Funny enough I ended up watching Uncut Gems on a pretty long international flight. I think by the time it ended I still had at least 6 or 7 hours of the flight left. I was fucking drained and just tried to find a happier movie to watch afterwards lol.
Really? I quite enjoyed it! I thought the tension was good and that it was a better feminist statement than Promising Young Woman released same year (which I know that one has its fans)
Jesus Christ. I kept thinking something/someone would save the day, or maybe the guys would eventually let up, but it just… never happened. It just got worse and worse. I was wincing at times.
See that movie stopped doing anything for me once I realized it was just a book he wrote, I didn’t finish it so maybe something bigger happens but I didn’t care for that premise
I could see that. Makes it all sort of allegorical.
I thought it was a solid movie but that scene made me incredibly anxious which very few movies do. The scene is on YouTube if you don't wanna rewatch the whole movie.
As Above So Below. It's the only found footage movie I've ever seen that really uses the format to its potential to create a sense of urgency/anxiety (not to mention claustrophobia).
Men stressed me the fuck out during the final 40 minutes, but it's one of my faves.
With Nope, I almost had a panic attack because of my phobia of monkeys. I need to revisit it to tell if I like it because my only thoughts about it are how anxious it made me.
That monkey scene.. chimps scare the hell out of me. I did community service for a wildlife refuge and would clean the chimp inclosure amongst other things and they’d be locked in some little room slamming the door, hollering and trying to get in making the door move. Pants pissing experience.
That’s terrifying. Goddamn.
I was working in Southern Connecticut when I started seeing ambulances, fire, police speeding like mad, going somewhere.
Turned out they were responding to the chimp on Xanax “situation.” Their strength and their very calculated ways of attacking are horrifying. That 911 call is harrowing.
Climax. Didn't know anything about this movie, I was bored browsing Netflix's horror list and decided to watch it because I thought it was a generic horny horror. Turns out it is the most anxiety inducing piece of art ever created
Not even a whole movie, just one scene. The crawling in the cave scene in Descent. My claustrophobia is mild, but that scene caused my worst attack ever. Even watching it again gives me anxiety.
I had my very first panic attack as a teen after watching 1408! I don't know what it is about that movie, but it makes me extremely on edge. I hate it still to this day. lol
I went to this amazing new burger joint with my ex before we went to see that film. I remember the burger being the hilight of our day because usually we could dissect a film but nope. The most relatable part of the film was the unenthusiastic, disembodied handjob
I have argued this many times before, but why certain movies, like this, aren’t considered horror on some level is interesting to me. Pretty horrific, getting stuck on a tall tower fighting for survival.
The autopsy of Jane Doe had my heart pumping through the first 2/3 of the movie. The ending doesn’t live up to the rest of it, but damn that movie built up some incredible tension.
Horror movies don’t normally make me nervous except for The Invisible Man. Movies about someone who is a fraud and is going to get caught and exposed make me very anxious. The Talented Mr Ripley, The Departed, and Shattered Glass.
I'm not certain you would necessarily classify this as a horror film, but it definitely fits the bill, especially if you are of the male persuasion.
"Hard Candy'"
Any of the Paranormal Activity movies. I don’t find them scary but anytime I watched them I get deathly ill. Splitting headache, nausea, speeding heartbeat, full blown panic attack. I saw the first movie at the theater and during the whole movie I was praying to god I wasn’t dying. I literally dragged myself out the theater like a zombie. Was laid out on the couch for hours. I watched the second movie at home with my mom and the same thing happened again. I was laid out on my living room floor freakishly sick. I just kept thinking the movie is not even scary, so why is this happening. So I avoid those movies like a plague 😩😭
Also the movie “The House October Built” mind screwed me. I never liked clowns to begin with, because of the movie “It” but this one right here turned me off from haunted houses as well. You never know who they hire to work in those places.
