Any genre, is there a film that still makes you uncomfortable to think about? I'm not looking for recommendations, just interested to know what content gets to people. Please friends, don't post any films containing animals 👍🏻
For me, The Babadook hit so close home that I couldn't stop thinking about it. Not specifically for the mother-son dynamic (I have a great relationship with my mother) but more for its representation of anxiety and depression, with it never really leaving you. It also has incredible performances from both, I was very impressed by the kid.
I'm just curious to see what did it for other people, and perhaps get some new horror film recommendations along the way.
In this movie paresh rawal goes insane due to some reason and only remembers this child(or some sort of relative) and when they are taking him to a mental asylum, he resists them. Also, at one point he stabs the child in his waist in his psychotic rage. The child gets older and is played by Govinda. I hate govinda movies but I have to watch the starting of the film.
Can someone tell me it's name?
Edit: found the film, it's Raja. And it stars Sanjay Kapoor not Govinda lol.
The first time I saw The Witch I had trouble sleeping for about 3 days. I honestly felt what I thought was a satanic presence the first night. As disturbing as the film was for me, I couldn’t help but to be impressed by how well made it had to have been to have that effect.
For some odd reason, after making it through Hereditary and Midsommar, the trailer for Lamb is really unsettling to me. Maybe there’s just something about evil personified in farm animals that gets to me lol.
I’m sure many people have seen all these films and were unaffected, but I’m curious if anyone had a similar experience with an A24 film. Have any of these films ever effectively disturbed you? I’d love to hear shared experiences.
The basic premise of this film was there were two animal friends living in a jungle. One of them was a crocodile but that’s all I remember. The names escape me. I just know they were the best of friends. I think the other one might have been a leopard but idk for sure.
A third character joined the group, this strange orc-like creature with a very depressed and surly attitude. He was like Eeyore, but angrier. At one point, the two animals were talking jokingly about how long they could sleep for, to which the monster darkly replied “I could die in my sleep if I wanted to”.
I remember the monster appeared to be lighting a campfire at one point, but he actually intentionally started a forest fire, burning the jungle. The crocodile ran towards him and began yelling at him to stop, at which point the monster turned around and he suddenly had much more demonic features, resembling the demon from a nightmare scene in Speed Racer. He screamed “I told you I wanted to die in my sleep!” and then killed the crocodile and began mauling him until he was a pile of gore strewn everywhere. The fire spread as the demon rampaged, but eventually a storm struck and the rain put out the fire, apparently killing this creature as well.
The film was narrated throughout by a narrator who sounded a lot like the late and great Michael Angelis. The film was also animated, in the sense that it was a series of ornately drawn illustrations with a number of fading transitions between each frame. The whole thing honestly felt really cursed. The best way I can describe it is that it felt like I was watching a short film I had frequently watched in my childhood, only to look back on it as an adult and realise how fucked up it was.
For a good idea of the atmosphere, take a look at the short film A Short Vision on YouTube (but be mindful of a gore and death warning). This nightmare was a truly disturbing experience, albeit a fascinating one. I just wanted to record my account of it so that it doesn’t fade from my memory entirely.
An image that is just burned into your memory. For some reason for me it wasn’t in a horror film but The Flight of the Phoenix 2004 with Denis Quaid. There’s a scene where at night a guy walks off to relieve himself only to fall and get lost. The next day everyone’s looking for him and start freaking out. So then they show his corpse just sitting up half covered in sand with his eyes still open. To this day it haunts me! I guess if I had to pick a horror movie though it be the naked lady laughing in the bathroom in The Shining
This might sound stupid, but I was watching an extremely gorey horror movie and I was NOT expecting what happened to happen. I can't even say it. It shook me to my core and made me feel like throwing up. I got chills all over in a horrible way. If you want to know what movie it was, Hereditary. I do not recommend this movie for sensitive people. Any tips on cleansing myself after seeing such things? I feel shaken up and I don't want to match the bad energy of that movie.
Edit: this community is so awesome. I appreciate you all so much for your kind responses. I feel a bit better now with your help:)
The legends about that military base floated around my hometown in the USSR, back in the day. The townsfolk said it was some sort of Soviet Area 51, but way darker, and it hid even more secrets than its American counterpart.
I was twenty-five years old at the time and had just started working at the local newspaper. I was eager to get the next big headline, but unfortunately, everything was state-owned and state-controlled. It was impossible to do things on your own. If the state authorities had to find out you had done something without their knowledge, it meant jail time. Or worse.
That is why I had always tried to play it smart. Things went way smoother if you were an obedient soldier and servant to the Communist Party. Soon after, I left my job at the newspaper and took on a different path in television. I was assigned to shoot documentaries about how great the nation and its leaders were.
