scare me

[thubby]

title says most of it. im in the mood for something scary, unfortunately I've seen all of the standby's and even a good chunk of the internet's better attempts (creepy pasta, SCP, etc.)

da rules:
any format. story, movie, audio drama, whatever. english is preferable, subtitles are a must if it's not.

jack in the boxes arent scary. anything that relies on flying at the camera spontaneously isn't scary, it's startling.

gore isn't scary. i have no particular issue if a work is gory, but chopping up teenagers is not what makes a movie scary. (jason... :smallannoyed:)

so playground, what can you recommend.

[Yora]

There are some really scary indy video games. Like Penumbra and Amnesia, to mention the best known example. I also watched an LP of a swedish game called Cry of Fear. It's amateur work and it shows, but I think it beats even the old Silent Hill games in the frightening department.

Another thing would be the manga by Ito Junji. I havn't read Gyo yet (which has the rediculous premise of undead sea animals growing legs, but I've read Uzumaki to learn if it's even possible to do a horror comic.
And I have to say, yes it is. Very much. Uzumaki does get gory at times, but it's not gore for gore's sake. You don't see the blood and think "Oh my god, so much blood", but rather "what could possibly do such a thing to a human body?!" Really great stuff. It's Lovecraft meeting Japanese horror. The result is not pleasant (but in a very good way). :smallbiggrin:

Speaking of which: Lovecraft.
I think most of it is online. Shadows over Innsmouth is probably THE Lovecraft there is. (Much more than the entirely irrelevant Call of Cthulhu). The Dunwhich Horror a close second, but it does not have the ocean theme, that one usually associates with the stories. At the Mountains of Madness is not so much scary, but still a great one.

[Radar]

No longer then two months ago, there was this (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=281162) little thread, in which various unsettling spawns of creation were gathered. Maybe not strictly scary, but definately creepy and some of those images will haunt your dreams.

edit: forgot about music:
Penderecki (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOnC5X8rWi0) (also this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UqQl0CNNCY) - a nice backdrop for scary books), Ratkje (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxOt951ebxY). I had more, but it will take a bit longer to find.

[Dienekes]

Movies: The Exorcist, The Thing, Audition, The Shining, Silence of the Lambs
Comics: Sandman Volume 1: Preludes and Nocturnes (after this the series becomes fantasy)

[Yora]

The Thing is an excelent movie, one of my favorite ones. How scary it is depends on how much you are used to the type of story. But even if the "horrific implications" are no longer scary to you, it's still a damn good movie that gets really exciting on a very subtle way.

I also watched the older "The Thing from another World", which as a 50s black and white movie probably won't freak anyone out these days, but I still appreciated seeing how people did make a horror movie for the 50s.
Another one if "Them!", which again won't give modern viewers nightmares from the horrible creatures, but it's very good suspenseful filmmaking.

[Rater202]

Read this here (http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Cupcakes)

[tensai_oni]

I will suggest the SCP Foundation. Enter the top rated page (http://www.scp-wiki.net/top-rated-pages) and start reading. You probably won't find all of these scary, but at least some should be. 087 and 093 are fan favorites for a reason.

[WalkingTarget]

Speaking of which: Lovecraft.
I think most of it is online. Shadows over Innsmouth is probably THE Lovecraft there is. (Much more than the entirely irrelevant Call of Cthulhu). The Dunwhich Horror a close second, but it does not have the ocean theme, that one usually associates with the stories. At the Mountains of Madness is not so much scary, but still a great one.


The Thing is an excelent movie, one of my favorite ones. How scary it is depends on how much you are used to the type of story. But even if the "horrific implications" are no longer scary to you, it's still a damn good movie that gets really exciting on a very subtle way.


Seeing as Yora has beaten me to these, I might suggest In the Mouth of Madness - another John Carpenter film (like The Thing) but it's also the most Lovecraftian film I've ever seen - much more so than anything based explicitly on one of HPL's stories.

[SiuiS]

PRISM, if you really think about it.

[Kindablue]

The last movie I saw was Upstream Color, and it scared the **** out of me. It's by Shane Carruth, the guy who did Primer, so it's pretty arty, and not really a horror film. It's kind of a love story.

[Prime32]

Have you looked at any Slender Man stuff?

http://marblehornets.wikidot.com/introduction

(prev/next links show videos in intended viewing order, including the ones that were posted on other channels)

[Yora]

Seeing as Yora has beaten me to these, I might suggest In the Mouth of Madness - another John Carpenter film (like The Thing) but it's also the most Lovecraftian film I've ever seen - much more so than anything based explicitly on one of HPL's stories.
Hate to say that, but that one left me completely cold. But could be me. If it sounds interesting, give it a try.

