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SOMA continues to bother me. Much more about the ideas than the actual gameplay. It's relevant. It feels more possible every year.
It's either that or Stingers from Satisfactory, which are zero percent philosophical nightmare and just pure AAAAAA SHITSHITSHIT
I watched it only once, in the 90s, and I've never been able to watch it again since. At the same time, I think it's an excellent film.
The seemingly light and even humorous beginning of the film is bit by bit replaced by the sheer horror of the gradual loss of humanity and the final transformation into a monster. Simultaneously, in my perception, a glimmer of hope for a good ending is created, only to be ruthlessly destroyed at the very end. Even the music from this film feels overwhelming to me.
I highly recommend it, but you should never watch it ;)
Creepiest is definitely SCP articles
Contagion was released several years before COVID. It got almost everything right about what that was like. The ending - with militarized response - didn't happen - but don't worry - that will happen in Trump Plague #2
The really unsettling one for me was Beyond the Aquila Rift
I saw it on Love, Death, and Robots and it really creeped me out.
The Enigma of Amigara Fault aka the holes comic is pretty high up there.
The author is super famous but I'm not sure I've ever actually read any of his works.
I own a couple of Junji Ito's works and I love them. His art style and timing really lends itself to the horror genre
Event Horizon.
Cool movie for sure
haha
The Orphanage
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You should probably put most of that on a spoilers tag. Fortunately for me, I was already familiar with the movie, but I specifically came to this thread to get ideas of things to watch, and now that would have been ruined for me if I hadn't already seen it. I now it's old, but it's not a movie that most people have seen.
But yes, and great movie.
The film that scared me the most was 'Paranormal Activity'. It was the simplicity and how it opened the door and let your imagination do the heavy lifting.
The scariest book I've read of late is 'Incidents Around the House'. It put me in touch with the child version of myself that was afraid of everything.
Creepy movie! Haven't read that book but I'll probably end up looking into it, love horror media.
If, as a kid, you were scared of something under your bed or in your closet, it's a good one.
I'm a big strong man now, I still get skeeved out by slightly open closets (all of the closets in my house are two folding door style, except my hall closets)
Same.
I can close a book and just verbalize myself that: "It's literally just a story." But books can get into one's head. :)
It Follows. It’s not typical scary. What gets me is the dread of an entity that is chasing you and there’s no stopping it no matter what you do or where you go. I hate it because sometimes I dream about it and you know how running works in dreams right? You can’t. I always have to crouch down to grab the ground and launch myself forward.
Also, Fire in the Sky. Watched it as a kid and was so terrified I haven’t seen it again since. Maybe it won’t be scary anymore to me as an adult, but I haven’t had the chance to do a re-watch.
Yeah, Fire in the Sky: NOPE. I was also so terrified by The Conjuring that I will never watch another of those movies. I realize I am in the minority. That said, I LOVED it Follows, and I was not scared by it, but I was super entertained. Honorable terror mention to the Eyes in the Dark episode off of Star Trek TNG. Never watching that shit ever again!
So, I did like It Follows, I initially watched it with a guy who said "ooooo herpes again" every time the entity showed up. It was very funny but ruined the horror aspect. I do think its a good horror movie, but, forever ruined by that experience. I've never seen/heard of fire in the sky, I'll have to check it out
I had read such good things about it, but when I watched it, it just felt like a silly "oooh, herpes!" kind of movie, yeah. Just didn't hit it right for some of us, I guess.
Every Paolo Baciagalupi novel and the first two acts of almost every Cory Doctorow novel. "The Water Knife" by Baciagalupi is fictional near-future extrapolation on the excellent non-fiction "Cadillac Desert." "Walkaway" and the Little Brother books by Doctorow cast a stark light on the nature of power, surveillance, and authoritarianism in Western society. It doesn't take a lot of social imagination to see that's exactly where we're going.
Sounds like I have alot to look into.
I want to say it was one of the Ju-on movies. They made a bunch of them.
Special mentions:
Japanese horror always just hits so hard.
Agreed. J-Horror has a way of making one feel so uncomfortably on edge.
https://joyreactor.com/post/911521
This comic
Reminds me of "I have no mouth and I must scream"
I know this is what my computer would do to me because it tries to do it everyday
Weird, are there more? The most disturbing comics I've read have been from the Crossed series.
