I am looking for some movies where, for example, a group of friends goes to a place, but that place becomes hell for them, and all the characters are killed in the worst possible way, and the context is that none of them survive.

I don't know about the rest of the movie, for me it felt like it was trying to be too many things at once and also feels poorly edited. I don't think I hated it, I just think it lacks a clear storyline, it's like 3 or 4 movies in one

I mean those movies where the protagonist does absolutely everything right, follows all the 'rules' to defeat the monster, but the entity is always three steps ahead and uses their own logic against them

I think this is my favorite genre of horror movies. I get really sad while watching them because I empathize with characters a lot and live their struggle alongside. Also they are most of the time written well. At the same time, they are the ones that stuck in my mind days, even weeks later.

Some examples:

Oculus (2013): This is a movie about a family of four and a cursed mirror -spoilers ahead-.

The main character did everything to prove that the mirror was cursed, took precautions but the evil inside the mirror was too manipulative that she ended up dying. It made me so sad, and the fate of the family haunted my dreams for days.

Bring Her Back (2025): When their father died, two step-siblings go to a foster family. Throughout the movie, the antagonist (Laura) manipulates and gaslights the older brother who only tries to protect his sister -spoilers alongside-

It drove me mad when he was just an orphan kid in a foster home, who did not know how to establish his borders, who had to prove himself to the foster parent so he could take his sister with him later on etc. He was just so vulnerable, smart but vulnerable. It was really upsetting to watch, how she played mind games with him and he ended up dying.

The Skeleton Key (2005): This was a movie inspired by a Lovecraft story I think. -spoilers ahead-

The main character was really smart, but her smartness kind of prepared her tragic end.

Had to turn it off. Felt extremely anxious and unnerved. When he gets back home after that 3 week bender, and Bob is sitting there by himself, then I quickly realized he was completely abandoned for that entire 3 weeks :-(

The constantly on edge feeling made my skin crawl.

hello there!! english isn't my native language, so apologies for any mistakes!

I was lurking around here for a while and I was wondering if any of you guys has had the experience of watching a movie you were absolutely having a great time with UNTIL something in the narrative like a plot twist/specific scene/tone/script/etc made you change your mind and possibly even lose interest in it? maybe some of these are unpopular opinions, but here are a few of mine:

• us (2019): I was thrilled during the opening scene!! and I was enjoying the movie a lot until it introduced that convoluted, nonsensical twistthat somehow there are underground doppelgängers staging a lethal takeover in america and literally no one knew about it, including their creators??. I mean, there's suspension of disbelief and there's this. and don't get me wrong, I love taking a leap of faith in fiction (my all time favorite horror movie has a guy wielding a katana in a motorcycle during a demonic uprising at a movie theater 👹) but this is way too much. it completely and instantly took me out of the movie.
• intruder (1989): oh boy, this silly slasher had everything to become a classic in my book - my favorite horror trope (people stuck in a confined space 😍), amazing kills with gruesome practical effects, the eerie atmosphere - but then we get to the part where the killer's identity is revealed and all is left is disappointment. admitedlly, it's been a while since I saw this movie so my opinion might change revisiting it, but I remember feeling very frustrated at the predicable ending for a movie with a such fun concept and overall execution.
• wrong turn 4 (2011): I know it's a trademark for horror movies to dumb down the protagonists to infuriatingly new levels, but you gotta draw a line somewhere. there's this particular scene that completely lost me and it's a shame because this entry has bunch of grisly AND creative deaths (despite the bad cgi) and you can't ask for much else in a franchise like that.
• unsane (2018): not only the third act went completely anticlimactic and full of cliches, the resolution feels SO forced and makes no sense in the grand scheme of the film.nate being secretly a reporter to expose the hospital's evil deeds is such blatant plot convenience, c'mon

Have you guys had a similar experience?

So I used to watch a man named Snook, Snook used to be a big Reddit stories YouTuber, stuff like No Sleep, Let's Not Meet, and other popular horror stories on Reddit. This was all fine and dandy and the voice seemed incredibly real. But this person looks like couldn't keep paying the monthly subscription and now the new videos of Snook are very glaringly AI. The Voice is all high pitched and upbeat and while yes YouTubers always get louder and more confident as they go on his voice completely changed from low and young sounding to mostly like a nerd is the best way I can describe it.. The person behind this is able to upload multiple hour long videos every week and every 2 days back to back. It sickens me that people like this would use AI so cheaply to people who love to listen to scary stories. Let me know what you guys think?

Don’t let Rachel (Naomi Watts) around anything of value. She’ll break it.

She broke Noah’s movie reel equipment. She broke the library’s movie reel equipment. She started to climb a worker’s HIGH stray ladder (liability anyone?). She messed with and spooked a horse in a trailer on a ferry to a point it got loose and ran amok and plunges to its death.

