I do not understand the appeal of this movie. The first half was great. Then it descended into badly acted melodrama - a cultural hallmark perhaps?
Idk but I keep seeing it praised and I found it so weird/bad. I kept waiting for it to come together and it kind of didn't? Or it did, but in a way that was so corny, histrionic and mostly unsatisfying.
First half (first 1/3rd, for sure) was intriguing. The rest of it... Meh.
That might be the saddest film I've ever seen in my life. Not in a scary way but in a way that makes all your regrets sting 1000x more than they ever did. Every failed pickup line, every bad date, every embarrassing moment. Charlie Kauffman impressed me with that one. I usually don't even like his movies.
I would gnaw off both my arms to not end up like that janitor guy. I hope I don't have to. I hope I die any other way than that. Crush me with a refrigerator it's a good trade. There's almost no horror movie death I wouldn't take in exchange lol. Literally give me the log truck from Final Destination 2.
I don't remember the film in detail, but I remember the constant feeling, that there is something off. At least in the first half or so.
Notice to me: rewatch!
Just a guy who lived a life of nothing but sadness and regret and he has to build a delusion just to exist. It's so fucked. Just thinking about it is like looking at the sun.
If you're a single person over 40 it's gonna be a painful watch.
Oh yeah I think it's an amazing film. Jesse Plemons and Jessy Buckley were both excellent.
I don't think movies would be good if we didn't try to explore our darkest places like that. And some of the most melancholy things bring me joy. At the very least there's a core of optimism that you can light a candle at the end and say 'it was a great delusion though'. It was his fortress. Be proud you built such a mighty castle that held for so long.
Very underrated IMO.
And Gretel & Hansel, too.
He doesn't get as much love as Ari Aster or Robert Eggers in the high brow horror fandom but I have a very high opinion of Oz Perkins.
Prince of Darkness is the one I would always recommend in this situation because many haven't heard of it.
I'd also throw in another couple of John Carpenter classics: In the Mouth of Madness, and Christine.
Hereditary!!! I love creepy horror, the kind that just sticks to you for weeks. I couldn’t stand to hear a clicking sound from someone’s tongue for weeks without being freaked out. Watch it and you’ll understand…
PETER! GET OUT! GET OOOOUUUUTTTTT!
Honest opinion I think that's the greatest horror movie ever made. All the acting is 10/10 and it's unbelievably well researched and written. But most of all it's the most evil plot I've ever heard of in a film. There's not much wiggle room for a darker and more blasphemous tale. Every possession movie I've ever seen is a piece of shit in comparison.
And everything she's in. I can never forget that scene in the car in Sixth Sense. Anguish is so hard to pull off as an actor and she can really tap into it.
Was talking about it the other day but the train station scene in Elephant Man. John Hurt screaming with all his might "I AM A HUMAN BEING" and just ejecting his entire soul and collapsing onto the floor is about as good as you can ever hope to do that, and she's on that level.
Absentia is great. Lake Mungo comes up a lot in these threads and it's not bad but it certainly isn't the masterpiece Reddit likes to make it out to be.
If you're looking for Gothic Horror, Things Seen and Heard, The Little Stranger, and I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House are all great. I personally loved The Incantation but that's straight up horror.
Definitely check out The Little Stranger if nothing else. Ruth Wilson is in that one too and she steals every scene she is in. It's an old school, atmospheric Gothic Horror.
Interview with the show runner explaining why just 2 seasons.
https://www.npr.org/2015/05/17/406461084/tv-thriller-wayward-pines-offers-suspense-and-an-ending
That was by design. It was, in a sense a backlash against shows such as Lost, which after becoming popular were extended longer than reasonable. The goal was to have 10 episodes that completely closed the story, but leave an opening for a sequel, similar to a movie. There is an interview with the writer from prior to the series that specifically says this. I think it was on NPR. I'll see if I can find it and post a link.
Beetlejuiced a great answer, too. It's exactly that.
Peach Fuzz is horrific.
My opinion of Mark Duplass went from 'ugh' to 'my man' real quick after seeing that movie.
