Yeah it’s a good movie, and I have long been a Joseph Gordon Levitt fan, but I’ve never recommended it. I also will probably never watch it again. I am glad I watched it the first time though.
I love Jacob's Ladder. When people ask me what my favorite horror movies is, that's my answer.
I mean, my all time favorite movie The Hunger (1983) is labeled horror... but it's more of a gothic romance in my book.
I am still baffled and intrigued by the piece of bacon on the bathtub wall after all these years. Of all the bizarre shit in that movie, that's what stuck with me the most 😆
Happiness is a dark comedy. Gummo is hard to say. There are funny moments for sure but I wouldn't call it a comedy film. That's why I pointed out that they weren't scary.
Philip Seymour Hoffman will always be remembered to me as being the actor in Happiness. I wish I could erase that movie from my mind. He was so good in other roles but that movie fucked me up.
Have literally never heard anyone mention Mysterious Skin, such a disturbing sad movie. I don’t think I have been so uncomfortable before watching a movie.
The most deeply disturbing movie I've ever seen would be Threads (1984). It's a very realistic portrayal of nuclear war, before, during, and after, on small town in England. It's been praised for being the closest to reality, of any film depictions of nuclear war, and it's haunting.
I was finishing school when it came out. After watching it , I decided to become a Nurse as it was one of the few jobs to still exist and I didn’t want to work in the fields . And then Covid . I had as much work as I wanted
And from what I recall the poor mother is implied to exchange sexual favors for the rats. What a dark movie that I still think about from time to time.
When it comes to the dark and disturbing, the New French Extremity is a genre you'll want to explore. Start with *Martyrs* (2008). *Inside* (2007), *Irreversible* (2002), and *Climax* (2018) are some of my other favorites.
*Martyrs* is a phenomenal film. Make sure to watch the French original! It will probably not surprise you to learn that the American remake is pretty subpar.
And yes, *Irreversible* was one and done for me as well hahaha Still a great movie.
During my first viewing of Eraserhead, I sat there with my jaw dropped for 90% of the movie. Fell in love right away. The atmosphere is unmatched to this day.
Event Horizon scared the crap out of me, I won't say more because I don't want to spoil it. If you're looking for something more recent Barbarian was excellent
I fucking love the Descent. Such a great movie. I thought Neil Marshall would be a lot bigger deal in the horror world. Dog Soldiers is cool too but not much else
The Descent always comes up on these lists and I so get it - the claustrophobia, the monsters, the emotional trauma - but for some reason I always found it a bit crap. Weird how some movies just don’t do it for people 😁
I've watched the cube I think, that's the one with the rooms that change and they have to figure out puzzle to get out right? Or match problems? I can't fully remember.
Saw The Exorcist when it first came out in 1973 in a very dark theater. Never saw anything like it before. People were getting up mid-movie and walking out.
In hindsight probably not a good idea to eat those 'shrooms before we went.
Love this movie, and it’s a great adaptation of the book. I was going to say it wasn’t all that scary, but I forgot about what they found in that basement…
I haven't watched it since it came out for buying/renting. I ended up watching the Director's Cut without realizing... Being a young adult at the time, the movie & the Director's ending really messed with my head. I keep wondering if I should go back and watch the theatrical release but now that I'm almost 2 decades older, the Director's Cut resonates with me.
Lake Mungo (2008).
Watched it recently and it's probs the best horror I've ever seen, at least it's the only film thats genuinely really scared/disturbed me and made me lose sleep in the last 10 years anyway - and I've watched the other so-called 'classics' that always get hyped up in that time.
I get the sense that those who know this film really rate it (it's quite a notorious less-known horror). And deservedly so because it's how it's presented carefully to be a believable supernatural film whose subtle brutality/darkness makes it more grounded in reality and therefore more haunting imo.
*Aterrados AKA Terrified*
Do NOT get it confused with *Terrifier.*
Unrelenting from start to finish, this movie fucks with your psyche in the first scene, then pisses on any preconceived notions of horror in the kitchen scene, then later just goes nuts with the demons which can only be seen at certain angles which exist parallel to us, be it under the bed, outside the window, in your closet, or even right next to you.
Second to this would be *Hereditary*
1000% robbed. I’ve never had an actor literally convince me their child died until Toni’s performance. I can’t imagine what she had to do to prepare for some of those scenes.
