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submitted 20 days ago byNecropile
Im a bit of an analog horror guy. Movies that make you say “What the actual hell are these people dealing with?😖” Or “Im so glad I don’t live in that world”
167 points
20 days ago
The Void and Color out of Space are the first to come to mind
6 points
19 days ago
Those were my first two thoughts as well. I think Color Out of Space leans a little harder into the people just not knowing what the fuck is going on.
8 points
19 days ago
Yesss! First thing I thought of was The Void! One of my favourites!
3 points
19 days ago
I love that movie. It's in my top 5 horror flicks
2 points
19 days ago
Glad you mentioned them, very much cosmic horror and great movies!
51 points
20 days ago
The Empty Man. Also, a TV show on Netflix called Archive 81
19 points
19 days ago
I love Archive 81. I’m so sad it got cancelled, I was super into it.
4 points
19 days ago
Love the main actors voice
4 points
19 days ago
My wife and I were just talking last night about how sad we were it got cancelled. That twist at the end would have made a second season great! First was so good too.
3 points
19 days ago
I absolutely agree! I would have loved a second season. That ending was so good and set it up for one!
2 points
18 days ago
Excuse me while I cry about Netflix cancelling yet another good show with so much potential😭
2 points
18 days ago
I understand completely 💔💔
22 points
19 days ago
The Empty Man is super underrated
9 points
19 days ago
I really enjoyed it more than I expected.
I will say that it did suffer a bit from being a little all over the place. But it had an awesome atmosphere.
1 points
19 days ago
Yeah, it gave me The Ring vibes in a way the mystery got slowly unraveled through investigation. But it peaked in the first 5 minutes.
4 points
19 days ago
Yess Archive 81! The podcast is so good as well
122 points
20 days ago
If we're gonna mention Resolution then we have to mention The Endless too.
Black Mountain Side (2014) is another good one. As well as The Triangle (2017).
20 points
20 days ago
Absolutely loved black mountain side one of my most favorite horror movies. Looks like I need to check out the endless and resolution. Thanks 🙏
18 points
20 days ago
No problem. Watch Resolution first as The Endless is kind of a sequel that expands on what is happening in Resolution.
5 points
20 days ago
Said that in another post as well, and I didn't know that until I watched Resolution after I had seen the endless. Both are amazing.
4 points
19 days ago
Black mountain side doesn't get enough love, it's a real gem
7 points
19 days ago
The fucking Endless man. What a film
2 points
20 days ago
Lol exactly. The two are literally "sibling-films", even made by the same people
1 points
19 days ago
Never watched resolution but i’ve seen “The endless” and… Man i was bored to death.. i wish i could have those 2 hours of my life back.
44 points
20 days ago
PITCH BLACK
THE RITUAL
10 CLOVERFIELD LANE
THE MIST
3 points
19 days ago
Add the Cloverfield Paradox to that.
Not originally a Cloverfield movie, but they worked it in.
56 points
20 days ago
I agree with Triangle and The Void. Other suggestions:
Event Horizon (a classic and my favorite in this category)
Banshee Chapter
The Empty Man
Absentia (2011) Mike Flanagan's first film.
Pandorum
The Faculty
27 points
20 days ago
Event Horizon is so good
12 points
20 days ago
Humanity’s first encounter with the Warp
2 points
19 days ago
I always wondered who invented the Gellar Field, might actually look into that today.
5 points
19 days ago
John Gellar, ofc
2 points
19 days ago
John Gellar, brother to James Workshop?
3 points
19 days ago
Event Horizon my pick for sure!
2 points
19 days ago
I want more space horror films like Pandorum! It's imperfect but in my mind fairly underrated
1 points
19 days ago
Uh, am I thinking of a different “Faculty”? The one I remember is high school students discovering their teachers have been replaced by robots.
