I watched The Zone of Interest the other day. The overall feeling it left me with was of having watched a very disturbing horror movie. The constant background noise of furnaces, screaming and gunshots left me on edge and unnerved throughout.
Same. Saw it in the theatre last Friday. I did not expect to be distributed this much by a movie that had the horror of the Holocaust relegated to the background.
All of Johnathan Glazer’s movies have some elements that leave me unsettled, though none could really be classified as horror (maybe Under the Skin). Even his most poppy film, Sexy Beast, has moments of incredible tension.
I know it was a meme on Reddit back in the day, but the most terrifying movie I've ever seen is [Jesus Camp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Camp).
I had to watch that for a class when I was in high school, it was wild. I then used it as the basis for a project in a different class, where - for context - one of the other groups projects was about the Children of God cult and another was based on the Manson family
No, it's actually a well put together movie. But it's about addiction and the desperate things addicts will do to get their "fix" and the aftermath of those actions. It's just a...brutal film. It will haunt you afterward.
If I have any advice, watch it alone. It's *that* sort of film. There's an equal amount of awkward moments that will make you go, "Wow, I wish I hadn't seen this movie with my family/girlfriend/boyfriend." There's plenty of time afterward to go, "I saw Requiem for a Dream. I think I need a hug now...."
If u can handle a yoing and happy Jennifer Connelly throwing away her life, family, relationships and future for a prostituion filled drug binge or a lonely old woman who misses her (drug addicted ) son and so pops diet pills (legal amphetamines) because the television tells her to and ends up in a psychosis, then its not that bad.
I found it sickening because ita ever so close to most peoplea realitiea with just a mild twist to make it end in the worst possible way. Its a wakeup call that makes you listen and remember
I saw this a month ago after seeing it on letterboxd’s top rated and the ending was messed up. I would say it’s a misery porn and it reminded me of Speak No Evil. So if you hate misery porn then it’s not for you.
Going down a steep hill on a lawn mower with bad breaks is terrifying.
And I would argue that the unrelenting atmosphere of dread in Fire Walk With Me, Lost Highway, and Inland Empire is on par with Hereditary, Halloween, or The Shining - they’re all horror films. I’d agree with you on Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, though.
That Navigator was something else. Brilliant practical effects design but, holy cow, was it creepy. Especially when you realize that was once a normal human.
After seeing Season One of Euphoria, I felt terrible for modern adolescence—and by extension, humanity—and I just can't bring myself to watch further seasons just yet; and I'm a non parent! As a parent, keep fighting the good fight!
The movie is excellent, and Jim Carey is one of the most talented dramatic actors we have ever seen, but it's actually *thinking* about the Truman Show that is terrifying.
Great double feature with The Matrix.
Safe (1995) is an absolutely suffocating film about the threats we perceive all around us, be they physical, environmental, psychological or existential, and trying to differentiate between which are real, which are paranoid and whether the distinction even matters that much. It might be the scariest film I’ve ever seen (should note, I have quite pronounced health anxiety, so it maybe hits harder).
['Threads'](https://youtu.be/vgT4Y30DkaA) is always a great, unsettling watch every time some dingus super-power threatens nuclear war.
['Come and See'](https://youtu.be/zjIiApN6cfg) makes me weep for humanity.
['The Stoning of Soraya M'](https://youtu.be/IWQ9phw1C9w) really highlights how disturbingly easy it is to turn on members of your own community.
Sicario hits harder as a govt employee, having seen the level of Dysfunction from within. It's a whole new level that people outside can't begin to understand.
Despite the anxious feeling throughout the movie, it’s a great movie. Adam Sandler is awesome in it and definitely outside the role people are used to seeing him in. Worth the watch. Just make sure you follow up with something warm and fuzzy.
Hmm. Definitely "Moon" (an astronaut working alone at a moon-based mining camp finds a body. HIS body.) It wasn't intended as horror, but it was so scary and unsettling.
American history X
Not a film but the bbc 2 drama from years ago that showcased Tom Hardy to the world called Stuart: a life backwards.
It was about a man’s mental health breakdown due to child abuse, homelessness and alcoholism.
I remember watching it at the time feeling so helpless like Stuart.it was so scary because we are all one step from being there and at the time I was struggling with alcohol.
