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
Hereditary really stuck with me after watching it—and I’m in my 30s. It would really get in my head when I was trying to fall asleep for at least 2 weeks. Would have to double check the corners of my ceiling.
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 simple 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.
Soma
Man in the high castle.
The stupid zombies in Thief. Just the first one you encounter. It’s lying on the ground with flies flying above it. And every time you go near it it gives out this loud awful moan. I hate it!
But the game is too good not to play.
Playing Alien Isolation in VR. I couldn’t get past the medical bay level level due to actual fear of death by heart attack.
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.
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.
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.
The “Don t look up” movie was a little too real for me.
Wayward Pines.
Event Horizon
Event Horizon is still mildly terrifying 25y later. Sunshine was pretty bananas too. Shout out to Alastair Reynolds Inhibitor series of books as well.
I saw the 1982 version of The Thing when I was, like, 6 on HBO and had nightmares for almost a year. I’m 45 now, and that film still freaks me out!
When you were SIX!? C’mere…
(((HUGS)))
awww!
yeah, it really fucked me up. my poor little brother saw Poltergeist around the same age, and it fucked him up for years…
Have you rewatched it recently? It freaked me out the first time but after that it felt more campy.
No, and now I won’t. It was just so perfect that I don’t want to ruin it.
The Purge
