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Favorite horror movie that you've seen a million times, but would gladly watch again with a friend that said "I've never seen it."?

/u/SuumCuique1011 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 21:25:52 -0400

I've got all the typical ones. The Thing, Evil Dead (we're both Bruce dorks and have seen pretty much everything he's done), etc.

I've got "The ABCs Of Death 2" (I loved "K".) He hasn't seen "Event Horizon" in a long time, so that's a must at some point.

A family member and I have occasional horror movie nights and we're trying to plan our next one. I just feel like we've both seen everything at this point.

What are your "unsung" ones that you'd be excited to show someone else?

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fellow Saw franchise lovers raise your hands

/u/bitchcraffft — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 20:13:33 -0400

I’m doing my annual Halloween Saw movie rewatch this weekend and wanted to find my people.

Funny enough, I used to be the person that said I’d never watch them but one Halloween I gave them a chance and proved myself way wrong. I love the crime thriller elements, and the fact that most if not all of the gore is practical. The plot is also a lot smarter than I ever gave it credit for before I watched them.

My favorites are 1, 3, 4, and 6. I also get a little feelsy during Chester Bennington’s cameo in the 7th one. I love the references to horror classics like Rear Window and the pit and the pendulum.

My favorite funny story about these movies is that my siblings and I went to see Saw X in the theater and the eras tour movie was playing in the next theater over so when the movie was quiet we could hear Taylor singing

What is your comfort horror movie?

/u/idunno324 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 19:51:41 -0400

For me it's Finals Destination 3. I remember watching it as a kid, it brings back good memories of spending time with friends and family.

I like to watch it when I'm feeling sick or upset

What is your comfort horror movie ?

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Describe your favorite horror, film in the worst way possible and see who gets it. Spoilers just in case.

/u/Marshatucker300 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 19:48:07 -0400

I have 4.

A goofy and friendly career counselor helps a man with PTSD get a job to support his sister so she doesn’t live with their evil aunt. Can’t wait for the sequel coming soon.
A 20 year-old pit boss coal miner has a rivalry with his boss’s naïve son who puts him in a coma doing a holiday and when he wakes up, he can’t let it go.
A guy a mass captures a girl that looks like his mother at a young age and makes her live with him chained, and only her brother and college students party and can save her.
A chairman of a corporation that’s finding creative ways to save the planet gets stalked by a girl and her friends at his work place and on a cruise ship after his employees leave.

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Just watched Black Phone for the first time

/u/atomic_mermaid — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 19:40:28 -0400

Genuinely enjoyed it; one of my favourite new horrors I've seen in a while. the jump-scares were good, the pacing was decent, the supernatural element was just the right side to not feel corny. I feel like I could have done with knowing a bit more about The Grabber and his motivations though. Would have liked to have seen more of Max too; I had a few theories about their background but it was never touched on.

The girl who played Gwen absolutely stole the show for me though, she was the best bit of it. Such a great character; she really brought every scene she was in to life.

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So bad it’s not good!

/u/GoodMix392 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 18:56:52 -0400

What’s an example of a horror movie, that’s not even so bad it good, it’s just bad, like unwatchable. What’s a horror movie where you though, “wow I’m not getting that time back, what a waste”.

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Is it common to watch an original film before its remake?

/u/Competitive_Heat_470 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 18:10:10 -0400

I'll generally give the original version of a movie a watch before the remake; even if it is more highly regarded. Is this common among horror fans? Or is it just something I do

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Just noticed this in Paranormal Activity

/u/Wait_here_me_out — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 17:20:16 -0400

Early on, Katie and Micah talk about what he would do once he caught the demon. Micah turns to the camera holding a long knife and draws it across his upper abdomen and he's standing in front of the sink. Later all we hear is Katie screaming then we all know what happens next.

In the film The Marked Ones, Katie and Micah make an appearance in a time loop. Here we see "Katie" holding the same knife and stabs Micah in roughly the same area he gestured to in Paranormal Activity.

Now, where Micah is concerned I'm team demon. But I am delighted with that subtle call back.

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I Rewatched Halloween 5 after 4 and I Think it's Still A Good Movie

/u/Correct_Ad4351 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 17:05:58 -0400

I just rewatched Halloween 4 and then 5 back to back. I don't think Halloween 5 is a bad movie. I also don't think it's as good as Halloween 4, but it's not a bad movie. I do think Rachel should of not been killed so early in the film and should of saved it later in the film and built up Tina and Rachel together. I also think that watching the movies back to back is a good way to watch this because when I watched it back to back, it felt like just one long continuous movie. I like how in this movie, they had scenes that shows Michael Myers does experience emotion making him more human. I haven't watched halloween 6 in a long time and only remember certain details of it, but the curse of thorn being introduced in this film was cool because it adds more layers to the story, but the ending did seem pretty goofy and should of went with some other ending because Michael Myers escaping with the man in the suit seems cartoonish. This movie is nowhere near as bad compared to Texas chainsaw massacre: the next generation or weaker entries of other horror movie franchises. I would rate this movie a 7/10. It's a strong halloween movie.

