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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Bone Tomahawk. I am forever scarred and wish I hadn't seen a certain part.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

This one took me by total surprise & will never forget ‘that’ scene!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (4 children)

The only horror that has really had an effect on me is The Descent. I think it’s the claustrophobic nature of being underground and then hunted by those things. I can’t think of any other horror that has sent a shiver literally all the way down my spine before.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

This has two answers.

First, which film scared me the most when I watched it: To my shame it's Gamera. (I was a young child.)

Second, which film I consider the scariest now: Probably John Carpenter's The Thing.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The only time I have ever turned a horror movie off because of how uncomfortable it made me was when I was watching Jordan Peels "Us".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

All his films are worth a watch!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I've never heard of that what made you uncomfortable about it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I couldn't say exactly what it was, but I did find it unnerving. The whole tone of the movie just did something to me no other movie has done

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I get that sometimes tone and atmosphere is bigger than words said

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Jacob's Ladder (1990)

Doesn't look like it but no single other film shattered me as much as this one when I first saw it, well, in the 90s.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Personally "Cannibal Holocaust" but apparently "A serbian film" is worse in almost every aspect. I haven't seen that one thought. But I believe that anything worse than these two would be actual snuff movies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A serbian film is certainly worse. But it's also kind of cringe, because it's JUST bad. Like when i watched that movie all i could think about was 10 edgy guys sitting in a room and think about the worst shit they could put in a movie. Bro, "newborn porn" woah sick dude.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Honestly the closest to reality that drove me sick was the OG, Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It’s so fucking gross and terrifying.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Threads (1984). I was in shock for a week when I first saw that. No horror film has come close.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I saw that in Sheffield in my first year at university there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Pet Sematary

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

The 2004 Thai movie Shutter.

Still haunts me.

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