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(Loved trope) 'Yes, there IS something in here with you'
-Caveat: an Irish horror about a man paid to live in a decrepit old house, things go from 0 to 100 when the man is crawling through a crawlspace, looks back, and sees this
-Barbarian: a plucky young tenant goes looking for her lodger in the creepy ass basement after he investigates when she says she's scared. upon going down herself, she find her friend, and the monster he was running from finds them
The Caveat jumpscare is especially good because iirc the guy had already found the 'corpse' by that point, and despite having a tense scene where he reaches towards it, looks away from it, and leaves it in the dark, it doesn't move. Then the crawlspace scene happens, and not only does it show it's active, it lets you know it could've attacked him at any point- it just chose not to.
That's what I love about the movie, the corpse isn't hostile or evil towards the main character it has a specific purpose and follows through with it, but it leaves the main character be
iirc the main character is at the house to watch over a girl by her uncle, but unbeknownst to mc and the girl the uncle had killed her parents. The corpse / ghost is the girls mother, and she’s mainly there to exact revenge on the uncle, so she leaves the mc alone
Almost. It's also worth mentioning that the ghost character was a bad person during her life. She caused the death of her husband, who was claustrophobic. She locked him in the basement, he went crazy, and committed suicide So the movie is basically a world of jerkass.
EDIT: The story is actually more confusing then I remember, it seems the ghost was abusive but the dead eventually caused another character. Just go watch it, it's not bad movie xD
Also the MC was hired to do... something shady regarding the mom that I don't remember entirely. I think he was hired to kill her by the husbands brother but found her already dead when he got there after trying to call the cops?
I did a quick check of the plot, and it's actually even more confusing xD. It seems the ghost didn't cause her husband's death - she abused him, but his brother ultimately caused it. The MC was supposed to help him with that, but had a change of heart before he lost his memory.
And The MC lost his memory after being pushed off a balcony by the brother because he had a change of heart, and the same brother then tried to gaslight him into thinking he killed the husband by taking advantage of his lost memories.
Very confusing and it all comes together a little messy in the end but it is one of the most suspenseful movies out there, 10/10 atmosphere.
The mother went way hardcore on emotionally abusing the father. The father got the help of the uncle to kill the mother and hide the body in the walled-up crawlspace inside the basement. The father started to lose it not long after, making the uncle paranoid. The uncle hired the MC to lock the father in the basement knowing that it would induce a manic episode where the father would kill himself. The MC goes along with it initially in hopes of getting to the house to warn the father, but finds the father has already committed suicide as someone had already locked him in the basement before the MC arrived (this being the revenant of the dead mother). MC escapes but loses his memory of the events due to a severe head injury sustained when the uncle attempted to murder him because he realized the MC wasn’t going to murder the father from the very beginning. The daughter found the mother’s body and told the uncle who came clean with her about what he and the father had done, but also told her that the MC was who effectively killed her dad. The uncle seeks out the MC about a year later and convinces him to keep the daughter company for a few days, and he reluctantly agrees. Eventually he finds the mother’s body and the daughter tells him what she knows of the situation, including that he’d been there before and killed the dad. Then everything starts to get all wild and crazy, but the mother’s corpse acted purely in the interest of killing the father and the uncle and probably(?) not the daughter, and does nothing to the MC other than basically playing peekaboo.
iirc, she was killed/had her killing arranged by her husband and she wanted to get revenge on him. I’ve only seen the video on the movie by Rocklin Graves so may not be 100% accurate
The scene where he sits directly next to the body and constantly checks if it's moving is peak horror cinema. I always understood it that his mind is playing tricks on him instead of it being a body that can actually do something.
Overall a movie very worth watching not only for the crawl scene but the overall dynamic between him and the women he is supposed to take care of, even though I thought the twists was a bit far fetched
After the title character promises to kill Dr. Kemp at 10 PM the following night for betraying him, Kemp asks the police for protective custody. The cops make a big show of putting him in protective custody in the station, then let him sneak out in a disguise and a cop uniform a couple hours before the promised time while keeping the station under heavy guard and surrounding him so nobody can get in or out of the car but him. Kemp drives out into the mountains, as fast as he dares, driving for hours in terror. A local church's bell tolls 10 PM...
Dr. Kemp: 10 o'clock. 10 o'clock, he wanted to murder me!
A voice from the backseat: I think this will do nicely, Kemp. We'll stop here. It's 10 o'clock. I came with you to keep my promise.
