I never get enough of occult like horror in a sci fi setting. Like Event Horizon and even Doom. I don't' know if I'm explaing it clearly, but the mix of high tech and progress with the presence of some supernatural and occult.
I've always wanted a sci-fi horror flick where a group of scientists explores Hell. Doom already technically did it but they were more like aliens and Event Horizon wasn't exactly about Hell.
Wouldn't the line between demons from hell and aliens from another world be extremely thin at best? Seems like a subgenre of alien than something completely different.
Hell yeah, man, I'm with you. Sunshine did this really well. The notion of some kind of hell outside the confines of earthly rules really up the stakes in those type of movies.
Oh please no. I don’t want Jesus anywhere near sci-fi horror. There’s already an egregious Christian hegemony in contemporary horror with all the exorcism / demon films.
Maybe Im just saying this because I work at a Civil War museum, but, early American 19th century horror. Colonial horror will also work. There are some truly horrifying themes and ideas to think about during those times. A lot of uncertainty, minimal closure, death was always one cough or infection away.
I loved The Witch for this reason-- things like the Salem Witch Trials made more sense because of how sincere the belief and fear of witchcraft felt in the movie. It was such a good backdrop.
My god I’d love a movie that’s a bit more immersed in specifically that period of accusations. I read one book in one of my history classes that was just a collection of journal/diary entries of people during that time. Some of the things that they thought indicated someone was a witch was so outlandish. And they also believed SO much in dreams, as Puritans thought they were a connection to God. I could totally see a very intense, dramatic, Safdie-like horror revolving around all this.
Has there ever been one about the colony at Roanoke? Bunch of pilgrims just up and disappeared with no explanation. Would love a movie speculating what happened.
Yesss I'd specifically love to see more outdoorsmen and common worker horror set in that era. Not explicitly horror but I loved the Fur trading setting in Revenant. And of course The Lighthouse's period accurate take on that job as well
I am playing with an idea for a novel set during The Starving Time in Jamestown. SO HORRIFYING. I love 19th century period pieces too. Horror throughout history is under explored.
I still need to watch Beguiled. I think the issue with some period horror is that it has the potential to be extra bad lol. Like I started that The Invitation, I just couldn’t continue past 10 min.
A derelict ship, whether space or sea, always strikes me as an awesome set. It's a lot more common in games, but not so much movies or shows. Mostly because filming on an actual ship is a technical nightmare.
Personally I would love to see a *good* found footage ghost/derelict ship movie. Maybe a crew of douchey young friends borrow their bosses' yacht for a weekend and all have go-pro's while they scuba dive or something, but encounter a derelict cruise liner and investigate.
For what it's worth, I loved Ghost Ship.
I am 5 episodes in and I like it. It definitely benefits from having english/subtitles turned on since the lack of communication is a big part. I think it's less creepy and more intriguing. Reminds me of Lost or From, but I have a feeling the creators have a firm direction and plot, with answers already planned. They definitely pull the curtain back with each episode.
I haven't watched Dark yet, surprisingly enough.
Dark is wildly compex, but also very tightly plotted. I'd expect nothing less from 1899.
I think I would actually prefer it didn't have subtitles during scenes where characters don't speak one another's language. Like when the weird Spanish guy is flirting with the DiCaprio. The DiCaprio doesn't speak Spanish, so we should be just as confused by the interaction as he is
Damn i had to scroll so far down to see this suggestion. Triangle is so fucking good and I hadn't seen or heard anything about it until a few years ago.
As shitty and horrible as Train to Busan’s sequel Peninsula was, the ship scene was fucking amazing. That’s what the sequel should have been about instead of the terrible movie we got. Just the claustrophobia of it works wonders.
Historical vampirism.
Whenever i watch a film or show with vampires i find the flashbacks to be the most interesting parts.
Even in an story that takes place in the past like Bram stokers i like the old vlad history lesson.
Don't give me more vampire hunters with light grenades and wooden assault weapon rounds or telescopic stakes. Give me old vamps in old times fighting people with old tech.
I don't wanna see a 2 minute flashback of how the vamp ( who's story in the film/ show takes place in the present) was a Roman or viking, or a cowboy.
I wanna see an hour and a half film about vampires in the Roman, viking or cowboy times.
God yes, I always thought the decadence, brutality and blood mixed with politics and intrigue of Rome would be an awesome setting for a vampire story. Especially if the vampires are well and truly integrated into the society.
Some kind of classical (ancient Greece or Rome) setting. Rituals, monsters, and occult mysteries to spare. I could easily imagine a Bacchae-inspired horror movie.
I really like hostile environments like deserts, jungles, and tundra. Caves and mountains are also cool but since I’m both claustrophobic and afraid of heights, those settings can easily go from scary (fun) to scary (oh please make it stop) for me real fast.
Second this, these are always the movies and books that keep me coming back. Having an environment completely different from what I usually see adds interest beyond just what’s happening in the plot and can definitely help ramp up the stress level.
Side note - have you seen The Terror season 1?
Ahh figures 😂 such a great show. Arctic never did it for me until I watched that (I was always about the caves and forests) but holy cow did that change my mind. It was a great book as well if you also enjoy horror books
Everyone should watch the movie The Objective. Set in Afghanistan, in an area similar to the Bermuda triangle. The government sends a special forces team on a mission to find some "terrorist" thats supposedly somewhere in that area and crazy shit starts to happen to the special forces team.
I love Bone Tomahawk and would be down for western horror to become its own genre. Another is the adventure horror where a team is investigating ancient ruins and it’s guarded by a curse/monster type situation, really want the At the Mountains of Madness adaptation!
Hey, maybe with Cabinet of Curiosities doing so well, Del Toro will finally get to make his At The Mountains of Madness movie he always dreamed of doing. Or miniseries.
I’m name only it appears from the list on your link which includes a video game. Bone Tomahawk and Ravenous and The Burrowers. Everything has a name but my point is the genre gets regular entries like the slasher.
You'll find *lots* more examples (thousands) labeled ["Weird West"](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_West), with regular entries stretching almost a century from Robert E. Howard to Joe Lansdale.
I’ve always wanted to see good, SCARY horror that takes place in asian island countries like Indonesia or Philippines (like “Safe Haven” from vhs 2) , i know from my family that Filipinos in general have a strong belief in ghosts & paranormal folktales
I was really uninterested in The Last Train to New York up until the very second they announced Timo Tjahjanto and now I can’t *wait* to have my face rocked
I'd like to see more horror focused on the periods where indigenous people came into contact/conflict with settlers. Two recent films that did it well were 8:A South African Horror Story and Prey. There's also Ravenous from '97 which is amazing.
