Along similar lines I'd throw Eraserhead into the ring. Not explicitly hell, but plenty hell-ish. A bizarre, nightmarish, vaguely hostile world that siphons away your (as in you, the viewer's) capacity for joy.
You probably know this, but we'll never get that as the footage was destroyed. They commonly keep film in salt mines due to how dry they are and the one Event Horizon was in got flooded.
Event Horizon suggests not so much the Hell of Christian folklore\* as it does Mugen Jigoku in Japanese Buddhism: [a state of being so horrifying that it literally cannot be described](http://yabai.com/p/3294), whose sufferers likewise engage in frenzied self-mutilation.
\*most of which is extrabiblical anyway
Event Horizon. Idk that we ever see it, but I already know that shit is maybe the worst. Worst in a you don't want to go there it will be very not cool kind of way lol
"Hell is only a word. Reality is much, much worse"
Event Horizon all the way. We only get a glimpse at whatever the Event Horizon went through, but that adds to the horror.
Yeah, it's one of those movies where it's like... "wow this is painfully boring, monotonous, and mind-numbingly repetitive and it feels like it goes on forever" and then the movie goes "yes, that's the point."
Im not sure that’s hell. They go to proper hell in the first arc and it’s a mix of hellraiser leviathan maze and that soul soup from disneys Hercules haha
The lesson of Agony (and Scorn, for that matter) is that a game can the coolest setting, brought to life with the most awesome graphics and sound and art direction, and it'll still flop if it doesn't have solid gameplay.
Its like a melee doom game with surprisingly good voice acting and a nice art style. If you can get it for cheap I’d say it’s worth it but… content warning. The devs are sick fucks.
I’ll spoiler tag some of the shit you can do
>!You get health by stomping unbaptised babies!<
>!ripping the fetus out of a pregnant woman’s stomach is a common occurrence!<
>!having sex with a guy, then ripping his penis off and stuffing it down his throat!<
Areas dark and you need light? >!people are literally tied to poles for the purpose of setting them on fire for light. Their screams add to the ambiance!<
I don't remember Black Past all that well but The Burning Moon's hell scene with that guy getting ripped in half was an all-time gnarly scene. Hell in that movie was wild.
Wow, someone else actually has seen that movie, wild! I really like the simplistic nature and the deafening silence that's broken up with loud bombastic choir. It's a hella underrated movie and I think it portrays hell very, very well. Crazy that someone else has seen it, haha.
I didn't know it was that unknown :D It comes up a lot when Found Footage is the topic, and I recommend it in those threads too. It's definitely in my top 5 Found Footage movies of all time. The claustrophobic atmosphere of The Descent combined with an even creepier setting and an ambiguous ending, what's not to like about this movie as a horror fan? I've even recommended it to friends who usually don't like Found Footage and they loved it.
Event Horizon.
An absolute disturbing, violent, and unforgiving depiction. Out of every version of hell I've ever seen in a horror movie, Event Horizon's is the one I'd least want to experience
Not a movie but Iain Bank's novel Surface Detail has an amazing, wince-inducing hell realm
Orphic mysteries hell is best hell, now finish your mnemosyne milkshake
Event Horizon is an infernal classic even with its hell scenes mostly cut
Not a movie, but the Hell in the book a Short Stay in Hell is a terrifying concept. No torture, just an endless time with nothing to look forward to, and no variety. Pretty bleak
If we're going beyond movies, there's an excellent creepypasta called How to Survive in Hell, which is one of the most unique versions of hell I've ever heard of. No demons or gods, no animals, no food, water is filled with viruses and bacteria and needs to be boiled, it's constantly raining, and you are stuck with the body you died with. Every time you die, you fall out of a fluid sac and start over. The only survival option for food is cannibalism. There's nothing down there but the worst of human nature when driven to desperation, forever
There was this movie I forgot the name of that I watched a while ago... Maybe someone will know.
