The Road, the book, is the only book I’ve ever read that haunted me for a while after. Movie was a decent adaptation, but left some stuff out.
By a country mile the “best” book I’ve read. I think the film does an admirable job of staying within and delivering the message of the book without being “not suitable for release without cuts” in some territories. I mean the baby spit roast isn’t really something one can put to film and expect to get license to release everywhere around the world.
But funnily enough the book actually aims for, and IMHO hits, a completely different message than that of dread; for me, it makes me wholeheartedly appreciate the world, nature, and the good deeds we do for each other. It is also, and I’m aware I’m breaking no ground here, a treatise on love, fatherhood and courage. It makes me appreciate that, despite everything, we are still incredible blessed to live in today’s world.
It is quite simple sensational.
By the way, while very different in tone, Station Eleven really hit the same note for me; appreciate what you’ve got, it might just disappear.
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The deadlights in Stephen King’s IT. ::: spoiler The scene where the turtle is dead hits me right in the existential dread. spoiler :::
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SOMA. There were sections in the game that were scary, but the entire concept is really a mind melt. It’s not like it’s not a common theoretical question, but going through it step by step is another thing. And if you go to the home page of it and read some of the short stories, it really adds to the whole experience.
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Signalis is a great game with a story that stuck with me for weeks. I wouldn’t say it “terrifies me” but it’s definitely both disturbing and heart wrenching.
GREAT game!
The Borderlands (2013) starts out as a regular found footage paranormal movie but the ending is just so… horrifying. It’s simple but well done, something about it unerves me.
Man in the high castle.
One of my favorites short sci-fi stories ever.
Longer you think! Chilled me.
Not sure if this is what you were looking for, but this song is a masterpiece of horror manifest through audio. In fact the whole album is a piece of art, troubling and dark but so well crafted.
https://youtu.be/CwnxBWWLy9c?si=CAiSx58pHDkFMscQ
Edit: fixed wording
And while not quite the same, there’s Blind Willie Johnson - Dark was the night…
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I thought for sure this was gonna be “Everywhere at the End of Time”.
If you’re not familiar, it’s a 6 hour audio piece that simulates the descent into dementia ending in the complete loss of oneself and eventually death.
Knowing what it is going in, it’s terrifying to listen to.
The whole thing is on YouTube, posted by the creator without ads, but I’m too lazy to go find it and don’t want the piped link bot to kill me in my sleep.
There was this short sci fi story I think about a lot. I forgot what it’s called but it’s essentially about some kind of particle (it’s physics related) that floats around the universe and has the ability to engulf everything in it’s path or something? The story is about the last few hours on earth when one such particle happens to stumble into our solar system. Ill have to dig it up.
Not to make your fear worse but here’s a great video about strange matter 😃
Great story, thanks for sharing!
The story I am calling out referenced rogue black holes. But this is very interesting!
Sounds like a rogue black hole
Yes, I just reread it. You’re correct. Can detect them now?
Could also be a strangelet. Theoretical but not fictitious.
The stupid zombies in Thief. Just the first one you encounter. It’s lying on the ground with flies flying above it. And every time you go near it it gives out this loud awful moan. I hate it!
But the game is too good not to play.
The fucking needle-in-the-eye part from Dead Space.
Also, Scorn is kinda unsettling.
Scorn is extremely unsettling.
I can’t figure out how to make a spoiler section in Lemmy so I won’t say much, but the lore that describes some of the transformations in dead space was just so disturbing, still sort of sticks with me.
The Suffering on the original Xbox.
I know it’s mainly because I played it way too young but it still gives me creeps playing it as an adult.
The bathrooms… beware the bathrooms…
Warning! Spoilers! I’d use the spoiler tag, but no matter how I do it (correct or incorrect), it doesn’t show up for me.
Perfect Blue.
Not for the conventional murder or bad things happening, but the whole structure of not knowing what’s real and what is just an illusion and not knowing how much time has passed.
Supersize Me
I saw the 1982 version of The Thing when I was, like, 6 on HBO and had nightmares for almost a year. I’m 45 now, and that film still freaks me out!
Have you rewatched it recently? It freaked me out the first time but after that it felt more campy.
No, and now I won’t. It was just so perfect that I don’t want to ruin it.
When you were SIX!? C’mere…
(((HUGS)))
awww!
yeah, it really fucked me up. my poor little brother saw Poltergeist around the same age, and it fucked him up for years…
Event Horizon is still mildly terrifying 25y later. Sunshine was pretty bananas too. Shout out to Alastair Reynolds Inhibitor series of books as well.