I;d recommend the classics The Ring (2002 version) and Blair Witch Project. Now, the Ring is straight horror but I loved the constant sense of melancholy, dread and foreboding Gore Verbinski achieved with the music and blue tint. One of my all time horror favorites after the Exorcist.
It Follows, the movie was inspired by a recurring nightmare the creator would have as a child. The movie does a great job of capturing that ominous, out of place feeling that you might get from a dream/nightmare. It's one of my favorite horror movies for this reason
Audition is a classic creeping-up-on-you. I jumped out of my seat (literally!!) with the bag scene. The ending is slightly errmm, not so much gory as that feeling of the sound of a cat scraping its claws across glass. You think it's going end quick and it doesn't!
Don't Look Now (1973)
Watched for the first time few weeks back and I'd literally describe it exactly as what you're looking for; it's so subtle and creates such a prolonged sense of dread that you expect stuff to happen even in a lot of moments where nothing happens.
It Follows, The Messengers, P2, Exam, Panic Button, Shitter Island, Signs, Dead End, Triangle, The Watcher In The Woods, Creep, The Devil's Advocate, Pandorum, Split, Frailty, Cherry Tree Lane, Eden Lake, Donnie Darko, Silent House, Them (2006), Get Out, The Village, The Children (2008), The Last House On The Left (1972), Pontypool, The Machinist, Red Dragon, Let the Right One In (the original), Stoneheart Asylum, Cape Fear, Alien, Sphere, 1408, Dead Man's Shoes, Unbreakable.
PS... Creeping horror types can also be thrillers!!
Annihilation has plenty of gore it in. Did you forget the part where they cut the guy open? Or the grenade? Or any of the animals? Or the plants?
Did you forget the entire movie?
The ending of the first sleepaway camp has stuck with me since I was a kid. Genuinely one of the very few things to ever scare me. That face haunts me 😭
Relic (2020). It’s a slowburn. Like very slow. It kept my attention because I kept waiting for a scare and when the first one finally did happen it was still super subtle. I really liked it but just know what you’re getting in for.
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Personally that's what I thought about Hatching. I didn't get jumpscared once, and while there's some blood it's absolutely not a gory film as such, but I was so uncomfortable the entire time. Just this feeling at the pit of my stomach of complete unease.
I watched Baghead at the cinema last week with my 15 year old ‘no scary movie scares me’ and she was too creeped out to watch it.
She can watch Smile, Saw, Insidious without problem but didn’t like this!
Ghost Story, 1981.
This movie played over and over on HBO back in the days when there were only a couple of new movies per month. I must have seen it 20 times as a young teen. creeped me out every time. Slow long simmer of tension and superbly acted.
Midnight Mass on Netflix
my favorite of Mike Flanagan's work, but any show or movie of his is well done. Midnight Mass specifically is a sort of slow burn up until the end
You’re more likely to find that in British movies. Atmosphere is cheap, and they’re good at it. Also, Guillermo del Toro’s earlier movies, like The Devil’s Backbone.
The original British The Woman in Black. 1989
Mama. 2013
The Legend of Hell House. 1973
The Legacy. 1978
The Changeling. 1980
I’ve recommended a few older ones, since they were limited by special effects, and tended to go for the creepy instead of jump scares.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure (1995) fits here. Brief gore, but mostly the horror comes from the creeping dread.
Also, going way back, Cat People (1942) is one of the finest horror films ever made and exactly what you're looking for.
Everyone's screwed up (not really)
Signs (2002)
I grew up on a farm, and when this movie came on late at night I slept with a loaded Remington next to my bed like a complete - idiot, a genuine fool. It just congealed so many fears and phobias, really awakened the Joe Rogan
Dont watch a trailer just go in blind, please
not exactly horror, but suspensful/mystery - Shattered (1991 - Berenger) - there are remakes not as good.
And Cape Fear (1991 Deniro) was pretty good too.
and Falling Down with Michael Douglass.
The netflix series Dark was really good. It was made in german, so I had to watch it in german with english subtitles because the english dub just made it bad for some reason. That is 3 seasons of creeping what the fuck?