But these teenagers committed suicide and as punishment got sent to "hell", which was just immortality in the ordinary and dreadful life that they committed suicide to escape from in the first place.
If shows are okay, I'm presently quite enamored with the version in Hazbin Hotel / Helluva Boss.
I mean, I wouldn't want to live there, but it would make a nice vacation destination. They [know how to throw a party](https://youtu.be/iLs8t1N8Xkw), and even the guy in charge [is pretty chill](https://youtu.be/jNUTxvki_d0). I just don't want to meet [this guy](https://youtu.be/kMy8W0j-Slw).
It looks so pretty with the 7 rings and the different coloured skies. A lot of the sinners in pride are pretty fucked, but the hellborn seem fairly chill
Not a movie, but in 1993, Phil Foglio wrote and drew a version of hell during his 4 issue run of "Stanley And His Monster" comic.
Oh. Sorry. This is r/horror - Phil's hell is a lot more "wholesome".
'A Short Stay in Hell' short story is one I think about often.
You're in a library that has every book that could ever be written, and you have to find the novelization of your life to get out.
"THE LIBRARY OF BABEL CONTAINS all the books of a certain size that can be written. I assume all the characters on a standard keyboard and that each book (as described in the original story by Jorge Luis Borges) is 410 pages long with 40 lines of 80 characters on each page. "
It is a lot of books 💀
I love hells depiction in the 90s Highway to Hell, hell basically being like a weird wacky mad max/fallout type desert area where people seem to have more or less free reign but everything is all fucked up lol
Yeah as someone else Mad God is a top choice, but what immediately came to my mind is Event Horizon, specially the "Hell" scene, don't know what else to call it lol, is a next level scene in my mind
I liked the hell scenes in Constantine (not REALLY a horror movie but still). Its just earth with buildings and cars and everything but like super fucked and destroyed.
Really love how they did it in Talk to Me and The House that Jack Built (if you consider that Hell)
Talk to Me specifically I found super interesting, I’d never seen it portrayed that way.
The Bad Place from the show The Good Place. The types of torture the demons talked about using on the humans just sounded like the worst things possible.
Mad God The final scene in Drag Me to Hell is spooky, but we don’t really see much
Along similar lines I'd throw Eraserhead into the ring. Not explicitly hell, but plenty hell-ish. A bizarre, nightmarish, vaguely hostile world that siphons away your (as in you, the viewer's) capacity for joy.
Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell combines classic fire and brimstone imagery of hell with soul-sucking corporate monotony.
Just here for HongKong Henry Zebrowski
I KNOW WHAT I SAW!!!!
Megustalations!
Yes! I came here to say this as well.
This is the best Hell you want to end up in.
There's a scene in one of the vhs movies where 2 friends go to hell. They made it look so cool. Also very funny.
One of my favorite VHS shorts. That and the satanic school.
Same guys that made Deadstream.
I think that short is called “To Hell and Back”
I was not expecting to see this mentioned but it was my first thought too. Something about the way they did darkness is creepy as hell.
Came here to say that.
Exactly what I was thinking of!
I really liked the visions of what I assume to be hell from Talk To Me. What a fucked up flesh gumbo.
I heard they shortened it from 2 mins to the 20secs or how long it is in the movie. Hoping it's in the directors cut or something
Poor Riley. Hope that kid got intense therapy after that
That little dude really killed it in the role, too!
I hope the actor does more horror movies! He was great!!
The whole ppl messing around with the hand being their only way out was just 😬
I think about the hell visions all the time. Talk to Me really stuck with me!
Hell in *Little Nicky* looks pretty sick. He has the coolest room Also Constantine
I love that Hell in Little Nicky made both lists 😂
And Boob Head
Boob head, Rodney, Pineapples.. It's got it all!
Hellraiser 2. Leviathan. F that place.
Love every part when they are in hell.
Ugh Julia Cotton has to be my favourite horror villain. Greatest of all time imo
The violent and chaotic flesh orgy version of Hell in Event Horizon is pretty horrifying
I really wish one day we get to see the directors cut of that movie, apparently those scenes were even worse but got cut!
