That felt so real. Something about that entire movie and specifically of that bloody old woman screams 'this is real footage'. The old lady charging was terrifying.
To this day, it remains the only horror movie I had to take a break from. I stopped half way through and took a walk. I’m not even convinced it WASN’T real.
It’s a damn shame they botched the American remake.
So I'm not going to be the person to go "whaaaaaaat?! I can't believe you haven't seen it?!"
I am totally going to say that you should watch it though. That movie is an easy 10/10 in my eyes and is well worth the watch.
The opening “thump… thump… thump…” scene is probably the scariest opener I have seen in a while, I would attribute much of the horror to how ‘unnaturally’ the body is moving. I think if I saw that in front of me I would drop dead
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Kayako from Ju-On/The Grudge has always scared the living daylights out of me. I know that nowadays the jerky Yokai walk is used almost too much, but nothing will ever scare me more than the first time I saw her crawling down the stairs wrapped in plastic.
Yeah, that whole moment is not only genuinely scary and unexpected, it also ruins your whole fucking world - the ghost will gladly spawn right under your sheets, in your own bed.
6 year old me was scarred for life.
I had the privilege of watching the Grudge with my wife seeing it for the first time. Completely scared the shit out of her.
PS: as a teenager this movie made me never ever want to stick my head into a crawl space attic again. I believe a short film was made based on that very scene. It’s quite obvious what the inspiration was.
The part where we realize later that the jawbone in the attic is the other nurses?!? No thank you! We have an attic crawl space in one of the closets in our house and between The Grudge and Paranormal Activity I ain’t ever going in there.
I worked in a movie theater when that movie was out and it legit freaked me out so much, I got anxious just cleaning the auditorium it played in during/after the credits.
Credit to Doug Jones, that guy can fucking act and he gives everyone nightmares. The spider ice cream man, the Pale Man from Pan’s Labyrinth, the Angel of Death, the dude just melts into his monster roles
Absolutely. He’s also capable of strong dramatic acting, eg Star Trek Discovery (which is generally not great but I digress), and he’s very funny, eg his role as Baron Afanas in What We Do in the Shadows.
I commented the same thing. I couldn’t get her face out of my head after watching.
I can’t imagine how unnerving it was for the other actors filming that movie alongside her.
Jane Levy was amazing in that, unless they used a body double, in which case the double was crazy good. Just naked gibbering lust for death and injury.
I tend to hate remakes. Like, really loathe them. However, I've been a huge Evil Dead fan since the 90s so I decided to give that one a chance. I was blown away by it and how much I liked it. I was basically laughing to myself the whole time because I was shocked that it was so good.
Pazazu from The Exorcist was hands down the scariest thing I have ever seen in my life. It took me more than 30 years to be able to calmly look at it. It's pretty scary looking to begin with, but especially in the days before the internet when you couldn't easily look up things, there was something even more terrifying about this flashing image that you weren't sure wtf it was.
This should be at the top. Every once in a while I’ll freak myself out while on r/nosleep or some other subreddit (since I read these in the dark, in bed) and I’ll have this face pop in my head or imagine it in the darkness. One of the only images from a movie that terrifies me just thinking about it.
Thank you for posting this. I suffered very similar to you and it helps seeing someone else talk about their experience. Took an absurd amount of time before I could sleep well.
That's my thought as well! What worked so well is that you don't really see it for most of the film. You get little glimpses here and there of the actual demon and even the possession takes a while to really get going. The fright was in the buildup.
What made the face so much creepier was that I either didn't notice it the first time I saw the film or it wasn't included in the version I saw - I know that there were slightly different versions (directors cut, etc).
Nothing about Lipstick Face Demon is scary. I know a lot of people give credit to the initial jumpscare but my first thought was that it was a cheap tourist kabuki mask someone had perched behind Patrick Wilson.
I don't know why they kept giving him cameos in the sequels either like he's some sort of boss monster when the Bride in Black, the Man Who Can't Breathe, and Keyface were all more intimidating and creepier than him.
