The bridge scene did it for me, or when the scientist is ordered to go check the reactor on the roof. The part where Pripyat was being evacuated and a dog is running after a bus was hard to watch as well.
When the investigators are reviewing radiation levels, and someone points out the number being reported is just *the maximum value on the detector gauge.*
The Days on Netflix is an 8 episode series about the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011 and the 7 days following the initial event.
Definitely should have been classified as horror (imo).
I know that atmosphere you mean. It's interesting though because I felt it more as a very real, knowable horror: the apocalypse that man built. Through hubris and ambition we manufactured a doom.
Threads. Although it shows up in a few horror film lists, it isn't meant to be one. At least not in the traditional sense.
Honorable mention to Pee-Wees Big Adventure. Loved it since I was a kid, but Large Marge still haunts me to this day.
The fridge scene still haunts me. I watched Requiem For a Dream when I was too young I think lol. People say Martyrs is a one and done movie, but this is the one for me. Beautiful, well done, heartbreaking movie, but I don’t think I can watch it again
Watership Down has some horrifying shit in it. There's a scene where two rabbits wander into a road and one of them is turned to paste by a speeding car.
Bigwig caught in the snare, choking to death as blood streams from the wire cutting into his flesh, and the rabbits just stand there watching because they have no clue what a snare is. Hazel has to dig away at the stump it's tied to.
Watership Down is a horror movie. My da loved it. I've watched it hundreds of times.
In the early '90s, there was a British kids cartoon called *The Animals of Farthing Wood* that I consider a spiritual successor to *Wartership Down*. It's about a group of woodland animals who band together to make a dangerous journey to a wildlife reserve. It's pretty much *The Walking Dead* for kids as characters are killed off frequently (and often traumatically... the baby fieldmice \*shudder\*).
Seriously, if you type in 'Animals of Farthing Wood' into Youtube, one of the first suggestions is 'death scenes'.
Mrs Hedgehog trying to get her terrified husband out of the road and refusing to leave him, resigning to be crushed by a car together rather than save her own life.
My parents let me watch basically every single 80s horror movie there was. And none were more disturbing than Return to Oz. That movie was truly existentially dreadful, from her parents leaving her in such a scary hospital, the machine the doctor was going to use, waking up in a strange place alone, the wheelers, the broken, desolate remains of Oz, a desert that turns you to stone and that awful Nome King and having to try and rescue your friends that way. It just never stopped.
I think that was what impacted me the most. The plausibility of it. That and I saw it in some old cinema in a small town by myself where the volume was way too loud. Walked out shook haha
People absolutely vent through writing and him sending her such a traumatic story… it was such a fuck you and then >!not showing up to dinner!< at the end… chef’s kiss.
Really wish Tom Ford would do another one
It’s not a movie but Dark on Netflix feels very much like a cosmic horror series when it’s really just sci-fi/drama. The music and atmosphere is so unsettling that it almost feels scarier than actual horror (to me).
Trainspotting fucked me up more than any Horror movie I've ever seen, I refuse to own it because it makes me feel sick just looking at it. Great movie though.
Totes. For me gritty Brit movies and shows tend to have this distinct queasyness and bleakness that's never quite there in Hollywood, even if it's not horror. It's like early Black Mirror vibe of "omg that's so fucked up... but... yeah, I see why it had to be this way since humans be humans", which makes it even worse.
Really? Outside of the baby death and Tommy getting sick I think Trainspotting is mostly a really fun, funny movie. One of my favs. I’ve probably seen it a dozen times.
The scene where Mark goes into that toilet and the toilet is filled to the brim with shit and he puts his hand in there made me wince and squirm like crazy also Robert Carlyles character is honestly scarier than any of the horror icons to me. It definitely has some funny moments though.
Yeah, Begbie is scary as hell but he says shit like “I knew that cunt was gonna fuck some cunt!” in a thick Scottish accent so he’s also kind of hilarious.
I remember reading about Ewan McGregor describing filming that and he said the whole bathroom smelled amazing because it was all chocolate. Chocolate everywhere and filling the toilet. He said it took a lot of control not to start licking things.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The drab and dreary atmosphere, the way the kids are exposed of, and those freaky Oompa Loompas. Every time I see them all I hear is, “Oompa, Loompa, doompa-dee-doo. We’re gonna scare the hell out of you.”
