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Funky See Funky Do posted:Triangle is a really creepy little movie that never gets enough love when people talk about horror movies. I'd never heard of this movie, but I watched it last night on Tubi after reading this post and was pleasantly surprised.
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There is a cartoon along the same lines as Threads. A cute little old couple living in a nuclear wasteland or something. Can't remember.
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When the Wind Blows. I don't know if I'd call it a horror movie so much as high tech weapon designed to make you feel sad and depressed.
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Hagazussa was a film that had my wife, a genre fan, literally whimpering for it to end
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as hosed up as VVitch was, I'm still glad it inspired my favourite ambient/dark jazz band Alvvays
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Does Event Horizon count? I can't remember if it had jump scares. gently caress this ship.
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Archer666 posted:The Void is another good one. It's one of those good Lovecraftian movies, with good tension and pacing. Also has great creature design. It also has several scenes of bright flashing lights, some that go on for minutes, so maybe not a movie for epileptics.
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I maybe wouldn’t call it a horror movie but if you’re into the arty stuff Begotten is worth a try. By three minutes in it’s pretty freaky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG3bJpEKvtE
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Traxis posted:Can't remember if it has any jump scares but Goodnight Mommy is pretty good. I really liked it. Very grim though
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Pennywise the Frown posted:There is a cartoon along the same lines as Threads. A cute little old couple living in a nuclear wasteland or something. Can't remember. Funky See Funky Do posted:When the Wind Blows. I don't know if I'd call it a horror movie so much as high tech weapon designed to make you feel sad and depressed. Its based on a graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Wind_Blows_(comics) Who was (is) author of Fungus the Bogeyman (which I consider one of the greatest graphic novels ever made)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungus_the_Bogeyman
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Call Your Grandma posted:as hosed up as VVitch was, I'm still glad it inspired my favourite ambient/dark jazz band Alvvays Describing Alvvays as ambient/dark jazz is the real horror story in this thread.
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Cyril Sneer posted:Describing Alvvays as ambient/dark jazz is the real horror story in this thread. its some kind of moderate pop at best
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June 4 2021 posted:its some kind of moderate pop at best Jangly indie-pop
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I was about to recommend Threads but it seems it was mentioned already. What a masterpiece, especially for a made-for-TV flick. Have a jumpscare then. 
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I was a small child in the 80s and I remember everything from kids movies to TV commercials targeted for kids to be terrifying.
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The jump scare in the middle of Se7en is legitimately upsetting
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Cowslips Warren posted:Does Event Horizon count? I can't remember if it had jump scares. Great movie and it's been too long since I've seen it. I think there was one near the very end - when the helmet opens and it's him! Also, the cannibal orgy could be considered an extended jump scare. Oh yeah. I want to talk about Savageland again. If you haven't watched it and want a reason to it's a film that really pisses off chuds. Steeped in political commentary but none of it really left-wing. Len Wein plays the veteran war photographer. He created the comic charcter Wolverine.
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Phony Horse posted:The jump scare in the middle of Se7en is legitimately upsetting Oh yeah, that scene slipped my mind. But it is just the one, the movie doesn't lean on them or anything.
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Oh, how about Mom and Dad! Nic Cage at his finest. Screaming about anal beads to his daughter's terrified boyfriend. Oh, and trying to kill his kids and the boyfriend just a little because why not! Bonus points for the song selection. "It Must Have Been Love" played in the hospital when a new mom is trying to strangle her baby. Goddamn the entire nursery scene is intense in a horrible way.