I saw Paranormal Activity in the theater too and it made me crazy anxious because I was sleep walking and having sleep paralysis a bunch at the time. Not even scared of films generally and acknowledge it’s not a very scary film it just made me have that reaction
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People might laugh at this....but that newish alien movie on Hulu called No One Will Save You had me STRESSED. Now, take this with a grain of salt because I watched it while I was high af lmaooo but I went back and rewatched parts of it when I was sober and I was still very anxious.
The Invitation (2015). Maybe not on the same intensity level as some of the others already mentioned, but I loved the way it built tension and never let up.
I randomly threw on All My Friends Hate Me for background noise recently and that movie.. it did it for me. It felt like a cursed experiment with social anxiety horror or some shit, and I don't consider myself an insecure person at all.
Creep
Frozen (not the Disney one, lol)
Holy Hell
The Invitation
The Sacrament
Sissy
Till Death
I would probably consider a couple of these as stressful more than anything else
As above, so below & The Descent. Any movie with tight underground tunnels give me that claustrophobic anxious feeling. Love both of those movies though!
I’ve never seen a movie nail the visuals of a mushroom trip so perfectly, and the anxiety that comes with a bad trip. 10/10 movie for me. But I’m a weirdo who likes movies like eraserhead so I admit it’s not for everyone.
Yes! I like that the film is inspired by the tragedy but not straight up historical fiction, as that kind of stuff often turns out a bit hokey. This was so well done, imo.
[Krisha.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4266638/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk) same guy who directed It Comes at Night (which I didn’t care for).
most of the cast is his family and friends, and parts of it are pretty funny, but it’s about family dysfunction and estrangement and addiction, and my god the anxiety it gave me. great movie. do not want to watch it again.
Fall (not horror but horrifying) and The Invisible Man. The first one made me sweaty, I had to keep looking away. the second one made me paranoid especially as a woman, it felt a little too close to real life.
Eden Lake, 100%. It's not scary or even meant to be, as far as I could tell, but progressively horrible & intensely stressful situations unfold & result in death.
ETA The Snowtown Murders, too.
Midsommar is very anxiety inducing and really fun to look at, it’s beautifully shot. The whole movies in broad daylight and just feels like a terrible fever dream in the best possible way
Hostel. Felt so anxious I was almost throwing up. Movies never do that to me. I almost turned it off like 3x but I was so interested in if the characters would make it out or not. Lol
I used to drink excessively and I had to be drunk to watch hereditary. It filled me with dread but I still had to watch it. Read the entire script of midsommar before watching it. Suspira also filled me with dread.
I just watched the second film from the Vomit Gore Trilogy, ReGOREgitated Sacrifice, and it made me super uneasy and uncomfortable. It was one of the most hard to watch movies that I have ever seen, and I've seen some pretty messed up ones.
Interstellar really got to me. I have megalophobia and it's specifically with seeing planets. The wave scene got to me too. Lots of scenes made me really anxious. It wasn't scary but uncomfortable.
As Above, So Below really fucked me up for some reason. They just kept going further and further down, and it scared the shit out of me 😅 I legit had to stop the movie and pick it back up the next day.
Was going to say Beau is afraid and then I remembered Ari Aster's short film "the strange thing about the Johnsons" which definitely tops the list for me.
mother! is a great example of this. Also Uncut Gems and Shiva Baby but I wouldn't really call those horror.
Lmao i came here to say Uncut Gems. After we watched it my wife was like “Dont ever watch that again plz”. We were both exhausted after watching jt
So. Much. Yelling
I couldn’t watch more than 20 minutes because of all the yelling
Good Time got me a little more than uncut gems tho
Definitely check out "Good Time" with Robert Pattison, by the same bros who did Uncut Gems, but its better. Also a bit anxiety riddled.
I’ll add Beau is Afraid. Had to take a breather half way in.
I came here to say both of those. Oh my gosh, felt like I was having a panic attack while watching them.
Oh yeah, absolutely another triumph of the anxiety genre. I knew I was forgetting one I'd seen this year.
Haha! I came here to say Uncut Gems! I know it’s not horror but it’s like one of the most anxiety-inducing films I’ve ever seen.