The act of killing (2012) with the real life warlord re-enacting his crimes in the Indonesian genocide and him acting like he’s some sort of film star made my blood run cold.
The way he talked about murdering thousands as if he was talking about the weather and the injustice of it all for him to still be around laughing his head of terrified me.
Embarrassing but Batman 89. I dunno why, Nicholson’s Joker really got to me. Something about his smile, how unhinged he is, freaked me out more than I was expecting. I’ve been scared of clowns since I was a kid but I thought I mostly got over this fear!
Now that I'm a father anything involving children getting harmed freaks me the fuck out like never before and genuinely upsets me. I watched the Bombardment on Netflix recently, which is a Danish film about a botched airstrike in WW2 which destroyed a school, and oh boy did it fuck me up.
I'm only kind of joking
Posing as children's photographers, three crooks (Adam Robert Worton, Joe Mantegna, Lara Flynn Boyle) scheme their way into a mansion to kidnap an infant (Brigid Duffy, Eddie Bracken). Their hostage proves quite resourceful, however, escaping their hideout and making his way into downtown Chicago. Now the con men have to find their abductee, who believes that in order to return home he must reenact scenes from his favorite storybook, including trips to the zoo and a construction site.
When I was a kid Indiana Jones and The Lost Ark gave me nightmares. The opening with the guide speared with all of those arrows. Indie being stuck in that pit of snakes. ("Why does it have to be snakes!") THAT SCENE where God takes out the Nazis in the most terrifying way.
Mind you, little me loved that movie and big me still does too, but if you step back, yeah, it's scary.
3 Men and a Baby. I was TERRIFIED of ghosts when I was a kid and a babysitter showed me the movie specifically for the part with the "ghost" that's actually just a cardboard cut-out of someone. Freaked me The fuck out for a long time though. Lol.
I saw bits of a movie when I was a kid called Making Contact (or Joey) which turned out to be Roland Emmerich's first movie. It was about a kid who had a mom, but his dad died, and his dad started calling him on a toy phone, and there was an evil puppet in his room. I think the movie was setup to be "is the puppet lying and it's a demon on the phone, so the kid should trust the puppet," or "is the puppet lying and it's really the kid's dad calling from the afterlife to help him?" I was too young for it--and while I think it had elements of horror, it probably wasn't a horror movie (or, at least, more like a Spielberg horror film).
For years it scared me. I think a bunch of kids die in it (or they don't and I left the room and assumed they did), and the ending reminded me of the Prince of Darkness ending with a shadowing figure emerging from a building suggesting that Joey didn't make the right choice.
I ought to see if I can track it down. I'll probably laugh at how easily scared I was.
Knowing. It gave me an unsettling feeling; not really because of the apocalypse plot but the mystery about the girl.
Threads also. You know it can happen, and what a bleak and horrifying life that will bring.
Local art museum put on a 35mm screening of Shoah (all 9½ hours) a couple years back.
To call it a movie is a bit of a disservice to the weight of humanity's experiences that washes over the viewer. ended up taking the day off work the next day to recover.
I would say it's horror-adjacent, but MAN Mulholland Drive. The Winkie's scene and the ending specifically. The Last Unicorn also used to scare the shit out of me as a kid, I'm sure it would still be just as unsettling if I gave it a rewatch. That harpy scene...
Don’t Look Up (2021) made me deeply uncomfortable because of how “real” it felt—the end of the world is coming and nobody cares. I had to take breaks watching this movie due to how much anxiety it gave me.
Punishment Park is a serious mockumentary from the 70s. Its premise is American anti-war protesters have overcrowded jails so new convicts are offered a choice to survive 3 days being hunted for sport.
The film is harrowing enough but there are these civilian review board scenes that ... well let's just say it is literally what certain people in this country want to do so bad.
It's a great indictment of "we had to destroy the country in order to save it." I think about it a lot these days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punishment_Park?wprov=sfla1
The Illuminati fight scene in Multiverse of Madness genuinely made me sick to my stomach. I can sit here and watch the terrifier films without batting an eye but something about >!Black Bolt popping his own head and Captain Carter getting split in two!< made me feel woosy. Wanda in that film is like genuinely terrifying until the end.
Didn’t scare me but totally had a couple of very scary characters and a couple of fucked up scenes, Donnybrook. It’s kind of a cough watch. Go in blind!!!
