The Taking of Deborah Logan. I have never seen an ending come so deep from left field.
What's the context to this? Is that an alien, or like a demon?
I remember seeing this gif before and it was extremely uncomfortable to watch. Just wtf, so creepy.
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In a gif, scariest scenes in horror films (spoilers)
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What's the context to this? Is that an alien, or like a demon?
I remember seeing this gif before and it was extremely uncomfortable to watch. Just wtf, so creepy.
Nightwing123
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One of the better American Remakes out there.
WickedLaharl
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No it's a pretty shit movie.
It Follows is great. Low budget but great.
Amazing scene, pity the film doesn't quite manage to deliver overall
The Leopard Man.
Tbf this would fuck you up in the 50s
Fancy Clown
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The Blackcoat's Daughter
Not really scary in gif form, but this movie is overbearing with dread and gets pretty fucked.
Dafuq is going on here. Looks interesting
The Blackcoat's Daughter
Lol thanks for the edit
PulseONE
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It was alright but it removes some of the more supernatural elements from the original
My advice, watch Rec and Rec 2
Avoid any sequels past that, it just gets...weird after that
More_Badass
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I've read mixed things about this movie, but now I'm interested. Movies that hinge on dread rather than jump scares are my jam
The Blackcoat's Daughter
Not really scary in gif form, but this movie is overbearing with dread and gets pretty fucked.
Chmpocalypse
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Insidious.
I fucking love that scene.
Shame the movie gets really, really dumb about 3/4ths of the way through.
Fancy Clown
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It's definitely one of the most frightening films I've seen recently, and is absolutely more about atmosphere than scares. Made me feel really uncomfortable for most of the run time.
TheGameshark
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LMAO, probably scared the shit out of people back then though
The Leopard Man.
fluffydelusions
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The first one is good but it may seem a bit corny nowadays because of all the parody films of it. There are sequels and one released this year (rings) but I've never seen any of those.
Bronetta
Ask me about the moon landing or the temperature at which jet fuel burns. You may be surprised at what you learn.
Dont be fooled people, this movies total trash.
The big baddy is dressed in a nun outfit with marilyn manson makeup.
3spoopy5me
Twilight Princess
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That gif from The Taking of Deborah Logan is more hilarious than scary. Like that can't even work lol.
Insidious.
That scene got me just because of how unexpected it was. Unfortunately the rest of the movie isn't that great and I couldn't stop thinking about Darth Maul after I saw him to the point it was kinda comical.
Fancy Clown
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fluffydelusions
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This creeped me out as a kid
Pet Semetary
Insidious.
I can't take the demon from Insidious seriously ever since I heard Korey from Double Toasted refer to him as "Darth Maul's balding uncle."
Can't tell if serious...Val Lewton and Jacques Tourneur made both films.Dat Cat People ripoff
edit: And The Leopard Man is actually nothing like Cat People. Cat People's thematic interest in sexuality/sexual repression, immigrants, and cultural assimilation is nowhere to be found in The Leopard Man, which is a film more straightforward in its content(if ahead of its time) but wildly different in structure.
Fancy Clown
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lmao did not know that. No wonder they got the look so right
Not really a horror, but this scene from Communion spooked the hell out of me as a kid.
biiitch, another movie that i will never see.
The Leopard Man.
Too many jokers around here. That scene is great. The blood under the door and shit, man.
SDCowboy
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Signs
I didn't even like the movie but that scene almost gave me a heart attack.
OMG this. Signs is the scariest movie I've ever seen.
This creeped me out as a kid
Pet Semetary
I saw the scene of her writhing on a bed when I was like 8. Didn't know what movie it was. Just flipping through channels. Haunted me for a long time.
Right on. My first thought was the cemetery scene but it just couldn't be done in gif form, so much of it being the audio and Consuelo's dialogue with the man on the other side of the wall.
I'll take Lewton and company's moody spookiness over a ton of the gore/shock stuff put forward in this thread.
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Ooh, I didn't see this posted, great choice. Oz Perkins is the real deal.
The Blackcoat's Daughter
Not really scary in gif form, but this movie is overbearing with dread and gets pretty fucked.
Fancy Clown
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I'll have to watch The Leopard man now that I know its pedigree. Cat People is one of the GOAT horror films.
More_Badass
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...Had to go out and make this one for the thread:
From Dagon (2001), a personal favorite.
Are they peeling a guy's face off...
fluffydelusions
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Had to go out and make this one for the thread:
From Dagon (2001), a personal favorite.
Was that a syfy movie? Every time I saw it, it was on syfy.
Try prince of darkness as well. Its not for everyone but the soundtrack and atmosphere is one of the most oppressing things ive experienced.
GutsOfThor
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Return of the Living Dead
Fuckin' Tar Man! I saw this movie when I was a kid and he messed me up for a couple weeks after. To this day, his movements still give me the creeps.
Had to go out and make this one for the thread:
From Dagon (2001), a personal favorite.
I've known about this movie for years and never checked it out despite loving the source. Is it as weird and Lovecraftian as I hope it is?
All of Val Lewton's RKO horror films are worth a look I say.
- Cat People - A classic.
- I Walked With A Zombie - Another classic.
- The Leopard Man - A lesser film than the previous two in a lot of ways but is pretty ambitious and it has an odd, meandering structure that sets it apart.
- The Seventh Victim - A moody and death obsessed horror-noir something or other, his very best.
- The Ghost Ship - His worst, largely caused by the casting of Richard Dix as the villain. So, so miscast.
- The Curse of The Cat People - Not really a horror story but a wonderful film, usually considered one of his best.
- The Body Snatcher, Isle of the Dead, and Bedlam - His three films with Boris Karloff, all strong(particularly on the acting front, one can easily forget just how great an actor Karloff really was) but they pull more and more away from horror(and Lewton's films were already more horror adjacent than straight horror stories) into drama territory.
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It is probably the best Lovecraftian film from a 'based on Lovecraft and tries to feel like Lovecraft' perspective(although it is actually more Shadow Over Innsmouth than the story of its title. As long as you can handle the low budget-ness of it, it is pretty solid.
Jesus Christ this is unsettling.
The Taking of Deborah Logan. I have never seen an ending come so deep from left field.
MagnaderAlpha
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It starts off really stupid, like the kinda "stupid" you'd see in a 2000s horror movie where you get bunch of unlikable people partying together and acting annoying. I have a low tolerance for that shit, and that shit was a-plenty during the 00s, but as soon as they get to the island and start investigating the mystery, I thought it was an alright flick. It's actually a loose adaptation of The Shadow Over Innsmouth.
Bronetta
Ask me about the moon landing or the temperature at which jet fuel burns. You may be surprised at what you learn.
We need a movie with high production values which does for movies what Bloodborne did for video games as far as Lovecraft adaptations go.
FalsettoVibe
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The Taking of Deborah Logan. I have never seen an ending come so deep from left field.
What the!?
Yes.
Yes, and
they succeed. I cut it early cause that might have been a bit much.
Actually, for those who wanna see it here is part 2 of that .gif:
Its a Spanish film actually, but yeah it did use to come on syfy all the time, that's how I first saw it as well.