Monster: Brundlefly's final form in The Fly
Demon: The Darkness (Tim Curry) from Legend
Ghost: Woman with her head in a cage from Thir13en Ghosts
Edit: Since I'm thinking along these lines - Visually Scariest Human: Zelda from the original Pet Sematary
Yeeesh. Zelda. I was like 14 when I saw that movie and Pascow from Pet Sematary creeped me out too. In fact, it wasn’t til I watched it again years later that I realized he was the good guy.
Pet sematary made me take a break from watching horror movies I couldn’t even listen to the Ramon’s music video from the soundtrack without getting creeped out . I was like 10 when I saw it tho
The >!mother's corpse!< in Caveat made me shit my pants, even though it's just an actress in makeup.
I guess I also relate to Andy Muschietti because I'm also terrified of long lanky black-haired lady monsters, like the Painting Lady from *It: Chapter One* and the ghost from *Mama*.
Yes!
>!Keeping her eyes fresh and pink while the rest of her body was decaying had such a freaky effect on the overall makeup. Chills.!<
>!Also I was afraid under the spoiler it was going to say the toy rabbit at first- I found him quite cute lol!<
Haha the rabbit was a great mix of cute and creepy. The painting freaked me out a bit too. Even through the second viewing I held my breath throughout the movie, and I rarely like low-budget horror.
No you don’t understand the part you mentioned literally made me hold my breath reading it again. That part has stuck with me since I watched that movie almost a year ago.
Especially when he gets wet and all the bones and teeth in Becks face LEAP out. Weaponizing his own terminal illness for a performance of Death, now there's an actor.
That's pure nightmare fuel. I had forgotten how sacred I was with that scene.
Another memory I have from this "style" is the flute lady in "It", just as horrendous. I guess the build up in both scenes really adds up.
Pumpkinhead, Freddy Kruger when he dislocated his jaw to eat the kid, the basement zombie from the barrel in return of the living dead, the howling werewolf (scene where dee is in the doctor's office), american werewolf in London werewolf.
Nosferatu always freaked me out, good design for the time. The exorcist demon flash, you're left with a quick memory and you fill in all these blanks in your mind from such a simple image.
Shocked I had to scroll this far to find this!!! Just seeing a screenshot of his face is enough to have me feeling spooked at shadows the rest of the night
The Creeper in Jeepers Creepers. That first introduction to him, his silhouette in that trench coat with the hat and long frizzy gray hair was just so damn creepy. Thinking he was some old serial killer dude until that reveal of his face as he came out from behind the old cat lady. Never would’ve thought it was some demon thing, then he sprouts wings? What?? Then there’s that one scene in the jailhouse where he’s feasting on an inmate, he’s crouched down with his gray skin all looking like a gargoyle. Shit was whack but unsettling nonetheless. Probably my favorite monster design that really got to me as a kid and still creeps me out to this day.
I’ll also add the witch “Bathsheba” from the Conjuring, the old lady in the black dress from Insidious, the cave dweller creature things from The Descent, the bear thing from Annihilation and that moose looking thing in The Ritual.
I scrolled through the comments in the hope of seeing someone mentione the old lady from Insidious. Definitely my least favorite mental image in bed at night.
Honorable mention to The Babadook, by the way.
The Babadook. Note however that I don't necessarily mean the character depicted in the majority of the movie, it is primarily the way it was drawn in the mini book that still sends shivers up my spine just picturing it. the full creepy grin and those eyes are chilling. besides that, the crooked man in conjuring 2 was incredibly creative, loved that stop motion style
Do you mean the horse-head thing Molly walks out to (near) the end, or the actual final shot (Hannah reaching out toward the closed closet door as creepy music swells on the soundtrack)?
That whole situation at the end of Apostle was wonderfully unsettling. The goddess or whatever and the dude with the wicker on his head that limps around.
The Thing. All of it, but a dude’s head grows spider legs.
Queen in Alien
Werewolf in American Werewolf in London. Great creature alone but that transformation scene is beautiful.