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kntfkr posted:The Descent has a few jump scares but it's a brilliant horror movie regardless. My bro, the Descent movies are wall-to-wall jump scares. They do it so often you can feel them coming because it's been more than 5 minutes since the last one. Any time, ANY time, a character is looking somewhere and the camera frame is right up against the back of their head, you know they're going to turn around and the camera will whip over revealing something, or sometimes nothing, but the music still stab in anyway. The first movie is decent, and if you like that the 2nd one is OK, but for horror recommendations that specify 'fewer jumpscares' they are  Funky See Funky Do posted:Threads is a BBC docu-drama from the 80s about a nuclear war that is one of the most harrowing and soul crushing things ever to be filmed. It does not pull any punches about just how hosed up the nuclear war is going to be. Not horror, but When the Wind Blows is an animated film (scored by Roger Waters and featuring a Bowie song  ) about a pair of British pensioners in 1986 facing the prospect of the Cold War going very very Hot. The last few minutes are pretty harrowing...edit: Beaten  I've only seen The Poughkeepsie Tapes mentioned once, it's one of the most disturbing/creepy movies I've seen. It's a found footage / mocumentary about a serial killer who's been running around the East coast for decades, and eventually the feds find a cache of old VHS tapes he's made over the years. There's nothing too explicit shown on camera in it, but it's more about what they don't show you. And what you do see is a 10th generation VHS copy full of grain and static which makes it even creepier and more effective. Also +1'ing REC and Triangle. REC is a Spanish movie about a camera crew for a TV show that follows people who work overnight jobs, the POV of the movie is entirely through their TV camera (so kind of found footage as well). They're with some medics (I think) and get a call to an injury in an apartment building. They end up getting locked in with a handful of residents and a few medics and cops and poo poo goes downhill from there. Kind of zombies, but not exactly. It spawned an entire franchise, and at least REC2 is also pretty good, and is a direct sequel to the first movie (as in it starts 5 minutes after the first movie ends). Triangle is a great little creepy/suspense movie mostly on board an abandoned ocean liner. Can't say too much without spoiling things, but the 'twist' makes you go back and reevaluate the entire first part of the movie which is something I always like. AreWeDrunkYet posted:Oh yeah, that scene slipped my mind. But it is just the one, the movie doesn't lean on them or anything. There's a few, one towards the beginning where he's dreaming about his dead wife and crawling around in those light-up space vents or whatever. But yeah great horror/sci-fi movie in general. Takes No Damage fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Jun 18, 2021 |
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Takes No Damage posted:I've only seen The Poughkeepsie Tapes mentioned once, it's one of the most disturbing/creepy movies I've seen. It's a found footage / mocumentary about a serial killer who's been running around the East coast for decades, and eventually the feds find a cache of old VHS tapes he's made over the years. There's nothing too explicit shown on camera in it, but it's more about what they don't show you. And what you do see is a 10th generation VHS copy full of grain and static which makes it even creepier and more effective. The Ploughkeepsie Tapes is a tough sell because a lot of the movie feels more like the writer/director is bringing to life his own sadistic fantasies than he is trying to tell a compelling story. Meghan is Missing is something along the same lines, where it doesn't really have anything to say. It's just disturbing and makes you feel sick for watching it. I strongly recommend against watching either of those movies. They're not great and you'll just end up with images in your head that don't want there.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Oh yeah, that scene slipped my mind. But it is just the one, the movie doesn't lean on them or anything. It was a good jump scare. They exist, but 99% of them are that trashy Silence > LOUD > Unrelated Thing kind. Exorcist 3 and The Thing have some top notch jump scares. The Haunting had the page-turner style one where you have a split second to panic because the actor is reacting with horror to something you haven't seen yet. I loving love that kind. Super Eyepatch Wolf did an excellent video on how this is used to great effect in Junji Ito works. It's tension in a book because you control the timing, but I'd categorize it as a jump scare in film if the timing is abrupt enough.