After a few successful documentaries that pleased those in the upper hierarchy, I had received orders to film a new one at a military facility in Siberia. This situation was beyond odd, and I thought of it as punishment. But I never did anything wrong, nor did I give the impression I was against the regime. Nevertheless, I was a little scared of this situation because it came without notice, like an order from superiors I didn’t have.
I received a letter telling me that I had to shoot a documentary at a top-secret military base. I had to document everything and report back as soon as the night ended. I had twenty-four hours to do everything and be ready at 6 am the following day.
A military truck came for me. But, again, no one said anything about where I was going or the true purpose of this trip.
“You have to film three former Soviet spies and see their reaction during the night. Then, once it ends, you are to hand over the tapes to me and keep quiet about this for the rest of your life. Did I make myself clear, comrade Alexeievich?” the officer asked me.
I nodded and didn’t say a word until we arrived.
The facility mainly looked abandoned, and a few lightbulbs flickered here and there. I don’t remember seeing any military personnel on the premises, but I did what the tall and buff officer told me. First, he showed me a small wooden cabin where I had to stay until the morning. Then he led me to three different rooms where I had to install the equipment. Then he said that the film subjects would arrive at midnight and leave at the crack of dawn.
There was
... keep reading on reddit ➡Time passed by ever so quickly in that control room. The blizzard screamed outside, and the snowflakes seemed like deadly bullets made out of ice. Yet, I still couldn't understand what I had experienced while watching the first tape. I was taken aback by the whole, and I still couldn't believe what I just had witnessed.
I thought for a moment if I should even watch the second tape. But, supernatural events or not, these people hired me to do a job, and whoever that officer was, he sounded impressed.
What if it was all a test, and I was the central subject of this experiment? I didn't have an answer to that burning question. All I knew was that I had to start watching the second tape.
It was 2 am. One-third of the night was gone, but I was sure the following tapes would be even more terrifying.
The second room was so much more different than the first one. Although it looked like a study room, it had a large mahogany work desk with old pencils and a small library behind it. The books seemed ancient and were bound in leather. They were rather odd, not like anything I had ever seen before. I had an urge to go inside that room and see what secret those tomes held; what would they reveal once opened by someone?
A set of horrifying pictures adorned the walls. They depicted fantastic creatures and beasts with large tails and teeth and horns. Some even resembled demons with twisted sickly faces. They looked hungry and eager to jump out of the frame and into our world. I cringed at that thought, but nothing seemed impossible anymore after what I had seen earlier.
This room didn't have a TV, and a sense of relief came over me. At least the static creatures would not make an appearance in this room, or so I hoped.
A man entered the room. He was tall, thin and he wore a lab coat. Worry and anguish were consuming his face. He had one of those faces that always bear a certain sadness and sorrow.
The man looked very tired as well. So tired that be barely stayed awake. His eyes constantly spun in his head. Maybe his body warned him that he was about to faint or die from exhaustion.
He walked around the room for a second like he didn't know why he was there in the first place. Then, he stopped and looked at the old books on the shelves. He gently caressed them, running his fingers above the books, and then picked one out.
He pulled the chair and sat at th
... keep reading on reddit ➡These things should not have happened. I sat down on the chair and still couldn't believe what was happening.
I began fearing for my life. The last camera was about to be turned on, and I knew I had to expect something downright evil to happen.
Uneased and afraid, I turned on the third and final monitor. This transmission for this one was in color. The colors were so bright and vibrant, unlike anything I had seen before in my life.
The transmission revealed a white padded room with thick walls. There was a glass cage in its center. A man dressed in a bright electric blue suit was just waking up. He wore golden cufflinks and a tie and black shiny leather shoes. He sat on the side of the small bed and interlocked his fingers. He played with his thumbs, and I could feel something troublesome about him.
"I have been waiting for you. You, the watcher," the man said, slowly raising his head. He stood upright, and as he turned his sight to the camera in the room, I could see a deep seethed anger and hate in his eyes. His eyes were colored deep brown hue, almost like a puddle of volcanic mud.
I could see tiny sparks cracking inside his eyes as if he trapped a whole storm inside them.
"Ah, you are here at last. We have been waiting for you to come for so long. It is my utmost pleasure to know you are here," said the overly dressed man while he waved at the camera. "If you speak, I can hear you."
I thought it would be impossible. But the more these events happened to more possible they seemed.
"Uh, hello there, I guess. Who are you?" I said reluctantly. I asked myself how this man could have heard me, but in the end, questions like that were in vain. Nothing was normal here.
"Yes! He has a voice. Lovely! Who I am is not important; I can be whoever I want to be. What I am though that's the important question. I am what would they call me a soul-eater. I eat the souls of those who did evil in this world," the man said, playing with the cufflink on his left sleeve.
"What do you mean?" I replied.
"Let me show you a quick demonstration," the man with the fancy suit said.
Right before my eyes, he started contorting. Finally, I heard his bones cracking, the sound giving me a horrid headache.
