As someone who loves good horror movies, creepy pastas and horror themed games, I thought we should have a thread to talk about our fav creepy, dark and psychologically terrifying movies, games and other genre.
One of my fav horror movies in recent years has to be the Babadook, a psychologically tormenting story of a mother dealing with the death of her husband, their out of control son, and their lives being invaded by a storybook monster named mr babadook.
I loved this movie on two fronts, first was the main actresses role, Elsie Davis, one of the best performances in a horror movie I've seen since the shining, she gave me the chills on her performance alone. The second is just the concept of Mr babadook himself, why he exists, and just how terrifying he is.
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I haven't seen a movie that scared me in years.
I'm not saying I'm especially brave. Lord knows I'm not.
But I can't remember thinking a movie was honestly frightening beyond the American version of The Ring, which I watched when I was in high school.
I've tried, I remember finding personal accomplishment in daring to watch a scary movie. But, I dunno, none of them do anymore.
Real life is what's truly horrible and frightening, sometimes.
I'm also enjoy horror, though I tend to shy away from gory thrillers. I'm more into Lovecraft stories and stuff like Slenderman and the SCP Foundation.
Quote from: Hydra009 on April 20, 2016, 12:54:10 PM
I'm also enjoy horror, though I tend to shy away from gory thrillers. I'm more into Lovecraft stories and stuff like Slenderman and the SCP Foundation.
SCP Foundation for those of us not in the know
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCP_Foundation
Sounds interesting. Worth looking at. Thanks for the heads up.
I love the scp foundation files, some funny, some weird, some scary and interesting ideas.
Going back to creepy pastas, one of my favs the harbinger experiment, making both it and the insidious movies ones that made Tiny Tim songs into something chilling
Quote from: stromboli on April 20, 2016, 01:13:27 PMSCP Foundation for those of us not in the know
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCP_Foundation
Sounds interesting. Worth looking at. Thanks for the heads up.
Sorry, I should've included a brief explanation or something.
It's a secret scientific organization whose personnel contain and study anomalous and potentially dangerous objects and entities. Think about the warehouse at the end of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdjf4lMmiiI) and multiply it. And that's just for starters.
They have case reports written in a clinical, formal style which contrasts with the chaotic scenes, gruesome details, and disturbing revelations they contain. Also, heavy use of redaction (black bars obscuring sensitive information) to pique one's curiosity.
Lingo:
SCP - anomalous objects/entities (an endless staircase, a monster that cannot move when a person is looking at it but is terrifyingly fast and lethal when unobserved, a greenish minty goo that must NEVER come into contact with a dead body, a roughly dog-sized amoeba that behaves like a playful dog and helps relieve depression, etc)
O5 council - top members in the SCP foundation that direct its long-term plans. Identified by number rather than name.
D class personnel - expendable personnel (often death row inmates) used to handle extremely hazardous tasks
Here's a pretty typical entry and decent intro to the setting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xE54zD5hsk
Quote from: Munch on April 20, 2016, 12:13:36 PM
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Daww he looks cute. :3 *Pet* *Pet* Who's an adorable senseless killer?
I am a fan of the Horror Genre as well. Though I don't get scared at them cuz I know it's fake. Most of the horror movies I like are the ones that took the time to provide both a realistic story and use practical effects. My faveourate horror series is the Hellraiser series. 1 - 4 is the best, even Hell On Earth even though it's was not the best in the original Quadrilogy. The ones after that were crap though. Fuck you Dimensions! I don't watch modern horrors is cuz they tend to do the whole ghost/possession thing and use allot of cg and cg gore, typical jump scares, eerie music. *Yawn* You know if tv shows like The Vampire Diaries, Teen Wolf and The Walking Dead can practical effects then why not a big budget film?
Another Horror series I like is The Saw Franchise and Resident Evil.
Any Edward Lee readers here?
OK, here's one for horror fans. Keep in mind that this genre usually just bores me, so one that disturbs me may (or may not) indicate something scary. It might be that certain attempts at horror elicit different reactions from different people, depending a their psychological make up and the fears they carry around in their personal baggage.
Bone Tomahawk
I rented this from Red Box a couple of months ago. That usually means it's a new release.
This one did a proverbial number on me. A week after I saw it, I had a nightmare that borrowed elements from the movie, and believe me, while I dream often enough, nightmares are highly unusual for me. The following is a very basic description of the plot. I'm not sure it's what I'd call a spoiler or not.
[spoiler]Bone Tomahawk is not jump start scary. It's grotesque and disturbing, and while it's extremely gory in a couple of places, I would say it's not gratuitous gore. I'm not sure what that means to others. But it seems like the gore is necessary because it sets up the greater horror of the overall situation. It's also unique. It starts out like a typical old west plot, with a small town in the middle of nowhere with a sheriff (Kurt Russell), preacher, general store, bar, and the usual drifters passing through. I thought I was in for another old fashion Western culminating in a climatic shootout at the corral type of plot. But an odd turn of events happens that at first just seems mysterious, and slowly turns Hellish. For me it was much more Hellish than just some psychopathic drifter on a rampage type Hellish. That plot wouldn't be creepy enough to match this one. [/spoiler]
I don't get scared when watching horror movies, as long as it's silly supernatural shit happening. But when it's stuff that could really happen, in real life, then I get scared, such that I can't watch things like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, etc.
I think humans invented monsters like vampires, werewolves, etc. so that they could believe that humans are not the most evil sons-a-bitches in existence.
