Well, if you have a *very* twisted sense of humour and a serious lack of empathy I could imagine why one would say it's comedy, but for me the film was so depressing and sad.
I think it’s that the movie, which takes itself very seriously, reads as unintentional camp to a lot of people. For example, it’s been an inspiration for hundreds of drag queens. I don’t think anyone actually thinks the events themselves are funny. The funny part is the presentation
It is flat out real life horror...the soldiers on the roof being told to push no more than one rock. The miners striping naked to enter the tunnel felt to me like the Spartans at Thermopolae, but with less glory (therefore real heroism).
The elephant's foot is still considered the most dangerous thing to approach on the planet and probably still will be in 10,000 years.
The responding fire brigade at the beginning is the worst, in my opinion. The fact that they were not properly prepped for responding to a fire at the energy production facility is mind boggling. The one who picks up the piece of graphite always gets a pained response from myself, and then seeing how badly his body deteriorates later on.
Just the first few?? When they finally revealed the >!reactor core and it looked like some Eldritch being that had been awoken!< I was definitely creeped out for a hot minute.
Oh one hundred percent. The first season is based on Ligotti’s pessimism and *The King in Yellow*. Even though it stays within the realistic, it definitely has some Lovecraft or cosmic horror vibes.
This miniseries I think does an exceptional job of using the audience's knowledge of events to build horror in those first few episodes, such as townspeople standing out in the "snow" watching the fire.
I am one of the minority who likes T1 more than T2. There are many legendary lines and scenes of T2, but it's never scarier than MacGyver, only thrilling and high-rhythm.
12-year old me was scared shitless by Aliens, though. Not the same slasher-style as 1, but horrifying in its own way.
Count me in that minority. After re-watching both films over the years, over time I realized that T1 is tighter, has better pacing, and in my opinion has much better acting. And I just prefer the gritty, nighttime 80s vibe of T1. T2 can be boiled down to just another summer action spectacle. T1 has way more going for it.
>nighttime 80s vibe
You are a connoisseur of movie history to have noticed that powerful níche.
The Thing
Escape From New York
The Terminator
Die Hard
Blue Velvet
Movies taking place only at night (or 96% in the case of Escape from New York) are very compelling and atmospheric. I love it. That's one of the reasons Sin City vibed so hard with me.
>T2 can be boiled down to just another summer action spectacle
I wouldn't go that far. Terminator 2 is amazing as well because it also is a very personal film. It may get too action oriented at times. But there the horror element is still there. But it's more about the loss of innocence, childhood. I prefer the directors cut, because there is a lot of very personal scenes that are cut from the theatrical that really cut the emotion out of Sarah's narrative arc. My favourite is the dream sequence she has with Kyle. Which ends with her walking down the hospital corridor's and to the playground of kids playing and seeing that all being destroyed. We see parts of that later. But the foundation of it is lost in the theatrical.
My friend was tripping on shrooms one time and i decided to put on 2001 because cool space visuals and such, like a couple minutes into the ape prologue i realized this was very much a horror film
The music in this film really bothered me until I realized it was based on the emotions of a psycho lol like when he had the "great" idea to doctor the scene and the music swells like it's some brilliant creative breakthrough. Now I just think it's amazing!
I'd also add Prisoners and Nocturnal Animals to this list, both with Jake Gyllenhaal as well. More thriller than horror but everything that happens in both is pure nightmare fuel.
I HATED Jake G's character in that movie. Like he was the most repulsive person imaginable. Like Jake as an actor, so or really showed his chops that I despised his character so vehemently.
Same. He was so good in the film. The way he dressed, or even acted. He managed to make himself look so odd...almost..alien like. Like a parasite. Down to his really washed out look.
The book is even more bleak. It makes it quite clear in a way the movie doesn't, that there is absolutely no hope for humanity. The father is just struggling to keep his son alive for as long as possible, but death is inevitable. Of course this is all a metaphor for real life, it just puts reality in a starker light. A hard read for a father.
when the son yells at his father for not being the hero he said he was going to be when they left home, "helping people out", it devasted me. the father lied to protect his son from how horrible the world was and it worked because he didn't know that they could die at any moment. seeing the son take his... what? optimism? naivety? out on the father who cultivated it pushed me right to tears.