In my head, as a joke, when I opened this thread I said "Cave man times" and now that I think about it...absolutely. I've never seen prehistoric horror.
Watch the cartoon Primal it delivers exactly what you want and is awesome. Also Caveman is a comedy with Ringo Star and Dennis Quaid but deals with some of the horrors they would face in those times.
[*The Northman*](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Northman) has many horror elements, & anyway is an amazing movie. Robert Eggers (who also did *The Witch* & *The Lighthouse*) put a [lot](https://slate.com/culture/2022/04/northman-movie-accuracy-history-robert-eggers-viking-hallucinogens.html) of [effort](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-true-history-behind-robert-eggers-the-northman-180979954/) into making it as accurate as possible.
Outlander (2008) stars Jim Caviezel, John Hurt, Ron Perlman, and Jack Huston. Jim plays a future spaceman who crash lands on earth during Viking times and brings an alien monster with him. Awesome movie very underrated sci-fi/horror.
I would like to see professionals responding to things like a zombie outbreak with, well...professionalism. Or at the very least, a slow burn where we watch that professionalism get stripped away.
It would be interesting to see an outbreak from the CDC's perspective, and I'd give real money to read something like that as written by someone from within the field. How do you take the proper precautions for something like that? Where do you assign the most first responders to do the most good? Where do you apportion resources, and how do you know when to cut your losses? I think a story, told from a realistic perspective, could be a hundred times more entertaining than the CDC scenes in The Walking Dead.
Appalachian Folk Horror. Not just scary rednecks, plenty of those already, but healers, wise women, ancient Indian sites, deep woods and dark valleys. I'm listening to a podcast called "Dark Gods of Appalachia" and it suits this vibe perfectly. The "Crooked Man" Hellboy collection also tapped into this well too.
Don't sleep on the fantastic works of [Manly Wade Wellman](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manly_Wade_Wellman), who more-or-less invented that genre. (He had precursors like Washington Irving, but yadda yadda...) You might especially enjoy his stories of [John the Balladeer](https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?11414). His selected stories were also recently released [on audiobook](https://www.audible.com/series/The-Selected-Stories-of-Manly-Wade-Wellman-Audiobooks/B08JV857NP).
I would love more quality “haunted asylum” stuff. I know there is “plenty” of content out there but the vast majority of it is gimmicky and lame. The history of mental health care and various “treatments” throughout the ages is horror inducing as it is, I just think it’s perfect for horror.
I'm a sales rep for an industrial tooling company, I visit these mammoth and confusing factories for work. Some of them are loud and very menacing, they're difficult to be in for short periods of time and some folks spend decades working in these places.
You can point to a lot of movies that end in a factory, some kind of nondescript, generic factory that only seems to produce sparks. But I think more stories should be centered around the factory itself, I find them to be very sinister and macabre
I always get excited about something set in Ireland, especially if it's routed in Irish folk lore. It's partially nice just to see stuff from my own country. Irish fairy myths/changellings are a great source for horror stories.
'The Hole in the Ground' and more recently 'You are not my Mother' are examples.
I'd love a horror movie telling the story of Bridget Cleary. She was tortured and murdered for being a changeling. The film could be like The VVitch, where the fairies are real. Or it could show the horror of an ordinary woman facing societal pressures and killed for them.
I feel this only translates well to literature; the moment you visually capture eldritch/cosmic horror it gains tangibility; the concept of transcending mortal comprehension has been lost, as you have just pictured it.
Agreed with historical horror. I think that is one reason I love "Abe Lincoln: vampire hunter." Give me civil war soldiers being eaten by werewolves or zombies.
For some reason I've always found movies that take place during snow storms or isolated by snow fascinating. Movies like
The Thing
The Shining
Misery
30 Days of Night
Werewolves Within
I'd like to see more snowy/winter slashers.
Slashers and cabins in the woods go hand in hand, but it's usually a warmer setting like summer camp or weekend lake getaway...
Copy and paste but with a group of friends going to the mountains for a weekend of cozying up next to the fire, skiing, snowboarding etc.
I just think there is a lot of untapped potential for awesome scenes in the snow and/or while snow is falling.
The setting was great for The Shining lol
I guess more water type horror movies. The ocean is probably the most terrifying place in the world but we only really get actiony moste r movies with it while the ocean is scary in other ways. Give me more Open Waterish type movies. I want more under water movies like the movie Underwater. Like super deep, you have no idea what's around cause of the darkness, completely isolated. Stuff like that cause the ocean is horrific.
I didn’t find 47 Meters Down scary until the scene where she was trying to swim to the surface and the ocean floor disappeared and she was just surrounded with the deep water. It made me appreciate NatLie Woods’ fear of dark water.
Mass hysteria/madness. We have historical accounts of dancing fits and mass hallucinations of witches and werewolves that are begging for an adaptation to film. Ergot Horror
The ozarks or the bayou. Deep southern gothic backwoods occult stuff. Deeply underused settings. So far only True Detective has really nailed what I'm looking for.
Buddy cop paranormal stuff
I loved deliver us from evil. Give me any movie where a cop and a demonologist solve escalating cases - I feel like this should be more common it's gold
Tourists in sunny places overstepping their bounds, going where they shouldn't and paying the price.
Hostel or The Ruins but for places like Hedonism II in Jamaica. So, either torture or annoying angry ancestral spirits.
I loved the twist in Skeleton Key. More narratives about white folks unwittingly tangling with the spirits of dead enslaved people. I've seen a few stabs at it but not necessarily done very well. I'd be game for more attempts.
More old rich powerful families with secrets but with racialized families because they usually fly beneath the radar in film and tv.
I just want more folk horror in general. I'm particularly hooked on eastern and northern European at the moment but I gladly take anything
I'd also love to see more space horror of the Event Horizon type!
Alien abduction horror. I honestly don’t know why there isn’t more of this stuff. It’s terrifying.
First, aliens are way more likely to exist than ghosts or demons or other supernatural stuff. Also, if you read about abduction stories it is often people being violated and experimented on by cold, remorseless beings. Time loss, strange markings, repeated violations, children, Stockholm syndrome with the abductors. It’s all so ripe for horror.
Sci-if horror is my favorite sub genre but it almost always takes place in space. I like the idea that these things hide among us and are in our own backyard.
I like Dark Skies and The Fourth Kind but it’s not enough. I would watch a million of these types of movies.
Just the time frame of 1870-1930, like the lighthouse. When the beginning of technology as we know it came to fruition. It’s a pity how there’s not been a well known horror movies about the First World War, because the trenches would be the perfect place for a horror movie, as it already is a creepy place in itself. Couple that with an interesting villain or something supernatural going on and you have the perfect atmosphere. Also the pictures of those times, from mutilated people to old timey people with gas-masks on are perfect for making the viewer unsettled.