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Just finished Archive 81. a wild ride

/u/DevWarrior504 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 16:44:09 -0400

The mix of found footage, mystery, and slow-burn horror really worked. The show builds this creepy tension without cheap jump scares, and the story pulls you in deeper with every tape Dan restores. I liked also the sound design.

There was so much potential for season 2, especially after that final twist. But Netflix canceled it.

What did you think of the ending? Did it make sense to you, or did it feel unfinished?

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Final Destination Bloodlines is just too good & fun

/u/Rosesh_I_Sarabhai — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 16:22:28 -0400

I watched the previous FD movies back in my teenages & early 20s. 14 years later now that I am a father & grown up, this installment still retained the fun value the previous ones had. It gave me the same fun, horror value & satisfaction of watching a good movie even at this age when my choices have changed.

Whoever made this movie deserves some award. The gore, the fun, the dark humour; this movie was an upgrade over its predecessors. Thank you whoever made this. Time & age where horror movies tend to take themselves too seriously, this movie was the one who knew how to have fun. They didn’t waste time in bs drama or unnecessary fillers. Everything was on point, one of the few movies who got pacing perfect.

The great thing about FD movies was the anticipation factor. It tells you that there is going to be a death, it keeps teasing you & when it actually happens you still get the shock of it. I mean Bloodlines has used this tactic so brilliantly; it tells you what’s coming next on your face & still delivers it perfectly. Plus, the whole movie is repeatation of the same pattern multiple times & still makes it fun.

Plus the end with the old lady & realisation of the fact that they haven’t really evaded the death. Damn, the makers pulled the classic trick out of Sam Raimi’s books. It really brought back the memory of classic ‘Drag me to Hell’. The nostalgia of older movies, the easter eggs or references were so fun. Many movies nowadays use these nostalgia as cash grab & just cover the whole movie with it. But you makers used it so subtly & efficiently, it was all there; the nostalgia was there but you didn’t make it your center of attention. Thanks for that.

Thank you whoever made this movie. 14 years later, you got me to relieve that same fun I had with the previous movies. It’s not easy but you pulled it off. To everyone involved in this film, hope you continue to make more fun movies & keep us entertained. May life favour you to the best of health & wealth.

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most disturbing horror or true crime book?

/u/funkypolpo — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 16:17:35 -0400

Any advice on disturbing true crime books? They're all disturbing, yes, but which is the most disturbing, most impressive one you've read? In case I also accept recommendations for horror books but I would have preferred crime books. Thank you

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Saw Franchise: John Kramer is too cool, and it hurts the narrative

/u/ClassroomSolid719 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 15:56:09 -0400

TL/DR John being so cool and never being allowed to look foolish or wrong completely muddles the message of the movies, and is the core reason the franchise is such a pseudophilisophical mess. Cinematography is important!

So for starters, most people (including fans of the series) will agree that John is a psychopath. An absolute murderous lunatic whose torture traps are way disproportionate to the petty nonsense he is supposedly punishing them for. "You pulled the head off an ant 20 years ago. So now I've covered you in honey and will feed you to ants unless you chop off your hands using this rusty cleaver." At least one of the victims in each movie will have about this level of unfairness.

But the thing that bothers me about these movies is, while most fans understand this, I'm not sure the writers and directors do. In the climax of each movie, I don't get the impression that the movie knows John is in the wrong. His theme plays, the music swells, the victim screams in anguish, often times inter-cut with John or Amanda or some other apprentice saying something pseudophilisophical or pointing out all the victim's flaws, and then they say the signature line "Game over!" And the screen cuts to black.

You may not notice what these scenes are saying, but your brain does. Everything about how the ending shots are framed are saying "John Kramer is a badass."

That's why in the comment sections of these film clips, you'll see people praising how godlike his intelligence is or how the victim should have known better or are parroting one of his lines. Because our brains are wired to side with and root for badasses, even if we intellectually understand that they are in the wrong.

Darth Vader can cut his way through a hallway of rebels in the name of upholding his totalitarian regime, and we love watching him do it. Because he's cool! And our brain is enamored by and instinctually raises up people that are cool, moreso than they do people that we consciously acknowledge to be moral or right. It's not enough for people in the movie to say John is in the wrong. It will fall flat if the camera, music, and scene framing don't agree with them.

