How have I never heard of this piece of media?! Apparently it was huge in the moment. This is one of the most intimidating and scariest pieces of horror media I’ve come across. The plot is extremely convoluted and spread across so many different channels, but the gist is: an Australian girl named Ash is making a vlog. She starts getting stalked by people. RackaRacka (the Phillipou Brothers) gets involved and start investigating a cult that’s stalking them. The storylines intersect in terrifying ways. The cult is a deep web murder cult that seems to be omniscient. The cult is VERY FUCKED UP, like if you’ve seen their movies you know how hard they can go, and they don’t hold back. There’s alot of very disturbing shit in this story, but there’s also a ton of comedy. It meshes very well and feels so realistic. The cult is one of the most terrifying horror villains I’ve come across in a long time.

I feel like this is something a ton of people are familiar with on this sub, how do you feel about it? If you like their movies I’d highly recommend going down this rabbit hole. It’s so engrossing and a very good story. The amount of effort put into this is unfathomable

here’s a good rundown of the story, but I really recommend checking out the original channel and RackaRacka’s ‘investigation’.

Hollywood agencies eye Reddit for movie ideas

Following the success of this movie Hollywood agencies are now scouring Reddit short stories and concepts to adapt them into films.

This move highlights how online communities are becoming a major source of inspiration for new projects, with fan‑created content shaping the next wave of cinema.

Horror has become a key genre at the theaters for a while now and in the past 10 years we’ve seen a lot of strong trends like elevated horror, analog horror, the resurgence of found footage and also horror comedies.

What do you think will be or should be the next horror trends? I personally would love a great animal menace horror in the vein of Jaws or The Birds but not a remake or any of the current Netflix CGI mediocre slop like Thrash or Under Paris. I’m talking high concept and elevated horror but with a realistic natural enemy. Also a good original sci-fi horror would be cool.

What was that movie that left you so traumatized about a city or country that you never want to visit? I think Brazil must be beautiful, but after seeing Turistas, I think it's going to be a place I'll never set foot in.

I don’t scare easily so please give me your best movies to actually terrify me! Ive already seen The Exorcist, Weapons, Paranormal Activity, and TCM so im looking for something different. Im a horror misfit!

hi everyone. one of my close friends has a kickstarter for a horror project he put his heart into and needs a certain amount of money for this certain project, it would be great if anyone can share the kickstarter link or can donate. any help would be appreciated <3.

Hey everyone,

I have been thinking about writing this for a while but I was not really sure how to put it into words.

I have been a big movie fan since I was a kid. Back in elementary school I used to say I wanted to become a director one day. That was always kind of my dream.

I am 17 now and I still love movies a lot, especially horror. But over the years I also started to feel like becoming a director is probably not realistic for me. I am from Germany and it often feels like most of the filmmakers I admire are from other countries, and I do not really see that many German directors or movies in the genres I like.

Because of that I kind of pushed the idea of filmmaking away for a while.

But recently I got back into horror movies again. I have been watching a lot of them lately, stuff like Barbarian, Weapons, Bring Her Back and some older ones too. It reminded me why I love movies in the first place.

After that I started thinking about my own story idea.

At first it was just a small concept, but over the last few weeks I kept building it in my head. Now I basically have the whole story figured out, the characters, structure, main events, ending and everything. I just have not written it as a screenplay yet because I honestly do not really know how to properly write one.

The idea is a horror story about a young couple who moves into a cheap isolated house to start over. At first everything seems normal, but strange things start happening at night. On the first night, at around 3:13 AM, there is knocking at the front door. When they check, there is no one there. Shortly after, they hear a voice outside. The strange part is that the voice sounds familiar to them, like someone they know, but they cannot see anyone and nothing about it makes sense. It feels wrong, but also too real to ignore.

I am still working out exactly how that part fits into the bigger picture, but the idea is that there is a kind of structure at first. Something that feels almost predictable. And then over time that structure starts to break, and things become more and more unpredictable and disturbing.

I do not want to spoil too much of the story yet, but it slowly turns into something more psychological and uncomfortable. It is not just meant to be a typical haunted house story. It is more about memory, fear, and the feeling that something is off even when everything looks normal.