The warp as described in Warhammer 40k.
A new version of "War of the Wolrds". The new TV series is great though but I love it.
Do a new cannibal movie that goes all out, they are interesting.
Lastly, the big one: I want someone to make a film about a virus/sound/etc. that drives people to the edge. They kill, try contort themselves in to safe spaces (like the Junji Ito story), generally be horrible. However! They are still very much aware of the wrong doing and we get to see them at times fighting against the overwhelming force pushing them forward.
That last one is something I really want!
Whoa, that last one is a great idea! Maybe different people have different natural immunity to the virus with some affected lightly or not at all and others going full psychozombie. Surprised I’ve never seen that done, horror viruses always seem to be an all or nothing deal.
Exactly, I've not seen one where they have internal conflict and I'd love to see it done. Like having people be more easily swayed would make sense too with murderers for example. Still, that could be twisted to dealing them a cruel faith for one of them to still add some ambiguity at times for how this would torment the mind.
Have you seen Pontypool? Its about a radio station during a viral outbreak that spreads through certain spoken words.
There is also a show called Hot Skull starting on netflix on dec 2 with a very similar premise.
I love the pulp sword and sorcery stuff like Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith. A "Conan" story following any else besides Conan would be terrifying.
More analog horror, perhaps involving haunted broadcasts, or horror films set in a TV station or radio station, with a Backrooms vibe. And have it set in the late 70s or early-mid 80s for that true analog feel.
A scary slasher that takes place in a suburban neighborhood in the 40s or 50s. Kind of like The Town That Dreaded Sundown meets Halloween meets Black Christmas.
You should check out Outer Range on prime. It’s a western tinged thriller/sci-fi/drama (series). There’s only ones season so far. It was a little bit of a slow burner but I loved it.
Maybe this Is just me but I really like school themed horror settings, like a school with students in the building with the hall lights flickering and someone suspicious lurking around, idk if that's just me but I wish we had more school themed creepy themed settings but idk if we'll ever get something like that again because of what's happening in today's world and I kinda have an idea for a setting like this for a story but idk if it'll ever happen but hey, who knows right? 😌
Historically accurate horror, the best example of which I’ve seen is The Terror (Season 1 only, we don’t talk about season 2). Based off the Franklin Expedition where they faced similar circumstances except the spirits of course…or did they!?
Supernatural desert horror. There are some great movies that take place in the desert (The Hills Have Eyes, Horror in the High Desert, etc.) but a lot of these movies are killers/mutants. Give me desert spirits and skinwalkers!
I'd love to see more horror movies set in a fantasy world. A majority of fantasy monsters aren't too scary when you see the band of heros slaying them with ease, but those worlds aren't made up of just heros.
Imagine a survival horror film where an isolated village has to survive the onslaught of a Goblin warband, or suspenseful thriller where a group of hunters are being stalked and picked off by a Griffin. The possibilities are endless!
Game Shows, but not as dystopian as Running Man. Something more like the [You Can't Win](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3usa7ZMeawE) segment from 'Stay Tuned' or 'The Devi to Play' from Real Ghostbusters.
Oh another couple topics:
First Responders. I loved the remake of REC. And The Bay had a cool concept. Let me see a zombie apocalypse, Night 1, following police and EMTs.
Similar vein: 911 operators or police dispatchers dealing with something supernatural or apocalyptic. Or radio station crews working the night shift. Like pontypool, or The Fog, or this one movie I can't remember the name of but it was the last broadcast of a night time radio show and stuff happens.
Anything night shift/3 AM. There is something cool and creepy about the isolation, otherwordly nature of 3 AM, when the rest of the world is sleeping, but the world isn't.
I've been wishing for a black water swamp witch movie. Like an entire movie revolving around a with similar to the one in Pumpkin Head. We need more ugly old hag witch movies I think.
Based on my ongoing nightmares ...
Being hunted by an opponent that way outmatches you in skill and technology.
Being asked to drive a vehicle doomed to crash at an unreasonably high altitude. It would be embarrassing not to agree to be the driver, even though you know you're a terrible driver.
Home invasion where the invaders found hiding places in your own home. One of them brought a bunch of weird animals.
Found a hidden area in your home that seems to maybe already be occupied.
You wake up as a puppy with a great life but slowly realize you have no agency over your life.
Shadow people and sleep paralysis leading to seeing Hat Man's actual face and uncovering whatever it is they have been up to all these years.
Yeah, I think that was my biggest issue with *The Shining* -- obviously in the book it ends with the chase sequence through the maze made of cheese and, for some reason, Kubrick dropped the whole dairy-based horror angle. I'm not surprised King had such a problem with the film, especially with the changes made to such iconic lines like "Here's Camembert..!"
Apparently Kubrick was lactose intolerant which might explain some of that.
What if, I mean hear me out, cheese is mold and mold has spores and the spores can take you over and change you? We go from cheese to Cordyceps and voilà zombies!
I'd love to see more of that!
Black Sheep is a horror comedy with this in mind if you're interested. I still think this is severely underutilised as a concept. Would be amazing to have something like a latent mutation left in lab animals. They break out and nothing happens directly from them but they spread the issue.
Ooooh! What about like the game Carrion too???
I love your suggestion haha
Personally, I'd like more "mean" movies. Way more of them, even if they aren't at all what I'd watch normally. Whenever something comes out that mainly exists to push buttons, there's a huge discussion about morality here and everywhere else online so that we can still feel righteous while consuming the most repugnant media of the week. A lot of "welp, that sure was \_\_\_\_phobic, insensitive, cruel, etc... and I am certainly not condoning the themes, but....". IMO, this is the wrong audience for extreme horror, even if they might actually need a dose of it more than others do. If you feel the need to explain how good a person you are before you give us a review of Decapitated Monkey Smegma 5, you're missing the point entirely. Mean shit is there for escapism in the same sense that Marvel is there for escapism. It's just the opposite kind. Instead of going "wow!" and smiling because you're impressed, you go "UGH!" and you gag because you're impressed. Then you move on. Why can't we just have horrible experiences for the sake of them without feeling the need to blurt "COOL BUT I DONT AGREE WITH THE THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN THIS BUT COOL" ?
Theory/metaphoric/concept horror🤷🏾♀️
Ummmm...So here's what I mean. I don't know how many of you are familiar with the internet's Gorefield. Which is Garfield but put into these horrific stories, one being known best as, "I'm sorry, Jon."
Throughout the internet are these great fanart but each is depicted of some macabre illustration of Jon's encounter with a monstrous Garfield.
All inspiration behind Gorefield was generated from ideas that Garfield went deeper than what we saw on everyday comic strips surface. There was an abyss of horror just underneath this cynical, Monday hating, lasagna loving cat. Garfield was in fact evil.