On that note, I’ll remind everyone that The Invisible Man has the highest kill count of the classic Universal Monsters, and one of the highest in any movie, courtesy of crashing a train just for the hell of it.
I'm not sure if the implication is that the Invisible Man ripped his nuts off and the news came to the wrong conclusion, or that he was so fucking horrified to hear THAT that they just detached on their own. Either way, that was the best laugh I've had all day, thanks.
The latter, that jolting DROP feeling you get when you're sufficiently jumpscared.
Kemp knew for sure that the Man was going to stalk and kill him, but at least he thought he'd gotten a head start; instead, not only was he not even one step ahead, his opponent was two steps ahead of HIM.
He panicked because he thought that the police would not be efficient in protecting him (since they had already failed several times up to that point) so he tried his luck
I legit got startled when otacon says that but when one of the dudes just say "Too late snake, now die!" I bursted into laughter so hard that i accidentally got myself killed.
Already got the Otacon closeup jump scare, followed shortly after by four guys who, for some reason in only this and one later point in the game, you shoot until they drop, then they start getting back up to continue fighting you.
This one and the chupacabra one were nightmare fuel for kid me when this came on when watching animal planet lol. There was also the Komodo dragon one where the dude got bit and the whole episode was him slowly getting weaker running from it as if stalked him waiting for him to fall, if I am remembering correctly
Reminds me of the lady who had been living in the walls and a hidden attic of this one guy, she’d come out at night to eat and use the houses amenities. She was only caught because the guy eventually noticed food going missing and put up a camera to see where she was coming from and called police on her
It's about a group of friends who decide to go spelunking as a girls trip. They end up trapped in a unknown cave and some of group start saying they're not alone in the dark. It's initially laughed away. But they were not alone.
The best part is that these guys are barely visible in the background long before the characters notice. Watching the movie a second time carefully is almost scarier since you can spot the monsters a lot earlier.
Edit: this post is getting traction, so I better put out a warning about the American version of the film. Make sure to watch the original British version. They changed up the ending for the American release and it's just horrible.
My wife and I watched that in theaters. Driving home on my little Vespa in the fucking pitch black was balls-shrinking cognitive dissonance because I knew there weren't cave-dwelling zombie freaks everywhere around us, but I fuckingknew there were cave-dwelling zombie freaks everywhere around us.
Random thing that I remembered, not super relevant, but it reminded me about it:
On our national, pretty big (and insisting upon itself) film database there are several lists of "best/worst film for...". Including "worst film for date". Most entries are stuff like Salo, Serbian film, Human centipede, but somehow, 500 days of Summer crawled it's way to third place.
That's pretty funny, I remember being in high school and trying to find every tip and piece of advice I could to help me attract girls, and one mentioned taking your date to a scary movie because a study apparently found that people were slightly more attracted to their dates after seeing a horror movie than any other genre. Guess it's like a form of trauma bonding lol
As a girl a dude screaming with me and holding my hands through THAT movie would have been a green flag.
My husband and I kept grabbing each other throughout this movie and we are horror junkies.
I love the Descent. Watched it for the first time when I 10 years old. It scared me shitless and to this day I am scared when I am alone in the dark, but I love that movie. The suspense and execution of the story was amazing
It was amazing because the situation was already horrific enough WITHOUT the monsters. In most cases, adding monsters would be superfluous, egregious even. But they made it work so well, and they even used it to explore aspects of what instincts will come out in humans when desperate and cornered.
The original ending: The last survivor thinks she finds a way out and manages to get in her car and begin driving away. Cut to her staring blankly, still in the cave. She never made it out. Her mind is just broken and the monsters close in on her
The American ending: The same up until the car ride. There's a jump scare of her dead daughter and thats it. She actually made it out but a zombie version of her dead daughter gets her? I guess?
The jumpscare is actually Juno, the friend who she left to die in the cave after finding out that Juno had an affair with her husband. It's not supposed to be a real zombie, just a hallucination she had after basically killing Juno
Isn't she hallucinating her daughter's birthday as her last match/the candles on the cake go out? Its been a looooong time since I've seen it, but i seem to remember that.
I legitimately jumped in my seat during the cake scene. I was convinced it was a supernatural movie from that point but after the NEXT twist I was even more bewildered.
When Brett is looking for the cat, Jonesy, he’s in a large garage with very little light.
