There’s one thing that has stuck with me for more than a decade (probably). It was a very short youtube video. It was just a man and women in bed back to back. After a second it pans to the woman’s side of the bed and shes a scary looking monster demon lady. I think about it once or twice a week. Specifically when laying in bed with my lady and shes not facing me.I have no idea what its from. Youtube used to have alot of randomly terrifying content.
The Enigma of Amigara Fault aka the holes comic is pretty high up there.
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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
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Honestly I find myself liking his short stories more than I like the big series he’s famous for (Tomie, Uzumaki, Gyo, etc.) Amigara Fault is one of his short stories that’ll only take you a few minutes to get through if you ever think about checking out his manga.
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Event Horizon.
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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
I absolutely loved Sunshine - until the last part where the nemesis isn’t the sun anymore, but just a generic crazy dude.
But is he generic? He’s survived without enough supplies and in intense heat. I also loved Sunshine up until then, as I wasn’t a fan of the supernatural ending. But same with Event Horizon. And Pandorum… Maybe it’s my mistake for falling for it 3, no, 4 times. I forgot The Black Hole (1979) is Event Horizon
But is he generic? He’s survived without enough supplies and in intense heat.
The heat shield on Icarus 1 is intact.
When Icarus 2 receives the distress signal, the crew mention that Icarus 1 is self-sufficient for water and oxygen, has all the solar power it needs, and food for a full crew for 3 years, so there’s plenty for one guy for 8 years.Alright, I’m mistaken on the supplies. And yes, I remember the heat shield was there, hence the ship was still there, but I remember something about it being hot. Wasn’t there still something supernatural about how he moved? And how he seemed to take control of the other person?
I saw that movie as a teenager and I thought it was stupid. I really think I’d enjoy it more as an adult. I don’t remember much of what happened. I remember it being disturbing as hell. I have the DVD, might be time to re-watch it.
There is a small amount of dodgy CGI due to the time it was released, but the ship designs, the character behavior, and the horror elements all hold up.
Plus, a biblically accurate warp engine!
“This ship… is fucked”.
haha
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.
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If, as a kid, you were scared of something under your bed or in your closet, it’s a good one.
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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. :)
Just got PA on DVD a few weeks ago! I watched a bit of it when I was younger but never watched the full thing, need to get on that soon.
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
I watched it during the first couple of months of 2020; it was insanely accurate and the soundtrack was intense like a super upgraded version of the background sounds of plague Inc.
The most unrealistic part was the CDC actually doing their job and the government actually enforcing quarantine zones lol.
Real kicker is the final scene. Don’t want to spoil it for anyone else, but it really hits you after living through Covid.
I watched it when it came out and the side plot with the herbal ‘cure’ snake oil seemed unrealistic. How could people be that stupid.
After covid that movie seems to be the most realistic thing I have ever seen.
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
SOMA was amazing. It’s in my top 3 greatest games I have ever played. The ending broke me.
Owls.
Let me add to the owls=aliens deal: https://youtube.com/shorts/cWBDqER5COM
Thanks, I Hate It.
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.
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.
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Creepiest is definitely SCP articles
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An extended story that I recently read (or rather, listened to) was “There is no Antiemetics Division”, by qntm. The channel J&V SCP archives have an excellent audiobook-style reading of it, if that’s your thing. It’s not especially scary (though it does have its moments), but stumbling across it really reignited my enjoyment of SCP.
Antiemetics prevent you from puking. It’s the antimemetics division which doesn’t exist.
Good author, too, iirc. I think this story’s also by them: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
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.
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As Above So Below got me for similar reasons: the underground inescapability and claustrophobia. Parts of it felt a tad liminal too.
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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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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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!
Dread, by Clive Barker.
A short story. Ain’t telling you anything about it.
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For the horror readers, it’s in “Books of Blood, Volume 2.”
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.
