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Your recent Most Unsettling movie & etc. scenes?
5 years ago
I've been catching up with some of the friends' recs + general list of things I've been meaning to watch, and ran into some of the most unnerving stuff I've seen in a while.
Annihilation's been in my list for almost 3 years (lol). I managed not to spoil myself half of the movie, but also didn't have too much of an urge to watch it. That was until I spied someone's fanart of that damn bear on Twitter and got...intrigued xD
It's probably somewhere in my top 3 recent "movie freakouts", with this haunting mix of terrifying yet weirdly mesmerizing. I find it a bit similar to the Thing's dog transformation scene. It's so horrific and tragic in a way, but you just can't look away.
Then there's also a "wonderful" Cursed nail jinx & the Dancer from the first episode of Thai game Home Sweet Home. Pure asian horror vibe and lore, combined with "hints" of body horror and traditional dark magic brings this sort of visceral unease and turns into a very immersive experience.
Now Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal was not even in the list or recs. I honestly missed it entirely, until a fellow artist from a Russian chat mentioned "severe flashbacks" episode 6 gave her %) Of course I got curious, I had to watch it now!
And, you know, I wouldn't exactly call the first 5 episodes light or tame, but holy crud, the sixth one! It's just one huge all-encompassing "nope-Nope-NOPE!" DDD: What they did there was totally unexpected and exceeded all the previous episodes brought together in its level of (tragically) fucked up. Left me reeling and stuck in my mind for the entire day and then some.
Plus as "honorable mentions" I'd also name the Japanese Noroi (2005) and South Korean The Wailing (2016)!
And what were the most recent scenes or movies in general that got to you?
(Let's take visual media like movies/series/toons & games. And by "most recent" - let's say, this and previous year)
Annihilation's been in my list for almost 3 years (lol). I managed not to spoil myself half of the movie, but also didn't have too much of an urge to watch it. That was until I spied someone's fanart of that damn bear on Twitter and got...intrigued xD
It's probably somewhere in my top 3 recent "movie freakouts", with this haunting mix of terrifying yet weirdly mesmerizing. I find it a bit similar to the Thing's dog transformation scene. It's so horrific and tragic in a way, but you just can't look away.
Then there's also a "wonderful" Cursed nail jinx & the Dancer from the first episode of Thai game Home Sweet Home. Pure asian horror vibe and lore, combined with "hints" of body horror and traditional dark magic brings this sort of visceral unease and turns into a very immersive experience.
Now Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal was not even in the list or recs. I honestly missed it entirely, until a fellow artist from a Russian chat mentioned "severe flashbacks" episode 6 gave her %) Of course I got curious, I had to watch it now!
And, you know, I wouldn't exactly call the first 5 episodes light or tame, but holy crud, the sixth one! It's just one huge all-encompassing "nope-Nope-NOPE!" DDD: What they did there was totally unexpected and exceeded all the previous episodes brought together in its level of (tragically) fucked up. Left me reeling and stuck in my mind for the entire day and then some.
Plus as "honorable mentions" I'd also name the Japanese Noroi (2005) and South Korean The Wailing (2016)!
And what were the most recent scenes or movies in general that got to you?
(Let's take visual media like movies/series/toons & games. And by "most recent" - let's say, this and previous year)
(have you seen Tokyo Gore Police? x3)
Speaking of Russian films, have you seen Tarkovsky's Stalker? If you haven't I'd definitely recommend it.
It's so weird it'd be in French only, given the original language is Spanish. You think someone messed up the tracks? lol
I’ve sen Annihilation on people’s list a few times bu I didn’t know what it was until recently. I loved the scene with the mushroom/spore thing stuck to the wall. I watched that clip a couple times. It seems interesting enough to check out.
And I have watched Primal. It’s so good. I followed it as soon as the trailer was released. It’s one of the few times I got excited for something and it ended up better then I expected.
I’m definitely gonna have to put everything else you mentioned on my watch list. The last recent movie I watched was Underwater. It was pretty cool for a pg13 movie. The only unsettling part was it was underwater and the ocean is creepy? XD
Ravenous: cannibalistic union soldiers are even more terrifying!
I want to watch Monos (2019) and Hereditary (2018), they seem to be in the same category, you might wanna look into them. And I've seen two other parts of the Revenge trilogy besides oldboy, lots of unsettling things.
But I think I haven't seen any of the other ones you've menitioned! Hereditary is on the list, but Monos is unknown to me.
like this one <3 which was kinda hard to find in search
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQT.....AJ&index=7
Less flippantly, the most recent was, oddly enough, Tracks (2013). Partly because it's exactly what it claims it is, a somewhat interesting tale of a woman's solo trip across the Australian Outback and her various adventures along the way, so the part in question caught me off-guard. Partly also because that part also struck a little too close to home with a similar situation I've been through (so YMMV). And of course because it's a fairly precise biographical film, it's not "just a movie."
Color Out of Space (2020). Perhaps the best Lovecraft adaptation I've seen. Some scenes at the initial stages of the film can be seen through a lens of dark humor, but things get weird fast and come to a head about the final 3rd of the movie.
Added Housewife to my list :D
They do kill a live turtle However.
The movie certainly is not for the faint of heart, watch at your own risk.
BUT!
I did just watch the episode "Nosedive" of Black Mirror and it was very uncomfortable to watch, highly recommended <=P
The ABCs of Death. Unsettling but not as horror, more like "wtf am I watching?". It has very light moment, very weird ones, and a few unsettling. Special effects are awful all around.
The Room (2019), great idea, poorly executed. CW: There's an incest-rape scene that really left me umcomfortable. It's not very explicit but still. The rest of the movie is... ok...ish? Still, the idea behind it was great.
I can absolutely understand your recommendation on Primal -- it is SO good and so shocking. I actually had to pause watching it for about a week until I was ready to come back to it (had a few similar things happening in my own life recently). I still like how they conveyed such a tense story without a single line of dialog. Also, fuck yeah dinosaurs!
i have felt like my brain was being raped the whole time
In terms of unsettling scenes, I have never forgotten the scene from the original "Pet Sematary" from 1989, where the undead son hamstrings his father from under the bed. That made me feel very uncomfortable.
Original Pet Sematary in general was a very uncomfortable movie