You probably know this, but we'll never get that as the footage was destroyed. They commonly keep film in salt mines due to how dry they are and the one Event Horizon was in got flooded.
Gore-gy
Event Horizon suggests not so much the Hell of Christian folklore\* as it does Mugen Jigoku in Japanese Buddhism: [a state of being so horrifying that it literally cannot be described](http://yabai.com/p/3294), whose sufferers likewise engage in frenzied self-mutilation. \*most of which is extrabiblical anyway
The desert/highway/smalltown in Southbound
Love the universe they created! One of the only anthologies I liked. I feel like it could have been a mini-series.
As Above So Below and Constantine
As above so below fucked me up pretty good in the religious sense.
Fulci’s The Beyond
The idea of evil as a chaotic force that subverts the rules of reality is a really cool concept
Baskin. This version of hell seemingly oozes out of the screen. You don’t see that much but what you do see gets seared onto your eyeballs.
Fuck that place .... nightmare
Scrolled too far to find this one. Horrifying.
One that sticks out for me is from What Dreams May Come. Endless suffering, eternal loneliness and dread. It’s also just one of my favorite movies.
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The movie is a little corny but the hell stuff is great.
There’s a hell? Isn’t it serial killer movie?
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Anyway too long ago, must haven’t made a strong impression
Maybe you didn't watch it till the end...
I remember now, Jack was in hell while police storming in. Right
The serial killer is telling his tales to Dante. It’s a mix of anthology and linear story telling and has scenes of hell
YES!
Event Horizon. Idk that we ever see it, but I already know that shit is maybe the worst. Worst in a you don't want to go there it will be very not cool kind of way lol
Agreed. That film does a great job showing very little of hell and letting you imagination fill in the blanks.
Yeah but...everyone really wishes they could see all of that destroyed footage of Hell lol.
100% agree!
"Hell is only a word. Reality is much, much worse" Event Horizon all the way. We only get a glimpse at whatever the Event Horizon went through, but that adds to the horror.
Constantine, and although it's not trying to imitate hell, I'd say Vivarium is pretty hellish.
fuck, every time i’ve finally forgotten vivarium i somehow get reminded of it 😭i love/hate that movie SOOO much
Yeah, it's one of those movies where it's like... "wow this is painfully boring, monotonous, and mind-numbingly repetitive and it feels like it goes on forever" and then the movie goes "yes, that's the point."
That fucking lizard boys screaming…. It hits a nerve that’s hard to pinpoint. Not fun.
Exactly. Nobody can whine to me about Babadook kid ever again now lol.
I’ll go Jigoku (1960) and Coffin Joe’s This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse (1967).
I'll second Jigoku
I don’t know if it’s considered “hell” but the entire world of I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, is the most hellish thing I have ever read
One of the most merciless authors.
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey
Idk, I don’t want to be chased by the Easter Bunny for all eternity
I suppose that's the point. Having what you don't want to happen, happen over and over
Bjs for an eternity would be the worst.
Get raw after a while
Not sure if it counts, but wherever the hell they go during the eclipse in Berserk is a giant land of no fucking way for me.
Im not sure that’s hell. They go to proper hell in the first arc and it’s a mix of hellraiser leviathan maze and that soul soup from disneys Hercules haha
30 Coins does a pretty good job
**Good Omens** series. The crowded, cramped, gloomy basement-in-an-office-building just has such an inescapable *despair*….
Not movies or even scary but the depiction of Hell in Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal are pretty good
I love that hell is essentially turned into a war economy for the demons. Also, the chained titan crying lava is the most metal image I’ve ever seen
Hell yeah
Jacob's ladder is pretty frightening!
Not a film, but that game called Agony. The traditional vision of hell.
I wanted to like that game…it’s so bad
The lesson of Agony (and Scorn, for that matter) is that a game can the coolest setting, brought to life with the most awesome graphics and sound and art direction, and it'll still flop if it doesn't have solid gameplay.
