I’ve seen this one recommended a bunch, but I always thought it was a documentary. Interesting. I’ll give it a watch.

I am too lazy to change the formatting, but those are my notes on the movies I’ve seen this summer… some of them I remember better than others, and I’ve definitely forgotten to include quite a few on here.

[V] Late night with the devil - 7/10 Fun, unique

[V] Barbarian 5/10 - Ew, asshole characters

[V] Talk to me 7/10 - unique, uncomfortable

[V] Hell House LLC 7/10 - fun, scary

[V] Smile 7/10 - didn’t need the ending, excited for the sequel

[V] The menu 9/10 - dread, uncomfortable

[V] Anna and the apocalypse 7/10 - fun! Sad!

[V] The descent 6/10 - strong people, ew

[V] Event horizon 0/10 - ew, ew

[V] Train to busan 10/10 - terrifying, great characters

[V] Underwater 7.5/10 - claustrophobic, unique

[V] The cleansing hour 7/10 - unique, funny

[V] Sputnik 5/10 - ((can’t remember))

[V] Freaky 6.5/10 - funny

[V] Longlegs - undecided. But maybe 8/10? Dreadful

• The Exorcist (The Version You’ve Never Seen)

I’ve never seen this version? But I have read the book and eugh. It’s horrible in a sort of losing bodily autonomy way.

• Hereditary (a masterpiece in my opinion. Free upvote literally every time I see someone recommend it)

This one sat with me for a long time and I swore immediately after watching it that I would never watch it again. And now I absolutely love it. There are a few bright moments that really freak me out, but the tension and build up is so good. Chef’s kiss to this one.

• Blair Witch Project

Haven’t seen!

• Paranormal Activity

One of my favorites! I know this one gets dragged for being campy(??), but I think the original did an excellent job of building suspense and dread.

• Ouija: Origin of Evil

Mike Flanagan is one of my favorites and this one is a lot of fun. Not as high in my list as others, but still a good time.

• It (miniseries got me as a kid but Chapter 1 is good too)

I need to rewatch the miniseries, but I wasn’t a huge fan of the more recent movies. I think the actors were all great (especially for Pennywise), but it felt like it was trying too hard? Pt 2 seemed to realize they’d never match the book and it ended up being more funny than anything.

• Lights Out (not the entire movie but it has its moments and overall a good style)
• Candyman (original)
• Poltergeist (original)
• Autopsy of Jane Doe (another poster reminded me of this one!)
• The Taking of Deborah Logan (for like one scene but IYKYK)
• The Dark and the Wicked
• The Orphanage
• Terrified and When Evil Lurks were both solidly unsettling at least

These are all being added to my list!

• Event Horizon (though I know you didn’t like this one)

Bleh. Lol

• Conjuring 1-2 and Sinister too, all at least solid spookies.

Love these movies. I would add the first half of Insidious as well.

As for my list - I’ll throw that in a separate comment soon enough :D

Oh I agree that they’re not the only good horror movies, there are so many out there that are good in other ways and many of which I absolutely love. But I’m really just looking for that something to keep the lights on at night, lol.

Thanks for the list! There are a few I haven’t seen in there, I’ll give them a try :)

Adding to my list, thanks :)

Added to the list!

Oooh yes. I’m with you and the other commenter that that particular feeling of dread is really really great. Hereditary, Midsommar, and VVitch definitely all fit that bill. I’ve heard the same for Lights Out, so I’m going to give that a go too.

Also Chernobyl is so so good. I’ve seen it a few times now and oof.

There’s one where someone asks him how to start a metal band(?). Gotta be ugly or else hot glue cornflakes to your face and use words that start with ‘DE’ like decrepit or decompose. Except maybe…

DENTIST Jugga jigga wugga DELI-STYLE jugga jigga wugga

Cat

Maybe it’s just my personal era, but MSN/Messenger was used solely in the group I grew up around. With maybe an addition of trillium eventually

What are you using for the posts? 2x4 or 4x4?

I saw it was from scraps mostly, but how much would you estimate this to cost vs a store bought tree?

Pointlesssites.com

It’s where I go to waste time. Sometimes I learn something new, sometimes I have an existential crisis from an interactive plaything, sometimes I build sandcastles and burn them down.

Sweet potato fries. Or overly orange fries for any reason (sometimes the frying just seems to make them orange, especially curly fries?).

Was youngish, friend took me out to lunch and I had a meatball sub with sweet potato fries. Yum yum. Until, of course, 3am the next morning when all that came up and was orange and potato-y. I refuse to try them again to this day. Although I love sweet potatoes, lol, just not sp fries.

• The deadlights in Stephen King’s IT. ::: spoiler The scene where the turtle is dead hits me right in the existential dread. spoiler :::

• 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.

I’m not sure about “expensive”, but it was priceless.

My mom had a really gorgeous piece of petrified wood about the size of a cup coaster and as a young kid I was obsessed with it. So one day I broke into her jewelry box where she kept it and stole it to bring to school for show and tell. Everything was fine until I was getting on the bus to go home and I tripped with it in my hand. It shattered like glass and so did my poor little heart.

I remember crying all the way home where I tearfully confessed to my thievery and apologized up and down to my mom. She honestly wasn’t very angry, and was a lot more understanding than I thought she might be. I don’t remember what happened to the wood afterwards but I don’t remember seeing it ever again so I wonder if she trashed it? It was so beautiful, so that would be a total shame.

do you have to look away when concentrating on something?

What are you alluding to with this one? I do this so much and get weird looks from it, but I didn’t realize it was a ‘thing’.

It gets very repetitive, but if you’re solely using it as a means to an end for schooling, then it’s manageable.

And even a full time 8x5 or 4x10 truly only takes maybe 2-4 hours to get things done, so then you have the rest of the time to study.

My career is in a sort of glorified data entry (GIS for a utility company), and it’s super relaxed most of the time.

Data entry is always a good field for this. Work from home (mostly), can figure it out easily, pays decently.

Holy! Man, I live rural, but that’s a whole other type of rural. Good luck out in the woods, friend o7

The grill(?) with this perspective was confusing the hell out of me. Looks like Kitty is about to cook up a little something.