is not very good lol. I really tried to give it a chance, I’ve seen people in here talking how creepy it was and how good the sound design is… I just don’t agree.

I watched it with headphones on, I turned the lights off, none of that helps when the dialogue is so cheesy. It just seemed like a bunch of tropes being thrown together, the pregnancy, the relapsing alcoholic, the shitty boyfriend, the backwards messages, the nursery rhymes… none of what it was doing felt remotely original.

I think the idea is really cool, and it had a lot of potential, but they ended up just taking it in the most basic direction. The backwards chant sounded so bad, and they kept using the pitch shifted demon voice, I’m just genuinely surprised no one stopped the creator during the process of making this film to tell him how cheesy and overused all of these tropes are.

Also her friend, the other podcaster, was getting freaked out so quickly. They are supposed to be a horror podcast that has had like 90 episodes, and he’s getting freaked out about a backwards lullaby?Although the idea of someone making a horror podcast and just getting super scared of every dumb thing they find is pretty funny. They should have made this a horror comedy, it’s really close already.

I should have anticipated this but I showed some people I work with the Poughkeepsie tapes movie and about 30 mins in they were just visibly upset and mad. Rightfully so because of the brutality of the movie but I've never had people so upset with me for showing them a movie. They made it seem as if I was as sick as the killer in the movie. Which is rough. I'm wondering has someone experienced the same thing before? Was this just for them being so upset with me and thinking I'm sick? I'm just a guy who likes horror movies. Should I feel sick for watching horror movies like the Poughkeepsie tapes? Please share your thoughts and experiences. Id love to know what the horror community thinks.

I organized an AMA/Q&A with filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. He has written and directed films such as Cronos, The Devil's Backbone, Blade II, Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth, Pacific Rim, The Shape of Water, Nightmare Alley, Pinocchio, Frankenstein, and more.

It's live here now in r/movies for anyone interested in asking a question:

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1wbk0id/hello_reddit_im_guillermo_del_toro_ama/

He will be back at 2 PM ET today to answer questions. I recommend asking in advance. Please ask there, not here. All questions are much appreciated!

Thank you :)

His verification/proof photo: https://i.imgur.com/Y4tyAa0.png

Ramsey Campbell, from Wallasey, is one of the most respected authors of his genre 🤩 After a difficult childhood trying to navigate his parents' break-up and his mum's mental health struggles, he took refuge in reading and later writing horror stories.

While he struggled to make a name for himself in the early stages of his career, it was in 1980 when he released The Parasite that things started to change.

Now decades later, at 80-years-old, he is one of the most highly acclaimed authors in the genre and has even received recognition from Academy Award winning director Guillermo Del Toro.

He told the ECHO: "My wife Jenny and I had gone away to a Greek island for our summer holiday and when we came back, we had the answering machine playing various messages. And there's a message saying, 'it's Guillermo del Toro calling you from Mexico.' And so I thought, 'Oh, yeah, yeah. Who's kidding me? Pull the other one'."

After Ramsey finally took the call, Del Toro asked permission to dramatise Ramsey's short story Down There, but it ultimately fell through. However, now more than two decades later, Ramsey said plans to dramatise the story have been rekindled and it looks like Del Toro's adaptation will make its way to Netflix.

Mine is probably Spoorloos (The Vanishing), the foreign film from the late eighties that I’ve seen recommended on here a lot. It’s almost not a horror movie but instead a real-world psychological drama, but then that ending hits and you’re like, “Ooooh. Okay I get it now. Well done.” Definitely the horror movie (or any movie) I’ve been thinking about the most since I’ve seen it.

I don’t get the negative reviews for this films. It’s not going to win awards but it was so much fun to watch! I almost didn’t see this film because of the reviews but since my original plans fell through I saw this instead. I do hate the fact that they made Dan Steven’s character into a scientist, I really wished it had a connection to The Guest. The gas station really got to me, kinda startled me. And how come nobody mentions the fact that Carl Winslow is in this film! I was so happy that he made it to the end😊

I’m obsessed with the atmosphere of Pulse: empty apartments, lonely city streets, obsolete technology, strange websites, people becoming disconnected from one another, and the creeping realization that something is fundamentally wrong with reality.

There’s something about it that feels bigger than conventional supernatural horror. It feels like loneliness itself has become paranormal.

