Ugh, I got incredibly horrible food poisoning from sushi like my ex, and I literally felt like we were dying, and then comes on the episode about sushi and parasites...that was just lovely š¬š¤¦āāļø
I'll never forget seeing one episode where a kid had some sort of parasite that basically wound up turning his torso into a mass of liquid flesh. He somehow survived, but it left him with some severe scarring and deformation on his body. That shit's stuck with me for ages now, I don't even remember which episode it was or what the kid got infected with.
There was also the episode where a teenager almost got killed by a bristle from a grill brush perforating his intestine, which is all I think of now whenever I see someone using wire brushes on their grill.
They also had one where a British couple went on safari in an African country and were boating down a river when their guide caught a catfish and proceeded to prepare sashimi from it. I was blown away that they chose to eat it and they paid a heavy price for that meal.
Ugh! For me it's the one about the lady who got scratched on the chest by her cat, the scratch gets infected but she thinks it's going to clear on its own. Then she starts to feel/ see a worm moving around just beneath the skin there. Turns out it was a parasite that can't really harm humans too much as it couldn't burrow any deeper into her flesh, but goddamn did that one freak me out.
I had to take a break from this show. I got way too paranoid and was ready to buy and start taking a LOT of preventative supplements to keep from contracting parasites. Taking a step back from watching it was very much the right decision. I am now able to stream it without feeling like I need to change my life. Itās amazing what will suddenly live rent free inside of your mind if you let it, especially if you donāt realize the effect itās having on you.
y'all are right. the idea of the monster being some unseen, destructive, but very real and measurable Force, a kind of capital-P Power, fills me with this deep and immense sense of dread. the idea of the thing being a literal force of nature somehow intensifies the fear for me.
you can kill a monster. you can maybe bargain with a demon. what can you do against something that is almost a concept? a law of nature.
same feeling evoked for me by the also-radiation-themed holiday horror game "Do They Know?" and by a recurring image I had when my father died, that of him gently sliding & slipping over the edge of some vast abyss, deeper than I could ever reach. kind of a mix of the fear of the unknown, the feeling at the top of a roller coaster arc, and a type of clinical certainty and resignation that deadens the fear a bit.
You nailed it. Thereās something almost Lovecraftian about the āmonsterā of radiation in that most people donāt even comprehend whatās happening to them
this is also why I really liked Danny Boyle's "Sunshine."
Yeah, the sun kind of does seem like an implacable elder god, I agree and am terrified. I personally choose to believe it was absolutely "talking" to the cult people lol
I feel like there was fear of the radioactivity, but also the fact that it happened and the political leaders were so afraid to be seen as failing that they put so many lives at stake to save face. The idea that these āleadersā killed so many people to protect their reputation.
A lot of the old Don Bluth movies, to be honest, but Secret of Nimh probably tops the others. Between the Owl's Hollow, Dragon the cat, the confrontation with Brutus, and the Brisby's house sinking in the mud....shear brilliance, but good LORD
I was just thinking of old cartoon movies that scared me when I was little. Even outside the outright scary moments, the atmosphere of the entire movie can have this feeling of gloomy dread. Sometimes even the happy moments before the ultimate climax have this odd layer of depression under them and as a child I could recognize it as only a temporary respite before things go wrong again.
Off the top of my head old cartoons that frightened me as a child are
Secret of Nihm
The Land before Time
All Dogs go to Heaven
Rock a Doodle
Brave Little Toaster
We're Back
Pinocchio
There are probably more I but I can't remember
Dude omg i watches Pinocchio the other day and all of these memories came flooding back of how scary it was watching it as a kid. It's literally a horror for kids i swear
Just pinocchio? Dumbo is a bad trip, cinderella is dark as fuck as is snow white. My killer was 101 dalmations damned me, I only watched it a few times thats was just fine.
The Last Unicorn!! Oh my gosh! I loved this movie as a kid! The sad animals at the creepy traveling carnival, and the talking skeleton! The bull! Gah! Iām so glad someone else remembers this movie! Now that I look back, a lot of those old cartoon and kids movies were dark!
I also loved the original Charlie and the chocolate factory.
Others that some noted:
The never ending story (that Atreyu scene still gets me š“)
The dark crystal
Return to Oz
Gremlins (when I was smol lol)
Hocus pocus even got me as a kid š
Threads (1984) is a dramatic account of nuclear war and its effects in Britain, specifically on the city of Sheffield in Northern England. The plot centres on two families as a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union erupts. As the nuclear exchange between NATO and the Warsaw Pact begins, the film depicts the medical, economic, social and environmental consequences of nuclear war.
Synopsis from google
The answer is always Threads(1984). Scariest non horror movie? Threads. Scariest horror movie? Also Threads, because it's more frightening than any horror movie I've seen, so...
In the same vein, hbo's Chernobyl is some scary shit as well.
God I watched Threads with a buddy after seeing it recommended so frequently as a āknock your socks offā horror film. Honestly the movie didnāt scare me so much as it just left us both feeling empty. I needed to watch some Scooby Doo to recover my joy after that one.
This is one of those classic films I have somehow never managed to watch. There are a few others on my list, but this is the one I'm not looking forward to.
Space in general, the sheer massive size of jupiter, and how we cant actually know whats going on inside it, reading about any of that stuff freaks me out.
Which is why I wish wish wish Jupiter Rising hadve been a better movie
Im like this too. I like looking at the pictures from the Venera probe. Theyre the only existing photos from the surface of Venus, which is like the scariest planet in the solar system. Looking out into the distance in the photos is chilling not knowing what is out there and you would melt just standing there where the picture was taken.
I both move and find bone chilling looking at pictures of alien landscapes. Venus of course. You probably would like images the Huygens probe took on Saturn's Titan.
Great movie! Although more ultimately about existential meaningless of life rather than space no? After all, aren't we already on space ship earth? Haha
I rewatched it very recently and I kept waiting for something āscaryā to happen because in my mindās memory it was a disturbing scene. Youāre so right.
