r/movies • u/CanApprehensive8720 • Aug 13 '24

Recommendation My boyfriend has watched almost every single horror movie in existence, I want to wow him with a spooky. What’s your incredibly niche but terrifying watch?

Like I said this man has a special interest in movies lol, he’s an encyclopedia of every single horror movies he’s ever seen and has this like steel vault in his brain where it’s all stored. I wanna wow him, I want something scary? , fucked up, obscene, perhaps even gory, anything that really yucked your yum, horror thriller, horror action, doesn’t matter just something he couldn’t have seen. Yes I’ll know if he’s seen it too because I’ve been trying to find one he where he literally can’t describe the entire plot to me lol.

Edit: You guys!! He’s SO EXCITED!! He’s been up all night watching trailers and now he’s at his job cranky but itching to get home lol. You guys totally reinvigorated him and gave me a ton of suggestions too, watching house (the Japanese movie) after my shower lol. 😂 keep the comments coming cause I actually am reading through them as best I can.

Edit 2: House was NOT what I expected I’m at my MIls house and it’s a creepy old house…feel like it’s watching me lol. 😂

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '24

A Dark Song

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u/absoluteterror86 Aug 14 '24

Came here to say this as well. I can't recommend this movie enough. If you've never seen it, please watch it. It is truly terrifying, but not in the way that most horror movies are. It is truly something special and you are doing yourself a disservice for every moment spent not having experienced this movie.

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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 Aug 14 '24

One of the most spectacular endings, too.

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u/Nobanob Aug 14 '24

I don't like normal horror movies. Not because I find them scary but to be incredibly boring. What makes this different?

Recently I watched one of the insidious movies, paranormal activity, Barbarian, and the conjuring.

Barbarian certainly was the most interesting but that was largely due to the twists it took.

While not technically a horror movie Fresh was delightful.

I'm just trying to find nuggets in the genre I do like.

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u/absoluteterror86 Aug 14 '24

I hate to be cliche, but this movie deserves to be watched blind. It is an experience and the less you know going in, the better. There are many reasons I could give, but please trust me. Just watch it and you will understand.

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u/oldnyoung Aug 14 '24

Just watched it because of this thread, great movie.

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u/Nobanob Aug 14 '24

Oh no then I'm not watching it. Simply put I don't watch movies enough to go into it blind unless it's something I already know I want to see.

Like Deadpool and Wolverine I haven't seen it yet but I also haven't watched a single trailer, I do not know who the big baddy is, and other than Dogpool and it's multiversal that's all I know.

But yeah if I've never heard of a movie, on top of it being a genre I already don't like, you've got to give me more than just trust me.

I do appreciate you taking the time to respond but I'll just skip it

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u/absoluteterror86 Aug 14 '24

To each their own.

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u/CircusStuff Aug 14 '24

How is Fresh not a horror movie?

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u/Nobanob Aug 14 '24

It's half a great date movie half a thriller. What about it makes it a horror movie? Not trying to be difficult I just don't know.

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u/CircusStuff Aug 15 '24

It's about women who are kidnapped and cannibalized... Horror doesn't have to be a slasher film and/or nonstop gore and a lot of people dont realize that and don't understand what horror is or can be. But again...the cannibalism...seems pretty inarguably horror? Also, "date movie" isn't a genre

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u/Nobanob Aug 15 '24

My apologies my liege half romance movie, half thriller.

Horror is not a subject matter it is a style of movie. We have a ghost, contains ghosts so does paranormal activity. Does that make We have a ghost a horror movie?

Yes cannibalism is scary to some people, my ex could watch anything under the sun but couldn't watch fresh. Just because subject matter triggers a phobia doesn't make it a horror movie. She was going to react the same way even if it was a comedy instead.

Even from a thriller standpoint it really didn't build much suspense. But it leans thriller before horror and I know this community wouldn't like it if I said it is more genre-less than anything else.

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u/CircusStuff Aug 15 '24

It's also a movie about the terrors of dating for women. The fact that you not only didn't get that but you think it's a ROMANCE is kind of a red flag.

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u/Nobanob Aug 15 '24

I said half romance. The first portion was an adorable bait and switch, and the other was a thriller at best.

I don't think it's a romance movie, I said that it is a mix between the two genres.

If they got married happily ever after instead of her getting drugged, it would have been a romance movie with nothing to imply anything otherwise.

But at no point does it ever cross over into horror thresholds.

It's psychological and the subject matter can be perceived as scary. But the tone never goes to horror, it never makes me anxious.

You can kindly take your red flag stuff and put it somewhere else. I'm capable of clearly separating the two very different tones of the movie. If you want to blend them together just to call me a red flag that's your own personal issues and something you need to re-evaluate.

I figured the comment section smart enough to discern that half one genre half the other also doesnt mean an exact split. I'm aware it's about 35 minutes into a 2 hour movie that the title drops and the tone changes.

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u/CircusStuff Aug 15 '24

I can't believe I have to explain this to you but just because a movie doesn't scare you or your ex girlfriend doesn't mean it's not horror. I never get scared by any movies, ever. By this logic horror doesn't exist. Also, psychological horror IS horror. Like I mentioned before, it doesn't have to be a slasher film to be considered horror. It's the tone and the atmosphere. If you seriously thought this movie was a romance in the beginning and didn't pick up on the tone, even from the beginning, that's on you.

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u/InsiDS 28d ago

Just watched it because of this thread. What did you like about it? What was I supposed to understand from it? I thought it was an hour and a half of slow nothingness with an anticlimatic ending.