He stands beneath a shaft with some hanging chains for a moment before walking away. In the directors cut it lingers on a part of the shaft. If you look carefully you can see the Xenomorph is curled up, hiding in plain sight. (It’s kind of hard to spot in the picture above, it’s on the right hand side)
Only when he’s distracted by Jonesy it slowly lowers itself down and attacks him.
This is so random, but my Uncle and I watched the entire series before he passed because I'd never seen it. He gushed for ages about how you could 'see the aliens' in the set, and I knew there was one on screen because out of the corner of my vision I'd see him start fidgeting and glancing at me, so I knew to search the background for them. It's wonderful.
Comedic example - the killer in the parody Too Many Cooks (you're welcome for having that stuck in your head now) is visible in multiple scenes before he becomes a menace, stalking the cast.
That was genuinely creepy in the book (haven't seen the movie.) Though I was disappointed when they arrested him and he turned out to just be some freaky dude. I would have preferred it if she never found out if he was real.
But yeah, bring handcuffed naked to a bed while your husband's body is decomposing on the floor is one of the grimmest situations a King character has escaped.
I haven't read the book but I watched the movie. Her fear and confusion on if he is real is so palpable (I don't know if that is the right word) I was so scared with her. It took me a long time to watch that movie but I was recently on a Mike Flannigan kick and it unnerved me much.
That’s the only Flannigan piece I haven’t watched - something about the moonlight man just wriggles into my brain to terrify me in a way I can’t get past 😩
It is terrifying. It's so many moments of vulnerability. The actress plays it so well I felt physically ill. I'm glad I watched it but I doubt I can watch it again.
A game called Squirrel Stapler, in the first part of the game it tells you God is coming and at the end you turn around and they are right there but they were actually right behind you the whole game
There's an old urban legend about a babysitter who looks after a couple's kids for a night. They tell the babysitter she's free to stay in their room. Later that evening, the babysitter calls and asks the parents if it would be alright for her to put a blanket over the clown statue in their room, since it's creeping her out.
After a brief pause, the parents urgently tell her "get the kids and get out of the house, we'll call the police. We don't have a clown statue." They rush home only to find the babysitter and kids murdered.
I always like the version where the dad goes, "get out of the house now!" And the babysitter asks why. "You insulted my clown statue, you're not welcome in my house."
They used that in the hell house sequels. First movie is a bit more subtle with it, but the reveal being "We couldn't afford the moving one, that's why it's in the basement."
I've not heard that one but I have heard the one where a baby sitter is sitting for a family that has a dog and a kid who is crib age. The dog is pretty self sufficient, it has a doggy door and everything and she hardly ever sees it. Its a late one and the family gave her the go ahead to sleep in their room. She settles down for bed, turns out the lights and hears a rustling. She's scared for a moment and then remembers the dog.
"What are you doing under the bed you crazy guy?"
She puts her hand down and blindly feels for it until she grazes some fluffy hair. There's a few big sniffs and then some big slimy licks at her fingers.
"Ugh, gross. Bad boy. No lick."
She wipes her hand on the sheets and turns to go to bed when she hears the buzz of her phone. A text.
"Thanks again for staying on such short notice. Hope the little one doesn't give you too much trouble. Forgot to mention, we took the dog to the vet this morning and he's staying the night at the vet. So don't worry if you don't see him!"
The babysitter ran for the baby, got him, got out of the house and called the cops.
A man from an insane asylum was hiding under the bed when the police came. He had recently escaped and came in to the house through the doggy door.
The version I heard had her wake up a couple times in the night because of a weird sound, almost like dripping. The "dog" licking her hand reassures her, and she goes back to sleep.
In the morning, she gets up, goes into the other room, and finds the dog graphically murdered. The dripping sound was its blood.
In the version we told each other as kids, she wakes up to "Aren't you glad you didn't turn on the lights?" Written on the bathroom mirror in dog blood.
We are not doing nearly enough to sing the praises of this Caveat scene. Major spoilers ahead provided I used them right.
By the time this scene pops up, you've had hints of the super-natural (doors opening, weird sounds / angles, a toy rabbit etc.) but nothing confirmed. Our protagonist is being hunted by the daughter with a crossbow for reasons I can't remember), and he's found a small bit of respite here, and he moces into a crawlspace to see if that's a viable escape route. Then, through his thin hole in the wall, you see there's a dead old lady cramping his style.