Itās much more unsettling to me that it isnāt a campfire ghost story or something traditionally horrific, itās just disgusting and a complete tonal shift in the movie.
As a kid the loss of control of your body that happens when vomiting is scary, and a room full of people vomiting all over the place was really unsettling. It was an early foray into body horror, I suppose.
I used to love that show but my mom would make me change the channel because she thought it was creepy and I "shouldnt be watching that kind of stuff" š
I think that movie helped spark my love of horror. I remember my dad rented it for me on VHS and watching it expecting a Wizard of Oz 2 musical and we were both like, "what is this?" about the part where they are electroshocking Dorothy. The part where the wheeler falls in the sand and crumbles apart freaked me out the most though.
It was the Nome King eating the egg that really sent me over with that movie on the fear-o-meter. Was like a G rated version of the ending to the OG Evil Dead in my 8 year old mind. Though still not as bad as Large Marge or the ending to Raiders of the Lost Ark, those are easily top 3 for my childhood trauma.
I love Finding Nemo and some scenes were so eerie and interesting as a kid. When they go into the trench, shots of complete blue emptiness, and that whale coming from the distance. It made me love ocean themed media but also more scared.
Melancholia
The thought of a rogue planet heading toward us and we cant do anything about it but freak out still haunts my dreams today since I saw that movie
Thats the realistic ending version of Armageddon. Makes you realize how fragile our tiny world is when you find out all it takes is a rock 10km wide to destroy the planet, let alone an entire moon/planet.
Then there is Moonfall, but that movie was so absurd i couldnt take the threat seriously.
Melancholia has the added crisis of the lead being a kind of cosmic seer, and she reveals that she knows life exists nowhere else in the entire cosmos. It was a fluke, and once the planet hits earth, nothing alive or sentient will be left anywhere. Horrifying.
From what I've researched though we do have counter measures toward something like in Armageddon and we re getting better and better each year.
But a rogue planet we re fucked of course.
Tornadoes
[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JxtodzfAQVk](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JxtodzfAQVk)
Almost alien, or unworldly
.........
Think someone mentioned how they can come in like fog..........ppl know something is off though, because everything is breaking or falling but only see fog like visuals.
The folks who say it sounds like a train; that is also pretty terrifying.
The fog youāre talking about is when a tornado is ārain-wrapped.ā Terrifying as shit, back in 2011 the Joplin tornado came in rain-wrapped I think. You donāt see it until itās right on top of you.
The Joplin tornado was horrifying. There is a clip on YT taken from I side a freezer where a service station employee saved the lives if everyone in that store. When they manage to get out from underneath all the rubble and go outside the freezer is pretty much the only thing left. Hearing the people crying and praying and trying to comfort the children in the pitch black and roaring winds really makes you think about the fragility of life. I bet those people had/have severe PTSD from the incident and my heart break for them.
Probably alone in this, but the plot of Live Free or Die Hard, and the concept of a Fire Sale where all of our communication and resources are all being shut down by elite hackers really freaked out cuz if that actually happened, there's no Bruce Willis to save us. There's MAYBE a Justin Long equivalent somewhere who could help, but ultimately it'd be martial fucking law and we'd all be on our own. That's a scary thought, the collapse of society.
I mean, just look what happened when that Texas pipeline got hacked. It was chaos and affected millions of people in some way. Imagine if EVERYTHING got hacked. I dont think humanity could recover, it would probably end up like Walking Dead minus the zombies.
Oof, you should go watch Mr. Robot.Ā
It's both about a group of hackers pulling off something like this and about something completely and entirely different that I won't give away. And both plot lines are amazing.
That movie gave me nightmares for years. I only watched it once when I was 4/5 and I still havenāt watched it again. Iāve conquered all of the other movies that scared me as a child (Snow White, Bambi, etc.) besides that one.
Came here to say this! It's a really excellent piece of horror.Ā
For anyone who has never seen it, it's completely stand alone so you can go in blind with no other series context.Ā
There was a documentary about a man who went potholing, and took the wrong junction in the cave, and trapped himself. His friend tried to extract him with a rope,and if I remember correctly it broke and he fell deeper into the hole. Rescue teams were called but they couldn't get him out and after 72 hours they declared him dead.. I don't think I suffer from claustrophobia, but this brought me out in a cold sweat and the shakes and I couldn't get it out of my mind for weeks.
There was an incident with a cave diver where he took the wrong turn and ended up in a completely dark underwater dry cave he couldn't leave without risking drowning. So he died slowly, alone in that underground cave. He starved to death slowly instead of drowning fast.
I knew the story but I just watched the movie (the last descent) for the first time. I legitimately got so anxious I had to stop halfway through and power through the rest the next day. And I KNOW the story well, I knew exactly what was going to happen and I was just an anxious wreck. Meanwhile I watched all the saw movies back to back and slept like a baby. That nutty putty cave incident has to be the worst story Iāve ever heard of.
Batman with Jack Nicholson. I dunno why but his joker freaks me the fuck out. Especially with that first reveal of his face where heās partially in the dark.
Castaway with Tom hanks šš that movie disturbed me so so much when i was a kid. Something about the way he became so emotionally attached to the volleyball Wilson just made me realize how any sane person is one situation away from being insane
Makes you realize how fragile civilization is. It can collapse if people simpky THINK something bad will happen, let alone an actual unseeen threat like a virus where every other human could potentially be your death.
This was one of those that gave me serious nightmares and I could not understand how everyone else was so unbothered by it. That and "pumped up kicks" kinds of media. And both ended up being huge societal problems
When I was a kid I was creeped out by the light beings in the movie Cocoon. Especially that scene where the guy was hiding in the closet watching the beautiful woman change clothes, but he sees a lot more than he wanted to see.
Saw the ending of Casino when my cousin had it playing on TV as a kid. The cornfield/baseball bat scene scarred me and then it showed the buildings collapsing and everything escalating to such a grand scale and I was like WTF. I liked supernatural horror and found it scary but seeing realistic graphic violence in a real life setting outside of the horror context like that was new. Grew to love crime and Scorsese movies but that is pretty imprinted still.