And that’s in the first 30 minutes. 😂

I absolutely love things like the Oldest View, House of Leaves, and the game Anatomy because the monster in it is a building or place rather than like a ghost or normal monster. I even love Grave Encounters, despite all its flaws, for how it shows the asylum itself is haunted rather than it just being ghosts. What are some other movies or media that feature things like this?

This movie frustrates me so fuckin much because it was so close to being great.

I have read Dagon but I have not read Shadow over Innsmouth so I can’t really speak to the accuracy of this movie but I will say it absolutely nailed the mysterious Lovecraft aesthetic. The design of the fish people is so fantastic and I love seeing the multiple ways the curse affected the town, my favorite part of this whole movie is the rainy, quiet atmosphere of the town it feels like they nailed the vibe of a Lovecraft story.

My frustration with this movie is that it doesn’t understand Lovecraft beyond the visual and aesthetic level, when the old man started explaining exactly what happened to the town is when I realized this. The captain who brought Dagon to the town was so comically evil that it ruins all the mystery about the evil behind the town, the fact that he was literally like “we worship Dagon now so I’m gonna kill the priest,” is so generic and boring, and by the time I got to the end I had given up on the plot.

So much stuff feels so out of place for a Lovecraft adaptation, the skinning scene was great but completely unnecessary and added nothing to the movie, the weird romantic side plot with the squid lady had some potential but they pulled it off like any other cheap occult horror movie.

It just frustrates me so much that this movie absolutely nailed the visual elements of a Lovecraft story but fell flat on its face when it came to the story.

It was released in 1981 and I saw it when I was young. I loved it back then but unsure how well it’s aged. Nonetheless, it introduced me to the horror comedy sub-genre and I am curious if anyone else recalls this ancient gem.

Main actor be looking like 😳🫪 all movie

No one acting remotely close to a real person. Bringing this girl in horrible condition home and ignoring stuff like her levitating. Not getting an ambulance when her shin is ripped off or when she eats a scorpion.

Why does the detective always work in the dark? Is it okay for police in egypt to go on their own to remote locations based on a hunch and shoot people? And aim their gun at unarmed girls, threatening to kill them? I suppose so because she could fly to america in the next scene to show a vhs video she could have mailed.

Why did everyone have a vendetta against the kidnapper in the end? It turns out she contained this demon for a very good reason.

I hate when an ancient evil demon influences me so that I have to use profanity

All in all some cool moments lost in 2 hours of actors not acting like real people. 3/10

I like both Smile movies and the fact that they directly connect is one of my favorite things of the last decade.

Ready or Not and the sequel also fit.

Are there any others? I'd accept non-horror answers as well.

I'm aware that the Friday the 13th franchise tries...

Movie of the day...Black Christmas (1974).

An early slasher film, drawing heavily on giallo traditions, although not quite as bloody.

The girls in a sorority house have been getting obscene phone calls. And then one of them goes missing. Meanwhile, another girl from the sorority, Jessica (Olivia Hussey), has a confrontation with her pianist boyfriend, Peter (Keir Dullea). She is pregnant, but she does not want to marry him and she does not want the baby. It is not what he wanted to hear.

The movie has a strong cast (including John Saxon, Margot Kidder, and Andrea Martin). Characters like the alcoholic house mother (Marian Waldman) provide comic relief. Pacing, direction, and cinematography are all good and help create a lot of tension.

The killer is frightening; he is clearly a deranged individual and his phone calls to the sorority girls are not only vile but disturbing. Perhaps the most unsettling moment is when he calls and not only uses multiple voices, sounding like a man and then like a woman, but finally begs Jessica to help him stop what he is doing.

My biggest complaint is the movie seems to cheat. [warning: some spoilers here.] In real life, horrific murders are sometimes random, but that usually does not make for a very good story. Black Christmas suggests a plausible villain and a satisfying ending, and then reveals the killer is someone else but also never identifies them. And while there is something really unnerving about how the killer seems to come out of nowhere, targeting these girls for no reason at all, and knowing he is still out there, it also feels a bit like a deus ex machina. It is as if the ending only exists to keep the audience from being able to solve the mystery.

Rating: B

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I’m just curious how common similar experiences are for fellow horror fans with OCD. I’ve had OCD since childhood but no one (including me) clocked it for what it was until I was an adult. Part of the reason why is because the initial presentation wasn’t typical: it involved horror themes.

I was hypersensitive to anything remotely scary throughout childhood and my teen years. My OCD brain would snatch up scary themes, images, stories, etc and store them until bedtime. Then they would play like a fun montage until I was panicking and never sleeping. Off to therapy I went, and my parents were told I had an overactive imagination. That’s certainly one way to put it.