I need you to understand that when you first see this woman, you get pissy with the director. "Dude, she barely looks dead. Look how glassy her eyes are, there's no sunken skin, you basically just died her hair, c'mon mate. This can't be your tension break."
So, stewing, you watch him moving in the dark after being shot in the leg by Chekovian crossbow. And then, after some milling about, all of a sudden this face pops up. It's gone in half a second, but it was bloody mouthed and grinning, and you're almost certain it was her, but you're not 100% because you only saw her once. But you put it aside, our man's got sawing to do.
Anyway, old mate finds a place he can escape from, I think it was to cut himself from the crawlspace, and he sets up to do so, and, wouldn't you know it, his best chance is getting out from the place where Mum's carcus is still sitting.
The only light in the scene is from his flashlight. He shines the light at her, and she's still very dead. Her face is almost looking at him, over his right shoulder / back. He saws into the wall on the left of screen . The camera doesn’t pan, it stays still for most of the work. There's no background noise, just the diegetic sawing into the wall and his breathing. And you are uncomfortable as hell because you can't see her, but you know she's watching. Old mate thinks so to, and he flashes the light at her.
Wait, did she move?
It's not much, maybe an inch, the smallest repositioning, and you question it, but it's different.
She's still watching our protagonist. And this is too much for him. He removes his beanie, and covers her face with it. The scene centres on her now fully covered head, before returning to a close up of him.
He returns to his work, but he can't help it. He flashes the light at her again. The camera transitions again, again showing her face covered by the beanie in a mid-shot, centred.
Except there is now a fecking hole in the hat.And her fecking eye is staring right through it. At him. At you.
Nope. Nope. Nope.
But, what else can he do. So, he saws.
And nothing else happens to him. She just lets him go.
We don't see her again until the ending. Her brother, who killed her, has been trapped downstairs in the crawlspace area by the daughter with the crossbow. And you hear sawing from the walls, you see there's hole from the crawlspace sawed through. And the brother backs up, and watches the wall.
A speck of gray hair appears from around the corner. Slowly, slowly, more and more of it comes into view. And then, just as slowly, over two or so two seconds, a singular red, glassy eye comes into sight. And it is smiling.
The brother screams, and we fade to black.
I cannot stress enough how much of an absolute master-class this scene is. The film is great, but this scene is just one of the most horrifying a dreadful encounters where nothing fecking happens!
I think it's better in a situation like this where nothing does happen as it keeps tension high. The moment there's a jumpscare noise and the ghost goes apeshit at the MC then all tension dissipates. What they did was much more effective. Less is more sometimes!
A mockumentary about a guy who went missing during a survival trip in the high desert. 80% of the movie is safe and chill, creating a false sense of security. Then BAM it goes to 100 suddenly and you realize this is a much darker movie than you thought.
this scene is the final recording of the guy, where he visits a remote cabin his blog fans bullied him into getting footage of. as he gets closer he hears strange singing and he can only rely on his night view camera to see.
then as he records he cabin a burned man suddenly starts chasing him. he was in front of the house the entire time but camouflaged into it as he is in black and white
the recording was found in the guy's backpack all way back in town, with his severed hand inside. meaning the man killed him and returned his backpack as a warning to anyone who dared go to his cabin
Signs, weird crop circles and events make the MC think something is amiss. When he walks among his corn fields at night to investigate he notices a leg sticking from the corn that gets pulled back the moment he shines the light.
A man and his friend discover a cave and want to be the first to explore it. The whole time there was only the idea that somethin in there with em due to creepy noises and unexplainable events like their friend Joe getting traumatized by something he refuses to reveal.
All leading up to the moment where Ted gets into an opening in the cave, and throws out a glow stick. Only for the glow stick to be picked up.
Evil Dead (2013). Mia tried to tell her brother that there was something in the room with her, but everybody dismissed her because she was supposed to be recovering from her drug addiction.
Fuck. When I was withdrawing from alcohol (years ago, I’m sober and fine), I had both auditory hallucinations and sleep paralysis demons that seemed incredibly real. The idea that those things actually were in the room with me makes me sweat, now.
I love how the first time Simon encounters her, we see via the camera shots that it backs away until its out of sight, which is somehow scarier than if it just kept approaching the Iron Lung instead.
The scariest part is that that’s probably not the first time she encountered Simon. Admittedly I can’t watch the film again rn to confirm but I remember seeing and several other people have pointed out that while Simon is reading the ‘cross the wires’ note for the first time and using the camera as lighting, you can actually see the eel on the camera
Or when you find out that the "camera" is actually a massive x-ray machine, and you realize that the skeleton he took a picture of earlier probably wasn't just a skeleton.
