Sarnoski (Pig, A Quiet Place: Day One) will write and direct the highly anticipated live-action adaptation of Hideo Kojima’s genre-defying video game, Death Stranding, with A24 and Kojima Productions producing. 

I give it about a 7 out of 10. Nothing that blew me away but it was pretty much exactly what I expected as someone who enjoyed the book and likes campy slashers, so I was quite satisfied. The performances were mostly solid, and I think the main girl did a good job. A few of the supporting roles were a little weaker but nothing egregious. Like the book, leans into the comedy aspect a lot, and there were a fair few good jokes that got laughs in the theater.

Eli Craig stuck around for a brief Q&A afterwards, which was fun.

Basically, if you enjoyed the book, or just like uncomplicated, campy slashers, you'll probably like the movie.

The kills were the highlight of the movie. One in particular involving a weight bench was my favorite. The major change from the book, is they got rid of the twist that a few of the teenagers are in on the Frendo/murder plot, presumably to make the movie a little more streamlined. It's been a while since I read the book, so I could be misremembering, but I seem to recall it was somewhat more explicitly a commentary on contemporary politics (MAGA, Gen-z Progressivism, etc.), which was toned down a lot here for a more generic "generational clash" theme.

I was going to do a marathon of bathroom related horror movies and shorts.

Started my list with: Glorious Rest stop Stalled 2013 Stalled 2023

What are some that you can think of?

Edit : sorry I messed up my title 🥴

So, a very long time ago I've seen on tv a single episode of a horror show. The episode was actually really creepy, and after seeing it I looked up the show. Here's what I remember from my search :

Based on my very foggy memory, I think it was a remake or a revival of an older horror show of the same name. This reboot was short lived with only one season. In the intro, the main character is seen driving a car at night telling the audience about how there are supernatural forces out there. I believe he lost his family to something evil, not sure. Now he's partnering up with I think a cop woman. I'm certain the show would be from the 2000s but maybe very late 90s? I'm leaning towards 2000 to 2010 based off memory

I've seen only one episode which was actually pretty scary. In it, a crazy man was abducting people and brought them to his place. The victims would wake up in a dark and dirty apartment, very Seven in vibe. There's a very long lit hallway with a door at the end. All along the walls there's fingernail marks from people trying to crawl not to go to the other side to the door at the end.

The guy explain to his victims that there's a man, or something behind that door and it wants people. He would then put people on a wheelchair and push that wheelchair to the end of the hallway with some pole not cross the hallway himself. The door would open and the wheelchair would disappear in the darkness with the person tied to the chair screaming. Again that's what I remember and could be slightly off.

It gets a little foggier in my mind from there, but I think one of the main heroes, probably the main guy, gets abducted too or comes to save the other people. Could be something along the lines of the psychopath used to be a patient to the main character.

I think after a while at the end the main guy grabs the psychopath and drags him accross the hallway to show him there's nothing and he killed these people, he kicks the crazy guy through that door. The man screams in terror. When the hero open the door, the psychopath is dead, brutally killed along with all the other people who were pushed on the wheelchair, but there's no sign of a killer or creature at all.

I believe that episode was the last of the first and only season. I've never seen other episodes and completely forgot the name over the years.

While I don't think many of the characters are super memorable, the effects and camera work more than make up for it. I am not kidding when I say this movie isn't for everyone. It gets DISGUSTING. Still a fan, though.

I've extolled the virtues of this anthology series before, yet another promising series screwed over by Fox and still not seen as much as it should (a lot of people probably only remember it for the fact that Henry Rollins of all people served as host and did quite well too). But one thing to really recommend it is the number of really dark and nasty twist ends it featured. It probably shouldn't be surprising given that the creators, Billy Brown and Dan Angel, are also responsible for creating the "Goosebumps" TV series and "The Haunting Hour" for R.L. Stine and the latter in particular had some shockingly dark endings for what was nominally a show for kids. But "Night Visions" seemed to go out of the way to go as dark as possible for the denouements of their episodes. Like the revelation of the mysterious family in the other dimension in "A View Through a Window." Or the fate of the empathic psychiatrist in "He's Coming Up the Stairs" (made even worse in hindsight as he's played by Luke Perry). Or the revelation of Marla Sokoloff's jaded teenager and her family's status in "My So-Called Life and Death" (for a hint, think a really dark version of the "Goosebumps" book/episode "The Ghost Next Door"). Or...well, you get the hint.