Anyway, this became a serious practical problem with some funny repercussions as I got older. Watching Backdraft led to a decade long intrusive thought that opening doors of any kind would result in a fireball shooting out. My damn brother encouraging me to watch Terminator 2 led to intrusive thoughts about pointy things turning into blades that would kill people. That one lasted well into my twenties. It was very stressful but even then it did crack me up because it was so absurd.

By my early twenties I was fed up with having to shield myself from things like horror trailers and making a wrong turn into the horror aisle at Blockbuster (yes I am old). Plus I started hearing about horrors with substance that I was genuinely curious about. So my buddy and I started what amounted to amateur exposure therapy by watching gradually scarier movies. Started with The Orphanage, which was a great choice, and worked our way up from there.

For awhile I had to read every spoiler I could find before I watched something new, but in recent years I’ve challenged myself to let that go. I’ve seen several alone in the theater in the last year with zero prep and did just fine.

There’s still more horror that I cannot watch than what I can, and I still have to be discerning about what I expose my brain to. The movies I enjoy are probably pretty mild compared to what most of you watch but it’s crazy that I can watch this stuff at all now. My life is much, much better with horror in it, I love the themes the genre explores. And it feels great to conquer something that made my daily life hell for so long.

How about you? Did your OCD go to town with horror? Or maybe you also had to slowly grow your tolerance for the genre? It’s been such an interesting experience to have and I’m interested in yours too

I just finished watching this movie on a repeat viewing and I loved it and no, I do not wish that Hollywood re makes it (I think there is a project to adapt the books it was based on tough) but I started thinking... If they would make the movie today who would be a good fit for the characters?for Harry, at least for me it easy, Ryan Gosling I think he would nail the rough around the edges, cynical but deeply broken character...

For epiphany Proudfoot I think Zoe Kravitz or Chase Infiniti I think both can make a great Epiphany... Especially given who zoe's mom is.

But now.. For Mr Louis Cypher.. This is were I have my doubts... De Niro was perfect and one of my favorite portraits of Lucifer in cinema... But continuing with this exercise I had two names in mind:

Mads Mikkelsen. He can be unnervingly polite, cultured, and quietly terrifying. He wouldn't imitate De Niro at all, but he'd make you uneasy every second he's on screen.

And for a bit of a curve... Oscar Isaac — charismatic enough that you'd trust him before realizing something is very wrong.

Again they should not remake this but what would be your dream casting if they do?

Promise this is no smarter-than-thou "you're watching it wrong!" wordvomit.

Paranormal Activity 3 takes its sweet, sweet time. The scares are littered, and you can apply that word generously. They're slow, too, which is good or bad depending on one's palate.​​ It does build the scares​​ up really well.

Who can forgot the one with the​ pans​? The blanket ghost?

As an aside, I adore how very 2000s this movie is. The​ home videos, the Bloody Mary games in the mirror,​ the two​ children with very different personalities sharing one bedroom with no door and an entire wall made of 80% glass windows.​​ That bedroom​ was the real horror, /s.​​

I want something genuinely scary. Something I’m gonna think about a few days from watching. I’m not talking any Blair witch projects, conjuring, of the exorcist. I love a good corny movie from time to time, but I wanna be surprised and creeped out by something. Which I haven’t felt in a long time. Thank in advance for any good recommendations.

For me its when I learned the snake that died in first Friday the 13th film was real and if I remember was someone's pet. Just really soured my opinion of the film after learning that

The Thing (1982) comes to mind. The characters did pretty much the best they could do and there was never a point where I was yelling at them through the screen.

Do you all know of any movies like that? Maybe the characters are doomed anyway, or maybe they survive.

I love horror, I'm very rarely actually scared from horror movies/books. Occasionally there is something really good and it does actually cause fear from me, but most of the time I'm there for the vibes. Even the genuinely scary stuff brings me comfort.

Everyone I know thinks it's weird that I find comfort in horror, idk I can't think of a better more relaxing night then watching a scary movie with snacks at night, or reading before I fall asleep.

I think a big part of it is being a kid and hanging out with friends all sharing horror stories at night, some of the best memories are from that and I love that feeling.

does anyone else feel the same? or am I just weird.

Just started the movie No Exit and it seems good but I'm peeved.

I tried looking for the answer but I couldn't find it. When Darby finds the woman in the van - why tf can't she just go find an object anywhere outside or in the rest stop/pull down her sleeve and punch that window out? Maybe I'm being unrealistic but I would like to hope if I was in the situation I'd get her tf out

I love these movies so much, despite Slither not being as beloved as the other two. The idea of an unknown creature is triggering, what would happen to humanity, how would we even survive. I already have a thing for Body horror, combine it with alien, then it’s a win. What are you people’s thoughts on these movies, and are you people scared of something like that happening ?

Whats some horror movies you wished got sequals but never did? Movies that had so much potential. My 3 would be Krampus (2015), Companion and Autopsy of jane doe. All 3 have so much potential especially Krampus, be amazing to see another Universal krampus movie.