The Enigma of Amigara Fault aka the holes comic is pretty high up there.
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The author is super famous but I'm not sure I've ever actually read any of his works.
I own a couple of Junji Ito's works and I love them. His art style and timing really lends itself to the horror genre
I've heard hes excellent and I'm positive I've consumed some media directly from him or directly influenced by him. I've never read a Manga though.
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Event Horizon.
Cool movie for sure
The unofficial Warhammer origin movie of the unofficial trilogy, followed by Sunshine (2007) and Pandorum (2009)
Edit: optional 4th: The Black Hole (1979). Disney's original take on the space opera is actually just a worse version of Event Horizon
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The film that scared me the most was 'Paranormal Activity'. It was the simplicity and how it opened the door and let your imagination do the heavy lifting.
The scariest book I've read of late is 'Incidents Around the House'. It put me in touch with the child version of myself that was afraid of everything.
Creepy movie! Haven't read that book but I'll probably end up looking into it, love horror media.
If, as a kid, you were scared of something under your bed or in your closet, it's a good one.
I'm a big strong man now, I still get skeeved out by slightly open closets (all of the closets in my house are two folding door style, except my hall closets)
Same.
I can close a book and just verbalize myself that: "It's literally just a story." But books can get into one's head. :)
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SOMA continues to bother me. Much more about the ideas than the actual gameplay. It's relevant. It feels more possible every year.
It's either that or Stingers from Satisfactory, which are zero percent philosophical nightmare and just pure AAAAAA SHITSHITSHIT
The scariest aspects of SOMA apply to everyone regardless of scifi brain transfer/copy technology if you think about it. In the years immediately following the release of the game I followed discussions about it which largely converged on the comforting explanation that the idea of a transfer is a delusion, and continuity of consciousness must be always tied to the original body. But unless you somehow rule out the idea that it is an emergent property of the information being processed in our heads, there isn't a lot of reason to think that would be the case. A copy of you with all your memories and brain patterns has equal claim as an original. But we don't even have quite the same pattern as a moment ago, so maybe our own claims to continuity or self aren't as strong as we rely on them being.
It calls into question basic intuitions about the nature of our existence that people have a very difficult time bringing themselves to question, something the game pretty brilliantly depicts with its robots that are deeply offended, hostile and defensive about the suggestion that they are robots.
SOMA was amazing. It's in my top 3 greatest games I have ever played. The ending broke me.
The really unsettling one for me was Beyond the Aquila Rift
I saw it on Love, Death, and Robots and it really creeped me out.
Ooh yeah, that was a fantastic one.
Contagion was released several years before COVID. It got almost everything right about what that was like. The ending - with militarized response - didn't happen - but don't worry - that will happen in Trump Plague #2
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Every Paolo Baciagalupi novel and the first two acts of almost every Cory Doctorow novel. "The Water Knife" by Baciagalupi is fictional near-future extrapolation on the excellent non-fiction "Cadillac Desert." "Walkaway" and the Little Brother books by Doctorow cast a stark light on the nature of power, surveillance, and authoritarianism in Western society. It doesn't take a lot of social imagination to see that's exactly where we're going.
Sounds like I have alot to look into.
There’s only one film that has ever really given me the creeps and that’s The Descent. I think it’s the combination of the creatures and being stuck underground in those cave systems (plus the claustrophobic nature of it all). Plenty of times it gave me full on spine tingling shivers.
Also I will also say watch the full version with the extended (proper) ending.
Very scary movie
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Lights Out is an oldie but a goodie horror short. Could do without
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the goofy creature reveal
at the end though.
Curve is another really good short that builds a sense dread and hopelessness. No cheap jumpscares, overused tropes (looking at you overly exaggerated smiles), or complicated lore. Just good old fashion universal horror.
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It Follows. It’s not typical scary. What gets me is the dread of an entity that is chasing you and there’s no stopping it no matter what you do or where you go. I hate it because sometimes I dream about it and you know how running works in dreams right? You can’t. I always have to crouch down to grab the ground and launch myself forward.
Also, Fire in the Sky. Watched it as a kid and was so terrified I haven’t seen it again since. Maybe it won’t be scary anymore to me as an adult, but I haven’t had the chance to do a re-watch.
So, I did like It Follows, I initially watched it with a guy who said "ooooo herpes again" every time the entity showed up. It was very funny but ruined the horror aspect. I do think its a good horror movie, but, forever ruined by that experience. I've never seen/heard of fire in the sky, I'll have to check it out
I had read such good things about it, but when I watched it, it just felt like a silly "oooh, herpes!" kind of movie, yeah. Just didn't hit it right for some of us, I guess.
It Follows had a great concept but kinda missed the execution by trying to be traditionally scary. The first appearances of the monster where it still looked like a human were the best because it could be anywhere at any moment. Then it started showing up as a zombie and lost that. It's still a good movie but it could have been so much better.
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https://joyreactor.com/post/911521
This comic
I know this is what my computer would do to me because it tries to do it everyday
Reminds me of "I have no mouth and I must scream"
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Honestly, Sphere (the book). On the surface it really appears to be standard Michael Crichton sci-fi/monster stuff, but when you realize what's going on, the deeper the horror gets because it's so much harder to face your fears when they physically manifest, especially in an already difficult environment.
Dread, by Clive Barker.
A short story. Ain't telling you anything about it.
I do very much like Clive Barker.
For the horror readers, it's in "Books of Blood, Volume 2."
I watched it only once, in the 90s, and I've never been able to watch it again since. At the same time, I think it's an excellent film.
The seemingly light and even humorous beginning of the film is bit by bit replaced by the sheer horror of the gradual loss of humanity and the final transformation into a monster. Simultaneously, in my perception, a glimmer of hope for a good ending is created, only to be ruthlessly destroyed at the very end. Even the music from this film feels overwhelming to me.
I highly recommend it, but you should never watch it ;)
Do you happen to be frequently. On the edge of sleep deprivation? Either by continually running short on total hours and/or by ignoring the first wave of sleepiness? In my experience, such habits bring upon The Horrors. I've recently been honing in on those as random bouts of artistic endeavor. If I'm gonna dream it up, I may as well put it to paper
Anyway, my suggestion is The Jaunt by Stephen King. I think it's only about 20 pages, part of a collection of other short stories. I have yet to read it myself
Anyway, my suggestion is The Jaunt by Stephen King. I think it’s only about 20 pages, part of a collection of other short stories. I have yet to read it myself
It's longer than you think!
Honestly, at the time, The Blair Witch Project.
I still think it's a great horror movie.
I want to say it was one of the Ju-on movies. They made a bunch of them.
Special mentions:
- Suicide Circle
- I Saw the Devil
The Orphanage
EDIT: Removed rest of comment and Wikipedia link
You should probably put most of that on a spoilers tag. Fortunately for me, I was already familiar with the movie, but I specifically came to this thread to get ideas of things to watch, and now that would have been ruined for me if I hadn't already seen it. I now it's old, but it's not a movie that most people have seen.
But yes, and great movie.
Pretty sure you're trying to forget Bedfellows
FUCKING AH. I guess I reversed the genders. What a horrible trip down memory lane.
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