The segment in the original Creepshow where Stephen King is transformed into a plant.
Also The Fly.
I love horror and fiction since I was very young so it’s very hard to make me feel uncomfortable but this short did it. I kept having nightmares about this for a week
It’s like you know you’re gonna die and there is nothing you can do but YOU have to give up.
That’s brutal.
Subnautica. Had to finish it in creative mode, it was a bit too much for me.
Playing Alien Isolation in VR. I couldn’t get past the medical bay level level due to actual fear of death by heart attack.
Played it without VR. Felt the same. Maybe because I intentionally waited until late at night so it would be dark enough with the lights off. Awesome game.
Alien Isolation is seriously one of the best games ever made and it still holds up today. It was just a bit too long.
I tried to get into it, but there really was quite a lot of preamble.
Event Horizon is still mildly terrifying 25y later. Sunshine was pretty bananas too. Shout out to Alastair Reynolds Inhibitor series of books as well.
The Suffering on the original Xbox.
I know it’s mainly because I played it way too young but it still gives me creeps playing it as an adult.
The bathrooms… beware the bathrooms…
The Road, the book, is the only book I’ve ever read that haunted me for a while after. Movie was a decent adaptation, but left some stuff out.
By a country mile the “best” book I’ve read. I think the film does an admirable job of staying within and delivering the message of the book without being “not suitable for release without cuts” in some territories. I mean the baby spit roast isn’t really something one can put to film and expect to get license to release everywhere around the world.
But funnily enough the book actually aims for, and IMHO hits, a completely different message than that of dread; for me, it makes me wholeheartedly appreciate the world, nature, and the good deeds we do for each other. It is also, and I’m aware I’m breaking no ground here, a treatise on love, fatherhood and courage. It makes me appreciate that, despite everything, we are still incredible blessed to live in today’s world.
It is quite simply sensational.
By the way, while very different in tone, Station Eleven really hit the same note for me; appreciate what you’ve got, it might just disappear.
Not sure if this is what you were looking for, but this song is a masterpiece of horror manifest through audio. In fact the whole album is a piece of art, troubling and dark but so well crafted.
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And while not quite the same, there’s Blind Willie Johnson - Dark was the night…
In 2003 I watched the Exorcist movie that came out. It freaked me out so much my pupils dilated enormously like I was tripping, and then they stayed dilated for three days afterward.
I couldn’t be alone at night for over a week so my girlfriend came and stayed with me to keep the monsters away.
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The deadlights in Stephen King’s IT. ::: spoiler The scene where the turtle is dead hits me right in the existential dread. spoiler :::
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SOMA. There were sections in the game that were scary, but the entire concept is really a mind melt. It’s not like it’s not a common theoretical question, but going through it step by step is another thing. And if you go to the home page of it and read some of the short stories, it really adds to the whole experience.
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The first chapter of “The Ministry of the Future” because it is very likely going to happen soon somewhere on earth.
A wet bulb temperature event that kills thousands
The fucking needle-in-the-eye part from Dead Space.
Also, Scorn is kinda unsettling.
Scorn is extremely unsettling.
I can’t figure out how to make a spoiler section in Lemmy so I won’t say much, but the lore that describes some of the transformations in dead space was just so disturbing, still sort of sticks with me.
Supersize Me
Warning! Spoilers! I’d use the spoiler tag, but no matter how I do it (correct or incorrect), it doesn’t show up for me.
Perfect Blue.
Not for the conventional murder or bad things happening, but the whole structure of not knowing what’s real and what is just an illusion and not knowing how much time has passed.
For me it has always been the The Enigma of Amigara Fault ever since I read it.
It’s just so unsettling to me I don’t know why.
I love Junji Ito so much. That’s not even his most terrifying story, just his most popular. Though I’m not complaining, it’s a great story.
The Netflix show is actually pretty great if you haven’t watched it. Though the first episode is the weakest.
Fwiw, I’m an artist and get a lot of inspiration from his works