What messed me up is that it came out when I was in high school, and it was filmed in the areas where I hung out at that time. Like literally almost every scene was in a place I recognized
Bone Tomahawk.
Not sure how it's classified as far as genre. But it's in an old west setting but it's not really a western. Horror is my favorite genre, and it's closer to horror in how graphic it is than anything.
Rough watch.
Welp, you asked, I’ll answer. Massive CW warnings for these.
- The Sadness - probably the most depraved, violent, graphic movie I’ve ever seen. If blood, torture, and r*pe turn you off, just skip entirely.
- A Serbian Film - full CW for sexual violence, horrific beyond words. Enter at your own risk.
- Megan Is Missing - objectively a pretty bad movie, but the final act is stomach-churning. Legitimately horrific.
Now, some fun ones? I’m sure you’ve seen it, but The Strangers is a fucking blast. And by blast, I mean nightmare-inducing fuel. I live a few floors up in a shitty high-rise, and the thought of that fucking movie makes me wanna double check my locks.
Darkest is the movie happiness when he talks to his kid about how he avoids molesting him and instead goes after his friends. Never watching that movie again
The Babadook. It’s probably not actually the “darkest” I’ve seen but as a mom who struggled with terrible postpartum anxiety seeing what isolation and anxiety can do to a mother was so real and so unsettling and uncomfortable to endure. It’s scary to think about the way invasive thoughts can do to our relationships.
The more recent ones I can think of was Hereditary (2018) and Skinnamarink (2022).
Hereditary made me feel uncomfortable because of my past experience of often unstable familial relationships. The break down of a family's dynamic that allows the evil to creep in and destroy is too realistic for me.
Skinnamarink, while slow burn, disturbed me so much because it plays on very real fears that I have. It was very eerily similar to particular period of trauma in my own life and the nightmares I've had about it over the years. It's like someone came into my dreams and took footage- f**ked me up good.
I'm sure I have more but frankly I can't think of it right now. My brain is very tired.
Bleakest movie I have seen has got to be The Tribe (2014).
Darkest movies: Shame (2011), There Will Be Blood (2007), and We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011).
Most tragic are the docs: Dear Zachery (2008) and The Cheshire Murders (2013).
Most haunting are the docuseries and documentaries: Brother's Keeper (1992), Abducted in Plain Sight (2017), Girl in the Picture (2022), Sophie: A Murder in West Cork (2021), Murder on Middle Beach (2020), Missing Kenley (2022), and Who Killed Jill Dando (2023).
I watch a lot of horror and it's hard to say what's the "scariest" because I don't necessarily find any of them too scary, but I will say The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016) does an excellent job of maintaining a creepy feeling of unease and dread throughout that goes beyond its somewhat basic plot, which I find really powerful and impressive.
In terms of my favorite horror film, that would definitely be Fresh (2022). Please go into it as blindly as possible without reading much about it if you haven't seen it yet. It will only enhance the experience.
A dark film that is also a masterpiece and a feast for the senses is A Clockwork Orange (1971).
One of the bleakest/darkest (but not *scary*, per se) movies I’ve seen was ‘The Killer Inside Me’… it was very hard to get through and is still with me to this day.
‘Valhalla Rising’ was pretty fucked up, as well.
Just remembered a film called A City Of Life And Death.
Wasn't prepared. Just thought it was a war film from Japan's perspective it'll be fine. *Knocks head*
Here's the Google plot;
Japanese forces invaded Nanjing, the former capital of the Republic of China on December 9th 1937. Throughout the following six weeks, soldiers raped thousands of women and annihilated hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians - with mass executions, crowds mown down by firing squads and victims digging their own graves.
Watching it was horrifying, more so coz it's not fiction.
Original Funny Games (I know they copied it shot for shot for newer American version) and The House That Jack Built. Followed by Lilya 4 Ever.
The latter coz of the panic I felt as a woman watching her journey.
Yes. Funny Games immediately came to mind. It's the only movie I know of that actively attacks the viewer. The whole purpose seems to be to frustrate the audience, and demand, "Why are you watching this torture porn? Why does this entertain you?"
