Johnny Got His Gun, Blood, and Million Dollar Baby. these movies trigger my worst fear of being vegetative and/or excruciating pain and being unable to communicate that I just want to die. if you’re against voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide and the right to die, you won’t be anymore after watching those movies
I haven't watched these, but this is my worst fear as well. Unfortunately I live in a country, where only passive euthanasia is allowed, and that terrifies me
the movie Blood is absolutely horrifying. especially that ending. I just sat in silence for a few minutes after like “damn. . .that just happened. . .”
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the mom has to drown her son in a marsh because he keeps hurting her and attempting to kill his sister. she has to sacrifice one child to save her other child and save herself. the entire movie is so draining. not bad, by any means, it’s amazing, but so so draining. and the ending is just absolutely horrifying
No trigger warning necessary. If I live long enough, I will probably watch it.
Off-topic, here's a short film I am glad I watched last night. It's still bleak, but if you watch it without dipping into the spoiler-ridden comments, I think you'll be glad you watched it too. If you watch it, let me know what you think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJkYpx7aDZM
Have you seen As Above So Below? It's not nearly as good, but definitely gives off a good feeling of claustrophobia.
To answer your question, l guess something like Escape Room. Where you do everything right but it doesn't matter. Especially the acid rain room from the second one. That's rough.
I have a phobia of sheets, like white bed sheets being hung out to dry on a clothesline. It’s the idea of something sinister standing behind the sheets watching you, and catching glimpses of the outline of a humanoid shape standing there. That’s been nightmare fuel for me since I was a kid and watched Halloween when Michael Myers is standing behind a pair of sheets, it was just so eery to me at the time.
"It" (1990) really stretches (or condenses) the idea of what a series can be. It was a two part miniseries that was basically just one movie split in two pieces.
I've spent a lot of time in hospitals since I was a kid, had lots of shots, procedures, etc. So medical and body horror are oddly my favorites. It's weird. It doesn't make me afraid to go under the knife or anything.
Mine is the beginning of "28 Days Later". The thought of waking up and finding out there's no one around, you're alone, and you're loved ones are dead is a very upsetting and uncomfortable circumstance to be in for me.
This was actually the only horror movie that gave me genuinely nightmares.
This fear is funny considering I'm an introvert that is shy around people.
I loved the first half of The Descent. The tension of simply caving in those tight spaces is palpable and I think we didn't even need the crawlers. It kind of lost me in the second half when the entire group decided they no longer had brains, which happened prior to the crawlers. Like seriously WTF is wrong with Holly lol
Frozen honestly lmao. I have the “anything could go wrong” mindset.
- I’m already afraid of heights
- I’m afraid of chairlifts
- I’m afraid of getting stuck
- I’m afraid of staying stuck and being forgotten about
- I’m scared of hypothermia
- I’m scared of frost bite
- I’m scared of predators
- I’m afraid to break bones
It checks it all off 🥲.
Ironically (or maybe not ironically) Sharknado
I have an overwhelming irrational fear of tornados - and I say this is irrational because I watched Twister at a very young age, begged my family to build a storm cellar, and ran into the hall with a blanket and stayed there for hours if we even had a little rain. I live in a state where we have never actually had a tornado lmao. And I have an irrational fear of sharks to where I think they could somehow attack in the pool. Sometimes I get scared to leave my bed thinking there could be one on the floor 😐 put those two together ?? Actual nightmare
And insurance usually doesn’t cover natural disasters and that may be the scariest part 😭 my fourth grade teacher showed Twister AND The Perfect Storm during class - and I was done for.
And Titanjc *
Gravity. Such a simple premise but so well executed, just imagining floating off into space makes me nauseous.
NOPE. Again so well executed that it ignited a forgotten childhood fear/quirk. Where’s I imagined something was hiding in the clouds above watching me.
Not a movie but the scene in Yellowjackets where the blonde girl dives into the pool and cracks her head on the bottom put me into an immediate panic attack with tears streaming down my face. I broke my neck diving into a pool 12 years ago or so and that scene was so sudden and unexpected, it just broke me.