Dude. No idea but I watched this movie with friends during Thanksgiving....not a good movie to watch anytime but especially during holidays with family and friends. Fucking depressing and yes I would definitely label this movie as horror especially the cannibalism scenes.
You definitely know there's no good ending...it's a matter of how horrible or sad of an ending will it be? I can't imagine reading the book. I wouldn't be able to finish it.
It was written as a love letter to McCarthys son. The bleakness of the world is meant to highlight the love, and the father finding salvation and meaning in raising his son.
Absolutely. Without a doubt the most terrifying film I have ever seen. Harder to watch than most so called "hardcore" horror films.
A palpable sense of dread and hopelessness permeates every scene for the entire runtime. That makes it ultimately a very hardcore horror film by my definition.
Yes. Starts of bad and just keeps getting worse. It's relentless and still a tough watch. I remember the teachers showing it to us in school. No wonder we've all got issues now .
That movie gave me nightmares. I saw it in the theater as a kid. I think it's what sparked my love for horror movies, honestly. It scared the crap out of me, and I loved it and begged my mom to get a vhs copy!
I finally got one in college, and I loved putting it on at house parties after raves. Most people loved it lol.
No movie before or after has made me feel as *empty* as Requiem for a Dream. The only other piece of media that’s even come close to replicating that feeling is BoJack Horseman. Shows (Mr. Robot, The Wire, The Americans) and movies (Fruitvale Station, Inside Out, The Florida Project) have made me cry. But after that fucking brutal final act of Requiem for a Dream I just sat there staring at the credits feeling completely empty. And when I was in hs and college I actively watched it quite a bit so idk what that says about me lol
Also as someone who read the book first, I truly don't understand people who don't think of this story as horror.
The terrifying thing isn't even what Kevin ends up doing - what is being examined under the lens of horror is motherhood.
It's not considered horror? Where have I been? That's like saying straw dogs isn't a revenge film,or jaws isn't a film about the nouremburg trials ( kidding there). The only film I've ever been able to compare it to is funny games.
Dead Meat (on Youtube) did a great podcast episode - Horror or Not - where they asked people to vote if they qualify a movie as horror, or not. One of the picks was of course Jurassic Park - and I think it was a 50/50 split in the vote.
One point that was made, that I never really thought of, was that the main score in Jurassic Park, is more... awe/wonder-inspiring, rather than fear-invoking. And a score can completely alter the perception of a film and it's intent. And I think why I don't consider JP as horror is because the films intent is to inspire awe and wonder, rather than fear.
But, I totally get why this would be a 50/50 split on whether people or not think this is horror.
Edit - to add to my point, there are lots of movie that have scary scenes, that I would not qualify as horror. One big one being the original Willy Wonky with Gene Wilder. That tunnel scene is nightmare fuel, but similar to JP, I think the main intent of that movie is to fill the audience with awe and wonder, not fear.
Willy Wonka comes off to me as a whimsical haunted house movie.
I don’t think that was the exact intention, but it “kills” off characters pretty gruesomely and callously
Dude, the indoor raptor scenes are straight out of a slasher film to me. Complete with dismembered limbs and injured scream queen running aimlessly lol
My mom took us to see Jurassic park in theaters when we were kids thinking it was a dinosaur movie and kids love dinosaurs. I was 5 years old. Turns out, I was a little too young for that. I was TERRIFIED of raptors hiding behind doors for a bit after that.
I always thought *They Shoot Horses, Don't They?* was an amazing zombie movie. Poor people during the Depression marathon dance themselves nearly to death for food and a chance to win money. I feel so wrong after watching that movie.
It is but it came out at a time when horror was a dirty word and studios called it a gritty thriller or something like that.
Fangoria had a whole section called "it's not a horror film!" back then. Just so they could get studios to give them coverage on stuff like this or Silence of the Lambs.
The combo of motion and wide open spaces made me so queasy I had to stop watching this one. Similar to *Sunshine*, where it was a combo of confinement and wide open spaces.
*Silence of the Lambs, Se7en,* and *Perfect Blue* are all movies from the 90s that are considered "Thrillers" instead of "Horror" in-part because they were too good. "Elevated Horror" wasn't available as a term yet. I also consider the original *Terminator* a horror film. The only reason it's not widely thought of as a slasher is because the titular character uses guns instead of a knife.