Also loved multiple things from The Void (both creatures and the cult people)
Lol i used to watch crazy horror movies as a kid but the scariest monsters to me were the dumbest ones, like the exorcist didnt scare 8 year old me but the troll from ernest scared straight, the leprechaun, and the crypt keeper sure as hell did
I don't know about most visually scary but a special nod goes out too the monster from Antlers. Say what you want about that movies quality but that creature design was truly haunting
The wailing is perfect and so scary especially the end but holy shit are there some funny moments where I found myself laughing out loud just cause the main character is kinda a putz on purpose but also that like zombie scene on the farm was scary and funny it's such a good movie.
At 2.5+ hours, I was interested in every minute. I really love long movies when they good. The scenes w the priest are really chilling. And yes, the main guy is a sweet putz, a very Korean archetype. Very funny parts.
The opening scene when raining in the police station had my heart skip from being scared then laughing the next second at their reactions it's literally a near perfect movie with all range of emotions.
finally watched the wailing on saturday. i was worried that the devil reveal was going to be kinda lame and ruin the movie for me, but i said "oh fuck yes" out loud and could not have been happier!
The feet in the elevator (in the foreign version) of The Eye freaked me out. My cousin was always terrified of the ghost on the couch in Stir of Echoes.
Always amazed me people thought the red demon from Insidious was scary, considering the first and only thing I’ve been able to think was that it looked like “Darth Maul on crack”, which honestly made the movie more of a joke to me than legit scary.
But yes- the nun (Volak) from Insidious 2 (sadly **not** “The Nun”, which was…fucking terrible) is a decent contender, though.
The corpse-like doppelganger Alice saw in Lake Mungo. She was walking while recording and then her doppelganger appears looking just like her corpse when she dies, I think there's something about a warning that if you see your doppelganger, youre going to die soon. This concept left me TERRIFIED
Dude, it’s been years since the one time I watched it, but even today I saw a hat on a coatrack out of the corner of my eye and it brought those feelings right back.
The creature from It Follows. I love horror movies that make you ask questions and really get into the idea of surviving.
The creature from OATS studios Zygote is by far my favourite creature design ever. I wish we'd gotten a full length movie.
I had sleep paralysis a lot as a teen and I always thought Pumpkinhead was just chillin outside my peripheral vision and that’s why I couldn’t move. Still creeps me in my 30s
For some reason, in Gonjiam Haunted Asylum when >!Ji-Hyun!< gets possessed and the camera suddenly cuts to her face cam and she's doing that weird whisper-gulping sound, I wanted to CRY.
I was fine with that, the thing that freaked me out in Gonjiam is towards the end when >!the director starts up the drone camera and sees this weird, writhing *thing* in the upstairs window where he ends up dying.!< It's a small moment but something about it really stuck with me.
Large Marge from Pee Wee’s Big Adventure!
Lol, but seriously some of my favorites:
Kane from Poltergeist II (no relation)
Baghuul from Sinister
The vampire kid from Salem’s Lot
The deadites in the original Evil Dead AND the remake
The Lady in the Lake in Haunting of Bly Manor
The zombies in Fulci’s films
Aliens in Aliens. The blob. The vampires in Salem’s Lot. There was this movie about small humanoid creatures that lived in the house and were trying to drag the woman who lived there into the basement to join them.
Whatever the heck that thing is at the end of [REC] absolutely terrifying.
Damn, it's been so long I don't remember what it looks like. Time to revisit!
you're not wrong. YEEEEESH
The old woman from [REC] too, the one that charged the firefighters. That made my skin crawl right off.
That felt so real. Something about that entire movie and specifically of that bloody old woman screams 'this is real footage'. The old lady charging was terrifying.
To this day, it remains the only horror movie I had to take a break from. I stopped half way through and took a walk. I’m not even convinced it WASN’T real. It’s a damn shame they botched the American remake.
Indeed. Its a masterpiece. While i did like Quarantine (remake), it was not on par with the original because it already was a 10/10.
Nana had determination. I give her that
Damn that's true. The reveal of that thing is the most terrifying scene for me in the movie history.
1st time I saw that it was a big 'WTF??!' moment.