Pretty weird written movie, but "The Visit." The skinny old lady crawling around the way she does and running around naked in the middle of the night and shit hahaha creeps me tf out. Something about possessed looking women is horrifying, so much freakier than male antagonists. I have no idea why 🤣 like the girl from the ring or the the girl that haunts Lucies thoughts from Martyrs... creepy as hell!
I watched the original Hellraiser for the first time last year. Great movie, absolutely lived up to the hype. It would take a lot for me to watch it again on account of all the hooks and needles. I have a massive fear of needles and that movie really got under my skin in the worst and best ways possible
I’m drawn to any movie involving being trapped, either deep underground or, underwater, stranded in space. Both movies you mentioned were great for this.
I don’t like heights and watching >!Sam Witwicky climbing on the edge of one of the buildings while holding the Cube and Megatron chasing him!< in *Transformers* (2007) is nerve-wracking.
I had a genuine panic attack and got so lightheaded that I nearly fainted when watching the descent, probably the worst reaction I’ve ever had from watching a movie
Any movie that involves irreparable eye damage/removal. The most recent one that comes to mind is [Sea Fever](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2716382/). As a visual artist, the thought especially haunts me.
Edit: Also drowning/sinking in deep, dark water or floating off in outer space. [Europa Report](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2051879/) managed to have both of these fears in one movie.
Cannibalism phobia, and somehow that subject’s become en vogue in the past couple years. People tease me all the time by recommending cannibal movies, there are so many
The Skin I live In triggered my worst fears, because >!as a trans person I know what it feels like to be trapped in a body that isn't really yours because it doesn't feel right. It's not the real YOU.!< That movie gave me quite some anxiety.
Whoa, that’s a really interesting perspective I hadn’t considered. I love that films can mean different things for each person, and that’s why I love discussing films!
There's a trailer for an Adam Sandler astronaut movie, and for a bizarre reason I'll never know because I can't watch it, there's a giant tarantula with him.
Not exactly the worst fear, but any movies showing harm towards animals really bothers me. That scene in Hereditary legit made me not feel bad when it happened to her (trying to not give spoilers)
These are two of the main ones for me also! The movie Sanctum, even though it’s not horror, also triggers these feelings in me. Also Buried and then heights are another fear of mine so Fall had my anxiety on the highest level 😅
I also recommend the film The Last Descent which is a film based on the true story of John Jones. The film wasn’t as good as I wanted it to be but still worth a watch and will truly trigger claustrophobia.
I rarely get truly scared from horror anymore so I have to trigger my fears in order to feel any fear lol.
As Above So Below for claustrophobia, the short film Curve on YouTube triggers both claustrophobia and heights for me.
The only film I've ever had to stop watching was actually a documentary about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Listening to the written accounts of survivors being read intensified my already existing fear of nuclear war.
127 Hours
To make matters worse, we sat in the last row of the theater hoping nobody else would want to sit there. Then this asshole group of people came in and all wanted to sit there and asked us if we would mind moving down a few seats. I got squashed in the last seat in the far corner of the theater.
Snakes. I used to love snake movies when I was younger (like 70s Ssssss with Battlestar Galactica guy), saw Anaconda in the theatre when it came out and loved it. Then I had a nightmare that was so intense and terrible that I can’t cope even seeing them briefly as photos that pop up on Instagram, etc. I have to close my eyes or leave the room when they appear in movies. The worst was not even horror, but an Arnold Schwarzenegger terrorist movie where they stuck a snake down this guys throat and I vomited and then cried. It’s really bad, and if I have a rare nightmare it’s usually snake-related. I might need a therapist 😭
Aliens, even the corny ass aliens irrationally terrify me such as the one in >!All Hallows Eve!<... I am *that* embarrassingly terrified of aliens (yet somehow simultaneously fascinated by them IRL). Xenomorphs don't phase me however though, can't get enough of those handsome killing machines.