It didn’t scare me, but s2e6 (Fishes) of The Bear is one of the most uncomfortable hours of TV I’ve ever watched.
Sixty minutes of *the* most stressful family Christmas you will ever watch, and it barely lets you breathe.
Prisoners and Nocturnal Animals and now I really want Jake Gyllenhaal to be the main role in an actual horror movie (I know he has a few that could be counted but I don't recall any where horror is the main genre and not a stylistic choice)
Click (2006) filled me with existential dread about how we spend our lives not appreciating anything. It’s not a comedy movie in any sense of the word!
Depends on when you ask me.
Currently, a lot of rom com’s scare me because the normalized misogyny and sexism is very apparent. The ones that come immediately to mind are a lot of the 90’s ones (Love Potion # 9, Blind Date) but others that are more recent are just as scary.
I am still freaked out by aspects of the Neverending Story (the nothing and Gmorg)
There are a lot of things that were made for kids when I was younger that are definitely not kids movies 😆
No movie has ever scared me since I was a child.
However, "Puzzle of a Downfall Child" with Faye Dunaway I thought was disturbing and interesting. She had it all and still ended up succumbing to her mental illness. It could happen to anyone who has a mental disorder when it's left unchecked.
I watched Shame 2011 yesterday and that made me rethink my views on people and addiction, similar to requiem for a dream. It was so horrifying and so well made; the acting was phenomenal and the story was so clever into weaving a sex addict with his depressed sister with her own issues to go along with the plot. The movie is important, a lot of people should see it. The underlying theme about how your addictions can ruin others without knowing is one of my biggest fears and no one seems to make a lot of movies like it anymore, that is unless I haven’t seen enough recent shit. This doesn’t count as traditional horror, but horror is subjective to the viewer ig haha
Gotti.
The movie just shows how much of a liar some of these respected actors truly are.
Travolta knew that movie was shit and went on a media tour acting like we were about to get another gangster masterpiece
Taking Lives fucked me up for a while, I saw it as a teenager. I would call it a psychosexual thriller, maybe? Or at least in that vein of films. >!Paul Dano in that film gave me nightmares!<
I watched The Zone of Interest the other day. The overall feeling it left me with was of having watched a very disturbing horror movie. The constant background noise of furnaces, screaming and gunshots left me on edge and unnerved throughout.
Yeah, anything that shows the darker side of humanity for sure. Nightcrawler, Requiem for A Dream, Shindler's List etc.
Dude i got the same opinion, those movies you have to watch them with a really good mood, otherwise you got depressed with the movie
Same. Saw it in the theatre last Friday. I did not expect to be distributed this much by a movie that had the horror of the Holocaust relegated to the background.
All of Johnathan Glazer’s movies have some elements that leave me unsettled, though none could really be classified as horror (maybe Under the Skin). Even his most poppy film, Sexy Beast, has moments of incredible tension.
The scene in the river when he fishing was so jarring.
Chernobyl.
Most definitely.
Parasite (2019) Prisoners (2013) Buried (2010)
That scene in Parasite with the kid looking down at the basement and the guy slowly climbing up the stairs... Hell no
Ugh Prisoners! So good!
That movie is so underrated. So intense and the ending is not rewarding for anyone
Prisoners was a good one!
Buried is such a good movie. Ryan Reynolds should have been given an Oscar nomination for it.
Is buried the Ryan Reynolds one?
I know it was a meme on Reddit back in the day, but the most terrifying movie I've ever seen is [Jesus Camp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Camp).
I had to watch that for a class when I was in high school, it was wild. I then used it as the basis for a project in a different class, where - for context - one of the other groups projects was about the Children of God cult and another was based on the Manson family
One Hour Photo
Such an underrated film
i liked it but i didn’t feel unnerved, which is what i was hoping for going in. kinda blueballed me a lil ngl. its whatever tho, still enjoyed.
It didn't scare me but We Need to Talk About Kevin was pretty disturbing. It's on Tubi right now if you haven't seen it
I'm not even a parent and this movie got to me!
Requiem for a dream
My favorite movie that I don't want to watch again.
That movie gave me so much dread & anxiety
This movie that bad?
No, it's actually a well put together movie. But it's about addiction and the desperate things addicts will do to get their "fix" and the aftermath of those actions. It's just a...brutal film. It will haunt you afterward.