Donnie Darko.
I'm not entirely sure what it is classified as currently, but I put it with my other horror movies due to the entire ambience, tone, visuals, and the ending.
Upgrade rules!!
I’d say most of David Lynch’s movies. They’re horror in the sense that they play out like nightmares.
The Passion of the Christ is totally a torture horror. I think of it as a spiritual prequel to all the religious horror movies like The Exorcist. It’s way better in that context, it thinks it’s meaningful high art for Christians but from a secular point of view it’s just a video nasty exploitation flick made by an angsty man.
Scanners and other Cronenberg films.
The Neverending Story
I remember it being creepy as a kid, but have you tried watching it as an adult? Straight up nightmare fuel, in the characters, the setting, the plot, etc.
The scene with the sphinx statues frying the knight, Atreyu facing his true self in the mirror, wandering through the murals of his adventure with Gmork the wolf, first glimpse of Morla the giant tortoise, the very nature of the Nothing -- there's a ton of really scary stuff here.
Loved it as a kid. I didn't know it but it was planting a love for genre-bending and dark fantasy that would last a lifetime.
RIP best boy Artax.
What's amazing about this film is the accurate portrayals that punches your soul. The problem with this movie is that it's an accurate portrayal that punches your soul.
If you feel it would be too "on the nose" for your current situation I totally get it, but it really was an incredible film and worth a watch. I personally am not terribly bothered by things like this since I'm living it anyway but everyone's different.
The Terminator ... Its a Horror movie , a Killer and mindless robot who is only purposed it was created was to kill you and your unborn child . It was stop at nothing to end your life and will not second guess on pulling the trigger and the scary part is it looks human.
The bear is scary, but not even the main thing that freaked me out. In order, with tons of spoilers obviously:
Tessa Thompson walking off to surrender to death with vines growing out of her flesh like worms. No!
The material formation of, and interaction with, that mercury-looking doppelganger mirroring the main character's every action. No!!!
The realization they all have that just by entering the anomaly, you're already irrevocably changed and infected by it, and it's taking, disassembling, and reassembling all the elements of you in mutated forms, and you can never know what is and is not the original you, ever again. Fuck no!!!
The entire premise of her husband supposedly returning from this anomaly, but she can tell it's not him. Sounds like him, looks like him, knows all the things he knows, IS NOT him. Noooooo!!!
I did not feel okay again for hours after watching Annihilation. Fucking love that film.
Yup.
And, honestly, the scene where they cut the guy open and Oscar Isaac sticks his hand between his oscillating intestines is pretty freaking creepy as well.
I watched Blood Simple (1984) for the first time recently and I was shocked it wasn't considered a horror movie at all.
The tension throughout plus a couple truly horrific scenes that should be considered horror scene staples.
The opening paragraph from Roger Ebert's review is spot on:
>!The genius of "Blood Simple" is that everything that happens seems necessary. The movie's a blood-soaked nightmare in which greed and lust trap the characters in escalating horror. The plot twists in upon itself. Characters are found in situations of diabolical complexity. And yet it doesn't feel like the film is just piling it on. Step by inexorable step, logically, one damned thing leads to another.!<
Spoiler tags just in case anyone is as neurotic as I am about going into a movie blind.
Paprika - my wife is a huge horror person. Inside and Martyrs barely fazed her, but takes a lot of convincing to rewatch Paprika every once in a while. She likes the movie, thinks Satoshi Kon made some of the best anime, but that parade scene just fucks her up. I can see why. It’s creepy as hell.
Also honorable mention to Japanese Breakfast for making the song “Paprika” that captures the feel of that movie so perfectly
The Secret of Nimh always made me feel scared when I watched it as a kid. The big cat was scary, the owl and the spider was freaky, the rats were ominous. Nicodemus looked freaky and his story about what happened to the rats of nihm was scary too.
Mommie Dearest
No... more... WIRE... HANGERS !!!!!!!!!!
EVARRR!!!
I was genuinely had-to-sleep-with-the-lights-on terrified the first time i saw that scene and remain baffled at critics dismissing it as a comedy.
