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Does anyone get legitimately scared by horror movies anymore? I try to set the correct atmosphere, dark room, no distractions, alone, yet I still feel I'm chasing the dragon. When I was a teenager I watched Event Horizon and it haunted me for weeks, same with Silent Hill, couldn't shower with my eyes closed type thing. Those were good times.
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computer angel posted:Does anyone get legitimately scared by horror movies anymore? I feel kind of sick and upset about home invasion movies, even fairly tame ones, and I avoid them. Generally though, no, but most of the horror I like isn't really going for outright scary.
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Nov 1, 2023 05:05
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computer angel posted:Does anyone get legitimately scared by horror movies anymore? I try to set the correct atmosphere, dark room, no distractions, alone, yet I still feel I'm chasing the dragon. When I was a teenager I watched Event Horizon and it haunted me for weeks, same with Silent Hill, couldn't shower with my eyes closed type thing. Those were good times. Nope. I only get freaked out by weird things that shouldn’t be scary but just ick me out like rampage’s vore scene. Other than that no
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Nov 1, 2023 05:09
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The concept of death doesn’t scare me so much in horror movies these days as the fear that nobody loves you or everything is your fault
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Nov 1, 2023 05:13
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Roommate is watching Willy’s Wonderland, a knockoff of FNAF starring Nic Cage. It looks terrible but somehow got better reviews than FNAF. Is FNAF that bad? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v27rfaoB2Y
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Nov 1, 2023 05:16
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Steve Yun posted:Roommate is watching Willy’s Wonderland, a knockoff of FNAF starring Nic Cage. It looks terrible but somehow got better reviews than FNAF. Is FNAF that bad? dunno about FNAF but often, Nick Cage is just that good
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Nov 1, 2023 05:19
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I wouldn't say its bad, its fairly well made, but its completely joyless and boring. Willys Wonderland is fun at least and Cage was awesome.
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Nov 1, 2023 05:25
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Steve Yun posted:Roommate is watching Willy’s Wonderland, a knockoff of FNAF starring Nic Cage. It looks terrible but somehow got better reviews than FNAF. Is FNAF that bad? It doesn't just star Nic Cage, it stars Nic Cage as a literal silent protagonist Just watched the new Hell House and thought it was mostly great. Felt like it got maybe a little too found-footage railroady at the end there. But a big lol at Where do you work, Patrick?!
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Nov 1, 2023 05:27
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Thank God, I can finally watch Our Flag Means Death season 2
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Nov 1, 2023 05:36
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computer angel posted:Does anyone get legitimately scared by horror movies anymore? No, that's what the news is for
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Nov 1, 2023 05:42
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computer angel posted:Does anyone get legitimately scared by horror movies anymore? I try to set the correct atmosphere, dark room, no distractions, alone, yet I still feel I'm chasing the dragon. When I was a teenager I watched Event Horizon and it haunted me for weeks, same with Silent Hill, couldn't shower with my eyes closed type thing. Those were good times. Last one I found legit scary was probs Barbarian
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Nov 1, 2023 05:49
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Steve Yun posted:Roommate is watching Willy’s Wonderland, a knockoff of FNAF starring Nic Cage. It looks terrible but somehow got better reviews than FNAF. Is FNAF that bad? FNAF was ok, but it's really not a movie made for you. It's a movie made for your kids who spent all those hours at recess dissecting the FNAF lore. It was an ok movie for us to follow along with, but the kids were absolutely eating that poo poo up like it was the greatest thing they'd ever seen.
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Nov 1, 2023 05:54
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Nov 1, 2023 06:11
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Desk Lamp posted:FNAF was ok, but it's really not a movie made for you. It's a movie made for your kids who spent all those hours at recess dissecting the FNAF lore. It felt summed up by a Twitter thread where people were going nuts that they included Sparky briefly in the movie for like a 5 second shot. I guess it was an easter egg about a dog design that got cut but people found out about and theory crafted about. Also they referenced "It's just a theory (A GAME THEORY) in the movie"  . It was a pretty boring movie, boring enough that I shut it off at the hour mark and just checked the ending. But it was a big love letter to the fans and they got to see someone drop millions on making all the characters they like move around, so it's going over well with them. Which is what it set out to do. I will say they managed to make the animatronics look good and the set was nice. Just wish it had more going on or was at least a little spooky. I knew enough of the lore to follow along with the movie. I tried to do a quick catch up on where it's currently at and started reading about ghosts writing themselves into circuit boards and mind controlling people and bounced.