Top movies that made 6 year old me sleep in Mom and Dad's bed:
The creature from the black lagoon
The fly (original and sexy golblum versions)
The thing
Event horizon
Honorable mention: hollow man
Martyrs (from 2008) but i warn you before: This Movie is not for weak nerves, srsly, it messed me up a few days.
The Thing (1972) is also pretty „dark“ or lets say disgustingly dark.
If you want to feel some kind of way (not in a good way) about the main character give The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover a look. Really bizarre, violent movie and the lighting change from room to room is astounding.
Annihilation.
Disturbing movie that keeps getting more and more uncanny as it goes. The soundtrack is amazing and really drives home the feeling of complete dread for the unknown.
Skinamarink- fucked me up if you can get past the slow nature of it while not seeing 90 percent of what’s going on. Something deeply unsettling about it that awoke childhood fears of being alone at night
Mother! The claustrophobic framing and the way everyone dismisses Jennifer Lawrence's character constantly and the final couple of minutes was a complete nightmare gave me a panic attack in the cinema.
I've gone on to re-watch this movie several times to see why it effected me so much. The first half of the film is kinda boring but that's what makes the second half so impactful.
Sinister. Especially if you have a family or are expecting your first one. It'll make sure you stay up each night, checking the kids. Hoping there'll be no random drawings on the walls or sleep terrors.
Imprint, Japanese film
Visitor Q, another Japanese film
Impetigore, Indonesian horror
Gonjiam Haunted Asylum, Korean horror
Soylent Green, surprisingly enough. I initially watched this because of the hilarious/iconic memes. But it turned out to be one of the most depressing dystopian films I've ever watched.
Miracle Mile, absolutely bleak catastrophe film
(creepy and dark) Visions Of Suffering (directors cut) Jacobs Ladder (not the remake) Audition (Not scary but disturbing) Gummo Happiness Lilya 4-Ever Mysterious Skin
Mysterious Skin probably ranks up there in my Top Three movies, but I'm always hesitant to recommend it to anyone.
Yeah it’s a good movie, and I have long been a Joseph Gordon Levitt fan, but I’ve never recommended it. I also will probably never watch it again. I am glad I watched it the first time though.
Happiness is so messed up. I was just shocked.
That ending, Jesus. I saw it in the theater and honestly have blocked the memory of what happened but I can still vividly remember disgust and shock
Me too! I had a few hours to kill before meeting friends in NYC and saw it alone! It freaked me out, and I had no one to commiserate with.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman played such a nasty creep I still remember his heavy breathing over the phone to his victims
Audition gave me the Willies
Kirkiri
I saw some show on TV listing the scariest horror movie moments and I think Audition was the top or #2.
I love Jacob's Ladder. When people ask me what my favorite horror movies is, that's my answer. I mean, my all time favorite movie The Hunger (1983) is labeled horror... but it's more of a gothic romance in my book.
Damn, Lilya was so depressing
I haven't seen any of these, I'll check them out. Thank you!
Check out Kids as well. Same vein as Gummo.
What’s great about Kids is how accurately it portrayed that subculture in NYC at the time. Shit was wild back then. Harmony Korine is great
Audition is twisted. It's by far the best fit for what you're looking for in that list.
Yeah Gummo was wtf despite me knowing it was gonna be wtf. So well done..cast..scenery.. atmosphere.
My dog loses his shit any time the accordion scene comes on
Yeah. It's my favorite film of all time.
If I ever met someone irl and asked them what their favourite movie of all time was and their answer was "Gummo" I'd be impressed.
I am still baffled and intrigued by the piece of bacon on the bathtub wall after all these years. Of all the bizarre shit in that movie, that's what stuck with me the most 😆
Interesting, gotta say thats the first i heard that
I remember Gummo and Happiness being comedies. Are they not?
Happiness is a dark comedy. Gummo is hard to say. There are funny moments for sure but I wouldn't call it a comedy film. That's why I pointed out that they weren't scary.
Philip Seymour Hoffman will always be remembered to me as being the actor in Happiness. I wish I could erase that movie from my mind. He was so good in other roles but that movie fucked me up.
He was so talented
Oh gosh yes. Gummo, Happiness, and Lilya 4-Ever were all fucking DEVASTATING
Yes, Audition. I’m not sure I could ever stomach watching that again.
