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Here's Quinn's horror movie recommendation Plurk! Sorted into tiers in case anyone wants to try getting into horror.
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The disclaimers:
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This list is based on my own personal preferences and subjective scariness vibes
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something I think is not so scary may be super scary to someone else
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I am also not listing any slashers. This is because I do not like them
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This list is also far from comprehensive
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NOVICE TIER
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Movies that are horror-adjacent but aren't really horror movies. A good toe dip into the fringes of fear.
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Season of the Witch
Season of the Witch Trailer
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A medieval tale of two knights escorting a witch to be executed. One of the knights is Nic Cage.
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It's mostly a surprisingly moody atmospheric suspense story
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then it, uh, goes places
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I don't want to say more than that
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This honestly barely even counts for the novice tier
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but listen:
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it fucking owns
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delightful movie
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Hi five
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A thai horror comedy about a group of soldiers who come back from war to visit their friend and his wife.
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His wife is a ghost.
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They need to do everything they can to try and convince him that his wife is a ghost without alerting the wife to the fact that they know she's a ghost.
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It escalates.
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A classic adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe short story about a bunch of rich idiots holding a party during a pandemic
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Vincent Price acting in Poe's most fuck the bourgeoise actually novella, how can you fucking say no
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Not scary. Vincent Price's performance in it is All Time
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he spends the entire movie praising satan and laughing at the deaths of poor people
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A must watch
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STANDARD TIER
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Some good movies that are a normal amount of scary.
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This may require some courage. I believe in you!
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The 1992 version, not the remake.
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The closest thing to a slasher on my list. A movie dripping with racial political commentary, about a white girl researching an urban legend in Cabrini-Green, a notoriously poor and mostly-black community in Chicago.
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There's bees in it, if that's a pass.
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But it's a good one.
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The 1978 version.
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This one is a great suspense piece. A really suffocatingly paranoid movie.
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It constantly has you doubting who's real and who's been replaced, really effectively.
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The 2021 version, this time, not the original.
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A movie about how what if your ex-boyfriend was invisible and harassing you and nobody believed you.
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It's stressful. A good watch!
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The middle of this movie is the story of a family. A mom, her daughter, and her second husband, an endearing guy who's trying to connect with his new family.
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The beginning of this movie is the same man, in a house full of bloody corpses, changing his appearance before walking out of the house and disappearing into suburbia undetected.
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It's a whole movie oof that Alfred Hitchcock quote about the bomb under the table.
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Honestly the best movie on this list.
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It's about a haunted house, but the house belongs to a south american dictator who committed genocide and is currently under house arrest.
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It's powerful, political, poetic. There's ghost stuff but the main undercurrent of fear is the notion that the genocidal dictator might get away with it.
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SCARIER TIER
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These are movies that did me a frigten.
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They will scary you. Probably.
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Set foot here once you're prepared.
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A classic that holds up.
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If you watch the video then you die in seven days.
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Ringu could also go here. They're about equally scary imo
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but I like The Ring a lot
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This is gonna be in spookwatch 2022 actually
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It's a movie about a haunted house, but it's actually the architecture of the space that's haunted. Haunted geometry.
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It's about death, loss, and existential nihilism.
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It's really good.
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Honestly there's variance within this list.
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Ju-On is SCARY
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it's a movie about a ghost that kills you
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"how do you beat the ghost"
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you don't
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fuck you
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I've seen this movie
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and it is not NEARLY as gory as it seems like it would be
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it's like 20% gross torture shit and 80% budget zero escape
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yeah it is my understanding that saw 1 is good and then Franchising happened to it
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it has its strong points and weak points
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but I had fun with it, and it has, like
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a central theme and point
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about how the American healthcare system is torture
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This is just a haunted house movie, about a house with ghosts in
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but it's so FUCKING GOOD
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just an absolutely stellar production, end to end
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great atmosphere, great subtle scares
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great story
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A+
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And they say white people have no culture
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Midsommar is a PROFOUNDLY unsettling movie about a cult
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and about broken relationships
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and emotional manipulation
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it's scary, it's psychologically suffocating, it's gory, it has a hell of an ending
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the folks over at A24 know their shit
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GONZO GROSS SHIT TIER
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This is sort of an aside to the list
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Just movies that leave you simultaneously laughing and going WHAT THE FUCK as wild boddy horror bullshit happens extremely a lot
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what the fuck
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This is a pretty well known premise
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scientist teleports, but a fly is in the teleporter, so his DNA gets fused with the fly
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then things get worse
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this is, in terms of just being goopy and slimy and upsetting
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the grossest movie I have EVER seen
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this movie has a plot but it doesn't matter
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https://images.plurk.com/vR28mL0PzB0iTTWBCWJA6.png it's about things happening that look like this
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it's just a pure gonzo practical body horror effects showcase
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quinn what the fuck is that
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this movie is stupid.