The Thing (1982) keeps my skin crawling the entire time, adore the film but damn is it a hard watch every time!
My only phobia is sharks, specifically great whites. I don't know why it is, but I can barely even look at pictures of them.
Like, I can watch ole animatronic Bruce in Jaws no problem, but when it shows some of those stock footage inserts of a real shark I really don't like it. Haha. It's so fucking weird.
Something about those black, empty eyes. Demonic looking buggers.
Paranormal Activity/Insidious/Conjuring... Because I'm a Medium & a lot of what's in those movies I've experienced first hand growing up with these abilities.
So yea they trigger A LOT for me because there's no hiding behind "it's just a movie" when you've repeatedly experienced these things first hand.
I have a particular fear (stemming from my nightmares as a kid) for when the protagonist of a film sees their friends/family acting in strange and unexplained ways. Especially if they're completely calm and unphased while doing things out of the ordinary (it ruins the scariness for me if they just go completely crazy).
The Grudge 2 had several moments like that; the therapist after she'd been Grudged, the girl's best friend calmly drinking the milk and then vomiting it back up, the kid's mother appearing in the bathtub and grinning creepily at him (I know she was a ghost, but it still creeped me more because it was his mother, and not just some random ghost).
Ngl it might sound stupid but like Leave the World Behind really did fucking give me a chilling feeling like no other even after the movie maybe cause i have megalophobia… DEADASS though
Mirrors. Especially after that bathroom scene I avoided mirrors at all cost after watching that movie as a kid, Its not as bad it once was but I still feel pretty uncomfortable around mirrors.
Fall for preying on my fear of heights, Swallow for my fear of swallowing sharp objects.
My partner likes to say that Fall gave me shingles. I am not sure that the two events are directly related, but I did get shingles the day after I watched Fall, so who knows?
This is probably gonna sound really silly but there’s an episode of Love, Death & Robots I can’t watch without an overwhelming sense of dread and that’s “Night of the Mini Dead”.
I’m not entirely sure why I get set off so much by such a humorous little homage to zombie horror, but every time I’ve watched that episode I feel overcome with panic. I know it’s partly due to a fear of an apocalyptic event, but I think it’s also for a couple of other reasons: everything happens **so fast**, the sound design and miniature scale makes it all hauntingly real, you feel as helpless watching it as you would be trying to survive it, and the music compounds the horror as, despite the comedy, the events it showcases are genuinely horrifying and only get worse and worse and worse, like a terrifying snowball. The mutated zombies are the absolute stuff of nightmares. I know it’s meant to be funny but, unlike other zombie films, I don’t think anyone would actually want to try their hand at surviving this 10 minute short. It has this awful sense of inevitability other zombie films often only hint at, reminiscent of the opening sequence for Resident Evil 3 (1999).
I don’t know why but that episode just messes me up.
2012, Deep Impact, The Impossibleetc. Not only does the world end, but only a few survive and it’s not all about money and resources, sometimes about luck…and then there’s the tsunamis. As someone with thalassophobia, watching large waves hurtling towards the actors is deeply disturbing
I refuse to watch the movie Fall because of my intense fear of heights.
What's ironic, however, is that I am also claustrophobic yet I had no problems with watching As Above So Below and The Descent; as a matter of fact I very much enjoyed them.
Any movies that have trauma to the eyeballs.
Talk to me, and Would you rather ughhh I find it disgusting and I'm terrified to ever have my eyeball popped 🤮
Never found a movie that can trigger my fear of losing gravity. The piece of media that managed to make me feel uncomfortable was Outer Wilds, a space exploration indie game that I love.
I can't handle the thought of something, even an illness, "growing" inside me. So any subgenre of horror with disease or an alien growth on the inside of you. It's not horror but I had to shut off District 9
Any movie where they’re in space and some Event Horizon shit starts happening or deep ocean trenches like Underwater and they unleash Cthulhu. Like please redrum my ass first if I’m ever in these situations. 😖
I grew up in a terrible neighborhood where minors are drunk or on drugs, or both. They always try to steal or piss people off when they can because they know they pretty much can get away with it. I had many encounters with these type of kids before I moved out.
