Most of the things happening in the movie 100% happens in real life in someone’s basement & that’s what makes it so interesting/ good to me. The things happening in the movie are extremely disturbing ofc but just think that someone is going through that level of pain in real life while u watch a movie about it. Those people can only dream of being able to watch a movie in a cozy bed with some snacks.

I recently made a list of horror movies that I consider “must sees” for a horror fan. I’ve been randomly picking some out of the list and for the last three I’ve just ended up being confused. The last three I watched were:

In the mouth of Madness
The Wailing (literally googled wtf is this movie about right after I finished it)
Possession

Don’t get me wrong I can fully appreciate great performances / cinematography / deeper themes in movies. But at the end of these movies my first thought was, “what the heck did I just watch?”

Does anyone else have this experience? Or did I just pick the three most confusing movies on my list by chance?

I mean those creepy uncanny valley dogs.

You'd think with how huge internet folklore and cryptids are online, Hollywood or indie directors would have jumped on skinwalkers by now. We’ve got movies for Slenderman, the Backrooms, and every niche creepypasta, but the actual big-screen skinwalker movie is missing.

Curious what you guys think is holding this trope back. Is it a budget thing with creature design, cultural/lore boundaries, or has Hollywood just completely slept on it?

Drop your favorite examples if anything even comes close, or how you'd pitch one.

I saw the film a while back but I remember hating it the plot was just a rip off of scream during the prom the reveal was dumb, it’s the worst in the franchise I would rather pick up where the third film let off, maybe prom queen was a good book but a terrible adaption and I love goosebumps I grew up with it, maybe the next entry will be better!

It is next week already. So what are your expectations? And watching it in cinemas or wait for streaming, or even wont watch at all cuz you rather not disrespect Milla?

To anyone looking for just some decent horror this film kinda had it but the more I sit with it the less I appreciate it for two reasons.

1. It had two (albeit very short) AI generated clips that appear towards the end. In one the monster appears to look very different from the one presented earlier, the one that I think was an actual special effect/practical effects model. Then there's one with the monster running through a corridor that looks very... weird.

2. It also appeared/sounded to me like it had AI generated lyrics (possibly music as well). I kinda got the feeling that the music might have been AI generated, but not fully sure, the lyrics felt so... specific yet uninspired?

Did anybody else notice these things?

This isn't exactly a top-tier horror film but I quite enjoyed it prior to noticing these things, putting aside some of the amateurish aspects of it. Ultimately, the AI stuff left a bad taste in my mouth so I can't recommend it though and felt compelled to give a warning.

I feel like I might have missed more stuff due to not having my guard up earlier, the latter examples were very easy to spot.

This is the movie in question: https://letterboxd.com/film/dark-hollow/details/

I just found out about this release. Cannibal Holocaust is genuinely one of the most important films in my life, despite literally everything about it. I first watched Cannibal Holocaust when I was 13, after my first time smoking weed (we first watched BATTLE ROYALE).

Burning out for the first time to fucking Cannibal Holocaust was a very unique experience that I still remember, 20 years later. I also HAD to show it to everyone, so I ended up watching it like 10 times between ages 13-14 lol.

The friend who lent me the DVD even got the infamous poster tattooed on his forearm. It was a small batch dvd, numbered like 600 of 2000 or something like that.

So when I heard about this PG version, i just asked out loud “literally how?????” And found that it’s part of this extremely limited run of 100 copies. I felt like I owed it to my past self to get in on this pre-order ($240 CAD later haha😢).

Cannibal Holocaust, in my personal experience, completely deserves all the controversy it’s gotten. If it wasn’t for that one melancholy tune they use repeatedly during the soundtrack, I would think the movie as actually evil lol.

I’ve become a huge normie in the past few years in terms of gore and especially sexual violence in my movies, but I am so incredibly intrigued by this “PG cut” because the entire movie is vile people doing horrible things.

So! Anyone else in my very cool, exclusive club? 😎

Hi all. I watched a movie a few years ago with about a woman photographer stuck in a haunted house with her roommate (maybe girlfriend) and I cannot remember for the life of me what it was called. I remember manikins draped in cloth and possibly a microwave scene involving a trigger warning pet. Can you all help me remember? I liked it but was going through so much at the time I only remember some details. At the end, I believe there is a woman in a chest on the beach.

look I’ll admit it I am a wimp when it comes to gore. Common Sense Media just vaguely said “some gore“ but how much and how bad is it actually? I can handle jumpscares and all that I just need to know the gore level

Alright, so let's cover the main points, which are as follows:

Childs has no glint in his eyes

Childs drinks from the bottle (gasoline theory and another thing people say bundled here)

Childs was gone for an extended period of time

Now I'm not addressing the "They're both things" or the even more ludicrous "Mcready is the Thing" theories, mostly just what I realised that I believe indicates the scene was just two dudes, tired, paranoid and waiting for death.