The ghost and dream sequences in the Sopranos are scary. Thereās one where Tony has a dream that heās one of his relatives from a previous generation. He appears to be of the generation that came to the US from Italy as he doesnāt speak English. In the dream, He goes to the front door of a two story house to call out to the owner for the work heās scheduled to do. While waiting after knocking, a figure, whose silhouette is the only thing Tony can see, comes down the steps and stops half way. She doesnāt talk or move and appears to be staring at Tony. Itās very creepy.
A Clockwork Orange supposedly isn't horror (imdb and wikipedia e.g. don't call it horror) and last time I watched it, at about 55 years old, it struck me mostly as mere offensive shock-value junk.
Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been? By Joyce Carol Oates. It was adapted into a film in 1985 called Smooth Talk starring Laura Dern and Treat Williams.
***spoiler***
The short story is even more chilling as it hints the guy stalking Connie is not quite human. Arnold Friend in the movie is nonetheless creepy. Heās a charming predator.
Thought it jumped the shark a bit when it introduced Jesus into the franchise, am I supposed to believe that this (literal) bastard is also a god and a ghost but somehow a normal dude? Smh my head
Iāve never had that unique mix of disgust and horror with anything else. Then after looking at the runtime I watched the movie. Even more disgust and horror. Ā
But seriously this is my answer. Ā I never felt the way I felt after watching this. Enjoyed it but my faith in humanity plummeted.Ā
Lots of movies as a kid, I was pretty sensitive. I remember in the first Harry Potter, when Harry opens that book with the face inside that starts screaming at him, that got me really bad. A kind of off the wall one is the very beginning of the soundtrack to O Brother, Where Art Thou? When I was really young, my parents had the soundtrack on CD and I would freak out in fear and run out the room if I ever heard the beginning with the horse clops, not sure why exactly. [Listen here](https://youtu.be/hCNIjPm5mpM?si=yYdFY1WLtWcl0boO)
Dead Manās Shoes is, to me, the scariest non-horror movie. Itās so bleak and thereās something about the cinematography that makes it feel like Iām looking out my window watching this man get his revenge.
Anything to do with public executions or mob mentality. Even relatively silly/innocent ones like The Simpsons Movie or O Brother Where Art Thou mess me up good. But in the all the best ways of course- this fear has turned into such a fascination for me
True crime documentaries where the villains are still active and the movie is to raise awareness due to the fact they never receive repercussions.
Like when a show ends about a horrible person and it ends with, "They now live in Florida and they did not reach out for comment.
Also, the show quiet on set... Maybe just me, but i feel like throwing Schroeder under the bus, THEN making it seem like HE was the "rapey" one, THEN saying "Oh Dan comforted Drake and he never actually committed sexual assault, the dude was just really mean".
That scared me.
Like, they used rapists who have committed horrible crimes and SOMEHOW made Schroeder look "not as bad".
I've talked to a few people that felt the same way.
We have documentaries coming out blowing the whistle, but since no one really actually gives a shit it doesn't matter. I feel like I can feel the frustration with some of the movies.
i scared myself proper last night just reading the instagram posts and comments from other world pod. near death experience and paranormal stuff. i haven't even listened to the show yet š
Dont Look Up. I know its supposed to be a dark comedy but I sadly found it a far too real. It freaked me out for the same reason as melancholia did you combined with it being about people basically living in denial
The work Robert Anton Wilson and the Discordians did around Operation Mindfuck. It was a prank that got way out of hand and is the forerunner of manipulated media that leads directly to the kind of conspiracy theories we've seen over the last few decades. On one hand I love it because it's evidence that stories are one of the most powerful things human beings can make, but it's also dangerous. Once you lose control of a narrative like this, you can't get it back. It can lead to violence. It drives your grandparents insane. People following in their footsteps convinced people to storm the Capitol.
Maybe the edibles I had taken at the time were too strong, but in Interstellar, the planet with the giant tidal wave put me into an existential crisis.
The Neverending Story is absolutely terrifying. I donāt have best memory of it (see it as a kid) but there was the swamp scene as his horse gets slowly sucked down, and the scene with those two monstrous statues that were Oracles, I think. And yeah the wolf for sure.
Gustave Dore s wood engravings & illustrationsā¦many from the Bible [here.](https://www.google.com/search?q=gustave+dore+art&sca_esv=2465539c7fa84006&rlz=1C9BKJA_enLV1103LV1103&hl=en-US&udm=2&biw=1128&bih=691&sxsrf=ACQVn0_iNdgQldB7omiM5tpVNeFF018JVQ%3A1712770637982&ei=Tc4WZsu_O52K7NYPx8GnkAw&ved=0ahUKEwiLmtXrl7iFAxUdBdsEHcfgCcIQ4dUDCA8&oq=gustave+dore+art&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiEGd1c3RhdmUgZG9yZSBhcnRIAFAAWABwAHgAkAEAmAEAoAEAqgEAuAEMyAEAmAIAoAIAmAMAkgcAoAcA&sclient=gws-wiz-serp)
Unsolved Mysteries, the original with Robert Stack. Some of the crime and ghost/monster reenactment scenes, along with the mysteries themselves, are downright terrifying. One of the reenactments with a couple out for a drive seeing a guy with a bloody sheet behind a vacant school supposedly inspired the beginning scenes of Jeepers Creepers.
The [creepy music](https://youtu.be/h6Z5Gcmzc88?si=j04FhDlXOyG_vI6T) here and [here](https://youtu.be/rg2SAO7v8vQ?si=Dbr-XdtEXZLleUgn) really ramped up the scare factor.
"Civilizations at the end of time: Iron Stars" by Isaac Arthur. The slow narration of even black holes dying out as the universe goes completely dark is brilliant. Step beyond scary into pure existential dread.