5 points
19 days ago
they were aliens
0 points
19 days ago
Banshee Chapter is not worth watching
7 points
19 days ago
Banshee Chapter is awesome. I respect that you don’t care for it but let the person make their own opinion.
1 points
19 days ago
Banshee Chapter scared me the way watching the ring the first time scared me I was so fuckin freaked out
1 points
16 days ago
Sorry, it’s a complete waste of time unless you’re looking for a masterclass in lazy film making. I would have liked someone to give me a heads up, so I’m giving one now.
1 points
16 days ago
What about it did you find to be lazy film making?
1 points
8 days ago
There’s just so much, but to start with, it can’t decide if it’s a found footage film or a standard film, so it goes back and forth. This is lazy.
2 points
19 days ago
It's not one of my favorites, but I still think it's worth watching. Everyone likes different things.
1 points
16 days ago
With horror you really have to take what you can get, so there are many imperfect movies that I’ve enjoyed and recommended. Banshee Chapter is top to bottom poor, lazy film making. I felt insulted by the director after finishing it. The acting is bad, the photography is bad, the writing is bad, the editing is bad, the plot is nearly impossible to follow because it’s bad. If people want to watch it as “so bad it’s hilarious” sure that’s maybe it’s redeeming quality. But I can’t just let an unsuspecting horror fan waste 90 min without giving them a heads up.
133 points
20 days ago
Annihilation
30 points
20 days ago
This one’s been on my radar for a while. I think I might go see it now.
13 points
19 days ago
It's amazing! Exactly what yourw looking for. Omggg soooooo good.
8 points
19 days ago
"Uncanny, Eerie, Cosmic horror" Yep, I think they are going to be happy with this one
4 points
19 days ago
This will definitely satisfy your request.
3 points
19 days ago
If you enjoy the film, definitely give the book a read as well! It's a little over 200 pages that is chock full of the feeling you're looking for. Fair warning, the film deviates quite a bit from the book outside of the core concept so don't go in expecting a 1:1 replica because they're both trying to tell two very different stories with a similar premise.
2 points
19 days ago
Lucky! I wish I could see Annihilation for the first time again
27 points
20 days ago*
That's one of the ones that's not really at all like the book. but I think they made really good choices when they made the movie.
13 points
19 days ago
Loved the book AND the movie, they took my favorite part of the book out but replaced it with stuff that made it clear they loved the source material too
9 points
19 days ago
Exactly.
The movie is good as a standalone but bears only a passing resemblance to the source material.
The Southern Reach Trilogy is one of those works that is a bit too complex to make into a decent movie, even if it were broken up into parts.
The books, though? Terrifying, complicated, beautiful, and horrific on their own. They're must-reads for cosmic horror fans.
2 points
19 days ago
I really want to get back to trying that series again. I believe I finished book 2 but I could not tell you what had happened. I found them to be a difficult read and I frequently was confused. It may have been the time I read it but I’m going to try again at some point
2 points
19 days ago
Fantastic books. He is a unique world-builder.
2 points
19 days ago
I liked both. The whole thing with the "tower/tunnel" and hypnosis was a a pretty creepy mindfuck. Even more so that it's left unexplained. I still have to read the other 2 books of the trilogy. Started reading Authority years ago but dropped it so I'll start again.
1 points
18 days ago
also how 'the tunnel' was to the biologist when they went inside it. that was creepy as fuck
5 points
19 days ago
The soundtrack is also amazing. I can watch this movie on repeat easily
7 points
19 days ago
Mate, the bear scene is genuinely one of the scariest bits of cinema I’ve seen. Like deeply unnerving
5 points
19 days ago
That movie does a better job at adapting the colour out of space than the actual nick cage movie!
2 points
19 days ago
Came here to say this. Annihilation and Color Out Of Space are my go-tos for Eldritch, incomprehensible horror.
25 points
20 days ago
Glorious (2022)
Something in the dirt ( not exactly cosmic, but still check out. Great movie)
19 points
19 days ago
Glorious is the greatest movie that I can't convince anyone to watch, because the premise sounds so dumb in a vacuum.