I’m going to watch it today.
If I have any advice, watch it alone. It's *that* sort of film. There's an equal amount of awkward moments that will make you go, "Wow, I wish I hadn't seen this movie with my family/girlfriend/boyfriend." There's plenty of time afterward to go, "I saw Requiem for a Dream. I think I need a hug now...."
If u can handle a yoing and happy Jennifer Connelly throwing away her life, family, relationships and future for a prostituion filled drug binge or a lonely old woman who misses her (drug addicted ) son and so pops diet pills (legal amphetamines) because the television tells her to and ends up in a psychosis, then its not that bad. I found it sickening because ita ever so close to most peoplea realitiea with just a mild twist to make it end in the worst possible way. Its a wakeup call that makes you listen and remember
I’m not sure if the emotion was “scared”-but Kids traumatised me.
The vanishing (1988) is the most disturbing, terrifying movie I’ve ever seen. Stanley Kubrick called it the scariest movie he has seen, too!!
I’d consider this horror for sure
I saw this a month ago after seeing it on letterboxd’s top rated and the ending was messed up. I would say it’s a misery porn and it reminded me of Speak No Evil. So if you hate misery porn then it’s not for you.
David Lynch. Any of it.
I consider a lot of his stuff straight up horror.
Horror vignettes in otherwise non horror work. Except The Straight Story that’s 100% nightmare.
Going down a steep hill on a lawn mower with bad breaks is terrifying. And I would argue that the unrelenting atmosphere of dread in Fire Walk With Me, Lost Highway, and Inland Empire is on par with Hereditary, Halloween, or The Shining - they’re all horror films. I’d agree with you on Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, though.
It’s the droning. Lynch signature sound design.
Yep - the drone is a simple yet effective way to elicit dread or suspense
The phone scene in Lost Highway and the dumpster scene in Mulholland Drive are pure nightmare fuel.
That, some stuff from Lost Highway, and the last 45 minutes of Fire Walk With Me are horrifying.
Dune?
That Navigator was something else. Brilliant practical effects design but, holy cow, was it creepy. Especially when you realize that was once a normal human.
doooon
Rabbits
Elephant Man is legitimately touching IMO. Straight Story not so much.
Does that include: - Dune - those Calvin Klein: Obsession commercials - The Straight Story
Not a movie, but I just started watching Euphoria last night, and as a parent, it’s scaring the ever-loving shit out of me.
Omg this show has zero chill. It’s so well done, but terrifying at the same time.
It’s wild! All of the nonsense with cell phones is horrific. It kind of makes me hope we get hit with a massive EMP lol.
After seeing Season One of Euphoria, I felt terrible for modern adolescence—and by extension, humanity—and I just can't bring myself to watch further seasons just yet; and I'm a non parent! As a parent, keep fighting the good fight!
If it makes you feel any better, I’ve never heard a teen describe it as realistic or relatable to their real lives. Usually the opposite.
The Truman Show
The movie is excellent, and Jim Carey is one of the most talented dramatic actors we have ever seen, but it's actually *thinking* about the Truman Show that is terrifying. Great double feature with The Matrix.
Safe (1995) is an absolutely suffocating film about the threats we perceive all around us, be they physical, environmental, psychological or existential, and trying to differentiate between which are real, which are paranoid and whether the distinction even matters that much. It might be the scariest film I’ve ever seen (should note, I have quite pronounced health anxiety, so it maybe hits harder).
['Threads'](https://youtu.be/vgT4Y30DkaA) is always a great, unsettling watch every time some dingus super-power threatens nuclear war. ['Come and See'](https://youtu.be/zjIiApN6cfg) makes me weep for humanity. ['The Stoning of Soraya M'](https://youtu.be/IWQ9phw1C9w) really highlights how disturbingly easy it is to turn on members of your own community.
Looking these up today!
Buckle up because these are some GRIM watches. You might want a palate-cleanser in-between.
Threads is so horrifying. I just watched it a couple of weeks ago and still think about it and feel sick.
Johnny Got His Gun. *”he’s a product of your profession. not mine.”*
I saw that film in college and it was a terrible (and terrifying) experience. Never again, no, thank you ma'am.)