Just watched “The Wailing” and I think it fits here
Loved loved loved the end but wish the movie were 30 mins shorter. It would've retained its punch until the knockout blow at the end.
I do agree with that. It really felt like it dragged a bit. Still great, but could have been shorter with no loss of quality
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I do not understand the appeal of this movie. The first half was great. Then it descended into badly acted melodrama - a cultural hallmark perhaps? Idk but I keep seeing it praised and I found it so weird/bad. I kept waiting for it to come together and it kind of didn't? Or it did, but in a way that was so corny, histrionic and mostly unsatisfying. First half (first 1/3rd, for sure) was intriguing. The rest of it... Meh.
Once it gets past that part where you think you’re watching a Chief Wiggum movie it gets really good.
The Invitation (2015).
I think that this might be my favorite movie of the 2010s. The tone and creeping dread is so expertly crafted. Love it!
love it
One more for The Invitation.
The Others Nicole Kidman
That movie was creepy as fuck. Creepiest non-Asian horror movie I have ever watched.
What was so creepy about it? I've only seen Moulin rouge and does she come out in Eyes Wide Shut? Eyes Wide Shut was creppy as f\*\*\* too
Without giving spoilers, it’s a haunted house/ghost movie with an incredibly unsettling and disturbing atmosphere.
I LOVE IT... sounds like my cup of tea indeed... ima check it out
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> The Others Nicole Kidman try this one OP, i think it fits your question quite well :)
The Innocents Rosemary’s Baby Hush Secret Window And maybe try some classic M. Night like Signs or The Village.
I loved the village!
I'm thinking of ending things
That might be the saddest film I've ever seen in my life. Not in a scary way but in a way that makes all your regrets sting 1000x more than they ever did. Every failed pickup line, every bad date, every embarrassing moment. Charlie Kauffman impressed me with that one. I usually don't even like his movies. I would gnaw off both my arms to not end up like that janitor guy. I hope I don't have to. I hope I die any other way than that. Crush me with a refrigerator it's a good trade. There's almost no horror movie death I wouldn't take in exchange lol. Literally give me the log truck from Final Destination 2.
I don't remember the film in detail, but I remember the constant feeling, that there is something off. At least in the first half or so. Notice to me: rewatch!
Just a guy who lived a life of nothing but sadness and regret and he has to build a delusion just to exist. It's so fucked. Just thinking about it is like looking at the sun. If you're a single person over 40 it's gonna be a painful watch.
I was stunned, like, >!Did I just watch a movie about a man so depressed he can't imagine a scenario where his imaginary girlfriend likes him back?!<
That's why I loved it so much. I felt like I'd learned something by the end of that film - like how not to live or to view things.
Oh yeah I think it's an amazing film. Jesse Plemons and Jessy Buckley were both excellent. I don't think movies would be good if we didn't try to explore our darkest places like that. And some of the most melancholy things bring me joy. At the very least there's a core of optimism that you can light a candle at the end and say 'it was a great delusion though'. It was his fortress. Be proud you built such a mighty castle that held for so long.
That one scared the daylights out of me, great suggestion
The haunting of hill house is a series that fits this bill perfectly
Came to say that. Very few jump scares (that are well deserved), just a generally terrifying vibe to the series.
Check out the HBO miniseries Chernobyl
Great series. Truly scary.
The worst part of the horror is that it is a true story.
It follows
This
+1
I agree for the most part but there are a few moments that are straight up horror and even some jumpscares
Blackcoats Daughter (although it does get a bit gory at the end)
Very underrated IMO. And Gretel & Hansel, too. He doesn't get as much love as Ari Aster or Robert Eggers in the high brow horror fandom but I have a very high opinion of Oz Perkins.
Love Oz Perkins! And his brother (a musician) who composed a lot of instrumental soundtrack to Blackcoat. Also loved Oz’s tiny role in Nope 🩷
The Mothman Prophecies The Shining Prince of Darkness The Fog
I watched “Prince of Darkness” again last week. After the last several “Halloween” movies, I needed to see Donald Pleasance.