And that's what bothers me about these films. They make John so cool, so badass, and having foresight that is downright supernatural. Fans will say "you're not supposed to side with him, he's a bitter asshole who decided to make his cancer everyone else's problem, everyone knows this." But the movies don't seem to know this, because they never acknowledge it or even hint at it.

Sure, characters will call him out, but never the narrative.

Detective Eric will call him out, talking about what a lunatic he is and how he's talking without saying anything. But then he dies at the end, pathetically, and fails at everything he tries to do while sitting crying as John verbally picks him apart. This is clearly framed like John is correct.
Later Hoffman calls him out on killing people, and John just shouts "Killing is distasteful!" And the moment pauses, like he just said something profound and we need to pause to take it in.
That one drug dealer says "You're fucking crazy!" And then runs into razor-wire. We're clearly not supposed to take him seriously.

Any criticism he faces isn't ever portrayed by the cinematography as something we're supposed to take seriously. It's always undercut or downplayed, oftentimes never even acknowledged.

And you know, this is all Tobin Bell's fault! /s

I jest, he seems like a decent guy. But I think his acting chops and stage presence is a large part of why any criticism of John doesn't feel like it sticks. Anyone in the movie that points out his lunacy ends up getting pushed aside by Tobin's overwhelming aura of stoic coolness. And the movies are just never willing to let him lose! He's hardly ever even inconvenienced. John is never allowed to hesitate, doubt himself, or just make a mistake. The closest would be him messing up the dosage on that one guy in Jigsaw, but that's pretty quickly pushed past and never dwelled on again.

He's always confident and unflappable. And our brain is attracted to confident people. Even if they're confidently wrong, enough confidence and flattering cinematography will make a guy saying 2 + 2 = 5 look like the coolest guy in the room. And Tobin has such a compelling, even-tempered voice that I could listen to him give a 2nd-grade lesson on the water cycle, and I'd be hanging on his every word.

John Kramer looks and sounds cool, the writers like making him cooler, and the fans love celebrating how cool he is. So he can never lose. Can never misplay something, can never have an engineering failure, and can never be taken off-guard. Even when dying he has to smile and have it be part of a grander plan. And most importantly, we never see him experience a moral defeat. A moment when he has to face someone that proves him wrong in both action and word, and doesn't have any rebuttal.

Until John Kramer is allowed to look wrong, the movies kind of passively endorse him no matter what he's doing. And since they made him an outright antihero in the latest one, I think it's safe to say the movies have completely lost their own plot.

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What’s your favorite Zombie movie?

/u/wifeoffrankenbeast58 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 15:44:14 -0400

Hubby and I are watching Resident Evil (one of my personal favorites) on day 18 of spooky season. I feel like every movie/series has its own rules/guidelines/thoughts when it comes to the realm of zombies. Are you a comedy zombie person? An action zombie? An original zombie? What is YOUR favorite and why? If I had to do top three I’d do Resident Evil, 28 Weeks Later, and Train to Busan.

Let’s leave the debate out of this whether it’s a virus versus a real zombie.

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What is the adult version of Are You Afraid of the Dark?

/u/goingforawalkmmk — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 15:23:43 -0400

Besides the Twilight Zone. I remember a few years ago there was a series called something like Two Sentance Horror? A few of those were effective! Just don’t always have time/mood for a whole movie ya know.

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Box Office: ‘Black Phone 2’ Grabs $10.7 Million Opening Day

/u/DemiFiendRSA — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 15:08:16 -0400

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italian horror directors of the 70s & 80s

/u/woozlenest — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 14:35:53 -0400

i’ve been watching a lot of fulci and argento movies recently and i want to branch out to other italian horror directors from around that same era. who are some other directors that you’d recommend along with the top movies from each one?

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Help! Movies to watch with a person that don't like horror movies?

/u/detectivesing — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 14:31:57 -0400

Movie night tonight at my best friend's place, she and I are hardcore horror fans. Our other friends however, isn't much of a horror girl. It's October so we have to watch something spooky, suggestions for good movies not too scary not too bloody?

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This scene has stuck in my head since childhood and I don't know what movie/show it's from!?

/u/K-Rollo — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 13:33:12 -0400

This was like an Adams family ripoff, where a normal family by mistake visited them. I think. There's a scene in my head where she grownups sit at the huge dinner table, while kids are being killed in the rollercoaster outside that drove through clowns head with rolling blades in its mouth. On the next scene train model rolled on the dinner table and served fresh white sausages. Still moving

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I know it’s “divisive,” but Skinamarink scared me intensely.

