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Honestly, at the time, The Blair Witch Project.

I still think it's a great horror movie.

Pretty sure you're trying to forget Bedfellows

Honestly, Sphere (the book). On the surface it really appears to be standard Michael Crichton sci-fi/monster stuff, but when you realize what's going on, the deeper the horror gets because it's so much harder to face your fears when they physically manifest, especially in an already difficult environment.

The Enigma of Amigara Fault aka the holes comic is pretty high up there.

Dread, by Clive Barker.

A short story. Ain't telling you anything about it.

There’s only one film that has ever really given me the creeps and that’s The Descent. I think it’s the combination of the creatures and being stuck underground in those cave systems (plus the claustrophobic nature of it all). Plenty of times it gave me full on spine tingling shivers.

Also I will also say watch the full version with the extended (proper) ending.

SOMA continues to bother me. Much more about the ideas than the actual gameplay. It's relevant. It feels more possible every year.

It's either that or Stingers from Satisfactory, which are zero percent philosophical nightmare and just pure AAAAAA SHITSHITSHIT

Do you happen to be frequently. On the edge of sleep deprivation? Either by continually running short on total hours and/or by ignoring the first wave of sleepiness? In my experience, such habits bring upon The Horrors. I've recently been honing in on those as random bouts of artistic endeavor. If I'm gonna dream it up, I may as well put it to paper

Anyway, my suggestion is The Jaunt by Stephen King. I think it's only about 20 pages, part of a collection of other short stories. I have yet to read it myself

The really unsettling one for me was Beyond the Aquila Rift

I saw it on Love, Death, and Robots and it really creeped me out.

Event Horizon.

my own life

Lights Out is an oldie but a goodie horror short. Could do without

at the end though.

Curve is another really good short that builds a sense dread and hopelessness. No cheap jumpscares, overused tropes (looking at you overly exaggerated smiles), or complicated lore. Just good old fashion universal horror.

The film that scared me the most was 'Paranormal Activity'. It was the simplicity and how it opened the door and let your imagination do the heavy lifting.

The scariest book I've read of late is 'Incidents Around the House'. It put me in touch with the child version of myself that was afraid of everything.

Creepiest is definitely SCP articles

Contagion was released several years before COVID. It got almost everything right about what that was like. The ending - with militarized response - didn't happen - but don't worry - that will happen in Trump Plague #2

The Fourth Kind (2009)

Owls.

The Fly (1986).

I watched it only once, in the 90s, and I've never been able to watch it again since. At the same time, I think it's an excellent film.

The seemingly light and even humorous beginning of the film is bit by bit replaced by the sheer horror of the gradual loss of humanity and the final transformation into a monster. Simultaneously, in my perception, a glimmer of hope for a good ending is created, only to be ruthlessly destroyed at the very end. Even the music from this film feels overwhelming to me.

I highly recommend it, but you should never watch it ;)

The Babadook

SHin godzilla, they were suppose to continue the horror aspect, after it was scene godzilla tale was sprouting humanoid godzillas at the end scenes. im guessing they trying to pay amends by having singular point godzilla, which most of the scenes resemble(what if series). which is the same person who did evangelion, hence why its so different from all other godizilla media.

Resident evil 1, had a spooky cliffhanger, the sequels basically retconned it.

The Orphanage

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Every Paolo Baciagalupi novel and the first two acts of almost every Cory Doctorow novel. "The Water Knife" by Baciagalupi is fictional near-future extrapolation on the excellent non-fiction "Cadillac Desert." "Walkaway" and the Little Brother books by Doctorow cast a stark light on the nature of power, surveillance, and authoritarianism in Western society. It doesn't take a lot of social imagination to see that's exactly where we're going.

It Follows. It’s not typical scary. What gets me is the dread of an entity that is chasing you and there’s no stopping it no matter what you do or where you go. I hate it because sometimes I dream about it and you know how running works in dreams right? You can’t. I always have to crouch down to grab the ground and launch myself forward.

Also, Fire in the Sky. Watched it as a kid and was so terrified I haven’t seen it again since. Maybe it won’t be scary anymore to me as an adult, but I haven’t had the chance to do a re-watch.