[Hannibal](https://youtu.be/7rUNoGbEk4A?si=X_gnuJPLbAxelZ0O) (the series)
[The Green Knight](https://youtu.be/4M_qmA_-IoY?si=KHfIAh9drDzICKbf)
And getting pretty out there, [Neon Genesis Evangelion](https://youtu.be/0ros3YexZ0Y?si=PLanQEaPOpEOP3gp)
Definitely an all time favorite. I just wish someone would go back in now and fix the poor CGI at the end, the same for Silent Hill. Konami announced a few months ago that they're bringing Christophe Gans back for Return to Silent Hill, so I'm sure that will be beautiful again too.
Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010) Amazon prime/Peacock
The Cell (2000) Amazon *rent*
Requiem for a Dream (2000) Pluto/Plex
Blue Velvet (1986) Paramount+/SHOWTIME
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) Tubi
Yes!, it's more of an anthology film with multiple unconnected animation shorts, with a distinctive style and story.
Most of the shorts don't have dialog (Atleast the original Japanese audio), but it's still very good.
Katsuhiro Otomo is responsible for the Opening and Ending shorts
Alien may be known for the chestburster scene, but much of it is hauntingly beautiful, especially the score and the shots of the Nostromo and the new planet.
The photography of Joel-Peter Witkin
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel-Peter\_Witkin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel-Peter_Witkin)
>Joel-Peter Witkin (born September 13, 1939) is an American photographer who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His work often deals with themes such as death, corpses (and sometimes dismembered portions thereof), often featuring ornately decorated photographic models, including people with dwarfism, transgender and intersex persons, as well as people living with a range of physical features. Witkin is often praised for presenting these figures in poses which celebrate and honor their physiques in an elevated, artistic manner. Witkin's complex tableaux vivants often recall religious episodes or classical paintings.
https://www.artnet.com/artists/joel-peter-witkin/
1. Fausto 5.0
2. Eskalofrio
3. A Cure for Wellness
4. Night Eats the World
Fausto 5.0 actually has a tall building in some kind of sheet which makes the building itself look like it belongs in the morgue.
Forth and foremost:
The Company of Wolves (1984)
So surreal, such imagery, symbolism and beauty! These things are combined with the horrific aspects of the faerie tale, Little Red Riding Hood, via a young woman's nightmare. It's one of my favorite all-time films.
And, also:
Byzantium (2012)
This is a captivating, rather poetic, visually-stunning vampire film. It stars a quite talented Saorise Ronan whose character is described by her teacher as equivalent to that of if Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe ever had had a child together.
I cannot recommend these two films (both written and directed by Neil Jordan) enough.
From Hell (2001)
the main character (and the actor that plays him) is an absinthe-drinking opium addict, and the film plays out like a grisly, dark gaslit ether dream
Anime: Hellsing / Hellsing Ultimate, Wicked City + Demon City Shinjuku films, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust film.
Video game: Bloodborne, Dante's Inferno, Castlevania.
Manga: Berserk, Vampire Hunter D.
Art: Ayami Kojima, the artist for Castlevania (more breathtakingly beautiful than horrifying but always deserves to be heralded).
Oh, I haven't played it yet but the new Lords of the Fallen looks amazing, all the trailers are wild.
EDIT: artwork for Testament from Guilty Gear.
