The First Movie Trailer to Terrify me in Years…

The fact that Nicolas Cage's involvement is barely marketed is a high level of confidence in their movie. I hope the film lives up to the trailers.

I hate how all trailers are like 3 minutes now and they show you all the story beats of the movie

I miss the days when the audience was included in the marketing of horror movies. Back when there were entire mystery arcs of investigation just to even REACH the trailers and nobody even knew it was suppossed to be about a movie: Cloverfield, The Ring etc. Wish more horror movies would bring back stuff like that. It was not only fun and engaging, but also elevated the horror since it FELT REAL. Hell: some of the maketing stunts were scarier and better than the actual, finished movies

Guy: "It's my daughter. ... It's not my daughter." Dispatcher: "Well, WHICH IS IT?!?"

i do love when trailers don't tell you what it's about, but gives you enough info so you are intrested and confused.

The most terrifying part of researching this film was finding out that Osgood Perkins, star of Legally Blonde, was the director.

I’m so hype for Late Nights with the Devil. A late night talk show serving as the setting in a horror is so refreshing to see in the genre.

that shot of the barely-visible eyes in the veil brought me RIGHT back to being a kid watching The Woman in Black in the theatre. scariest experience i think i’ve ever had. the way she’s BARELY visible in that hallway has stuck with me for so goddamn long.

The concept of hiding scary elements in the movie and let the audience discover them by themselves is very interesting but I'm curious to see if that translates to an actual good movie.

I'm glad you mentioned "Sinister." I'm an avid horror fan, and I've watched just about every top rated scariest horror movies, but Sinister was really something else. I have never felt that sense of being a prey hiding from a predator since The Exorcist. But then the second Sinister ruined everything. EDIT: Wow, I didn't expect so much feedback. But it's interesting to see how so many of us are on the same page - or at least in the same vicinity. "The movie wasn't great, but horror was well made."

As an adult, nothing has spooked me more than the subtle background freakouts of Insidious. Like the little kid who is hiding in a corner, that the camera pans past in less than a second. But you saw him. You know he's there. Or the demon that is hovering over the baby's crib, that you only see for a fraction of a second when the camera pans over just a tiny bit. Or the random guy who is peering through a window that you have been looking at the whole time but didn't see him until the director wanted you to. Insidious is loaded with those moments. Of course, this is all mundane now as all current horror "directors" have copied this style.

The enhanced picture of the eyes in the veil seriously gave me a sense of deep and utter dread. It didnt feel like over the top special effects makeup or even mandela catalogue style analogue horror editing. Theres just something so almost naturally offputting about it

For me, Hereditary was that movie. Even after knowing the plot, it's still difficult to re-watch without wincing.

A lot of horror movies feel like they’re just scaring the characters, not us. And when they try to scare us, it’s a cheap jumpscare. Surprising, but not really scary. I want FEAR, I want a movie to make me think.

I HATE still Images in a movie. Not freeze frames, but lingering on still images. It doesn’t matter if it’s a horror movie or not, it scares me. There’s an Airbnb commercial that scared me so much I had trouble sleeping because of the still images in combination with a phone ringing. I HATE IT (and also love it) )

The fourth kind terrified me, I still can’t look at owls the same. It sounds weird and the plot doesn’t sound that scary when you read it but it actually made me loose sleep after watching it. Nothing else has achieved that

we'll never experience The Blair Witch or Paranormal Activity type scares ever again. I was fortunate to see both in theaters. long before "found footage" finally became a thing. also, The Conjuring while not found footage was still one of the scariest movies I'd seen in a while. an R rating. no f-bombs. no nudity. no violence. just so unnerving it needed the R.

The last movie to actually scare me was hereditary

Darth Maul in his goth years.

There is truly something intrinsically creepy about slow zooms on old photographs or paused VHS footage. There's a horror mockumentary called Lake Mungo that nails this vibe perfectly. I highly recommend it, just go in understanding that its premise is to capture the feeling of one of those 'are ghosts real?' types of crime documentaries