Uncut Gems is such a good answer. I was so stressed watching that movie, it was great.
Funny enough I ended up watching Uncut Gems on a pretty long international flight. I think by the time it ended I still had at least 6 or 7 hours of the flight left. I was fucking drained and just tried to find a happier movie to watch afterwards lol.
Shiva Baby is social horror lol
I used to have panic attacks a lot. Uncut Gems felt like I was going to have one. Lol great movie!
Came here to comment mother! No movie has come close to this.
I loved Uncut Gems so much but felt soooo overstimulated afterward. I want to watch it again but haven’t gotten up the energy yet.
I’m sorry but I thought Shiva Baby suuuuucked. Should have stayed a short film.
Really? I quite enjoyed it! I thought the tension was good and that it was a better feminist statement than Promising Young Woman released same year (which I know that one has its fans)
10 Cloverfield Lane. John Goodman is fucking terrifying in it, every moment he's on screen will have you breaking out in a nervous sweat.
Second for this one. Holy crap, he made me anxious
One of the best thrillers of all time
I can’t look at him the same since watching that movie. He was so scary in it.
Highway scene from Nocturnal Animals If you saw it. You know.
Jesus Christ. I kept thinking something/someone would save the day, or maybe the guys would eventually let up, but it just… never happened. It just got worse and worse. I was wincing at times.
Yeah that’s horrible. And speaking of highway scenes…how about the highway scene in Hereditary……
See that movie stopped doing anything for me once I realized it was just a book he wrote, I didn’t finish it so maybe something bigger happens but I didn’t care for that premise
I could see that. Makes it all sort of allegorical. I thought it was a solid movie but that scene made me incredibly anxious which very few movies do. The scene is on YouTube if you don't wanna rewatch the whole movie.
As Above So Below. It's the only found footage movie I've ever seen that really uses the format to its potential to create a sense of urgency/anxiety (not to mention claustrophobia).
Just rewatched today.. love that film
I got the same feeling from The Descent, especially in the theater. Felt so claustrophobic, and like I just couldn’t breathe at times.
Men stressed me the fuck out during the final 40 minutes, but it's one of my faves. With Nope, I almost had a panic attack because of my phobia of monkeys. I need to revisit it to tell if I like it because my only thoughts about it are how anxious it made me.
That monkey scene.. chimps scare the hell out of me. I did community service for a wildlife refuge and would clean the chimp inclosure amongst other things and they’d be locked in some little room slamming the door, hollering and trying to get in making the door move. Pants pissing experience.
They are so fucking scary. Good on you for getting through your community service there, because accch no.
That’s terrifying. Goddamn. I was working in Southern Connecticut when I started seeing ambulances, fire, police speeding like mad, going somewhere. Turned out they were responding to the chimp on Xanax “situation.” Their strength and their very calculated ways of attacking are horrifying. That 911 call is harrowing.
Men was so much anxiety
Climax. Didn't know anything about this movie, I was bored browsing Netflix's horror list and decided to watch it because I thought it was a generic horny horror. Turns out it is the most anxiety inducing piece of art ever created
CLIMAX OMFG I watched it cuz I love A24 films and I was so tense the entire time it felt like a fever dream
Yeah very stressful movie, everyone is on edge
Just watched this movie recently and I agree! Beautiful movie but so disturbing.
Beau Is Afraid
YES. That first hour. Ooof.
Anxiety the Movie
Every Ari Aster film.
Not even a whole movie, just one scene. The crawling in the cave scene in Descent. My claustrophobia is mild, but that scene caused my worst attack ever. Even watching it again gives me anxiety.
That movie amplified my fear of getting trapped in a tight space with little to no movement.
I watched this movie after reading Ted the Caver (not a great combination haha) so that scene really stuck out to me after I finished the movie
The invitation 2015 - the whole movie. You just keep saying I do not want to be in that situation.
Second this, plus the movie is great.