/u/TheLazyLounger — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 13:20:50 -0400

WOW. I watched this alone in my house at night, and I don’t personally think I’ve ever been more scared while watching a movie in my entire life. It’s such a huge swing, and so interesting to see all the reactions.

For many, their review is “it’s literally 100 minutes of looking at walls.” Idk… it worked for me. It’s 100 extremely scary minutes of looking at walls, lmao. The movie touches on such a vivid, helpless feeling. Like the creepy corner in your grandmas basement, or when you have to close your eyes as a kid while you shampoo.

The final shot made my skin crawl, activated full lizard brain in me. Only time in my life I almost grabbed the remote and shut a movie off. It felt genuinely evil, totally unknowable, and completely in control. Despicable, horrific, and unsettling. Really exciting movie for me, I couldn’t look away and thought the director’s experiment paid off in spades.

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Black Phone 2 better than the original? | review

/u/ZackaryAsAlways — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 12:51:01 -0400

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Movies similar to Demoni 1 and 2

/u/DrMSlug — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 12:39:27 -0400

Hi! Two of my favorite horror flicks are Lamberto Bava's Demoni 1 and 2. Remember being terrified watching them for the first time all those years ago. I recently bought them on blue ray and they still hold up in my opionion. While there are plenty of zombie movies, films feturing demons are harder to come by. Does anyone have suggestions for similar movies focusing on demons? I have watched all of the Evil dead movies, and while 1-2 are great (not least due to nostaligia, Rising really scrached the demon itch.

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Help finding horror movie from a scene I saw as a child

/u/1M4G1N470R — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 12:29:42 -0400

My partner, who is scared of most movies, has been trying to remember the title of a scary movie she saw when she was in middle school. Her older sister was watching it on her laptop, circa 2009-2010 (but that doesn't mean it came out around then).

The scene exactly as she describes: Two teen girls are watching TV. There's static that intensifies on the TV, electronics and lights start to go wild throughout the house. One of the girls gets up and walks towards the TV with her arm outstretched towards it. Then they "glitch" and everyone is screaming.

If you could help us find this movie, that would be amazing! Here's the movies we KNOW it isn't:

Poltergeist The Ring 976-EVIL

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Friday the 13th 2009 is a ton of fun. The negative reception it received genuinely baffles me

/u/eggogregore — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 12:29:41 -0400

I saw this movie as a teenager and it didn't really make much of an impression on me; rewatched last night and I was pretty impressed It's no masterpiece by any means but it's basically everything you want in a Friday the 13th movie: creative kills, TnA, off-beat humor, and of course Jason running around in the woods.

Technically, it's about as competent a slasher as you can make. The supporting actors all understand the assignment and lean into the camp, Jared Padalecki is good as the one "real" person to ground the ridiculousness, and the pacing is tight and avoids the usual slasher slog.

I'm a sucker for the late 2000s aesthetic and dated humor, which is very clearly self-aware (especially the dude weed LMAO characters).

Derek Mears' portrayal of Jason is also great; he's a more athletic, intelligent, and purposeful Jason (which I can see as a downside but I think it works), though he does lack Kane Hodder's more manic violent mannerisms.

I will say the movie sputters and loses steam once the sister character is revealed to be alive as it shifts tonally into a more serious movie, but I still enjoyed the latter half.

I understand that horror movies will always have an uphill climb with the critics, but it seems like they just didn't know what they were watching or understand the genre. Calling it a "rehash" is one of the dumbest criticisms: It's a Friday the 13th movie, having Jason chop teens up with a machete is literally the identity of the franchise.

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Movie suggestions

/u/CrowWithARose — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 12:01:33 -0400

My husband and I both love watching movies together. Only problem is, we have an awful time finding movies worth watching We both love horror of any kind and psychological thrillers. Any suggestions are appreciated!

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Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey

/u/DecemberOne — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 11:21:41 -0400

WHAT THE FUCK?!

As a Canadian millennial, I grew up with Winnie the Pooh. This movie actually got under my skin.

We decided to watch this movie as a joke I guess, because the concept is honestly hilarious. As we watched the movie, I kept picturing the filmmakers laughing hysterically behind the scenes at what they were making.

I understand that this was the purpose, but this movie was such a deranged bastardization of a childhood franchise that I couldn't even bring myself to finish it. I went to bed seeing silhouettes of Winnie the Pooh's head, and it actually freaked me out.

I know this movie is considered trash, but it certainly made an impact on me. I'm surprised I haven't seen any posts about this movie yet during spooky season, seeing as it's currently on the Prime roster.