I don't watch any of that, I get frightened too much reading what real people do. Thats why I only watch stuff that makes me laugh.
I can't do horror. at all. I get horrible nightmares and my imagination takes over in ways that I hate.
Quote from: PickelledEggs on April 21, 2016, 07:33:48 PM
I can't do horror. at all. I get horrible nightmares and my imagination takes over in ways that I hate.
funny thing is, when I was young, even in my teens, horror and the dark and creepy were things that just were complete no-noes for me. Even back then the nightmare before christmas was in cinemas, well before the internet age, I thought it would be a horror movie and missed seeing it in the cinemas. when movies like childs play and the exocist and IT were on tv I'd dare myself to watch as much of it as I could, but then turn off the tv when it got to something scary or a jump scare, and it would stay in my head for days after.
Now, I've decensortised myself so much, I find movies only aimed as blood and guts horror as funny. Its only those deeper psychological movies that really impact me now.
Quote from: aitm on April 21, 2016, 07:31:56 PM
I don't watch any of that, I get frightened too much reading what real people do. Thats why I only watch stuff that makes me laugh.
OK, ever seen
Dead Alive? It made me laugh 'til I - well, I died! :hang:
I'm pretty sure this is the goriest movie I've ever seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8LIug1cP04
I remember growing up in the 80s-90s in the era where the 'video nasty' advertisement put forward by ultra conservative nutjobs made some of these movies out to be more horrific then they actually were. In a way it hyped them up for the better and made some of them famous, even ones that I watch now and think of as just silly.
Had to dig this one up, figured instead of making a new thread.
I was this today, and it gave some intresting thoughts on the man himself, h.p. lovecraft, the works and times of the guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M3L4VIZv-U
I've often listened to accounts of his work and listened to audio tapes of some of his books, the dunwich horror and dagon, and as a horror fan of this kind of otherworldly horror, he is the one who most popularized it (despite having died before it reached that level of popularity)
The only thing that I keep wondering is he deserving of being remembered? As one of the most popular horror writers his work has influenced dozens of other writers after him, as well as his works being made part of writers at the time. But given being being not just racist in his own homelife, but flat out being racist in his works (most human protagonists being people of color, hints in some of his creations (Shub-Niggurath), and it even being acknowledged in literary awards where his image being part of an award for the world fantasy award ceremony, where an author Nnedi Okorafor won the award, and described to a friend that (him being a black guy) having lovecrafts image in his house knowing what a bigoted racist he was, it felt like an honor to him, probably going off a satirical tone of a black man winner a fantasy author award decades after such a bigot like lovecraft could exist.
And yet, despite it being now commonly know he was as much of a bigot (so much that he once wrote a poem about 'niggers' being a sub human species), despite this, his work as gone and and is still loved today, and has inspired countless writers.
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Its very much like the work escaping the author and becoming its own thing detached from the original creator.
Quote from: Munch on May 28, 2019, 03:28:35 PM
Had to dig this one up, figured instead of making a new thread.
I was this today, and it gave some intresting thoughts on the man himself, h.p. lovecraft, the works and times of the guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M3L4VIZv-U
I've often listened to accounts of his work and listened to audio tapes of some of his books, the dunwich horror and dagon, and as a horror fan of this kind of otherworldly horror, he is the one who most popularized it (despite having died before it reached that level of popularity)
The only thing that I keep wondering is he deserving of being remembered? As one of the most popular horror writers his work has influenced dozens of other writers after him, as well as his works being made part of writers at the time. But given being being not just racist in his own homelife, but flat out being racist in his works (most human protagonists being people of color, hints in some of his creations (Shub-Niggurath), and it even being acknowledged in literary awards where his image being part of an award for the world fantasy award ceremony, where an author Nnedi Okorafor won the award, and described to a friend that (him being a black guy) having lovecrafts image in his house knowing what a bigoted racist he was, it felt like an honor to him, probably going off a satirical tone of a black man winner a fantasy author award decades after such a bigot like lovecraft could exist.
And yet, despite it being now commonly know he was as much of a bigot (so much that he once wrote a poem about 'niggers' being a sub human species), despite this, his work as gone and and is still loved today, and has inspired countless writers.
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/3879b67454e7bb6dccc98d9108eb75f2/tumblr_inline_nuhe3pCQMH1tsz0zp_1280.png)
Its very much like the work escaping the author and becoming its own thing detached from the original creator.
Be still, my raging heart!
But yes, people of otherwise fame did think such things. And it is up to us to not think that way. Tpo not let one's neighbor say mean hurtful things and not be challenged. To not vote for a politician who is like that but otherwise shares your views. To not let your friend say things like that and not call him or her to account.
To draw a line in the sands of time and hold to it.
I was born in a time when such statements were routine. But by the time I was an adult, they were not. And I grew up not expecting such statements. But they are coming again from those on the far Right and accepted by too many followers who say :well, yeah, but we like the other things they support.
There is no either/or about this. A bigot is not going to have views on other things that anyone should support.
I'm sorry, I'm too angry to continue...
Tell Tale Heart … are you the murder victim under the floorboards? Were you dis-hearted by non PC speech?
Quote from: Baruch on May 31, 2019, 10:18:04 PM
Tell Tale Heart … are you the murder victim under the floorboards? Were you dis-hearted by non PC speech?
I've actually always differentiated between non-PC speech, PC speech, and the truly stupid statements. And there IS a difference. But I dare not give examples as they would not be easily discerned.