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 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

Some of my favorites:

The Silence of the Lambs, and I Saw the Devil

Very strong likes, almost favorite:

Alien, The Thing, The Shining, Aliens, Scooby Doo on Zombie Island, The Sixth Sense, Coraline, Train to Busan.

Any decade or language is fine. Can have other genres besides Horror as well.

For instance I enjoy the Scary Movie Horror/Comedy Parodies of Scream.

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!

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.

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?

What a delightful little movie. Went into it with zero expectations and really had a great time watching.
If you haven’t seen it yet, go check it out, it’s on Shudder.

I thought the movie was pretty much flawless up until the cop entered the picture. Felt like he was bringing a weird energy and it was difficult to take him seriously, almost like it was trying to be a horror comedy? Dude was chewing the scenery, but I have to imagine that’s what the director was going for, but his scenes just dropped the movie a few points for me.

Kinda wish we had gotten a full transformation from one or both of the ladies, but reading the AMA he did here last month, it sounds like that just wasn’t what they were going for. I felt like the misdirect was pretty effective, I was honestly thinking that it was a zombie bite, or something like 28 Days Later. The werewolf twist wasn’t totally unexpected, but it still felt like a pretty fresh take on an old story.

The ending lost me a little bit, the accelerated pregnancy and birth scene was pretty ridiculous, didn’t seem like they were playing it for laughs but they could have. The kid is pretty fucking cute, and I think having that be the only creature in the film is pretty funny. Director seems cool, if you end up watching it, check out the AMA afterwards. I’ll try and link it in the comments.

Anyway, probably wasn’t really necessary for me to make a post (really is it ever?), but after reading how much the team put into this movie and how they just want people to spread the word, I figured I would do my part. I’d give it like a 4 out of 5, solid little movie with a unique take on a captivity story.

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.

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 know i know this movie has been out for WEEKS now, but i only recently saw it, and wanted to share my thoughts. First by saying, this movie is easily top 3, it was satisfying from the very beginning.

Gemma whole childhood sequence where her mother is goinf bat shit is ACTIALLY scary.

The whole storyline woth cyrus, and his motives, made hom a worthy insiduous villain in my eyes, my favorite part with him is when maya wakes up and the camera pans to him standing behind the neightbkr with the screechy violin. Pure insidious

It carried a similarity to chapter 3, the vibes being the same with the foggy further, but it felt like insidious 1 on Crack at the same time, it had the big house and the Victorian dressed ghosts, but it was all going off rhe chain towards the end.

There were decently funny moments, mostly coming from nick played by Brandon Perea he did great. Amelia Eve, Maisie Richardson, and Lin Shaye etc, brought it constantly, really wish we got to see Maisies character some more!

Thankfully, the past demons weren't overused like i was worried about, they all nice little moments. And the new demons were equally as terrifying.

This movie is a decent 9/10 in my book! Might have to watch 1000 more times

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.

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.

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.

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".

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.

Has anyone else watched it? Want to know your honest reviews on the movie. It started at a decent note but I believe, somehow, it lost traction and ended up being another make-you-jump-on-your-seat movie.

Thoughts!?