- scary stories to tell in the dark (movie)
- the red room
- specifically: i had a recurring childhood nightmare along a similar theme and in talking about it as an adult i've always been like 'haha how silly' but watching it was like 'oh yeah no that's legit scary'
- the haunting of hill house (tv)
- the bent-neck lady
- important to note i do not like this show but damn that was really fucking scary
- the grudge
- in theaters but not upon rewatch at home?
- i thought what freaked me out was the inevitability of the curse -- that there was no fighting against it, that it's coming for you no matter what. but given that it didn't spook me at all outside theaters i think it was just the surround sound lmao
- final destination (series)
- i love when i bring this series up and everyone has a different thing that scarred them from it (mine are the gym equipment crushing the guy's head and the log truck)
- blair witch 2
- yes this is an embarrassing one. what scared me iirc was watching it as a teen in the early 2000s on vhs, getting to the end, and then finding out you could rewind the tape to see a secret message. and it freaked me out that i had just watched the whole thing not having noticed a single one of those hidden letters. idk something about it being scarier when things are happening before your eyes that you're not aware of than the scary thing you're looking at
- stranger things
- this wasn't actually scary but i was just getting into season 4 when i got covid, and it was just not a great time to watch something where having severe headaches + nightmares + a bleeding nose marked you for death. woke up every day for a month from a fever dream with a headache and a nosebleed thinking i'd been isekai'd into reagan-era america and somehow it's only getting worse from there
nov 22 2024 ∞
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