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Nov 1, 2023 06:19
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Oh man is The Tall Man a loving disaster. The first half is an endless series of thrills and chills, with plot switchbacks that keep changing everything we knew up until the big twist. Then it throws the whole movie away by declaring, loudly, in a minutes-long monologue that the proles and poors are perpetuating a cycle of violence and bad parenting, so the best thing to do is inflict generational trauma on town after town by abducting their kids and selling them to rich families where they can be raised "properly" gently caress this movie, gently caress this messaging.
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Nov 1, 2023 06:22
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computer angel posted:Does anyone get legitimately scared by horror movies anymore? I try to set the correct atmosphere, dark room, no distractions, alone, yet I still feel I'm chasing the dragon. When I was a teenager I watched Event Horizon and it haunted me for weeks, same with Silent Hill, couldn't shower with my eyes closed type thing. Those were good times. Once in a great while. Terrified earlier this year and When Evil Lurks most recently have been movies that really got into me - Terrified I had to turn off and go walk around in the park on a sunny afternoon before returning to it, and When Evil Lurks has one scene that absolutely has stuck with me and been trouble on my mind since I saw it.
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Nov 1, 2023 06:26
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Shrecknet posted:Oh man is The Tall Man a loving disaster. The first half is an endless series of thrills and chills, with plot switchbacks that keep changing everything we knew up until the big twist. Then it throws the whole movie away by declaring, loudly, in a minutes-long monologue that the proles and poors are perpetuating a cycle of violence and bad parenting, so the best thing to do is inflict generational trauma on town after town by abducting their kids and selling them to rich families where they can be raised "properly" Angus Scrimm would never do that.
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Nov 1, 2023 06:29
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computer angel posted:Does anyone get legitimately scared by horror movies anymore? I try to set the correct atmosphere, dark room, no distractions, alone, yet I still feel I'm chasing the dragon. When I was a teenager I watched Event Horizon and it haunted me for weeks, same with Silent Hill, couldn't shower with my eyes closed type thing. Those were good times. The scariest thing in the world is when a camera slowly has to creep around a dark corner and you're joking if you're not covering your eyes up slightly with your hand when that happens
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Nov 1, 2023 06:30
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Happy Halloween folks! Good horror movie times. Nerdy Jason question! The recap at the beginning of Friday part 4 mentions how Part 2 started "two months later" after 1, with the scene of an adult Jason getting revenge with the fridge etc. Then it skips five years after. But how is he an adult just two months later? Also the kettle bit is classic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcYN8phvjSY Call me crazy, I feel like I had headcanon'd or heard fans make this make sense, but the 2 months thing and his adult-ness seems like a goof. It's also funny that part 4 mentions this detail instead of just brushing it aside. Anyways gotta love Jason.
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Nov 1, 2023 06:43
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Awww hell yeah! ________/
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computer angel posted:Does anyone get legitimately scared by horror movies anymore? I try to set the correct atmosphere, dark room, no distractions, alone, yet I still feel I'm chasing the dragon. When I was a teenager I watched Event Horizon and it haunted me for weeks, same with Silent Hill, couldn't shower with my eyes closed type thing. Those were good times. Some movies still leave me with unease and a fear I'm going to mistake something in the dark for a horror thing, and I'll go to bed switching off lights at the very last moment. It happened when I watched Hereditary on a lone vacation in a stranger's cabin in the woods, and when I watched Skinamarink late at night, at home.
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Nov 1, 2023 07:05
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I ate an edible and watched the bay and it freaked me out and ruined my day and I couldn’t shake the feeling lol And it was my third time watching it too Weed is crazy lol
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Heavy Metal posted:Happy Halloween folks! Good horror movie times. Jason in the lake at the end of part 1 is a hallucination/dream. Part 1 takes place in present day 1979, but Jason drowned in 1957.