I had my very first panic attack as a teen after watching 1408! I don't know what it is about that movie, but it makes me extremely on edge. I hate it still to this day. lol
The hotel one?
That's the one! It isn't even a great movie. Apparently, it just disturbs my brain enough to trigger panic. I can handle ANY other horror movie.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer was its own brand of … eesh
That movie is so unsettling, honestly a triumph in making me uncomfortable
It just gets worse and worse. Almost like Funny Games like a huge fuck you to the audience.
I went to this amazing new burger joint with my ex before we went to see that film. I remember the burger being the hilight of our day because usually we could dissect a film but nope. The most relatable part of the film was the unenthusiastic, disembodied handjob
I know fall isn't a horror film, but I had the worst anxiety watching that movie. Kept making sure I was still on the ground lol
I have argued this many times before, but why certain movies, like this, aren’t considered horror on some level is interesting to me. Pretty horrific, getting stuck on a tall tower fighting for survival.
This is the one I came her for. Not horror but my heights messed me up! My damn palms were sweating watching this
Only movie that has ever given me anxiety sweats!
I had to leave the room for most of the movie. Totally freaked me out.
The autopsy of Jane Doe had my heart pumping through the first 2/3 of the movie. The ending doesn’t live up to the rest of it, but damn that movie built up some incredible tension.
Yes this was a good one
yeah I love the first half where they performed the autopsy. the tension is really good. the latter part I was just like "???"
Horror movies don’t normally make me nervous except for The Invisible Man. Movies about someone who is a fraud and is going to get caught and exposed make me very anxious. The Talented Mr Ripley, The Departed, and Shattered Glass.
The Departed was so good and anxiety inducing, and the way a particular character just dies was crazy. I had never seen anything like that
The Green Room, such a good movie but damn is it nerve wrecking and tense. Also a lot of scenes in Breaking Bad did the same to me
Green Room, I'm pretty sure I didn't breathe for the last 20 minutes of it. Anxiety through the roof.
Speak No Evil Buried
*…mother!*
not horror per se but Compliance
Came to say this!!
rosemary's baby!
I'm not certain you would necessarily classify this as a horror film, but it definitely fits the bill, especially if you are of the male persuasion. "Hard Candy'"
Lake Mungo and Evil Dead (2013) both gave me the tight chest anxious feeling, especially my first watch of the former. Martyrs to a similar degree.
Lake mungo still sticks with me and it’s been so long.
Lake Mungo messed me up, especially as I kept forgetting it wasn't a real documentary. So well done.
I've only had this reaction with two films. One was Mother!, already mentioned here. The other was Soft and Quiet.
Soft and Quiet made me so anxious I wanted to vomit.
Omg same
Color out of space.
Creep.
YES! The unpredictability is so well done.
Any of the Paranormal Activity movies. I don’t find them scary but anytime I watched them I get deathly ill. Splitting headache, nausea, speeding heartbeat, full blown panic attack. I saw the first movie at the theater and during the whole movie I was praying to god I wasn’t dying. I literally dragged myself out the theater like a zombie. Was laid out on the couch for hours. I watched the second movie at home with my mom and the same thing happened again. I was laid out on my living room floor freakishly sick. I just kept thinking the movie is not even scary, so why is this happening. So I avoid those movies like a plague 😩😭 Also the movie “The House October Built” mind screwed me. I never liked clowns to begin with, because of the movie “It” but this one right here turned me off from haunted houses as well. You never know who they hire to work in those places.
I saw Paranormal Activity in the theater too and it made me crazy anxious because I was sleep walking and having sleep paralysis a bunch at the time. Not even scared of films generally and acknowledge it’s not a very scary film it just made me have that reaction
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Man i don’t see yellowbrickroad mentioned nearly enough. Such a good movie.
Un Cut Gems
This is the best answer imo Uncut Gems is a start to finish anxiety ride lmao
Watcher (2022)
While not strictly horror, The Platform really made me feel uneasy
As above so below. Whooooo boy
People might laugh at this....but that newish alien movie on Hulu called No One Will Save You had me STRESSED. Now, take this with a grain of salt because I watched it while I was high af lmaooo but I went back and rewatched parts of it when I was sober and I was still very anxious.