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Not scared

/u/New-Bluebird-859 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 10:51:43 -0400

Anyone else here who does not get scared by horror movies? I mean, I absolutely love them but I’ve never found a single one actually scary. I struggle to understand when someone says Movie X was super terrifying; meanwhile I watched it alone right before bed and slept just fine.

Anyone else a horror fan but does not find any of them truly scary?

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Opinions on House of 1000 Corpses?

/u/mrcuddlybuns — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 10:25:33 -0400

I just rewatched it today on Cinemax for the first time in years and years, since it was getting close to Halloween, and I gotta say I don’t remember it being so strange and out there. It’s like a weirdly edited drive in hillbilly hellscape that just keeps descending into more madness as you watch it. And I gotta say, I really had fun watching it again, and I think I like it even more now.

I do remember a lot of The Devils Rejects (the sequel) and they don’t even feel like they are in the same universe. Two completely different styles and vibes. I always thought the sequel was the superior film but after rewatching the first one I think I liked it more just because of how wacky and I don’t want to say “experimental” but I guess I’ll say “artsy” to describe it. It’s honestly a pretty hard film to describe unless you’ve personally seen it. Like instead of just skipping to a new scene, Zombie films the characters in this vintage VHS inverted style describing something or just kind of going on a tangent, and this editing is used pretty much throughout the whole film. Intercut with old hammer horror black and white scenes and commercials. It was just very interesting and fun I thought. Never really seen a movie like it honestly. It’s nothing how I remember it as a kid. (Definitely shouldn’t have been watching it at 7 years old)

Don’t get me wrong, I can completely see why people would hate it or think it’s stupid, because it kind of is stupid. But it’s a very fun stupid, and quite disturbing stupid as well. It does kinda jump all over the place and get a little messy and slightly confusing to follow but the way the film just exists I don’t think it could really be NOT messy. I think it screams cult classic though, and it’s definitely a must watch on Halloween every year for me now.

Oh, and the last like 30 minutes were by far my favorite part. It really just lets the chaos out full throttle, it just goes all the way with it and I respect that. One of my horror film icks is films that don’t seem to really take concepts or ideas or stories and push them as far as they can go, just go nuts with it. Let loose basically. This film definitely doesn’t have that issue lol.

What did you think of it? Do you love it, like it or hate it?

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Can someone tell me what show this scene I remember is from

/u/hayelph24405 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 10:20:04 -0400

Okay so, I am 90% sure that the show was just scream the Mtv series that came out around 2015 but I haven't seen it since i first watched it when I was like 11

The Substance (2024) is one of the first horror movies I've seen that...

/u/snarkisms — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 10:03:52 -0400

...treats the horror of aging in a way that doesn't cheapen it.

One of the things that I've always struggled with is the idea that the monster is no more than an old looking woman (Barbarian and Smile come to mind), and that is what defines it as monstrous. Our fear of the monster is the fear of losing our youth and vitality. But instead we treat aging (especially in women) as a monstrous condition, and that comes out in the horror movies with monsters that look like old women with sagging breasts and butts, wrinkled skin, atrophied muscles, and age spots on their complexions.

The Substance didn't do that to me. The body horror is absolutely exquisite, but at no point is Demi Moore the monster. She is monstrous, but you recognize the true monster in the greed and hunger for immortality almost immediately, and as the movie goes on you also realize that Elizabeth Sparkle would do the same thing to Sue if the tables were turned and she was the Other Self. They are both inherently selfish, but just as Sue's beauty and physical perfection is amplified, so is her selfishness and willingness to harm herself.

This movie was absolute perfection, and gave the truth to the monster. Demi Moore was incredible - absolutely one of her best ever roles, with so much vulnerability and fear. Margaret Qualley also shone, and her role as the version of Elizabeth that wants to destroy the parts of herself that she hates, fears, and resents was incredible.

I knew it would take me a long time to watch this movie, because while I love body horror, it is the hardest kind of horror for me to watch. I definitely don't regret waiting because the movie is brutal, but it was worth the watch 100%

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Theory about The Mummy 1932

/u/Jw5x5 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 09:15:01 -0400

I watched The Mummy for the first time yesterday, and I couldn't get the thought out of my head that it reminded me of the novel The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen. Firstly, it has a similar theme of ancient evil returning to the present, causing madness, corruption and death. But also, the main character of the movie, Helen, shares her name with Helen Vaugn, who plays a tangentially similar role as the female character through whom the ancient evil returns. Admittedly this is a very tenuous connection to make, but I want to see if anyone else has made it, or if anyone knows if there was intentional inspiration in the creation of the movie, or at the very least in the naming if the character Helen.