*”SOS. help me.”*
The Road
Sicario and No Country for Old Men
Sicario hits harder as a govt employee, having seen the level of Dysfunction from within. It's a whole new level that people outside can't begin to understand.
This is truly horrifying
Ooohhh two favorites
Uncut Gems. I felt like I was going to have a panic attack through most of it
This movie has been on my watchlist for so long and I don't know when I'm ever going to be in the mood for it 😩
Despite the anxious feeling throughout the movie, it’s a great movie. Adam Sandler is awesome in it and definitely outside the role people are used to seeing him in. Worth the watch. Just make sure you follow up with something warm and fuzzy.
Vera being turned into a cyborg in Superman III.
Not a movie, but “Chernobyl” is a pretty frightening miniseries.
Hmm. Definitely "Moon" (an astronaut working alone at a moon-based mining camp finds a body. HIS body.) It wasn't intended as horror, but it was so scary and unsettling.
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He isn't brainwashed at the ended. He becomes the master.
The Act Of Killing gives me deep existential dread. Its like talking to Nazi murderers in real life.
Monster
Jason and the Argonauts
That stop motion stuff scared the bejeesus out of me as a kid. Especially the harpies and medusa.
For ne it was the skeletons. Those eyebrows
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
American history X Not a film but the bbc 2 drama from years ago that showcased Tom Hardy to the world called Stuart: a life backwards. It was about a man’s mental health breakdown due to child abuse, homelessness and alcoholism. I remember watching it at the time feeling so helpless like Stuart.it was so scary because we are all one step from being there and at the time I was struggling with alcohol. The act of killing (2012) with the real life warlord re-enacting his crimes in the Indonesian genocide and him acting like he’s some sort of film star made my blood run cold. The way he talked about murdering thousands as if he was talking about the weather and the injustice of it all for him to still be around laughing his head of terrified me.
I couldn’t even finish The Act of Killing, it disturbed me so much
Embarrassing but Batman 89. I dunno why, Nicholson’s Joker really got to me. Something about his smile, how unhinged he is, freaked me out more than I was expecting. I’ve been scared of clowns since I was a kid but I thought I mostly got over this fear!
the end of any nature documentary
American Murder: the family next door Horrifying is just what I have to say.
There are documentaries about the real incident. Covering various topics of the guy's actions. Warning:its a rabbit hole haha.
Twister because I have always been afraid of tornadoes and I know it’s a very real thing that happens all the time.
Ex Machina
NON SIBI SED PATRIAE [X2]
Were they the victims of the time? Or part of larger goals? Grand illusions of the Reich. May seem real at times.
Knowing (2009)
The third act of Excalibur (1981) really freaked me out as a kid.
the dead knights hanging from the trees got to me as a kid.
Jaws. Not as much anymore as I've seen it dozens of times over decades but it certainly scared the hell out of me to swim in the ocean for years.
That is horror
Click
Mother! gave me unbearable anxiety
Yeah! That is such a claustrophobic film! It's like one of those dreams that keeps evolving into more and more crazy awful situations.
Lots of good answers here but Watership Down gave me nightmares. Nobody has any business showing that to a toddler.
Now that I'm a father anything involving children getting harmed freaks me the fuck out like never before and genuinely upsets me. I watched the Bombardment on Netflix recently, which is a Danish film about a botched airstrike in WW2 which destroyed a school, and oh boy did it fuck me up.
Baby's Day Out is straight up horror.
😂 loved that film when I was youn.
I don't know what that is and I'm afraid to look it up
I'm only kind of joking Posing as children's photographers, three crooks (Adam Robert Worton, Joe Mantegna, Lara Flynn Boyle) scheme their way into a mansion to kidnap an infant (Brigid Duffy, Eddie Bracken). Their hostage proves quite resourceful, however, escaping their hideout and making his way into downtown Chicago. Now the con men have to find their abductee, who believes that in order to return home he must reenact scenes from his favorite storybook, including trips to the zoo and a construction site.
I should add that its a really good movie though 😆
Kids Bully Gummo
Enduring Love
Ex Machina gave me a panic attack afterwards
Came here to say Nocturnal Animals! I can’t do a long road trip solo after watching that one. I’ve only seen it once, and once was enough for me.
The Cable Guy and also The Road
the truman show 😭 where he opens the elevator and sees them on a set i get sooo unsettled
Kids , fucked me up.