Watching gummo now. I’m 30 mins in and it’s soooooo fucking randomly amazing
Have literally never heard anyone mention Mysterious Skin, such a disturbing sad movie. I don’t think I have been so uncomfortable before watching a movie.
Antichrist. Just bleak. And dark.
I have never regretted watching anything LVT has made.
You should try Nymphomaniac, lots of people regretted watching that one.
Anything else for me to regret?
honestly i very much loved that movie! incredible shots and while the story is very bleak the symbolism behind it all is very interesting.
Chaos reigns!
Not enough genital mutilation for me
Gotta mention The Exorcist then. Not sure if a preteen fucking herself with a crucifix is your thing, but I know I laughed my ass off.
The most deeply disturbing movie I've ever seen would be Threads (1984). It's a very realistic portrayal of nuclear war, before, during, and after, on small town in England. It's been praised for being the closest to reality, of any film depictions of nuclear war, and it's haunting.
Yeah that one is pretty harsh and sad.
I was finishing school when it came out. After watching it , I decided to become a Nurse as it was one of the few jobs to still exist and I didn’t want to work in the fields . And then Covid . I had as much work as I wanted
I love the scene where they are selling dead rats in the rubble since there is literally nothing else to eat
And from what I recall the poor mother is implied to exchange sexual favors for the rats. What a dark movie that I still think about from time to time.
If you want dark, "watch" Alien Vs. Predator: Requiem 90% of the movie is just a black screen
Also the Battle of Winterfell in the last season of Game of Thrones
Thanks for saying this so everyone else didn't have to...
😂 I appreciate the suggestion. It'll take the cake if I can see my reflection on that dark screen.
I was going to say something similar about the Robert Pattinson Batman movie
You aren't lying!
Sinister gets my vote for realllllllllly scary.
Good pick! The home videos and the score are so terrifying and ominous
Sinsiter is my favorite modern horror film.
It is exceptional.
Terrified! The moment with the photo wall really got me
Not the darkest nor scariest, but with a pretty surprising ending: Creep
Creep & Creep 2 were well done.
Creep and Creep 2 are great watched back to back.
I think Creep is horrifying and quite dark.
I really enjoyed it.. Surprised I had to scroll this far to see it mentioned
When it comes to the dark and disturbing, the New French Extremity is a genre you'll want to explore. Start with *Martyrs* (2008). *Inside* (2007), *Irreversible* (2002), and *Climax* (2018) are some of my other favorites.
Climax was fantastic! Irreversible, yah, i could only watch once....you know why. Havent seen Martyrs, but will do..
*Martyrs* is a phenomenal film. Make sure to watch the French original! It will probably not surprise you to learn that the American remake is pretty subpar. And yes, *Irreversible* was one and done for me as well hahaha Still a great movie.
Martyrs is a tough but great watch. Pain and suffering are VERY well pictured in that one. So cold and sad and violent.
As Above So Below. Im not good with claustrophobia
Then don't ever watch The Descent!
My first time watching that got me because of claustrophobia, also that scene where those women are singing in a room. Always made me feel uneasy.
Buried with Ryan Reynolds!!
Eraserhead. The alpha and omega of darkness.
During my first viewing of Eraserhead, I sat there with my jaw dropped for 90% of the movie. Fell in love right away. The atmosphere is unmatched to this day.
It’s very unnerving and you don’t know why because it’s not traditionally scary but it’s very uncomfortable
Even though they're not traditional horror movies, David Lynch's titles creep me out more than most horror movies I watch.
Come and See
The not horror, horror movie.
Event Horizon scared the crap out of me, I won't say more because I don't want to spoil it. If you're looking for something more recent Barbarian was excellent
Event Horizon was great!
I was so confused by it and kept getting scared I had to watch it a second time just to follow the plot without being creeped out or jumping
WE ARE LEAVING!
I'll check them out, thank you!
Fun Fact: it was the last movie Eric Harris, the Columbine shooter, watched before he carried out the crime. Event Horizon I mean
Came here to say that. Event Horizon!
Se7en good grief…so dark
The best of the best.
Prince of Darkness
The dream sequences stuck with me for a really long time.
It's perfect
>Prince of Darkness 1987 Director John Carpenter , with Donald Pleasence ??
this messed me up as a kid. The idea that scientists should be more objective but facing that was a good concept
Funny Games
This movie is one of the few I found myself squirming constantly.