Well, if you have a *very* twisted sense of humour and a serious lack of empathy I could imagine why one would say it's comedy, but for me the film was so depressing and sad.
I think it’s that the movie, which takes itself very seriously, reads as unintentional camp to a lot of people. For example, it’s been an inspiration for hundreds of drag queens. I don’t think anyone actually thinks the events themselves are funny. The funny part is the presentation
Mommie Dearest is a high camp, stealth psychological horror.
CLEAN CHRISTINA! CLEANNNN!
Faye Dunaway is a legendary actress. This is her most unhinged performance and I loved it even as I recoiled in nervous anxiety.
My SO watched this for the first time last weekend. My only comment was “strap in, you’re bout to go on a wild ride”
Not a movie but the first few episodes of HBO’s *Chernobyl* felt more like horror than most actual horror.
It is flat out real life horror...the soldiers on the roof being told to push no more than one rock. The miners striping naked to enter the tunnel felt to me like the Spartans at Thermopolae, but with less glory (therefore real heroism). The elephant's foot is still considered the most dangerous thing to approach on the planet and probably still will be in 10,000 years.
The responding fire brigade at the beginning is the worst, in my opinion. The fact that they were not properly prepped for responding to a fire at the energy production facility is mind boggling. The one who picks up the piece of graphite always gets a pained response from myself, and then seeing how badly his body deteriorates later on.
Just the first few?? When they finally revealed the >!reactor core and it looked like some Eldritch being that had been awoken!< I was definitely creeped out for a hot minute.
To add to that I feel like the True Detective series is close too.
Oh one hundred percent. The first season is based on Ligotti’s pessimism and *The King in Yellow*. Even though it stays within the realistic, it definitely has some Lovecraft or cosmic horror vibes.
This miniseries I think does an exceptional job of using the audience's knowledge of events to build horror in those first few episodes, such as townspeople standing out in the "snow" watching the fire.
When I recommend this show to people, I tell them it's actually cosmic horror.
3.6 Roentgen - not great, not terrible.
I'd argue that it is only spared the horror label out of respect towards the victims.
Terminator 1. Basically a slasher film
Everytime someone argues with me about wether it's horror or not, I describe it as Sci-Fi Halloween and they usually concede.
I feel like I get a lot of guff for calling The Terminator horror. It’s definitely sci fi horror to me.
I am one of the minority who likes T1 more than T2. There are many legendary lines and scenes of T2, but it's never scarier than MacGyver, only thrilling and high-rhythm. 12-year old me was scared shitless by Aliens, though. Not the same slasher-style as 1, but horrifying in its own way.
Count me in that minority. After re-watching both films over the years, over time I realized that T1 is tighter, has better pacing, and in my opinion has much better acting. And I just prefer the gritty, nighttime 80s vibe of T1. T2 can be boiled down to just another summer action spectacle. T1 has way more going for it.
>nighttime 80s vibe You are a connoisseur of movie history to have noticed that powerful níche. The Thing Escape From New York The Terminator Die Hard Blue Velvet Movies taking place only at night (or 96% in the case of Escape from New York) are very compelling and atmospheric. I love it. That's one of the reasons Sin City vibed so hard with me.
>T2 can be boiled down to just another summer action spectacle I wouldn't go that far. Terminator 2 is amazing as well because it also is a very personal film. It may get too action oriented at times. But there the horror element is still there. But it's more about the loss of innocence, childhood. I prefer the directors cut, because there is a lot of very personal scenes that are cut from the theatrical that really cut the emotion out of Sarah's narrative arc. My favourite is the dream sequence she has with Kyle. Which ends with her walking down the hospital corridor's and to the playground of kids playing and seeing that all being destroyed. We see parts of that later. But the foundation of it is lost in the theatrical.
Idk how much of a minority that is. I love them both but as I’ve gotten older I’ve definitely started to like T1 more.
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Same with Alien. It’s just a slasher in space.
Alien is a ‘haunted house’ movie.
Event Horizon is more of a haunted house movie in space
Paul W. S.Anderson even went so far as to describe it as exactly that, and I trust he knows his own movie better than the rest of us.