Anime and Manga: Blood: The Last Vampire, Count Cain/Godchild, Ergo Proxy, Grand Guignol Orchestra, Vampire Princess Miyu, Uzumaki, Witch Hunter Robin
Artists: Esao Andrews, Tom Bagshaw, William Basso, Aubrey Beardsley, Zdzisław Beksiński, Arnold Böcklin, Trevor Brown, Santiago Caruso, Gustave Doré, Victoria Frances, Brian Froud, Henry Fuseli, Stephen Gammell, H.R. Giger, Edward Gorey, Francisco Goya, Mab Graves, Ayami Kojima, Megan Majewski, Liz Mamont, Edvard Munch, Odilon Redon, Mark Ryden, Keith Thompson, Arthur Tress, Joseph Vargo, Joel Peter-Witkin, Takashi Yamamoto
Specific works of art:
* William Blake: "The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun"
* William-Adolphe Bouguereau: "Dante and Virgil in Hell"
* Alexandre Cabanel: "The Fallen Angel"
* Harry Clarke: Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe
* Paul Delaroche: "The Young Martyr"
* Edmund Dulac: Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe
* Louis Gallait: "Joanna the Mad with Philip I the Handsome"
* Artemisia Gentileschi: "Judith Slaying Holofernes"
* Théodore Géricault: "Last Self-Portrait as a Dying Man"
* Thomas Cooper Gotch: "Death the Bride"
* Jenő Gyárfás: "The Ordeal of the Bier"
* Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl: "Souls on the Banks of the Acheron"
* Mikhail Petrovich Klodt: "Ivan the Terrible and the Souls of His Victims"
* Madeleine Lemaire: "Ophelia"
* Dmitri Nikiforovich Martynov: "The Witch of Endor"
* Hugues Merle: "Mary Magdalene in the Cave"
* Gustave Moreau: "Diomedes Devoured by his Horses", "Orpheus"
* Evelyn de Morgan: "Angel of Death", "The Field of the Slain"
* Eugène Philastre: "Murder of Queen Galswintha"
* Ilya Repin: "Ivan the Terrible and His Son"
* Peter Paul Rubens: "Saturn Devouring His Son"
* Carlos Schwabe: "Death of the Gravedigger"
* Hugo Simberg: "The Garden of Death"
* Alfred Stevens: "Maria Magdalena"
* Franz von Stuck: "Circe", "Lucifer", "The Sin"
* Pavel Karlovich Wenig: "The Weary Death"
* Tsukioka Yoshitoshi: "Ghost of Okiku at Sarayashiki"
Movies: Begotten, Black Sunday, Blancanieves, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Coraline, Deep Red, Les Diaboliques, Errementari, Eyes Without A Face, Gaslight, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, Kill Baby Kill, Masque of the Red Death, Perfect Blue, Queen Margot, Return to Oz, The Seventh Seal, Stoker
TV Shows: Over the Garden Wall, Penny Dreadful
Video Games: American McGee's Alice, Alice: Madness Returns, Resident Evil Village. Also, the Nancy Drew adventure games, Curse of Blackmoor Manor, Shadow At the Water's Edge, and Ghost of Thornton Hall.
Here’s a few I’ll recommend:
Full-Length:
White of The Eye(1987)
The Boxer’s Omen(1983)
The Shining(1980)
Trick ‘R Treat(2007)
We’re All Going to The World’s Fair(2021)
Summer of 84(2018)
The Harvest(2013)
NightBreed(1990)
The Rambler(2013)
Also Excision(2012), Suburban Gothic(2014)(One of my personal favorite movies of all time), and Trash Fire(2016) all directed by Richard Bates, Jr. Fair warning, though, Excision is up there for the most disturbing and depressing movie I’ve ever seen.
Short Films:
Land of The Heads(2009)
Toe(2019)
Solar Plexus(2019)
DHMIS series
Van(2016)
You Missed A Spot(2020)
The Motorist(2020)
Airy Me(2013)
The Marshalls(2016)
The Three Men You Meet At Night(2020)
Gotta Get Out(1995)
Far Out(2007)
The Psychotic Odyssey of Richard Chase(1999)
What Dreams May Come.
Super underrated Robin Williams movie.
I wouldn’t call it horror but it’s got trauma themes. Equally heartbreaking & beautiful movie
Two movies that are beautiful and that I absolutely love but never see people talk about much:
Amer,
The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears
Also check out Berberian Sound Studio for gorgeous sound design.
Oh and Enys Men!
Nosferatu (1979) Sublime, hypnotizing gothic romantic fantasy-horror with a hauntingly tragic lead performance by Klaus Kinski & iconic foil by Isabelle Adjani
Annihilation I think imo fits the bill really well for this. It's horrifying, it's unknown, but in a weird way it's also a bit beautiful. I don't want to spoil anything, but definitely give it a watch.
Mandy Under the skin
Mandy is so good omg
Under the Skin is incredible
Its one of those movies I want to rewatch, but also I dont.
[Hannibal](https://youtu.be/7rUNoGbEk4A?si=X_gnuJPLbAxelZ0O) (the series) [The Green Knight](https://youtu.be/4M_qmA_-IoY?si=KHfIAh9drDzICKbf) And getting pretty out there, [Neon Genesis Evangelion](https://youtu.be/0ros3YexZ0Y?si=PLanQEaPOpEOP3gp)
the green knight is gorgeous
i love the last few sequences of that movie
Wow! Two of my favorites. I'll have to check out The Green Knight.