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Was shocked at how good My Bloody Valentine (1981) was. I think it rivals the quality of the first Friday the 13th

/u/No_Course_7037 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 09:00:51 -0400

If you've never seen, you should give this a shot! Way better than expected. I'll go on record and say that I absolutely loved this, and expected mediocrity. This is perfectly on par with the first Friday the 13th imo. Great setting, characters, motivations and effects. A truly unique look and setting give this something extra. Surprised it isn't talked about more often considering how weak a lot of slashers are from this period.

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The Dark and The Wicked

/u/pertulifian — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 08:53:40 -0400

This movie will stay with me forever. For me, it is the scariest movie I have ever seen. And I have watched a lot of horror movies. Hereditary, Smile & Smile 2, Where Evil Lurks, Terrified, the Terrifier Trilogy, the entire franchises of Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Scream, Paranormal Activity, Blair Witch etc.

The Dark and The Wicked was so terrifying for me for these reasons:

⁠It's about a completely innocent family dealing with a traumatic and depressing situation.
⁠A lot of the injuries and deaths are based on things I think people worry about happening to them. I was going, oh no, she couldn't possibly chop all her fingers off with that knife. Knitting needles going through someone's eyes. I could see it coming but didn't think they would go that far
⁠The fact that they are literally talking to the demon and driving it around without realising it's the demon taking on the form of a priest
⁠The eerie telephone calls made to the house, "you know, you sound just like my daughter. She's dead."
⁠Even the jump scares and subdued special effects are horrifying. There's something about a person with glazed over, zombie like eyes with their head spinning rapidly from side to side that just scares the shit out of me
⁠The isolated location of the farm. Being alone in the dark and opening the door to a priest with demonic eyes asking you if you need some rope, knowing your mother just hung herself.
⁠The fact that the demon is unstoppable. No way out of the situation or any hope of a solution is ever provided. There is no hope at all for the whole movie. It is just relentlessly depressing. Even the parts that could be comedic in a certain context are not comedic in the context in which they are presented. They are just terrifying.
⁠The fact that the main character's decision to stay with her Dad and protect him leads to her being killed by him after he becomes fully possessed. She did the "right thing" and that's what got her killed.

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IT (Chapter One & Two Super Cut)

/u/JeamDude — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 08:10:27 -0400

Now that we’re getting closer to the release of the new IT series titled “Welcome to Derry,” I started wondering again if we’re ever going to get the Super Cut or some kind of Director’s Cut of the IT (Chapter One & Two) movies. What do you think about this?

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Critters (1986)

/u/SSF415 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 08:02:48 -0400

Every day for 30 days I’m watching a different scary movie, this year all about alien invasions.

In April of 2016, 30 years almost to the day after the release of “Critters,” the Tampa Bay Times ran a headline noting that it still languishes “in the shadow” of 1984’s “Gremlins” and repeated director Stephen Herek’s longstanding insistence that his movie was written well before “Gremlins” and that the two movies really had nothing to do with each other.

So obviously this dispute remains a sensitive point for some. But surely enough ire has been wasted on this conflict by now? Say we show the world that there is a great invisible strength in a people's union? Say we've shown that a people can endure awful sacrifice and yet cohere? At all rates, whatever must be proven by blood and sacrifice must have been proved by now. Shall we stop this bleeding?

Monsterland magazine reported that “Critters” shot in just six weeks for about $3 million, with Valencia standing in for the heartland. Herek would later go onto “Bill & Ted” fame and “Holy Man” shame, but this was his first time behind the camera.

Here, some evil alien puppets from a distant galaxy hijack a spaceship and crashland in outer Dog River or whatever town we’re in. The titular Critters are complete assholes and roll around like Sonic the Hedgehog, shoot poison spines like Sonic the Hedgehog, and will eat anyone/thing that stays still too long, like Sonic the Hedgehog.

…I’ll be honest I’m taking a stab in the dark when it comes to most of my Sonic lore here, but I am very up on my “Critters” lore.

The little monsters terrorize a farmhouse in a kind of Hopkinsville Goblins setup, although to my knowledge the Hopkinsville Goblins did not eat Billy Zane, here making only his second credited film appearance. Dee Wallace gets to tote a shotgun around for much of the second act, which is oddly gratifying.

There are also a couple of alien bounty hunters who arrive to cover the whole thing up, one played by incredibly accomplished Broadway great Terrence Mann of all people. They seem to be pretty bad at their jobs, but so is everyone in this movie as far as I can tell, so I’m sure they’re doing their best.

Despite the pavement-level budget and my even lower expectations, “Critters” turns out to be a GREAT movie. It’s not “Chinatown” or nothing, but, ah, well, given all the baggage that movie has, maybe that’s for the best.