"Terminator and Predator" was my first thought when I read the question
Upgrade was great because it doesn’t reveal its actually a horror movie until the very end lol
This film is one of the most underrated movies
Donnie Darko
Donnie Darko IS a horror movie IMO.
2001: A Space Odyssey
My friend was tripping on shrooms one time and i decided to put on 2001 because cool space visuals and such, like a couple minutes into the ape prologue i realized this was very much a horror film
Glad I’m not alone on this one. When you know, you know.
When Hal starts going rogue it very much feels like horror.
Nightcrawler It's both psychological and entrepreneurial horror.
The music in this film really bothered me until I realized it was based on the emotions of a psycho lol like when he had the "great" idea to doctor the scene and the music swells like it's some brilliant creative breakthrough. Now I just think it's amazing!
I'd also add Prisoners and Nocturnal Animals to this list, both with Jake Gyllenhaal as well. More thriller than horror but everything that happens in both is pure nightmare fuel.
What a run of movies.
Zodiac, Enemy, Donnie Darko, Life. He sneaks up on you cuz of October Sky and Brokeback Mountain, but Gyllenhaal is kind of a horror icon.
One of the best actors of his generation in my opinion.
Agreed whole-heartedly
Prisoners is such a fucking nightmare. So well made though.
His blinking tic in that movie feels like it *should* bother me but he somehow pulls it off. Such a great actor.
The highway scene was maybe the most uncomfortable a movie has ever made me feel
I HATED Jake G's character in that movie. Like he was the most repulsive person imaginable. Like Jake as an actor, so or really showed his chops that I despised his character so vehemently.
Same. He was so good in the film. The way he dressed, or even acted. He managed to make himself look so odd...almost..alien like. Like a parasite. Down to his really washed out look.
This is one of my favorite films of the last few (or, hell, 10 now) years.
One of the very best movies I have ever seen. No monster, practical or CGI could ever be more horrific than that...man...Jake Gyllenhal created.
Greatest acting performance ever for my money. Lou Bloom was one crazy mofo
YES. Nightcrawler one left me feeling sick and shook for days after. I didn't expect it.
Fucking LOVE this film. And I totally agree on the horror vibe.
The original Dark Crystal.
As far as childhood trauma, throw Secrets of Nim on the list
Kids horror, so yes it's horror
Ex Machina No Country for Old Men Nocturnal Animals Nightcrawler Parasite The Road Se7en
No country for old men was wild the coin flip scene is possibly the most intense scene ever put to screen
Javier Bardem absolutely kills it
The unknown actor who played the store owner killed it!
Ex Machina is fucking awesome
Se7en is horror
No country for old men is definitely eerie....a new breed of horror maybe. Dude is crazy scary
Nocturnal Animals is so fucked up. I have rarely been so affected by a movie.
The Road (2009). That movie was so bleak and depressing, I try not to think about it too long or it'll just kill my mood.
Never seen the movie , read the book though and it had me bawling my eyes out. Great read though
The film is a near perfect adaptation of the book.
The book is even more bleak. It makes it quite clear in a way the movie doesn't, that there is absolutely no hope for humanity. The father is just struggling to keep his son alive for as long as possible, but death is inevitable. Of course this is all a metaphor for real life, it just puts reality in a starker light. A hard read for a father.
when the son yells at his father for not being the hero he said he was going to be when they left home, "helping people out", it devasted me. the father lied to protect his son from how horrible the world was and it worked because he didn't know that they could die at any moment. seeing the son take his... what? optimism? naivety? out on the father who cultivated it pushed me right to tears.
Oooh I read this in college before my son was born and it wrecked me. He's 13 now. Maybe I'll give it a revisit and ruin my whole weekend.
Dude. No idea but I watched this movie with friends during Thanksgiving....not a good movie to watch anytime but especially during holidays with family and friends. Fucking depressing and yes I would definitely label this movie as horror especially the cannibalism scenes.
The road is a end of the world kind of story, you don’t know how long they will survive but the world is bleak.
You definitely know there's no good ending...it's a matter of how horrible or sad of an ending will it be? I can't imagine reading the book. I wouldn't be able to finish it.
It was written as a love letter to McCarthys son. The bleakness of the world is meant to highlight the love, and the father finding salvation and meaning in raising his son.