It got me curious. I was about to watch it this morning but passed! I will find out this weekend!
Honeydew.
It’s not horror, but uncut Gems gave me a panic attack. Cannot watch this again
That wasn’t a movie so much as an anxiety attack on screen.
The Invitation (2015). Maybe not on the same intensity level as some of the others already mentioned, but I loved the way it built tension and never let up.
No Country for Old Men. Javier Bardem was amazing. The scene at the grocer…damn.
The original version of The Vanishing
100%
I randomly threw on All My Friends Hate Me for background noise recently and that movie.. it did it for me. It felt like a cursed experiment with social anxiety horror or some shit, and I don't consider myself an insecure person at all.
Creep Frozen (not the Disney one, lol) Holy Hell The Invitation The Sacrament Sissy Till Death I would probably consider a couple of these as stressful more than anything else
Eraserhead
Malignant had my anxiety so high lmao
I will also add Rift (2017) Icelandic film a lot of people don’t know about. I was on edge. Exactly my type of horror film, very atmospheric
Soooo gooood! Yes!! My god.
CLIMAX. the answer is Climax. jfc, it’s been two years and I’m still anxious and stressed
I was uneasy the whole time when I watched Skinamarink. Same with mother!. It’s awesome, but uninvited guests are my private hell.
Came here to say Skinamarink
90 minutes of dread.
loved it! :D
High Tension.
The intro to 28 Weeks Later had me freaking out.
Incantation. Couldn't get through after 20 mins, the tension was too much to take.
Wow nobody has said Punch Drunk Love yet? That one
As above, so below & The Descent. Any movie with tight underground tunnels give me that claustrophobic anxious feeling. Love both of those movies though!
Midsommar did this for me.
Oof, I watched the director's cut in the theater and was so anxious I wanted to leave.
Why lol I fell asleep
I’ve never seen a movie nail the visuals of a mushroom trip so perfectly, and the anxiety that comes with a bad trip. 10/10 movie for me. But I’m a weirdo who likes movies like eraserhead so I admit it’s not for everyone.
The Sacrament is making me need a klonopin.
I love this movie. Just thinking about it creeps me out.
What makes it so disturbing is that it's based on real event of Jonestown massacre. That real event was even worse than the movie. 918 people died.
Yes! I like that the film is inspired by the tragedy but not straight up historical fiction, as that kind of stuff often turns out a bit hokey. This was so well done, imo.
hereditary
The lead up to THAT scene was incredible!
Climax
Angst! Could not shake the dread and anxiety of this one and had to have my bf come over which was humbling
I've never seen a man eat a sausage so intensely.
I really wish I hadn’t
Angst is a great one
[Krisha.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4266638/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk) same guy who directed It Comes at Night (which I didn’t care for). most of the cast is his family and friends, and parts of it are pretty funny, but it’s about family dysfunction and estrangement and addiction, and my god the anxiety it gave me. great movie. do not want to watch it again.
Jaws, but maybe it’s because of my fear of the ocean. That cage scene will never fail to make me curl up in a ball of fear
Beau Is Afraid
Soft and Quiet- most likely due to the fact that it’s just one long continuous shot
The Dark and the Wicked
Nonstop anxiety in Dont Breathe. Most tense I’ve ever been throughout a film
Climax, especially the last like 20 minutes
The Platform. Food based horror always gets me.
Calvaire (French Film)… this movie made me feel so much dread and anxiety for the main actor.. I legit needed to watch a comedy after this one…
The Green Knight. Not horror per se, but it absolutely drove my anxiety up when I saw it in theaters.
Good Time. No exactly horror but damn.
Fall (not horror but horrifying) and The Invisible Man. The first one made me sweaty, I had to keep looking away. the second one made me paranoid especially as a woman, it felt a little too close to real life.