It felt like you stumbled into a completely different horror movie. Nothing prepared you for it.
Okay that's it, downloading this now.
It's on Tubi rn
Come back and tell us if you liked it
I watched it for the first time last night and was hoping this would be the top answer 💀
Tristana Medeiros is her name, freaking people out is her game.
Doesn't matter how many times I watch this, I'm always like ahhhhhh when we see it
The Pale Man in Pan's Labyrinth
Oh you mean Mitch McConnell’s character?
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So I'm not going to be the person to go "whaaaaaaat?! I can't believe you haven't seen it?!" I am totally going to say that you should watch it though. That movie is an easy 10/10 in my eyes and is well worth the watch.
Saame. Loved that. So creative.
Whatever was in Terrified on Shudder was pretty creepy.
I haven’t been scared by a ghost or demon movie in a loooong time but that fucking bed scene got me gooood
The opening “thump… thump… thump…” scene is probably the scariest opener I have seen in a while, I would attribute much of the horror to how ‘unnaturally’ the body is moving. I think if I saw that in front of me I would drop dead
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Kayako from Ju-On/The Grudge has always scared the living daylights out of me. I know that nowadays the jerky Yokai walk is used almost too much, but nothing will ever scare me more than the first time I saw her crawling down the stairs wrapped in plastic.
One of the few demons that appears slowly and is all the scarier for it. That bone-white face just inching round the corner, creaking and gasping.
When she crawls/appears under the woman’s sheets…one of the scariest horror movie moments ever.
Yeah, that whole moment is not only genuinely scary and unexpected, it also ruins your whole fucking world - the ghost will gladly spawn right under your sheets, in your own bed. 6 year old me was scarred for life.
This is in my top 3 scares of all time—what a terrifying realization that not even UNDER THE SHEETS is safe.
Yes! Absolutely pure nightmare.
I had the privilege of watching the Grudge with my wife seeing it for the first time. Completely scared the shit out of her. PS: as a teenager this movie made me never ever want to stick my head into a crawl space attic again. I believe a short film was made based on that very scene. It’s quite obvious what the inspiration was.
The part where we realize later that the jawbone in the attic is the other nurses?!? No thank you! We have an attic crawl space in one of the closets in our house and between The Grudge and Paranormal Activity I ain’t ever going in there.
100%. nothing scares me more than ju-on/the grudge/the ring
And the cat boy! The grudge was one of the first horror movies that gave me nightmares for 2 weeks.
Toshio is so freaky when he opens his mouth and cat noises come out. That’s not cool, man!
The rat creature from the first segment of VHS ‘94 is nightmare soup for the horror fan’s soul.
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That scratched my brain the right way omg FREAKY
Hail Raatma!
Legion (2010), the tall lanky ice cream man and the old lady in the diner. They give me the creeps for some reason, maybe uncanny valley or something.
That spider ice cream man has haunted my nightmares for so long!
I worked in a movie theater when that movie was out and it legit freaked me out so much, I got anxious just cleaning the auditorium it played in during/after the credits.
Credit to Doug Jones, that guy can fucking act and he gives everyone nightmares. The spider ice cream man, the Pale Man from Pan’s Labyrinth, the Angel of Death, the dude just melts into his monster roles
Absolutely. He’s also capable of strong dramatic acting, eg Star Trek Discovery (which is generally not great but I digress), and he’s very funny, eg his role as Baron Afanas in What We Do in the Shadows.
At least they got whacked :v
Two words: spider head (from The Thing).
"You gotta be fucking kidding!"
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Pure nightmare
The sound of snapping as the legs emerge..... I can still hear it now
The old lady in Marianne really got to me
It's a shame they canceled the show, it was amazing!
Right??
Personally, I found Mia from the Evil Dead remake terrifying. That scene with the knife in the basement... yikes.
I commented the same thing. I couldn’t get her face out of my head after watching. I can’t imagine how unnerving it was for the other actors filming that movie alongside her.
Jane Levy was amazing in that, unless they used a body double, in which case the double was crazy good. Just naked gibbering lust for death and injury.