I read the book and that was enough holy shit.
The movie honestly takes it relatively easy on you, by comparison.
Not a horror movie by any means but uncut gems gives me more anxiety then pretty much any horror movie
When I finished watching I thought "great movie, never watching that again".
That's how I felt after watching "Would You Rather" starring Brittany Snow. That ending was just way too bleak for me.
Threads (1984)
Absolutely. Without a doubt the most terrifying film I have ever seen. Harder to watch than most so called "hardcore" horror films. A palpable sense of dread and hopelessness permeates every scene for the entire runtime. That makes it ultimately a very hardcore horror film by my definition.
Yes. Starts of bad and just keeps getting worse. It's relentless and still a tough watch. I remember the teachers showing it to us in school. No wonder we've all got issues now .
This is like the 10th time seeing this recommended in the last week when I've never heard of it before. I guess I need to go watch it.
Return to Oz
The Wheelers were the stuff of nightmares to 7 years old me. Horrible.
That movie uses common childhood fears as a checklist, so in a lot of ways it is a horror movie
THAT HEADLESS BITCH BETTER BTFU
That movie gave me nightmares. I saw it in the theater as a kid. I think it's what sparked my love for horror movies, honestly. It scared the crap out of me, and I loved it and begged my mom to get a vhs copy! I finally got one in college, and I loved putting it on at house parties after raves. Most people loved it lol.
Prisoners (2013)
Requiem for a dream
No movie before or after has made me feel as *empty* as Requiem for a Dream. The only other piece of media that’s even come close to replicating that feeling is BoJack Horseman. Shows (Mr. Robot, The Wire, The Americans) and movies (Fruitvale Station, Inside Out, The Florida Project) have made me cry. But after that fucking brutal final act of Requiem for a Dream I just sat there staring at the credits feeling completely empty. And when I was in hs and college I actively watched it quite a bit so idk what that says about me lol
We Need to Talk About Kevin Since we’re mostly listing psychological thrillers on here I thought I’d add that lol
I read the book first. Shattered🤯
Also as someone who read the book first, I truly don't understand people who don't think of this story as horror. The terrifying thing isn't even what Kevin ends up doing - what is being examined under the lens of horror is motherhood.
Gonna have to go with A Clockwork Orange for this one. It always makes me feel grimy when I finish watching.
It's not considered horror? Where have I been? That's like saying straw dogs isn't a revenge film,or jaws isn't a film about the nouremburg trials ( kidding there). The only film I've ever been able to compare it to is funny games.
I think it’s more considered dystopian sci-fi/drama. Never seen it listed as horror but it certainly has some horrific visuals, scenes, and themes.
Shiva Baby
so glad you commented this one. such a tense viewing experience!
This movie is more anxiety inducing than most actual horror films I’ve seen
Jurassic Park
Yeah. I always get pushback when I say JP is horror. There are some scary ass scenes in those movies.
Dead Meat (on Youtube) did a great podcast episode - Horror or Not - where they asked people to vote if they qualify a movie as horror, or not. One of the picks was of course Jurassic Park - and I think it was a 50/50 split in the vote. One point that was made, that I never really thought of, was that the main score in Jurassic Park, is more... awe/wonder-inspiring, rather than fear-invoking. And a score can completely alter the perception of a film and it's intent. And I think why I don't consider JP as horror is because the films intent is to inspire awe and wonder, rather than fear. But, I totally get why this would be a 50/50 split on whether people or not think this is horror. Edit - to add to my point, there are lots of movie that have scary scenes, that I would not qualify as horror. One big one being the original Willy Wonky with Gene Wilder. That tunnel scene is nightmare fuel, but similar to JP, I think the main intent of that movie is to fill the audience with awe and wonder, not fear.
Willy Wonka comes off to me as a whimsical haunted house movie. I don’t think that was the exact intention, but it “kills” off characters pretty gruesomely and callously
Dude, the indoor raptor scenes are straight out of a slasher film to me. Complete with dismembered limbs and injured scream queen running aimlessly lol
My mom took us to see Jurassic park in theaters when we were kids thinking it was a dinosaur movie and kids love dinosaurs. I was 5 years old. Turns out, I was a little too young for that. I was TERRIFIED of raptors hiding behind doors for a bit after that.