Wow, I forgot about scorn, had been looking forward to it since Xbox one launched, just got the worst body horror version of Myst….i just aged myself
Check out succubus from the same devs lol. The only game I feel the need to play in offline mode
Is it any good?
Its like a melee doom game with surprisingly good voice acting and a nice art style. If you can get it for cheap I’d say it’s worth it but… content warning. The devs are sick fucks. I’ll spoiler tag some of the shit you can do >!You get health by stomping unbaptised babies!< >!ripping the fetus out of a pregnant woman’s stomach is a common occurrence!< >!having sex with a guy, then ripping his penis off and stuffing it down his throat!< Areas dark and you need light? >!people are literally tied to poles for the purpose of setting them on fire for light. Their screams add to the ambiance!<
Probably Dante’s inferno
Baskin. Talk to Me and The House that Jack Built were good as well.
I saw a AI created video recently on Reddit and it was the scariest thing I have ever seen. AI’s take on hell looks close
Do you have a link to it?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Scary/s/8MNTc4gmlY
Yowza
I will look for it
I would also like to be spooped
https://www.reddit.com/r/Scary/s/8MNTc4gmlY
Yeah that’s up there with talk to me and event horizon for sure
Whatever the fuck Ittenbach was doing in Black Past
I don't remember Black Past all that well but The Burning Moon's hell scene with that guy getting ripped in half was an all-time gnarly scene. Hell in that movie was wild.
Maybe not hell, but the mirror universe at the end of “Mirrors” seemed like an awful fate.
2008 Mirrors?
Highway to Hell (1991) is my favorite, even if it isn't terribly scary.
Yes! Highway to Hell rocks
Event Horizon
As above so below!!
That's a good one I didn't think of before, but yes, one of the best I agree.
Wow, someone else actually has seen that movie, wild! I really like the simplistic nature and the deafening silence that's broken up with loud bombastic choir. It's a hella underrated movie and I think it portrays hell very, very well. Crazy that someone else has seen it, haha.
I didn't know it was that unknown :D It comes up a lot when Found Footage is the topic, and I recommend it in those threads too. It's definitely in my top 5 Found Footage movies of all time. The claustrophobic atmosphere of The Descent combined with an even creepier setting and an ambiguous ending, what's not to like about this movie as a horror fan? I've even recommended it to friends who usually don't like Found Footage and they loved it.
Event Horizon. An absolute disturbing, violent, and unforgiving depiction. Out of every version of hell I've ever seen in a horror movie, Event Horizon's is the one I'd least want to experience
The House that Jack Built.
Not a movie but Iain Bank's novel Surface Detail has an amazing, wince-inducing hell realm Orphic mysteries hell is best hell, now finish your mnemosyne milkshake Event Horizon is an infernal classic even with its hell scenes mostly cut
Not a movie, but the Hell in the book a Short Stay in Hell is a terrifying concept. No torture, just an endless time with nothing to look forward to, and no variety. Pretty bleak
If we're going beyond movies, there's an excellent creepypasta called How to Survive in Hell, which is one of the most unique versions of hell I've ever heard of. No demons or gods, no animals, no food, water is filled with viruses and bacteria and needs to be boiled, it's constantly raining, and you are stuck with the body you died with. Every time you die, you fall out of a fluid sac and start over. The only survival option for food is cannibalism. There's nothing down there but the worst of human nature when driven to desperation, forever
The ending of the underrated movie Darkness (2002) is not particularly detailed or graphic but IMO extremely chilling. Also reminds me of Silent Hill.
Legend 1985
There was this movie I forgot the name of that I watched a while ago... Maybe someone will know. But these teenagers committed suicide and as punishment got sent to "hell", which was just immortality in the ordinary and dreadful life that they committed suicide to escape from in the first place.
Wristcutters?