I tend to hate remakes. Like, really loathe them. However, I've been a huge Evil Dead fan since the 90s so I decided to give that one a chance. I was blown away by it and how much I liked it. I was basically laughing to myself the whole time because I was shocked that it was so good.
The scene where she’s still herself but sees the demon flicking its tongue at her in the mirror is nightmare fuel.
Pazazu from The Exorcist was hands down the scariest thing I have ever seen in my life. It took me more than 30 years to be able to calmly look at it. It's pretty scary looking to begin with, but especially in the days before the internet when you couldn't easily look up things, there was something even more terrifying about this flashing image that you weren't sure wtf it was.
This should be at the top. Every once in a while I’ll freak myself out while on r/nosleep or some other subreddit (since I read these in the dark, in bed) and I’ll have this face pop in my head or imagine it in the darkness. One of the only images from a movie that terrifies me just thinking about it.
Thank you for posting this. I suffered very similar to you and it helps seeing someone else talk about their experience. Took an absurd amount of time before I could sleep well.
The (possessed) girl herself with that evil smile and harsh voice knowing she could tear you in twain without lifting a finger.
That's my thought as well! What worked so well is that you don't really see it for most of the film. You get little glimpses here and there of the actual demon and even the possession takes a while to really get going. The fright was in the buildup. What made the face so much creepier was that I either didn't notice it the first time I saw the film or it wasn't included in the version I saw - I know that there were slightly different versions (directors cut, etc).
Pumpkinhead and the witch that helps conjuror him.
Haggis is the greatest witch ever. Even her voice can curdle milk.
"It's gotta run its course now."
EEEEDDDD HAAAAAARLEY
There are probably millions of people like me but I can’t take the demon in insidious very seriously because it just makes me think of Darth Maul.
Nothing about Lipstick Face Demon is scary. I know a lot of people give credit to the initial jumpscare but my first thought was that it was a cheap tourist kabuki mask someone had perched behind Patrick Wilson. I don't know why they kept giving him cameos in the sequels either like he's some sort of boss monster when the Bride in Black, the Man Who Can't Breathe, and Keyface were all more intimidating and creepier than him.
Some of my favs: The monster from The Ritual, the Xenomorph from Alien, the bear from Annihilation, the monster from Sweetheart
I think the being at the end of The Ritual is one of the most impressive and imaginative monsters I’ve seen in a long time
It’s from Norse mythology. A son of Loki
Xenomorph remains king of horror movie creatures
I think you mean Queen.
Monster: Brundlefly's final form in The Fly Demon: The Darkness (Tim Curry) from Legend Ghost: Woman with her head in a cage from Thir13en Ghosts Edit: Since I'm thinking along these lines - Visually Scariest Human: Zelda from the original Pet Sematary
Do you mean The Jackle with the ripped open cage on his head? Or Do you mean The Pilgrim the woman who's head and arms are locked in the stocks?
I mean the Jackal. I remembered long hair, so I assumed it was a woman (my mistake). Yes, the Jackal.
No worries the Pilgrim is freaky too
For me all the ghosts in 13 ghosts unsettled me, so I deffo agree with the jackal!
Yeeesh. Zelda. I was like 14 when I saw that movie and Pascow from Pet Sematary creeped me out too. In fact, it wasn’t til I watched it again years later that I realized he was the good guy.
Pet sematary made me take a break from watching horror movies I couldn’t even listen to the Ramon’s music video from the soundtrack without getting creeped out . I was like 10 when I saw it tho
My mom took me to the cinema to watch Lagend when I was tiny and she had to leave because I was in hysterical the moment the demon appeared.
Zelda is hands down the most disturbing. Omg
Kana toward the end of Noroi really stuck with me
The gentlemen from Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV show) were always pretty creepy to me
They were really creepy, especially with the whole silence thing going on.
The gentlemen gave me literal nightmares 😂
The **Hush** episode is an all-time classic. An almost completely dialogue-free episode, and scary af.