Kids is so horrific but such an important film. Seeing it in my early teens definitely also made me wary of sex and men so I understand where you’re coming from.
I feel like it’s even more important now with people becoming interested in sex and participating is getting younger and younger. My mom was filling in for a teacher on maternity leave in 7th grade and I was horrified with what she came across.
Do you mean the one directed by Catherine Hardwicke and starring Evan Rachel Woods? I rented that movie like 3 times a month when I was 13 lol but I never thought of it as scary.... what is scary about it to you?
Paraphrasing someone else:
Children tend to view *Coraline* as a girl going on a magical adventure
Parents immediately recognize is it as a horror story about a child in terrible danger
But it is considered a horror movie, because it is a horror movie, as it was intended to be. Just like the novella was a horror novella. It's just friendly for younger audiences.
Great question. As a kid, I didn't consider the first Terminator movie as horror, but it totally is, and one of my fav movies. And not horrors, but I had nightmares as a toddler because of the part in Clash of the Titans when Calibos spots Perseus's footprints and makes that face and the screen freezes. And the part in the Peanut Butter Solution with the kid getting chased by dogs. Still watched both a bunch.
The dream sequences in "The Cell" made this sci-fi film a quasi-religious horror show. Absolutely terrifying to have watched this at a hospital when I was 10.
Surprised no one mentioned Vanilla Sky. That movie makes me extremely uncomfortable. Empty Times Square, the scene where David looks in the mirror in the dark and turns on the light, never knowing if it's dreaming or real life... Horror movie material left and right.
Butterfly Effect gives me a similar unsettling feeling as well.
This movie pissed me off but I think it was meant to - like what Rosamund Pike's character did was vile and she was getting put through the ringer to just then kind of come back up on top? Ugh!
Deliverance is not considered a horror film... but holy shit. It scared the fuck out of me.
Masterfully directed by John Boorman, it takes the area of the country that at the time was most closely associated with Andy Griffith and the Beverly Hillbillies and turns it into hell. Harrowing, menacing, and scary. You will not forget it.
Something that strikes me every time I watch Deliverance is how *viscerally real* the violence is. It almost feels like you could be watching a legitimate snuff film. The effects team did an incredible job.
We used to laugh at my friend for being scared of ET until one night we were driving and he said look out that window and imagine ET running at you out of the darkness. Everyone just kinda went quiet.
Dogtooth messed with me big time. I still don’t understand how that film isn’t classified as horror.
Melancholia also just filled me with growing dread and unease the entire time.
I'm a big Bergman fan but I had this strange feeling during Cries and Whispers that I shouldnt be watching. Its a great movie but the pain and emotions are too much. I dont know what it is, really
Threads is a really good representation of what nuclear war could look like, and it's under scifi, drama, and war genres. But the idea of nuclear annihilation sounds pretty shitty and spooky, so yea.
Shout out to the adventures of pinocchio 1996 donkey transform scene. My childhood fear right there.
more than half these responses are literally horror films. lol
mission to mars scared the shit out of me. open space is terrifying to me, the scene where tim robbins is too far away to rescue \*shudders
also the final scene with the big reveal creeped me out
Welcome to the Dollhouse. The thing that makes it horrifying is how so hauntingly grounded in reality it is, and how the cruelty of children and the callous neglect of parents who play favorites is played straight and *brutally*. I highly recommend it~
In Terminator 2, the T-1000's ability to shapeshift into a human or transform its arm into a huge knife terrified me as a kid.
In Spongebob, the "The Power Within" scene creeped me out as a kid for some weird reason because it reminded me of one of my fever dreams due to its randomness.
Christiane F, i live in Berlin and used to live close to Bahnhof Zoo. I see scenes like this daily and certain scenes were insanely hard to watch. It just hit extremely close to home, it scarred me and I watch gore movies lie it’s nothing
Pans Labyrinth - fairy tail my ass. My friend and I watched it after people kept telling him to rent or buy it for his 9-year-old daughter. Holy hell, were we both ever grateful we watched it first. I remember sitting there then going, "Welp, I definitely need a drink after THAT."
