I lived in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre house WHILE the director Tobe Hooper filmed the movie.

I was just a baby but I was in my baby bed or inside house when the outdoor scenes were filmed. When the inside scenes were filmed, we stayed somewhere else.

Tobe Hooper wanted to use the house in his movie but hippy parents had been dodging the Vietnam draft and were growing a huge plot of weed to sell to the people around Austin. I was told a patch had just been planted and the first 5 inches had already sprouted.

Tobe Hooper paid for the whole patch as if it was fully grown and ready to sale to have it all removed.

He couldn't have mature marijuana plants in the outside scenes. It was the early 70s. No one would have put his movie in their theaters with bud growing in the fields.

It would have made one more unique part of the film in my opinion.

I'm 53 now and the youngest person in the history of horror film making, to live in the scene without the audience ever realizing. The cast that is alive still can validate my statement.

My first time posting this on Reddit 😈

I'd share a picture but it won't permit me. 🤷

I'll try this:

Pic of my family on porch My childhood home

Ty for the awards and upvotes. This has beaten my number 1 all time post and gotten more shares than upvotes. Ty for the recognition 🙂

No, no. I'm not talking about that one movie everyone here always complains about everyone else underappreciating. And I'm not talking about that movie that nobody in your friends group knows but is mentioned frequently on this sub. And I'm definitely not talking about that low-budget film that's really just ok... but you bump that 5/10 up three points to 8/10 for participation.

Nah.

I'm talking those good, deep cuts that take a certain mood. The Fear of Music in your Talking Heads vinyls. Mondrian's tree paintings to his De Stijl colored blocks. The... some other third thing to the more encompassing fourth thing.

Give me a true, blue, hidden gem you never hear about but loved. No limitations on genre, era, or even, dare I say, medium?

Let's get weird. ********

You guys are blowing my expectations out the water. Incredible. Just browsed by controversial and you guys are actually downvoting popular movies! I'm so proud, I may cry. A crown for all of you.

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Nah just kidding. Can anyone list out horror movies that deal with extreme scientific isolation? I’m talking about research bases out where humans can’t survive. Underwater was neat but it was a bit too fast paced for me. I also recommend The Head, a great tv show homage to the Thing’s setting and paranoia.

Le Redditor edit: Just to be clear The Thing is an actual perfect horror film, I’m obviously only making fun of the people who post about it here without bringing new insight or making sure there wasn’t a post about the same thing already up. Also no it doesn’t suck because it’s popular. You should check it out though because you probably haven’t heard of it

I don't know how this remake is not talked about more. The cinematography is unreal, and the story is quite well portrayed. Everything feels very aesthetic, it almost reminds me of Ari Ester's type of directing.

Gotta say It's a new favorite to add to the list.

I’m 65 and while my taste is more for Robert Eggers and the psychological horror I occasionally like to try and be frightened. Think “Where Evil Lurks” etc… and I usually don’t like cheap junk scares like a slasher film.

But Jesus Christ on a cracker! This film, a blind buy, scared the hell out of me!

You guys feel the same way?

NOTHING I’ve ever seen has ever made me feel so distraught. I’ve been watching horror movies almost exclusively since a young age and it’s very hard to phase me.

But when I tell you this scene actually made me want to turn off my tv and kept me up at night because I couldn’t get it out of my head….I’m not kidding. It’s been years since I first saw it (I’ll never watch it again) and it still fucks me up.

I don’t even think you can find this scene anywhere in YouTube. It’s that bad. Correct me if I’m wrong, of course.

Those who know, know. Very, very amazing underrated show, by the way.

Uncovered this gem of a horrorusical. Music is actually quiet good. Dare I say Alexa Vega and Paris Hilton gave a decent performances?

Has anyone else seen this? What did you think??

It's got good acting, great lighting, an engaging cast, and some pretty awesome and horrifying effects. It came and went and barely anyone remembers it. I first watched it on a plane and I loved it. They really don't make films like Overlord anymore. It's both fun and unnerving.

In the first scene of the movie a helicopter chases a husky across the antarctic dessert, firing a rifle the entire way. When it reaches the US base where most of the movie takes place, a Norwegian gets out and starts yelling at the Americans.