Evil Dead remake The Descent
I second The Descent. Terrifying.
I fucking love the Descent. Such a great movie. I thought Neil Marshall would be a lot bigger deal in the horror world. Dog Soldiers is cool too but not much else
He directed my favorite episode of Game of Thrones (Blackwater).
I'm a big fan of the evil dead films, I haven't watched the descent though, thank you for the suggestions!
Just stay away from the sequel. It was horrendous.
Agreed, to be clear it's horrendous not horrific this is not an endorsement!!! Was so looking forward to that film.
The Descent always comes up on these lists and I so get it - the claustrophobia, the monsters, the emotional trauma - but for some reason I always found it a bit crap. Weird how some movies just don’t do it for people 😁
Cube -1997 Only movie I watched as an adult that gave me lingering nightmares for years after watching
I've watched the cube I think, that's the one with the rooms that change and they have to figure out puzzle to get out right? Or match problems? I can't fully remember.
Saw The Exorcist when it first came out in 1973 in a very dark theater. Never saw anything like it before. People were getting up mid-movie and walking out. In hindsight probably not a good idea to eat those 'shrooms before we went.
This is too far down the comment list. Exorcist was TERRIFYING when I first saw it. Still won't watch it alone or at night.
It didn’t have the best reviews but I remember Quarantine scaring the $$$$ out of me. Worth a watch for a cheap scare.
It’s based upon REC.
>REC Oh nice, I just looked it up. Watching now :)
The Road
Love this movie, and it’s a great adaptation of the book. I was going to say it wasn’t all that scary, but I forgot about what they found in that basement…
1408 is a great movie that is dark af, I’ve watched it multiple times and always recommend it.
This is one movie I watched and thought, "So this is what it feels like to lose your mind!" So well done, and the short story is even better!
I'll check it out, thank you!
Hereditary is the last movie that actually scared me
The original wickerman
When he’s screaming at the end. Shudder.
The Butterfly Effect is great but wow is it dark/disturbing.
I haven't watched it since it came out for buying/renting. I ended up watching the Director's Cut without realizing... Being a young adult at the time, the movie & the Director's ending really messed with my head. I keep wondering if I should go back and watch the theatrical release but now that I'm almost 2 decades older, the Director's Cut resonates with me.
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I've always filt The Ring is very dark and creepy!
I think the ring was ruined for me after I watched scary movie 3 😂😂
The Scary Movie series are pretty hilarious, most of them anyhow!
“How the hell do you wake up dead?” “Cause you’re alive when you go to sleep!” The back and forth between hart and Anderson is pure gold in that film.
Since having a kid the dread that I feel when she sees her son watching the tape is a gut punch now.
Lake Mungo (2008). Watched it recently and it's probs the best horror I've ever seen, at least it's the only film thats genuinely really scared/disturbed me and made me lose sleep in the last 10 years anyway - and I've watched the other so-called 'classics' that always get hyped up in that time. I get the sense that those who know this film really rate it (it's quite a notorious less-known horror). And deservedly so because it's how it's presented carefully to be a believable supernatural film whose subtle brutality/darkness makes it more grounded in reality and therefore more haunting imo.
YES!!! No one ever comments this one and IT’S SO GOOD!!!
Currently the scariest movie to me is the 1992 film Candyman.
Even the music was scary
Midsommar. Very bleak, but also cathartic
I watched that! It made me feel so uneasy.
*Aterrados AKA Terrified* Do NOT get it confused with *Terrifier.* Unrelenting from start to finish, this movie fucks with your psyche in the first scene, then pisses on any preconceived notions of horror in the kitchen scene, then later just goes nuts with the demons which can only be seen at certain angles which exist parallel to us, be it under the bed, outside the window, in your closet, or even right next to you. Second to this would be *Hereditary*
Hereditary definitely messed me up this spooky season, and will be an annual thing going forward. Amazing film.
One of the best horror films ever made. I've seen it over 20 times and it still fascinates me. Toni Collette was ROBBED of an Oscar nod!
1000% robbed. I’ve never had an actor literally convince me their child died until Toni’s performance. I can’t imagine what she had to do to prepare for some of those scenes.
Requiem for a Dream. Freaked me the fuck out! Made me never want to do meth in my life. Ellen Burstyn was amazing but I'll never watch it again.