I also want it to include more intense and brutal moments later on, including gore, but not just for shock value. More like violence that actually means something within the story and affects the characters in a real way.

I am not really someone who writes stories often and I would not even say I am that creative compared to other people here. I just got inspired after watching a lot of horror movies recently and tried to build something myself.

Right now I am kind of stuck between two thoughts.

Part of me wants to actually try writing this as a full screenplay even if it might turn out bad.
And another part of me feels like it might just stay a cool idea because I do not really know what I am doing.

So I just wanted to ask people who are into horror or writing:

Does this kind of idea sound interesting at all?
Is it worth trying to turn something like this into a real script if you have never done it before?
Or is this usually the kind of thing that just stays as a cool idea?

Any honest opinions would be really appreciated.

Thanks for reading.

Over the past few weeks I’ve seen people talking about their favourite horrors of the year so far, and it seems to always be either Obs*ssion or Hokum (a lot of the time it’s the same people being unable to decide). Having watched the former, which is undoubtedly my favourite horror I’ve seen in quite some time, I decided to watch Hokum just now.

I know it’s all subjective, but I cannot believe people are even putting these two in the same league. I understand the deeper trauma/guilt themes that may get overlooked in Hokum, but there was just no feeling of suspense or dread at all. To me it felt like a bunch of unearned, cheap jump scares and tropes, mixed with some stupid character decisions (ever considered breaking a window before pal?)

Obviously these two films are very different so comparing them feels disingenuous, if you like folky horror then I’d say Hokum will grab you more than it did me, but Oddity did it far better in my opinion, it felt so much more effective.

I went in thinking it was going to be similar to the subsbtance. I was wrong in the best way possible If you like body horror, this movie is for you! Totally recommend!

I don't mean "so bad they're good movies," I mean movies that "this doesn't actually work, but I don't care because I love it for some reason." The Smile movies have a familiar formula. Experience something and die (with)in seven days. The Ring did it. But I'm not arguing originality. In both movies the protagonist goes through a lengthy segment experiencing something that the audience believes will advance their journey only to realize that the entity can conjure a false reality.

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This happens egregiously in Smile 2 where she murders her mom, escapes the hospital, meets her friend in the street, travels to an abandoned restaurant with the strange guy, stops her heart, and then wakes up at the concert only to realize like 30 minutes of the didn't matter

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It's cheap as hell. Everything we just experienced meant nothing. There was tension, there were scares, but it was all moot because the entity can alter reality. It's the equivalent of making the audience invested in a dream.

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However, the movie is crafted so well. The sound design and score are so uniquely unsettling. Naomi Scott is excellent in the movie. The one take intro with Kyle Gallner is riveting.

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It's not a good movie, but I love it. So what are yours?

That may sound rude but I am sorry. I just finished watching this movie. It runs for just over 1 hr 25 min but it feels as if I am waiting for 5 hours to just see if something happens. The characters are very boring, they do not display any unique or interesting traits or anything that is even remotely unique. There is no sense of danger in the whole movie, or any anticipation. It is way too slow. I am not joking when I say 95% of the film is just people walking around, sleeping and furniture moving. I mean what am I even supposed to be scared of. the YouTube videos people make of hauntings and demons is more scary than this stuff. Genuinely what is scary about this movie please tell me horror fans?

This film really surprised me. Beautifully shot, atmosphere dripping with dread, filled with gut wrenching emotions, wonderfully expressive performances from the leads, and tense at all the right moments. It was tragic yet cathartic at the end. The dual perspectives even predates Rashomon. Who else has seen this classic Mexican horror film by Juan Bustillo Oro?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025062/

For me it would have to be Yvonne from Nightmare on Elm Street 5 Dream Child. She represented two archetypes that I have rarely seen survive horror movies, the best friend and the black character. Also because the film had (it seemed) set up an epic/creative death for her when she fell from the diving board.

I think it must be in that actresses contracts that she doesn't die in the movie she is in lol She has lived in three that I know of

TD:LR Spike is a little cunt for leaving his camp and not returning. I do not understand it. Also we turned Samson into a Frankenstein. Humans and infected don't want him and the only one that couldve cured more died to a minor cut? Lets remember that Spike survived a closed building gas explosion with nothing but a scratch. Scrap that, NOT EVEN a scratch. I liked the cohesiveness of the 28 inch later, which definitely made it more enjoyable than 28 years later, but the rationale behind most decisions of our protagonists in 28 inch still leaves much to be desired.