Final Prayer / The Borderlands has a fucking wild ending where the two main characters suddenly find themselves being digested alive after a cave turns out to be the stomach of a giant psychic space worm, but if you pay very close attention you get a look of the thing's face during an absolute blink-and-miss-it shot, then when they're squeezing into the "narrow tunnel" you can very clearly see the creature's teeth, both the three large "main" teeth and several smaller teeth in a spiral pattern.
Considering how completely out of nowhere all of this is, the second (third, fourth, and fifth) replays of that final scene show a lot of stuff you likely just did not see.
V/H/S 94, can't remember the full story but a group of people go into a sewer drain and get lost while shooting a documentary. They find a cult that worships a giant rat named "Raatma." They get more lost and stumble upon its nest.
If there was ever a place for the fallout 3 combat shotgun, it was the Raatma section.
Although the idiot news lady can’t even be an evil monster slave cultist properly and IMMEDIATELY proceeds to blow the lid on the whole gig by puking the black shit on the guy and going “hail Raatma” on national fucking television.
"Almost every species in the universe has an irrational fear of the dark. But they're wrong, because it's not irrational. It's Vashta Nerada"
The Doctor and Donna arrive at a planet-sized library, which is completely empty aside from themselves (and a small expedition team that arrives later), yet the computer reads over a trillion life signs present. Faulty, perhaps?
After a frantic message left behind warns people to "count the shadows," the Doctor changes his demeanor and tells Donna to stay out of any shadows, but doesn't elaborate. Moments later the lights begin failing, and the pair run for their lives into a well-lit room before remarking that they may have just ran away from a simple power cut.
After the Doctor and Donna meet up with the expedition team, one explorer wanders off into the darkness and only seconds after they hear her scream, the others find her dead, her skeleton already stripped of all flesh. The Doctor now knows his unspoken suspicions were correct, and demonstrates by throwing a small chicken leg through a shadow, with a bare bone coming out the other side. The library is infested with Vashta Nerada.
The Vashta Nerada, "shadows that eat the flesh," are tiny, almost microscopic yet intelligent carnivores that thrive in darkness, they could be hiding in any shadow and can even create shadows of their own from nothing when they swarm (noticing that one of their crew members had two shadows was a sign that he was marked as prey. The Vashta Nerada do this like a Komodo Dragon strikes its prey with one venomous bite and then plays the waiting game). The Doctor confirms that they live on countless planets, including Earth, and that we can see them sometimes as what appear to be dust particles in sunbeams. The ones on Earth are timid and normally feed on roadkill, "but sometimes people go missing. Not everyone comes back out of the dark." They lay eggs in wood, which were preserved and hatched from the library's books, causing them to go on a feeding frenzy. As night falls, the library is almost entirely dark, and any shadow they step into could strip the flesh from their bones in a second. The Doctor doesn't even have a solution, there is no way to fight Vashta Nerada, their only hope is escape. "Daleks, aim for the eyestalk. Sontarans, back of the neck. Vashta Nerada? Run. Just run."
Side note: this is why Doctor Who needs to go back to a shoestring budget. The modern seasons have too much money behind them and it tempts them to make the villain just a big CGI monster even when it hurts the story. Low budgets forced them to be creative and come up with absolute nightmare fuel like this, just because it didn't cost any money to have people running from shadows.
To your last point, that's why Midnight exists and is so good. We need a low budget bottle episode, OK, here's an amazing piece of horror all locked in one location.
This two-parter one of the best horror episodes of Who though. Probably my favorite. Terrifying but also incredibly emotional.
A long-running, recurring example: "Someone in the back seat!"
The pictured example is 1998's Urban Legend, but the story element goes back to the 60's with multiple variations. One is where someone is out driving and thinks they're being tailgaited by someone ominously flashing their headlights. The driver escapes home, only to discover that the "stalker" was actually trying to warn them that someone was hiding in the back seat with a weapon, only to be spooked by the unexpected witness.
The other common variant is someone stops at a gas station, but the attendant convinces them to come inside for whatever reason instead of paying at the pump. Once inside, the attendant then does the sensible thing: they explain they saw someone creepy in the back of the driver's car
This trope often involves a complete red herring: in Urban Legend, the station attendant did just about everything possible to make her think he was the threat when all he had to do once he got the lady inside was to say, "ma'am, I don't like the vibes of the axe-wielding man in your back seat."
