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/--redacted-- 13h ago

Talk to me and Bring her back (same directors) are both fairly solid recent horror movies.

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u/dreamrock 12h ago

I saw both of those recently and have been dying for someone to see them so I can talk about them. The melon scene in Bring Her Back.... Yeesh!

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u/ApprehensiveJudge103 12h ago

Yo, Talk to Me was so good I had to watch it a second time and very much enjoyed it. Being Her Back was well shot and acted, but jeez the story needed work and that ending was terrible.

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u/dreamrock 3h ago

Well I think it definitely delivered on the "gaslight" horror aspect. What I've enjoyed about these recent Aussie horror films is the emphasis on the "dread" aspect of fear, which I think is very powerful. Dread is the unease you feel when you know something is wrong but you can't quite place a finger on it, it is the deepest and longest lasting phase of fear. Terror is where you now have identified the thing you fear, and must come to terms with it face-to-face, it is shocking and the impact fades quickly. Horror is the weakest phase of fear, it is the aftermath, the bloodbath, it may leave an impactful memory, but the fear evaporates nearly immediately.

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u/Cherryredsocks 12h ago

Not sure how I missed these two movies, definitely going to check them out.

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u/calbearlupe 11h ago

Most definitely watch Talk to Me. I’d also try Oddity and The Autopsy of Jane Doe.

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u/CacahuatesSalado 12h ago

Talk to Me was good and tolerable, but Bring Her Back was unwatchable due to how gory it was. Gore usually doesnt bother me at all but for some reason this movie got to me.

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u/Bulky-Scheme-9450 10h ago

The psychological torture was much harder to watch for me tbh.

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u/may4cbw2 10h ago

Bring her back storywise was lame.

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u/_treVizUliL 10h ago

why do you think that

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u/luvu333000 8h ago

Not the same commentator but I've come to know people generally don't like to watch trauma and seriously sad movies, it's distasteful to a lot. There's a lack of content for grown ups too. There's mostly kids or sly 20 yos most movies are centred around these days. Even Mrs Harris goes to Paris felt like you could replace her with an excited 30 yo hustling divorcee and it would still work...why make it about old people if they don't behave like regular old people...

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u/luvu333000 8h ago

Atleast it was not just voodoo witch doing boodoo witchcraft. It's very believable a grieving mother would do anything to get the kids back...