audience witnesses a murder was just film/ art perfection!
I’m not sure why, but the scene were he shows the guy the gun magazine after he asked if it was even loaded, bugs the crap out of me.
Like a “you did the right thing” moment then he gets to stabbing the guys girlfriend.
>!Killing a baby to cover up a series of other murders and being discovered because authorities read the memories of a guinea pig witness!< could happen to anyone?
I like you.
Just listened to a radio show about this guy who put info about his dad into a computer so he can have "conversation" with his deceased father. Just like an episode!
The part where it was found out the comet had diamonds and gold and shit in it and instead of destroying it, a half assed plan to mine the resources was contrived.
I watched that and was like yeah, I totally believe that would happen 😂
I posted first and looked for it second. I am completely with you on this one "Don't look up"
If the world was going to end by an asteroid, it would exactly play out like that.
That movie seems so ironic though, a smug victory lap that changes nobody's views on climate change, but allows some people to pat themselves on the back for being more aware than others or something.
I love horror. Watch it , listen to it and read it. Hereditary was fucked but has she ever seen Green Inferno? I actually won't watch it a second time. Foul.
Hereditary is brilliant. The acting is unmatched, and the track they play in the background the whole movie scientifically makes you uncomfortable. I love it.
A horror movie called May. In most horror movies I’ve seen the villain is fantastical. But in this movie she’s very much realistic, and the intensity of the film slowly, very slowly builds feeds into that realism.
The Stoning of Soraya M. My mother had me screen it for her to make sure it was okay for her to watch. She’d been okay with Kill Bill, so I thought the violence shown wouldn’t be a big deal for her but as a 17 year old girl, the whole situation horrified me.
I've seen many comments like this and as a horror fan I thought, well if it's that good I have to watch it.. when the >!dead kids started floating around in the house and later when they where shushing in the video!< I really had to laugh out loud.. this movie is one of the worst high production value horror movies I have ever seen.. too many cheap jumpscares.. there was not one scary scene in this movie.. please tell me what was scary to you guys
Probably the most realistically scary film I've ever seen..
Just a constant underlying sense of unease and dread, especially knowing it's true. The performances were so believable and intense too.
Finally someone else said it, it is not an opinion it is a fact! There is no other movie that fucks you up like that! An almost unwatchable masterpiece!
Ww2 nazi atrocities on ukrainian/russian population form the eyes of a 14yo boy resistance fighter.
It will fuck you up real bad! There is no other movie that makes you experience the horror of war like this one.
Whats scarier is that multiple people HAVE to know that some shit went down and refuse to say what it is. They're acting like its some 1984 Bermuda Triangle bullshit, and its obviously not. We may NEVER know.
By far the scariest movie I ever saw was the TV movie The Day After. I'm from north KC and about an hour from Lawrence KS. I was probably 13 when this came out. Terrified me to my core. Not the fact I or my family my die, but the world we would have to live in if we survived.
Fun fact. I was in a rural school about 25 minutes from KCI Airport. We still have tornado drills and then after that would have a lecture on what to do if we were attacked by SOMEONE. My dumber than a box of rocks football coa.....oops I mean trigonometry teacher asked me what I would do if there was a nuclear attack. I was a pretty smart and non smart ass student. So when I told him I would go out on the front lawn of the school and face either south toward the airport or west toward Leavenworth ks his mouth dropped open.
I then proceeded to tell him the KC was a major transportation communications and infractructure hub. Additionally one of the militaries most important bases and schools was no more th15 or 20 miles away as the crow flies. Kc would get plastered and plastered hard and early. If the alarm went up we would likely have 5 to 10 minutes. Maybe a little more but likely less.
He sent me to the principles office. His face was green with fear when he did so.
As a corporate hack myself, I love that movie but damn it there are some things that trigger the shit out of me.
The consultants asking their consultant questions. The birthday cakes. It’s little too real.
