Ok so I just watched Nope and I gotta talk about this. I could talk a lot about the symbolism and message about the entertainment industry which is fantastic too, but what I really want to talk about is the fact that this shit was legit the scariest movie I have ever seen. I'm not even joking.

Now let me be clear obama and say that I am not easily scared by horror movies. I find most horror movies either boring as hell or obnoxious. I'm not afraid of ghosts, demons, or slashers but for some reason

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A FUCKING GIANT BED SHEET ALIEN SPOOKED ME

I mean for real the part where

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it sucked a bunch of people up and they were all screaming and being digested legitimately made me physically ill

I still feel ill when I think about it. Too scary for me.

Get Out was good too, it didn't scare me as much but I also found the

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sunken place

pretty damn freaky.

It's like Jordan Peele knows exactly what makes my skin crawl. Wow.

I haven't seen Us but I assume that is good too, but if it's anyting like Nope I will need an emotional support cushion to watch it lmao

Edit: Can confirm the film makers knew exactly what they were doing with that scene (from an interview with Jordan Peele):

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"I created something that was claustrophobic and yet felt like you’re so massively out of any sense of control, and in that state with a group of people. Part of the true fear of this thing is being not just a victim, but one of many victims who are all screaming together is, I feel, a particularly helpless feeling. So I built, essentially, a tunnel, a tract, that we were ushering people through. And then there’s a larger sense of the interior of that space. It’s much more like a theater in itself. And there’s something of a bouncy-castle-from-hell energy going on with the way it conducts wind and all."

  • frogloom [they/them]
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    7 months ago

    tbf i don’t think slashers and the like are actually meant to be scary as much as they are suspenseful. it’s like a rollercoaster where you’re waiting for the drop. that’s why everyone says jump scares are cheap and not scary scary.

    or my point is it needs to touch you emotionally for it to be scary