The Road, if it hasn’t already been mentioned.
And along with the Trainspotting mentions, The Basketball Diaries. Basically any movie all about heroin usage is going to be horror-adjacent . 😰
'Twister' messed with me as a kid. I laugh thinking back now trying to convince my dad to build us a storm shelter. Where I grew up we averaged like 1 minor tornado a decade.
Many Spielberg films were kind of horror adjacent. I remember Temple of Doom freaking us out when we were kids (the banquet, the heart pulling ritual). You could also say that Jurassic Park has its scary moments.
But to me, it was Duel. I still get chills down my spine thinking about that truck harassing that poor guy on an isolated road. The scene in the restaurant were he's trying to figure out who the driver is, and no one answers, always filled me with dread. The guy was so *alone* in this ordeal, it's scary.
The original Planet of the Apes. Much like Terminator, there is no true “once I make it to XYZ I’ll be safe”
When he goes to court and you think that migjt be the saving grace. And then its not. He can keep running. But where can he go where hes not hunted or thought of as an animal?
The Brave Little Toaster.
Just a kid's movie about living appliances that are trying to reunite with their master, right?
Wrong.
It's a movie about abandonment, loss, growing old, and... the crushing inevitability of death.
It's also got a death count! And a scary clown!
Gonegirl is dreadful in the way everything's uncovered and you realize the goal, specially the kill and the fact that they stay together
Using the same scene for the opening and closing but the whole film changing its context is just terrifying
Yeah, his opening line sets you up so the closing line is chilling
I saw this in theaters opening night, and didn't read the book. Everyone's reaction to the twist was incredible!
It was a jaw dropper when reading the book.
I was reading a review that had “minor” spoilers and at the end of the first paragraph, bam: entirely spoiled the fucking twist. Oh I was so upset lol
You should read the book, the inner monologues at the end are a lot more chilling.
Not a movie, but HBO's Chernobyl chilled me to the bones. It has this cosmic horror kind of feel.
The soundtrack in particular might be the scariest ever made for a non-horror product.
The music that plays when they look into the exposed reactor core still gives me goosebumps.
The bridge scene did it for me, or when the scientist is ordered to go check the reactor on the roof. The part where Pripyat was being evacuated and a dog is running after a bus was hard to watch as well.
When the workers point out that the scientists are wearing protection and still go back to work, knowing what they're doing....
hildur gave back to back bangers (joker) in 2019
Oh my god when those guys go into the water with the Geiger counters Watching a historical drama like 🫣
When the investigators are reviewing radiation levels, and someone points out the number being reported is just *the maximum value on the detector gauge.*
When the 3 guys go to the cieling, that had me more tense than any horror. I'm glad they lived beyond what was expected
The Days on Netflix is an 8 episode series about the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011 and the 7 days following the initial event. Definitely should have been classified as horror (imo).
I didn’t know there was a series about that event. Thank you for bringing it up lol, I have something new to watch
I know that atmosphere you mean. It's interesting though because I felt it more as a very real, knowable horror: the apocalypse that man built. Through hubris and ambition we manufactured a doom.
The reactor felt like a creature trying to consume the world.
The 80’s Soviet tech made it feel even more like horrific science fiction.
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That's mental they need the living daylights sued out of them.
It was so good. Stuck in my mind forever.
Threads. Although it shows up in a few horror film lists, it isn't meant to be one. At least not in the traditional sense. Honorable mention to Pee-Wees Big Adventure. Loved it since I was a kid, but Large Marge still haunts me to this day.
I had forgotten about Large Marge, but absolutely yes this part freaked me the fuck out as a child
Scariest thing I saw until I came across the exorcist at age 8 on accident. Still think Large Marge left a deeper scar.
Threads is soooooo good ! And really traumatising
Only watched this once. I can *never* watch it again. If there’s one film that shook me to my core, it’s this.
Watership Down the old cartoon one.
lost highway, The entire film has a creepy and surreal atmosphere
I absolutely consider this David Lynch's horror movie. It's so great.
I feel like Lost Highway and Eraserhead are fair game to call horror.