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Origami Dali posted:Jason in the lake at the end of part 1 is a hallucination/dream. Part 1 takes place in present day 1979, but Jason drowned in 1957. That is a sensible explanation. I've seen a few fans say the five year time skip explains the thing, thus the 2 month thing being kooky, but that is a solid take. I think the memorable ending of part 1 is too cool to have not happened, and I like the ambiguous possibly supernatural aspect of slashers anyway. Though that applies more so to Michael Myers than Part 2-4 Jason. So I guess I want to have that ending fit even if it doesn't. Or, even if it didn't happen, maybe she's psychic like the girl in 7 so she's right when she says he's still there in the lake. When reading a reddit thread confused about Jason being an adult in 2, I liked somebody saying how in Jason Goes to Hell someone eats his heart, so clearly somebody ate the heart of kid Jason, and the guy in part 2 is a new body via the heart eating thing. Now that's some canon wrangling fun. In any event, our headcanon will ignore that toxic kid thing from Part 8. Also it is a little odd that he was an adult for decades in the woods there and never ran into his Mom etc with that version. But it all works, whatever gets us to glorious Jason mania. I'm just thinking out loud here. I also don't rewatch 1 much, and 2 infrequently though I like it, so I probably have a kooky memory of how it all held together. Heavy Metal fucked around with this message at 07:57 on Nov 1, 2023 |
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Nov 1, 2023 07:50
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computer angel posted:Does anyone get legitimately scared by horror movies anymore? I try to set the correct atmosphere, dark room, no distractions, alone, yet I still feel I'm chasing the dragon. When I was a teenager I watched Event Horizon and it haunted me for weeks, same with Silent Hill, couldn't shower with my eyes closed type thing. Those were good times. That doesn't mean I don't still love the genre though. Horror for life!
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computer angel posted:Does anyone get legitimately scared by horror movies anymore? I'm trying to think of the last time I was scared by a horror movie. Maybe when I saw the Dawn of the Dead remake? Not so much from the movie, but walking home from the theater with the sun starting to set, I did feel a bit antsy. Shrecknet posted:Oh man is The Tall Man a loving disaster. The first half is an endless series of thrills and chills, with plot switchbacks that keep changing everything we knew up until the big twist. Then it throws the whole movie away by declaring, loudly, in a minutes-long monologue that the proles and poors are perpetuating a cycle of violence and bad parenting, so the best thing to do is inflict generational trauma on town after town by abducting their kids and selling them to rich families where they can be raised "properly" You're not the only one having strong issues with that end reveal. The first half was good, but that reveal of all those horrible poors can't be trusted to be parents so let's sell them off to rich people who OBVIOUSLY must be able to do better because of wealth had me yell 'what the poo poo??!' loud enough for my fiance to hear me on the other side of the apartment.
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Hell House LLC 4 scared the poo poo out of me tonight. A great way to end October.
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Gripweed posted:by food and cooking do you mean instructional programs or movies and TV about food and cooking like Tampopo and Otherworldly Izakaya Nobu? It's mostly stuff like Iron Chef, Yan Can Cook, Good Eats, Unwrapped, Cutthroat Kitchen, etc. Also includes Chef and Ratatouille though. After spending an entire month basically glued to the TV it's nice to have more stuff I can throw on in the background and not feel bad about turning away from to play videogames or write. computer angel posted:Does anyone get legitimately scared by horror movies anymore? I try to set the correct atmosphere, dark room, no distractions, alone, yet I still feel I'm chasing the dragon. When I was a teenager I watched Event Horizon and it haunted me for weeks, same with Silent Hill, couldn't shower with my eyes closed type thing. Those were good times. I still feel plenty of in-the-moment scares and some jumpscares get me at times (No One Will Save You had an incredible scare), but horror movies are mostly super interesting to me nowadays. That said, there are little things that still unnerve the poo poo out of me, most recently the kid on the phone constantly clearing his throat in Suicide Club. Something about that just made me shrink into my chair. I have a few movies that stuck with me and freaked me out but in different, more existential ways, such as It's Such A Beautiful Day's harrowing depiction of mental illness and the end of life, or Antiporno's claustrophobic misery. I remember being loving terrified while watching Last Night In Soho a few years back. I think there are fewer lingering scares for me but plenty of great movies stick with me and sometimes exhilarate me and that can be just as much fun if not moreso. I love a good grimy horror movie that gives you high art in low places.
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Horror movies definitely make me jump, and some stay under my skin. I guess that's being scared by horror movies, in a similar way I'd feel on a big/fast rollercoaster. That's why I watch them, though. When Evil Lurks had me on EDGE the entire runtime because it felt like nothing was off the menu and no one was safe. It really drew me in. I always try to suspend disbelief when I'm watching anything though; some movies are more plausible than others but I always do my best to engage with what I'm watching.