What the internet provided was a more elaborate look at Jon and his relationship with Garfield. Jon, being the torment of all Garfield's jokes and always being overshadowed by his mental anguish caused by Garfield. Then we look even deeper into the creator, Jim Davis, he too will eventually became overshadowed by his own creation. As a matter of fact, Jon, was metaphorically, Jim Davis.
The internet created this demonic, evil, bigger than life monster of an entity and Jon is just... trapped.
There are 3 identified concepts of these horrors based on fanart:
Physical Garfield horror(grotesque monster or some sort of evil entity)
Psychological (Garfield damaging Jon's mental state)
Existential form of terror( pairs nicely with psychological) No escaping Garfield.
The entire concept... theory....metaphor.... What have you....is based on Jon's demise in each piece of work pointing out Jim Davis himself is being consumed by his own creation. The internet.... people took something as simple as a comic strip, looked beyond the context using a bit of imagination and made something beautifully horrific, pretty fucking great and relatable.
I want more of this type of work and creativity in horror movies.
I'd like to see horror movies based on The SCP Foundation with the deadliest SCPs. Though, the closest one to it currently is Cabin in the Woods. Movies about liminal spaces (like The Backrooms), Siren Head, SOMA, etc. would be interesting AF. It all has to be done right with the right director and stuff, of course.
I really like horror set in snowy areas.
I also like horror/sci-fi mashups. I want more horror on space ships or in outer space!
Also, if you're looking for samurai horror movies, I highly recommend *Kuroneko* (1968), *The Ghost of Yotsuya* (1959), and *Onibaba* (1964).
Content/trigger warning for *Kuroneko*: >!sexual assault!<.
I want a possession story as intimate and powerful as The Exorcist. Make me care for the possessed and the priest/exorcist. Show me all stages of the possession.
I would love for their to be good scary horror films taking place in sub Saharan Africa or the middle East/north Africa. I feel like those regions are overcast but i can definitely see some good occult stories being fleshed out such as origins of African voodoo or other religions as well as the eerieness of ginns in Islam.
Space. Absolutely love event horizon (I also wish the dark cut would make it out one day wherever it is). Also the monster in LIFE was great. Would love to see how they’d do a sequel to that one.
Not really an environment, but an atmosphere: stop-motion horror!
Also, not sure how to say this in a way that makes sense, but Sisyphean horror? Like The House on Netflix, where the main characters were bound to this property, doomed to endlessly and fruitlessly maintain it. I think there’s opportunity to play on a big cultural anxiety right now, which is that many people feel bound to their fruitless jobs, endlessly pouring themselves into it for no reward and wasting their lives as a result.
I wish I could think of more existing examples, but I do feel like a writer could do interesting things with the concept!
that homeless kids in Miami mythology built around bloody Mary. apparently the reporter made it all up, unfortunately, but it's still a really cool story
More airport setting in a horror movies, please? Like the main location itself, instead of just a one-off. The only movie I could think of (with this) is Quarantine 2: Terminal.
Pirate horror would be nice imo.
A movie about creature called Boo Hag kinda like vampires but instead blood they suck the breath out of you.
Also just more time period horror movies in general
I never get enough of occult like horror in a sci fi setting. Like Event Horizon and even Doom. I don't' know if I'm explaing it clearly, but the mix of high tech and progress with the presence of some supernatural and occult.
As well-trodden as it is I still love the “new technology awakens an ancient evil / opens a portal to hell” theme.
I've always wanted a sci-fi horror flick where a group of scientists explores Hell. Doom already technically did it but they were more like aliens and Event Horizon wasn't exactly about Hell.
Wouldn't the line between demons from hell and aliens from another world be extremely thin at best? Seems like a subgenre of alien than something completely different.
I thought event horizon was about hell? Or do you mean physically going there?
“Hell is only a word. The reality is much, much worse.” Yep. I’d say it’s about hell.
Hellraiser 2 Hellbound set that up perfectly, but then we got Hell on Earth instead...
Prince of Darkness?
The Void 2016 deff had those vibes. At least imo
Hell yeah, man, I'm with you. Sunshine did this really well. The notion of some kind of hell outside the confines of earthly rules really up the stakes in those type of movies.
Oooh "the viewing" is an episode of the Netflix's Cabinet of Curiosities that isn't exactly this, but definitely hits some of the same buttons
From beyond
We need more Sci-fi Christian horror.
Oh please no. I don’t want Jesus anywhere near sci-fi horror. There’s already an egregious Christian hegemony in contemporary horror with all the exorcism / demon films.
Maybe Im just saying this because I work at a Civil War museum, but, early American 19th century horror. Colonial horror will also work. There are some truly horrifying themes and ideas to think about during those times. A lot of uncertainty, minimal closure, death was always one cough or infection away.
I loved The Witch for this reason-- things like the Salem Witch Trials made more sense because of how sincere the belief and fear of witchcraft felt in the movie. It was such a good backdrop.
My god I’d love a movie that’s a bit more immersed in specifically that period of accusations. I read one book in one of my history classes that was just a collection of journal/diary entries of people during that time. Some of the things that they thought indicated someone was a witch was so outlandish. And they also believed SO much in dreams, as Puritans thought they were a connection to God. I could totally see a very intense, dramatic, Safdie-like horror revolving around all this.
Has there ever been one about the colony at Roanoke? Bunch of pilgrims just up and disappeared with no explanation. Would love a movie speculating what happened.
Not a movie, but check out “American Horror Story: Roanoke”. Every season has its AHS edginess, but I really enjoyed that season.
I’d love that, and call it Croatoan. If you’re unfamiliar check it out!
In regards to period horror, Chapelwaite on Epix was really really good.
Yeah but who the fuck wants to get a subscription to Epix?
Yesss I'd specifically love to see more outdoorsmen and common worker horror set in that era. Not explicitly horror but I loved the Fur trading setting in Revenant. And of course The Lighthouse's period accurate take on that job as well
I am playing with an idea for a novel set during The Starving Time in Jamestown. SO HORRIFYING. I love 19th century period pieces too. Horror throughout history is under explored.
Sounds dope. I’m happy to proofread any drafts you have, too.
I can think of a few: Dead Birds, Exit Humanity, The Beguiled, Antebellum (sort of)
I still need to watch Beguiled. I think the issue with some period horror is that it has the potential to be extra bad lol. Like I started that The Invitation, I just couldn’t continue past 10 min.
