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Film recommendations please - creepy.

posted 4 years ago by ColumboKate (5788)
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I love creepy films where it's all left to your imagination and you don't really see anything.
Such as The Blair Witch Project, Session 9, Paranormal Activity etc.

Can you think of any more along these lines?

I don't mind if they are foreign language.

**EDIT**

I've just seen Last Shift (2014) which I enjoyed. It builds the atmosphere nicely. Is she haunted or is she crazy???? 🤔

***EDIT***

Thanks for all the suggestions, I will definitely look for these.

Gold stars all round ⭐

[–] DoctorThirteen (15321) 4 years ago

Have you seen the original 1963 version of The Haunting?

[–] ColumboKate (5788) 4 years ago

Yes I have. Much better than the remake.

[–] DoctorThirteen (15321) 4 years ago

Definitely.

Okay, some others I'd recommend;

The Uninvited (1944 ~ fantastically creepy at times)
The Changeling (1989 ~ possibly even more creepy - can't recommend this one highly enough!)
The Others (2001)
The Orphanage (2007)
The Eye (2002 ~ Asian original)
The Eye 2 (2004 ~ Asian sequel)
Shutter (2004 ~ Thai original)
Mama (2013 ~ very creepy in places)

[–] TexasJack (12516) 4 years ago

The Mothman Prophecies (2002)

[–] sslssg (35194) 4 years ago

May (2002)
Creep (2014)
Nina Forever (2015)
Hell House LLC (2015)
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014)
Salvage (2006)
Mr. Jones (2013)
The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
His House (2020)
As Above, So Below (2014)

Some of these don't quite fit what you are looking for, but I like them regardless

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

creep 2 was also good

[–] sslssg (35194) 4 years ago

It was. I usually don't recommend it until I know someone likes the first movie. Same with the Hell House sequels.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

duplass can play creepy.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

lake mungo lake mungo lake mungo!

(i'm a big fan of that movie - i think it's the best use of the found footage/mockumentary style)

there's a cool, creepy little film called possum that is a little too slow and unfocused ultimately, but it has some great, weird, truly unsettling moments. it's on shudder in the uk if you use that service.

eyes of my mother is also a little too long on atmosphere and short on story maybe, but dang it has some truly nightmarish images in it.

blackcoat's daughter is another big, big favourite of mine. i was a little indifferent to it at first, but it worked its way under my skin and it's now one of my favourite horror films of the last decade or so.

[–] ColumboKate (5788) 4 years ago

Yeah I've seen lake mungo. Great film. I especially love the photos at the end.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

absolutely. in fact, i feel like we 'might' have had a little conversation about this before - i got just a touch of deja vu from your post.

now that the idea's planted in my head, i think i'm gonna watch lake mungo right now, as soon as the weird little short doc i'm watching finishes up.

[–] ColumboKate (5788) 4 years ago

Have we? You've a better memory than me☺!

Enjoy it 👍

[–] spacecomedy (2062) 4 years ago

Watched The Blackcoat's Daughter recently. Totally unsettling. Really sticks in your head.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Good call damo, Lake Mungo is great 👍

[–] tcrum (31863) 4 years ago

Its tough to find these days...Us 2019, get out 2017, The new Twilight Zone episodes Jordon Peele did for HBO. Unfriended 2014, Triangle 2009, Tale of Two Sisters 2003, Series for HBO Room 104 (2017), Hulus ..Into the Dark Series of movies 2018, CW's Two Sentence Horror Stories 2020, Netflix's Creeped Out series 2019. Most of these are Twilight Zone type mystery series with some creepy overtones.

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21721) 4 years ago

The movie that really creeps me out without showing too much is The Woman in Black (1989).

There’s something about it that really gets under my skin.

[–] ColumboKate (5788) 4 years ago

Yeah I found this on YouTube i think. I remember watching bits of it when aired originally and it scared the shit out of me!

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21721) 4 years ago

That’s great you saw it when it originally aired on tv. 😀

[–] ColumboKate (5788) 4 years ago

I remember my dad recorded it and was watching it on a weekend afternoon. I didn't see it from the start but the bit I saw was terrifying my 9 year old self.

The only part I really remember about it is the woman walking across the foggy lake at the end.

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21721) 4 years ago

“The only part I really remember about it is the woman walking across the foggy lake at the end.”

That really is one of those scenes that stick with you.

[–] Kowalski (79130) 4 years ago

"THE DEVIL'S CANDY"...AMAZING FLICK WITH A MONSTER PERFORMANCE FROM ETHAN EMBRY.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

the innocents 1961

[–] ColumboKate (5788) 4 years ago

This is the best version of The Turn of The Screw imo. It's very unsettling. The B&W helps with the atmosphere too I think.