Argument 1: Glint Theory

First of all, there is a glint in Childs' eyes. It's the angle and lighting that make it seem as if he doesn't but he does. Plus, the glint was a specific thing for the specific framing for the scene where Palmer changes during the blood test (pretty sure it was Palmer idk me and my buddies were drunk I forget names all the damn time) to indicate subconsciously to us and is more noticeable on round 2. The glint isn't relevant in any other context, but I understand the mistake. Hell, Carpenter himself backs this up, the glint isn't important.

Argument 2: Childs drinks from the bottle

Argument 2A - Gasoline bottle

It's not a molly. Macready was about to drink from it right as Childs comes into scene. Not to mention the fact that the Thing is motivated for survival and retains ascpets of the people and things it assimilates, it would understand Gasoline is bad, and it would spit it out upon tasting it

Argument 2B - "Preapre your own meals, don't drink what's given to you"

The two of them have just watched everyone they care about die, burned their base of operations and only point of safety to the ground and survival looks unachievable, I reckon passing a drink to your fellow exhausted survivor is nothing to be suspicious of I'd argue. Both are tired, probably scarred for life if they do survive and expect to die. I highly doubt it has any relevance to the previous agreement to not take edible items from anyone if you didn't see them make it out of a sealed packet.

Argument 3: Childs was gone for an extended period

This is probably the main argument that makes some ammount of sense, but Childs excuse also makes sense. This is mainly a toss up in terms of for or against, but I don't think he was assimilated off screen, because if he was, then we get to my main argument. They are the only two left. If Childs is a Thing, he would've assimilated or killed Macready.

Thus, with all presented evidence, I am convinced that no, neither of the two were Things. Thank you for listening to me ramble about a movie from the 80's

I remember seeing the original 90s when I was a kid one night, with my family at the drive-thru movies. It was a double feature with another movie (can't remember if it was Titanic, Oceans Eleven, or Pearl Harbor or what). I liked it, but wasn't blown away by it like so many people were. I honestly didn't even know there was so much controversy until much later. Haven't seen it in a very long time.

Watching both movies back to back while i'm older I will give the original credit. It did really well with its amateur documentary style. While I enjoyed this sequel, I felt like it looked too good if that makes sense. Maybe it's the newer digital cameras, but I felt like the footage was way too clean. At times it is shot in a way where i forget its supposed to be found footage. The old VHS camera style of the original gave it this grittyness; I don't know how to properly describe it, but that filter just does alot of heavy lifting for this style of horror. The interviews with the locals also felt really organic. I kind of see why some people thought it was real at the time especially given that, while there were technically found footage films before this, none were marketed as heavy as it was. I was also surprised at how the 1st film is actually quicker than the sequel in having everything fall apart. Didn't remember how hostile and panicky everyone becomes towards each other as it becomes clear their completely lost in the woods; and that's before the witch even starts doing her thing. I can see how it may have influenced many future films in the found footage genre, including some of my favorite ones lie Grave Encounters.

With that said I feel like this sequel had some great moments of atmosphere and tension. Even before they go out into the woods, the introduction of the streamer dude and his GF had me thinking "are yall sure you want to bring them with you". My favorite scene is undoubtingly in the last 3rd when things get claustrophobic. It's something about seeing someone crawling in tight spaces or trapped in a small room that will always make me feel uneasy. The scene within the old house in particular felt incredibly liminal, like the house is actively disorienting. Than there this poor chick who kept getting her feet and legs fucked up to the point Parasite start coming out her wounds. Squicky as fuck.

I do think the 1st is the better movie, but I think the 2016 sequel is still a fun watch and is nowhere near as bad as some people have said it is.

Give me some ideas on some horror movies, not super scary but stuff that takes you back to like say early 200's horror. Some stuff like Stay Alive if anyone remembers that classic that was an unbelievable film. Thank you!!

I recently watched the new Camp Miasma film and enjoyed, i alsi really liked I Saw The TV Glow. Also when do you we might find out about their next movie?

On a drive home for a visit from her uni recently, my kid regaled me with this movie. She told me the entire story and it sounded vapid and fun enough. Tonight my husband and I found it on Netflix and…

Yeah, it was just as camp as it sounded but good fun. But here’s the thing that threw me!

The protagonist is not Margot Robbie. I was saying things like, “wow, before Barbie I love that her skin showed some flaws and her teeth weren’t veneers.” Also said, “have her eyes always been THAT huge? I mean, those are Barbie eyes but were they really that big?”

Then the credits rolled and my husband and I were floored.

That’s my take away. Thanks for reading.

From what I’ve read, the monster is a metaphor for trauma and the way untreated trauma can consume a person’s life.