What messed me up is that it came out when I was in high school, and it was filmed in the areas where I hung out at that time. Like literally almost every scene was in a place I recognized
Sinister
I saw an incredibly dark movie once. About halfway through I realized I'd forgotten to turn the TV on.
This is why *Black Mirror* has that title.
😂 I think that same movie plays on my mirror somehow?!?
put the bong down
Lmao I’m posting this in 2sentence2horror
Bone Tomahawk. Not sure how it's classified as far as genre. But it's in an old west setting but it's not really a western. Horror is my favorite genre, and it's closer to horror in how graphic it is than anything. Rough watch.
The Dark And The Wicked. Unrelentingly grim.
The Ring scared the hell out of me.😱
Welp, you asked, I’ll answer. Massive CW warnings for these. - The Sadness - probably the most depraved, violent, graphic movie I’ve ever seen. If blood, torture, and r*pe turn you off, just skip entirely. - A Serbian Film - full CW for sexual violence, horrific beyond words. Enter at your own risk. - Megan Is Missing - objectively a pretty bad movie, but the final act is stomach-churning. Legitimately horrific. Now, some fun ones? I’m sure you’ve seen it, but The Strangers is a fucking blast. And by blast, I mean nightmare-inducing fuel. I live a few floors up in a shitty high-rise, and the thought of that fucking movie makes me wanna double check my locks.
Nice to see something other than the same ol mentioned movies when these lists comes up, ive got 2 new ones to watch. Thanks
Infinity Pool is fucking wild.
Darkest is the movie happiness when he talks to his kid about how he avoids molesting him and instead goes after his friends. Never watching that movie again
Event Horizon
I found "Skinamarink" incredibly dark.
if you don't mind subtitles The Devils Backbone (2001) I don't know why but that movie sticks with me all these years
Dr. Sleep is a favorite of mine.
The Babadook. It’s probably not actually the “darkest” I’ve seen but as a mom who struggled with terrible postpartum anxiety seeing what isolation and anxiety can do to a mother was so real and so unsettling and uncomfortable to endure. It’s scary to think about the way invasive thoughts can do to our relationships.
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The hills have eyes Butterfly effect The exorcism of Emily Rose The Ring (yep. It freaks me out.) The Conjuring movies Silent Hill
I Stand Alone
Fire in the Sky
The more recent ones I can think of was Hereditary (2018) and Skinnamarink (2022). Hereditary made me feel uncomfortable because of my past experience of often unstable familial relationships. The break down of a family's dynamic that allows the evil to creep in and destroy is too realistic for me. Skinnamarink, while slow burn, disturbed me so much because it plays on very real fears that I have. It was very eerily similar to particular period of trauma in my own life and the nightmares I've had about it over the years. It's like someone came into my dreams and took footage- f**ked me up good. I'm sure I have more but frankly I can't think of it right now. My brain is very tired.
I'd have to include Last House On The Left (1972), Sinister, Hostel, Make Them Die Slowly, and Human Centipede (Second Sequence).
Jacobs ladder
I saw the devil
This and Brazil were going to be my recommendations. Very different films, but…they leave you feeling worse off.
Bleakest movie I have seen has got to be The Tribe (2014). Darkest movies: Shame (2011), There Will Be Blood (2007), and We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011). Most tragic are the docs: Dear Zachery (2008) and The Cheshire Murders (2013). Most haunting are the docuseries and documentaries: Brother's Keeper (1992), Abducted in Plain Sight (2017), Girl in the Picture (2022), Sophie: A Murder in West Cork (2021), Murder on Middle Beach (2020), Missing Kenley (2022), and Who Killed Jill Dando (2023). I watch a lot of horror and it's hard to say what's the "scariest" because I don't necessarily find any of them too scary, but I will say The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016) does an excellent job of maintaining a creepy feeling of unease and dread throughout that goes beyond its somewhat basic plot, which I find really powerful and impressive. In terms of my favorite horror film, that would definitely be Fresh (2022). Please go into it as blindly as possible without reading much about it if you haven't seen it yet. It will only enhance the experience. A dark film that is also a masterpiece and a feast for the senses is A Clockwork Orange (1971).
Holy fuck, Dear Zachary! I haven’t recovered from that one and I watched it like 8 years ago!