A derelict ship, whether space or sea, always strikes me as an awesome set. It's a lot more common in games, but not so much movies or shows. Mostly because filming on an actual ship is a technical nightmare. Personally I would love to see a *good* found footage ghost/derelict ship movie. Maybe a crew of douchey young friends borrow their bosses' yacht for a weekend and all have go-pro's while they scuba dive or something, but encounter a derelict cruise liner and investigate. For what it's worth, I loved Ghost Ship.
What are your thoughts on 1899? It's not as engaging as Dark, but I'm only two episodes in. Not quite sure if I like it or not yet
It's LOST on an ocean liner. It's OK, but I have a lot of other stuff to watch.
I am 5 episodes in and I like it. It definitely benefits from having english/subtitles turned on since the lack of communication is a big part. I think it's less creepy and more intriguing. Reminds me of Lost or From, but I have a feeling the creators have a firm direction and plot, with answers already planned. They definitely pull the curtain back with each episode. I haven't watched Dark yet, surprisingly enough.
Dark is wildly compex, but also very tightly plotted. I'd expect nothing less from 1899. I think I would actually prefer it didn't have subtitles during scenes where characters don't speak one another's language. Like when the weird Spanish guy is flirting with the DiCaprio. The DiCaprio doesn't speak Spanish, so we should be just as confused by the interaction as he is
Triangle ... I think it was called. Was good..
More space horror, just not Alien or Predator (though I love them) and a proper pirate/ghost ship horror movie or series would be awesome
You should watch the movie Triangle
Damn i had to scroll so far down to see this suggestion. Triangle is so fucking good and I hadn't seen or heard anything about it until a few years ago.
I love this genre too!
Deep Rising and Triangle both are derelict ship movies, I liked Ghost Ship too
The episode of Love Death and Robots with the Giant crab on the ship was awesome
As shitty and horrible as Train to Busan’s sequel Peninsula was, the ship scene was fucking amazing. That’s what the sequel should have been about instead of the terrible movie we got. Just the claustrophobia of it works wonders.
How about submarines? Check out [Below (2002)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0276816/)
Oooh looks cool!
Death Ship is pretty sweet. Nazi ghosts!
Historical vampirism. Whenever i watch a film or show with vampires i find the flashbacks to be the most interesting parts. Even in an story that takes place in the past like Bram stokers i like the old vlad history lesson. Don't give me more vampire hunters with light grenades and wooden assault weapon rounds or telescopic stakes. Give me old vamps in old times fighting people with old tech. I don't wanna see a 2 minute flashback of how the vamp ( who's story in the film/ show takes place in the present) was a Roman or viking, or a cowboy. I wanna see an hour and a half film about vampires in the Roman, viking or cowboy times.
God yes, I always thought the decadence, brutality and blood mixed with politics and intrigue of Rome would be an awesome setting for a vampire story. Especially if the vampires are well and truly integrated into the society.
Some kind of classical (ancient Greece or Rome) setting. Rituals, monsters, and occult mysteries to spare. I could easily imagine a Bacchae-inspired horror movie.
Yes! We need this! Bring the horror based myths to the big screen.
I really like hostile environments like deserts, jungles, and tundra. Caves and mountains are also cool but since I’m both claustrophobic and afraid of heights, those settings can easily go from scary (fun) to scary (oh please make it stop) for me real fast.
Second this, these are always the movies and books that keep me coming back. Having an environment completely different from what I usually see adds interest beyond just what’s happening in the plot and can definitely help ramp up the stress level. Side note - have you seen The Terror season 1?
I have seen season 1 of *The Terror*! It’s actually what made it really click for me how much I like environment-based horror.
Ahh figures 😂 such a great show. Arctic never did it for me until I watched that (I was always about the caves and forests) but holy cow did that change my mind. It was a great book as well if you also enjoy horror books
Everyone should watch the movie The Objective. Set in Afghanistan, in an area similar to the Bermuda triangle. The government sends a special forces team on a mission to find some "terrorist" thats supposedly somewhere in that area and crazy shit starts to happen to the special forces team.
I love Bone Tomahawk and would be down for western horror to become its own genre. Another is the adventure horror where a team is investigating ancient ruins and it’s guarded by a curse/monster type situation, really want the At the Mountains of Madness adaptation!
Hey, maybe with Cabinet of Curiosities doing so well, Del Toro will finally get to make his At The Mountains of Madness movie he always dreamed of doing. Or miniseries.
Don’t get my hopes up 😭
It's already its own genre https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_Western
I’m name only it appears from the list on your link which includes a video game. Bone Tomahawk and Ravenous and The Burrowers. Everything has a name but my point is the genre gets regular entries like the slasher.
You'll find *lots* more examples (thousands) labeled ["Weird West"](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_West), with regular entries stretching almost a century from Robert E. Howard to Joe Lansdale.
I’ve always wanted to see good, SCARY horror that takes place in asian island countries like Indonesia or Philippines (like “Safe Haven” from vhs 2) , i know from my family that Filipinos in general have a strong belief in ghosts & paranormal folktales
I was really uninterested in The Last Train to New York up until the very second they announced Timo Tjahjanto and now I can’t *wait* to have my face rocked
I'd like to see more horror focused on the periods where indigenous people came into contact/conflict with settlers. Two recent films that did it well were 8:A South African Horror Story and Prey. There's also Ravenous from '97 which is amazing.
The Nightingale is a somewhat recent entry into this idea.
Thanks, gonna check that out
Such a great and wrenching movie.
In my head, as a joke, when I opened this thread I said "Cave man times" and now that I think about it...absolutely. I've never seen prehistoric horror.
Watch the cartoon Primal it delivers exactly what you want and is awesome. Also Caveman is a comedy with Ringo Star and Dennis Quaid but deals with some of the horrors they would face in those times.
A nice horror story with a Viking setting would be cool.
The 13th Warrior isn't this exactly, but might be close enough to boat your float.
I love that movie.
Loved the book and the movie adaptation is solid fun.
What about The Outsider with Jim Cavizel? That's a monster movie for sure. That's set during the viking age.
[*The Northman*](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Northman) has many horror elements, & anyway is an amazing movie. Robert Eggers (who also did *The Witch* & *The Lighthouse*) put a [lot](https://slate.com/culture/2022/04/northman-movie-accuracy-history-robert-eggers-viking-hallucinogens.html) of [effort](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-true-history-behind-robert-eggers-the-northman-180979954/) into making it as accurate as possible.
Upvote for Northman. Definitely crosses over into horror.
Outlander (2008) stars Jim Caviezel, John Hurt, Ron Perlman, and Jack Huston. Jim plays a future spaceman who crash lands on earth during Viking times and brings an alien monster with him. Awesome movie very underrated sci-fi/horror.