There are lots of hilarious little touches, like the boring educational film about Earth culture that the bounty hunters don’t bother to watch and which actually begins with the phrase “Earth is a planet of contrasts”--I CACKLED.

Another one that’s easy to miss is when the cantankerous dad checks out Billy Zane’s new hot rod and comments, “You’re not going to be hauling much hay in it,” prompting Zane to just blankly say “...yeah.”

Admittedly, “Critters” feels a bit by-the-numbers once the action gets into high gear, and I’m not sure it ever really feels like the family is in sufficient danger. Still, this is a lot of fun, and the little asshole puppet monsters look great.

“Critter” was a big hit relative to its slender budget. Roger Ebert argued that the movie was ripping off both “Gremlins” and “The Terminator” but adds “that doesn’t make it a bad film” and credited “Critters” as a funny and lively outing; Siskel, always a sucker for B-movies, got a kick out of the bounty hunter schtick and called it perfect for teenagers.

I’m amazed to see this movie produced four sequels and a TV show as recently as 2019. But tomorrow we’ll be looking at maybe the least successful smalltown alien invasion flick ever mounted instead.

Original Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRGyKnW3zW4

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‘Weapons’ Sets HBO Max Release Date Ahead of Halloween

/u/Whobitmyname — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 07:58:40 -0400

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Mandy Is A Masterpiece

/u/DetectiveNo3421 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 07:35:14 -0400

I’m watching this again, In The Shadow Mountains. I can’t remember a movie I’ve liked more since The Shining. I liked It Follows too. Anybody else dig the Spanish Rec? Just bored, can’t sleep. Ever seen this one?

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alternative endings

/u/Pale_Engineering5123 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 07:16:05 -0400

I remember when back in the days dvds had all kinds of stuff on them like several different trailers, Interviews, games and also sometimes alternative endings. As a kid i did not watch them, did you? Were there alternative endings for horrormovies, if yes for which movie and did you enjoy them?

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Jeepers Creepers probably has the best sibling portrayal in a horror movie.

/u/dabzandjabz — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 06:48:03 -0400

Darry and Trish are definitely the highlight of the movie. The way they interact with small bickering in the beginning then willing to sacrifice one for the other at the end of the film was really something. Trish to me was the most relatable.

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Zombie movies for halloween

/u/ToastyAlligator — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 05:32:38 -0400

Planning a zombie movie marathon for halloween, looking for recommendations. Only qualifier is that it has zombies/infected in it. My current list is:

Night/Return of the living dead

Day/Dawn/Land/Army/Shawn of the dead

The Sadness

It Stains the Sands Red

Warm Bodies

Dead Alive (Braindead)

Zombieland 1&2

The 28 Movies

Cooties

Train to Busan

World War Z

Overlord

Yummy

The Cured

Cargo

The Crazies

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

The Evil Dead

I’d love literally any zombie flick recommendation! The good, the bad, the ugly, I don’t mind, throw em at me people!!

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Movie suggestions?

/u/Lost-chicken-knight — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 04:36:35 -0400

I'm trying to watch one horror movie per evening per usual each Halloween. But what I'm missing in horror is that "Halloween feel" that decorations for Halloween often encapsulates, the Halloween ambience. Like fog, skeletons, tombstones, creative lighting etc. Stuff that makes Halloween feel kinda cozy. Just re-watched Trick r treat which does this fairly well. Evil Dead and House of 1000 corpses also had this feel. For example, I haven't seen The human centipede, I considered it, but in the end, it doesn't seem to have that "Halloween feel".

Any suggestions?

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My dream experience (the decent)

/u/Intelligent-Dig-1733 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 04:35:10 -0400

I live about 2 hours from the mountains in my city. So about an hour and 1/2 away a private company sets up a cave tour. They guide you to a trail and it’s about 30-45 minutes to the cave entrance and then about 20 minutes into the cave. They use a projector and show a pretty small group to my understanding a viewing of the decent in almost perfect dark besides the projector. I think it would be so scary and every year that it has happened I have been out of town and it makes me so sad. The decent is one of my favourite movies, and to be able to experience it in a way that involves immersion I can only imagine makes it scarier.

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I just found screen-used Sutter Cane books from John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness.

/u/Anticleric — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 02:45:10 -0400

Do you read Sutter Cane? David Cronenberg doesn't.

I do a lot of late night walking (I'm nocturnal). The other day I peeked into a little library in front of a house on a cute little side street by me (In Toronto) and saw a couple books by Sutter Cane (the fictional author from John Carpenter's 1994 film, In the Mouth of Madness staring Sam Neil).