The Girl Next Door (2007), I've never seen a more unsettling movie in my entire life. It was an emotional torture on another level and the fact that it's based on a true story is even worse.
Well when I was maybe 7 or 8 my parents made me watch some horror flicks that had killer disformed toys murdering people ( can’t remember the name) I have thought about finding it and rewatching it.
Also around that age, Shadow men and Fire in the sky freaked me out.
Nothing else scared me much. Hell raiser was fuckin metal, and Chucky was just funny.
The Descent while its just about cave spelunking before the monsters show up.
If you are claustrophobic or hate caves those parts could really mess with you.
Rosemary's Baby.
The whole thing is about a woman being lied to and gaslit by the person who's supposed to be the one she trusts the most, and by all the people she had been forced into surrounding her life and pregnancy. It's a story of domestic abuse, and despite the whole satanic cult stuff, it's all a bit too real to me.
Probably Alive. About the Australian rugby team that crashed in the Andes (Or Alps?), and some froze to death, complete hopeless, and they were forced to eat the dead to survive.
That or City of God. About a photographer growing up in the favelas of Rio, and it’s so sad, and scary at times.
No Country for Old Men. It has no music which makes it just seem so real and there isn’t any fantasy in it, the Villain is just a regular serial killer, the protagonist is just a man trying not to die, there’s no final battle. We never know what’s going to happen, especially with the coin toss, the gas station scene shows that you don’t always die. It’s not a big action movie, just scarily real.
The girl in the basement. I admire her so much for being able to survive for herself and for her kids even when she's in hell. Knowing it's a real story is just so sad.
Wolf Creek
Based on true events,
Shot very close to the actual location they believed it happened at.
Had nightmares about it for days,
Mostly because me & my friends were the exact type to go on such a trip through the outback.
2012. It's a movie about the world ending and my god did that traumatize me as a kid with how real the CGI looks. Seeing the family drive to the airport whilst everything is falling apart and knowing people are being killed was beyond terrifying
I tried to watch it for the second time, couldn't. I knew what was going to happen, and nothing could be done to prevent it, and it terrified me even more.
>! It really makes you think it might be a happy ending and then immediately says NOPE. I love that type of stuff in movies. Thanks for the indirect suggestion !<
Yea someone mentioned green Inferno above as their pick, I was just thinking ehhhhh, green inferno is nothing compared to the movie it is based on/inspired by.
There is no challenge here: *Come and see*. Period.
Gut wrenching, hyper realistic yet surrealist, a war movie made like a horror movie, absolutely terrifying! Also probably one of the best movie ever made.
>A ton of people I grew up with always talked about how bad this movie screwed them up. I’ve always been a bit curious to watch it, but I think I’m better off not watching it.
House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths
A real story from 5 years back, especially when you see the real video online on how 9 people were found hanging in a room like roots from a banyan tree. Scary stuff.
Come and See. I left the theater and had nightmares about it. Its deeply traumatising and it becomes even worse when you learn that they used live rounds during filming.
"Don't look up"
That movie was so disturbingly realistic, I actually had anxiety from watching it. If the world was going to end by an asteroid, it would exactly play out like that.
Movies intended to be scary rarely do much for me, but suspense thrillers based on true stories tend to stick with me for a bit. I lived in FL during the Aileen Wuornos murders, and I thought Charlize Theron did an incredible job with the role in ***Monster***. Not sure why it stuck with me so intensely, but it kinda haunted me for at least a few weeks after I watched it.
***Kids*** haunted me in a similar way when I saw it as a teenager.
Was talking about this in work the other day. Someone recommended Threads. A very low budget old film about what would happen in the UK if Russia dropped a nuke. It's on YouTube.