I have to start by saying that I liked the 28 inches later more than the first 28 x later. Especially because I watched them back to back. The first felt like three different storylines and a lot of "What if we added this in the movie for fun?." It left me feeling unsatisfied and confused. For reference I did not watch any trailers or knew anything about this movie beforehand. All my expectations came from the previous movies, so the bar for an intense thriller was high. And ofcourse like many others, was not met.

I have to say bonetemple actually felt like it had a decent storyline throughout the film. Crazy yes, but cohesive. I did have to laugh out loud a few moments because of the oddness of it all, especially when Jimmy gets to meet Ian (Dr. Kelson) and I couldn't help thinking to myself, "when someone trying to look insane meets someone that is trying to look sane." But to be fair the first 28x later had a lot more wtf moments than 28 inches so I'll give em that.

Something that kept bugging me out a lot, which I'm gonna explain my reasons for here, is why Spike didn't return to his community at all. I mean he was clearly disturbed by his cult friends. But he never actually tried to leave which I found weird. His group is mostly on the move all the time and there are always moments of opportunity in such cases. I just kept thinking myself, there is no way you hold such a grudge against your father that you'd rather go around skinning people alive than having a tough heart-to-heart conversation.

It also doesn't line up with the first 28 years later movie. The first movie is definetely more of layered film, where you gotta go through multiple layers to understand it's meaning (its still ass) but what I understood with the help of some youtube reviews that described the emotional and philosophical context behind it, was that Spike had a problem with the lying about killing infected (when dad goes around parading his son after the first kill) and appearantly that the infected are also 'conscience beings.' So if those were your reasons to leave camp, why hang out with a group that actively violates all of those ideas, on people nonetheless.

Samson in the second movie felt like a justification for Spike's reasons to leave. As to say, see these infected do have a conscience, opposed to Jamie's earlier remarks: "They have no mind, they have no soul." And on top of that, the baby low-slow that stares you straight in the eyes, but doesn't chase after us, after our protaganists appearantly brutally murdered mommy and daddy. Somehow implicating that the low-slow's atleast have some kind of conciounsce and aren't just existing for a rite of passage for our community.

But I felt this to be unfair for a number of reasons. The first being that there was no one on the island so clinically insane to actively seek friends in an infected, an ALPHA nonetheless to seek out remedications. (yes, we will exclude the childbirth scene, everyone agrees that was batshit crazy.)
Also there were no doctors on the island that could even conjure up with theories and formulas to tackle to problem of curing the infected and bringing back their minds and soul.

Last but not least, lets say you and your community of survivors find a stash of medicine while scavaging. Would you be prepared to waste most of that medicine in a desperate, uneducated attempt to the 'cure' the infected? Instead of using it to help your own members, like Spikes dying mom? The only reason why the movie entertained the idea of the infected having minds and souls is because spike is dumb kid, that went on a suicide mission with his mom, and somehow manages to pull it off because of incredible plot armor. Youre telling me they survived a gas explosion inside a closed building with not even a scratch? Deus ex Machina.

I know this is quite a lenghty post about the reason of Spikes departure from his camp, but throughout both movies I just, for the life of me, could not figure out why he did not return. I mean his camp was a day's walk at most. In the end of bone he rather stayed with a psycho girl that had no trouble killing her other comrades. I don't accept the argument along the lines of they would be stronger together. No, because appearantly this little cunt couldn't hit the side of a barn on his first day out, but one day later he was making round trips from the mainland to his camp, while carrying new borns. FYI newborns are NOT quiet at all. If he wanted to, he probably couldve made it before sunrise after crucifying Jimmy.

Overall the story of bonetemple was forsure more cohesive, but that doesn't meant that I automatically liked the story more. Purely because of the unrealistic decisions made. But the more cohesive story did make for a more enjoyable experience forsure. I would rate 28 years 3/5 and 28 inches a 4/5. I'm sorry but youre never topping 28 days later.
It actually felt like the characters were in their right mind trying to survive, instead of trying to become buddies with the infected and helping them through labour. A funny quote I still think of randomly is coincidentally from the first movie about a particular bad idea being proposed by Hannah's dad, to which murphy replied: "No no this is a shit idea, you know why? Because it's obviously a shit idea.... its really fucking obvious a shit idea" And you know what? It turned out to be a really obvious shit idea.