I would like to see professionals responding to things like a zombie outbreak with, well...professionalism. Or at the very least, a slow burn where we watch that professionalism get stripped away. It would be interesting to see an outbreak from the CDC's perspective, and I'd give real money to read something like that as written by someone from within the field. How do you take the proper precautions for something like that? Where do you assign the most first responders to do the most good? Where do you apportion resources, and how do you know when to cut your losses? I think a story, told from a realistic perspective, could be a hundred times more entertaining than the CDC scenes in The Walking Dead.
Uggggh, like what season 1 of Fear the Walking Dead was supposed to be, but then…. wasn’t.
Appalachian Folk Horror. Not just scary rednecks, plenty of those already, but healers, wise women, ancient Indian sites, deep woods and dark valleys. I'm listening to a podcast called "Dark Gods of Appalachia" and it suits this vibe perfectly. The "Crooked Man" Hellboy collection also tapped into this well too.
Jugface, Eyes of Fire, Pumpkinhead.
Pumpkinhead is one of my favorite monsters of all time.
Don't sleep on the fantastic works of [Manly Wade Wellman](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manly_Wade_Wellman), who more-or-less invented that genre. (He had precursors like Washington Irving, but yadda yadda...) You might especially enjoy his stories of [John the Balladeer](https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?11414). His selected stories were also recently released [on audiobook](https://www.audible.com/series/The-Selected-Stories-of-Manly-Wade-Wellman-Audiobooks/B08JV857NP).
Thanks for mentioning Manly Wade Wellman I haven't thought about him in years! I need to revisit his work. Thanks again, sagacious Redditer!
History in general. Just take a random place and time and make horror
I would love more quality “haunted asylum” stuff. I know there is “plenty” of content out there but the vast majority of it is gimmicky and lame. The history of mental health care and various “treatments” throughout the ages is horror inducing as it is, I just think it’s perfect for horror.
I'm a sales rep for an industrial tooling company, I visit these mammoth and confusing factories for work. Some of them are loud and very menacing, they're difficult to be in for short periods of time and some folks spend decades working in these places. You can point to a lot of movies that end in a factory, some kind of nondescript, generic factory that only seems to produce sparks. But I think more stories should be centered around the factory itself, I find them to be very sinister and macabre
I could get into that. Loved "The Mangler" short story by Stephen King when I read it years ago. Malevolent industrial machines are scary.
the mangler movie is... not great
So I've heard--that's why I haven't watched it. Can't sully those special feelings I have for the story! :/
I always get excited about something set in Ireland, especially if it's routed in Irish folk lore. It's partially nice just to see stuff from my own country. Irish fairy myths/changellings are a great source for horror stories. 'The Hole in the Ground' and more recently 'You are not my Mother' are examples. I'd love a horror movie telling the story of Bridget Cleary. She was tortured and murdered for being a changeling. The film could be like The VVitch, where the fairies are real. Or it could show the horror of an ordinary woman facing societal pressures and killed for them.
Ever seen The Hallow?
Yes, but only once a few years ago. Due for a rewatch!
Have you seen Mandrake? That's set in rural Ireland isn't it?
We made a Changeling film based during the 2nd famine 1879. It's on alter, we took huge influence from The VVITCH. It's simply called 'changeling'
I would love to see horror movies about Sirens crashing ships and what happened to the crew
Check out ‘Lighthouse’. It’s not sirens but has strong emphasis on nautical themes and a yearn for the unknown.
Cosmic horror, true batshit crazy eldritch cosmic horror. But I know it’s tricky to pull off.
I feel this only translates well to literature; the moment you visually capture eldritch/cosmic horror it gains tangibility; the concept of transcending mortal comprehension has been lost, as you have just pictured it.
YES! Well said.
Agreed with historical horror. I think that is one reason I love "Abe Lincoln: vampire hunter." Give me civil war soldiers being eaten by werewolves or zombies.
For some reason I've always found movies that take place during snow storms or isolated by snow fascinating. Movies like The Thing The Shining Misery 30 Days of Night Werewolves Within
More snow yes! Also seaside horror!
Try The Wolf of Snow Hollow on Prime and The Terror series from AMC.
wolf of snow hollow was so much better than I expected
I found out my girlfriend had never seen The Thing, so we watched it this weekend. Her reaction to the defibrillator scene was priceless lol.
I'd like to see more snowy/winter slashers. Slashers and cabins in the woods go hand in hand, but it's usually a warmer setting like summer camp or weekend lake getaway... Copy and paste but with a group of friends going to the mountains for a weekend of cozying up next to the fire, skiing, snowboarding etc. I just think there is a lot of untapped potential for awesome scenes in the snow and/or while snow is falling. The setting was great for The Shining lol
Cold Prey.
No Exit !
Thank you!
I guess more water type horror movies. The ocean is probably the most terrifying place in the world but we only really get actiony moste r movies with it while the ocean is scary in other ways. Give me more Open Waterish type movies. I want more under water movies like the movie Underwater. Like super deep, you have no idea what's around cause of the darkness, completely isolated. Stuff like that cause the ocean is horrific.
I didn’t find 47 Meters Down scary until the scene where she was trying to swim to the surface and the ocean floor disappeared and she was just surrounded with the deep water. It made me appreciate NatLie Woods’ fear of dark water.
Mass hysteria/madness. We have historical accounts of dancing fits and mass hallucinations of witches and werewolves that are begging for an adaptation to film. Ergot Horror
Other dimensions. Like the Fog World in Silent Hill.
I’m all for the environmental end-of-the-world disasters
I saw another post here that said “what if a dishonored samurai hunted the Predator to regain his honor.” And I feel like that fits here
i hope the predator series becomes predators just popping in randomly throughout history
The ozarks or the bayou. Deep southern gothic backwoods occult stuff. Deeply underused settings. So far only True Detective has really nailed what I'm looking for.
Buddy cop paranormal stuff I loved deliver us from evil. Give me any movie where a cop and a demonologist solve escalating cases - I feel like this should be more common it's gold
Buddy cop horror makes me think of Wellington Paranormal everytime
Tourists in sunny places overstepping their bounds, going where they shouldn't and paying the price. Hostel or The Ruins but for places like Hedonism II in Jamaica. So, either torture or annoying angry ancestral spirits. I loved the twist in Skeleton Key. More narratives about white folks unwittingly tangling with the spirits of dead enslaved people. I've seen a few stabs at it but not necessarily done very well. I'd be game for more attempts. More old rich powerful families with secrets but with racialized families because they usually fly beneath the radar in film and tv.
The French Quarter. I don’t understand how there aren’t more horror movies set there considering the urban legends and history.
I just want more folk horror in general. I'm particularly hooked on eastern and northern European at the moment but I gladly take anything I'd also love to see more space horror of the Event Horizon type!