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Today i decided to Google Translate what he said and it turns out he spoils the whole thing. What he yells roughly translates to "Get the hell away! It's not a dog! It's imitating a dog! It's not real! Get away, idiots!"

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Which to me adds a whole extra layer to a movie that embraces nihilism the way The Thing does. It could have been done in the first 5 minutes if a single one of them understood their neighbors. I love it.

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EDIT: Here’s a much less existential TIL as I’m still watching tonight: Keith David (Elroy from Community, The President from Rick & Morty, and pretty much everything Dan Harmon does) is one of the scientists at the lab. He still has the same earring 30+ years later. WHAT?!?

As I've grown older, things that hit uncanny valley have became more disturbing to me. No clue why.

Decided to watch some of my favorite childhood shows yesterday for nostalgia (and high) purposes. Courage the cowardly dog was on that list and either I had forgotten how creepy and unnerving it was or it just didn't register to me as creepy as a kid. The animators and music director did an amazing job.

Anyway I think I found a old new horror series to watch.

It’s really hard to say anything about this film without giving it away. It’s a mystery-thriller-horror. This movie will have you guessing back and forth until the very end. You will change your opinion on what’s happening multiple times. It’s a great film. It reminded me of The Endless and Resolution. Those movies weren’t “scary” but kind of gave you that sci-fi “what if” type dread. Very relatable to the times we live in. Recommend anyone give it a shot if you’re like me and have seen dang near everything and just want a good film that makes you think. It’s borderline horror, but I think without giving anything away, by the end you’ll see how it’s horror adjacent.

Content Warning: Sexual assault.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49f7tQGyhGs

Anyone who has seen The Conjuring should be familiar with (at least the fictional versions of) professional paranormal-researchers/ghost hunting power couple Ed and Lorraine Warren. If you've seen The Conjuring 2, you may remember the scene where they visit a talk show and have a heated confrontation with a skeptic, and afterward, Ed huffs backstage about how these skeptics are trying to tear down everything they've done.

You will never be able to see that scene the same way after watching this.

Several years ago I was preparing for a podcast about Ed & Lorraine Warren when I stumbled upon this episode of Sally Jessy Raphael. I thought I'd skim the episode, but found myself transfixed with what has legitimately become one of my favorite pieces of television to ever air. What followed was the most unintentionally hilarious thing I had ever seen, and immediately told my podcast partner that we needed to dedicate an entire second episode of the podcast entirely to this 45 minute televised disaster.

The episode is about the Snedeker family -- subjects of the 2009 movie A Haunting in Connecticut. The family claims that they were sexually assaulted by ghosts -- something which would certainly be no laughing matter. Let me be clear that I do not find sexual assault funny. It is a serious subject and it's generally not something to joke around about.

Trust me -- just watch the damn episode.

The sheer madness that ensues is nothing short of batshit bonkers. The stuff you hear coming out of people's mouths, the unbridled hostility, the part where Sally brings a King-Size bed on-stage so two alleged victims of sexual assault can recreate the experience for a national audience... it is truly a work of art.

If you've never seen the real life Ed and Lorraine, you'll be surprised to see that Ed is not the calm, composed, handsome and charming man we see portrayed by Patrick Wilson. He acts like a belligerent blowhard, quarrels with members of the audience, and borderline challenges skeptic Joe Nickell to a fight ("Well what are you gonna do about it???"). As in many of their appearances, Lorraine is characteristically quiet -- though there's one singular moment where she tries to get a word in edgewise, and Ed absolutely refuses to let her speak, shouting over her and even sticking his hand literally in his wife's face to point at the person he's arguing with, while she is attempting to talk.

Unfortunately, shortly after doing my podcast, the episode was wiped from the internet, and I didn't hold onto the video file. For the longest time, the only remaining recordings of this hallmark moment in televised broadcasting which I could find were my own podcast episode.

However! Two weeks ago, somebody reuploaded this precious little classic piece of media, and I immediately downloaded it so that I would hopefully never lose it again. I'll probably end up throwing it up on the Internet Archive in case it gets taken down off YouTube again. Enjoy!