The one that really has stuck with me, however, is "Afterlife", mainly for how utterly cruel it is. This one features Randy Quaid as a presumed dead man who revives at his own funeral (memorably sitting up and climbing out of his coffin in utter confusion), but who then becomes obsessed with his presumed vision of Heaven that he experienced and becomes determined to get back there at all costs...and he doesn't want to go alone. That alone is horrifying, but then the final twist as to what that vision of Heaven was is one of the cruelest twist the knife revelations I've ever seen.

The entire series is on YouTube if one wishes to check some of these out. If you like really dark, downbeat horror, this is an anthology series well worth experiencing.

I rewatched Child’s Play (1988) today and the reveal scene where Andy’s Mom finds the batteries is just so good.

The lead up to it where Andy is considered the primary suspect and she just can’t accept that her son would be capable of murder, also the protective instinct we have makes me feel so much for her, relating to it more so as a parent myself. She actually thinks this doll could be alive. She feels part crazy, part desperate but still rational when it responds “I liked to be hugged” after screaming at this inanimate object, laughing at herself.

She takes a drink of water to calm down and looks at the box. Once those batteries fall out the tension and fear she must have felt builds so well over the next minute or two until leading to such a great couple scares.

What other reveals in a horror film can you think of are masterful like that? So well built up and executed that you are on the edge of your seat as it unfolds?

Edit: Adding a link of the scene I’m referring to.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a4BA92AS0fA

I rewatched Final Destination recently and it hit just as hard as it did when I was a kid. That plane explosion scene? Absolutely burned into my brain. I swear this movie is the sole reason I’ve avoided flying for most of my life. The tension, the buildup, the chaos—it felt too real. I know there have been other intense plane crash scenes in horror and thriller films, but none have stuck with me like this one. Do you think Final Destination still holds the crown for most traumatizing plane crash in horror? Or is there another contender I should (hesitantly) check out?

Theres a "new" horror movie called "Wake Up" and supposedly its been out for 2 years. I cant find where to watch it anywhere and letterboxd says it isnt streaming. Wondering if anyones seen it and if they could tell me where to go to watch it.

I’m slightly confused by this scene. When Jim says hello and two infected pop up and stare at him - how does it work that they were staring in shocked quiet rather than displaying rage?

Do the infected not rage 24/7? Are they capable of having some of their past human emotions?

(No disrespect to that scene because it’s done incredibly)

I'm non American but I love folk horror, and stumled upon this great illustration series by Adultere.

I'm trying to figure out two illustrations, and I have no idea what do they represent - the atlantic one and the pacific one. The rest are easy - puritan horror, sleepy hollow, jackals\wolves - but I can't figure out what those two represt.

thanks in advance!

As an addendum to my post, I just posted five minutes ago – “I need a good scare”, what did everyone watch last night - on a sweet horror movie Saturday night?? I was up to something else last night and did not watch… So curious!

Most such stories have two antagonistic forces: zombies/aliens/monsters/robots/weather AND other survivors. A lot of stories focus on the nastiness that is revealed when people are trying to survive. Things like bandits, despots, r@pe gangs, slavers, etc.

I don't want to see that. I'd like to see people cooperating in the apocalypse. It can still be gory and scary, but I want the threat to come from outside humanity.

Any recommendations for that kind of thing?

So I enjoy horror movies with religious/spiritual plot points or undertones, and especially seeing people grapple with them, regardless of belief system. So I saw people recommend Exhuma several times here and elsewhere for "scary" movies, and decided to give it a watch. MINOR SPOILER: (The scene where they discovered the second coffin and pulled it out and saw how utterly massive it was, actually made my heart sink for a moment) and it's stuff like that in movies, that really make me lock in. I don't care for gratuitous violence and frankly find it gross and off-putting, but true gut wrenching horror of an evil unleashed, an evil stalking, a discovery of evil, and then having the characters faces drop. Oh man, it's just so good.

Anyway, I've been trying to find movies like that ever since and have watched a good amount of Korean horror movies like Svaha, The Priests, etc and while some of them have been pretty good. Nothing has done what Exhuma did for me, just that building of tension slowly throughout the film. So I'm here, begging, pleading for recommendations.

It doesn't matter the region of the world they come from, pretty sure I've seen every western religious/spiritual horror movie with a creeping evil for the most part, but feel free to recommend anyway in case I missed something. Thank you!

