What’s the creepiest horror movie you’ve ever seen?
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Someone asked a question about favorite horror movies, and it got me thinking about the differences between a “scary” movie and a “creepy” movie. A good scary movie usually shocks and disturbs me while I’m watching it, but a good creepy movie is more thought provoking and leaves an impression long after the credits roll.
I watched the 1980 film “The Changeling” for the first time last week, and it was the first time in a while where I had to keep the lights on afterwards. George C. Scott is fantastic in it. And as a ghost story, it has a great sense of realism to it. Far better than Poltergeist in my opinion.
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The recent Pinocchio movie by Guillermo del Toro.
Not so much the film itself, but the way everything was animated, everything moved.
Very unnatural, like I was watching an eldritch abomination.
Dolls possessed by demons, doing their best pretending to be human, but never quite getting there.
I loved Del Toro’s Pinocchio but I can definitely see why some people are turned off by the animation style.
Love The Changeling. No cheap jump scares I remember. Happen to like Scott too as an actor. And this was shot in film not digital.
I recommend The Mothman Prophecies with Richard Gere. Watch it in the dark alone and tell me how long before you turned the lights back on. Lol
I’ve always heard mixed things about Mothman Prophecies, but I’ll still have to check it out.
Spoiler on Moth Man.
I live in the state that it supposedly happened. It happened in the late 50’s or early 60’s. They had the period cars correct but they had caller ID and if I remember right, they had cell phones in the movie. I was yelling at the TV. But beyond those issues, it was a good movie.
Edited to add: I thought the movie Saw was very creepy.
Ihave avoided horror movies ever since I was a little kid and the babysitter put on “The Bride of Frankenstein.” I had to fall asleep downstairs on the couch. I am a wimp, I know.
For me Cujo, Stephen King. As an animal lover and horror fan the realistic scenario was creepier than anything I’d ever seen.
I mentioned The Shining in my question (mentioned by the OP) and I feel it’s very creepy.
Two movies which had creepy beginnings were the newer Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Hills Have Eyes. Texas Chainsaw I finished and I thought it was scary, but as far as creepy goes, the beginning, where the whole town is in on the conspiracy is really creepy. The Hills Have Eyes I didn’t finish but the beginning was creepy.
The Others is one of my favorite “scary” movies even though it’s more creepy than horror. It was creepy because I couldn’t quite figure out what was going on, but it was in a big old house in a dark creepy place.
The Death Curse of Tartu.
The Blob. Where in a hospital the blob drops on a patient and her teenage kid trys to pull her out and only saves the arm. Very creepy.
I just watched The Conjuring again. That one is creepy to me. I find it interesting that some movies I felt were very creepy at the time I just laugh at now. Something like The Amityville Horror (the original one from 1979) or The Exocist were like this.
^i saw the Exorcist when I was 16. It scared me to death.
Maybe recency bias…Midsommar.
Also I find cults to be scarier than zombies.
The Republican party voting for a new speaker.
For most recent I’ll go with Midsommar.
For an older film I’d go with The Hills Have Eyes.
I was ten years old when I saw Quatermass and the Pit, a BBC series broadcast back in 1959. I have never seen anything so creepy before or since.
I also saw Old recently. It was creepy and disturbing and made you think.
The Ring was pretty creepy, esp. when watching alone at midnight in a darkened living room.
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