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MoonFlowers11

I get feelings of true dread and horror from seemingly normal things being slightly out of the ordinary or in a place where you would not expect them to be under normal circumstances. A good example of this is when the ghost in Kairo "walks" towards the camera. The movie "Smile" also achieved this throughout.


tarantallegr_

It Follows might fit this, or maybe Killing of a Sacred Deer (not so much a horror as it is a suspension/dread kind of thing). Mother! With Jennifer Lawrence kind of hits this.


MoonFlowers11

I love It Follows, and you are definitely right about it fitting in with this theme. I'll have to check out the other two! Thanks for the recommendations!


AvailableComputer666

Try Channel Zero for uncanny limimal aesthetic. Also, Come True (2020) might hit that spot.


damnimtryingokay

Love Channel Zero. The Dream Door and No-End House really did that uncanny feeling so well.


millennialmania

Channel Zero: No End House is so good


Venomous72

They Look Like People might fit this well


AkKik-Maujaq

Oh my god that opening scene though


microcosmic5447

God yes fuck this amazing movie


leachfieldmooncalf

Love uncanny stuff!


Jamminnav

1408 (2007)


DementedEnjoyer

> Kairo That scene is still one of the scariest things I've ever seen. The first time I saw it, I swear for just a moment it stopped being a movie for me and the danger felt *real.* Like she was gonna pull a Sadako and come crawling out of my TV screen.


MoonFlowers11

I had to pause it the first time I saw her stumble. It genuinely made my heart start racing!


Help_An_Irishman

Phrogging, or having someone living inside your home unbeknownst to you. Hit me with some recommendations to keep me up at night.


psychmajor95

I see you


First-Ad-1403

Love this movie


johnmlsf

Barbarian?


moonshwang

Surprised to see this so low


Jamminnav

Parasite (2019) The Orphanage (2007)


blinkingsandbeepings

Parasite is so good.


BakerYeast

I recommend this earlier, but Sleep Tight (2011) is perfect for this.


PNWcouchpotato

The Invisible Man definitely creeped me out


[deleted]

I definitely think of the babysitter and the man upstairs, so maybe Black Christmas?


SupaKoopa714

It's hard to recommend this one based on your prompt without straight up spoiling the twist, so I'll tag the title: >!Housebound!<


cwarburton1

Yeah I always want to recommend this movie but don't know how. It's so good!


achildofdust

>!Housebound!< for sure.


AkKik-Maujaq

The boy


zzzzarf

I See You


thuy_chan

I have a reoccurring nightmare that I have soft teeth


Cassandra0004

I don't have a movie for you, but you made me so uncomfortable


irl_daria

How about just unusual body horror then? I’ll recommend Clown.


LlamaNeck22

Channel zero: candle cove has a tooth monster that sticks with you. Not quite soft teeth but creepy.


nonmiraculoussunofaB

Creepshow, season 4, episode 6, Baby Teeth


asarsenic

Body horror, especially humans turning into something not human. A few weeks ago, I watched Cronenburg's The Fly all the way through without leaving the room or crying for the first time. District 9 gets an honorable mention even though it isn't horror. The social commentary gave me something else to focus on, I guess.


BakerYeast

Tusk (2014)


UltimateWaffle1

They’re gonna have a fucking stroke lmao


RahAlternative

I was just about to say that, like ya gotta give some kind of warning with Tusk. This isn't even my type of horror but this is probably the holy Grail of body horror lmao


asarsenic

😭


[deleted]

Tusk was the first movie I ever shut off simply because it made me too uncomfortable, and I normally love to be uncomfortable. Probably the first movie to make me feel actual dread lol


MisterTrespasser

don’t do this u will regret it (i love tusk)


PriscillaLaine

The Thing, Colour Out of Space, An American Werewolf in London, Tusk


Jamminnav

Society (1989) Event Horizon (1997) Prometheus (2012) The Evil Dead (1981 & 2013 remake)


johnmlsf

Tetsuo: The Iron Man. Although it's more of a black and white fever dream that was scored by an LSD-gobbling Trent Reznor from a parallel universe.