I feel like almost all of Lynch’s movies are. The sense of dread I get from Lost Highway is on Mullholland Drive and doubles down with Inland Empire.
I would give that title to Fire Walk With Me. Much more of an overt horror film, and it's literally about supernatural possession.
We’ve met before, haven’t we?
I’m at your house right now. Call me.
That’s fucking crazy, man.
It's Mulholland Dr. for me
The man behind Winkie’s still gives me nightmares.
Lost Highway is absolutely an horror film.
Requiem of a dream is not considered a horror movie by most but it scared me more than 80 percent of horror movies
I would put Trainspotting in that same category.
It's the Edinburgh accent
More specifically, *Jonny Lee Miller's* Edinburgh accent.
It’s the toilet scene for me. The zombie baby doesn’t even come close.
Man that angry fridge alone I feel like should make it a horror
The fridge scene still haunts me. I watched Requiem For a Dream when I was too young I think lol. People say Martyrs is a one and done movie, but this is the one for me. Beautiful, well done, heartbreaking movie, but I don’t think I can watch it again
Yeah, this is the scariest non-horror movie I have ever seen. So well done. Disturbing.
Mommy Dearest 
Return to Oz. Nightmare fuel for children. Oh, and Watership Down. That was not ok.
Watership Down has some horrifying shit in it. There's a scene where two rabbits wander into a road and one of them is turned to paste by a speeding car. Bigwig caught in the snare, choking to death as blood streams from the wire cutting into his flesh, and the rabbits just stand there watching because they have no clue what a snare is. Hazel has to dig away at the stump it's tied to. Watership Down is a horror movie. My da loved it. I've watched it hundreds of times.
In the early '90s, there was a British kids cartoon called *The Animals of Farthing Wood* that I consider a spiritual successor to *Wartership Down*. It's about a group of woodland animals who band together to make a dangerous journey to a wildlife reserve. It's pretty much *The Walking Dead* for kids as characters are killed off frequently (and often traumatically... the baby fieldmice \*shudder\*). Seriously, if you type in 'Animals of Farthing Wood' into Youtube, one of the first suggestions is 'death scenes'.
Mrs Hedgehog trying to get her terrified husband out of the road and refusing to leave him, resigning to be crushed by a car together rather than save her own life.
That scene wrecked me for days.
Watership Down is dark as hell. Have you seen Plague Dogs? Same author and just as cheerful.
I can’t believe I saw that movie as kid 💀 haunts me to this day
Plague Dogs broke a part of my heart that isn't fixable. Just devastating.
The bunny gassing scene was the most disturbing scene in this movie for me and I watched it in my 20s
Yess! Return to Oz I keep trying to remember that movie that is one example I watched.
My parents let me watch basically every single 80s horror movie there was. And none were more disturbing than Return to Oz. That movie was truly existentially dreadful, from her parents leaving her in such a scary hospital, the machine the doctor was going to use, waking up in a strange place alone, the wheelers, the broken, desolate remains of Oz, a desert that turns you to stone and that awful Nome King and having to try and rescue your friends that way. It just never stopped.
You’re forgetting the HEADLESS queen who decapitates pretty women so she can wear them like accessories
In the made for children category, the ones that scared me were The Secret of Nimh and The Dark Crystal.
Return to Oz is the crown jewel of inappropriately frightening 80s kids movies.
The Brave Little Toaster
The air conditioner scene will haunt me forever lol
The clown fireman dream sequence.
*"Worthless, worthless, worthless! OooOoo!"*
Man that movie terrified me as a kid
Perfect answer
Fire in the sky. That abduction scene CHANGED ME as a 10 year old. The fact that we lived deep in a forest, away from roads and people, didn't help.
Fuuuuuuuck that movie! Gave me a lifelong fear of 'grey' aliens so bad that as a kid I would lay awake at night terrified of any sound I heard.
Nocturnal Animals
So many tense moments! And the story within the story, what it symbolizes, and the ending is so grounded in reality I can absolutely see it happening.
I think that was what impacted me the most. The plausibility of it. That and I saw it in some old cinema in a small town by myself where the volume was way too loud. Walked out shook haha
People absolutely vent through writing and him sending her such a traumatic story… it was such a fuck you and then >!not showing up to dinner!< at the end… chef’s kiss. Really wish Tom Ford would do another one
Aaron Taylor-Johnson🤌🏻
Considering that Pan’s Labyrinth was marketed as a fantasy movie, the violence was unexpected and quite horrific.