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Oh and I forgot to mention Martyrs, the French '08 original. It's gore porn, but the best gore porn movie I've seen in terms of having an actual plot and characters VS just thin excuses to string together the gore scenes. There's kind of a twist going into act 2, then kind of another one for act 3, pretty cool. It got an American remake in '15 and it sounds like they hosed everything up that was good about the original. I agree with someone from the first page, the American The Ring is the only horror remake that I like better than the original. Beautifully shot and a great creepy minor-key score throughout. Noroi (The Curse) was already mentioned, but it is similar. Found Footage style, some guy is investigating some paranormal activity and generally creepy stuff keeps happening, and they save their SFX budget for the final scene. Funky See Funky Do posted:The Ploughkeepsie Tapes is a tough sell because a lot of the movie feels more like the writer/director is bringing to life his own sadistic fantasies than he is trying to tell a compelling story. Meghan is Missing is something along the same lines, where it doesn't really have anything to say. It's just disturbing and makes you feel sick for watching it. I'm still down for TPT, but agreed Meghan is garbage. 80 minutes of pointless teen drama, 10 minutes of pointless torture porn, 10 minutes of an actually effective horror scene at the very end. That last scene is real good (as in it is horrifying), but it is not remotely worth watching the first 90% of the movie. Spoilers for Meghan is Missing: Some dude kidnaps a girl and rapes/murders her, then ends up grabbing her friend. Friend gets raped/tortured (on camera this time ) and eventually gets locked in a plastic barrel with the waterlogged corpse of her friend. The final scene of the movie is just a static camcorder shot of the guy digging a hole while the friend in the barrel begs him to let her go. This goes on for many minutes and is actually an impressive monologue from the actress just from a technical perspective. Anyway he finishes the hole and dumps the barrel in and starts burying it as the friend goes hysterical and screams for help, her voice getting quieter and quieter as more dirt covers the barrel. Then the dude grabs his camera and runs away laughing. THE END.Sucks  e: Just starting up Ghostwatch, WHY WAS I NOT TOLD loving RIMMER IS IN THIS?? e2: Just finished Ghostwatch, pretty good take on the mokumentary style of generally creepy things happening until everything shits the bed at the end. Thought of another couple of recommendations, As Above So Below and The Borderlands. AASB is about a group of urban explorer-types running around the catacombs below Paris, which eventually devolves into Event Horizon-like satanic hallucination madness. The Borderlands is about a couple of Vatican officials investigating reports of paranormal stuff in an old church. It follows the familiar path of escalating creepyness until they too take a trip into the catacombs below the building, turns out that's a mistake  These 2 would be especially effective for people with any level of claustrophobia.
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Watch Aterrados. I was not comfortable with mirrors for a few days after. There are some jump scares but it's not abused and overall it's just really, really creepy. Tombs of the Blind Dead's atmosphere is great and the cinematography is really good but naturally there's the occasional surprise skeleton. People Under the Stairs has the ultimate Reagan tribute. It's a little goofy but it's one of my favorites. Last House on the Left is basically the movie Road Trip but all of the characters have been replaced with Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole. Shivers is death by snu snu the movie.
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Funky See Funky Do posted:When the Wind Blows. I don't know if I'd call it a horror movie so much as high tech weapon designed to make you feel sad and depressed. I got to read it when I was about 6, because my school bought the whole Raymond Briggs set as a batch and I'd already read Father Christmas, The Snowman, Fungus the Bogeyman etc., Didn't really sleep for the next few weeks tbh
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Takes No Damage posted:e: Yeah I think Ghostwatch does spoil itself a little at the end when the studio collapses and Michael Parkinson gets possessed but I’ve heard justification that the ending was like that to give viewers a big hint that what they were seeing was all fake. Don’t forget the movie came out when mockumentary films weren’t really a mainstream thing and the movie was marketed as reality TV. I get what they’re saying but that justification could very well have been pulled out their rear end after all the complaints started coming in and they were trying to cover their asses AASB I dismissed when it came out because the trailer was bad and also I was getting a bit exhausted with found footage which seemed to be coming out a lot at the time but when I eventually watched it I found I was wrong about it. The first half almost feels like an adventure movie and then when it all kicks off it becomes this crazy horror. My wife and I tried to rewatch it recently but since we’d bought a better tv last year for when the next gen consoles came out the filming style on a screen of that size ended up making her motion sick so we couldn’t get to the end this time
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it's not even remotely scary, but Maximum Overdrive is a horror movie i have to watch at least once a year. pure cocaine-fueled stephen king nonsense it was also filmed at the same time & place as david lynch's Blue Velvet, which is maybe more of a thriller than horror, but is absolutely worth watching also not a particularly scary movie if you watch a lot of horror, but the 90s made for tv adaptation of IT is worth watching for tim curry (the recent theatrical adaptation is basically all jump scare bullshit, you can skip that one) seconding the recommendation of cronenberg's remake of the fly, i saw that when i was in middle school and it hosed me up for a week
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maximum overdrive is a lot of fun and any movie with a gnarly kid death immediately gets a letter grade bump up.