[Giggling Ghast]

I hate these kinds of challenges, because they always turn into contests of one-up-man-ship among horror fans. "Oh, you found that scary? Well, I imagine some four-year-olds might be unnerved by it."

Can't we all agree we find different things scary for different reasons?

Anyways, I always found the Mama (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRqS6pBC42w&list=PLx8dDLPblmD0LYF7etrGwhP6lSxX1qiEE) short film a bit scary. Skip ahead in this video by a minute.

[Rater202]

I hate these kinds of challenges, because they always turn into contests of one-up-man-ship among horror fans. "Oh, you found that scary? Well, I imagine some four-year-olds might be unnerved by it."

Can't we all agree we find different things scary for different reasons?

Anyways, I always found the Mama (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRqS6pBC42w&list=PLx8dDLPblmD0LYF7etrGwhP6lSxX1qiEE) short film a bit scary. Skip ahead in this video by a minute.

Yes what Candle Jack said, that was also a sca

[ArlEammon]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castigation

Just think about it. Castigation rhymes with castration.:smalleek:

[Emmerask]

Anyways, I always found the Mama (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRqS6pBC42w&list=PLx8dDLPblmD0LYF7etrGwhP6lSxX1qiEE) short film a bit scary. Skip ahead in this video by a minute.

The style looks a lot like some of the asian horrorfilms I´ve watched...
And yes they scare the s... out of me :smallbiggrin:

[tensai_oni]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castigation

Just think about it. Castigation rhymes with castration.:smalleek:

Yes, and? What's so scary about that?

[ArlEammon]

Yes, and? What's so scary about that?

I tried to make a joke about conjugation. AND FAILED!

[Dumbledore lives]

Here you go. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=217436) If nothing on that list scares you then I feel like movies just don't do it for you as a medium.

[MLai]

Ha, I still can't finish Amnesia The Dark Descent. It's still sitting there on my Steam list. No, I haven't met the monster yet. But the feeling that I'm getting terribly close to that point is what stopped me from playing. :smalleek:

I recommend this, which someone on this forum linked to recently. The comicses are not exactly scary scary, but I feel the underlying themes are dark and rich.

http://www.emcarroll.com/comic/

[Radar]

Totaly forgot about the classic Hitchcock movies: The Birds and Psycho (just not mix it up with the remake). Regretably I'm not familiar with his other movies except North by Northwest, which is not scary. He also had an amazing TV show, for which he made original short movies and really (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09Zsd858KQs) amusing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX8pvgDS31A) introductions (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYmPRMAX-uA).

[Feytalist]

You're already familiar with SCP stuff. Have you played the game? Containment Breach is a fan-made, free game. Incomplete, but the bit you're able to play I found utterly creepy. Simply because you can't do anything, just run around. And blink.

[Spuddles]

I found The Exorcist to be really creepy.

Aphex Twin's Rubber Johnny (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CorUOs1dmEc) is a classic in viral horror.

[Sith_Happens]

You're already familiar with SCP stuff. Have you played the game? Containment Breach is a fan-made, free game. Incomplete, but the bit you're able to play I found utterly creepy. Simply because you can't do anything, just run around. And blink.

Speaking of blinking:

Doctor Who, series three episode ten, "Blink."

[razark]

Everyone you've ever known and will ever know will die. Eventually, the Earth will be consumed by the expanding sun as it dies, and any trace of humanity that manages to escape our little world will be wiped out by the heat death of the universe. Nothing you can ever do will really matter in the grand scheme of the uncaring universe.


And Lovecraft. Lovecraft is good, too.

[CarpeGuitarrem]

A number of these seem more freaky than scary. Which leaves the question of...what have I seen that might be construed as scary? It mostly tends to be dark and unsettling at times (Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Fate/Zero, Monster).

For the moment, the scariest thing I've run across was a little girl calling out "Tibbers!" :smalltongue:

Also, surprisingly, the first Portal game did a great job of establishing a scary atmosphere for me.

[Wookieetank]

House of Leaves is worth a read. I found it more creepy than scary, but if falls very high on the list of most intriguing books I've ever read.

Edit: Also on the topic of books, Bag of Bones by Stephen King is one of the few books of his that actually creeped me out a LOT.

[Feytalist]

This is a matter of taste, but the thing I find scariest are children not behaving like children. So movies like Village of the Damned (the 1960 version preferably) creep me out something fierce.

[Bhu]

Here you go. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=217436) If nothing on that list scares you then I feel like movies just don't do it for you as a medium.