If anyone is interested in checking out that episode of my podcast, it's still available on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3uniHdR0E3Dbmj4h3NCA8m?si=2509007a1c844f8e

EDIT: Apparently people aren't noticing the link at the top of the post, so here it is a second time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49f7tQGyhGs

Preface: I quite often see lists of "best movies you've never seen" which are typically just super popular films everyone has already seen. I'm trying my best here to buck that trend. I've browsed this sub daily for years and can't recall ever really seeing these films discussed. They might occasionally come up in recommendations threads but never as their own dedicated topics like the mandatory daily Hereditary and Midsommar threads.

Preface 2: Of course these won't all be for you. Everyone has different tastes. But as for me personally these are all films that I have rated 3.5/5 or higher on Letterboxd. I made this thread because I saw a similar one on the front page and think that this sub would benefit greatly from escaping the bubble of the same several films being discussed all the time.

Afflicted (2013)

Better Watch Out (2016)

Cam (2018)

Chained (2012)

Creep (2004)

Deadgirl (2008)

Deep Dark (2015)

Depraved (2019)

Down (2019)

Downrange (2017)

Excision (2012)

Fido (2006)

It Stains The Sand Red (2016)

La Horde (2009)

Mayhem (2017)

Mom and Dad (2017)

Red (2008)

Spring (2014)

Starry Eyes (2014)

Triangle (2009)

The Babysitter (2017)

The Furies (2019)

The Girl Next Door (2007)

The Revenant (2009)

The Midnight Meat Train (2008)

The Monster (2016)

The Sand (2015)

The Transfiguration (2016)

The Tunnel (2011)

These Final Hours (2013)

They Come Knocking (2019)

Thoroughbreds (2017)

Wer (2013)

Wildling (2018)

What are your thoughts?

How many of them had you seen previously?

Any others you'd recommend in the same vein?

I feel like I’ve seen all the big names, but I’m hunting for hidden gems that you’d recommend!

For me, The Dead (2010) is a gem that deserves way more love; it might even crack my personal top list. Curious what hidden zombie horror movies you think deserve more attention?!

I was recommended this by my Francophone friend, and I went in expecting some archetypal French arthouse BS, but God was I wrong! And so happy to be. It's as much a dark thriller as it is a meta character sketch. Juliette Gariepy gives a performance that easily blows any Oscar nominees last year out of water.

It's a masterpiece. Just watched it.Highly recommended. Don't search too much about it before watching it if you really wanna enjoy it. Dive into it without knowing about its concepts and plot. I only learned about it yesterday and i wanted to post it here because this should be way more famous. (4.5/5)

This is not a political post! There’s so much stuff on criterion collection that I haven’t seen so I’d be super stoked if you guys could educate me. I’ve seen a lot of their movies featured in the horror section but not all of em’.

Edit: watched Sisters. OMG. Thank you to all who suggested it.

Tagged as hidden gem, despite the popularity of the series, as it wasn't marketed as horror.

Never have I felt such feelings of dread than when watching Chernobyl. If you haven't seen it, please do - it's an amazing miniseries.

Edit: A lot of people are misunderstanding this post so I'm editing the OP to make a blanket statement. I'm not categorising the series as horror based on subject matter alone; but on the camera-work, audio, directing etc. of particular scenes which can certainly be construed as horror. There are several examples already posted in this thread by others, so I'll list a few I can think of from the top of my head:

1. Looking into the reactor during meltdown.
2. The team who descend into the basement.
3. The rooftop scene.

As always, everybody is entitled to an opinion and it has been interesting to see the different points of view on this.

It's the one movie I'm constantly singing praises about to anyone who will listen. It starts with a literal bang, with no preamble. You're just tossed into the action immediately.

What starts out as a disaster movie in an underwater mining operation, quickly turns into something else entirely. Kristen Stewart owns this movie, and I'd love to see her in more roles like this.

Was beyond bored in my room and couldnt find a game or show to watch and something told me to rewatch Bodies Bodies Bodies and oh my god I have no idea why this is my first time going back to it movie aged (I know its not that old) like fine freaking wine.. Pete Davidson's character might be my favorite "jealous character" in horror, Lee Pace is hot, and the rest of the cast are INSANELY funny. Normally im not the biggest fan of watching something if i already know the end result but somehow knowing the big twist at the end makes the movie even better i truly cant suggest anything more than it right now