... keep reading on reddit ➡tl;Dr - book was fucked in the best way possible. Subverts expectations without sacrificing anything important.
Okay so a couple of things to mention before I rant. 1, I have no book friends for the most part - at least none who've read this. And 2, read the book first and I'll probably check out the mini series eventually but fuck man, I need a breather.
This is the first novel I've read from Gillian Flynn. I loved Gone Girl - the film - and thought it was really cool how she Flynn also wrote the screenplay for the movie adaptation of the book she wrote. Because of my enjoyment of the film, I bought the book but have yet to read it. I have that issue that I'd imagine a lot of us have and just buy a bunch of books and they just set dormant ok a shelf for a long time - especially now for me because I'm getting into reading actual books for the first time. Long time comic book reader.
Anyway, something always fascinated me about sharp objects and I have no idea what it was. The ominous cover, my existing adoration for Flynn, it being a crime murder mystery - which is my preferred genre for pretty much anything. I bought the book and immediately started reading it and now I think I need a hug.
Gillian Flynn's writing to me was borderline perfect out of what I want from a novel of this genre. It isn't overwhelmingly descriptive, has realistic characters and dialogue and contains some disturbing material within. Just in the first few pages, there's an underlying sense of dread. I was immediately hooked. Early on, I thought I had it all figured out - her mother killed the children. But by the epilogue, all my expectations were thrown out the window and I can't get over both how fucked that ending was and how I didn't see it coming whatsoever.
Maybe that's just from me being new to this medium or it was genuinely a great twist. I'm gonna go with the latter on this one. Amma being the killer made a whole lot of sense and didn't take away from anything. In fact, it makes me want to read this book over again and look for any hidden details I missed that alluded to this. I know some remarks Amma made strike out as obvious (Her calling John Keene "babykiller" many times throughout raises some eyebrows now I'm hindsight) but I just didn't see it coming and I was - as odd as this sounds given the subject matter - pleased with the outcome. In terms of writing, I mean. I think it's a twist done right and I really fucking enjoyed this book.
The character of Cami
... keep reading on reddit ➡For me, >!the 'rabbit' scenes really creped me out, it looked so creepy, the other scenes that creeped me out were the baby scene, Black Phillip's reveal, the ending & the last few scenes with Caleb. I will say that I knew Black Phillip was gonna be, just on the symbolism alone but it was still a great twist IMHO.!<
Those scenes really made the hair on my neck stand up, they were just so unsettling & messed up. I know that the film was polarizing for some, that some thought it was boring but I still really enjoyed this film. I love slowburn horror films like this. What did you think about it? Did it scare or creep you out? If so, which scenes in particular had you creeped out?
Being careful about the title of my post so as not to lead on too much, but this is a great film with a hell of a cast including Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Samuel L Jackson and Sharlito Copley. I had no idea where the movie was going and when it got there, I really couldn't believe that it WENT there... You really have to appreciate a movie where the protagonist isn't inherently a good guy, and you don't really know who the bad guy is... The cherry topping on this movie comes from some fantastic fight scenes and some EXTREMELY graphic special effects that bring the final "yuck" factor of this film over the top.
I know this film has been discussed at great length but I couldn't help but add my perspective after watching it last night.
I turned this movie on after a few bong hits and my god... I've never been more revolted and disgusted in my entire life by a film, which I found to be a pure masterclass in suspense and artistic horror. It is a breath of fresh hair to see the genre have such a profound utilization of metaphor and allegory rather than simply jump scares like what I am normally used to. The film is operating on so many different intellectual elements that I just want to discuss one at length.
In my opinion, the most horrifying aspect of the film is its commentary and observation of human nature that are seen varying depending on which level you end up on each month. Those fortunate enough to be on the upper floors (before level 50 or so) engage in gluttony and philistinism at the behest of the less fortunate prisoners below them. We see our main character Goreng and partner Trimagasi even form a friendship due to their temporary surplus of food.
As we later see in the much lower levels, I was expectedly disgusted by the degree in which humans were forced to regress to their basic instincts of survival, evidenced by resorting to cannibalism and murder. Trimagsi, who considered Goreng a friend at level 48, is now willing to eat Goreng out of desperation from the selfish humans above.
I feel like the genre of horror is almost always one that is rather nihilistic in its attitude towards the human condition, but few films have depicted humanity at its worst than The Platform. Since watching it last night, I have told my family that I won't be eating anything today out of disgust of what transpired in the film. Hereditary and Midsommar are the only other films to have such a profound, cynical commentary on humanity. As someone who is not a huge fan of the genre, I only wish more films were produced at such excellency.
Films:
Event Horizon
Sinister
Jacob's Ladder
Silent Hill
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Stir of Echoes (1999)
Hostel
Martyrs
Games:
ANY Silent Hill game lol
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