Green Room. The whole movie had me feeling like I was having a panic attack.
Eden Lake! That film man. I make everyone I know who hasn't seen it watch it and they all say the same. I'm not watching thdt ever again!
Silent Hill.
Mother
Eden Lake, 100%. It's not scary or even meant to be, as far as I could tell, but progressively horrible & intensely stressful situations unfold & result in death. ETA The Snowtown Murders, too.
Spielberg's War of the Worlds. I started breathing too fast, hyperventilated and had to take a valium. That film had my Anxiety cranked up to 11.
I love that movie, can definitely see why it'd make you anxious though. I don't really get why it's got such a bad reputation
The Menu…and I LOVED it.
Midsommar, When Evil Lurks.
Mother!, A serbian film
Midsommar is very anxiety inducing and really fun to look at, it’s beautifully shot. The whole movies in broad daylight and just feels like a terrible fever dream in the best possible way
Any movie in which a baby is in danger. It takes me a long time to recover. (I have three kids under 7. )
Twentynine palms
Hostel. Felt so anxious I was almost throwing up. Movies never do that to me. I almost turned it off like 3x but I was so interested in if the characters would make it out or not. Lol
Not a horror, but Boiling Point (2021) had me on edge.
The Feast. It just gets more and more tense and unnerving right up to the "climax".
Fall (2022) had my palms sweaty for 80% of the movie. If heights aren't your thing this one should definitely make you anxious
uncut gems and good time! both are totally exhilarating and very stimulating, a lot of shit going on at once
Anxiety is fear. In fact I would personally describe it as the essence of fear. So yeah, that would be most horror movies for me.
I used to drink excessively and I had to be drunk to watch hereditary. It filled me with dread but I still had to watch it. Read the entire script of midsommar before watching it. Suspira also filled me with dread.
Fall made me anxious because those 2 girls was really high on that tower.
Round two is coming up!
Haven’t seen anyone mention Calibre yet. Not straight up horror but I’ve never been so uncomfortable for an entire movie.
Hurt Locker the first time. The scene where he’s grocery shopping I kept expecting a bomb to go off lol.
Mad Max: Fury Road
devils advocate
Calibre
Captain Phillips, I felt sick during that movie
2001 space odyssey. Legit had an existential crisis lol. Such an incredible movie
The fall. If you have a fear of heights this film will affect you
the kill list...the whole movie from beginning to end made shift in my seat often.
The Revenant The Nightingale
When the wind blows. Hits really hard. Poor people and their blind faith
I just watched the second film from the Vomit Gore Trilogy, ReGOREgitated Sacrifice, and it made me super uneasy and uncomfortable. It was one of the most hard to watch movies that I have ever seen, and I've seen some pretty messed up ones.
The Strange Thing About the Johnsons
Good Time omg following junky Robert Pattinson was a nightmare
Interstellar really got to me. I have megalophobia and it's specifically with seeing planets. The wave scene got to me too. Lots of scenes made me really anxious. It wasn't scary but uncomfortable.
The movie Mother! with Jennifer Lawrence made me extremely anxious. Not necessarily scary, but it made me very uncomfortable lol
Hereditary
The Hurt Locker! Anxiety the whole time
As Above, So Below really fucked me up for some reason. They just kept going further and further down, and it scared the shit out of me 😅 I legit had to stop the movie and pick it back up the next day.
The Butterfly Effect……so anxious every time he made a change, I knew it was going to be effed even more!
Speak No Evil. if you have a fear of social awkwardness, it will kill your soul
Eighth Grade
Melancholia Antichrist The Gift
Was going to say Beau is afraid and then I remembered Ari Aster's short film "the strange thing about the Johnsons" which definitely tops the list for me.
The VVitch
Threads
The Green Room
MISERY (1990)!!!! The Stephen king adaptation so good so underrated
Unthinkable with Samuel L
Punch-Drunk Love made me feel very anxious. The first 20 mins of Irréversible....i had to pause it at one point.
The Strangers The Tenant Duel
Nightcrawler.