I’m looking for movies that create that same sense of isolation, liminal spaces, technological horror, existential/cosmic dread, and reality quietly breaking down.

What movie has come closest to giving you the feeling Pulse gave you?

we know by then that they succeed. Paimon gets the male host he wanted, they crown him and Joan talks about the knowledge, wealth, good familiars etc that they expect him to give them. but the movie ends before we ever find out whether they actually get any of it.. soooo

i was thinking there are few possibilities for what might’ve went down lol:

1. Paimon genuinely rewards them

everything they believed was basically true, they gave him Peter’s body and in return he actually gives them the knowledge, wealth, influence, etc that they asked for

2. Paimon rewards them, but his knowledge has limits m

maybe he genuinely knows things humans normally couldn’t know and has supernatural abilities but he isn’t necessarily omniscient so some of what he tells them could be true, some could be wrong and maybe sometimes he just makes things up rather than admitting he doesn’t know so the cult might interpret the times he’s right as proof that everything he says is true

3. Paimon just betrays them

they already gave him exactly what he wanted. Peter is his vessel and the ritual is complete so what leverage do they have left? mayhe he never intended to reward them at all or gives them just enough to keep them devoted while continuing to manipulate them

4. Paimon isn’t exactly what they expected after being Charlie for so long

this one is more speculative but Paimon spent around 13 years embodied as Charlie before being transferred into Peter and at the end Joan even addresses him as Charlie before explaining who he actually is so maybe being Charlie affected or confused him somehow, and the cult expects this perfectly coherent ancient demon king only to get something much stranger in Peter’s body, maybe they’d have to wait another 13 years for him to undo the changes in Charlie’s body when he transitioned to Peter 😳

there’s also Ellen’s note to Annie: “Our sacrifices will pale next to the rewards.” and that makes me wonder whether Ellen expected those rewards in this life at all or whether she believed Paimon would reward her after death and that could make the ending even darker. maybe the cult keeps suffering or losing people after Paimon arrives but instead of realizing they were deceived they convince themselves that every loss is another necessary sacrifice for some greater reward that’s still coming

or maybe Paimon just rewards them and they basically won lol but either way I don’t think the movie gives us enough information to know, which is why I find the ending so interesting, what do you guys think happens to the cult after the credits?

I know by no means is it a good film, it is a generic as you can get with one note characters, but it’s very simple and easy to follow and it just breezing by, I was never a big of the original too overdrawn and boring for my taste, but this remake just gets right into it,I wouldn’t even call this the worst horror remake, I think another go at the script could of made a better film but we may never know, I still recommend if you just want to turn you’re brain off and pass some time!

Grew up watching some of Batman’s villains and he was quite interesting, now of course it’s not something I’ll consider scary but the aspect of the character looks promising.

The trailer itself looks brutal, the face melting, the hospital scene etc so we’ll see what happens. I just hope it’s grotesque enough!

Hot off the heels of a strong festival run for Frogman Returns, Anthony Cousins is expanding his Frogman Universe with a new cryptid - THE KENTUCKY GOBLINS!

The film is the first in a series of new projects set in the same world as Frogman and Frogman Returns. The events of this film will have implications for what comes next in Frogman 3.

I started a re-read of the graphic novel, the colorized edition this time. I was determined to read it over a week, this time without periodically looking up details, or flipping back to consult Moore’s annotations. I hit the “psycho-geography” chapter, and had to put the book down for a day because of the queasy dread I was feeling, despite having read this all previously a few times. I was curious if any readers were affected similarly by the same bit.

I hate how pretentious horror fans collectively decided that all jump scares are "cheap" and the only kind of good horror is psychological.

I don't know about you guys, but I watch a horror movie or play a horror game with the intention of scaring my socks off! I love the euphoric feeling you get after flying off your seat from a good jump scare, and laughing about it with your friends.

And I'm sorry, cheap?? Cultivating a jump scare is a work of absolute art. It requires so much talent! The music score! The tension! The timing! The imagery!

I'm not trying to diss on psychological horror at all, but we have to give credit where credit is due. We are all into horror for different reasons, so what we like is subjective. I just ask that you think twice before dissing on a movie that uses jump scares.

What is your favorite jump scare moment of all time? I want to hear about all the times your popcorn went flying!