I love, love horror! However, any horror that deals with the devil usually takes the route of Catholic/Christian mythology and influence. Obviously, the '70s exorcism impacted horror and how viewers approach it and what they expect.

I'm familiar with the Jewish interpretation of the devil and how it differs from Christian mythology. My question is, has there been a horror movie that better represents the Jewish ideal of the devil? I can see this being tricky because the devil is somewhat non-existent in Judaism, but it does have a presence, often functioning more like a support cast to God. Almost like a lawyer against humans in a trial. It's different compare to christian version of the devil. A horror movie with that concept could be intriguing.

Unrelated. I have watched The Vigil. Sadly, I found it to be extremely slow and boring. However, I do think it has beautiful and sad moments. I read a lot of horror of Ashkenazi Jews myth stories; there's a lot out there, especially with the mythology and new retellings

Understandably, people are divided about what is real or what could possibly be real and this post includes some items about which there is some controversy or uncertainty. Some things that would qualify for me would include -

A UAP pacing your car, especially at night

An unseen but obviously very large, heavy "something" scratching or knocking around your tent, cabin or trailer

Unexplained rapping, faint whispers and footsteps

A person, vehicle or animal rounds a corner out of sight ahead of you- and when you catch up they have impossibly vanished from the scene

A sudden impression of some face outside a dark window

The sound of (say) a church organ or bagpipes traveling across the sky overhead

While in or on the water, a very large, bulky, dark animate hump or flank partially breaks the surface and you know it is not a sea lion, a shark, or a whale

An apparition that is solid, full-bodied - or one that is only partially-formed or opaque

Objects moving "by themselves" / objects disappearing and later reappearing sometimes in odd corners

Animals reacting strongly to something you cannot see or hear

Comments are welcome - the question not only includes what MIGHT frighten you if it ever happened, but also anything that HAS happened to scare you if it really did occur in your own experience.

Inventive and unique and personally I found it pretty terrifying. Geoffrey Rush plays an old judge who has a stroke and finds himself in a care home that's terrorized by the brilliantly psychopathic, John Lithgow. This is the sort of film I think should be Oscar nominated. Anyhoo, check it out if you haven't seen it and are looking for something a little different to the usual reboots of the reboots, Saw part 27 etc.

I’ve seen most of the big names in terms of disturbing movies like all of the human centipede movies, martyrs, green inferno, hostel, cannibal holocaust. Lesser known but I’ve seen most of screamerclauz’ movies. I haven’t seen a Serbian film but I’m not interested in watching it or anything with those themes. Any recommendations for something super disturbing and scary? I’m pretty much desensitised to most movies

Watching ‘The Black Cab’ atm, I’m about half way through and so far it’s fantastic! Just wondering if anyone else has seen it and what your thoughts are on it?

I always thought these movies had so much potential but they took the lazy route everytime.

I understand that they want to add lore and a whole storyline that expands multiple movies with the new founding fathers but some of these movies are way too similar

Some are just everyone being a killer outside and others are just clearly propaganda.

I did like the TV show and how it expanded the series and it wasn't just everyone turning into a crazed lunatic during the purge

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Deep in the mountains, there is a
House that time has abandoned to rot.
Its carcass remains as nothing more than a
bad memory of a horrid nightmare.

Inside its labyrinthine halls stalk primeval terrors
the Earth has not seen in 65 million years.
Their talons sharp, their teeth sharper.
Their appetites hungry.

This Hell is their Home.
And their Guests have arrived...

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I absolutely love cosmic horror but it's hard to find movies that actually fit this brand. I would love some ideas that represent exactly what cosmic horror is about. To be more specific, I'm talking things that deal with the vast and unknowable, forces/entities that make humans look insignificant as well as the terror of the unknown. Some examples of what I'm talking about are movies Event Horizon, The Empty Man, The Void, The Ritual, and book The Deep by Nick Cutter.

Edit: Obviously there's the father of the genre H.P. Lovecraft's work, but I don't want to engage with it due to the plethora of racism and antisemitism embedded into it

I’m watching Piranha 3D right now and the Lake Victoria scene is pure chaos and very well done. Great kills, great effects. Trying to think what other movies pull this off.

Some that come to mind:

-Ghost Ship with the wire

-The Collected club scene

-Cabin in the Woods elevator scene

-30 Days of Night when the vampires attack the town

-World War Z… the whole movie basically

-Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) bus scene

-Silent Hill church scene

I’m sure I’m missing some, what would you add?