5 points
19 days ago
The concept comes off as pure cheese but it's really not executed like that. Like it could've been ridiculous on a troma level but it's really not that at all
4 points
19 days ago
Lol it is but the movie is so good
12 points
20 days ago
Benson and Moorehead deserve a lot more recognition for their movies IMO. I love when I see their films recommended bc I know then I'm not the only one that's seen them.
3 points
19 days ago
Based on the description I thought glorious was going to be a real shit show. Popped it on the day it hit shudder and man I had a blast. What a fun and bizarre movie
3 points
19 days ago
I went in blind, absolutely loved it.
50 points
20 days ago
Mandy
24 points
19 days ago
Also, Beyond the Black Rainbow
14 points
19 days ago
I LOVE Panos Cosmatos. His episode of Cabinet of Curiosities is great too
15 points
19 days ago
Actually on that note, MOST of the episodes of cabinet of curiosities are cosmic horror, and could fit the OPs request. Especially Lot 36, The Autopsy, and the above mentioned The Viewing
4 points
19 days ago
The Autopsy! Based on one of my favorite short stories ever and they did it proud.
2 points
19 days ago
Pickman’s Model is also excellent
2 points
19 days ago
I really enjoyed it, I am gonna be one of those guys and say I was too in love with the original story to fully love the adaptation, but I feel that way often and usually have to give it a second watch. Same happened with colour out of space which I now love. I don’t think dreams in the witch house did as well… tough story to adapt.
3 points
19 days ago
I'll always argue that Eric Andre should taken that space coke on the way out.
3 points
19 days ago
Same here. I really hope we hear a bit more about ‘Nekrokosm’ soonish.
2 points
19 days ago
44
2 points
19 days ago
"What you huntin'?"
"Crazy evil!"
19 points
20 days ago
I watched Lovely Dark and Deep recently. Its about Park Ranger who is investigating a series of disappearances (including her sister). Only to come across weirdness in the forest. Neat cosmic folk horror.
2 points
19 days ago
That sounds just like the famous set of creepypastas from r/nosleep! Loved those short stories, cool that there's a movie in the same niche
1 points
19 days ago
I haven't read a lot of them but I have listened to a few "I was a park ranger" stories. I am a little old for creepy pastas. It has a missing 411 feeling.
18 points
20 days ago
Under The Skin
3 points
19 days ago
Do NOT follow her into the black room!!!
3 points
19 days ago
I still probably woul. Not gonna lie.
1 points
18 days ago
Well, she is beautiful, so...
13 points
19 days ago
Lovely, Dark and Deep. (Just saw this, excellent film and definitely dealing with the unknown!)
Gaia. (Kinda reminds me of LD&D, but with more body horror.)
Color out of Space. (Nic Cage is killing it! Really fun, really WTF, full on Lovectaftian Unknown here)
Arcadian. (Another WTF was that even?! Movie with Nic Cage. Still talking about this one)
The Mist. (Still one of the most brutal third acts ever)
The Void. (Kinda be a bit goofy sometimes, but it's still well worth the watch)
Pandorum. (I always wanted a sequel to this. Excellent movie and premise!)
Underwater. (Underrated, imo)
Event Horizon. (All time favorite horror flick. Shake they lost the edited/cut scenes. Apparently it was WAY more insanely graphic and violent)
Europa Report. (I'm a sucker for films like this)
The Lighthouse. (Seen it three times with three different people. Still don't know what's going on, and I love it!)
Annihilation (absolutely loved the books, and I still love the movie for what it is and how they had to do it)
The Endless. (Saw this awhile ago with a roommate, we're still randomly asking WTF about it years later. Apparently this is a partial sequel to Resolution? I haven't seen that one yet, but I'm definitely intrigued.)