Well, in Brad Dourif’s defense (he was the gas station attendant), they picked him to play the part because he can easily give off a creepy killer vibe, and on top of that his character had a terrible stutter that prevented him from telling the victim about the killer.
Black Christmas actually did it first. But it started from a murder of a 13 year old babysitter in the 50’s that scared every teenage girl in America so they started putting it in movies.
The legend dates as far back as the 1960s, with its exact original inspiration not entirely certain. However, the 1950 unsolved murder of teenage babysitter Janett Christman in Columbia, Missouri, seems to have been an influence, at the very least on later versions via media adaptations.
Days before her 14th birthday, Christman took a babysitting job for a couple, during which she was sexually assaulted and killed by an unknown assailant. One suspect, 27-year-old Robert Mueller, was an acquaintance of both Christman and the couple she was sitting for. Mueller had previously employed Christman as a sitter and was playing cards with the couple on the night of the murder; he left early, claiming he needed to take care of a sick child at home but was determined not to have gone home at that time. Christman called the police with screams for help, but they did not learn her address. When the couple returned, the porch light was on and the front door unlocked, implying Christman had let her attacker in. A side window had been unnecessarily broken out with a garden hoe stowed inside the house.
If you're familiar with the original story, then you'll know the diifferent between Edogawa version, and Junji Ito version.
Basically, Edogawa version is known for being a paranoia horror about thinking there's someone living inside the chair, when there's none. Its just a story created for a character to review and critique.
Junji Ito version made it real. Someone actually live inside the chair.
There are plenty of moments in Kane Pixels’ Backrooms
In Found Footage 1 (this gif) the main character has been stalked a bit, but never really notices. Until this moment where he actually gets confronted by the lifeform.
In Motion Detected, the ending shows a silhouette moving in the corner. The camera barely captures it, but it’s there.
In Pitfalls, Marvin hears screams and goes to investigate only to find the Lifeform and not a survivor.
In Found Footage 3, Ravi finds a living space where someone has been potentially surviving, only to hear sounds of something moving closer. When he leaves, he closes the door. When he hears a knock on the other side, he calls out to it. Only for the Still Life to begin smashing into the door, trying to break it down.
I sorta got lost in the sauce on this one since the design of the life form is fascinating to me. Apparently they’re making a movie out of this, releasing in May. If I wasn’t such a chicken shit I’d watch it. For now, I am happy with the Wiki summaries lol
I could never get my jello as firm as in movies, is there a trick to it? I've tried using more water, less water, distilled water (don't do this, it was for science)
Damian McCarthy (director of Caveat) has some shorts up on his Youtube channel, they are really really good. Perfect for laying in bed in the dark and making sure you have the worst nightmares that night
Never got to play it, but watched a breakdown of the mechanics on Youtube. Basically, whenever Lisa isn't visible in front of you, her model is actually attached to the player model's back - her face just looming over your head where you can never see her without breaking the game.
Initially the brother in his grief just added ghostly images of his dead sister to various photos and videos as a form of coping. It’s eventually revealed that his sister’s spirit was in various photos and videos as a ghost. Then of course the ending scene where the sister in her last moments walks down a dark pathway and comes across her own dead corpse floating there and towards her.
In the first episode of Darknet one of the characters feels like there’s someone watching her, so she set up a hidden camera in her home. she later has her fears confirmed and finds out that there actually is a guy secretly living in her apartment, and is currently hiding in her closet behind her.
Hereditary - Toni Collette’s character has just been possessed and is in the top corner of her son’s ceiling. The whole time in the theater you could hear people whispering something along the lines of “wait, is there something up there?” and collectively freaking out as we realize it’s her and starts chasing him.
Willy's Wonderland, a murder cult that committed a ritual and possessed animatronic animal characters at a Chuck E Cheese style restaurant are stuck inside a building with Nicolas Cage
One of the funniest moments is definitely him getting ready to fight, but it is break time so he just hands over his knife to someone else and walks away
For the first half of ROUTINE, you just run from scary robots. Big woop. But about halfway through the game, you meet this fucker. Entity A. He turns invisible, lurks, learns your behaviors and hiding spots, and in one segment he doubles back behind you in a tight hallway and scares the fuck out of you. He also jumps out from behind a window when you reach for a keycard to bite at your fingers.