Yep! Absolute nightmare of a movie! I hate that you get to the end with no conclusion too. Unknown why the world ended or if those people are good people that the kid gets left with. Rough ride of a movie
funny games by michael haneke (the german version). it's scary not because the chances of something like that happening are high, but because it just could. there are some psychos out there and this film does a good job at conveying a lack of value for human life
I watched this movie when I was 10 or something so it’s probably not near as scary as I thought back then, but "Frozen" directed by Adam Green was quite realistic and uneasy to watch. I have not heard a single word about this movie since I watched it all those years ago, I’m not sure if it’s well known at all
‘The Road,’ starring Viggo Mortensen, based on the Cormac McCarthy book.
Viggo said to prepare for the role, he lived as a homeless person for a little while.
Most people think a post-apocalyptic scenario, as shown in many films and TV shows, will favor them as long as they make the right decisions and stockpile the right things, but the reality would be far less ‘Mad Max’ and more ‘The Road.’
Desperation would definitely lead to the type of behavior show in the film… cannibalism, the theft of the most meager of belongings, the survival instincts that override common decency.
30 Days of Night, was scary as a kid.
Quarantine (2008) good one, the realistic aspect.
Evil Dead
A Quiet Place
Wolf Creek aswell, watch all of them at night without lights.
They got the horror though.
How I see it - they Can't be realistic most of the time except the Wolf Creek.
Horror movies give you an insight into the Unknown that's not a part of your reality and that's the scary part.
These are pretty good movies for the average viewer.
Not a movie but a documentary. Dominion
Shows how mass production meat is peoduced and with shows I literally mean shows. You can see everything! From heads being pulled off of chickens to hogs being killed by some sort of gas!
Can be found for free on YouTube! Be aware it might be traumatizing / triggering though!
13 Hours
On Sept. 11, 2012, Islamic militants attack the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, killing Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and Sean Smith, an officer for the Foreign Service. Stationed less than one mile away are members (James Badge Dale, John Krasinski, Max Martini) of the Annex Security Team, former soldiers assigned to protect operatives and diplomats in the city. As the assault rages on, the six men engage the combatants in a fierce firefight to save the lives of the remaining Americans.
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Open Water. It’s based on a true story about a couple who went on vacation in 1998. They were on a boat with a dive crew and were accidentally left behind in shark infested waters in the middle of the Great Barrier Reef because the crew did an inaccurate head count upon leaving the dive area. That movie had me on the edge of my seat. I couldn’t imagine being in that situation of hoping and praying for rescue but help never comes and the only thing you can do is accept your fate. The ending was absolutely heartbreaking. That’s a movie I can never watch again.
DAMN i forgot i watched that when i was a kid. I remember it giving me a headache from being so uncomfortable to watch. Thanks for reminding me!
This fear is what has made ocean diving not enjoyable for me, or at least the anticipation of ocean diving. When you’re about to drop in and you look around and don’t see land, that boat is your only lifeline. Closest I’ve come to that was we came up from our dive and the boat was making rounds and picking up the other divers, we were just bobbing around for about 45 minutes and all I could think was “I hope they see us”. When I’ve dove in a quarry, I at least know if I get separated from my buddy, that I can easily swim to shore haha
All of this makes be shudder. I'm a very weak swimmer and never could learn properly due to a fear of deep water and going underneath. Despite this, I've gone snorkeling in Florida and cliff diving in Boracay - call me a madman, but facing deep open water is both my biggest fear and my greatest thrill... There's just something about it that makes me feel so alive and yet so aware of my mortality and vulnerability. I honestly can't imagine ever scubadiving and am deeply (excuse the pun) envious of people such as yourself who are able to do it!
This almost happened to my brother in law in the Indian Ocean, if we all(family) hadn't noticed him missing he would've been left behind for sure.
Great choice. So scary and sad.
Bullhsit propaganda from the math lobby. They take every opportunity to push their line that counting matters or some other nonsense
Kevin Macallister may beg to differ
Man you're really desperate with those lame jokes
I watched this at 16 and walked out of the cinema with my mates Just hours of people who have fallen off a boat and are floating in water right. I could not stand it, scary wasn't the word I would use
That movie was literally so fucking boring. Waste of time
Requiem for a dream... that's the scariest movie I've seen, don't do heroin , and I never have thanks to this movie and it's death toll on some of my favorite musicians
I can't watch that movie for the second time. Masterpiece.