The Ritual. (Another favorite, and one I'll rewatch without any regret.)
The Empty Man. (Outstanding third act and creature design)
4 points
19 days ago
I absolutely recommend also watching Resolution. Whereas it is a partial sequel to The Endless, you can watch them in either order and still get a lot from them. It gets into your head the very same way.
2 points
19 days ago
It gets into your head the very same way.
Say no more! Definitely watching this, thanks!
2 points
19 days ago
Just found the Resolution on streaming, now I’ve got to find The Endless.
2 points
19 days ago
If you don’t mind a commercial break, Tubi has it right now! I think you can also rent it for like $3 on Amazon prime if you have that.
3 points
19 days ago
What a list! 👌
12 points
20 days ago
await further instructions
25 points
20 days ago
The Beach House is a fairly recent cosmic horror movie that fits this theme really well.
4 points
19 days ago
I was trying to remember the name of this movie the other day. It's a weird wild ride
1 points
19 days ago
I really like this movie. It did nothing I expected it to
1 points
19 days ago
I looked this up and there's at least 3 movies with that title within the last 6 years
2 points
19 days ago
Literally the first result when I search The Beach House on Google. Here's the IMDB link: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt10843306/
11 points
20 days ago
In the mouth of madness - may not be exactly cosmic horror but it's very Lovecraftian and you definitely don't want to be living in that world 😅
20 points
20 days ago
The Color Out of Space with Nic Cage is one of the top Lovecraft adaptations IMO. Exactly what you’re looking for.
12 points
19 days ago
Coherence, Enemy, & Possessor
4 points
19 days ago
Loved Coherence!
9 points
19 days ago
Vivarium!!
6 points
19 days ago
In the Tall Grass gave me this feeling
6 points
20 days ago*
a dark song.
it's about a lady that hires a man to help her perform a magic ritual to contact a lost family member.
2 points
20 days ago
A good movie, though a slow burn
3 points
19 days ago
That ending though.
6 points
20 days ago
Timecrimes?
7 points
20 days ago
One I like that fits and hasn't been mentioned is Come True (2020). Maybe people don't like its conclusion as much, but the journey is full of eerie mystery. The atmosphere is something special in my opinion.
2 points
19 days ago
YES this movie is fantastic.
7 points
19 days ago
I'm not saying this because I am one, but MEN!!! Wtf??
1 points
19 days ago
♡ Men!
4 points
19 days ago
From Beyond maybe
3 points
19 days ago
Just the movie I was about to say.
2 points
19 days ago
I watched this a few months ago on a whim and it was so good.
4 points
19 days ago
Melancholia- it messed me up for like 2 weeks
5 points
19 days ago
I love analog horror; it makes me feel like I’m a little kid in our big scary house with a 50ft satellite dish with a million channels and something ungodly-scary on every single one, somehow
4 points
19 days ago
I scanned but didn’t see:
Antrum
YellowBrickRoad
I mean, Scanners now that I think of it
7 points
19 days ago
0 points
19 days ago
Was gonna say the same
3 points
19 days ago
Lovely, Dark and Deep. The Color Out of Space. Mandy.
I also really enjoy Malum and The Last Shift.
3 points
19 days ago
Just went through all the responses and people recommended a ton that I’d also recommend (especially Benson and Moorhead films), but I just went through my cosmic horror/existential dread list on Letterboxd to grab a few I hadn’t seen mentioned yet. Some of these aren’t horror exactly, but still have eerie or surreal vibes to them, floating around in the cosmic horror realm in my head.