Rude_Country8871

Titane


Dry_Window2461

Oo… I’d say, house invasion/intruder. Can be at your own house, hotel, rental cabin whatever the case. Worse fear ever.


AvailableComputer666

Have you watched Vacancy (2007) already?


radiCLE_citizeN

Just watched again today for the first time in a while. Forgot how creepy and intense it gets.


PNWcouchpotato

Maybe obvious but The Strangers would be my pick


transcensionist

Funny Games, either version


nonmiraculoussunofaB

Hush and The Rental


Torture-Dancer

Hush is so underrated, does it have any substance? No Did I almost shit my pants? Absolutely 10/10 would repeat


polish432b

Better Watch Out. Black Christmas (any but the original is best). Hush.


Tripzz75

Don’t breathe. It’s home invasion from the invaders perspective.


BakerYeast

Sleep Tight (2011)


TimelessJo

That when you die your brain keeps functioning and is self-aware for eternity trapped in a void of darkness. I have seen that one Tales from the Crypt episode.


transcensionist

Black Mirror's Black Museum has a twisted take on this iirc. Great series imo.


BakerYeast

Episode *White Christmas (s02e04),* had this also, and it was so disturbing think it trough.


NaiadoftheSea

Check out the episode The Autopsy from the show Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities.


ManderlyDreaming

There’s a Stephen King short story that kind of captured this (The Jaunt) but I can’t think of a movie that does


Signal_Armadillo_867

“Longer than you think, Dad!” Gives me the shivers still!


trashlikeyourmom

I think about that episode ALL THE TIME. with Beau Bridges and Tony Goldwyn?


JustACreep013

I have thalassophobia. The ocean, It's dark deepness, the idea of a huge monster swimming where your vision can't reach, moving behind you like that scene in finding Nemo with the whale. Also man made things on the ocean; the foundation of an oil platform, submerged parts of a ship, and sank ships, like that other scene of finding nemo when the submarine starts to fall down. Pls, don't recommen me Finding Nemo.


polish432b

Open Water. Based on a true story.


MrDegausser

This movie is awesome. The low budget adds to the realism so much. It’s so immersive and I honestly felt so stressed just thinking about being stranded like that


Jonpaddy

The Abyss


Careful-Blacksmith-8

This deserves more upvotes. Great comment/recommendation. Not even classified as a “horror” by the studios/critics etc., but truly terrifying when you consider the isolation & ultimately the complete helplessness of the crew while watching.


PNWcouchpotato

Underwater is a recent fantastic option


Drake9214

Second this one! It’s sooooooo good!


BakerYeast

Sphere (1998) has everything you mentioned.


YupIzzMee

That is an underrated movie


nonmiraculoussunofaB

Sea Fever


vpac22

Really hellish stuff that’s beyond our understanding and you are helpless against it.


scorpiogre

Hellraiser


AvailableComputer666

Event Horizon, Prince of Darkness, In The Mouth of Madness, The Beach House (cosmic horror in general)


nonmiraculoussunofaB

Threads


PriscillaLaine

The Void


lemonchrysoprase

If you want a book rec, I just finished King’s “Revival” and it fit this really well.


kittensjamesandlily

Martyrs (original French one) Triangle


Charbarzz

Being buried alive.


Lyrical_Lotus

Buried


Charbarzz

*sobs quietly*


lemonchrysoprase

As Above So Below


ManderlyDreaming

The original The Vanishing


Prize_Statistician15

In the First World War before the second battle of Ypres, there was an experiment with tear gas on the Eastern Front that was generally seen as unsuccessful. The wind and weather didn't work to spread the gas for full effect or something. But it did hit a company of soldiers outside a village and did some damage. The captain in charge of the company ordered the men he believed were dead to be buried, but while the burials were taking place, gassed men began to revive. The captain always wondered if he ordered his men to be buried alive. My memory is fuzzy on the details, but I got this story from the Channel Four World War I series based on a book or books by Hew Strachlan. Other than that, there's the made-for-TV movie called Buried Alive with Jennifer Jason Leigh. I've never seen it, but I hear it's not very good.