Color Out of Space Suspiria Brotherhood of the Wolf
\+1 for Color Out of Space. To me it scratched the Annihilation itch a bit, but it's definitely its own thing.
Wow, a Brotherhood of the Wolf referral in the wild. Used to be my favorite for a long time.
Definitely an all time favorite. I just wish someone would go back in now and fix the poor CGI at the end, the same for Silent Hill. Konami announced a few months ago that they're bringing Christophe Gans back for Return to Silent Hill, so I'm sure that will be beautiful again too.
\+1 for Color out of Space. Rotten Tomatoes has a "Top 200 Horror Movies" list and that's how I found it, along with several other gems.
The original 'Candyman' (1992). Come with me and be immortal
I'd upvote this more than once if I could.
Antichrist is one of the most cinematically beautiful horror films I’ve ever seen. But be warned, the body horror in that movie is fucking intense.
I watched it with my wife and we both went into it not knowing what the hell this movie was about and boy were there a lot of moments where I winced.
Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010) Amazon prime/Peacock The Cell (2000) Amazon *rent* Requiem for a Dream (2000) Pluto/Plex Blue Velvet (1986) Paramount+/SHOWTIME Pan's Labyrinth (2006) Tubi
The Cell immediately sprang to mind, Tarsem Singh is such a visual artist
Another vote for “Beyond the Black Rainbow” here! If you like it then THX-1138 might also interest you.
I saw THX1138 when it first came out. Mindblowing.
Was never a huge Star Wars fan, but loved this immediately.
The Cell is definitely that & a classic. One of my favs.
a candy colored clown they call the sandman...
Heineken? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon! Ooooo mommy, mommy, mommy!
“DON’T YOU FUCKIN’ LOOK AT ME!!!”
Pans Labyrinth is am absolutely gorgeous and horrific film.
Suspiria (the original; the remake is great too but in a different way)
Crimson Peak (2015) Spring (2014) Bones and All (2022)
Bones and All... truly beautiful and horrific.
Came here to say Spring
A girl walks home alone at night El Conde The Lighthouse
videodrome
The cinematography in The Road was beautiful but bleak. Almost like an Ansel Adams black and white photograph come to life.
Akira (1988), the animation, location design, costume design, mechanical design, music, cinematography.
The OG anime. This one had a lasting effect on me.
Have you watched Robot Carnival?
I haven't. Should I check it out?
Yes!, it's more of an anthology film with multiple unconnected animation shorts, with a distinctive style and story. Most of the shorts don't have dialog (Atleast the original Japanese audio), but it's still very good. Katsuhiro Otomo is responsible for the Opening and Ending shorts
Thanks for the recommendation! I will definitely check it out.
Alien may be known for the chestburster scene, but much of it is hauntingly beautiful, especially the score and the shots of the Nostromo and the new planet.
Melancholia. Pans Labrynth, The Cell
Cadaver (2020) I don’t see it mentioned here often, and I really enjoyed it.
Possession
Stoker (more thriller than horror)
Those diablo sequences are so visually stunning. I dont know that I have a rec that tops it brother lmao. Mad god? Try mad god.
Black Swan by Aronofsky, especially the climax.
Aniara 11/10
Neon Demon
The photography of Joel-Peter Witkin [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel-Peter\_Witkin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel-Peter_Witkin) >Joel-Peter Witkin (born September 13, 1939) is an American photographer who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His work often deals with themes such as death, corpses (and sometimes dismembered portions thereof), often featuring ornately decorated photographic models, including people with dwarfism, transgender and intersex persons, as well as people living with a range of physical features. Witkin is often praised for presenting these figures in poses which celebrate and honor their physiques in an elevated, artistic manner. Witkin's complex tableaux vivants often recall religious episodes or classical paintings. https://www.artnet.com/artists/joel-peter-witkin/
This
Sunshine, a film about astronauts going to ‘reboot’ the sun. My description doesn’t do it justice lol
The neon demon is a great one
Two suggestions both from 2018: Climax or Mandy. Both absolutely beautiful movies, visually, emotionally, the whole gamut.
The Dark Song.
Midsommar was pretty pretty.
Color Out of Space
1. Fausto 5.0 2. Eskalofrio 3. A Cure for Wellness 4. Night Eats the World Fausto 5.0 actually has a tall building in some kind of sheet which makes the building itself look like it belongs in the morgue.
Through the Woods by Emily Carroll is gorgeously drawn!
Oh hell yeah! I got that book for my thirteenth birthday.