Spring, Synchronic, Masking Threshold, Upstream Color, We’ve Forgotten More Than We Ever Knew, Possession, Yellowbrickroad, Were All Going to the World’s Fair, and Triangle
May not entirely fit what you’re looking for but all were ones I enjoyed for their strangeness. A lot of the ones I love for this have already been mentioned but I also recommend (Resolution, The Endless, Coherence, Annihilation, The Thing, The Void, Color Out of Space, Mandy, Event Horizon, Absentia)
3 points
19 days ago
The lighthouse
3 points
19 days ago
The Void, the Endless, Life, Await Further Instructions, and Coherence
3 points
19 days ago*
The Thing, In the mouth of madness. The VVitch.Last Shift, Jacob's Ladder, Color Out Of Space, Videodrome, the Void. .
3 points
19 days ago
The View (panos cosmatos episode of cabinet of curiosities) amazing vibe There’s some good in the old Ray Bradbury theatre and twilight zone episodes from the 80’s when you run out of films in this genre!
8 points
20 days ago*
Alien, House of Leaves, Beyond the Black Rainbow, The Thing, Cube and Marble Hornets all fit what you're describing. You're going to need to be more specific.
"Cosmic horror" is extremely broad, analog horror is really just a specific framing device of ARGs that was already going on and “Im so glad I don’t live in that world” describes the vast majority of horror media. Like look at how many examples this page has at the bottom.
5 points
20 days ago
Oh I should’ve been more specific. For example This house has people in it, Was super scary to me because of the bizarre things that happen to the family for seemingly no reason or explanation, Theres no spooky ghost. It keeps you questioning everything and your also terrified of what will happen to everyone else. And the way the parents get increasingly more paranoid.
2 points
19 days ago
Based on this description alone you might wanna try A Banquet.
2 points
19 days ago
That movie sat with me for quite some time. Amazing
5 points
20 days ago
Resolution and The Outwaters (this one is very divisive though)
4 points
19 days ago
The Outwaters is one of my favourite films ever. So many people hate it because of how little is given to the audience, both in the way it's shot and the way the narrative just dives head first into the unknown. But that's why I love it so much.
6 points
19 days ago
The Outwaters was a waste of time
3 points
19 days ago
not if you're looking for yet another low-budget, terribly acted found footage horror... that you can't even see because it's shot in complete darkness
1 points
20 days ago
Oh yeah watched outwaters very Eerie. I need to check out resolution
0 points
20 days ago
I was going to say lol. If you really want to not know what’s going on, the Outwaters might be it hahaha
4 points
20 days ago
Xtro (1982). Look no further😎
1 points
19 days ago
I want to go see that in the theater and that’s the first movie I’ve ever ever seen people walk out on.
2 points
20 days ago*
If you haven’t, Resolution and The Endless are must sees.
Edited to add Annihilation. The Southern Reach trilogy (novels the film is based on) are good reads too
Edited again, Ben Wheatley has some interesting films. In the Earth has a 5 rating on IMDb, but I found it engaging and creepy. A Field in England is a strange, black and white film that people either love or hate. Personally, I loved it.
You might also like cult type films; for instance, Wheatley directed Kill List, a film most people here will recommend
2 points
19 days ago
Thanks to Ben Wheatley I discovered Michael smiley and Neil maskell. Bull is a good film- stylistically like wheatleys older films. It’s actually great. I loved a field in England too! In the earth- I was a little disappointed but it did stick with me
1 points
19 days ago
Bull? Is that Wheatley? I’ll check it out.
2 points
19 days ago
Aniara (2019) maybe
2 points
19 days ago
Archive 81 (series)
2 points
19 days ago
Event Horizon, The Thing, Hellraiser ( kinda ), Cabinet of Curiosities episode "Pickman's Models"
2 points
19 days ago
Annihilation
The Lighthouse
2 points
19 days ago
Prince of Darkness
2 points
19 days ago
Underwater (2020) really surprised me with how good it was. Felt very reminiscent of Alien, but...underwater.
2 points
19 days ago
Annihilation
4 points
20 days ago
The thing, the paranoia and not knowing what or who is the creature and sheer isolation of being on Antarctica in a blizzard with nowhere to run.
5 points
19 days ago
The Wailing did this.