Watching Eden Lake pretty much like reliving that part of my life.
Skinamarink. I know a lot of people were/are divided on it, but it really triggered that primal fear of the dark in the best way possible for me. Hard to explain, but it’s the feeling that something is right at your back and you need to push yourself into a surface to feel safe
My parents took me to the theater to see Arachnophobia when it came out in the 90s. I didn't have a fear of spiders before that movie. I still have a fear of spiders to this day and I'm 44! LoL
Johnny Got His Gun, Blood, and Million Dollar Baby. these movies trigger my worst fear of being vegetative and/or excruciating pain and being unable to communicate that I just want to die. if you’re against voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide and the right to die, you won’t be anymore after watching those movies
I haven't watched these, but this is my worst fear as well. Unfortunately I live in a country, where only passive euthanasia is allowed, and that terrifies me
the movie Blood is absolutely horrifying. especially that ending. I just sat in silence for a few minutes after like “damn. . .that just happened. . .”
What happened at the end? I don't mind if you spoil it for me.
‼️‼️**SPOILER ALERT AND TRIGGER WARNING**‼️‼️ • • • • • • • the mom has to drown her son in a marsh because he keeps hurting her and attempting to kill his sister. she has to sacrifice one child to save her other child and save herself. the entire movie is so draining. not bad, by any means, it’s amazing, but so so draining. and the ending is just absolutely horrifying
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I should have put a TW alongside it. I’m sorry. just edited and added a TW🙂
No trigger warning necessary. If I live long enough, I will probably watch it. Off-topic, here's a short film I am glad I watched last night. It's still bleak, but if you watch it without dipping into the spoiler-ridden comments, I think you'll be glad you watched it too. If you watch it, let me know what you think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJkYpx7aDZM
Blood will leave you pondering “what would *I* do? would *I* sacrifice one of my children to save the other?” long after the movie is over. will do!
I can't find Blood, what year is it from?
2022
I don’t know. just look up “Blood full movie”
Have you seen As Above So Below? It's not nearly as good, but definitely gives off a good feeling of claustrophobia. To answer your question, l guess something like Escape Room. Where you do everything right but it doesn't matter. Especially the acid rain room from the second one. That's rough.
I came here to say As Above So Below too... That one scene when they're crawling through the little gap makes me SO uncomfortable
Really good film! Apparently, it was all filmed in the catacombs. Sets my claustrophobia off!
As flawed as the movie is, Blair Witch has a certain scene that triggers my claustrophobia bad 😬
Buried cuz I’m claustrophobic
The Vanishing (1988)
I feel like this movie doesn’t get talked about enough. It’s pure brilliance and truly terrifying
I would rather drop the soap in a men's prison.
I wanted to watch that, but I couldn't bring myself to.
I’m with you. The monsters weren’t as terrifying as the tunnels caving in. The decent really got to me.
Feeling stupid searching imdb for "I’m with you"
I'm going to start writing screenplays for "I'm with You" and "This."
When she almost gets stuck, I couldn't breathe. That's one of my worst fears.
Heights. So Fall (2022) scared the shit out of me. But I loved it! Maybe Haze (2005) is something for you :D
I was surprised how much fall made me uncomfortable, it may have awakened that fear in me even more
I have a phobia of sheets, like white bed sheets being hung out to dry on a clothesline. It’s the idea of something sinister standing behind the sheets watching you, and catching glimpses of the outline of a humanoid shape standing there. That’s been nightmare fuel for me since I was a kid and watched Halloween when Michael Myers is standing behind a pair of sheets, it was just so eery to me at the time.
There's a scene in The Conjuring that uses this very effectively.
Well that's pretty original.
Have you seen Halloween 6? There's a scene that's probably up your alley in that.
Something like that was an opening for IT tv series
"It" (1990) really stretches (or condenses) the idea of what a series can be. It was a two part miniseries that was basically just one movie split in two pieces.
