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Post by FlexibleFeline on Dec 14, 2021 8:07:56 GMT
Ah, man, Threads. That /terrified/ me as a kid, especially that scene. Can't even bring myself to watch it now, though it probably doesn't look half as scary as it did. |
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Post by convercide on Dec 14, 2021 8:13:35 GMT
Ah, man, Threads. That /terrified/ me as a kid, especially that scene. Can't even bring myself to watch it now, though it probably doesn't look half as scary as it did. I bought the DVD of it a few years ago (for some reason it is mastered better than the Blu Ray...) and everyone I've lended it to isn't the same person after watching it. A contender for one of the bleakest films ever made. It has so many moments that are horrible. The woman and her charred baby. ☹️ |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2021 8:18:19 GMT
Thats more razorblade to the eyeball. |
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Post by FlexibleFeline on Dec 14, 2021 8:19:28 GMT
Ah, man, Threads. That /terrified/ me as a kid, especially that scene. Can't even bring myself to watch it now, though it probably doesn't look half as scary as it did. I bought the DVD of it a few years ago (for some reason it is mastered better than the Blu Ray...) and everyone I've lended it to isn't the same person after watching it. A contender for one of the bleakest films ever made. It has so many moments that are horrible. The woman and her charred baby. ☹️ Absolutely. So bleak. As it should be! |
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Post by mrpon on Dec 14, 2021 8:32:01 GMT
The Bernie and Shannon scene in Drive. You know the one.
Chilling.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2021 8:59:56 GMT
It's not really that scary now but I've always loved the build up to the pond attack in Jaws. The camera work and use of sound when it's just the two kids with the fin is still unnerving no matter how many times I watch it. Then you see the shark just cruising into the pond. God I fucking love that film.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Dec 14, 2021 9:19:01 GMT
It's not really that scary now but I've always loved the build up to the pond attack in Jaws. The camera work and use of sound when it's just the two kids with the fin is still unnerving no matter how many times I watch it. Then you see the shark just cruising into the pond. God I fucking love that film. You do! I think I might know the name of your son |
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Post by Aunt Alison on Dec 14, 2021 9:21:46 GMT
Does anyone ( anephric ) know the name of a a black and white silent film that depicts, I think, the genesis or something like that, starting with a scene of someone sitting in a chair disembowelling themselves with a razor blade? I think someone then crawls out from underneath them That would be Begotten. Bonkers that. It's very low quality and not that realistic looking but it feels very unsettling to watch Very good, very good
You can watch it on YT for anyone interested
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Post by simple on Dec 14, 2021 9:55:11 GMT
I bought the DVD of it a few years ago (for some reason it is mastered better than the Blu Ray...) and everyone I've lended it to isn't the same person after watching it. A contender for one of the bleakest films ever made. It has so many moments that are horrible. The woman and her charred baby. ☹️ Absolutely. So bleak. As it should be! When The Wind Blows is a pretty grim companion to the Snowman too |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2021 10:13:34 GMT
Tried to find out on YT but it's not there, but there's a scene towards the end of Personal Shopper, when Kirsten Stewarts character is in the garden and slightly out of focus on the background behind the kitchen window a ghost slides into view and drifts slowly across behind her. Find it really creepy.
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Post by anephric on Dec 14, 2021 10:28:54 GMT
Speaking of nuclear miserableness, if you 'enjoy' Theads' bleakness and you've never seen Peter Watkins' The War Game, give that a go. It's unceasingly, unceasingly horrible and was banned for years after (from the BBC, who commissioned it in the first place).
The Day After is the US equivalent to Threads and whilst not having the grotty British grimness, is certainly still impressive and depressing.
There's a little film called Testament which is also about nuclear aftermath and I suppose is a little bit like When the Wind Blows. It's just about what happens to a family in a small US town when a nuke hits nearby and the father doesn't come home from work. It's all just small things getting bigger and bigger and worse and worse whent the food starts running out and the kids start dying etc. It's truly, truly depressing, very bleak. Recomeded.
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Post by FlexibleFeline on Dec 14, 2021 10:37:44 GMT
Absolutely. So bleak. As it should be! When The Wind Blows is a pretty grim companion to the Snowman too Yes! Another great and suitably bed-wettingly horrible part of the 80s nuclear war canon. |
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Post by alcachofa on Dec 14, 2021 12:51:56 GMT
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Post by jonsend on Dec 14, 2021 19:56:23 GMT
I don't really care that much about jump scares anymore, because I basically know when to expect them. I'm much more scared by atmosphere, general wrongness, or things being where they're not supposed to be. There's something that happens in the corner of a frame in Hereditary, and that personally freaked me out more than most jump scares. I had to watch hereditary in about 10 sessions (basically I couldn't handle the atmosphere it created). What was the specific thing you are thinking of? |
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Post by simple on Dec 14, 2021 20:11:26 GMT
I’m watching the X Files episode Home right now. Its the inbreeding / Texas Chainsaw inspired one. Its the mother character who really gets me. Very gross and unsettling.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Dec 14, 2021 21:04:32 GMT
I don't really care that much about jump scares anymore, because I basically know when to expect them. I'm much more scared by atmosphere, general wrongness, or things being where they're not supposed to be. There's something that happens in the corner of a frame in Hereditary, and that personally freaked me out more than most jump scares. I had to watch hereditary in about 10 sessions (basically I couldn't handle the atmosphere it created). What was the specific thing you are thinking of? You might not even be able to see it depending on how your contrast is set up, but the bit where the son is in bed sleeping, and his mum is just... there. Watching him. On the ceiling. |
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Post by clemfandango on Dec 14, 2021 21:23:56 GMT
I found the descent terrifying up until the point you get to see the monsters properly and it turns into aliens. The claustrophobia as the caves got smaller and smaller and you knew something else was down there with them. I think a girl gets stuck as well which is one of my worst nightmares....
