cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6176443

My wife and I love to binge watch scary movies in October. Looking for stuff that’s truly scary and not just gore. Watcha got?

  • SSTF@lemmy.world
    5·
    11 months ago

    The VVitch is one of the few movies I’ve found truly scary. Not a ton actually happens, but the movie leverages its isolated and dreary setting to the max.

  • LemmySoloHer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    11 months ago

    Looking for stuff that’s truly scary and not just gore

    1. Hereditary (2018) - Still one of the most unnerving things I’ve ever seen. Does NOT rely on gore and has only maybe 30 seconds of blood in the entire thing. The horror of it comes from the skill of the storytelling and only at the end did I realize how many little things were said throughout the movie.

    2. It Follows (2014) - Unique and does an incredible job of making you constantly check the background for potential danger. Did not scar me like Hereditary did but instead offers a very fun version of anxiety for its runtime if that makes any sense. The first is a must-see. Skip the sequel.

    3. The Ritual (2017) - Brings some of that Lovecraftian style horror. One of those movies that just creeps you out and brings that fear of the unknown in style, yet brings out that primal survival instinct at the same time.

    4. The Others (2001) - Just a damn good ghost story. I won’t say anything else to avoid spoiling it.

    5. Nope (2022) - I’ll say that there are a lot of layers going on here. This is probably better recommended for movie nerds that love intertwining story themes, characters and backgrounds that serve as a foil to the main plot, a slow buildup of details that culminate into an expertly told story, and an emphasis on sound design and symbolism.

    Honorable Mention: Coherence (2013) - I know, I know. It’s not a horror movie. But that existential dread, that fear of the unknown, that feeling that makes you panic, it’s all there. This is a sci-fi puzzle movie somewhat like Primer so I’ll say the dread and terror is not in itself horror. That said, it’s a creepy watch and I’ll always recommend it as a good palette cleanser after something like Hereditary traumatizes you or after binging fun, dumb classic horror style stuff.

    • Bizarroland@kbin.social
      1·
      11 months ago

      I hate hate hate the first Scary Movie, the “comedy” was too obvious for me.

      But I got talked into watching the second one despite think I would hate it, and I found that one hilarious.

  • Smokeydope@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    Ravenous (1999) Really good take on the skinwalker myth that tries to stay genuine to the actual cultural signifigance that it has in naive american mythology. Its a story of tragic desperation giving way to insatiable hunger and the act of harming+killing another human during to keep yourself alive times of intense starvation tainting a persons spirit and mind. Not big spoopy deer monster.

    he poughkeepsie tapes is the only horror movie I’ve ever had to turn off, it was just too depressingly real even knowing its fictional. Only for true horror nuts who get off on the depressing non-schlocky kind of horror.

    Midsomar was a good one buy it was really popular so you mightve seen it

    Hubbie Holloween isn’t horror but a fun holloween themed comedy to watch as a palette clenser

  • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
    31·
    11 months ago

    https://m.imdb.com/title/tt12749596/

    Host.

    It’s a pandemic movie, and it was EXTREMELY well done. Not “well done for a pandemic movie” but “holy shit that’s an excellent movie, period”. And SCARY. Not just gore, there’s actually very little of that, it just ramps the atmosphere up perfectly.

  • beelzebud@lemmy.world
    2·
    11 months ago

    I feel like this movie doesn’t get enough love, but Dark Skies (2013) is a really great all around scary movie.

    There’s also all the A24 movies that have come out obviously (Hereditary, Witch, Midsommar). They released Talk to Me this year too which I thought was really good.

  • pg_sax_i_frage@lemmy.wtf
    1·
    11 months ago

    I don’t think I’ve seen it mentioned in this thread so far, so I may suggest: Some nature documentaries, particularly more recent ones, can be pretty scary, and beutufulaa and intresting too, but also scary (and not particularly gory, that’s nit generally the focus) . Dread/state-of-tge-climate sort of scary, among others, and no less scary for that I think. Nature documentary movies.

    Some hosted by Netflix, are free on their yt cahnnel, i think.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    1·
    11 months ago

    The Green Room

    Leftist punk rock band plays in a nazi bar and opens up with the song “Fuck Off Nazi Punks”. But it gets worse when they witness a murder and get trapped in a room and have to get out.

    Pretty realistic movie you wouldn’t even expect to go to horror. With a great Patrick Stewart as the leader of the Nazis.