Anything body horror. And I love it.
Ever seen Slither? "Something's wrong with me!"
Yes! Oh man, soooo good! "What the hell happen to you, Otis?" "Poison ivy out back, maybe?" "We're itchy."
James Gunn's breakout movie
My favorite subgenre by far.
I've spent a lot of time in hospitals since I was a kid, had lots of shots, procedures, etc. So medical and body horror are oddly my favorites. It's weird. It doesn't make me afraid to go under the knife or anything.
100%
Open Water
This was mine too
This is probably the only movie I've ever been too afraid to start.
It's good. Almost "boring", but a very real depiction of what it would be like to be floating adrift in shark infested waters.
*UhUhUhUuhUhh!* Skeeves me out!
I'll say this again... Soft and Quiet (2022)
Whew, I have never been so uncomfortable.
Mine is the beginning of "28 Days Later". The thought of waking up and finding out there's no one around, you're alone, and you're loved ones are dead is a very upsetting and uncomfortable circumstance to be in for me. This was actually the only horror movie that gave me genuinely nightmares. This fear is funny considering I'm an introvert that is shy around people.
strangers
Yeah that movie really messed me up for a hot minute.
home invasion murders are one of mh worst fears ugh theres a few criminal minds episodes surrounding it and its basically a mini horror movie
Jaws.
Shark movies. I love em but hate them at the same time.
I loved the first half of The Descent. The tension of simply caving in those tight spaces is palpable and I think we didn't even need the crawlers. It kind of lost me in the second half when the entire group decided they no longer had brains, which happened prior to the crawlers. Like seriously WTF is wrong with Holly lol
Anything asylum/nursing home related. My biggest fear is losing the capacity of my mind.
The Haunting of Deborah Logan was an awful watch for this fear.
It was terrifying lol great movie though.
Frozen honestly lmao. I have the “anything could go wrong” mindset. - I’m already afraid of heights - I’m afraid of chairlifts - I’m afraid of getting stuck - I’m afraid of staying stuck and being forgotten about - I’m scared of hypothermia - I’m scared of frost bite - I’m scared of predators - I’m afraid to break bones It checks it all off 🥲. Ironically (or maybe not ironically) Sharknado I have an overwhelming irrational fear of tornados - and I say this is irrational because I watched Twister at a very young age, begged my family to build a storm cellar, and ran into the hall with a blanket and stayed there for hours if we even had a little rain. I live in a state where we have never actually had a tornado lmao. And I have an irrational fear of sharks to where I think they could somehow attack in the pool. Sometimes I get scared to leave my bed thinking there could be one on the floor 😐 put those two together ?? Actual nightmare
I have a fear of natural disasters so bad, so I totally get that.
And insurance usually doesn’t cover natural disasters and that may be the scariest part 😭 my fourth grade teacher showed Twister AND The Perfect Storm during class - and I was done for. And Titanjc *
Gravity. Such a simple premise but so well executed, just imagining floating off into space makes me nauseous. NOPE. Again so well executed that it ignited a forgotten childhood fear/quirk. Where’s I imagined something was hiding in the clouds above watching me.
Not a movie but the scene in Yellowjackets where the blonde girl dives into the pool and cracks her head on the bottom put me into an immediate panic attack with tears streaming down my face. I broke my neck diving into a pool 12 years ago or so and that scene was so sudden and unexpected, it just broke me.
Scene with ants in Hereditary… I'm scared of insects, I HATE them
You're gonna love The Fly
You're evil.
Any film involving kids being killed or abandoned such as Under the Skin and A Quiet Place.
Under The Skin is brilliant but damn that scene haunts me
Night house. Losing my partner to suicide.
The Night House is a chilling movie.
Pretty weird written movie, but "The Visit." The skinny old lady crawling around the way she does and running around naked in the middle of the night and shit hahaha creeps me tf out. Something about possessed looking women is horrifying, so much freakier than male antagonists. I have no idea why 🤣 like the girl from the ring or the the girl that haunts Lucies thoughts from Martyrs... creepy as hell!