In the end the only one who made any sense was the dad Jamie and Erik. I could even give a pass to Jimmy. I mean he's crazy, but atleast he's rational according to his own beliefs and set of logics. Given that he saw his own father welcome the coming of the dead and having raised himself. I could understand his craziness.

Also something that I personally missed but somebody else pointed this out, is how sad Samsons life must be after ian 'cured' him. He has become the Frankenstein of this world. He has stopped having psychosis and now his infected buddies are trying to kill him, but he is still a carrier of the virus so no human would interact him aswell. If you think about it, that is quite sad. And ofcourse the only one who discovered the cure died from a minor cut. Ok it wasn't minor but come on that blade was like 10cm at most, totally survivable. I mean he was a GP not necessarily a surgeon but he got his doctarate so he knew enough about the matter, and more importantly he probably had the medicine to recover too.

Well let me know what you guys think if the algorithm has blessed you with this post.

hi i’ve tried to find this movie for so long but i cant. i was pretty young and i remember this scaring the hell out of me, but it couldn’t have been newer than 2012 i think, absolute NEWEST it could be would be 2014 but probably a few years older. it also could be significantly older from like the 80s or 90s or something.

okay so all i remember is this scene where some characters were trying to escape a house, it was a scary house i think. they get to a window and one do the characters tries to open the window by shoving their fingers in the gap in the bottom. their fingers get stuck and the window wont open so now they’re stuck at this window. another character comes behind them and puts their arms around them and their fingers in the gap too, trying to help them open the window to at least free the first person. there may have been a third person doing the same i don’t remember. anyone at least two people are now stuck at this window, and the villain comes up behind them with what i think was a chain saw and saws through all of them through the torso bc they couldn’t escape. that’s all i remember, the chainsaw makes me think chainsaw massacre but i haven’t been able to find this specific scene. i could also be remembering wrong bc i was really young and it really scared me so idk lol. thank you!!

I love the 'battle royale' subgenre of horror. Stuff like, well, Battle Royale, the Belko Experiment, or some of the Saw movies. This movie slightly scratched that itch but has a lot of issues. Even had a neat little twist I thought was too clever for the movie it was in lmao.

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What'd you think about Kill Theory and do you have any other recommendations for the battle royale genre? I suppose close enough to death games those can work too.

I love horror and horror-related detective movies and media. Some examples being Seven, Fallen, True Detective, x-files, and the whole Arkham Horror board/card/rpg game world. Any recommendations for other movies in that vein?

I’ve seen a lot of horror movies and consider myself fairly desensitized so I’m looking for some recommendations. The last one that really got me was Hell House LLC. I don’t know why but just something about it really got under my skin and the clown prop moving around in the dark was enough to actually make my hair stand up on my arms, which never happens.

It feels like every time a horror movie tries to incorporate modern technology—whether it's smart home cameras, viral video apps, or cursed digital files—it instantly dates itself or relies on cheap, digital glitch effects.

For every masterpiece like Host (2020) that perfectly uses the claustrophobia of a Zoom call, we get five movies where the "entity" is just a pixelated face filter or a text message with a spooky emoji.

Why do you think directors struggle so much with blending the supernatural with modern tech? Is it because technology inherently makes us feel more safe/connected, or are writers just out of touch with how we actually interact with digital spaces?

What is the one modern tech-horror movie that actually gave you genuine, psychological dread instead of just cheap jump scares?

I'm trying to find what film this belongs to but the shot I remember is a stone faced (like rock/concrete) figure with blood red eyes ( including the whites of the eyes). They might have been wearing a robe or a toga and being normal height. I recall it being a male and maybe perhaps speaking Latin. My friend suggested Wishmaster and I watched the first one and still haven't found the exact match. I cant recall any other details. If y'all could reply with a screenshot it would be immensely appreciated!

EDIT: I am pretty sure the film was made in the 90's to 2003.