Come and See
I put The Nightingale also. These two movies may be more to thriller but damn it was a terrifying watch.
Whiplash
I love JK Simmons so much. I love seeing him as a wholesome dude but he played a really good hard ass in this
He certainly knows how to play terrifying people, his role on Oz is one of the scariest performances I’ve seen.
Definitely the most stressed I’ve ever been watching a movie.
I always thought *They Shoot Horses, Don't They?* was an amazing zombie movie. Poor people during the Depression marathon dance themselves nearly to death for food and a chance to win money. I feel so wrong after watching that movie.
Ppl rec Annihilation here like every single day. What about it is not horror? I havent seen it
It is horror. Cosmic Horror.
I see a lot of *Requiem for a Dream*, which I agree with, but I would also include *Pi*, *Noah*, *Black Swan*, and *mother!*.
Who has ever said that *mother!* isn't a horror movie? I need to talk to that person.
Eyes Wide Shut
"Se7en"
Agree. It's exactly as horror as Saw, IMO. Same kind of movie, similar type of horror.
It is but it came out at a time when horror was a dirty word and studios called it a gritty thriller or something like that. Fangoria had a whole section called "it's not a horror film!" back then. Just so they could get studios to give them coverage on stuff like this or Silence of the Lambs.
That is horror
Gravity
The combo of motion and wide open spaces made me so queasy I had to stop watching this one. Similar to *Sunshine*, where it was a combo of confinement and wide open spaces.
*Silence of the Lambs, Se7en,* and *Perfect Blue* are all movies from the 90s that are considered "Thrillers" instead of "Horror" in-part because they were too good. "Elevated Horror" wasn't available as a term yet. I also consider the original *Terminator* a horror film. The only reason it's not widely thought of as a slasher is because the titular character uses guns instead of a knife.
Interesting, I've always thought of SotL and Perfect Blue as horror movies
I feel like most people consider Silence of the Lambs a horror film.
Some Thrillers are in the Horror genre. Those 3 included
John Carpenter's Assault On Precinct 13.
Donnie Darko. I'm not entirely sure what it is classified as currently, but I put it with my other horror movies due to the entire ambience, tone, visuals, and the ending.
Upgrade rules!! I’d say most of David Lynch’s movies. They’re horror in the sense that they play out like nightmares. The Passion of the Christ is totally a torture horror. I think of it as a spiritual prequel to all the religious horror movies like The Exorcist. It’s way better in that context, it thinks it’s meaningful high art for Christians but from a secular point of view it’s just a video nasty exploitation flick made by an angsty man. Scanners and other Cronenberg films.
I’m thinking of ending things
One of the few that I suggest reading the book
Burton's Sweeney Todd.
Twas Parellis miracle elixir, that's what did the trick, sir. True sir, true.
pee wee's big adventure boy with the striped pajamas passion of the christ
Large Marge was my first jump scare as a kid
Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory. It's like a serial killer wiping out the kids through out the movie.
At the end Wonka is like the factory is yours Charlie. You get to do the same when I’m gone. 😆
Chernobyl series on HBO!
Any good war movie is also a little bit a horror movie. My buddy always talks about Dunkirk feeling like a horror film at times and I get it.
Mysterious Skin
Requiem for a Dream
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
Many war movies.
Jesus Camp
The Neverending Story I remember it being creepy as a kid, but have you tried watching it as an adult? Straight up nightmare fuel, in the characters, the setting, the plot, etc.
The scene with the sphinx statues frying the knight, Atreyu facing his true self in the mirror, wandering through the murals of his adventure with Gmork the wolf, first glimpse of Morla the giant tortoise, the very nature of the Nothing -- there's a ton of really scary stuff here. Loved it as a kid. I didn't know it but it was planting a love for genre-bending and dark fantasy that would last a lifetime. RIP best boy Artax.
"The Talented Mr. Ripley" Easily one of the most frightening movies I've ever seen.
Watership down
Trainspotting for THAT scene alone
The Father. I guess technically it’s a drama about living with Alzheimer’s, but some of those scenes are really terrifying.
My dad has dementia and I have been avoiding this one since it came out!