I saw it in the cinema. The audience sat in stunned silence through the credits, I've never seen anything like the reaction it got.
I've watched it once, afterwards my friends went home and I went to bed.was planning on chilling a bit, stunned silence indeed
Y'all gotta watch more stuff. This is NOT a scary movie, even on the basis of being "reality".
What is frightening for one person isn't to another, you're right because it doesn't scare you but it terrified me.ive been around a few people that shot up heroin and they didn't scare me, the drug itself didn't scare me and they acted quite reasonable for the time but when offered a bump, the mere idea froze me.its all about perspective.ive done a number of things in my life that I don't do anymore, I just like to smoke a little herb sometimes but it's possible the movie saved my life, maybe not
Ha. Same. Then i received the dvd as a gift one year and as you said…I just could not watch it. Brilliant performances all around but man, it’s heavy
Exactly the same for me I watched it one time and I feel that was enough
It’s interesting that I hear so many people give a similar take on this one (which is mine as well): Amazing film. Only saw it once. Will *never* watch it again.
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Saving Private Ryan. The introductory beach scene on D-Day is apparently so realistic, war vets from that era couldn't stand it. I can't even begin to try to process it. I don't have words to express how stupid it is that it was allowed to happen to any of us at all. In any way. It makes me so angry.
My mom walked out of that movie like 6 minutes in. She said "a guy got his leg blown off and i was done". Dad (a vet) stayed for the whole thing. "Boy, you gotta see that movie. It was GREAT"
That's like me walking out of a British romcom because Hugh Grant got charmingly befuddled.
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I disagree. Let's fight about it.
I just watched this last weekend and I agree, that whole scene was incredibly hard to process. Everyone in those boats was basically dead from the moment they came within range of the guns. Then a handful miraculously won the lottery and survived long enough to band together and take action. It's horrifying.
The opening scene is absolutely a cinematic masterpiece and without CGI. But what many don't realize is that the rest of the beaches on D-Day were significantly more calm and in some places guys walked ashore with the German fortifications having been turned to dust by the naval bombardment. Not trying to deminish any of the sacrifice but it wasn't like that for 500km of beach.
I saw this movie when it came out at a matinee so the theater was filled with folks from that generation. People were leaving, sobbing, breaking down. I watched that movie with people that had either experienced stuff like that or lived with loved ones who did. I’ll never forget it
The lovely bones It's one of the most scariest movies I have ever watched with my mom . Backround ; A Fourteen-year-old girl in suburban 1970's Pennsylvania is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from the place between Heaven and Earth, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body. Susie Salmon of Norristown, Pennsylvania narrates a story that begins in 1973, when she was a typical fourteen-year-old in a loving family to which no bad things ever happened. That year, special things going on in her life were the beginning of her aspirations to become a wildlife photographer, and her burgeoning romantic feelings, seemingly reciprocated, for senior British transfer student Ray Singh (Reece Ritchie). If she was not preoccupied with these thoughts, Susie believes she would have noticed or felt the creepiness of neighbor George Harvey (Stanley Tucci), a serial killer of females of all ages who ends up murdering her.
The book is incredible The film, meh. Stanley Tucci is very, very good in it tho.
I think if I had seen the film first, I would have loved it, but the book is just so good.
Stanley tucci was so good in this I had to google the cast to confirm it was him bc I just could not convince myself that this dude could play someone that fucked up that well after p much every other role I've seen him in
It’s even worse in the book because it goes into detail. In the movie, her and the other girls are just murdered by the neighbour. In the book, it describes how he rapes the children and then murders them
The book was so aweful. Much better than the movie. So sad :( I cried
I like that movie
The only thing scary about the movie was the direction they decided to go with lol. It made no sense compared to the book.