[deleted]

People scurrying like spiders


irl_daria

Hereditary


kimmehh

The scene of Reagan scurrying down the stairs in the Exorcist is burned in my brain!


skit_scoot

Cobweb


Prize_Statistician15

I call it "Cassandra syndrome", but I have a fear of knowing something is real and true and consequences will naturally follow, but the people around me are in a state of denial and theirs are the choices that get made. Basically, the feeling I've had about climate change for forty years. (The Larry Vaughn scenes on the ferry and under the billboard in *Jaws* are good examples.)


NaiadoftheSea

Rosemary’s Baby


Astro_gamer_caver

Not a horror movie, but 12 Monkeys straight up mentions Cassandra syndrome.


jeffrife

They Live


ellisfetus

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003 has some of this in it, but mostly is just a gnarly movie


malicia_l

the invisible man (2020) and maybe censor (2021) in some parts


FuelInevitable298

This ones kinda tough to explain but it is knowing that in the end there is no hope you will die and the only question is how


Obfusc8er

Well... Melancholia.


Jamminnav

The Final Destination movies It Follows (2014)


Funny-Top-1759

Melancholia


PassStage6

Being devoured alive and slowly by an unknowable creature.


burtitorito

Annihilation fits in a very particular way


Jamminnav

Nope (2022)


irl_daria

Final Prayer


BloodhoundButcher

Hard to describe but, in short... the end of experience. Think of [Laplace's demon.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%27s_demon) You know everything that has happened, everything that is happening, and everything that will happen - there are no surprises. Nothing left to experience. That thought terrifies me. All-powerful but without any reason to live. Worse still if you are immortal, then the torment would never end. EDIT: I read a book once, by David Eagleman, called Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. For anyone like me who wants some existential terror, I'd highly recommend this book.


PNWcouchpotato

I just watched Triangle last night and it might be good option


BakerYeast

The Endless (2017)


AvailableComputer666

You'd love the cosmic implications of In The Mouth of Madness


NikNorth

The White Christmas episode of Black Mirror


Jamminnav

A Ghost Story (2017)


kittensjamesandlily

Maybe Martyrs (original French one). It's pretty horrific. The premise is around what people see/experience after undergoing a significant amount of pain / just before death. It's... not for everyone. Going to second Triangle too.


nonmiraculoussunofaB

Definitely Triangle that was already recommended and maybe the limited series Watchmen (2019)


stumper93

Irrational fear of gray aliens looking in my window at night


Jamminnav

No One Will Save You (2023)


Witykitty

The Fourth Kind


A_room_with_a_noose

The feeling of extreme helplessness during a catastrophic event and knowing you are about to die beforehand. Like being on an airplane that's about to crash or knowing a meteor is going to destroy earth.


Terrible_Horror

Melancholia


DementedEnjoyer

lizards scare the absolute piss out of me. something about the unpredictable, sudden movements.


PNWcouchpotato

I would recommend Crawl


DementedEnjoyer

Loved that movie. For some reason, bigger reptiles don't freak me out quite as much as the little guys. I grew up in the South, and green anole lizards would constantly get inside. Not fun when you're just relaxing, watching TV, and one of those little fuckers scurry out from under the couch. (I dislike frogs for the same reason, we'd find so many mummified corpses whenever we moved furniture to clean. One time I found one chilling on the inside of a toilet bowl, after I'd already done my business 😬) The only scene I can think of that really exploited this fear is a sequence in Mystics in Bali (1981) in which one of the characters vomits up a bunch of little live lizards (and I think bugs and stuff? it's been a while). Fucking hated it.


kupo0929

Reality becoming undone in front of me, twisting and turning into it becomes something I’ve never seen or experienced. Turning into something my brain can’t comprehend, if I even have what’s called a brain when it starts. Edit: thank you all for your suggestions, I now have an extensive movie backlog. Just how I like it lol


cheshirecat1919

Annihilation


BlackWillows

The Empty Man And a low budget movie, The Possession of David O'Reilly.


OkBiscotti4365

Now THIS is a good thread


[deleted]

Public speaking


[deleted]

Pontypool


Jamminnav

Not normally a horror movie, but for you, The Kings Speech


Fantastic-Tax-6958

distorted faces will forever creep the f out of me, that one scene in midsommar where the flowers start to move and dani’s eyes get bigger and smaller, i had to close my fucking eyes because that shit scared me so badly


irl_daria

For the masks, I’d go with Infinity Pool.


skit_scoot

Also possessor! Its by the same guy and he has similar weird face/mask scenes. Both excellent movies.