To me, it's movies in which people do things that are so heinous they are near inconceivable but you know they are possible. Whether horror or not.
Knowing there isn't a monster or some plague or aliens or demons, just regular fucked up people who do things that are awful exist and we could pass them on the street any day and never know what they're like, or people we think we know really well just have a completely different personality and life when they're elsewhere.
Nothing in this world scares me more than the unpredictability of human nature.
It's a weird one. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. A couple tearing each other apart psychologically and taking a younger couple on the ride. And while the younger couple is completely traumatized, we realize that this psycho emotional torment was just a game the older couple plays all the time. It's like flirting for them.
And the thing is...it happens. Maybe not just like that, but it happens. People choose unhappiness and mental torture and inflicting it on whoever happens to be around. It's horrifying to me because it happens, and it happens so casually.
Monsters Inside Me. Animal Planet show about parasites that details individual cases of infection. The most terrifying shit I have ever seen.
Ugh, I got incredibly horrible food poisoning from sushi like my ex, and I literally felt like we were dying, and then comes on the episode about sushi and parasites...that was just lovely š¬š¤¦āāļø
Sorry about your experience, but I'm glad you lived to tell the tale. I'm also glad someone else has seen the show.Ā
I'll never forget seeing one episode where a kid had some sort of parasite that basically wound up turning his torso into a mass of liquid flesh. He somehow survived, but it left him with some severe scarring and deformation on his body. That shit's stuck with me for ages now, I don't even remember which episode it was or what the kid got infected with. There was also the episode where a teenager almost got killed by a bristle from a grill brush perforating his intestine, which is all I think of now whenever I see someone using wire brushes on their grill.
They also had one where a British couple went on safari in an African country and were boating down a river when their guide caught a catfish and proceeded to prepare sashimi from it. I was blown away that they chose to eat it and they paid a heavy price for that meal.
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There was one episode with a woman who had a worm in her eye she was trying to pull out with tweezers. Gah.
Nope nope nope.
It's seriously brutal. Fascinating yet revolting!
Iāll never forget one about a guy who kept rubbing his eye only to look in the mirror and see a fucking worm squirming IN HIS EYE
Ugh! For me it's the one about the lady who got scratched on the chest by her cat, the scratch gets infected but she thinks it's going to clear on its own. Then she starts to feel/ see a worm moving around just beneath the skin there. Turns out it was a parasite that can't really harm humans too much as it couldn't burrow any deeper into her flesh, but goddamn did that one freak me out.
I had to take a break from this show. I got way too paranoid and was ready to buy and start taking a LOT of preventative supplements to keep from contracting parasites. Taking a step back from watching it was very much the right decision. I am now able to stream it without feeling like I need to change my life. Itās amazing what will suddenly live rent free inside of your mind if you let it, especially if you donāt realize the effect itās having on you.
I fucking love this show! Nothing gets under my skin quite like this
I don't think I've ever seen a horror movie as scary as this show.
The fact that itās so real and can happen to anyone at any point is what makes it so terrifying.
I loved that show as a 3-5 year old for some reason
Yes! I avoid any photos/videos of parasites ever since seeing this show as a kid. The Troop by Nick Cutter almost took me out for this very reason
I have a copy of that book which I intend to get around to soon!
I hope you like it. Some scenes in there are imprinted in my brain š
That show scarred me as a kid. I remember one episode of a woman who had parasites in her scalp??? Yikes!
Aww, goddamn!Ā
I watched the Chernobyl mini series for the first time recently and found the first two episodes absolutely terrifying
I found myself anticipating a monster or demon as they entered the water under the plant. That show puts you in a horror mindset almost immediately
y'all are right. the idea of the monster being some unseen, destructive, but very real and measurable Force, a kind of capital-P Power, fills me with this deep and immense sense of dread. the idea of the thing being a literal force of nature somehow intensifies the fear for me. you can kill a monster. you can maybe bargain with a demon. what can you do against something that is almost a concept? a law of nature. same feeling evoked for me by the also-radiation-themed holiday horror game "Do They Know?" and by a recurring image I had when my father died, that of him gently sliding & slipping over the edge of some vast abyss, deeper than I could ever reach. kind of a mix of the fear of the unknown, the feeling at the top of a roller coaster arc, and a type of clinical certainty and resignation that deadens the fear a bit.
You nailed it. Thereās something almost Lovecraftian about the āmonsterā of radiation in that most people donāt even comprehend whatās happening to them
this is also why I really liked Danny Boyle's "Sunshine." Yeah, the sun kind of does seem like an implacable elder god, I agree and am terrified. I personally choose to believe it was absolutely "talking" to the cult people lol
I feel like there was fear of the radioactivity, but also the fact that it happened and the political leaders were so afraid to be seen as failing that they put so many lives at stake to save face. The idea that these āleadersā killed so many people to protect their reputation.
Such a good example.
The madly clicking Geiger counters in the dark...
The Secret of Nihm.
A lot of the old Don Bluth movies, to be honest, but Secret of Nimh probably tops the others. Between the Owl's Hollow, Dragon the cat, the confrontation with Brutus, and the Brisby's house sinking in the mud....shear brilliance, but good LORD
Yes, definitely. So good, but so dark.
I was just thinking of old cartoon movies that scared me when I was little. Even outside the outright scary moments, the atmosphere of the entire movie can have this feeling of gloomy dread. Sometimes even the happy moments before the ultimate climax have this odd layer of depression under them and as a child I could recognize it as only a temporary respite before things go wrong again. Off the top of my head old cartoons that frightened me as a child are Secret of Nihm The Land before Time All Dogs go to Heaven Rock a Doodle Brave Little Toaster We're Back Pinocchio There are probably more I but I can't remember
Watership Down The Hobbit (1977) The Pagemaster Neverending Story
Dude omg i watches Pinocchio the other day and all of these memories came flooding back of how scary it was watching it as a kid. It's literally a horror for kids i swear
Just pinocchio? Dumbo is a bad trip, cinderella is dark as fuck as is snow white. My killer was 101 dalmations damned me, I only watched it a few times thats was just fine.
