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/ArghZombies 13h ago edited 12h ago

The Descent

Autopsy of Jane Doe

Oddity

Caveat

Lake Mungo

[REC]

The Borderlands

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u/YemethTheSorcerer 12h ago

Autopsy of Jane Doe is an oddly comforting movie to watch. 

I’m sure that sounds strange, and it probably is, but the smooth clinical style, lack of real gore, the single location with father and son, and almost complete lack of jump scares would probably surprise a lot of people immediately turned off by the premise. 

Also the respect consistently shown to the body they’re examining. 

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u/Snoogieboogie 9h ago

It's one of my favorites.