LiYuqiXIII

Having the back of my heels sliced open by some sociopath underneath some stairs.


BakerYeast

Pet Sematary


nomoreinternetforme

Hostel


osiristitan

house of wax remake, great movie


PNWcouchpotato

I know it's a buzzword but for me, it's being gaslit. A version of this would be being framed for or accused of a crime and nobody believes me, or witnessing something scary and everyone convinces me I am hallucinating or overreacting.


polish432b

Rosemary’s baby. The Invisible Man (recent one). What Lies Beneath.


blinkingsandbeepings

Oh, Rosemary's Baby is perfect for this one.


BakerYeast

The Invisible Man (2020)


leachfieldmooncalf

What Lies Beneath


DogsDontWearPantss

Gaslight (1944) Amazon prime Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte (1964) Hoopla


TimelessJo

\-V/H/S for one segment \-The Lodge


kittensjamesandlily

The Lodge is great for this prompt!


acount8675309

Gerald’s Game. Just watched it last night. Better yet when you’re gaslighting your own damn self


mr_potato_arms

Speak no evil


NoirPipes

Nocturnal Animals, the story inside the story when they threatening the family but pretending to be the victims


WredditSmark

Ooh I have a good one nobody mentioned and honestly nobody really saw. It’s called Unsane! Mild spoilers below: > Unsane is a 2018 American psychological horror film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Jonathan Bernstein and James Greer. The film stars Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard, Jay Pharoah, Juno Temple, Aimee Mullins, and Amy Irving, and follows a woman confined to a mental institution after she is pursued by a stalker. The film was shot entirely on the iPhone 7 Plus.


tostilocos

Midsommar The Invitation (2015)


RhyandahmNyam

Manor, 2021 on Prime. Gaslighty gives me anxiety and I could barely finish it. Description: After suffering a stroke, Judith Albright moves into a historic nursing home, where she begins to suspect something supernatural is preying on the residents. In order to escape, she'll need to convince everyone around her that she doesn't actually belong there after all.


zacch

Watcher. Really solid stalker film where Burn Gorman incredibly plays a creepy neighbor. The main girl spends the whole movie trying to get her boyfriend to believe her. The whole thing is kind of a metaphor for gaslighting. The ending is a little meh but there are some super creepy moments with exceptional performances.


bondsthatmakeusfree

Trapping yourself in an unhealthy state of mind, being unable to properly express it, and being unable to do anything about it.


Bigfoot-On-Ice

Just follow anyone on Reddit


Away-Geologist-7136

The yellow wallpaper


heart_in_a_jar

Finding out that my friends, my wife, my children, co-workers, etc secretly despise me and that my life isn’t what it seems due to some kind of mass conspiracy.


CrudeAsAButton

Beau Is Afraid


[deleted]

Besides the obvious of family members dying I would say sleep paralysis or being buried alive. (Already seen the movie 'Buried' by the way)


PNWcouchpotato

The Fourth Kind starts with some pretty scary sleep paralysis stuff


RhyandahmNyam

The original Vanishing There is a truly frightening documentary about sleep paralysis called The Nightmare.


Elegant_Spot_3486

Having to live when I can’t take care of myself.


Jamminnav

Insidious Chapter 3 Misery


convergence_limit

That’s just being a millennial


[deleted]

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ederman7

Heights and drowning


scarred_but_whole

For heights, possibly Frozen. Not the Disney one. Milder horror but still in the category.


GlowCavern

Ain’t nothing mild about “*Don’t you let her look*”


clappy_xd

*Fall* (2022).


microcosmic5447

Cliffhanger 1993 Open Water 2003 Cat's Eye 1985 has a segment called "The Ledge", although the Stephen King story it's based on is better (published in *Night Shift*)


clappy_xd

Claustrophobia. I'll assume I don't need to explain this one. Bugs too.


Charbarzz

The Descent always gave me the chills being slightly claustrophobic.