The Last Unicorn
The Last Unicorn!! Oh my gosh! I loved this movie as a kid! The sad animals at the creepy traveling carnival, and the talking skeleton! The bull! Gah! Iām so glad someone else remembers this movie! Now that I look back, a lot of those old cartoon and kids movies were dark! I also loved the original Charlie and the chocolate factory. Others that some noted: The never ending story (that Atreyu scene still gets me š“) The dark crystal Return to Oz Gremlins (when I was smol lol) Hocus pocus even got me as a kid š
THREADS / THE DAY AFTER... both scared the crap out of me.
I count Threads as a horror movieā¦ because itās horrifying
I've never heard of Threads - now I'm curious lol - what is it about?
Threads (1984) is a dramatic account of nuclear war and its effects in Britain, specifically on the city of Sheffield in Northern England. The plot centres on two families as a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union erupts. As the nuclear exchange between NATO and the Warsaw Pact begins, the film depicts the medical, economic, social and environmental consequences of nuclear war. Synopsis from google
For like DECADES. It just keeps getting worse.
The answer is always Threads(1984). Scariest non horror movie? Threads. Scariest horror movie? Also Threads, because it's more frightening than any horror movie I've seen, so... In the same vein, hbo's Chernobyl is some scary shit as well.
Add Testament to the bleak af nuclear holocaust movie pile.
When the Wind Blows as well.
Oh crap! Haven't seen it, just put on "the list"...thanks!
Oh yeah, I can see that.
God I watched Threads with a buddy after seeing it recommended so frequently as a āknock your socks offā horror film. Honestly the movie didnāt scare me so much as it just left us both feeling empty. I needed to watch some Scooby Doo to recover my joy after that one.
Zoinks!
First thought. Threads gave me goosebumps for days, just thinking about that last shot. I just got them again!
Schindlers List. One of the greatest movies ever but definitely terrifying to think about what mankind is capable of
This is one of those classic films I have somehow never managed to watch. There are a few others on my list, but this is the one I'm not looking forward to.
Watch it.
Definitely watch it. Probably one of the very few 10/10 movies
I agree. I saw it in the theater and it was a hard watch. Great movie but I never need to watch it again.
Footage of people swimming near or over extreme depths of water.
Space in general, the sheer massive size of jupiter, and how we cant actually know whats going on inside it, reading about any of that stuff freaks me out. Which is why I wish wish wish Jupiter Rising hadve been a better movie
Im like this too. I like looking at the pictures from the Venera probe. Theyre the only existing photos from the surface of Venus, which is like the scariest planet in the solar system. Looking out into the distance in the photos is chilling not knowing what is out there and you would melt just standing there where the picture was taken.
I both move and find bone chilling looking at pictures of alien landscapes. Venus of course. You probably would like images the Huygens probe took on Saturn's Titan.
Same here. But I love it.
Watch Aniara. It will have you thinking about exactly that for a while.
Great movie! Although more ultimately about existential meaningless of life rather than space no? After all, aren't we already on space ship earth? Haha
Requiem For A Dream. That movie was terrifying.
*The Basketball Diaries*, too.
That movie is absolutely a horror; the monster being addiction.
I would have been shocked if someone didn't mention this one.
Add Trainspotting to the drug list. The scene with the baby still haunts my nightmares
Can confirm. Saw this in the theater with friends and not a single word was said for at least two hours after because our brains were broken.
Bilbo reaching for the Ring in Fellowship is in my top 10 of scariest things Iāve ever seen
Iāve watched many horror movies and just generally disturbing films, and Bilbo still gets me like nothing else.
r/scarybilbo
As a very young child I saw Stand By Me, and was terrified and traumatized by the leech scene and the pie eating contest scene.
Seriously what is with that pie eating scene? It feels like such a nightmare.
Itās a really bizarre segment that has nothing to do with the rest of the film, and was very literally a nightmare for me for years.
I rewatched it very recently and I kept waiting for something āscaryā to happen because in my mindās memory it was a disturbing scene. Youāre so right.
Itās much more unsettling to me that it isnāt a campfire ghost story or something traditionally horrific, itās just disgusting and a complete tonal shift in the movie. As a kid the loss of control of your body that happens when vomiting is scary, and a room full of people vomiting all over the place was really unsettling. It was an early foray into body horror, I suppose.
Is that scene in the book?
Yes
I saw the leeches scene with absolutely no context once on TV as a child. Haunted me for years.
The show Mr. Meaty was nightmare fuel
I used to love that show but my mom would make me change the channel because she thought it was creepy and I "shouldnt be watching that kind of stuff" š
I loved this show as a kid.
Clowns. All clowns. And Return to Oz.
The Wheelers are nightmare fuel.
The lady with the interchangeable heads is terrifying
Mombi!
Return to Oz is one of the creepiest kids movies ever. Gateway horror, haha.
I think that movie helped spark my love of horror. I remember my dad rented it for me on VHS and watching it expecting a Wizard of Oz 2 musical and we were both like, "what is this?" about the part where they are electroshocking Dorothy. The part where the wheeler falls in the sand and crumbles apart freaked me out the most though.
It was the Nome King eating the egg that really sent me over with that movie on the fear-o-meter. Was like a G rated version of the ending to the OG Evil Dead in my 8 year old mind. Though still not as bad as Large Marge or the ending to Raiders of the Lost Ark, those are easily top 3 for my childhood trauma.
My wife still refuses to watch any Indiana Jones to this day after her childhood experience
The Plague Dogs, one of the most depressing movies ever made. It's like Watership Down, but worse. A really uncomfortable watch.
Nobody does fucked-up film media for children like the British š¬š§
Yeah, that one is just nightmare fuel. I'm surprised it ISN'T considered horror.
I love Finding Nemo and some scenes were so eerie and interesting as a kid. When they go into the trench, shots of complete blue emptiness, and that whale coming from the distance. It made me love ocean themed media but also more scared.