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Thirding Lake Mungo, which i watched recently because of a solar sands rec It's glacially, deliberately paced with interesting twists not normally seen in a horror movie, the last reel is incredibly tense with that gnawing suspense/horror, only 1 jump that they earn pretty well
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smarxist posted:Thirding Lake Mungo, which i watched recently because of a solar sands rec I loooove Lake Mungo. The ideas of ghosts being echoes of the past or future and your fate coming to meet you in the night are excellent, excellent concepts. And that climax jump scare is extraordinarily well-built. I've seen that movie a half dozen times and still get goosebumps. If you end up watching this, OP, stick around for the credits. There's important info in there.
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Cant recommend this enough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT4hO5nOguU June 4 2021 fucked around with this message at 14:25 on Jun 18, 2021 |
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Theres a movie about a guy who gets hired to sit shiva and spooky things happen called The Vigil thats pretty solid. Some jump scares but mostly just creepy. Its on hulu: https://imdb.com/title/tt10793644/ The Mortuary Collection is a really fun anthology with Clancy Brown. Probably a lot of jump scares but I don't really remember. And if you've never seen The Wailing, man oh man I cannot recommend it highly enough. Def some jump scares but those aren't really the important parts.
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I thought Lake Mungo was extraordinarily good and powerful, but I'm genuinely hesitant to re-watch it. It really messed me up for a few days afterwards, not because it is any way graphic or explicit, just because the film's entire concept of how death and hauntings are experienced is simultaneously so mundane, and so terribly sad. Definitely recommend, but maybe not if you're feeling a bit fragile. Every time one of these threads shows up I recommend Rorschach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afyzdpzm1AU I was binging on obscure found-footage films a few years ago and this one really stuck with me. It's low-budget, but very tightly put-together, the cast are all pretty drat good (except for one old lady who's a tiny bit hammy), and it's nearly all about implied nastiness, virtually nothing is explicitly declared or shown. Not really supernatural, but Fritt Vilt AKA Cold Prey is a really good slasher movie if you are like me and hate the average slasher-type movie. The characters aren't stupid, nor are they punished with death for being A. teenagers or B. having sex. I love the setting too - abandoned hotel in the middle of nowhere in Norway, in winter.
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Pookah posted:I thought Lake Mungo was extraordinarily good and powerful, but I'm genuinely hesitant to re-watch it. It really messed me up for a few days afterwards, not because it is any way graphic or explicit, just because the film's entire concept of how death and hauntings are experienced is simultaneously so mundane, and so terribly sad. Sounds poo poo
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yea check out the cavs last couple of seasons
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Takes No Damage posted:My bro, the Descent movies are wall-to-wall jump scares. They do it so often you can feel them coming because it's been more than 5 minutes since the last one. Any time, ANY time, a character is looking somewhere and the camera frame is right up against the back of their head, you know they're going to turn around and the camera will whip over revealing something, or sometimes nothing, but the music still stab in anyway. The first movie is decent, and if you like that the 2nd one is OK, but for horror recommendations that specify 'fewer jumpscares' they are The first Descent deserves a little more credit - like the Babadook, it's using horror conventions to tell a story about something entirely different. Really well done IMO. Shitload of jump scares though, and it would probably have been a better film with a stronger cast and no horror creatures.
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Twitch posted:but the 90s made for tv adaptation of IT is worth watching for tim curry I can vouch for this one.
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