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Jul '17
A little difficult to exactly explain but I'll give it a go. A sustained feeling of fundamental wrongness throughout a film. A sense that at no point are things quite safe or normal or happy and that things will only get worse and worse. Unrelenting, suffocating doom. The main example I have of a film that does this, the film that prompted it in fact, is Noroi. But the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre does a similar sort of thing. And otherwise films sometimes approach it, like The Blair Wtch Project or Candyman or earlier stages of Jacob's Ladder. But all too often there is levity, or clarity. The doom lifts. I want unlifting doom.

What are some horrors I should try out for unlifting doom?



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BloodWank says:
#28, Reply to #13

Jul '17
I'd like to see more of that in all films, not just horror.


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sfpx says:
#14

Jul '17
I think Day of the Dead does this rather well, but of course everyone and their mama have seen it.


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Smerd says:
#21, Reply to #14

Jul '17
My mom hasn't seen it, so fuck you.


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sfpx says:
#22, Reply to #21

Jul '17
You're mistaken, sir. Her and I watched it together one cold, wintery night about 10 years ago. She was pretty terrified, and cold, but I made her some hot cocoa and it seemed to relax her.


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Smerd says:
#23, Reply to #22

Jul '17
Stop lying, my mom hates hot cocoa.


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sfpx says:
#24, Reply to #23

Jul '17
Dang...caught red handed!!


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BloodWank says:
#26, Reply to #14

Jul '17
It's been such a very long time since I saw that one, I really should find myself a copy and watch it again. Think I only saw it the once too emoticon


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somesunnyday says:
#17

Jul '17
I thought The Invitation did a pretty good job of imposing a sense of unease from the outset and it gets more relentless as the movie progresses.


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BloodWank says:
#27, Reply to #17

Jul '17
I've not heard heard of that one at all but looking it up, seems like my sort of thing. Shall investigate! emoticon


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iceflamez says:
#29

Jul '17 *
One that has not been mentioned and i think meets the criteria is :

Creep (2014) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2428170/ (Not to be confused with Creep 2004)

Session 9 is most likely the champion when it comes to this type of films, it felt ridiculously realistic.


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BloodWank says:
#30, Reply to #29

Jul '17
I shall investigate this 2014 Creep, I think it flittered through my radar and out again, as these things sometimes do. Cheers for the tip!


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#32

Jul '17
Funny Games. Michael Haneke made it twice - and the second version is pretty good but the original is a masterpeice of unrelenting, ever-tightening, sphincter-clinching wrongness.




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