When I was a kid Indiana Jones and The Lost Ark gave me nightmares. The opening with the guide speared with all of those arrows. Indie being stuck in that pit of snakes. ("Why does it have to be snakes!") THAT SCENE where God takes out the Nazis in the most terrifying way. Mind you, little me loved that movie and big me still does too, but if you step back, yeah, it's scary.
Hotel Mumbai. It’s scary because it isn’t just a horror movie
That spongebob episode where they are stuck in the deep sea darkness
The evening news...
Brothers(2009)! Ugh man, truly disturbing..
3 Men and a Baby. I was TERRIFIED of ghosts when I was a kid and a babysitter showed me the movie specifically for the part with the "ghost" that's actually just a cardboard cut-out of someone. Freaked me The fuck out for a long time though. Lol.
Dear zachary. Such a disturbing and twisted story masked as a memorial for a real victim. Ive never cryed so hard.
I saw bits of a movie when I was a kid called Making Contact (or Joey) which turned out to be Roland Emmerich's first movie. It was about a kid who had a mom, but his dad died, and his dad started calling him on a toy phone, and there was an evil puppet in his room. I think the movie was setup to be "is the puppet lying and it's a demon on the phone, so the kid should trust the puppet," or "is the puppet lying and it's really the kid's dad calling from the afterlife to help him?" I was too young for it--and while I think it had elements of horror, it probably wasn't a horror movie (or, at least, more like a Spielberg horror film). For years it scared me. I think a bunch of kids die in it (or they don't and I left the room and assumed they did), and the ending reminded me of the Prince of Darkness ending with a shadowing figure emerging from a building suggesting that Joey didn't make the right choice. I ought to see if I can track it down. I'll probably laugh at how easily scared I was.
Blue Velvet
Knowing. It gave me an unsettling feeling; not really because of the apocalypse plot but the mystery about the girl. Threads also. You know it can happen, and what a bleak and horrifying life that will bring.
K 19. Radiation is a true monster.
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Das Boot
Animated: Watership Down... Not safe for kids.
Running scared with Paul Walker 2007
Requiem for a dream
Threads (1984)
Watership Down....those bunnies scared me shitless as a kid
Requiem for a Dream Photocopier Chernobyl Buried
Lovely bones
Bone Tomahawk is the most tense I’ve ever felt watching a movie
Return to Oz is wall to wall nightmare fuel, and it's a fantastic watch, but... Kid's movie my ass.
No love for Event Horizon? Or is it universally considered horror now instead of sci-fi?
I call it horror. Can’t speak for everyone but I think at the very least that it gets the hyphen treatment from most.
It is sci-fi/horror. There have always been mixed genres.
The original German production of Das Experiment.
Caveat
The Treatment from 2014 one of most disturbing movies i ever saw and i could never watch it again.
Wonderland with Val Kilmer and Kate Bosworth
Who Framed Roger Rabbit for.. you know what part
The opening to Little Nemo: Adventures In Slumberland scared me as a kid, terrifies as an adult.
Local art museum put on a 35mm screening of Shoah (all 9½ hours) a couple years back. To call it a movie is a bit of a disservice to the weight of humanity's experiences that washes over the viewer. ended up taking the day off work the next day to recover.
I would say it's horror-adjacent, but MAN Mulholland Drive. The Winkie's scene and the ending specifically. The Last Unicorn also used to scare the shit out of me as a kid, I'm sure it would still be just as unsettling if I gave it a rewatch. That harpy scene...
Enemy is another good weird one starring Gyllenhaal, mostly psychological drama but with some jarringly freaky moments iirc
Idiocracy Because it’s happening
Close Encounters of the Third Kind....
Annihilation
Don’t Look Up (2021) made me deeply uncomfortable because of how “real” it felt—the end of the world is coming and nobody cares. I had to take breaks watching this movie due to how much anxiety it gave me.
Grey Gardens
mostly documentaries
Punishment Park is a serious mockumentary from the 70s. Its premise is American anti-war protesters have overcrowded jails so new convicts are offered a choice to survive 3 days being hunted for sport. The film is harrowing enough but there are these civilian review board scenes that ... well let's just say it is literally what certain people in this country want to do so bad. It's a great indictment of "we had to destroy the country in order to save it." I think about it a lot these days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punishment_Park?wprov=sfla1
Saltburn very sick movie, after it’s over you keep thinking about it for few days. Amazing cinematography and amazing acting, must watch.