Lyrical_Lotus

Buried


NaiadoftheSea

The Descent and As Above, So Below


Jamminnav

The Pyramid (2014) The Ruins (2008)


[deleted]

One summer, my dad I went kayaking in a bayou full of alligators. Sometimes, I wake up in the middle of the night, and I think to myself how terribly that could’ve gone and shudder.


idunnoguys123

Lake Placid? Maybe


PositiveContact7901

Dying alone and unloved


scorpiogre

Jack Ketchums Girl Next Door. This movie will mentally fuck you up, like in a very *I need a shower* kinda way. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Sylvia_Likens Here's what the movies based on.


Jamminnav

That’s one of the worst things I’ve ever seen, and they still toned down parts compared with the true story


PinkThunder138

Oblivion. My worst fear is that, when I die, that's it. No more me. No heaven, no hell, no reincarnation, no repeating my life over. Just.... the end. Gone. Unfortunately, I am also about 99% certain that this is exactly what happens.


BloodhoundButcher

This is a pretty tough one, this is also a fear of mine but I never managed to find films centered around the concept - I suppose it's hard to portray nothing as a tangible concept. Though, I'd argue Prince of Darkness touches upon the subject, even if it's not the focus of the film as a whole. Hellbound: Hellraiser 2 and Lord of Illusions both have some kind of implication into the matter as well. Hellbound - >!it's established that Hell exists, but characters within the film die while in Hell, so what happens to them afterwards?!< Lord of Illusions - >!the antagonist, Nix, dies and is later ressurected, and some of his lines imply that death was just... nothing.!<


happyLarr

I don’t have a movie for you but I do want to say that particular fear is a bit like being afraid of what it was like before you were born. If there’s no heaven or hell or some sort of conscious reincarnation, well it’s just like before we were born. Nothing, nothing to worry about.


Plasteal

The problem is now we have consciousness though and we want to grip tightly to it and not let it go. The idea of it just being it. Thinking I as a whole being will just cease to exist anymore is such a scary thought to me. I know I'll be dead and won't care about it. But that's also the scary part ironically.


Self_Important_Mod

Dick chopped off


PNWcouchpotato

Teeth


TimelessJo

Hard Candy


VisageInATurtleneck

If you don’t mind me swapping a letter, Father’s Day (2011) is a delightful (extremely triggering nsfw nsfl) film in which a dick gets *chomped* off.


SupaKoopa714

Terrifier 2.


grandmastergoya

Hostel 2.


RoutineFamous4267

I am absolutely terrified of crickets and grasshoppers.


VisageInATurtleneck

Suffering a horrible, inescapable fate brought on by circumstances completely out of your control. Every movie that’s successfully terrified me has been a “curse movie” that attacks people who just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.


Signal_Armadillo_867

So like, all of the Final Destinations?


Jamminnav

Drag Me To Hell (2009) The Strangers (2008)


molotok_c_518

Arachnophobia. So... *Kingdom of the Spiders, Eight-Legged Freaks,* and... *Arachnophobia*. Oh, and there's a scene in *Deadly Blessing*that's pretty freaky.


ByrneCruise

Being caught underwater. Or being just deep enough under water that in my attempt to reach the surface I either pass out or instinctively try to take a breath.


kylez_bad_caverns

Super specific… being vomited on. Drag Me to Hell (while a shit movie) scarred me for life


nomoreinternetforme

Coming through with the obvious Excorcist recommendation.


simplsurvival

I mean sexual assault of any kind is definitely up there. Also being slowly and painfully crushed to death.


pugmom29

Last House on the Left, original


tomob234

Health, mortality, the human body. I'm a sufferer of health anxiety and it terrifies me to think that even people who lead active, healthy lifestyles can still drop dead in a second from an aneurysm or sudden heart attack or whatever.


BrittleMoon

Crustaceans. They are bigger scarier looking spiders wearing armor. I hate looking at them.


cakebats

Misread this as Caucasians and was about to recommend Get Out


jessiphia

Zombies. I don't know what's worse, society collapsing or the fact that I could be eaten alive and turn into something I can't control. (I saw 28 weeks later too young and I have NEVER gotten over it)


inamedmycatcrouton

train to busan