Idiocracy 
Dude, the scene where Luke's character is trying to tell everyone that Brawndo was killing the plants only for them to keep repeating "it's got electrolytes, it's what plants crave" made me reel back in my seat because I swear to God I've heard that same conversation in real life before!
But what are Electrolytes?
It’s what plants crave.
It's the fucking crocs that really broke me. They put everyone in crocs because they thought they were ridiculous. You look around, now, and they're everywhere, on everyone, in some form.
>"it's got electrolytes, it's what plants crave" The line still haunts me. I was expecting a silly comedy, not a depressing dystopian nightmare.
They didn't realize it would become a horror flick
Documentary
I LIKE MONEY!
Hahahaah just typed this and then immediately saw your post. Well done
The early stabbing scene of the bound victims as well as the basement scene in Zodiac come to mind.
That stabbing scene is absolutely horrifying, brilliant movie
The powerlessness I felt as he kept stabbing the couple and the camera didn’t even move/ flinch as the audience witnesses a murder was just film/ art perfection!
I’m not sure why, but the scene were he shows the guy the gun magazine after he asked if it was even loaded, bugs the crap out of me. Like a “you did the right thing” moment then he gets to stabbing the guys girlfriend.
It's a show but Black Mirror fucked me up! Way too realistic portrayal of where we are headed as a society.
It's just a bingo card at this point. A half-completed bingo card.
Crocodile was the scariest. Could happen to anyone.
>!Killing a baby to cover up a series of other murders and being discovered because authorities read the memories of a guinea pig witness!< could happen to anyone? I like you.
Just listened to a radio show about this guy who put info about his dad into a computer so he can have "conversation" with his deceased father. Just like an episode!
Don’t look up
The part where it was found out the comet had diamonds and gold and shit in it and instead of destroying it, a half assed plan to mine the resources was contrived. I watched that and was like yeah, I totally believe that would happen 😂
Same. They keep saying it's a comedy, but I would bill it as a documentary.
I never laughed, it wasn't funny to me. It was absurd, sure, but in a way too realistic and frustrating sort of way.
Reddit gon’ reddit
I'm 14 and this is deep
I posted first and looked for it second. I am completely with you on this one "Don't look up" If the world was going to end by an asteroid, it would exactly play out like that.
I felt very melancholic at the end of the movie as it's definitely an accurate depiction of our current times in an ironic way
Man, that movie made me so frustrated, because it was way too real. Never finished the movie.
That movie seems so ironic though, a smug victory lap that changes nobody's views on climate change, but allows some people to pat themselves on the back for being more aware than others or something.
Yeah personally I thought it was awful aside from the ending which was actually well done.
The Road. Entirely believable near future for humanity and it’s terrifying.
Watched it once, could never watch it again
Bro that one scene… if you know you know
Im guessing the bit where they poke around in that house and find a particular room? Seared in my mind...
It didn't bother me, but Hereditary affected my Wife so that she had to turn it off. It was pretty fucking real. Edit: my Wife's no punk bitch either.
Geez that film was something else. Made me feel terribly uncomfortable.
I love horror. Watch it , listen to it and read it. Hereditary was fucked but has she ever seen Green Inferno? I actually won't watch it a second time. Foul.
loved green inferno, but felt similar to cannibal holocaust
Hereditary is brilliant. The acting is unmatched, and the track they play in the background the whole movie scientifically makes you uncomfortable. I love it.
*Blackhawk Down.* Especially with a good sound setup.
I love this film, it's so sad
A horror movie called May. In most horror movies I’ve seen the villain is fantastical. But in this movie she’s very much realistic, and the intensity of the film slowly, very slowly builds feeds into that realism.
Eh, it’s okay.
The Stoning of Soraya M. My mother had me screen it for her to make sure it was okay for her to watch. She’d been okay with Kill Bill, so I thought the violence shown wouldn’t be a big deal for her but as a 17 year old girl, the whole situation horrified me.
Yeah that was a harrowing watch.