I'm a huge John Carpenter fan, so I grabbed them and brought them home. As a flipped through the pages, I realized they all have the exact same text printed on them over and over.

After further examination, I came to the conclusion that they're actual screen used props from the film. I put on my jewelers glasses and closely examined the cover printing to see the old-school half-tone dots, looked at the paper stock and saw fine brown fibers of old wood pulp, gave it a good sniff to confirm the dank basement smell of a 30 year old book, and cross referenced them against the movie and copies sold at auction. John Carpenter recently sold off 50 of them he pulled out of storage. One per customer at $250 USD.

These are not from that lot.

I got to thinking about how many film people are in my neighborhood. I knew for sure that David Cronenberg was near by, as I had been to his house to demo a VR experience I made back in 2014.

I dug through my old emails to find the address, as I didn't remember exactly where it was.

Turns out, it's the house directly across the street from said little library where the books were found. Wild!

Right beside the email with the address was an email from his son Brandon (also a director), thanking me for demoing VR to them, and asking me for a little help getting the DK2 we gave them running on his Mac.

So, I emailed Brandon this story, because of the insane co-incidence, and checked to make sure someone didn't throw them in the library by mistake.

A few days later, I ran into David Cronenberg on the street. No joke. I was riding my motorcycle and stopped beside him as he was walking down the street.

"David Cronenberg?" I said. He turned and said "Yes".

I told him the whole story, and he said the books weren't his, but it was indeed a wild story. I also mentioned that we had met, years ago and I was the guy who showed him and Brandon VR. I said "Ah yes", but I'm not sure he remembered me.. I was wearing a motorcycle helmet...

He admitted that he didn't know the people who lived in the house across from him, and that they may be movie people as well, and got them from the movie set. He also said "I like your vehicle", which was nice. haha.

That night, I got an email back from Brandon. He said also agreed that it was a wild story, and said they definitely weren't his dad's books. "Good find though!".

Well, That brings us up to date. Just wanted to share and document this, because sometimes, things in my life happen that I can hardly believe myself.

As another strange coincidence, I'm currently running a Kickstarter for a horror game (literally called 'The Horror'). Not related to Cronenberg, but definitely has some references to his and John Carpenter's work. Ask for the link if you like, it could use some love, but it feels tacky to post it in the main body :P

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No tears in hell (2025)

/u/Consistent-Feed-353 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 02:03:53 -0400

Have you seen it? Based on true events. Ish. Boyfriend and I watched tonight and it was incredibly uncomfortable and shocking.

One other movie made me feel this way, Martyrs, the original. Quadruple checked my locks tonight.

Would recommend if you need something to tug at your imagination and give you the shivers.

EDIT: it’s graphic af, warning!

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Pennywise Won't Appear in 'IT: Welcome to Derry' Until Later in the Season

/u/Longjumping-Elk-7840 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 01:02:39 -0400

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Hereditary is scary af

/u/Raventhe3rd — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 00:57:18 -0400

I know sky is blue but Hereditary genuinely scared me for the first time since Autopsy of Jane Die which I watched almost 7 years ago. It probably hits right at home since Paimon is a demon and I’m a catholic which makes the cult scene at the end extra terrifying. It also is one of the horror movies where I genuinely didnt see a way for the characters to even beat or escape the threat. Truly amazing.

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The Invitation (2015)

/u/Foreign_Sun6004 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 00:04:06 -0400

What a trippy little film this was, I loved every second of it and how it deals with trauma and grief and what is a right and wrong way to handle those emotions. It also involves a villain redemption of sorts and those are always a welcome story telling device if done properly. Plus a rare downer ending that isn't the death of a major character, it's just a slow burn realization that this cult flows through the entire community they're in.10.

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Dracula Untold (2014)

/u/Foreign_Sun6004 — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 23:53:03 -0400

Wow, what a beautiful historical horror flick, blending both the mythos of vampires and Dracula with the real life of Vlad the Impaler his inspiration is inspired in its own right. I love period pieces and vampires are some of my favorite monsters so this scratches a specific niche itch for me that just makes warm and fuzzy with excitement.

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Hereditary

/u/psychstudy84 — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 23:23:10 -0400

Can we talk about how scary hereditary was? The lady crouching in the ceiling corners? I need some validation on this. That mental image is keeping me up at night.

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Halloween : Aftermath just released on YouTube free for everyone

/u/Visible_Star_7783 — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 22:18:30 -0400

Don’t let this being a fan film steer you away it’s excellent quality film making. The score and atmosphere was so impressive! I have nothing to do with the movie I just wanted to share how much I enjoyed that….much more satisfying movie than Halloween ends I started to forget I was watching a fan film. 8.5/10