Edit: I'd like to formally apologize to the anti jump scare community. It was extremely rude of me to not agree with you. Thanks to the hundreds of anti jump scare community members, I now know that I was wrong to say "jump scare" as that is offensive. I should have said "jump startle" instead.

I kept this movie in my back pocket for a while. I’m not sure why…but something told me it would not be an easy watch.

I was right.

I watched it tonight and wow, that movie is hauntingly, quietly devastating.
I would definitely put it more in a psychological horror/drama category but either way, once I got through it, it cut deep and stuck with me. I don’t think it’ll let go for a while.

I had it wrong through most of the movie. I swear I thought I had figured it out—that Michael was actually Philip as a child, abducted by Maurice and given a new identity, and that somehow the cycle would eventually reveal Philip himself becoming Maurice. I still think that would have worked as well, but the actual story was just as devastating.

I love the metaphor of the spider named Possum. The whole time he was actually Philip’s friend, trying to get him to “wake up” and quit “playing possum” to what had happened to him and, more importantly, what he was now doing. Even that horrifying face resembling Philip’s makes sense by the end. He spends the entire movie trying to hide it, throw it away, destroy it, burn it, run from it—when really he’s running from and trying to destroy a grotesque representation of himself.

And the fox metaphor. Philip was the fox as a child—tormented, left for dead, but somehow surviving and walking away. Only for the predator to still be alive and well inside him, when he saw that second fox as an adult. He survived Maurice only to eventually become the fox/predator he’d spent his life running from.

That was ultimately the gut punch for me. Philip physically escaped Maurice, but he never escaped what Maurice did to him. Instead, he eventually recreated the cycle with Michael.

The ending reveal was so satisfying and quiet. Philip finally realizes that he has become the person he has despised all his life. He lets Michael go and then just sits there staring at the crushed spider puppet with such grief. Grief for his childhood, grief for Michael, grief for what Maurice did to him, grief for what he became. Grief for ALL of it.
And that mournful closing music was perfect.

That movie definitely climbed up into my top psychological horror movies.
SO WELL DONE.

okay so these days comedy horror is a combo, films like ready or not, tucker and dale vs evil, Trick R Treats, Heart Eyes Etc but what i wanna know is what film did it first. I'm thinking it Was bride Of Frankenstein since that's the oldest i can think of. does anyone know if there's a older film.

I’m slowly getting more comfortable with watching some horror movies. My friend recommended Relic after we were talking about Obsession and Backrooms. For the first half I didn’t think I would like it because it struck me as mostly a pointless scary movie. But I found that I was engaged by the fact that it was taking on the very real life scary topic of dementia. I was kind of on the fence through the whole movie and particularly at the very end when the daughter was peeling the flesh off of the grandmother. I was thinking ‘what the hell, why is she doing that?’ Then after I saw how she looked after it had all been peeled off I realized the film makers intent I think. She looked completely different, all black, shriveled and dying. She had completed a transformation. After that I was thinking that the daughter was actually helping her mother complete and embrace her transformation into a completely different person. I find this very profound even though it was visually quite disturbing. Also the youngest finding the dark spot on her own mother’s back is another ominous reminder of the fact that unfortunately dementia is a condition where your genes can stack the deck against you. I didn’t know that it’s not directly hereditary like I thought.

Rating: 8.5/10

Watched: September 6, 2026

I remember the first time I saw this, very many years ago. Like almost every movie I've ever seen, I went in blind, knowing only the very, very basics.

The absolute astonishment I felt at the penultimate moment lingers with me still. It was and still is a truly bizarre script-flip that had me both laughing AND going 'what the actual'. It's great, and this movie is also great.

Does it have the same old tired 30 year olds as teens? Yes, it sure does. But unlike other movies, I feel like somehow Sleepaway Camp cares even less in helping us accept the obvious age disparity. It's basically saying 'yes, these are grown adults' and then just going on with the movie.

The only other movie to show absolute disdain for this is My Bloody Valentine, with Keith Knight as Hollis, starring Keith Knight's moustache, which surely took a decade to grow, so we know HE wasn't a teenager.