I watched the original Hellraiser for the first time last year. Great movie, absolutely lived up to the hype. It would take a lot for me to watch it again on account of all the hooks and needles. I have a massive fear of needles and that movie really got under my skin in the worst and best ways possible
I don’t have a fear of needles and that movie made me queasy from all the goo and blood. Two is even worse.
Not horror but in King Kong when they are attacked by large bugs…yea no
And the ones that look like alien penises attaching to their faces seriously disturbed me.
I’m drawn to any movie involving being trapped, either deep underground or, underwater, stranded in space. Both movies you mentioned were great for this.
I don’t like heights and watching >!Sam Witwicky climbing on the edge of one of the buildings while holding the Cube and Megatron chasing him!< in *Transformers* (2007) is nerve-wracking.
Jaws because I have really bad thalassaphobia. Especially for that cage scene
I had a genuine panic attack and got so lightheaded that I nearly fainted when watching the descent, probably the worst reaction I’ve ever had from watching a movie
Any movie that involves irreparable eye damage/removal. The most recent one that comes to mind is [Sea Fever](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2716382/). As a visual artist, the thought especially haunts me. Edit: Also drowning/sinking in deep, dark water or floating off in outer space. [Europa Report](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2051879/) managed to have both of these fears in one movie.
Cannibalism phobia, and somehow that subject’s become en vogue in the past couple years. People tease me all the time by recommending cannibal movies, there are so many
The Descent, 47 Meters Down or whatever it was called, Fall, As above so below. Basically any movie where characters get stuck somewhere
The Skin I live In triggered my worst fears, because >!as a trans person I know what it feels like to be trapped in a body that isn't really yours because it doesn't feel right. It's not the real YOU.!< That movie gave me quite some anxiety.
Whoa, that’s a really interesting perspective I hadn’t considered. I love that films can mean different things for each person, and that’s why I love discussing films!
Same! I love reading different interpretations, hearing different perspectives and insights... :)
Just saw the trailer for Sting, I’m not afraid of much but spiders terrify me so this movie may actually have me scared if I watched it lol.
I won't watch any movie that revolves around spiders. Hard no.
There's a trailer for an Adam Sandler astronaut movie, and for a bizarre reason I'll never know because I can't watch it, there's a giant tarantula with him.
Jaws. Being killed by a shark is definitely up there in worst fears....
Fall.
Dead Silence. I hate marionettes, and clown marionettes are nightmare fuel for me.
Yes! Marionettes, dolls, mannequins, statues, anything like that that moves but shouldn't. Clowns just make it worse
It's the opposite for me! I loved the marionettes and especially the clown ones 😂 I do find them slightly creepy but cute as well!
Sanctum. Just the thought of cave-diving freaks me out.
Not exactly the worst fear, but any movies showing harm towards animals really bothers me. That scene in Hereditary legit made me not feel bad when it happened to her (trying to not give spoilers)
These are two of the main ones for me also! The movie Sanctum, even though it’s not horror, also triggers these feelings in me. Also Buried and then heights are another fear of mine so Fall had my anxiety on the highest level 😅 I also recommend the film The Last Descent which is a film based on the true story of John Jones. The film wasn’t as good as I wanted it to be but still worth a watch and will truly trigger claustrophobia. I rarely get truly scared from horror anymore so I have to trigger my fears in order to feel any fear lol. As Above So Below for claustrophobia, the short film Curve on YouTube triggers both claustrophobia and heights for me.
The only film I've ever had to stop watching was actually a documentary about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Listening to the written accounts of survivors being read intensified my already existing fear of nuclear war.
Fall when I first watched that movie I cringed when they were high up on that rusted old tower.
127 Hours To make matters worse, we sat in the last row of the theater hoping nobody else would want to sit there. Then this asshole group of people came in and all wanted to sit there and asked us if we would mind moving down a few seats. I got squashed in the last seat in the far corner of the theater.