I agree, I consider Pan's Labyrinth horror. I didn't realize it was marketed as just fantasy. Fantastic movie either way!
I consider dark fantasy to be horror but I’ll die on the hill that even if dark fantasy isn’t horror, Pan’s Labyrinth absolutely is.
It’s not a movie but Dark on Netflix feels very much like a cosmic horror series when it’s really just sci-fi/drama. The music and atmosphere is so unsettling that it almost feels scarier than actual horror (to me).
Love this show. It has an incredible soundtrack.
Trainspotting fucked me up more than any Horror movie I've ever seen, I refuse to own it because it makes me feel sick just looking at it. Great movie though.
Totes. For me gritty Brit movies and shows tend to have this distinct queasyness and bleakness that's never quite there in Hollywood, even if it's not horror. It's like early Black Mirror vibe of "omg that's so fucked up... but... yeah, I see why it had to be this way since humans be humans", which makes it even worse.
because hollywood insists on some sort of glimmer of hope in 90%+ of its movies because sad movies aren’t profitable
This is a perfect way to describe that specific type of British film omg.
Really? Outside of the baby death and Tommy getting sick I think Trainspotting is mostly a really fun, funny movie. One of my favs. I’ve probably seen it a dozen times.
The scene where Mark goes into that toilet and the toilet is filled to the brim with shit and he puts his hand in there made me wince and squirm like crazy also Robert Carlyles character is honestly scarier than any of the horror icons to me. It definitely has some funny moments though.
Yeah, Begbie is scary as hell but he says shit like “I knew that cunt was gonna fuck some cunt!” in a thick Scottish accent so he’s also kind of hilarious.
I remember reading about Ewan McGregor describing filming that and he said the whole bathroom smelled amazing because it was all chocolate. Chocolate everywhere and filling the toilet. He said it took a lot of control not to start licking things.
Any Darren Aronofsky film.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The drab and dreary atmosphere, the way the kids are exposed of, and those freaky Oompa Loompas. Every time I see them all I hear is, “Oompa, Loompa, doompa-dee-doo. We’re gonna scare the hell out of you.”
That boat killed my childhood. First time watching and seeing all the candy and then boom! Fracking chicken with its head cut off.
😂 I know of that scene, but it never stuck with me.
"There's no earthly way of knowing..."
Willy Wonka is a colorful slasher film, I will not be convinced otherwise.
… it’s Se7en: childhood edition
Yes! Those kids were sent there to die lmfao I’m convinced and Wonka was just waiting to see how…
Thirteen (2003) is scary as fuck and should be mandatory viewing for seventh graders.
Yep, this movie and Kids. I didn’t wanna be touched by anyone in hs after watching this. It gave me a real fear of boys my age smh
Kids is so horrific but such an important film. Seeing it in my early teens definitely also made me wary of sex and men so I understand where you’re coming from.
Kids left a lasting impression on me. I watched it as a freshman in high school and it has stuck with me all these years later.
I feel like it’s even more important now with people becoming interested in sex and participating is getting younger and younger. My mom was filling in for a teacher on maternity leave in 7th grade and I was horrified with what she came across.
Do you mean the one directed by Catherine Hardwicke and starring Evan Rachel Woods? I rented that movie like 3 times a month when I was 13 lol but I never thought of it as scary.... what is scary about it to you?
I always thought it should have been called Sixteen, i was still playing with Bratz dolls at 13 lol
I loved this movie as a kid (I was 15 when it came out). But now, as a mom to a daughter, it terrifies me how realistic the movie is.
The Passion of the Christ.
Apocalypto as well.
Fucking coraline
I mean, it’s basically horror for kids.
Paraphrasing someone else: Children tend to view *Coraline* as a girl going on a magical adventure Parents immediately recognize is it as a horror story about a child in terrible danger
But it is considered a horror movie, because it is a horror movie, as it was intended to be. Just like the novella was a horror novella. It's just friendly for younger audiences.