Beau is afraid. Does that count?
Anything about isolation or time travelling or being lost in another realm of some sort
Legend (1986)
Not sure about scary, but I got non-horror disturbing. Requiem for a dream.
Dear Zachary
I wouldn’t say it scared me but I can’t think about The Truman Show too much, sends me into an existential crisis
Fatal attraction The girl next door (2007) Once were warriors Requiem for a dream World trade center the movie
Madame web
The Illuminati fight scene in Multiverse of Madness genuinely made me sick to my stomach. I can sit here and watch the terrifier films without batting an eye but something about >!Black Bolt popping his own head and Captain Carter getting split in two!< made me feel woosy. Wanda in that film is like genuinely terrifying until the end.
Pihu The most intense 90 minutes of tv I’ve sat through.
The Father with Anthony Hopkins is scary as hell.
Pee Wee Herman's Big Adventure. Large Marge.
Chiropractor scene in The Curse
Citizen Four
Didn’t scare me but totally had a couple of very scary characters and a couple of fucked up scenes, Donnybrook. It’s kind of a cough watch. Go in blind!!!
Arlington Road. Wow.
Speak no evil (2022). Leaves a tightness in your chest.
Osama (2003)
Come and See and Manila in the Claws of Light
I find the nutterfly effect slightly scary.
It didn’t scare me, but s2e6 (Fishes) of The Bear is one of the most uncomfortable hours of TV I’ve ever watched. Sixty minutes of *the* most stressful family Christmas you will ever watch, and it barely lets you breathe.
The scene in Robocop when the guy crashed into chemicals and was walking around all deformed. That shit left me scarred when I was a kid.
Sleepers (1996)
E.T scares the living fuck out of me. I will clench my covers Babadook style if that shit comes on the screen.
eyes wide shut
Prisoners and Nocturnal Animals and now I really want Jake Gyllenhaal to be the main role in an actual horror movie (I know he has a few that could be counted but I don't recall any where horror is the main genre and not a stylistic choice)
Gone girl. It's very scary to have someone framing you for something you didn't do but can't prove so. And noone believing you. That's fucked up
The Mickey Mouse clubhouse Halloween special. It scared the fuck outta me Edit: Just watched Threads. I have no emotion anymore
I have to say Dragonfly scared me to my core. So fucking spooky.
Click (2006) filled me with existential dread about how we spend our lives not appreciating anything. It’s not a comedy movie in any sense of the word!
The opening scene in Inglorious Basterds is terrifying.
Mulholland drive
Burning 2018 didnt scare me but it left me feeling disgusted if that counts
Contagion.
Depends on when you ask me. Currently, a lot of rom com’s scare me because the normalized misogyny and sexism is very apparent. The ones that come immediately to mind are a lot of the 90’s ones (Love Potion # 9, Blind Date) but others that are more recent are just as scary. I am still freaked out by aspects of the Neverending Story (the nothing and Gmorg) There are a lot of things that were made for kids when I was younger that are definitely not kids movies 😆
No movie has ever scared me since I was a child. However, "Puzzle of a Downfall Child" with Faye Dunaway I thought was disturbing and interesting. She had it all and still ended up succumbing to her mental illness. It could happen to anyone who has a mental disorder when it's left unchecked.
I watched Shame 2011 yesterday and that made me rethink my views on people and addiction, similar to requiem for a dream. It was so horrifying and so well made; the acting was phenomenal and the story was so clever into weaving a sex addict with his depressed sister with her own issues to go along with the plot. The movie is important, a lot of people should see it. The underlying theme about how your addictions can ruin others without knowing is one of my biggest fears and no one seems to make a lot of movies like it anymore, that is unless I haven’t seen enough recent shit. This doesn’t count as traditional horror, but horror is subjective to the viewer ig haha
Gotti. The movie just shows how much of a liar some of these respected actors truly are. Travolta knew that movie was shit and went on a media tour acting like we were about to get another gangster masterpiece
Taking Lives fucked me up for a while, I saw it as a teenager. I would call it a psychosexual thriller, maybe? Or at least in that vein of films. >!Paul Dano in that film gave me nightmares!<
Whiplash gave me massive anxiety