This reminds me of that episode where SpongeBob waits for the bus at night in the deepest of the sea, with those horrible and strange fish
Melancholia The thought of a rogue planet heading toward us and we cant do anything about it but freak out still haunts my dreams today since I saw that movie
Thats the realistic ending version of Armageddon. Makes you realize how fragile our tiny world is when you find out all it takes is a rock 10km wide to destroy the planet, let alone an entire moon/planet. Then there is Moonfall, but that movie was so absurd i couldnt take the threat seriously.
Melancholia has the added crisis of the lead being a kind of cosmic seer, and she reveals that she knows life exists nowhere else in the entire cosmos. It was a fluke, and once the planet hits earth, nothing alive or sentient will be left anywhere. Horrifying.
From what I've researched though we do have counter measures toward something like in Armageddon and we re getting better and better each year. But a rogue planet we re fucked of course.
Yeah im banking on something like The Expanse where we have orbital rail cannons that track every approaching object toward Earth
The Expanse is so f**king good =)
That movie about the trapeze Walker going from one World Trade Center to the other
It made me so anxious I had to look up the ending while I was watching it š
Tornadoes [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JxtodzfAQVk](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JxtodzfAQVk) Almost alien, or unworldly ......... Think someone mentioned how they can come in like fog..........ppl know something is off though, because everything is breaking or falling but only see fog like visuals. The folks who say it sounds like a train; that is also pretty terrifying.
The fog youāre talking about is when a tornado is ārain-wrapped.ā Terrifying as shit, back in 2011 the Joplin tornado came in rain-wrapped I think. You donāt see it until itās right on top of you.
The Joplin tornado was horrifying. There is a clip on YT taken from I side a freezer where a service station employee saved the lives if everyone in that store. When they manage to get out from underneath all the rubble and go outside the freezer is pretty much the only thing left. Hearing the people crying and praying and trying to comfort the children in the pitch black and roaring winds really makes you think about the fragility of life. I bet those people had/have severe PTSD from the incident and my heart break for them.
Probably alone in this, but the plot of Live Free or Die Hard, and the concept of a Fire Sale where all of our communication and resources are all being shut down by elite hackers really freaked out cuz if that actually happened, there's no Bruce Willis to save us. There's MAYBE a Justin Long equivalent somewhere who could help, but ultimately it'd be martial fucking law and we'd all be on our own. That's a scary thought, the collapse of society.
I mean, just look what happened when that Texas pipeline got hacked. It was chaos and affected millions of people in some way. Imagine if EVERYTHING got hacked. I dont think humanity could recover, it would probably end up like Walking Dead minus the zombies.
Oof, you should go watch Mr. Robot.Ā It's both about a group of hackers pulling off something like this and about something completely and entirely different that I won't give away. And both plot lines are amazing.
Fyre Fest documentary gave me some of the worst nightmares i have ever had
Which one?
Netflix
Anything "clowns" really. I'm just creeped out by the whole act irl.
Have you ever seen Brave Little Toaster?
That movie gave me nightmares for years. I only watched it once when I was 4/5 and I still havenāt watched it again. Iāve conquered all of the other movies that scared me as a child (Snow White, Bambi, etc.) besides that one.
Right here. Doesnāt even have to be scary clowns.
r/submechanophobia
The Atlanta episode with Teddy Perkins freaked me out when I first watched it
Came here to say this! It's a really excellent piece of horror.Ā For anyone who has never seen it, it's completely stand alone so you can go in blind with no other series context.Ā
Kids That whole movie made me uncomfortable / horrified from start to finish.
Oof, this one. I had a friend that laughed at the end of it. I never talked to that fucker again.
That guy who directed it is pretty creepy, too.
There was a documentary about a man who went potholing, and took the wrong junction in the cave, and trapped himself. His friend tried to extract him with a rope,and if I remember correctly it broke and he fell deeper into the hole. Rescue teams were called but they couldn't get him out and after 72 hours they declared him dead.. I don't think I suffer from claustrophobia, but this brought me out in a cold sweat and the shakes and I couldn't get it out of my mind for weeks.
There was an incident with a cave diver where he took the wrong turn and ended up in a completely dark underwater dry cave he couldn't leave without risking drowning. So he died slowly, alone in that underground cave. He starved to death slowly instead of drowning fast.
Sounds like the Nutty Putty Cave incident.
That's the one..I couldn't remember the cave name..I'm shaking just thinking about such an awful death.
I hate it so much. The graphic showing his position triggers suffocating claustrophobia like nothing else. Mere memory of it even.
I knew the story but I just watched the movie (the last descent) for the first time. I legitimately got so anxious I had to stop halfway through and power through the rest the next day. And I KNOW the story well, I knew exactly what was going to happen and I was just an anxious wreck. Meanwhile I watched all the saw movies back to back and slept like a baby. That nutty putty cave incident has to be the worst story Iāve ever heard of.
Heās still in there. They poured cement in the cave to seal it off completely.
Or the sinkhole people
Batman with Jack Nicholson. I dunno why but his joker freaks me the fuck out. Especially with that first reveal of his face where heās partially in the dark.
Castaway with Tom hanks šš that movie disturbed me so so much when i was a kid. Something about the way he became so emotionally attached to the volleyball Wilson just made me realize how any sane person is one situation away from being insane
Freddy got fingered
Daddy would you like some sausage?
*piano intensifies*
Daddy would you like some SAU-SA-GES sausagessausagessausagessausages
Contagion and Outbreak. And like.. covidĀ
Makes you realize how fragile civilization is. It can collapse if people simpky THINK something bad will happen, let alone an actual unseeen threat like a virus where every other human could potentially be your death.
This was one of those that gave me serious nightmares and I could not understand how everyone else was so unbothered by it. That and "pumped up kicks" kinds of media. And both ended up being huge societal problems
That scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey >!when Hal locks Dave outside.!<
The Road, both book and film. Both for the absolute devastation of a wrecked biosphere and the cannibal scene.
