But all is not lost, as people in this online thread were recently sharing films that still give hope to the terror connoisseurs at heart. Below, you’ll find a list of the most disturbing movies guaranteed to send some creepy crawlers down your spine.
While you’re busy adding these films to your own must-watch list, don’t forget to check out a conversation with screenwriter, actor, novelist, and story coach Neil Chase, who kindly agreed to tell us more about this genre and even shared his favorite chilling movie!
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For those who aren’t familiar with the movie, he kindly summarized it. “The film centers around a paranormal debunker who tries to disprove three separate supernatural encounters. But he discovers they are connected in a chilling way. What stands out to me in this film are a number of moments that play upon the psyche of both the main character and the viewer.”
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“They have their backs to him (and the camera) and appear to be standing at the sink, washing dishes. However, when the protagonist takes a second look, he sees that they are completely motionless. The camera lingers on this image, and the longer it does so, the more disturbing the effect gets.
Why aren’t these people moving? Why aren’t they speaking? Why do they have their backs to us? And, just as the investigator is about to take a step towards them, the boy gets his attention, and it pulls us away from those faceless characters. It’s never revealed why they were behaving this way, which only adds to the mystery of that moment.”
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Chase explains, “Disturbing films typically come in two varieties - those that are meant to disturb on a visceral level (such as shock-horror films like Hostel or A Serbian Film) and a smaller class of disturbing films that are meant to affect the viewer on a psychological level (such as the aforementioned Ghost Stories, and even non-horror such as Thirteen). I find psychologically disturbing movies to be most effective, much more so than movies with just gore and shock value.”
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“To me, it all comes down to the quality of storytelling,” he explains. “In recent years, the quality of storytelling in films has gotten worse. It’s not that there aren’t great storytellers or even great stories available - it’s that, increasingly, studios are unwilling to take storytelling risks and are simply playing it safe. It’s difficult to create disturbing content of any kind when the filmmakers are mandated to make content to please audiences rather than disturb them. "
Chase finds an interesting paradox in this. “Disturbing content, by its nature, is meant to throw viewers off and unsettle them, not to please them. And yet, most studios these days are trying to make films that will please as wide an audience as they can. These two viewpoints are in direct contradiction. How can you please a wide audience while also creating content that will disturb them? You just can’t.”
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