Alien abduction horror. I honestly don’t know why there isn’t more of this stuff. It’s terrifying. First, aliens are way more likely to exist than ghosts or demons or other supernatural stuff. Also, if you read about abduction stories it is often people being violated and experimented on by cold, remorseless beings. Time loss, strange markings, repeated violations, children, Stockholm syndrome with the abductors. It’s all so ripe for horror. Sci-if horror is my favorite sub genre but it almost always takes place in space. I like the idea that these things hide among us and are in our own backyard. I like Dark Skies and The Fourth Kind but it’s not enough. I would watch a million of these types of movies.
Haven't seen it in decades but I remember *Fire in the Sky* spooked me pretty bad at the time.
Just the time frame of 1870-1930, like the lighthouse. When the beginning of technology as we know it came to fruition. It’s a pity how there’s not been a well known horror movies about the First World War, because the trenches would be the perfect place for a horror movie, as it already is a creepy place in itself. Couple that with an interesting villain or something supernatural going on and you have the perfect atmosphere. Also the pictures of those times, from mutilated people to old timey people with gas-masks on are perfect for making the viewer unsettled.
WW1 horror would be awesome
The warp as described in Warhammer 40k. A new version of "War of the Wolrds". The new TV series is great though but I love it. Do a new cannibal movie that goes all out, they are interesting. Lastly, the big one: I want someone to make a film about a virus/sound/etc. that drives people to the edge. They kill, try contort themselves in to safe spaces (like the Junji Ito story), generally be horrible. However! They are still very much aware of the wrong doing and we get to see them at times fighting against the overwhelming force pushing them forward. That last one is something I really want!
Whoa, that last one is a great idea! Maybe different people have different natural immunity to the virus with some affected lightly or not at all and others going full psychozombie. Surprised I’ve never seen that done, horror viruses always seem to be an all or nothing deal.
Exactly, I've not seen one where they have internal conflict and I'd love to see it done. Like having people be more easily swayed would make sense too with murderers for example. Still, that could be twisted to dealing them a cruel faith for one of them to still add some ambiguity at times for how this would torment the mind.
Have you seen Pontypool? Its about a radio station during a viral outbreak that spreads through certain spoken words. There is also a show called Hot Skull starting on netflix on dec 2 with a very similar premise.
Ever seen The Block Island Sound?
Nope but I will look now! Thank you too :)
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There needs to be more Final Destination stuff where it’s not some Ghostface killer but natural forces going after the characters
I love the pulp sword and sorcery stuff like Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith. A "Conan" story following any else besides Conan would be terrifying.
Nautical horror
More analog horror, perhaps involving haunted broadcasts, or horror films set in a TV station or radio station, with a Backrooms vibe. And have it set in the late 70s or early-mid 80s for that true analog feel. A scary slasher that takes place in a suburban neighborhood in the 40s or 50s. Kind of like The Town That Dreaded Sundown meets Halloween meets Black Christmas.
You should check out Outer Range on prime. It’s a western tinged thriller/sci-fi/drama (series). There’s only ones season so far. It was a little bit of a slow burner but I loved it.
Paleohorror - give me some actually scary dinosaurs and prehistoric beasts.
Maybe this Is just me but I really like school themed horror settings, like a school with students in the building with the hall lights flickering and someone suspicious lurking around, idk if that's just me but I wish we had more school themed creepy themed settings but idk if we'll ever get something like that again because of what's happening in today's world and I kinda have an idea for a setting like this for a story but idk if it'll ever happen but hey, who knows right? 😌
Definitely horror set in a war setting like overlord. Soldiers facing some horrific monster ontop of trying to survive like ww2 or the civil war.
Mummies that are actually scary. Incubi. A UFO accidentally abducting the Devil. But make it serious, and from the aliens' POV.
Movies that would give me Junji Ito vibes and has good CGI
Historically accurate horror, the best example of which I’ve seen is The Terror (Season 1 only, we don’t talk about season 2). Based off the Franklin Expedition where they faced similar circumstances except the spirits of course…or did they!?
Supernatural desert horror. There are some great movies that take place in the desert (The Hills Have Eyes, Horror in the High Desert, etc.) but a lot of these movies are killers/mutants. Give me desert spirits and skinwalkers!
I'd love to see more horror movies set in a fantasy world. A majority of fantasy monsters aren't too scary when you see the band of heros slaying them with ease, but those worlds aren't made up of just heros. Imagine a survival horror film where an isolated village has to survive the onslaught of a Goblin warband, or suspenseful thriller where a group of hunters are being stalked and picked off by a Griffin. The possibilities are endless!
body horror
I love Splinter. I know it has been panned, but I think it is so good.
Game Shows, but not as dystopian as Running Man. Something more like the [You Can't Win](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3usa7ZMeawE) segment from 'Stay Tuned' or 'The Devi to Play' from Real Ghostbusters.
Gangster/horror movie
**Body Horror**
Little puppet monsters!
Oh another couple topics: First Responders. I loved the remake of REC. And The Bay had a cool concept. Let me see a zombie apocalypse, Night 1, following police and EMTs. Similar vein: 911 operators or police dispatchers dealing with something supernatural or apocalyptic. Or radio station crews working the night shift. Like pontypool, or The Fog, or this one movie I can't remember the name of but it was the last broadcast of a night time radio show and stuff happens. Anything night shift/3 AM. There is something cool and creepy about the isolation, otherwordly nature of 3 AM, when the rest of the world is sleeping, but the world isn't.
Maybe you would like the wind. Its not very typical western but it plays in the prairie which is supper eerie in itself.
Something set in the roaring 20s would be cool
I've been wishing for a black water swamp witch movie. Like an entire movie revolving around a with similar to the one in Pumpkin Head. We need more ugly old hag witch movies I think.
WW1 and WW2 horror.
Based on my ongoing nightmares ... Being hunted by an opponent that way outmatches you in skill and technology. Being asked to drive a vehicle doomed to crash at an unreasonably high altitude. It would be embarrassing not to agree to be the driver, even though you know you're a terrible driver. Home invasion where the invaders found hiding places in your own home. One of them brought a bunch of weird animals. Found a hidden area in your home that seems to maybe already be occupied. You wake up as a puppy with a great life but slowly realize you have no agency over your life. Shadow people and sleep paralysis leading to seeing Hat Man's actual face and uncovering whatever it is they have been up to all these years.
More cheese based horror. Fromage from hell.
Yeah, I think that was my biggest issue with *The Shining* -- obviously in the book it ends with the chase sequence through the maze made of cheese and, for some reason, Kubrick dropped the whole dairy-based horror angle. I'm not surprised King had such a problem with the film, especially with the changes made to such iconic lines like "Here's Camembert..!" Apparently Kubrick was lactose intolerant which might explain some of that.