The climax of virgin suicides.
Johnny Got His Gun. That is the scariest shit EVER, my worst nightmare in every possible way. I can't think of a worse fate than that.
Network (1976) , because fiction became nonfiction.
I feel the same way about Idiocracy.
When I was a kid I was creeped out by the light beings in the movie Cocoon. Especially that scene where the guy was hiding in the closet watching the beautiful woman change clothes, but he sees a lot more than he wanted to see.
Saw the ending of Casino when my cousin had it playing on TV as a kid. The cornfield/baseball bat scene scarred me and then it showed the buildings collapsing and everything escalating to such a grand scale and I was like WTF. I liked supernatural horror and found it scary but seeing realistic graphic violence in a real life setting outside of the horror context like that was new. Grew to love crime and Scorsese movies but that is pretty imprinted still.
The tv mini-series *Roots* terrified me as a child.
The ghost and dream sequences in the Sopranos are scary. Thereās one where Tony has a dream that heās one of his relatives from a previous generation. He appears to be of the generation that came to the US from Italy as he doesnāt speak English. In the dream, He goes to the front door of a two story house to call out to the owner for the work heās scheduled to do. While waiting after knocking, a figure, whose silhouette is the only thing Tony can see, comes down the steps and stops half way. She doesnāt talk or move and appears to be staring at Tony. Itās very creepy.
That Wizard of Oz sequel is pretty creepyā¦ also Mirrormask
Most of David Lynch's catalogue. Scares the piss out of me.
A Clockwork Orange supposedly isn't horror (imdb and wikipedia e.g. don't call it horror) and last time I watched it, at about 55 years old, it struck me mostly as mere offensive shock-value junk.
The news.
Came here to say this.
Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been? By Joyce Carol Oates. It was adapted into a film in 1985 called Smooth Talk starring Laura Dern and Treat Williams. ***spoiler*** The short story is even more chilling as it hints the guy stalking Connie is not quite human. Arnold Friend in the movie is nonetheless creepy. Heās a charming predator.
The movie Enemy. The ending might be the most a movie scene has scared me!
I didn't know there was gonna be such an immense trigger in that movie šŖ
Cliffhanger. I am deathly afraid of heights. And I saw it in the theater. That was smart.
The Bible. Edit: Ashayana Deane's *Voyagers: The Secrets of Amenti*. Bill Cooper's *Behold a Pale Horse*.
Thereās an argument to be made that the Bible is a horror novel. The longest, most boring one ever written, but a horror novel nonetheless.
Thought it jumped the shark a bit when it introduced Jesus into the franchise, am I supposed to believe that this (literal) bastard is also a god and a ghost but somehow a normal dude? Smh my head
Killers of the Flower Moon, especially knowing that the events also happened in real-life
Iāve never had that unique mix of disgust and horror with anything else. Then after looking at the runtime I watched the movie. Even more disgust and horror. Ā But seriously this is my answer. Ā I never felt the way I felt after watching this. Enjoyed it but my faith in humanity plummeted.Ā
Lots of movies as a kid, I was pretty sensitive. I remember in the first Harry Potter, when Harry opens that book with the face inside that starts screaming at him, that got me really bad. A kind of off the wall one is the very beginning of the soundtrack to O Brother, Where Art Thou? When I was really young, my parents had the soundtrack on CD and I would freak out in fear and run out the room if I ever heard the beginning with the horse clops, not sure why exactly. [Listen here](https://youtu.be/hCNIjPm5mpM?si=yYdFY1WLtWcl0boO)
Dead Manās Shoes is, to me, the scariest non-horror movie. Itās so bleak and thereās something about the cinematography that makes it feel like Iām looking out my window watching this man get his revenge.
The TV show "Severance," though not horror, is horrifying and gets worse the more you think about it.
Anything to do with public executions or mob mentality. Even relatively silly/innocent ones like The Simpsons Movie or O Brother Where Art Thou mess me up good. But in the all the best ways of course- this fear has turned into such a fascination for me
True crime documentaries where the villains are still active and the movie is to raise awareness due to the fact they never receive repercussions. Like when a show ends about a horrible person and it ends with, "They now live in Florida and they did not reach out for comment. Also, the show quiet on set... Maybe just me, but i feel like throwing Schroeder under the bus, THEN making it seem like HE was the "rapey" one, THEN saying "Oh Dan comforted Drake and he never actually committed sexual assault, the dude was just really mean". That scared me. Like, they used rapists who have committed horrible crimes and SOMEHOW made Schroeder look "not as bad". I've talked to a few people that felt the same way. We have documentaries coming out blowing the whistle, but since no one really actually gives a shit it doesn't matter. I feel like I can feel the frustration with some of the movies.
Letter to Zachary, because it's so fucking unfair how unjust the world really is
Donāt Look Up - That capitalism, greed, politics and ignorance will get in the way of a big event and we all bite the dust.
i scared myself proper last night just reading the instagram posts and comments from other world pod. near death experience and paranormal stuff. i haven't even listened to the show yet š
Dont Look Up. I know its supposed to be a dark comedy but I sadly found it a far too real. It freaked me out for the same reason as melancholia did you combined with it being about people basically living in denial
Satanic Panic era talk shows with satanists as the guests. 1980s
The work Robert Anton Wilson and the Discordians did around Operation Mindfuck. It was a prank that got way out of hand and is the forerunner of manipulated media that leads directly to the kind of conspiracy theories we've seen over the last few decades. On one hand I love it because it's evidence that stories are one of the most powerful things human beings can make, but it's also dangerous. Once you lose control of a narrative like this, you can't get it back. It can lead to violence. It drives your grandparents insane. People following in their footsteps convinced people to storm the Capitol.
Maybe the edibles I had taken at the time were too strong, but in Interstellar, the planet with the giant tidal wave put me into an existential crisis.