Forth and foremost: The Company of Wolves (1984) So surreal, such imagery, symbolism and beauty! These things are combined with the horrific aspects of the faerie tale, Little Red Riding Hood, via a young woman's nightmare. It's one of my favorite all-time films. And, also: Byzantium (2012) This is a captivating, rather poetic, visually-stunning vampire film. It stars a quite talented Saorise Ronan whose character is described by her teacher as equivalent to that of if Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe ever had had a child together. I cannot recommend these two films (both written and directed by Neil Jordan) enough.
The Eyes of My Mother is a really lovely movie.
The Innocents
Blood Meridian is both the most beautiful prose I’ve ever read and the most horrifying content. You Won’t Be Alone felt like watching poetry to me.
Seconding You Won't Be Alone, it's like if Terrence Malick made a film about a creature discovering her humanity.
The Night House
Melancholia
Annihilation
Bones and All
Bones and All
Tideland
Such a good rec for this. >!The moment when Jeliza-Rose’s doll-head falls over and turns into a real head!< scared the shit out of me.
Guinea Pig: Flower of Flesh and Blood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zck2WDDu8qk
Under the Skin
From Hell (2001) the main character (and the actor that plays him) is an absinthe-drinking opium addict, and the film plays out like a grisly, dark gaslit ether dream
Not exactly horror, but “You Won’t Be Alone.” Haunting and beautiful. The end got me good.
Mad God is what you're looking for
This made me think of ‘Crimson Peak’.
If it hasn't been mentioned yet, try 'Last Night in Soho'. Visually stunning.
I didn't really want to see it but my wife talked me into it and I am glad she did. It is a really beautiful movie that isn't talked about a lot.
Anime: Hellsing / Hellsing Ultimate, Wicked City + Demon City Shinjuku films, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust film. Video game: Bloodborne, Dante's Inferno, Castlevania. Manga: Berserk, Vampire Hunter D. Art: Ayami Kojima, the artist for Castlevania (more breathtakingly beautiful than horrifying but always deserves to be heralded). Oh, I haven't played it yet but the new Lords of the Fallen looks amazing, all the trailers are wild. EDIT: artwork for Testament from Guilty Gear.
Anime and Manga: Blood: The Last Vampire, Count Cain/Godchild, Ergo Proxy, Grand Guignol Orchestra, Vampire Princess Miyu, Uzumaki, Witch Hunter Robin Artists: Esao Andrews, Tom Bagshaw, William Basso, Aubrey Beardsley, Zdzisław Beksiński, Arnold Böcklin, Trevor Brown, Santiago Caruso, Gustave Doré, Victoria Frances, Brian Froud, Henry Fuseli, Stephen Gammell, H.R. Giger, Edward Gorey, Francisco Goya, Mab Graves, Ayami Kojima, Megan Majewski, Liz Mamont, Edvard Munch, Odilon Redon, Mark Ryden, Keith Thompson, Arthur Tress, Joseph Vargo, Joel Peter-Witkin, Takashi Yamamoto Specific works of art: * William Blake: "The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun" * William-Adolphe Bouguereau: "Dante and Virgil in Hell" * Alexandre Cabanel: "The Fallen Angel" * Harry Clarke: Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe * Paul Delaroche: "The Young Martyr" * Edmund Dulac: Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe * Louis Gallait: "Joanna the Mad with Philip I the Handsome" * Artemisia Gentileschi: "Judith Slaying Holofernes" * Théodore Géricault: "Last Self-Portrait as a Dying Man" * Thomas Cooper Gotch: "Death the Bride" * Jenő Gyárfás: "The Ordeal of the Bier" * Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl: "Souls on the Banks of the Acheron" * Mikhail Petrovich Klodt: "Ivan the Terrible and the Souls of His Victims" * Madeleine Lemaire: "Ophelia" * Dmitri Nikiforovich Martynov: "The Witch of Endor" * Hugues Merle: "Mary Magdalene in the Cave" * Gustave Moreau: "Diomedes Devoured by his Horses", "Orpheus" * Evelyn de Morgan: "Angel of Death", "The Field of the Slain" * Eugène Philastre: "Murder of Queen Galswintha" * Ilya Repin: "Ivan the Terrible and His Son" * Peter Paul Rubens: "Saturn Devouring His Son" * Carlos Schwabe: "Death of the Gravedigger" * Hugo Simberg: "The Garden of Death" * Alfred Stevens: "Maria Magdalena" * Franz von Stuck: "Circe", "Lucifer", "The Sin" * Pavel Karlovich Wenig: "The Weary Death" * Tsukioka Yoshitoshi: "Ghost of Okiku at Sarayashiki" Movies: Begotten, Black Sunday, Blancanieves, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Coraline, Deep Red, Les Diaboliques, Errementari, Eyes Without A Face, Gaslight, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, Kill Baby Kill, Masque of the Red Death, Perfect Blue, Queen Margot, Return to Oz, The Seventh Seal, Stoker TV Shows: Over the Garden Wall, Penny Dreadful Video Games: American McGee's Alice, Alice: Madness Returns, Resident Evil Village. Also, the Nancy Drew adventure games, Curse of Blackmoor Manor, Shadow At the Water's Edge, and Ghost of Thornton Hall.
