Warning! Spoilers! I’d use the spoiler tag, but no matter how I do it (correct or incorrect), it doesn’t show up for me.
Perfect Blue.
Not for the conventional murder or bad things happening, but the whole structure of not knowing what’s real and what is just an illusion and not knowing how much time has passed.
I love horror and fiction since I was very young so it’s very hard to make me feel uncomfortable but this short did it. I kept having nightmares about this for a week
It’s like you know you’re gonna die and there is nothing you can do but YOU have to give up.
That’s brutal.
The Bible
“I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream”.
I realize most might just see it as unsettling, but I’ve known someone like AM. Obviously not a giant supercomputer, but with that much hate. With that much blind rage, that everyone around him must suffer for daring to exist. That would happily keep someone alive just to bring them more pain.
As much as I love that story, every time I read it leaves me a little more terrified, looking over my shoulder, waiting until I’m put in my cage because I dared break free, even almost 20 years later.
Ever play the game? It’s a 90s-era click-adventure, and Harlan Ellison himself plays the voice of AM! (It’s quite good!)
It’s currently available on GOG
I actually finally got around to playing it for myself fairly recently! I was actually surprised at just how well they got the discomfort across, it took some genuine talent to bring those scenes to life.
Ugh, when it got to the sarcophagus/elevator segment, it really made my skin crawl! And the “camp”…
That game was really well done!
I’ve read it this year for the first time. It’s fantastic. So short and so powerful.
Playing Alien Isolation in VR. I couldn’t get past the medical bay level level due to actual fear of death by heart attack.
Alien Isolation is seriously one of the best games ever made and it still holds up today. It was just a bit too long.
I tried to get into it, but there really was quite a lot of preamble.
Played it without VR. Felt the same. Maybe because I intentionally waited until late at night so it would be dark enough with the lights off. Awesome game.
Supersize Me
Not sure if this is what you were looking for, but this song is a masterpiece of horror manifest through audio. In fact the whole album is a piece of art, troubling and dark but so well crafted.
https://youtu.be/CwnxBWWLy9c?si=CAiSx58pHDkFMscQ
Edit: fixed wording
I thought for sure this was gonna be “Everywhere at the End of Time”.
If you’re not familiar, it’s a 6 hour audio piece that simulates the descent into dementia ending in the complete loss of oneself and eventually death.
Knowing what it is going in, it’s terrifying to listen to.
The whole thing is on YouTube, posted by the creator without ads, but I’m too lazy to go find it and don’t want the piped link bot to kill me in my sleep.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/CwnxBWWLy9c?si=CAiSx58pHDkFMscQ
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And while not quite the same, there’s Blind Willie Johnson - Dark was the night…
One of my favorites short sci-fi stories ever.
Longer you think! Chilled me.
There was this short sci fi story I think about a lot. I forgot what it’s called but it’s essentially about some kind of particle (it’s physics related) that floats around the universe and has the ability to engulf everything in it’s path or something? The story is about the last few hours on earth when one such particle happens to stumble into our solar system. Ill have to dig it up.
Sounds like a rogue black hole
Could also be a strangelet. Theoretical but not fictitious.
Yes, I just reread it. You’re correct. Can detect them now?
Great story, thanks for sharing!
Not to make your fear worse but here’s a great video about strange matter 😃
The story I am calling out referenced rogue black holes. But this is very interesting!
Signalis is a great game with a story that stuck with me for weeks. I wouldn’t say it “terrifies me” but it’s definitely both disturbing and heart wrenching.
GREAT game!
The stupid zombies in Thief. Just the first one you encounter. It’s lying on the ground with flies flying above it. And every time you go near it it gives out this loud awful moan. I hate it!
But the game is too good not to play.
The fucking needle-in-the-eye part from Dead Space.
Also, Scorn is kinda unsettling.
Scorn is extremely unsettling.
I can’t figure out how to make a spoiler section in Lemmy so I won’t say much, but the lore that describes some of the transformations in dead space was just so disturbing, still sort of sticks with me.
The three body problem/rememberance of earth’s past trilogy keeps me up a night every once in a while.
I could never get past some levels on the Playstation 1 Spiderman game because all the villains aside from Rhino and Mysterio creep me out.
All of them, that’s why I can’t do horror.