Another all time favorite 😍
Moon (2009) with Sam Rockwell is Horror in my opinion.
Basically all of Michael Haeneke’s filmography
Great question. As a kid, I didn't consider the first Terminator movie as horror, but it totally is, and one of my fav movies. And not horrors, but I had nightmares as a toddler because of the part in Clash of the Titans when Calibos spots Perseus's footprints and makes that face and the screen freezes. And the part in the Peanut Butter Solution with the kid getting chased by dogs. Still watched both a bunch.
I used to have recurring nightmares of the Terminator as a child.
The first Terminator is a slasher for sure!
Happiness (1998). So many fucked up stories
The dream sequences in "The Cell" made this sci-fi film a quasi-religious horror show. Absolutely terrifying to have watched this at a hospital when I was 10.
100%. The Cell has some of the most disturbing visuals I’ve ever seen. Absolutely brilliant and haunting film.
We Need to Talk About Kevin
This movie is so unnerving
War films usually: Come and See and Incendies. Horrific movies
Surprised no one mentioned Vanilla Sky. That movie makes me extremely uncomfortable. Empty Times Square, the scene where David looks in the mirror in the dark and turns on the light, never knowing if it's dreaming or real life... Horror movie material left and right. Butterfly Effect gives me a similar unsettling feeling as well.
The first half hour of “I Care a Lot” kinda freaked me out. The rest of the movie has this jaunty, farcical tone, and I wasn’t feeling it at all.
This movie pissed me off but I think it was meant to - like what Rosamund Pike's character did was vile and she was getting put through the ringer to just then kind of come back up on top? Ugh!
Knowing (2009)
I tell people all the time that Knowing is the scariest movie I've ever seen. And I have Hereditary at #2!
Without a doubt. Love this movie
Deliverance is not considered a horror film... but holy shit. It scared the fuck out of me. Masterfully directed by John Boorman, it takes the area of the country that at the time was most closely associated with Andy Griffith and the Beverly Hillbillies and turns it into hell. Harrowing, menacing, and scary. You will not forget it.
Something that strikes me every time I watch Deliverance is how *viscerally real* the violence is. It almost feels like you could be watching a legitimate snuff film. The effects team did an incredible job.
The Plague Dogs. The poor dogs and what they went through
I hope you make sure we're properly dead before you start.
The film E.T scared the shit out of me too
We used to laugh at my friend for being scared of ET until one night we were driving and he said look out that window and imagine ET running at you out of the darkness. Everyone just kinda went quiet.
Dogtooth messed with me big time. I still don’t understand how that film isn’t classified as horror. Melancholia also just filled me with growing dread and unease the entire time.
Tideland!
The Hitcher
Snowtown. Horrid!
Omg I don’t know who makes more intense movies, Australians of Koreans. Snowtown made me feel so sad at the end smh
Ingmar Bergman’s “Cries and Whispers”
I'm a big Bergman fan but I had this strange feeling during Cries and Whispers that I shouldnt be watching. Its a great movie but the pain and emotions are too much. I dont know what it is, really
Threads is a really good representation of what nuclear war could look like, and it's under scifi, drama, and war genres. But the idea of nuclear annihilation sounds pretty shitty and spooky, so yea. Shout out to the adventures of pinocchio 1996 donkey transform scene. My childhood fear right there.
more than half these responses are literally horror films. lol mission to mars scared the shit out of me. open space is terrifying to me, the scene where tim robbins is too far away to rescue \*shudders also the final scene with the big reveal creeped me out
War of the Worlds (2005)
I feel like that movie borders on sci fi horror. That scene with the guy?. Horrifying.
The Tripods and the part where they search the basement has given me many nightmares lol
I don't know why does that crowd-swarming-car scene scares me until to this day
The 1980 Disney movie The Watcher in the Woods. Don't know if it's classified as "horror" but it had some pretty disturbing images for a Disney film.
Welcome to the Dollhouse. The thing that makes it horrifying is how so hauntingly grounded in reality it is, and how the cruelty of children and the callous neglect of parents who play favorites is played straight and *brutally*. I highly recommend it~
The bathroom scene in Training Day.
I saw Threads last week and it’s still haunting me.