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it knows it's stupid
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https://images.plurk.com/6kSg20HH4v4o8Mz2k2zaOd.png
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watch this stupid movie for idiots
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it owns
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This is 85 okay minutes of movie followed by the wildest 5 minutes of anything you've ever seen in your entire fucking life
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We will all sing together~
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Society waits for you~
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Society IS body horror. Every other body horror movie stands in its shadow.
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Doesn't really belong here but those monster effects man
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anyway The Thing is a real fucking good movie
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diamond gear precision suspense
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not a wasted second in the whole film
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a near-perfect screenplay
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absolute must watch if you can stomach it
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THE DARKNESS
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This is the deepest tier of movies that I can enjoy.
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The shit that caused physical damage to my brain.
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Enter at your own risk. I'm always looking for more movies to put here.
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Hereditary is the scariest movie I have ever seen.
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No exceptions.
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It's about grief destroying a family.
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The demons we inherit from our parents.
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I've only seen it once. I don't know if I'll ever watch it again.
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Want to feel bad?
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Wanna feel like something you don't know the name of is crawling on your brain?
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Ever just have the urge to beg a movie to stop?
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Watch Eraserhead.
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LIST OVER
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Watch some of those movies, if you want
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I can field questions about content-- oh, Society has incest in it
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that's a content warning
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and La Llorona has (off-screen) sexual assault
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Eraserhead is... if you want to know that psychosomatic thing, where people feel like something is right under the surface of their skin and they're clawing to get it out?

it's that sensation, as a movie
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I will not field questions about Return of the Living Dead. it explains itself
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Eraserhead pinned me to my couch for 89 minutes
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I couldn't move while watching it
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Lynch is a fucked up guy
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I should revisit twin peaks
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As someone who doesn't mind like, unsettling horror as much as slasher stuff: of the ones I've seen in full or snippets of, Candyman, Ring/Ju-On, and Saw are probably the closest to Slasher in tone.
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which is to say that sinking feeling of "these people are fighting against an unstoppable presence. they will not escape, they will lose. if they do not lose, it is just a brief reprieve."
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Ju-On is the most unbeatable a ghost has ever been
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it just kills you
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eat shit
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if the ghost shows up, you don't fuckin have time to run
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I think season 1 and 2 of Twin Peaks won't do much for you
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but the revival would be so your shit
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season 1 and 2 are more, like... they're less lynchian than deadly premonition is, which is ironic since dp was based OFF of twin peaks
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didn't swery claim to have not seen twin peaks
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like, you know, a liar
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yeah, it's awesome
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Ju-On doesn't just kill you
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it will randomly kill people you know who have no fucking connection to the house at all
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I was trying to keep it vague
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for spoiler purposes
oh i'm scary
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since this is a plurk about trying to get people to see movies
oh i'm scary
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but yeah VERY scary
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the elevator
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i really need to watch dave made a maze sometime
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it's so good
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I'm just glad this list has some cronenberg on it one day I probably have to watch this stuff. When I'm less busy so not today
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sometimes a scare is good
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would annihilation (2018) go on gonzo-gross shit tier or the darkness?
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honestly neither, it's a cool and compelling movie but it didn't make me lose my mind like those categories did
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Have you seen Nightbreed? It's novice-tier as you describe it, but it's got some wonderful moments in it and That Question underlying it.
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I don't think so
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I've heard of it, though
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It's Clive Barker, based on the novella Cabal, and also has a starring role by David Cronenberg.
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nice
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I might not be a lose your mind movie, but it's really great IMHO.
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I don't like most horror movies, and this is a favorite of mine.
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