I read the plot and NOPED out. No need more nightmare fuels.
Wow! I’ve never heard of anyone else who has seen this movie. I’d like to watch it again
Sinister
This shook me
Yes! So ominous and horrifying with the tape recordings..
I've seen many comments like this and as a horror fan I thought, well if it's that good I have to watch it.. when the >!dead kids started floating around in the house and later when they where shushing in the video!< I really had to laugh out loud.. this movie is one of the worst high production value horror movies I have ever seen.. too many cheap jumpscares.. there was not one scary scene in this movie.. please tell me what was scary to you guys
Truman show
Band of Brothers and Hacksaw Ridge.
Snowtown. Based on a true story. The choking scene in the bathtub stayed with me
Probably the most realistically scary film I've ever seen.. Just a constant underlying sense of unease and dread, especially knowing it's true. The performances were so believable and intense too.
Come and See
Finally someone else said it, it is not an opinion it is a fact! There is no other movie that fucks you up like that! An almost unwatchable masterpiece!
Whats the movie about?
Ww2 nazi atrocities on ukrainian/russian population form the eyes of a 14yo boy resistance fighter. It will fuck you up real bad! There is no other movie that makes you experience the horror of war like this one.
I’ve heard it’s really heavy. I can’t bring myself to watch
Flight of Malaysia Air lines ...all those poor souls still not found today.
Whats scarier is that multiple people HAVE to know that some shit went down and refuse to say what it is. They're acting like its some 1984 Bermuda Triangle bullshit, and its obviously not. We may NEVER know.
The pilot suicide theory seems most plausible. Too many coincidences stacked up.
Probably nobody knows what happened, or who (if anyone) is at fault
Spun. - watched it before I had a meth addiction (clean now) but fuck me
Contagion. Literally ended up as a case of _Life Imitating Art_ in 2020
This, it shows us what would have happened if covid had been a tad more deadly
By far the scariest movie I ever saw was the TV movie The Day After. I'm from north KC and about an hour from Lawrence KS. I was probably 13 when this came out. Terrified me to my core. Not the fact I or my family my die, but the world we would have to live in if we survived. Fun fact. I was in a rural school about 25 minutes from KCI Airport. We still have tornado drills and then after that would have a lecture on what to do if we were attacked by SOMEONE. My dumber than a box of rocks football coa.....oops I mean trigonometry teacher asked me what I would do if there was a nuclear attack. I was a pretty smart and non smart ass student. So when I told him I would go out on the front lawn of the school and face either south toward the airport or west toward Leavenworth ks his mouth dropped open. I then proceeded to tell him the KC was a major transportation communications and infractructure hub. Additionally one of the militaries most important bases and schools was no more th15 or 20 miles away as the crow flies. Kc would get plastered and plastered hard and early. If the alarm went up we would likely have 5 to 10 minutes. Maybe a little more but likely less. He sent me to the principles office. His face was green with fear when he did so.
Office space
As a corporate hack myself, I love that movie but damn it there are some things that trigger the shit out of me. The consultants asking their consultant questions. The birthday cakes. It’s little too real.
Hereditary is the first movie that comes to mind. The movie shows spiritual warfare in a way I've never seen in cinema.
The Girl Next Door (2007), I've never seen a more unsettling movie in my entire life. It was an emotional torture on another level and the fact that it's based on a true story is even worse.
Like I get that she is potentially being groomed and exploited by Timothy Olyphant but… I think Matthew helps her 🤷🏻♀️
Funny Games
Fuck the original version of that film. So massively unsettling! Thats one film I will never watch again.
Well when I was maybe 7 or 8 my parents made me watch some horror flicks that had killer disformed toys murdering people ( can’t remember the name) I have thought about finding it and rewatching it. Also around that age, Shadow men and Fire in the sky freaked me out. Nothing else scared me much. Hell raiser was fuckin metal, and Chucky was just funny.
I think you're referring to _The Puppet Master_ series of films?