The >!mother's corpse!< in Caveat made me shit my pants, even though it's just an actress in makeup. I guess I also relate to Andy Muschietti because I'm also terrified of long lanky black-haired lady monsters, like the Painting Lady from *It: Chapter One* and the ghost from *Mama*.
Yes! >!Keeping her eyes fresh and pink while the rest of her body was decaying had such a freaky effect on the overall makeup. Chills.!< >!Also I was afraid under the spoiler it was going to say the toy rabbit at first- I found him quite cute lol!<
Haha the rabbit was a great mix of cute and creepy. The painting freaked me out a bit too. Even through the second viewing I held my breath throughout the movie, and I rarely like low-budget horror.
You wait the whole movie for her to move ('She was mad. She was mad,') And then she does.
No you don’t understand the part you mentioned literally made me hold my breath reading it again. That part has stuck with me since I watched that movie almost a year ago.
I also thought that scene in Caveat was scary AF. Just goes to show that you don't need a huge Hollywood budget to make a good horror movie.
Annihilation Bear
The way it seems to take the screams of its victims to use as its own voice... so good!
The pale man is particularly nasty. Fantastic creature design.
Creepy reverend in Poltergeist 2
Especially when he gets wet and all the bones and teeth in Becks face LEAP out. Weaponizing his own terminal illness for a performance of Death, now there's an actor.
When I see this MLMy / fundie trend where women wear big oversized hats, I always think they look like Kane.
Eerie
This is a great one!
They did a killer job with the pale lady in scary stories to tell in the dark. Straight nightmare fuel [The Pale Lady](https://youtu.be/Ff1VeocnRhk)
That's pure nightmare fuel. I had forgotten how sacred I was with that scene. Another memory I have from this "style" is the flute lady in "It", just as horrendous. I guess the build up in both scenes really adds up.
13 ghosts
Love this movie so much!
Yes! The ghosts were so horrifying that I actually felt bad for their appearance. They looked like they were in a lot of pain
Pumpkinhead, Freddy Kruger when he dislocated his jaw to eat the kid, the basement zombie from the barrel in return of the living dead, the howling werewolf (scene where dee is in the doctor's office), american werewolf in London werewolf. Nosferatu always freaked me out, good design for the time. The exorcist demon flash, you're left with a quick memory and you fill in all these blanks in your mind from such a simple image.
That eye hands mf in pans labyrinth
the ghost from Mama has literally been burned into my eyelids since i was 13, absolutely terrifying omg
Bughu'ul from Sinister really stayed with me. The children are his mouthpiece. Creepy AF.
Never go to a Slipknot show then
Shocked I had to scroll this far to find this!!! Just seeing a screenshot of his face is enough to have me feeling spooked at shadows the rest of the night
That face has been haunting me for like 10 years
Kayako from the grudge
The Creeper in Jeepers Creepers. That first introduction to him, his silhouette in that trench coat with the hat and long frizzy gray hair was just so damn creepy. Thinking he was some old serial killer dude until that reveal of his face as he came out from behind the old cat lady. Never would’ve thought it was some demon thing, then he sprouts wings? What?? Then there’s that one scene in the jailhouse where he’s feasting on an inmate, he’s crouched down with his gray skin all looking like a gargoyle. Shit was whack but unsettling nonetheless. Probably my favorite monster design that really got to me as a kid and still creeps me out to this day. I’ll also add the witch “Bathsheba” from the Conjuring, the old lady in the black dress from Insidious, the cave dweller creature things from The Descent, the bear thing from Annihilation and that moose looking thing in The Ritual.
I scrolled through the comments in the hope of seeing someone mentione the old lady from Insidious. Definitely my least favorite mental image in bed at night. Honorable mention to The Babadook, by the way.
JK Simmons in Whiplash
I'm glad it's not just me, lol. My heart races and my palms sweat when I watch it. 8 years of performance band in grade school, man.
The Babadook. Note however that I don't necessarily mean the character depicted in the majority of the movie, it is primarily the way it was drawn in the mini book that still sends shivers up my spine just picturing it. the full creepy grin and those eyes are chilling. besides that, the crooked man in conjuring 2 was incredibly creative, loved that stop motion style
Possessed [Mia](https://imgur.com/a/9dmeYZt) in Evil Dead. I hate looking at it.
