@narohdethan@ianRobinson I hadn’t seen this movie or anything about it, but I’ve just watched the trailer and it looks like I need to! In fact, it looks like a mashup of Kill List and Clue! 👏
@mattpotter@narohdethan It is. It's fantastic. I only watched it after seeing Samara Weaving in The Valet. You should also check out Guns Akimbo with Samara Weaving and Daniel Radcliffe.
@hi_cial@narohdethan ooh ooh and also if all these questions are too overwhelming then I'm gonna just suggest Poltergeist as a blanket first-horror-movie recommendation. It's the first horror movie my parents let me watch; it's very frightening but there's a lot of very realistically-portrayed, like, ordinary household love in the film, parents and kids and siblings acting Normally around each other in ways you seldom see in media. If you have specific triggers you wanna know about in a non-spoilery way I can tell you if there's owt or nowt; there's a website called doesthedogdie that does spoilery CW's for all sorts of films too, not just horror films :)
@hi_cial@ifixcoinops I'd like some suspense/horror, like The Omen . Unless it's nearly cartoonish (like Tetsuo the Iron man) I cannot stand body horror (like Titane).
@narohdethan@hi_cial hmm, something like What Lies Beneath might be up your alley, or The Shining if you want stronger stuff. Cartoonish/funny body horror, Tucker & Dale Vs Evil is a comedy of errors that plays off cabin-in-the-woods tropes.
(when I get a new pinball machine tech apprentice I can tell the ones that have never seen The Omen by the way they take off the glass)
Mike Flanagan's earlier stuff is worth a look, Hush is a suspenseful one about a deaf woman dealing with a home invasion, Oculus is a hallucinatory paranormal one about a haunted mirror, both have some (not much) blood, certainly less than The Omen.
i'd suggest as a cheesy starter: 1999 House on Haunted Hill. it's just bad and goofy and very 90s and unlikely to scare anyone over the age of 3.
1999 was like a golden year for cheesy horror, honestly haha.
then, if you do watch 99's HoHH, take a step back in time to the Vincent Price original House on Haunted Hill. is it scary by modern standards? not one bit. is it iconic and still a lot of fun? oh gosh yes.
if you're not afraid of blood i'd suggest Get Out as a GOOD horror film. its tension is almost all social interaction between characters, with very little overt violence (til the final reel) and really good pacing that lightens the mood with humor periodicly.
if you want something legitimately scary, i swear by Noroi. it's a japanese false docu-drama about a curse that is an amazing blend of western (found footage style) and japanese horror aesthetics. but it IS scary! beware!
@narohdethan oh creature-scary, try The Ritual - that's got folk horror, lost-in-the-woods horror and creature horror too.
Alien is of course the modern classic creature horror, surprisingly not actually all that gory apart from that One Bit that I'm sure you've seen in memes, and the set design is gobsmackingly gorgeous in a 1979-vision-of-the-future sort of way. Ignore films past the second, the true Alien trilogy is Alien, Alien: Isolation (the videogame!) and then Aliens. :)
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