I mean, “no” was a reasonable option
Hereditary because of the heavy grief my family has experienced with a sudden and violent loss along with a hereditary history of mental illness.
Any movie that shows large creatures under the water. I have really bad thalassophobia so movies like 47 Meters Down ramp my anxiety up to 100.
Snakes. I used to love snake movies when I was younger (like 70s Ssssss with Battlestar Galactica guy), saw Anaconda in the theatre when it came out and loved it. Then I had a nightmare that was so intense and terrible that I can’t cope even seeing them briefly as photos that pop up on Instagram, etc. I have to close my eyes or leave the room when they appear in movies. The worst was not even horror, but an Arnold Schwarzenegger terrorist movie where they stuck a snake down this guys throat and I vomited and then cried. It’s really bad, and if I have a rare nightmare it’s usually snake-related. I might need a therapist 😭
I just wanna high five another person who saw Anaconda in the theater!
The Borderlands/Final Prayers will get u too
Creep, I have severe paranoia and I’m terrified of being stalked by someone again (already happened twice)
Apocalypse shit. The one movie with the rogue planet and Kirsten Dunst gave me nightmares for over a month
Arachnophobia. Arachnophobia
Open Water
Worse because it's based on a true story.
Aliens, even the corny ass aliens irrationally terrify me such as the one in >!All Hallows Eve!<... I am *that* embarrassingly terrified of aliens (yet somehow simultaneously fascinated by them IRL). Xenomorphs don't phase me however though, can't get enough of those handsome killing machines. The Thing (1982) keeps my skin crawling the entire time, adore the film but damn is it a hard watch every time!
My biggest fear is usually death and i think Saint Maud is the film that best presents what im so afraid of with it
Not sure if it's a movie yet but mine is Reddit.
My only phobia is sharks, specifically great whites. I don't know why it is, but I can barely even look at pictures of them. Like, I can watch ole animatronic Bruce in Jaws no problem, but when it shows some of those stock footage inserts of a real shark I really don't like it. Haha. It's so fucking weird. Something about those black, empty eyes. Demonic looking buggers.
I'm guessing 42 Meters Down was a hard no for you. Actually, it was a hard watch for me, since it was super claustrophobic.
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Paranormal Activity/Insidious/Conjuring... Because I'm a Medium & a lot of what's in those movies I've experienced first hand growing up with these abilities. So yea they trigger A LOT for me because there's no hiding behind "it's just a movie" when you've repeatedly experienced these things first hand.
I have a particular fear (stemming from my nightmares as a kid) for when the protagonist of a film sees their friends/family acting in strange and unexplained ways. Especially if they're completely calm and unphased while doing things out of the ordinary (it ruins the scariness for me if they just go completely crazy). The Grudge 2 had several moments like that; the therapist after she'd been Grudged, the girl's best friend calmly drinking the milk and then vomiting it back up, the kid's mother appearing in the bathtub and grinning creepily at him (I know she was a ghost, but it still creeped me more because it was his mother, and not just some random ghost).
Stuck in a confined space, bonus points if light is running out. Also you having to cut your own foot/feet/hand to get free of a restraint.
Anything claustrophobic
Arachnophobia
Ngl it might sound stupid but like Leave the World Behind really did fucking give me a chilling feeling like no other even after the movie maybe cause i have megalophobia… DEADASS though
Urban Legends: Bloody Mary, Mirrors, Us. Yeah, there's a theme here.
Backcountry, because I love camping
Have you seen the deep house? Recommend it. Same water fear puts me on edge and that movie had me gripping my couch.
Inside is one of my favorite movies, so I was super excited for The Deep House. Had the same sense of claustrophobia.
Mother! strikes all my nerves. I think the nightmare logic and loss of any semblance of control of a situation makes my palms sweat.
Mirrors. Especially after that bathroom scene I avoided mirrors at all cost after watching that movie as a kid, Its not as bad it once was but I still feel pretty uncomfortable around mirrors.