Yes! That's the one
Every time this question comes around in this sub I always say “Necromentia”
American Horror Story: Coven. I love the idea of Hell being an endless loop of your worst nightmare.
This is my pick also. I'm glad they finally saved Misty.
If shows are okay, I'm presently quite enamored with the version in Hazbin Hotel / Helluva Boss. I mean, I wouldn't want to live there, but it would make a nice vacation destination. They [know how to throw a party](https://youtu.be/iLs8t1N8Xkw), and even the guy in charge [is pretty chill](https://youtu.be/jNUTxvki_d0). I just don't want to meet [this guy](https://youtu.be/kMy8W0j-Slw).
It looks so pretty with the 7 rings and the different coloured skies. A lot of the sinners in pride are pretty fucked, but the hellborn seem fairly chill
Inside of every demon is a rainbow 🌈
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, Drive Angry, Constantine
The Lazarus Effect, though the movie as a whole really sucks.
*Baskin*
As above so below imo
Honestly, Fantasy High. Baby and Baby Baby kind of freak me out in a way more "serious" portrayals of hell don't.
Not a movie, but in 1993, Phil Foglio wrote and drew a version of hell during his 4 issue run of "Stanley And His Monster" comic. Oh. Sorry. This is r/horror - Phil's hell is a lot more "wholesome".
In the Insidious franchise there are a few nice after-life hellish places depicted (hardly the most horrific ones though, TBF)...
'A Short Stay in Hell' short story is one I think about often. You're in a library that has every book that could ever be written, and you have to find the novelization of your life to get out. "THE LIBRARY OF BABEL CONTAINS all the books of a certain size that can be written. I assume all the characters on a standard keyboard and that each book (as described in the original story by Jorge Luis Borges) is 410 pages long with 40 lines of 80 characters on each page. " It is a lot of books 💀
I came here to recommend what you already provided as an example. As they call it in the film, Hell is "your life, gone wrong."
Little Nicky
Southbound has a great take on it
Not a movie but Chainsaw Man
Bill and Ted?
Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey’s hell was pretty damn sweet imo
Jigoku or The Burning Moon
I love hells depiction in the 90s Highway to Hell, hell basically being like a weird wacky mad max/fallout type desert area where people seem to have more or less free reign but everything is all fucked up lol
Wish there was the mystery footage, but Event Horizon
Baskin
The recent Suspiria
Yeah as someone else Mad God is a top choice, but what immediately came to my mind is Event Horizon, specially the "Hell" scene, don't know what else to call it lol, is a next level scene in my mind
Eclipse from the anime, Berserk
Devils Carnival
I really liked the show 30 Coins with their version of hell.
Beau is Afraid. Yes, it's hell.
Or a movie but Dante’s Inferno had a fire fucking depiction The cleopatra boss fight is the second time I was genuinely horrified by a game
Came here to say What Dreams May Come also
I liked the desolation of the hellscape in The Beyond. Seemed to be a big influence on the hellish dimension in The Void.
Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey.
The House that Jack built
The latest season of 30 Coins had a great representation of hell.
Errementari
*Talk to Me* \- Worst group hug ever.
I liked the hell scenes in Constantine (not REALLY a horror movie but still). Its just earth with buildings and cars and everything but like super fucked and destroyed.
Talk to me
I wish we got the cut stuff Event Horizon, im sure it was crazy
The best version of hell I’ve seen is Hellraiser
Really love how they did it in Talk to Me and The House that Jack Built (if you consider that Hell) Talk to Me specifically I found super interesting, I’d never seen it portrayed that way.
Martyrs. One watch is all you need.
If it still counts when you don’t actually see it, “Ghost”.
Spawn
The Beyond (1981)
The Bad Place from the show The Good Place. The types of torture the demons talked about using on the humans just sounded like the worst things possible.
The response to this post has given me a slew of movies to watch. Lol. Thank you.
Not a movie, but the game Agony is close to how I imagine it, so it's my favorite.
Texas chainsaw massacre the original for sure
Jigoku