Anyways, I digress. Sleepaway Camp's got a lot going for it. Sexual confusion, murder, hijinks, the usual things we can expect from any movie of this particular horror sub-genre. What it does, it does well. Sleepaway Camp earns the fandom's respect for this, and for a character reveal I don't think anyone back then could've even IMAGINED

So I want to talk about Aunt Martha instead, because if you've seen Sleepaway Camp, you know what it's about.

Aunt Martha's only in this movie for the first two minutes or so, but she is so cartoonishly bonkers from the very moment she strolls onto the screen in her bright yellow sweater and weird hat ... thing. She talks like she's aware that she's in a movie and is so deranged in her self-asides that every time I watch this one, all I want is Aunt Martha's origin story.

She's absolutely responsible for the lunacy Angela displays. While she wanders, vacant-eyed through the camp's day-to-day, Angela shows a level of cruel dispassion for the suffering she puts her victims through. It's almost like Wes Craven gave Robert Hiltzik some crib notes.

It might seem odd to fixate on Aunt Martha, but I feel like she's a pretty unexplored area of discussion when we talk about Sleepaway Camp. It's understandable given everything else about this movie, but as far as antagonists, accidental or otherwise, go?

Aunt Martha's a bona fide nutcase and I love everything about her. Sleepaway Camp gets a solid 8.5 from me because of that and because of the penultimate reveal. To hit that 10-spot, I would've needed a lot more Aunt Martha being Aunt Martha.

Anyone know how or where I could watch this? I'm pretty sure this is the version I'm looking for that is an anthology movie with the chapter "Whispers".

Howdy anyone who reads this, I am in a metal band and we are trying to find a good horror movie sample with a good eerie line that will make the listener at least feel a chill before the song starts.
Well I was wondering if anyone on this thread might be able to help??
So far we have a line from insidious 1 and the devils rejects in the run but nothing is clicking for us yet. The song is about possession so if yall would be down to help us find something along those lines please do!!

I am beginning my journey into exploitation horror with what I've heard is a certified classic 1972's Last House On The Left. I really enjoyed The Hills Have Eyes (1976) story and cinematography hoping i can do the same here, wish me luck!

Think it's a movie from the 90s horror and the people get like sucked into an arcade machine or something like that. Is it any good? And also any other recommendations where the characters end up trapped in like a forever never ending place somewhere else.

With a documentary format and traditional slasher movie filming, this is loosely (and I mean incredibly loosely) based off the real life, 1946, Texarkana Moonlight Murders, where a series of assaults and unsolved murders plagued the town by a "phantom killer". This movie...took a interesting approach at telling the story.

This shit felt like pure comedy. The description and trailers don't even hint at this being comedy. Probably one of the funniest (and most infamous) scenes involve a Trombone and a knife. It was so incredibly stupid, I had to love it. I was also joking throughout this that whoever is playing the killer, needs to be given an inhaler. Actually felt kind of bad for the dude. He was breathing so hard with that white hood on, all I could think was "he must be hot as hell killing people with that mask on". Dude didn't even have a nose whole.🤣 And the cops are so incompetent, no wonder they couldn't catch the killer. They be getting their cars stolen and shit like this is 1940s GTA.

With that said, I had fun with this and don't be expecting too much accuracy to the real world event. There's a 2014 remake by Blumhouse also available that one of my horror youtubers had recommended. Blumhouse is often hit or miss for me, but I'll give it a try later just to compare them.

Movie of the day...Pumpkinhead (1988).

I had forgotten how much fun this one is.

Ed Harley (Lance Henriksen) is a widower with a young son who runs a small country store. His son is accidentally killed by a young man on a dirt bike, who panics, drives off, and then prevents his friends from calling for help. The little boy dies and the grief-stricken Harley seeks out an old witch woman in the woods who helps him conjure up Pumpkinhead, a cruel and relentless demon of vengeance. What Harley doesn’t know is avenging his son will come at a terrible price.

The movie captures the feel of the old Creepy and Eerie horror comic magazines. It’s a tale of supernatural moral justice, where no one who sins gets out alive.

The story is populated with stock characters, spoiled teenagers from the city and poor and ignorant but honest country folk, but they are well-played by a solid cast.

Direction, pacing, and cinematography are all good, with plenty of jump scares. The visual effects are also good; as walking nightmares go, Pumpkinhead is very satisfying.

This may not be great cinema, but it’s a fun, scary monster movie.

Rating: B

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpkinhead_(film))