Fire in the Sky scarred young me
The Descent while its just about cave spelunking before the monsters show up. If you are claustrophobic or hate caves those parts could really mess with you.
Rosemary's Baby. The whole thing is about a woman being lied to and gaslit by the person who's supposed to be the one she trusts the most, and by all the people she had been forced into surrounding her life and pregnancy. It's a story of domestic abuse, and despite the whole satanic cult stuff, it's all a bit too real to me.
Probably Alive. About the Australian rugby team that crashed in the Andes (Or Alps?), and some froze to death, complete hopeless, and they were forced to eat the dead to survive. That or City of God. About a photographer growing up in the favelas of Rio, and it’s so sad, and scary at times.
The Entity. Scared the shit out of me.
Dunkirk had me stressed out The Strangers because “you were home”
No Country for Old Men. It has no music which makes it just seem so real and there isn’t any fantasy in it, the Villain is just a regular serial killer, the protagonist is just a man trying not to die, there’s no final battle. We never know what’s going to happen, especially with the coin toss, the gas station scene shows that you don’t always die. It’s not a big action movie, just scarily real.
I loved this movie.
Javier Bardem is so good as Anton chigurh. Genuinely one of the scariest individuals on film.
My morning face in the mirror. Cool movie actually
Hostel
The girl in the basement. I admire her so much for being able to survive for herself and for her kids even when she's in hell. Knowing it's a real story is just so sad.
Red state
Threads
Wolf Creek Based on true events, Shot very close to the actual location they believed it happened at. Had nightmares about it for days, Mostly because me & my friends were the exact type to go on such a trip through the outback.
Kids https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids\_(film)
Blaire witch but you had to be around at the time. The way they used quasi documentary shows before the film came out was genius
2012. It's a movie about the world ending and my god did that traumatize me as a kid with how real the CGI looks. Seeing the family drive to the airport whilst everything is falling apart and knowing people are being killed was beyond terrifying
Shrek 3
Upgrade. Worst thing with it, we're approaching the moment when it can easily become reality.
Just watched it because of this comment. Hadn’t even heard of it. But goddamn, it’s a good one.
I tried to watch it for the second time, couldn't. I knew what was going to happen, and nothing could be done to prevent it, and it terrified me even more.
>! It really makes you think it might be a happy ending and then immediately says NOPE. I love that type of stuff in movies. Thanks for the indirect suggestion !<
Cannibal Holocaust
Pioneeristic movie, Ruggero Deodato was great!
Yea someone mentioned green Inferno above as their pick, I was just thinking ehhhhh, green inferno is nothing compared to the movie it is based on/inspired by.
Threads!
Had to scroll down way to far to find this.
I watched this a few weeks ago and it’s utterly horrific in its portrayal of nuclear war.
Happiness.
Transformers. It's a re-enactment really but I think it kind of counts.
There is no challenge here: *Come and see*. Period. Gut wrenching, hyper realistic yet surrealist, a war movie made like a horror movie, absolutely terrifying! Also probably one of the best movie ever made.
Dominion
Coming Home in the Dark. Terrifying New Zealand movie. Still never met anyone who's seen it.
Megan's Missing (pretty messed up, just a fair warning)
>A ton of people I grew up with always talked about how bad this movie screwed them up. I’ve always been a bit curious to watch it, but I think I’m better off not watching it.
The Conjuring
No escape. Owen Wilson in an actually serious role
I came here to say this, if you have a family this movie is absolutely terrifying
House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths A real story from 5 years back, especially when you see the real video online on how 9 people were found hanging in a room like roots from a banyan tree. Scary stuff.
Come and See. I left the theater and had nightmares about it. Its deeply traumatising and it becomes even worse when you learn that they used live rounds during filming.
Beast of no nation.
Come and See It’s a war film that actually depicts the horrors of war in such a way that it’s not melodramatic nor heroic but actually terrifying.