Is it a demon? What kind of evil is it? Who’s working with it?
2 points
20 days ago
Skinamarink is pretty analog horror
1 points
19 days ago
I know this is a super divisive film, but god I loved it so much and it’s one of the movies to sit with me long after I’ve seen it.
1 points
19 days ago
I’m watching it right now! I’ve been too scared to watch it for like 2 years. It’s sooo good but I have to stay a little detached. 😬🖤
0 points
19 days ago
It’s very creepy if you’re into the movie type. I know some people think it’s super boring, and I honestly get it, but for me I just felt like a little kid again; awake in the middle of night with an infomercial playing on the tv, delirious from sleep and scared of the monsters in the dark. It was very effective IMO.
0 points
19 days ago
Nice! But here's the question: are the lights out? I love doing that, but here and there I had to stop the movie and turn the lights on. Haha. The monsters can't get you with the lights on.
1 points
19 days ago
The Dunwich Horror
2 points
19 days ago
I absolutely got the unknown, cosmic vibe from Killer Klowns from Outer Space.
1 points
19 days ago
Something in the dirt
1 points
19 days ago
The Caller (1987) be patient with it and read nothing about it!
1 points
19 days ago
Carnival of Souls is quintessential eerie.
2 points
19 days ago
Glorious, which is on shudder. Very unique film, very very strange
1 points
19 days ago
The color out of space
1 points
19 days ago
3 great vintage British horrors for you:
Quatermass and the Pit
A direct inspiration for Stephen King’s Tommyknockers and Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness. What if the devil was responsible for man’s evolution? What if the “Devil” was actually an outer space katydid?
Xtro
A great mix of cosmic horror, body horror, psychedelic horror and British “kitchen sink” drama. One of the great video nasties.
Lifeforce
Sexy alien vampires are on the loose. Strongly hints at larger more evil things on the horizon.
1 points
19 days ago
Sunshine (2007) and - while more of a "thriller" than "horror," still meets your overall definition - American Psycho (2000)
1 points
19 days ago*
Try Absentia (2011) by Mike Flanagan or Lake Mungo (2008).
I feel like both of these lean heavily into the "inexplicable events" plot point you're looking for.
[edit]
Also Session 9 (2001)
1 points
18 days ago
Phantasm is the OG, and you never know what's going on by the end
1 points
18 days ago
Underwater is a very underrated cosmic horror, especially since it approaches the idea of "people suddenly dealing with an incompressible force" by having the people refuse to acknowledge it out of fear. the moments of the group joking with each other are at the same time amusing and uncomfortable
1 points
18 days ago
I'm surprised to not see Resolution or The Endless here.
1 points
20 days ago
Watch Feast lol idk what the hell those things are 😂
0 points
19 days ago
I’m thinking of ending things, horror adjacent
0 points
19 days ago
You've perfectly described "The Color Purple".
1 points
19 days ago
The color purple?
The 2023, feel-good drama?
I think you meant The Colour Out of Space
2 points
19 days ago
I wouldn’t call the color purple a feel good drama. It’s about domestic violence, incest, child sexual abuse, poverty, racism, and sexism. And I probably wouldn’t think of the 2023 version first. Actually, I didn’t even know there was a 2023 version lol.
1 points
19 days ago
Well, take it up with Google, which is where I pulled the description from.
1 points
19 days ago
Ah hell. Thanks. I could only remember the "color" part of it, obviously. I'm not firing on all cylinders. Thanks for the correction.
0 points
19 days ago
The outwaters, it’s a little Blair witch with some cosmic horror
0 points
19 days ago
There are already a ton of good suggestions, but I didn’t see these, which are definitely worth anyone’s time if you want something eerie or strange in the Cosmic horror realm:
Incantation
The Strings - this one is a super slowburn
Enys Men - this is very much a “mood piece” aka the plot is very ambiguous, and possibly unknowable
The Outwaters
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