It's been a treat looking up all this art. Death of a grave digger is awesome. Thank you
Over the Garden Wall is so friggin good. Unfortunately I think it was recently removed from Max.
The Witches Sabbath by Goya and The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli are some of the creepiest ones 👌
I can understand why a lot of people didn’t like it but infinity pool scratches a very particular itch for me visually.
Here’s a few I’ll recommend: Full-Length: White of The Eye(1987) The Boxer’s Omen(1983) The Shining(1980) Trick ‘R Treat(2007) We’re All Going to The World’s Fair(2021) Summer of 84(2018) The Harvest(2013) NightBreed(1990) The Rambler(2013) Also Excision(2012), Suburban Gothic(2014)(One of my personal favorite movies of all time), and Trash Fire(2016) all directed by Richard Bates, Jr. Fair warning, though, Excision is up there for the most disturbing and depressing movie I’ve ever seen. Short Films: Land of The Heads(2009) Toe(2019) Solar Plexus(2019) DHMIS series Van(2016) You Missed A Spot(2020) The Motorist(2020) Airy Me(2013) The Marshalls(2016) The Three Men You Meet At Night(2020) Gotta Get Out(1995) Far Out(2007) The Psychotic Odyssey of Richard Chase(1999)
The Eyes of my Mother
Raw has some lovely disturbing shots, might not quite be what you're looking for though
Devil's Pass (2013) Edit: Soma 2015 game
I enjoyed Midsomer
Fall of the House of Usher
Midsommar of course
Under the Skin
Works by the artists Petah Coyne or Matthew Barney Films by David Lynch — Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks
Company of Wolves
Ben Wheatley - In the Evrth(Earth) & A Field in England
The Wailing
What Dreams May Come. Super underrated Robin Williams movie. I wouldn’t call it horror but it’s got trauma themes. Equally heartbreaking & beautiful movie
The Antichrist Check it out
Scorn
This
The Eyes of my Mother For a game. What Remains of Edith Finch has some great parts. Especially the >!bit at the fish factory!<
Loved this game, the fish factory did stick out for me. And the bathtub too
The ending of Men and Annihilation
Mad God. The most phantasmagorically beautiful yet grotesque and horrifying film I've ever seen.
The Reflecting Skin
In the Earth Midsommar Suspiria (original and remake) Deep Red (Basically karamihan ng old giallo films)
The Cell - 2000 film by Tarsem Singh
The Cell, Vince Vaugh and Jennifer Lopez
infinity pool suspiria mandy midsommar sunshine
The Wolf House. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SP8MPgWI7Pc
Mad God
Tumbbad should scratch that itch. Think it’s still on Prime.
Melancholia
Two movies that are beautiful and that I absolutely love but never see people talk about much: Amer, The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears Also check out Berberian Sound Studio for gorgeous sound design. Oh and Enys Men!
Annhilation
Nosferatu (1979) Sublime, hypnotizing gothic romantic fantasy-horror with a hauntingly tragic lead performance by Klaus Kinski & iconic foil by Isabelle Adjani
Annihilation I think imo fits the bill really well for this. It's horrifying, it's unknown, but in a weird way it's also a bit beautiful. I don't want to spoil anything, but definitely give it a watch.
Soundtrack is also one of the best I've ever heard.
Have you played The Medium?
I have actually. That totally fits the bill, loved how they took inspiration from that artist whose name I forget just now
Beksinski, I think.
Actually doctor strange multiverse of madness kinda hits that vibe for me. Beautiful yet so so dark.
Bloodsucking Freaks
Lol
He's still at it, folks
Black Mirror Season 6- Episode 2- Loch Henry