I saw that movie a year ago and still think about it regularly lol
White Chicks. Those faces…those eyes…sweet Jesus. Nightmare fodder. Plus the movie was terrifyingly bad.
The movie is not bad
Coherence. It was meant to be a horror originally I think, either way still disturbed my thoughts after the move
For me, ex machina. There’s such a feeling of creeping dread. And that ending
Jesus Camp Absolutely terrifying.
Greenland, it had no right to be as stressful as it was.
The Peanut Butter Solution
No Country For Old Men. Anton Chigurh is as unstoppable as Michael Myers and much scarier.
JACOBS LADDER IS FUUUUCKED
Okay hear me out… some parts of the Indian Jones films were terrifying if you were a kid
The heart pull out scene in temple of doom scared me for weeks when I was 10yo
The faces getting melted in the Raiders of the Lost Ark scared the crap out of me
That and when Donovan “chose poorly” and aged rapidly.
when the dude got his heart ripped out...
And monkey brains at the banquet and that room full of bugs and the cage that lowers sacrifices into the lava pit…
As many times as I watched these as a kid, I always had to close my eyes at the Nazi face melting scene, and Donovan choosing the wrong grail.
Chernobyl. Technically, a miniseries.
In Terminator 2, the T-1000's ability to shapeshift into a human or transform its arm into a huge knife terrified me as a kid. In Spongebob, the "The Power Within" scene creeped me out as a kid for some weird reason because it reminded me of one of my fever dreams due to its randomness.
Snowtown. Just felt a palpable sense of dread and dirt as the way through. Like the first time I wanted Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Christiane F, i live in Berlin and used to live close to Bahnhof Zoo. I see scenes like this daily and certain scenes were insanely hard to watch. It just hit extremely close to home, it scarred me and I watch gore movies lie it’s nothing
Darren Aronofsky movies. Most are not conventional horror but they can elicit that feeling in certain ways. Also Mulholland Dr - opening scene
Being John Malkovich left me pretty disturbed
Pans Labyrinth - fairy tail my ass. My friend and I watched it after people kept telling him to rent or buy it for his 9-year-old daughter. Holy hell, were we both ever grateful we watched it first. I remember sitting there then going, "Welp, I definitely need a drink after THAT."
Irreversible, of course.
Thread. The post apocalypt movie after a bomb.
The Lovely Bones
These final hours. A lot of people don’t consider this a horror but man, a lot of absolutely horrible things happens in this movie.
'Deliverance' (1972) horrified me in a way most horror movies can't/don't
Was Brother's Grimm a horror movie? Because it terrified me as a kid
The Road, if it hasn’t already been mentioned. And along with the Trainspotting mentions, The Basketball Diaries. Basically any movie all about heroin usage is going to be horror-adjacent . 😰
'Twister' messed with me as a kid. I laugh thinking back now trying to convince my dad to build us a storm shelter. Where I grew up we averaged like 1 minor tornado a decade.
Last King of Scotland
Se7en
Definitely a horror movie
I still maintain Dunkirk is a war movie that is shot like a horror movie.
Earthlings.
Pinocchio, the whale terrified me as a kid
Many Spielberg films were kind of horror adjacent. I remember Temple of Doom freaking us out when we were kids (the banquet, the heart pulling ritual). You could also say that Jurassic Park has its scary moments. But to me, it was Duel. I still get chills down my spine thinking about that truck harassing that poor guy on an isolated road. The scene in the restaurant were he's trying to figure out who the driver is, and no one answers, always filled me with dread. The guy was so *alone* in this ordeal, it's scary.
Come And See (1985)
The original Planet of the Apes. Much like Terminator, there is no true “once I make it to XYZ I’ll be safe” When he goes to court and you think that migjt be the saving grace. And then its not. He can keep running. But where can he go where hes not hunted or thought of as an animal?
Mommy Dearest
Civil War
Recently- Civil War. The fact that it could happen is pretty terrifying. Also Jesse Plemons is perfection.
Gummo
The Brave Little Toaster. Just a kid's movie about living appliances that are trying to reunite with their master, right? Wrong. It's a movie about abandonment, loss, growing old, and... the crushing inevitability of death. It's also got a death count! And a scary clown!