Updated version here: http://www.minmaxboards.com/index.php?topic=1193.0 :smallsmile:


What do you already find scary? Knowing thta will make it easier to point something out.

[inuyasha]

I reccommend Donny Darko, the only thing that has ever gotten close to scaring me, just stay on the main menu for 5-10 minutes before starting the movie, and you will be scared out of your mind

[inuyasha]

No longer then two months ago, there was this (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=281162) little thread, in which various unsettling spawns of creation were gathered. Maybe not strictly scary, but definately creepy and some of those images will haunt your dreams.
beware that thread...one of the quotes has a massively NSFW link, I just reported it but still :P

[Radar]

beware that thread...one of the quotes has a massively NSFW link, I just reported it but still :P
That actually scared me as I didn't bother to go through all the links in that thread.

[inuyasha]

your welcome for the warning...:smallyuk::smallyuk::smallyuk: I need brain bleach, im too YOUNG! BRAIN BLEACH!!!

[Bhu]

You guys haven't been on the net long enuff :smalltongue:

[inuyasha]

what do you mean by that? I havent seen nasty stuff on accident? thats the whole reason I dont use bing (never look for the a picture of the first chinese american aviator on bing images). If you dont mean that idk what you mean LOLZ

[Ebon_Drake]

BOO!


Um... that's all I got.

[Dienekes]

BOO!


Um... that's all I got.

If it makes you feel better, that's all most modern day horror movie directors have too.

[thubby]

If it makes you feel better, that's all most modern day horror movie directors have too.

it's the majority of horror anything ever that meets that description. we forget the bad 50 year old horror movies ever existed.

[Ebon_Drake]

To be honest, I don't really watch many "pure" horror films any more. I watched plenty of slashers like Halloween and Scream when I was a teen and now largely find them predictable. They don't really do anything that Hitchcock didn't do 10 times better 60 years ago.

That said, I'll take a good jump scare over the Saw-style 2 hours of torture porn - I just find those boring and revolting. Of course, those aren't really anything new either. Stuff like I Spit On Your Grave and Cannibal Holocaust have been giving moral guardians fits for years.

In terms of actual recommendations, I tend to enjoy films with a more human and psychological element rather than straight horror. I really like Let The Right One In and The Orphanage. I also liked The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (and to a lesser extent the sequels) although they're more crime thriller than horror. Note that none of those are Hollywood movies, although there's plenty of dreck in non-English cinema too.

[The Succubus]

The Legend of Amigara Fault. (http://kc-anathema.livejournal.com/pics/catalog/53052/2327283)

This is creepypasta topped with carbonaraaaaaagh sauce. :smalleek::smalleek:

[Bhu]

what do you mean by that? I havent seen nasty stuff on accident? thats the whole reason I dont use bing (never look for the a picture of the first chinese american aviator on bing images). If you dont mean that idk what you mean LOLZ

I mean if you can't look at horrifying things without saying "meh, I've seen worse on the net" you haven't been on the net long nuff :smalltongue:


it's the majority of horror anything ever that meets that description. we forget the bad 50 year old horror movies ever existed.


Very true, but the standards for scaring people were a lot different in the 50's than they are now. Heck the standards for messing people up were different in the 90's than they are now.


To be honest, I don't really watch many "pure" horror films any more. I watched plenty of slashers like Halloween and Scream when I was a teen and now largely find them predictable. They don't really do anything that Hitchcock didn't do 10 times better 60 years ago.

That said, I'll take a good jump scare over the Saw-style 2 hours of torture porn - I just find those boring and revolting. Of course, those aren't really anything new either. Stuff like I Spit On Your Grave and Cannibal Holocaust have been giving moral guardians fits for years.



Cannibal Holocaust isn't a horror film so much as social commentary disguised as one.

[TheSummoner]

This should be sufficiently shocking. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO8H5_l9E3s#t=14) I had to XD

[inuyasha]

I mean if you can't look at horrifying things without saying "meh, I've seen worse on the net" you haven't been on the net long nuff :smalltongue:
it wasnt horrifying...just very *ahem* innapropriate and surprising because that shouldnt be on these boards...im too young!

[ShadowFireLance]

The Legend of Amigara Fault. (http://kc-anathema.livejournal.com/pics/catalog/53052/2327283)

This is creepypasta topped with carbonaraaaaaagh sauce. :smalleek::smalleek:

To me that's more of a "Wtf is going on?" Then a "Scary" Thing. :smallconfused:

[Axinian]

Run... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNr3P4wNk8Y)

Okay maybe not, but you better believe that was traumatizing for me as a child.