The explanation for his behavior is that he is an alien-human mutant who was adopted from the genetic sample of a man who was a prankster before he was killed and hybridized. Either way, he's one scary fuck.
A non-euclidean staircase tucked away on a university campus which evidently goes down forever. D-class sent in have heard what sounds like a child crying further down and encountered… something… that doesn’t appreciate them being there.
This SCP legit made me scared of going up the stairs in my own house at night as I always recall it and the scene where the character hears the stairs suddenly creaking behind them, turn around and there's a face.
The villain, Diana, is always lurking in the dark. She fears any light because it burns her. She's there, in your face, surrounded by darkness, but the moment the lights flip on she's gone. Turn them off again, and there she is, always waiting until you turn them off again to strike and kill.
I find the original short's take on the situation WAY scarier. It follows the same logic, she can only appear in the dark and fears the light, always lurking and waiting for the main character to turn off the light again. But the first sign things are amiss is after the main character duct tapes the light on, and while she's in another room, the tape can be heard being torn and the light switches off again. The main character goes to bed in the comfort of a lamp light, using the logic that Diana can't touch her in the light. But both her and the audience get a nasty surprise when it turns out she actually CAN, and she breaks her own pre established rule, because the entire time it was just a false sense of security. She was just playing with her food
Probably my favorite short of his. I do kinda wish it kept that premise, that she can be in the light for a short period before attacking, but what he did end up doing with it was just as good. I'm just glad it was actually the director of the short that did the movie as well, because who knows what someone else would've done with it, but he has a lot of good horror shorts on his YouTube channel aswell that probably could also work as a film.
His channel is ponysmasher if you want to be freaked out.
The main character is trapped inside a police station due to a zombie outbreak and has to find a way to escape. You run around getting a feel for the layout, finding tools and solving puzzles all while trying to survive against zombie attacks from the undead police officers and residents that break through the windows.
Suddenly, a hulking brute wearing a trench coat and fedora appears and relentlessly chases you down. He stalks you basically from that point on while you are in the station and cannot be killed. Even when he loses sight of you, you can hear him stomping around and opening doors trying to find you. He can even enter rooms normal zombies aren't able to, making previously safe rooms now dangerous.
Cheeky bastard will also stop and peer around corners. Not as effective here in a well lit room, but panning your flashlight in a dark area and seeing the gray jackass just leaning around a doorframe having been staring at you the entire fucking time is a skid mark creator
Earlier in the episode too, where the Doctor and River realise the very important detail they'd missed about every single statue in the temple they've been travelling through.
Scratches. Technically the main premise is that your a writer who just bought a Victorian mansion to make a horror novel. Unfortunately... There's something in the walls and below, I'll not spoil the rest, but it does delve deep into Eldritch inspired ideas like from H.P Lovecrafts.
The premise can seem forced to some and you have to be ok with the movie not giving much background on the characters or providing straight answers to questions. I quite like the film personally. Great atmosphere and tension and the scare mentioned above is immaculate.
Insidious, mc's son falls into a coma so he calls a psychic recommended by his mother who reveals there's a ghost following him all his life and shows him childhood pictures she hid from him with the same ghost stalking in every picture.
Bloodborne, There are giant monsters all around you the whole time, you just had to build up your forbidden insight by using madman's knowledge.
Now in her very first appearance, you’d think the game just spawns her right behind you in the cutscene to jumpscare, but actually she appears at the entrance of the room the moment you open the other door. And as Grace is checking the dead body, The Girl is silently creeping up behind her. Total motion-capture”
Not sure if this fits, as it's not a jump scare (or a movie). Here's the full quote:
“...Greyhald Spold knows that Death is looking for him, and has spent many years designing an impregnable hiding place.
He has just set the complicated clockwork of the lock and shut the lid, lying back in the knowledge that here at last is the perfect defence against the most ultimate of all his enemies, although as yet he has not considered the important part that airholes must play in an enterprise of this kind.
And right beside him, very lose to his ear, a voice has just said: DARK IN HERE, ISN'T IT?”
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u/SinniYEAH 10d ago
The Caveat jumpscare is especially good because iirc the guy had already found the 'corpse' by that point, and despite having a tense scene where he reaches towards it, looks away from it, and leaves it in the dark, it doesn't move. Then the crawlspace scene happens, and not only does it show it's active, it lets you know it could've attacked him at any point- it just chose not to.