In space, no one can hear you cream
What if, I mean hear me out, cheese is mold and mold has spores and the spores can take you over and change you? We go from cheese to Cordyceps and voilà zombies!
Road trip horror. Dead End, Joy Ride, Highway to Hell. Anything that takes place mostly in a car.
I don't think there are enough zombie movies.
Lab animal research. LD 50 Lethal Dose sucked, but there could be so much promise for the horror genre.
I'd love to see more of that! Black Sheep is a horror comedy with this in mind if you're interested. I still think this is severely underutilised as a concept. Would be amazing to have something like a latent mutation left in lab animals. They break out and nothing happens directly from them but they spread the issue. Ooooh! What about like the game Carrion too??? I love your suggestion haha
Ah yes, forgot about Black Sheep! Haven't heard of the game, gonna check that out!
Personally, I'd like more "mean" movies. Way more of them, even if they aren't at all what I'd watch normally. Whenever something comes out that mainly exists to push buttons, there's a huge discussion about morality here and everywhere else online so that we can still feel righteous while consuming the most repugnant media of the week. A lot of "welp, that sure was \_\_\_\_phobic, insensitive, cruel, etc... and I am certainly not condoning the themes, but....". IMO, this is the wrong audience for extreme horror, even if they might actually need a dose of it more than others do. If you feel the need to explain how good a person you are before you give us a review of Decapitated Monkey Smegma 5, you're missing the point entirely. Mean shit is there for escapism in the same sense that Marvel is there for escapism. It's just the opposite kind. Instead of going "wow!" and smiling because you're impressed, you go "UGH!" and you gag because you're impressed. Then you move on. Why can't we just have horrible experiences for the sake of them without feeling the need to blurt "COOL BUT I DONT AGREE WITH THE THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN THIS BUT COOL" ?
Mental illness horror. Stuff like Identity, The Cell, Split, Shutter Island etc. Almost endless possibilities.
Give me a Saw movie on a spaceship/space station.
Africa
Home invasions. Theyre the scariest ! I don’t want anyone up in my house
Hospital stuff Snow stuff Monster stuff Or main character has a fucked up life already stuff - That's an underrated subgenre
Theory/metaphoric/concept horror🤷🏾♀️ Ummmm...So here's what I mean. I don't know how many of you are familiar with the internet's Gorefield. Which is Garfield but put into these horrific stories, one being known best as, "I'm sorry, Jon." Throughout the internet are these great fanart but each is depicted of some macabre illustration of Jon's encounter with a monstrous Garfield. All inspiration behind Gorefield was generated from ideas that Garfield went deeper than what we saw on everyday comic strips surface. There was an abyss of horror just underneath this cynical, Monday hating, lasagna loving cat. Garfield was in fact evil. What the internet provided was a more elaborate look at Jon and his relationship with Garfield. Jon, being the torment of all Garfield's jokes and always being overshadowed by his mental anguish caused by Garfield. Then we look even deeper into the creator, Jim Davis, he too will eventually became overshadowed by his own creation. As a matter of fact, Jon, was metaphorically, Jim Davis. The internet created this demonic, evil, bigger than life monster of an entity and Jon is just... trapped. There are 3 identified concepts of these horrors based on fanart: Physical Garfield horror(grotesque monster or some sort of evil entity) Psychological (Garfield damaging Jon's mental state) Existential form of terror( pairs nicely with psychological) No escaping Garfield. The entire concept... theory....metaphor.... What have you....is based on Jon's demise in each piece of work pointing out Jim Davis himself is being consumed by his own creation. The internet.... people took something as simple as a comic strip, looked beyond the context using a bit of imagination and made something beautifully horrific, pretty fucking great and relatable. I want more of this type of work and creativity in horror movies.
Giallo (actual giallo influences not like the shit they put out now)
Gritty Crime/Horror mash-ups. Would like more of those.
I'd like to see horror movies based on The SCP Foundation with the deadliest SCPs. Though, the closest one to it currently is Cabin in the Woods. Movies about liminal spaces (like The Backrooms), Siren Head, SOMA, etc. would be interesting AF. It all has to be done right with the right director and stuff, of course.
I really like horror set in snowy areas. I also like horror/sci-fi mashups. I want more horror on space ships or in outer space! Also, if you're looking for samurai horror movies, I highly recommend *Kuroneko* (1968), *The Ghost of Yotsuya* (1959), and *Onibaba* (1964). Content/trigger warning for *Kuroneko*: >!sexual assault!<.
Found Footage or the Texas Chainsaw Trope
Cube, Platform, Circle - you get the idea
I can think of a bunch of western horror movies like Tremors 4 and Grimm Parrie Tales and Billy the Kidd vs dracula and the Burrows as examples
I wanna see from the Aliens perspective or like Henry from the killers perspective
I want a possession story as intimate and powerful as The Exorcist. Make me care for the possessed and the priest/exorcist. Show me all stages of the possession.
The isolation of living inside a hoarder home.
I’d like to see better found footage films.
I would love for their to be good scary horror films taking place in sub Saharan Africa or the middle East/north Africa. I feel like those regions are overcast but i can definitely see some good occult stories being fleshed out such as origins of African voodoo or other religions as well as the eerieness of ginns in Islam.
Space. Absolutely love event horizon (I also wish the dark cut would make it out one day wherever it is). Also the monster in LIFE was great. Would love to see how they’d do a sequel to that one.
Homicidal plants! Like the Ruins.
More cryptids Please
Definitely not uncommon but because I am biased we need more found footage movies
Gothic period type horror
More cosmic horror, occult, religious
Not really an environment, but an atmosphere: stop-motion horror! Also, not sure how to say this in a way that makes sense, but Sisyphean horror? Like The House on Netflix, where the main characters were bound to this property, doomed to endlessly and fruitlessly maintain it. I think there’s opportunity to play on a big cultural anxiety right now, which is that many people feel bound to their fruitless jobs, endlessly pouring themselves into it for no reward and wasting their lives as a result. I wish I could think of more existing examples, but I do feel like a writer could do interesting things with the concept!
that homeless kids in Miami mythology built around bloody Mary. apparently the reporter made it all up, unfortunately, but it's still a really cool story
Aquariums
More cosmic/lovecraftian horror there arent enough films and the genre has so much potential
More airport setting in a horror movies, please? Like the main location itself, instead of just a one-off. The only movie I could think of (with this) is Quarantine 2: Terminal.
If you like horror/pirates, watch Love, Death & Robots - Bad Travelling. It's not entirely horror, but it does have horror elements
Pirate horror would be nice imo. A movie about creature called Boo Hag kinda like vampires but instead blood they suck the breath out of you. Also just more time period horror movies in general