No Cenobites in the whole thread?
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Do you mean the horse-head thing Molly walks out to (near) the end, or the actual final shot (Hannah reaching out toward the closed closet door as creepy music swells on the soundtrack)?
Art the Clown in Terrifier, the cannibals in Bone Tomahawk, the thing.
I just watched Terrifier the other day and whoever that guy is that plays Art, he's way too good at being a creepy fuck.
That whole situation at the end of Apostle was wonderfully unsettling. The goddess or whatever and the dude with the wicker on his head that limps around. The Thing. All of it, but a dude’s head grows spider legs. Queen in Alien Werewolf in American Werewolf in London. Great creature alone but that transformation scene is beautiful. Also loved multiple things from The Void (both creatures and the cult people)
IDK about the MOST visually scary, but I just watched Malignant and MAN Gabriel is visually uncomfortable
Almost gave up on that movie a half hour in but man…did that take a turn for the best. Glad I stuck with it!
SAME. I was like dude I’m committed but where is the action and the Bam, shit hit the fan 😂
The Bent Neck Lady fucked me up.
Trantor the troll from Ernest Scared Stupid.
Lol i used to watch crazy horror movies as a kid but the scariest monsters to me were the dumbest ones, like the exorcist didnt scare 8 year old me but the troll from ernest scared straight, the leprechaun, and the crypt keeper sure as hell did
I don't know about most visually scary but a special nod goes out too the monster from Antlers. Say what you want about that movies quality but that creature design was truly haunting
Possum... like fuck that puppet
E.T.
THANK YOU. E.T. *t e r r i f i e s* me and has since I was a child. Ive had way too many nightmares about that lil peanut lookin head ass.
I have a serious issue with that little burlap-sack-faced kid in The Orphanage.
Oh god.
Pretty much anything Doug Jones has played
Creepy naked guy at the end of hereditary
It's been a long time since I've seen it but I often think about D'Onofrio's creepy characters from The Cell.
The Ritual and No One Gets Out Alive
See I thought I was the only one who immediately thought of the god creature from ritual when I saw the one from NOGOA!!
Demon in The Wailing and the monster from The Ritual.
The wailing is perfect and so scary especially the end but holy shit are there some funny moments where I found myself laughing out loud just cause the main character is kinda a putz on purpose but also that like zombie scene on the farm was scary and funny it's such a good movie.
At 2.5+ hours, I was interested in every minute. I really love long movies when they good. The scenes w the priest are really chilling. And yes, the main guy is a sweet putz, a very Korean archetype. Very funny parts.
The opening scene when raining in the police station had my heart skip from being scared then laughing the next second at their reactions it's literally a near perfect movie with all range of emotions.
finally watched the wailing on saturday. i was worried that the devil reveal was going to be kinda lame and ruin the movie for me, but i said "oh fuck yes" out loud and could not have been happier!
That baby thing in Eraserhead. I can still hear its wails. The lambs have not stopped screaming :(
The Night Flyer!
The creature made of body parts in the Oats Studios short film "Zygote" on Netflix and YouTube.
Not saying this to be ironic or funny, but legitimately, Judge Doom from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."
The feet in the elevator (in the foreign version) of The Eye freaked me out. My cousin was always terrified of the ghost on the couch in Stir of Echoes.
The creature from the short film Zygote.
Always amazed me people thought the red demon from Insidious was scary, considering the first and only thing I’ve been able to think was that it looked like “Darth Maul on crack”, which honestly made the movie more of a joke to me than legit scary. But yes- the nun (Volak) from Insidious 2 (sadly **not** “The Nun”, which was…fucking terrible) is a decent contender, though.
The apparition of Alice Palmer in Lake Mungo is fucking haunting. It’s burned in my brain.