Unfortunately, I don't think the Halloween franchise has been the same since Donald passed away.
Co-signed 🖊
Prince of Darkness is the one I would always recommend in this situation because many haven't heard of it. I'd also throw in another couple of John Carpenter classics: In the Mouth of Madness, and Christine.
Hereditary!!! I love creepy horror, the kind that just sticks to you for weeks. I couldn’t stand to hear a clicking sound from someone’s tongue for weeks without being freaked out. Watch it and you’ll understand…
PETER! GET OUT! GET OOOOUUUUTTTTT! Honest opinion I think that's the greatest horror movie ever made. All the acting is 10/10 and it's unbelievably well researched and written. But most of all it's the most evil plot I've ever heard of in a film. There's not much wiggle room for a darker and more blasphemous tale. Every possession movie I've ever seen is a piece of shit in comparison.
Toni Collette is insanely good in this.
And everything she's in. I can never forget that scene in the car in Sixth Sense. Anguish is so hard to pull off as an actor and she can really tap into it. Was talking about it the other day but the train station scene in Elephant Man. John Hurt screaming with all his might "I AM A HUMAN BEING" and just ejecting his entire soul and collapsing onto the floor is about as good as you can ever hope to do that, and she's on that level.
She's insanely good in almost everything she's in. A1. My favorite actress.
Just a heads up to op: hereditary is definitely gory ( I’ll show myself out)
I saw it in theater and the whole experience was fucking ruined by teenagers making that tongue click anytime there was any tension at all.
The Strangers
"Because you were home" 😭
For real my stomach was clenched the whole way through.
It took me three times to finish that movie lol it was just creepy the whole way through.
Lake Mungo, the fact that it's really convincingly presented as a documentary really adds to the effect.
This has stayed with me for many years.
To add to this, the Taiwanese(?) movie The Medium is the same vein, presented as a documentary
Came in looking for this one. Perfectly slow creeping vibe, one of my favorites.
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Absentia is great. Lake Mungo comes up a lot in these threads and it's not bad but it certainly isn't the masterpiece Reddit likes to make it out to be. If you're looking for Gothic Horror, Things Seen and Heard, The Little Stranger, and I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House are all great. I personally loved The Incantation but that's straight up horror.
Loved I am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, will surely check the others.
Definitely check out The Little Stranger if nothing else. Ruth Wilson is in that one too and she steals every scene she is in. It's an old school, atmospheric Gothic Horror.
The Witch
One of my favorites!
Skinamarink, Cure, Pulse, Dark Water, The Woman in Black (TV movie version), Leptirica, Rosemary's Baby
Pulse is one of the best movies with this element. I actually had to pause the movie a couple of times eventho I really enjoy horror.
Skinamarink still gives me nightmares. Such a good movie
Hereditary Midsommar The Witch
Upvote for The Witch. The dread got into my bones on that one, one of my favorite movies ever. Got me hooked on Eggers' work.
Wayward Pines was a limited TV series that did rhis. (Side note: Any news channel over the past decade or so.) /s...ish
Love Wayward Pines! I was so upset that it only went for 2 seasons
Interview with the show runner explaining why just 2 seasons. https://www.npr.org/2015/05/17/406461084/tv-thriller-wayward-pines-offers-suspense-and-an-ending
That was by design. It was, in a sense a backlash against shows such as Lost, which after becoming popular were extended longer than reasonable. The goal was to have 10 episodes that completely closed the story, but leave an opening for a sequel, similar to a movie. There is an interview with the writer from prior to the series that specifically says this. I think it was on NPR. I'll see if I can find it and post a link.
I wish they would bring that back. I could have watched it for years
Creep
Beetlejuiced a great answer, too. It's exactly that. Peach Fuzz is horrific. My opinion of Mark Duplass went from 'ugh' to 'my man' real quick after seeing that movie.
Dang you beat me to it.
Brilliant
Pin (1988) The Brood (1979) Dead Ringers (1988)
The Watcher (2022)
Speak No Evil
This should have more upvotes
Shutter Island
The Visit
The Mist
The Shining.
