There’s one thing that has stuck with me for more than a decade (probably). It was a very short youtube video. It was just a man and women in bed back to back. After a second it pans to the woman’s side of the bed and shes a scary looking monster demon lady. I think about it once or twice a week. Specifically when laying in bed with my lady and shes not facing me.I have no idea what its from. Youtube used to have alot of randomly terrifying content.
I have two movie, one of them not exactly scary but it shook me up severely.
Trigger warning: violence, sexual violence:
The French movie Irréversible (2002) is a thriller that tells the story of a guy taking revenge for the rape of his girlfriend. The story is told in reverse order and begins with the protagonist smashing the perpetrators head with a fire extinguisher and ends with him witnessing his girlfriend being raped.
For some stupid reason I had a phase in school were I was into edgy, gruesome french movies so I watched this. It left me kinda traumatised because of the rape scene. For some reason, right after I watched the movie we had a German lesson were we were asked what we did on the weekend. Stupid me thought it would be a good idea to tell the class about this movie and while retelling the stor, I bursted into tears…
The second movie is more fitting, I think: The Colour out of Space with Nick Cage is a lovecraftian horror movie that, for me, was so scary I could only watch it in bright daylight because I wasn’t even remotely able to anticipate what would happen next. With most horror movies I kinda figure out the “rules” and the style of the movie so that I kinda have an idea what might happen next so I’m less likely to be scared. Not with TCooS: The movie is all over the place and drastically changes its style and tone during the story. It’s great though and Nick Cage is completely crazy and off the rails in his role.