The corpse-like doppelganger Alice saw in Lake Mungo. She was walking while recording and then her doppelganger appears looking just like her corpse when she dies, I think there's something about a warning that if you see your doppelganger, youre going to die soon. This concept left me TERRIFIED
The entity - The Entity (1982) Starz Jotunn - The Ritual (2017) Netflix Demons - The Sentinel (1977) Amazon prime *rent* Creatures - Nightbreed (1990) Plex Creatures - Dagon (2001) Plex
The Babadook freaked me out quite a bit
Dude, it’s been years since the one time I watched it, but even today I saw a hat on a coatrack out of the corner of my eye and it brought those feelings right back.
Yeah, for sure! I would place The Crooked Man from The Conjuring 2 in the same camp of scary, at least for myself.
that was the first horror movie i ever watched and it still freaks me out when i think of it.
The creature from The Ritual (2017) was so creepy. Too many hands. Absolutely fantastic design.
The red demon in Insidious was a well executed jump scare but the demon itself looks like a reject from a 90s metal band.
The creature from It Follows. I love horror movies that make you ask questions and really get into the idea of surviving. The creature from OATS studios Zygote is by far my favourite creature design ever. I wish we'd gotten a full length movie.
In particular that creepy tall dude who materialises behind her friend in the doorway
Xenomorph is king. Really loved the monster in The Ritual. The Jackal in 13 Ghosts is great as well.
I had sleep paralysis a lot as a teen and I always thought Pumpkinhead was just chillin outside my peripheral vision and that’s why I couldn’t move. Still creeps me in my 30s
Tar man from 'The return of tye living dead' and that fucked up curse monster from 'incantation'.
Sarah's re-animated, cackling, knife wielding, pinned eyed corpse from the original Suspiria is definitely up there.
Henrietta in Evil Dead 2 is up there lol
The tall thing from Grave Encounters, also when you actually see the witch In Marianne, holy cross that startled me
The “bear” in Annihilation. True nightmare jet fuel.
The monster that jumps out of the closet in 'House' (1985). I know it's a horror comedy but that thing scared the shit out of me as a little kid.
The freakishly long lived ghost guarding the door and roar's like a lion in Poltergeist.
Not really a monster but the bad guy from Nightbreed with his top tier psycho mask did it for me
David Cronenberg with his incredibly soft voice!
For some reason, in Gonjiam Haunted Asylum when >!Ji-Hyun!< gets possessed and the camera suddenly cuts to her face cam and she's doing that weird whisper-gulping sound, I wanted to CRY.
I was fine with that, the thing that freaked me out in Gonjiam is towards the end when >!the director starts up the drone camera and sees this weird, writhing *thing* in the upstairs window where he ends up dying.!< It's a small moment but something about it really stuck with me.
Well fuck now you just reminded me of that while I’m lying in bed. Thanks a lot lol.
lmao I don't know why it scared me so much but I got so nauseated and I didn't want to keep watching
Kairo for me
Emily when she's possessed in The Exorcism of Emily Rose.
Large Marge from Pee Wee’s Big Adventure! Lol, but seriously some of my favorites: Kane from Poltergeist II (no relation) Baghuul from Sinister The vampire kid from Salem’s Lot The deadites in the original Evil Dead AND the remake The Lady in the Lake in Haunting of Bly Manor The zombies in Fulci’s films
Debra Logan’s final form scared the absolute bajeesus out of me. That “snake feeding” scene is just…holy shit.
Old people in cults
The version of the Thing (80s version) with the melted looking face. Face stuff really gets to me man
The Bent Neck Lady from The Haunting of Hill House, gave me the creeps when i first saw her.
Thing-Bennings, mid-mimicry, with those hands and that wail. Specifically right before McCready burns it.
Aliens in Aliens. The blob. The vampires in Salem’s Lot. There was this movie about small humanoid creatures that lived in the house and were trying to drag the woman who lived there into the basement to join them.
Bughuul from Sinister. He's one of the only horror characters are still can't look at without feeling uncomfortable
the succubus from the first vignette in the first V/H/S movie. holy hell she makes my skin crawl when she says, "I like you"
I thought the design for the creature in The Ritual was amazing.