Modern horror ideas: What would actually terrify you today?

According to IMDb, there was only one Pennywise.
http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0099041/

American movies

I don't know, there's just something about him... he actually feels much more terrifying than that goofy Pennywise clown from "It."

Richard Wilson4 said:Man, screw this clown. He totally caught me off guard. I didn't freak out or anything, but I definitely jumped a little... 😁

😁
I went to click on an image to open it, and suddenly Pennywise was staring back at me from across the entire monitor. I'll admit, my heart skipped a beat for a second.... 🙏
So, Pennywise is still working his magic 😉

briskhound2 said:Kind of like what Dreamcatcher did. You'd get these quick little flashbacks showing them as kids, but there wouldn't be nearly enough room to actually breathe compared to the series. And yeah, I'm with you—it would probably be a complete mess.

@billie_piton

There's already a movie. It’s about grown adults returning to their hometown where a clown terrorized them as kids, all to finally take down the evil once and for all.

In the movie, the past stuff is only really shown through brief glimpses and hints.

But this is the sequel to the series—it runs about ninety minutes, just like the first one, but the whole second part focuses strictly on the adult characters with just those rapid-fire memories of when they were kids back in the series. If they try to do that with this new movie, it's going to be totally nonsensical...

True, they split it into two films of roughly ninety minutes each. I have the first one, where the plot centers on them gathering and reminiscing about childhood; the second part is likely the actual meat of the story.

And you can't exactly squeeze a story like that into a 2 to 2.5-hour runtime when the book itself is nearly 800 pages long.
They all float down here... 😍

duplic

Honestly, it’s reality that really creeps me out. Like, the stuff that could actually happen to anyone in their everyday life. That’s why I’ve always preferred slashers over those "supernatural" horror flicks. Plus, there’s nothing quite like that feeling when you suddenly lose all sense of security in the one place you're supposed to feel safest.

I have been reflecting lately on what kind of horror film might actually manage to unsettle me. To be clear, nothing involving gore, dismemberment, or cheap jump scares will suffice; those tactics simply fail to move me. Someone once mentioned the importance of atmosphere, and I find myself in complete agreement. Without it, there is nothing—and that applies far beyond the horror genre. It is also vital that the terror feels plausible, something that could realistically happen to anyone in everyday life. As for a specific direction... well, I am undecided. Personally, I find the subtle suggestion of something sinister to be far more chilling than the act itself. Or perhaps it is when a single, minute detail unfolds entirely without warning.

Folks.

Screenwriters and directors looking for a spark for a modern horror flick should probably just dig through some old grainy footage from the last major war. We’re talking about the kind of stuff that stays with you—images of babies being ripped from their mothers, people having their eyes gouged out while they're still conscious, axes buried deep in skulls, or even folks being tossed into industrial meat grinders. And the real kicker? That kind of madness might have been carried out by the very neighbors who live right next door to us today.

casualskipper8 said:Screenwriters and directors looking for a spark for a modern horror flick should probably just dig through some old grainy footage from the last major war. We’re talking about the kind of stuff that stays with you—images of babies being ripped from their mothers, people having their eyes gouged out while they're still conscious, axes buried deep in skulls, or even folks being tossed into industrial meat grinders. And the real kicker? That kind of madness might have been carried out by the very neighbors who live right next door to us today.

Are you kidding me?🙄

Kevin Perez2 said:Are you kidding me?🙄

No kidding. It’s like you’ve never even seen raw combat footage before.

casualskipper8 said:Screenwriters and directors looking for a spark for a modern horror flick should probably just dig through some old grainy footage from the last major war. We’re talking about the kind of stuff that stays with you—images of babies being ripped from their mothers, people having their eyes gouged out while they're still conscious, axes buried deep in skulls, or even folks being tossed into industrial meat grinders. And the real kicker? That kind of madness might have been carried out by the very neighbors who live right next door to us today.

So, that’s your idea for a modern horror movie? You actually think people should be sitting in a theater watching that just for entertainment?

casualskipper8 said:No kidding. It’s like you’ve never even seen raw combat footage before.

I have🙄, but maybe dial back the melodrama just a notch.

Dennis Doyle3 said:So, that’s your idea for a modern horror movie? You actually think people should be sitting in a theater watching that just for entertainment?

Look, have you even actually sat down and watched Psycho?

casualskipper8 said:Look, have you even actually sat down and watched Psycho?

Of course I did, for heaven's sake. What exactly are you trying to imply by asking that?

casualskipper8 said:Look, have you even actually sat down and watched Psycho?

Yeah.

Dennis Doyle3 said:Yeah.

So why act shocked by what I put out there? Honestly, all that nonsense you just read about is happening in real life right now, just like how a bad movie can sometimes feel uncomfortably close to reality.

casualskipper8 said:So why act shocked by what I put out there? Honestly, all that nonsense you just read about is happening in real life right now, just like how a bad movie can sometimes feel uncomfortably close to reality.

I honestly have no intention of arguing with you. I thought maybe you had some kind of dark sense of humor, but clearly, I was mistaken.

Dennis Doyle3 said:I honestly have no intention of arguing with you. I thought maybe you had some kind of dark sense of humor, but clearly, I was mistaken.

Honestly, watching you guys bicker over this is just silly. Look, this is a movie forum, not Congress. Besides, if you check out www.motelfilm.com, they've got that lovely little true facts icon sitting right there:



Yeah, sometimes reality can be even more twisted than Motel.

EDIT:

Every war movie is basically a horror film anyway.

Since when did we start believing everything we read on the internet?