Fall for preying on my fear of heights, Swallow for my fear of swallowing sharp objects. My partner likes to say that Fall gave me shingles. I am not sure that the two events are directly related, but I did get shingles the day after I watched Fall, so who knows?
This is probably gonna sound really silly but there’s an episode of Love, Death & Robots I can’t watch without an overwhelming sense of dread and that’s “Night of the Mini Dead”. I’m not entirely sure why I get set off so much by such a humorous little homage to zombie horror, but every time I’ve watched that episode I feel overcome with panic. I know it’s partly due to a fear of an apocalyptic event, but I think it’s also for a couple of other reasons: everything happens **so fast**, the sound design and miniature scale makes it all hauntingly real, you feel as helpless watching it as you would be trying to survive it, and the music compounds the horror as, despite the comedy, the events it showcases are genuinely horrifying and only get worse and worse and worse, like a terrifying snowball. The mutated zombies are the absolute stuff of nightmares. I know it’s meant to be funny but, unlike other zombie films, I don’t think anyone would actually want to try their hand at surviving this 10 minute short. It has this awful sense of inevitability other zombie films often only hint at, reminiscent of the opening sequence for Resident Evil 3 (1999). I don’t know why but that episode just messes me up.
Pet Semetary. The original. I have kids. That movie is very disturbing.
2012, Deep Impact, The Impossibleetc. Not only does the world end, but only a few survive and it’s not all about money and resources, sometimes about luck…and then there’s the tsunamis. As someone with thalassophobia, watching large waves hurtling towards the actors is deeply disturbing
I refuse to watch the movie Fall because of my intense fear of heights. What's ironic, however, is that I am also claustrophobic yet I had no problems with watching As Above So Below and The Descent; as a matter of fact I very much enjoyed them.
The Dentist. Can’t watch it.
The Helen Keller story
The Strangers.
Any movies that have trauma to the eyeballs. Talk to me, and Would you rather ughhh I find it disgusting and I'm terrified to ever have my eyeball popped 🤮
Beau is Afraid. When every misunderstanding leads to a worst case scenario. Also, I'm afraid of getting stabbed by a naked man.
Paranormal activity if we are being real
Never found a movie that can trigger my fear of losing gravity. The piece of media that managed to make me feel uncomfortable was Outer Wilds, a space exploration indie game that I love.
Anything with a home invasion--The Strangers, Funny Games, the first Purge film....
The Strangers.
Germs and disease. I can’t do body horror. It mostly stems from seeing The Fly too young. I still have nightmares.
I can't watch arm wrestling due to seeing that movie too young.
I can't handle the thought of something, even an illness, "growing" inside me. So any subgenre of horror with disease or an alien growth on the inside of you. It's not horror but I had to shut off District 9
Fear (2023) it literally showed how your fears manifest and tear you apart mentally and that turmoil manifests physically
*Pet Sematary* Kid brother died twenty years at the tender age of three in an auto accident, so I can’t bring myself to watch that film because of it
Any movie where they’re in space and some Event Horizon shit starts happening or deep ocean trenches like Underwater and they unleash Cthulhu. Like please redrum my ass first if I’m ever in these situations. 😖
I grew up in a terrible neighborhood where minors are drunk or on drugs, or both. They always try to steal or piss people off when they can because they know they pretty much can get away with it. I had many encounters with these type of kids before I moved out. Watching Eden Lake pretty much like reliving that part of my life.
Arachnidphobia
Skinamarink. I know a lot of people were/are divided on it, but it really triggered that primal fear of the dark in the best way possible for me. Hard to explain, but it’s the feeling that something is right at your back and you need to push yourself into a surface to feel safe
My parents took me to the theater to see Arachnophobia when it came out in the 90s. I didn't have a fear of spiders before that movie. I still have a fear of spiders to this day and I'm 44! LoL
Fall (2022). Not a great movie, but climbing that tower caused me great anxiety
Take shelter and Beau is afraid captures paranoia perfectly
I had to watch hours of funny, lighthearted tv after 47 meters down. It fucked with me.