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Of recent years and past years, horror has had a diverse collection of psychologically-centric horror narratives. Which horror movie that you’ve seen, do you think had the most psychologically impacting story and why?

Did this film leave with dread as you watched it? Did it have you feeling paranoid once the movie ended? Or was the story just that dark that you cannot stop thinking about it?

Been binge watching this franchise lately and can't get enough of it tbh.

The first 4 movies and Jason lives for me are the strongest of the franchise. Honorable mentions to the 2009 reboot and the new blood (wish the mpaa didn't butcher it)

i love horror, but i find myself getting scared too easily - and personally i'm not a huge fan of the jumping feeling that you get when you get jumpscared, but i absolutely adore atmosphere and spookiness.

is it possible to just eventually lessen that feeling through exposure??

Germany unfortunately produces a lot of run of the mill comedies, dramas and history films due to how production in Germany is constructed but from time to time a movie or series is made which goes against the stream. Der Nachtmahr, english The Nightmare is one of those.

The protagonist is Tina, a teenage girl who has basically everything and is at the height of her life until a fateful party night, that begins with a picture of a deformed baby, shared by a friend in the car at the way to the party. Tina isn't pleased by the picture which shows a photo of her morphing to the deformed baby and equally not pleased as someone at the party shares a video of a girl hit by a car.

The start of the movie, accompanied by really intense electronic music and visuals which definitely made the warning before the movie necessary, is the start of a nightmare for Tina. After the party she is hit by a car, just like the girl in the video and the baby starts haunting her, appearing in her kitchen first and developing in a strange connection, while no one else is able to see it, leading to downward spiral.

The movie creates an out of the loop atmosphere, it jumps fromo event to event, making you question how much time has actually passed and what is real or just in the head, even though it's still easier to follow than some genre representatives.

My only gripe with the movie really was the dialouge, which was a bit slow and sometimes had this issue of people i.e. asking a question without an answer, which I am not a big fan of in general. There was some good acting here though and the creature itself was made really well, like.. I would expect some really bad CGI here in such a small production but instead it seems to have been a puppet and feel nicely real? Kudos to the production here!

Overall a great experience, good cinematography, great music and sound. I really wish Germany wouldn't be so stuck in the ordinary, there is so much untapped potential.