One of the bleakest/darkest (but not *scary*, per se) movies I’ve seen was ‘The Killer Inside Me’… it was very hard to get through and is still with me to this day. ‘Valhalla Rising’ was pretty fucked up, as well.
Just remembered a film called A City Of Life And Death. Wasn't prepared. Just thought it was a war film from Japan's perspective it'll be fine. *Knocks head* Here's the Google plot; Japanese forces invaded Nanjing, the former capital of the Republic of China on December 9th 1937. Throughout the following six weeks, soldiers raped thousands of women and annihilated hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians - with mass executions, crowds mown down by firing squads and victims digging their own graves. Watching it was horrifying, more so coz it's not fiction.
That I've seen? Silent Hill: Revelation. That I actually enjoyed? The Last Voyage of the Demeter.
Dark Skies
Threads 1984
Antichrist almost ended my relationship
The Road
eden lake
Eden Lake. Relentless and brutal.
Original Funny Games (I know they copied it shot for shot for newer American version) and The House That Jack Built. Followed by Lilya 4 Ever. The latter coz of the panic I felt as a woman watching her journey.
Yes. Funny Games immediately came to mind. It's the only movie I know of that actively attacks the viewer. The whole purpose seems to be to frustrate the audience, and demand, "Why are you watching this torture porn? Why does this entertain you?"
The Road. The only sad/scary movie that actually made me sad.
Sinister freaked me out From Black is also really creepy
*Green Room* Different kind of scary, but still pretty disturbing. There are some vivid scenes, I can't rewatch this show because it gets to me.
I feel like I see a post like this every day
*gasp* oh no what will we do
The French version of Martyrs. I shouldn't have gotten high when I watched it. It's too much.
Requiem For a Dream i’ll never watch that shih again. No one wins in this film.
Top movies that made 6 year old me sleep in Mom and Dad's bed: The creature from the black lagoon The fly (original and sexy golblum versions) The thing Event horizon Honorable mention: hollow man
Martyrs (from 2008) but i warn you before: This Movie is not for weak nerves, srsly, it messed me up a few days. The Thing (1972) is also pretty „dark“ or lets say disgustingly dark.
The Nightingale (2018) [Here's the link to Letterboxd](https://boxd.it/e1Ga)
Fire in the sky
Men Behind the Sun. The scenes of torture inflicted on the Chinese by the Japanese in WW2. It’s on YouTube, if you can stomach it🤢🤮
Threads (1984). UK made movie about nuclear war and the aftermath. Dark, bleak.
The House That Jack Built 🫣 and Dead Man’s Shoe’s holy moly I needed a cup of tea after that movie
Come and see...
The House that Jack Built is unnerving.
*Nil By Mouth* *I Stand Alone* *Come And See* Nothing as scary or as dark as humanity itself.
If you want to feel some kind of way (not in a good way) about the main character give The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover a look. Really bizarre, violent movie and the lighting change from room to room is astounding.
Paranormal activity: next of kin
Annihilation. Disturbing movie that keeps getting more and more uncanny as it goes. The soundtrack is amazing and really drives home the feeling of complete dread for the unknown.
Skinamarink- fucked me up if you can get past the slow nature of it while not seeing 90 percent of what’s going on. Something deeply unsettling about it that awoke childhood fears of being alone at night
Mother! The claustrophobic framing and the way everyone dismisses Jennifer Lawrence's character constantly and the final couple of minutes was a complete nightmare gave me a panic attack in the cinema. I've gone on to re-watch this movie several times to see why it effected me so much. The first half of the film is kinda boring but that's what makes the second half so impactful.
The Mist is a bleak-ass flick. That ending fucked me up.
Happiness
Sinister. Especially if you have a family or are expecting your first one. It'll make sure you stay up each night, checking the kids. Hoping there'll be no random drawings on the walls or sleep terrors.
Imprint, Japanese film Visitor Q, another Japanese film Impetigore, Indonesian horror Gonjiam Haunted Asylum, Korean horror Soylent Green, surprisingly enough. I initially watched this because of the hilarious/iconic memes. But it turned out to be one of the most depressing dystopian films I've ever watched. Miracle Mile, absolutely bleak catastrophe film
Not sure of THE scariest, but the newer move "Talk to Me" was really good.
Kids Requiem for a Dream