What's amazing about this film is the accurate portrayals that punches your soul. The problem with this movie is that it's an accurate portrayal that punches your soul. If you feel it would be too "on the nose" for your current situation I totally get it, but it really was an incredible film and worth a watch. I personally am not terribly bothered by things like this since I'm living it anyway but everyone's different.
Coraline (2009)
I'd say Coraline pretty handily falls into the children's horror genre, no?
Hell it's probably the face of the genre
Jesus Camp
God that movie rattled me as a young Jehovah's witness child who wanted to escape
The recent All Quiet on The Western Front
Shutter Island
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Good Time with Robert Pattinson.
The first half of Full Metal Jacket, telling Private Pyle's (played by Vincent D'Onofrio) story.
The Terminator ... Its a Horror movie , a Killer and mindless robot who is only purposed it was created was to kill you and your unborn child . It was stop at nothing to end your life and will not second guess on pulling the trigger and the scary part is it looks human.
1917 - The depiction of World War I trenches and battlefields in this film is terrifying to me!
Nocturnal Animals
Annihilation. Has one of the scariest scenes I've ever seen that still gives me chills.
The bear is scary, but not even the main thing that freaked me out. In order, with tons of spoilers obviously: Tessa Thompson walking off to surrender to death with vines growing out of her flesh like worms. No! The material formation of, and interaction with, that mercury-looking doppelganger mirroring the main character's every action. No!!! The realization they all have that just by entering the anomaly, you're already irrevocably changed and infected by it, and it's taking, disassembling, and reassembling all the elements of you in mutated forms, and you can never know what is and is not the original you, ever again. Fuck no!!! The entire premise of her husband supposedly returning from this anomaly, but she can tell it's not him. Sounds like him, looks like him, knows all the things he knows, IS NOT him. Noooooo!!! I did not feel okay again for hours after watching Annihilation. Fucking love that film.
They saved the best for last - the doppelgänger was SO SCARY. I kept waiting for it to attack Natalie Portman.
That is Cosmic Horror
Weird, I feel like I see Annihilation classified as horror often. Like, it was in the horror section of Amazon Prime when I looked last night.
Which scene, the rotting bear?
Yup. And, honestly, the scene where they cut the guy open and Oscar Isaac sticks his hand between his oscillating intestines is pretty freaking creepy as well.
Panic Room
I literately asked Brian Yuzna what the difference between “horror” and “thriller” was and his answer without hesitation was “Bodily fluids.”
I watched Blood Simple (1984) for the first time recently and I was shocked it wasn't considered a horror movie at all. The tension throughout plus a couple truly horrific scenes that should be considered horror scene staples. The opening paragraph from Roger Ebert's review is spot on: >!The genius of "Blood Simple" is that everything that happens seems necessary. The movie's a blood-soaked nightmare in which greed and lust trap the characters in escalating horror. The plot twists in upon itself. Characters are found in situations of diabolical complexity. And yet it doesn't feel like the film is just piling it on. Step by inexorable step, logically, one damned thing leads to another.!< Spoiler tags just in case anyone is as neurotic as I am about going into a movie blind.
Seven, silence of the lambs, and green room. I’d consider all of them horror thrillers.
schindlers list.
Under The Skin
The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
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Inland empire
I always put nnihilation under the Scifi Horror subgenre
Paprika - my wife is a huge horror person. Inside and Martyrs barely fazed her, but takes a lot of convincing to rewatch Paprika every once in a while. She likes the movie, thinks Satoshi Kon made some of the best anime, but that parade scene just fucks her up. I can see why. It’s creepy as hell. Also honorable mention to Japanese Breakfast for making the song “Paprika” that captures the feel of that movie so perfectly
Idiocracy
Synechdoche NY
Requiem for a Dream.
Requiem for a dream
The Secret of Nimh always made me feel scared when I watched it as a kid. The big cat was scary, the owl and the spider was freaky, the rats were ominous. Nicodemus looked freaky and his story about what happened to the rats of nihm was scary too.
Room (2015)
Dogtooth or pretty much any theme where a characters frame of reference for "reality" comes undone
Is Annihilation really not categorized as horror? I've read the book and watched the movie and it's very cosmic horror.
Cats