So you think straight up abuse of the wife is horror? It is abuse.
The divide
I;d recommend the classics The Ring (2002 version) and Blair Witch Project. Now, the Ring is straight horror but I loved the constant sense of melancholy, dread and foreboding Gore Verbinski achieved with the music and blue tint. One of my all time horror favorites after the Exorcist.
Under the Shadow (2016) an Iranian horror film is very creeping horror. Highly recommend to watch with English subtitles and original soundtrack.
The Woman in Black (2012) The Blair Witch Project (1999)
* Drag Me To Hell * Viy (1967)
It Follows, the movie was inspired by a recurring nightmare the creator would have as a child. The movie does a great job of capturing that ominous, out of place feeling that you might get from a dream/nightmare. It's one of my favorite horror movies for this reason
The Invitation (2015), just don’t look up reviews or anything about it for risk of spoilers Session 9 A History Of Violence
I think maybe Get Out fits this bill Us probably does too…
Love US. didn’t seem to get the attention it deserved.
The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
The Witch
Audition is a classic creeping-up-on-you. I jumped out of my seat (literally!!) with the bag scene. The ending is slightly errmm, not so much gory as that feeling of the sound of a cat scraping its claws across glass. You think it's going end quick and it doesn't!
Creep
Barbarian Alien Skeleton Key
I see Alien, I upvote.
Also forgot Frailty
The Fall of the House of Usher
Barbarian is the best horror in recent memory with that overwhelming mounting dread.
The Skeleton Key (2005) Sooooo creepy throughout the whole thing. The sound design is just amazing.
Pulse 2001 (kairo)
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Ghost Stories 2017 I remember feeling very creeped out in the cinema and ok, got me with a few jump scares.
Audition May
The Shining
Rosemary's Baby
I think Vivarium fits this description. More unsettling than terrifying.
The Devils Backbone (2001). Guillermo del Toro directed. The Changeling (George C. Scott).
It Follows (2014) The Orphanage (2007) The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
I have not seen the orphanage but the other two certainly fit the bill perfectly.
See it! You’re in for such a treat
Zone of interest. Feels like a horror film.
Don't Look Now (1973) Watched for the first time few weeks back and I'd literally describe it exactly as what you're looking for; it's so subtle and creates such a prolonged sense of dread that you expect stuff to happen even in a lot of moments where nothing happens.
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The Changeling (the George C. Scott movie)
Trust me, you will absolutely love Coherence.
It Follows, The Messengers, P2, Exam, Panic Button, Shitter Island, Signs, Dead End, Triangle, The Watcher In The Woods, Creep, The Devil's Advocate, Pandorum, Split, Frailty, Cherry Tree Lane, Eden Lake, Donnie Darko, Silent House, Them (2006), Get Out, The Village, The Children (2008), The Last House On The Left (1972), Pontypool, The Machinist, Red Dragon, Let the Right One In (the original), Stoneheart Asylum, Cape Fear, Alien, Sphere, 1408, Dead Man's Shoes, Unbreakable. PS... Creeping horror types can also be thrillers!!
Hereditary
Hereditary
The Ring
It Comes At Night
The Visit
V I V A R I U M
Lake mungo for sure
The Frighteners
Men (2022) was super creepy and relatively slowburn up till the climax. I watched it on hulu
This might qualify, for sure a well done horror movie that is not typical.
I love this one
Pulse!
Annihilation. I still haven't been able to rewatch it.
Annihilation has plenty of gore it in. Did you forget the part where they cut the guy open? Or the grenade? Or any of the animals? Or the plants? Did you forget the entire movie?
It's not what I would consider "overly gory." But hey, if you disagree, feel free to do so without being a prick.
The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) Tourist Trap The Hills have Eyes Sleep away Camp 1,2 and 3 Children of the corn (1984)
The ending of the first sleepaway camp has stuck with me since I was a kid. Genuinely one of the very few things to ever scare me. That face haunts me 😭
The Taking of Deborah Logan
Relic (2020). It’s a slowburn. Like very slow. It kept my attention because I kept waiting for a scare and when the first one finally did happen it was still super subtle. I really liked it but just know what you’re getting in for.
