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Horror Movies are Boring: Here are The Movies That Will Disturb You
Keep Jason and Michael. I’ll take these.
With Halloween once again nearly upon us, our thoughts once again turn to scary movies. But most scary movies are, to be honest, boring and predictable. Slasher movies especially; buckets of fake blood and screaming bimbos stopped being interesting 30 years ago. And now, with the upgraded technology in movies, it’s all about gore. Saw one was mildly interesting, if unnecessarily graphic, because the concept was original, and yes… a bit scary. But now we’re onto part 39 or some damn thing, and it has gone completely nightmare on elm street on us. Remember the first ‘Nightmare’? Freddy was scary as hell. Toward the end of the series, he became more of a comedian. But every once in a while, we still find a masterpiece. A movie that scares us in that most fundamental of ways; not ‘Jump out of your seat and scatter popcorn’ scare, or ‘feel your stomach churn with disgust’ scare, or even ‘Oh, God… I can’t look’ scared. No, these are the movies that leave you feeling just a bit… disturbed. As if some small piece of your reality thread has frayed the tiniest bit… as if, somehow, the rules have changed a bit. These are some of the movies that leave you… just a little bit off.
Eraserhead
Nothing about this movie was right. At some points, it pushes your mind to the point where, if you’re sitting in a dark room, watching it alone, you start to actually see that fuzzy reality border, When it ends, and you get up to go eat or piss or whatever… you feel just a little out of place.
Hellraiser
Pinhead and the Cenobites genuinely scared the crap out of me as a kid. The chattery teeth guy, the weird chick one with the guy’s voice… but mostly pinhead. When he talked, his voice was just so… calm. Rational. It had me sleeping with a nightlight in Junior High for weeks.
The Passion of the Christ
If you’re a Christian, the connotations are obvious. Even if you’re not, the fact that this took place on a regular basis… and in the name of justice and faith… will leave you off for awhile. Or at least it did for me.
The Mist
One of the two movies that to this day leave a small corner of my mind a bit twitchy driving in fog. And the ending; if that one didn’t make you turn the TV off and avoid it for awhile, you are callous.
A Clockwork Orange
Perhaps the single most disturbing movie ever made. I was 15 the first time I saw it, and to say it blew my mind is an epic understatement. Never before (at least not on television) had I felt such a combination of revulsion, fear, and awe. It was like seeing the darkest reaches of mankind for the first time.
Saw
Before it became a serialized chain of rehashed slasher garbage, the original was mind numbingly brilliant, because it forced us all to answer one of those questions that we all keep in that darkest corner… how far would we go to survive? Or to save someone we love?
Jaws
Say what you will, but I lived on the ocean. Do you have any idea how many people this kept out of the water?
The Shining
Another one that made us look within… could we handle isolation without losing our mind? The greatest horror performance of all time didn’t hurt, either.
The Dark Knight
Not a horror movie at all… but I defy you to show me a horror movie performance more disturbing than Ledger’s Joker.
The Ring
This was really the first time we were exposed to that Japanese twitchy scary thing, and this scene- where she comes right out of the damn TV… almost made me shit myself.
The Fog (Original)
The other movie that gave me a phobia about fog… this one terrorized you the old fashioned way; without really showing you a thing until the very end.
Donnie Darko
As dark and twisted as any horror movie you will ever see. And that song…
And there we are. As I’m sure you noticed, a good number of these weren’t horror movies at all, but then horror is more of a label attached by studios. Each of these, in its own unique way, will find a way to terrify you….
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What a fab article I really enjoyed the read and watch nice work form you.
excellent
Most horror movies don’t scare me, but I had nightmares after watching each one of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies. Those have been the only ones that really gave me a fright.
Donnie Darko?? – no. Maybe if you’re an emo teen.
Disturbing movies also worth a mention:
Lost Highway
Cannibal Holocaust
Beyond The Darkness (A Buie Omega)
Don’t Look Now
Peeping Tom
Great article. You put alot of work into compiling all those clips. I enjoyed reading it. Added you as a friend. Have a great day.
Awesome!! Thank you for sharing. =) =)
Eraserhead, very good. Great clip choices, and movie choices. Love it.
Has watched them all but 2 and likes a few of them though.Great clips and article.
I could not agree with you more. I remember most of these movies and they are excellent and the scences you picked are dead on.
No these movies were excellent story telling with some very pivitol scenes.
Excellent commentary. Keep up the good work.
Some movie will do that to you.
Jesus Camp
scariest movie EVER!
Didnt know a few but I did know some of them.not all horror movies will keep your imterest from beginning to end.
The most disturbing movie of all time in my list was Eyes Wide Shut. It made me question friendships, made me feel uncomfortable. It stayed with me for days.
Other than the fact that most of these are technically horror films (and the fact that you used a clip from the American remake of Ring, which is nowhere near as scary as the orignal) this is a fun article. Even Donnie Darko is distrubing from a mental illness point of view. The first Saw movie was excellent too. (Gosh I think this is the first list I’ve read where I’d actually seen all the films mentioned)
Still, the most disturbing movie I’ve ever seen was Tetsuo. Drills should not replace that part of the anatomy!
Oh and B Nelson is right, Jesus Camp is desperately unnerving but for a totally different reason. *shudders*
Other than the fact that most of these are technically horror films (and the fact that you used a clip from the American remake of Ring, which is nowhere near as scary as the orignal) this is a fun article. Even Donnie Darko is distrubing from a mental illness point of view. The first Saw movie was excellent too. (Gosh I think this is the first list I\’ve read where I\’d actually seen all the films mentioned)
Still, the most disturbing movie I\’ve ever seen was Tetsuo. Drills should not replace that part of the anatomy!
Oh and B Nelson is right, Jesus Camp is desperately unnerving but for a totally different reason. *shudders*
Rats. Sorry about the double post, Triond decided to play silly buggers.
check out jeepers creepers there good ones but watch out for the language. I have found that there are alot of horror movies on youtube full length.
Loved it,and your opinion on the certain horror movies, like The Black Knight, that movie gave me the creeps.