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Post by anephric on Dec 14, 2021 21:44:13 GMT
The Descent would've still been a really decent psychological horror film without having the monsters at all.
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Post by rawshark on Dec 14, 2021 21:53:56 GMT
The Hereditary talk is triggering me.
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Post by convercide on Dec 18, 2021 23:23:12 GMT
Speaking of nuclear miserableness, if you 'enjoy' Theads' bleakness and you've never seen Peter Watkins' The War Game, give that a go. It's unceasingly, unceasingly horrible and was banned for years after (from the BBC, who commissioned it in the first place). The Day After is the US equivalent to Threads and whilst not having the grotty British grimness, is certainly still impressive and depressing. There's a little film called Testament which is also about nuclear aftermath and I suppose is a little bit like When the Wind Blows. It's just about what happens to a family in a small US town when a nuke hits nearby and the father doesn't come home from work. It's all just small things getting bigger and bigger and worse and worse whent the food starts running out and the kids start dying etc. It's truly, truly depressing, very bleak. Recomeded. I'm going to seek out all those and give them a watch. |
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Post by Nanocrystal on Dec 19, 2021 8:58:44 GMT
I found the descent terrifying up until the point you get to see the monsters properly and it turns into aliens. The claustrophobia as the caves got smaller and smaller and you knew something else was down there with them. I think a girl gets stuck as well which is one of my worst nightmares.... I advise you to avoid learning about what happened in the nutty putty cave. |
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Post by Cosmopolitan on Dec 19, 2021 12:26:14 GMT
I found the descent terrifying up until the point you get to see the monsters properly and it turns into aliens. The claustrophobia as the caves got smaller and smaller and you knew something else was down there with them. I think a girl gets stuck as well which is one of my worst nightmares.... I advise you to avoid learning about what happened in the nutty putty cave. I just did. O M G. What a heart-wrenching story. Real life can be more horrifying than any horror movie. |
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Post by clemfandango on Dec 19, 2021 21:47:36 GMT
I found the descent terrifying up until the point you get to see the monsters properly and it turns into aliens. The claustrophobia as the caves got smaller and smaller and you knew something else was down there with them. I think a girl gets stuck as well which is one of my worst nightmares.... I advise you to avoid learning about what happened in the nutty putty cave. Yep just watched a short doc on the YouTube ‘fascinating horror’ channel (highly recommended Channel). My god that is the worst thing I could possibly imagine, absolute nightmare fuel. Why that cave was just open to tourists and amateur cavers is just mind blowing.... |
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Post by blizeh on Dec 20, 2021 7:09:39 GMT
'tis the season for scares and such, so here's another thread! We're talking individual scenes here, not whole films. So, expect spoilers I guess. Mine is still the diner scene from Mulholland Drive. I still can't rewatch the fucking thing, it freaks me out like nothing before or since. I'm almost glad Lynch has never done a straight horror movie. I don't know if I'd be able to take it. What the hell The actual diner scene was creepy as hell, that guy did an amazing job |
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Post by blizeh on Dec 20, 2021 7:16:45 GMT
Hereditary for me too btw, but I don’t watch a lot of horror
The scene where Annie knows she has to destroy the book but thinks it will kill her too, so she throws it onto the fire but instead it’s actually her husband who bursts into flames - it cuts to her face showing sheer horror, cuts to him burning alive, and then cuts back to her smiling. Fuck. And then when the som comes in on the next scene and she’s just chilling in the corner of the room.
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Post by Vandelay on Dec 20, 2021 9:07:51 GMT
I had to watch hereditary in about 10 sessions (basically I couldn't handle the atmosphere it created). What was the specific thing you are thinking of? You might not even be able to see it depending on how your contrast is set up, but the bit where the son is in bed sleeping, and his mum is just... there. Watching him. On the ceiling. I remember seeing it in the cinema and genuinely not being sure if I actually saw what I thought I saw. For images burned into my brain, also see Hereditary's banging her head against the attic door repeatedly. Also from the same director, the opening of Midsommer. Something about that slow tracking shot of the hose pipe going upstairs really, really freaked me out. |
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Post by pierrepressure on Dec 23, 2021 18:44:24 GMT
The film Miracle Mile had a significant impact on my life. I watched it with my mum when I was about 10 and was the first film that made me question my own mortality and the threat of a nuclear attack. I swear my first signs of anxiety are from that film and the ending scene in particular.
I don't even think it's traumatic but for 10 year old me it messed me up good.
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Post by rawshark on Feb 3, 2022 17:08:22 GMT
Just to throw in a recent one - the breakfast table scene in Nightmare Alley.
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Post by clemfandango on Feb 3, 2022 18:28:47 GMT
Going back the the 80s grim films for kids, everybody should watch plague dogs at least once. It’s from the watership down author and makes watership down seem like a Disney film in comparison. It’s so depressing and grim
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