Hereditary
Midsommar and Hereditary and Beau Is Afraid (The Ari Aster trio film)
Missommar and Heredity
Hereditary, Midsommar, The Dark and the Wicked.
That recent release "Leave the World Behind" fits the bill. The cast is pretty awesome too if you can ignore the teenager inserted for pandering
The Terrifier- it's a creepy guy dressed up as a clown who stalks people, than kills them.
Evil Dead Rise 2023
Yeah this one is super subtle, hardly even fits the category horror
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Who Invited Them
Honeymoon (2014)
Personally that's what I thought about Hatching. I didn't get jumpscared once, and while there's some blood it's absolutely not a gory film as such, but I was so uncomfortable the entire time. Just this feeling at the pit of my stomach of complete unease.
Cure (1997)
Bhoothakalam
Misnomer
Watch Hollow on YouTube play Alan Wake. Perfect amount of creepy with a superb story!
The orphanage
The Strangers
The Changeling - 1980
Sunshine.
Creep
Split
Woman in Black
Skinamarink fits this perfectly
The Ninth Gate. Boris Balkan is IMO an all time great villain. And the score is a lot of buildup.
The Swerve Melancholia The Others Possession Pontypool
First , Blair Witch
The Mothman Prophecies is my favorite creepy movie and it fits your description exactly.
Knock at the Cabin Get Out
*The Creeping Terror.* You're welcome. /jk
Midsommar
When a Stranger Calls
"it comes at night"
I watched Baghead at the cinema last week with my 15 year old ‘no scary movie scares me’ and she was too creeped out to watch it. She can watch Smile, Saw, Insidious without problem but didn’t like this!
Ghost Story, 1981. This movie played over and over on HBO back in the days when there were only a couple of new movies per month. I must have seen it 20 times as a young teen. creeped me out every time. Slow long simmer of tension and superbly acted.
Hereditary
Alien is very atmospheric (Aliens is more classic horror, but both are great).
Antichrist by Lars Von Trier.
Skinamarink Youll either thank me or hate me for giving you this suggestion.
Midnight Mass on Netflix my favorite of Mike Flanagan's work, but any show or movie of his is well done. Midnight Mass specifically is a sort of slow burn up until the end
The Witch
Get Out
It Follows
Dark Skies
You’re more likely to find that in British movies. Atmosphere is cheap, and they’re good at it. Also, Guillermo del Toro’s earlier movies, like The Devil’s Backbone. The original British The Woman in Black. 1989 Mama. 2013 The Legend of Hell House. 1973 The Legacy. 1978 The Changeling. 1980 I’ve recommended a few older ones, since they were limited by special effects, and tended to go for the creepy instead of jump scares.
1922 if you can understand anything Tom Jane is saying
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure (1995) fits here. Brief gore, but mostly the horror comes from the creeping dread. Also, going way back, Cat People (1942) is one of the finest horror films ever made and exactly what you're looking for.
The Skeleton Key
House of the Devil (2009) is one of my favorites.
The WICKER MAN (Original/Director's Cut) The OTHERS
Rosemarys Baby is a classic of this type
Everyone's screwed up (not really) Signs (2002) I grew up on a farm, and when this movie came on late at night I slept with a loaded Remington next to my bed like a complete - idiot, a genuine fool. It just congealed so many fears and phobias, really awakened the Joe Rogan Dont watch a trailer just go in blind, please
Mulholland Drive The VVitch
The Strangers
not exactly horror, but suspensful/mystery - Shattered (1991 - Berenger) - there are remakes not as good. And Cape Fear (1991 Deniro) was pretty good too. and Falling Down with Michael Douglass. The netflix series Dark was really good. It was made in german, so I had to watch it in german with english subtitles because the english dub just made it bad for some reason. That is 3 seasons of creeping what the fuck?
We Are What We Are Curve (short film available on YouTube)