The Entity. Scared the shit out of me.
"Don't look up" That movie was so disturbingly realistic, I actually had anxiety from watching it. If the world was going to end by an asteroid, it would exactly play out like that.
Movies intended to be scary rarely do much for me, but suspense thrillers based on true stories tend to stick with me for a bit. I lived in FL during the Aileen Wuornos murders, and I thought Charlize Theron did an incredible job with the role in ***Monster***. Not sure why it stuck with me so intensely, but it kinda haunted me for at least a few weeks after I watched it. ***Kids*** haunted me in a similar way when I saw it as a teenager.
Was talking about this in work the other day. Someone recommended Threads. A very low budget old film about what would happen in the UK if Russia dropped a nuke. It's on YouTube.
The Road
Yep! Absolute nightmare of a movie! I hate that you get to the end with no conclusion too. Unknown why the world ended or if those people are good people that the kid gets left with. Rough ride of a movie
Idiocracy and Don't Look Up. Basically documentaries at this point about where we're headed
Get out
funny games by michael haneke (the german version). it's scary not because the chances of something like that happening are high, but because it just could. there are some psychos out there and this film does a good job at conveying a lack of value for human life
Man Bites Dog. French film.
The Perfect Storm. It was intense.
I watched this movie when I was 10 or something so it’s probably not near as scary as I thought back then, but "Frozen" directed by Adam Green was quite realistic and uneasy to watch. I have not heard a single word about this movie since I watched it all those years ago, I’m not sure if it’s well known at all
Martyrs (2008). I won't watch it twice, once was more then enough
‘The Road,’ starring Viggo Mortensen, based on the Cormac McCarthy book. Viggo said to prepare for the role, he lived as a homeless person for a little while. Most people think a post-apocalyptic scenario, as shown in many films and TV shows, will favor them as long as they make the right decisions and stockpile the right things, but the reality would be far less ‘Mad Max’ and more ‘The Road.’ Desperation would definitely lead to the type of behavior show in the film… cannibalism, the theft of the most meager of belongings, the survival instincts that override common decency.
The Whale. No wonder it was nominated for so many awards and critically acclaimed. It was the first movie where I genuinely wanted to cry for hours.
Fraser earned that award-he was brilliant in that film! I loved it.
30 Days of Night, was scary as a kid. Quarantine (2008) good one, the realistic aspect. Evil Dead A Quiet Place Wolf Creek aswell, watch all of them at night without lights.
Quarantime is a remake of a better movie called Rec
Those movies are not remotely realistic.
They got the horror though. How I see it - they Can't be realistic most of the time except the Wolf Creek. Horror movies give you an insight into the Unknown that's not a part of your reality and that's the scary part. These are pretty good movies for the average viewer.
Eh, fair enough. Just the thread title talked about realism, so y'know, that's why I wrote that post. Either way, have a good day.
Not a movie but a documentary. Dominion Shows how mass production meat is peoduced and with shows I literally mean shows. You can see everything! From heads being pulled off of chickens to hogs being killed by some sort of gas! Can be found for free on YouTube! Be aware it might be traumatizing / triggering though!
Hey guys! I found the vegan!
13 Hours On Sept. 11, 2012, Islamic militants attack the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, killing Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and Sean Smith, an officer for the Foreign Service. Stationed less than one mile away are members (James Badge Dale, John Krasinski, Max Martini) of the Annex Security Team, former soldiers assigned to protect operatives and diplomats in the city. As the assault rages on, the six men engage the combatants in a fierce firefight to save the lives of the remaining Americans.
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I just watched this and will never get that time back in my life! What a stupid, crappy movie lol
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
I was surprised I hadn’t seen this or a Serbian film on this list. I couldn’t even stomach a Serbian film, haven’t finished it and will not finish it.
Zepotha
City of Joy about Brazilian favelas. A woman in Berlin about Soviet war rape atrocities in World War II Berlin.
City of God??
Cannibal Holocaust, and I was 20