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I can still get got by a good jumpscare (Talk to Me has a brilliant one) and can still get unnerved (a bunch of moments in When Evil Lurks got proper "Ohhhh gently caress thaaaaat" feelings out of me). But for proper fear, you're right that it's like chasing the dragon, the tolerance comes on too fast, although I will say rewatching Ringu the other day did get me a little jumpy. That movie's just buckets of horrible atmosphere. Gyro Zeppeli fucked around with this message at 14:21 on Nov 1, 2023 |
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computer angel posted:Does anyone get legitimately scared by horror movies anymore? I try to set the correct atmosphere, dark room, no distractions, alone, yet I still feel I'm chasing the dragon. When I was a teenager I watched Event Horizon and it haunted me for weeks, same with Silent Hill, couldn't shower with my eyes closed type thing. Those were good times. Rarely but it can still happen. I'm an old jaded guy who has been watching horror movies since the 70s, and I finally saw OG Suspiria several years ago, by myself, in a dark room while working an overnight shift. That movie legitimately scared me, not the over the top gory kills early on but all the stuff at the end, from when Suzy enters the secret chamber onwards. Like made it hard for me to get to sleep for some time afterwards.
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davidspackage posted:Some movies still leave me with unease and a fear I'm going to mistake something in the dark for a horror thing, and I'll go to bed switching off lights at the very last moment. It happened when I watched Hereditary on a lone vacation in a stranger's cabin in the woods, and when I watched Skinamarink late at night, at home. Skinamarink hosed me up but I couldn't figure out what to be scared of specifically so I slept well that night.
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Hell house 3 was cool. As good as 1. Kinda wish it had less to do with the lore, but also lol that they did more lore
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The best horror movie to just ruin your day is probably Henry or Angst.
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Now we know what Art was actually doing. https://x.com/Felissa_Rose/status/1719739622312583212?s=20
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I still get legitimately scared every time I watch Ghostwatch (every year on halloween) even though it's goofy. It's not that I'm scared of literal TV ghosts it's that I'm really prone to nightmares and waking up from dreamed sounds. So I get like, pre-scared of going to sleep every time I watch it, because I know I'm gonna have a nightmare and wake up with my heart racing, and then get extra scared in my half-awake state. Watched it yesterday as is tradition, woke up with my heart racing at 4am when my cat scratched and meowed at the bedroom door. He does this every morning but when I got up to open the bedroom door I thought to myself "I'm gonna open the door and it's not gonna be my cat it's gonna be Pipes" but obviously it was just my cat. So I guess to summarize, movies don't really make me scared, but they give me nightmares and that makes me scared. computer angel posted:Skinamarink hosed me up. "The film grain filter is gonna get me bro  "
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The last horror movie to make me sleep-with-the-lights-on afraid was Dark Skies. Took me a few years to rewatch it and it wasn't anywhere near as bad. The last horror movie to make me upset days later was VHS 85, specifically the middle of the Mexico City Earthquake segment. It was legit a relief when the Aztec poo poo started happening because I have no fear of being sacrificed to a death god, but being in a natural disaster and never seeing my wife again is something that absolutely could happen.
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computer angel posted:Does anyone get legitimately scared by horror movies anymore? I try to set the correct atmosphere, dark room, no distractions, alone, yet I still feel I'm chasing the dragon. When I was a teenager I watched Event Horizon and it haunted me for weeks, same with Silent Hill, couldn't shower with my eyes closed type thing. Those were good times. Enh???? Not really? There are a couple of buttons that a movie can push to mildly mess with me, but that's just invoking real-life poo poo that makes me uncomfortable ; the movie's not scaring me, it's reminding me of a real thing I'm afraid of. (e.g. I had a major surgery 2 years ago, so the idea of being trapped back in the hospital, dying and fed through a port scares me, but that's not the movie.) It's similar to how a jump scare can surprise you, but so can a car back-firing or something falling off a shelf or a cat : you're not exactly getting into my primal terrors. The actual way to get me is to make me care about the characters so I'm afraid for them. It's why The Descent is so effective to me : it's a bunch of nice characters you (generally) like (for a bit), nice slow build and then it gets worse, and worse, and worse for them. Gotta hit me in the empathy ; then I can feel dread about what will happen to them. But just showing me a goopy murder beast? Nah. And especially not "person with a knife" horror. That's scary in real life, but not in fiction for me.
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I don't want to sound like a 'We LiVe In A SoCiEtY' douchebag, but horror movies don't scare me any more, the news does that now. They're a nice form of escapism from the regular world, which is wonderful but also objectively terrible and full of insane assholes.
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People talk about Art the Clown from Terrifier, but the only clowns that terrify me are the ones in Congress!
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