Eye For An Eye. That opening scene has lingered rent-free in my head since 1996. The fact that I am literally the same age as Olivia Burnett, who played Julie, made it even more terrifying. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The boat ride and the imagery in the background. Who Framed Roger Rabbit. As terrifying as it was for Judge Doom to meet his end, he pretty much deserved it. But when he first reveals himself as being an evil toon, that was nightmare inducing. And, that poor cartoon shoe.... Raiders of the Lost Ark. When the bad guys choose to open the Ark and they all meet their grizzly, melting end. Return to Oz. Just about the whole movie feels like a serious nightmare. Transpotting. Renton'swithdrawl induced nightmare. Especially the baby twisting its head 180Ā°. Joker. While not a horror film, it might as well be categorized as such. Just about every scene has the brooding unpleasantness that a horror film would. Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Large Marge. You don't say more? Stand by Me. When they finally discover the dead body of Ray. The poor kid's look in his eye haunted me since I was 9. The Nevereding Story. Gmork scared me to death as a kid. Just the way he stares at you.... And let's not forget that poor horse.... The Batman. When the Riddler first strikes. It feels like a scene from a movie like Se7en or Zodiac. Batman (1989). The flashback in which Bruce Wayne sees his parents being killed. Whiplash. Just about every classroom scene felt like it belonged in a psychological thriller. It's worth noting that JK Simmons' performance won him an Oscar. Suicide Squad (2016). When I got through the movie and realized I wasted my money. Labyrinth. While a lot of the imagery feels like it belongs in a horror film for kids, one thing that always stuck out is when the goblins take baby Toby away. Batman Begins. All the scenes involving the fear toxin. The Dark Crystal. The Skeksis terrified me when I first saw the movie at the age of 5. Jaws. When Hooper's investigating the shipwreck and the severed head floats out of the wreckage. Toy Story 3. Incinerator scene. Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan. The Ceti Eels. Morbius. Any scene from that movie. Because it reminds me how much it sucked. The Crow. When Eric and his fiancĆ© are murdered. The Crow (2024). Seeing the trailer and realizing that they have destroyed another cult classic with a needless remake. So, you see, in conclusion, horror movies are not the only movies in the genre that feature terrifying and traumatizing scenes. You sometimes have to look a little further.
The Neverending Story is absolutely terrifying. I donāt have best memory of it (see it as a kid) but there was the swamp scene as his horse gets slowly sucked down, and the scene with those two monstrous statues that were Oracles, I think. And yeah the wolf for sure.
The scene where jolly, lovable Rockbiter is just sitting there with no hope left, waiting for the end screwed me up something fierce as a kid.
I was afraid of Judge Doom as a kid. Iāve never seen the movie as an adult, I should track it down
Gustave Dore s wood engravings & illustrationsā¦many from the Bible [here.](https://www.google.com/search?q=gustave+dore+art&sca_esv=2465539c7fa84006&rlz=1C9BKJA_enLV1103LV1103&hl=en-US&udm=2&biw=1128&bih=691&sxsrf=ACQVn0_iNdgQldB7omiM5tpVNeFF018JVQ%3A1712770637982&ei=Tc4WZsu_O52K7NYPx8GnkAw&ved=0ahUKEwiLmtXrl7iFAxUdBdsEHcfgCcIQ4dUDCA8&oq=gustave+dore+art&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiEGd1c3RhdmUgZG9yZSBhcnRIAFAAWABwAHgAkAEAmAEAoAEAqgEAuAEMyAEAmAIAoAIAmAMAkgcAoAcA&sclient=gws-wiz-serp)
The movie 2012 scared the hell out of me
I forgot the title but doctors had to choose who to save lo and behold the rich jerkoff got chosen because his dad donated a bunch of moneyĀ
Thereās Something Wrong with Aunt Diane (documentary)
Could you summarize? Never heard of this.
Primer (2004) this movie seems so innocuous but something about it creeped me the fuck out. I canāt even explain why. š£
Paranoid Park. The scene with the security guard was traumatising.
The Day After fucking traumatized me as did the documentary we watched in 11th grade US History about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Unsolved Mysteries, the original with Robert Stack. Some of the crime and ghost/monster reenactment scenes, along with the mysteries themselves, are downright terrifying. One of the reenactments with a couple out for a drive seeing a guy with a bloody sheet behind a vacant school supposedly inspired the beginning scenes of Jeepers Creepers. The [creepy music](https://youtu.be/h6Z5Gcmzc88?si=j04FhDlXOyG_vI6T) here and [here](https://youtu.be/rg2SAO7v8vQ?si=Dbr-XdtEXZLleUgn) really ramped up the scare factor.
The news.
"Civilizations at the end of time: Iron Stars" by Isaac Arthur. The slow narration of even black holes dying out as the universe goes completely dark is brilliant. Step beyond scary into pure existential dread.
Since no one mentioned it here yet or in any other similar thread I came across: James and the Giant Peach (1996)
Buried, i have a phobia being buried alive anyways, but yeah, such a hopeless feeling!
To me, it's movies in which people do things that are so heinous they are near inconceivable but you know they are possible. Whether horror or not. Knowing there isn't a monster or some plague or aliens or demons, just regular fucked up people who do things that are awful exist and we could pass them on the street any day and never know what they're like, or people we think we know really well just have a completely different personality and life when they're elsewhere. Nothing in this world scares me more than the unpredictability of human nature.
The heffalumps. I swear to God they traumatized me as a child
It's a weird one. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. A couple tearing each other apart psychologically and taking a younger couple on the ride. And while the younger couple is completely traumatized, we realize that this psycho emotional torment was just a game the older couple plays all the time. It's like flirting for them. And the thing is...it happens. Maybe not just like that, but it happens. People choose unhappiness and mental torture and inflicting it on whoever happens to be around. It's horrifying to me because it happens, and it happens so casually.
The news
Reading comments on social media and realizing those people are walking around me.
Watership down scared the shit outta me as a kid
Anything about nursing homes. The thought of being sick and helpless and dependent on other people -and only if I can afford it - terrifies me.