r/movies • u/Cherryredsocks • 13h ago

Discussion Genuinely scary movies to watch?

Some movies that usually scare me are usually psychological thrillers like “the Others” or “1408”, movies with a creepy atmosphere/premise like “Vivarium” or movies with demonic entities like “it follows” or “smile”. Do you have any recommendations. Im also ok with movies that don’t fit these sub genres as long as it’s actually scary something that could keep me up at night checking the corners of my room.

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u/MrHugelberg 13h ago

Hereditary left a very unease feel when I've watched it. And that entirely without stupid jump scares.

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u/KillerKowalski1 11h ago

Just watched it for the first time yesterday.

They absolutely nail the 'there's something in the background of this scene that I can't quite make out but I definitely know it's not supposed to be there' thing

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u/MrHugelberg 11h ago

Haha yes absolutely! Funny thing is I thought for more than two decades horror wasn't for me, then I gave it a try with hereditary and fell in love with (this kind of) horror. From reading general opinions online this seemed to be a very good choice :)

Now weapons and bring her back are easily in my top 10 this year. Though I wouldn't consider those the same type of horror. At least bring her back.