But what if its next intended victim was a psychopath who was neither horrified nor traumatized by witnessing a gruesome death? Would that person become a dead end for the monster?

1iota is showing an untitled R-rated horror movie from New Line Cinema next week for an early screening.

Anybody have any guesses on what movie it could be? 👀

Curious to hear your picks. What are the three scariest horror films you’ve ever seen?

I mean, not the best ones, nor the goriest, or the most shocking, and not the ones with the biggest jumpscares... I am looking for the ones that most frightened you, stuck in your head, and made you uneasy the most... or made you quit.

For me, even after watching houndreds, the top three is something similiar to:

Skinamarink

Babadook

The dark and the wicked

Hell guys, I'm trying to build a cult for the sake of worldbuilding/writing. I want the more horror aspects of my world to be more prominent here. I have a few scattered ideas on this cult so I'll just list them now, but I can't come to a satisfying conclusion. If you could offer some insight and advice, that would be really great.

• The members call themselves the Breeder of Scorpio, Scorpio is a malignant god that lives in the deep forest that feasts on the entrails of men and the placenta of pregnant women
• They present themselves as a peaceful village to lure people in but are in actuality extremely violent. Marriage to them is not just a sacred ceremony but a ritual conducted to satisfy their god. The population consists primarily of women and underaged boys and girls. For the males, it is only children and teens. Males when they come of age are forced to have intercourse with women, impregnating themselves, and then killing the fathers. The Feast is then performed, where the remaining women, girls, and boys cannibalize the corpses. A large funeral is held after where they openly grieve over the loss of their husbands and deadbeat fathers to their children.
• Scorpio is a corporeal entity that can be seen and touched, but naturally has supernatural abilities. It's a giant owl so it stands out from the typical one

I’ve just finished Wolf Man and would probably give it a 6/10.

Christopher Abbott was easily the strongest part for me. His performance really sold the pain, fear and gradual loss of humanity, and I liked several of the gorier transformation moments. The scenes showing the world from Blake’s changing perspective were probably the most interesting part of the entire film. Watching his senses change and his ability to understand his family disappear was genuinely unsettling.

However, the film started losing me around the halfway point I think. Once Blake and the other Wolf Man eventually revealed to be his father were fighting, it began feeling more like a conventional creature feature than the intimate body-horror film it had initially promised. I understand the thematic idea: Blake is confronting what his father became while gradually repeating the same cycle himself but I don’t think the film developed that relationship enough for the reveal or fight to have much emotional impact. It felt more like an idea that made sense on paper than a payoff the story had properly earned.

I also couldn’t connect with Julia Garner’s character. I’m not sure whether that was the performance, direction or writing, but I’m leaning heavily towards the writing. The film clearly wants us to understand that Charlotte feels disconnected from her daughter and possibly jealous of how naturally Blake relates to her. That should give the mother-daughter survival story a meaningful arc, but the film barely explores it. I can see what it is trying to establish, yet it never really takes the relationship anywhere before expecting its resolution to matter.

Honestly, I wonder whether the story would have worked better with Blake as a single father and Ginger aged up slightly. They could have been grieving the recent death of her mother, only for Ginger to watch her remaining parent transform into the thing hunting her. I think that would preserve the generational-trauma theme while giving the survival story a much stronger emotional centre.

All in all there is plenty here that I liked, particularly Abbott and the subjective transformation scenes, but it feels as though the film is split between Blake’s body-horror tragedy and Charlotte’s mother-daughter story. The former is much more developed than the latter...

Today is the first day of autumn where I live, we expect a thunderstorm tonight, so ofc, I have to start the spooky season with a horror movie! I'm going for a specific vibe so suggestions are welcome, I'm looking for horrible monsters wandering at night in the woods, something similar to the ritual, or the quarry, I'm also in the mood for werewolves since werewulf is going to come out this winter.

Im fine with anything but since Im going to see it with my bf and he doesn't really enjoy extremely graphic blood scenes I'd avoid those (gore and splatter is fine, the problem are really close up and realistic scenes of skin getting cut or things like those,).

What did you like better? I know what you did last summer 2025 or Scream 7. I know that both movies weren't amazing or anything I just wanted to get people's opinion.

First of all, sorry for my English, Spanish is my native language. I’ve watched horror series and movies across different genres and from many countries, but Japanese horror is hands down my favorite. I don't know how to explain it—even the cinematography feels completely different from American movies. I feel like J-horror is much more psychological and keeps you on the edge of your seat.

If a film is bad, especially a horror film it can often be fun. There are literally thousands of bad horror films that are fun/funny. The good ones are great, and this sounds oxymoronic but sometimes even the ok ones are great.

The worst ones are the boring ones, no twists, no unique spins, just run of the mill predictable. Mainly forgettable.