• Rose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.ee
    47·
    6 个月前

    “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.

    • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
      12·
      6 个月前

      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

      • Rose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.ee
        9·
        6 个月前

        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.

        • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
          6·
          6 个月前

          Ugh, when it got to the sarcophagus/elevator segment, it really made my skin crawl! And the “camp”…

          That game was really well done!

  • TheFonz@lemmy.world
    32·
    7 个月前

    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.

    Edit: Found it! It’s called “the blue afternoon that lasts forever”

    Link

  • FellowEnt@sh.itjust.works
    19·
    6 个月前

    Playing Alien Isolation in VR. I couldn’t get past the medical bay level level due to actual fear of death by heart attack.

    • mub@lemmy.ml
      11·
      6 个月前

      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.

    • SecretPancake@feddit.de
      4·
      6 个月前

      Alien Isolation is seriously one of the best games ever made and it still holds up today. It was just a bit too long.

  • XEAL@lemm.ee
    19·
    7 个月前

    The fucking needle-in-the-eye part from Dead Space.

    Also, Scorn is kinda unsettling.

  • MissJinx@lemmy.world
    15·
    6 个月前

    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

    The curve

    It’s like you know you’re gonna die and there is nothing you can do but YOU have to give up.

  • YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub
    15·
    6 个月前

    The first chapter of “The Ministry of the Future” because it is very likely going to happen soon somewhere on earth.

    A wet bulb temperature event that kills thousands

      • ace_garp@lemmy.world
        3·
        6 个月前

        That is how I read it in Books of Blood volume II.

        No prior review or synopsis added to the experience.

        • idiomaddict@feddit.de
          1·
          6 个月前

          I read it like that too, and wish I hadn’t, but I was mostly joking. People in this thread should be more prepared than I was from the context anyway

  • psmgx@lemmy.world
    11·
    6 个月前

    The Road, the book, is the only book I’ve ever read that haunted me for a while after. Movie was a decent adaptation, but left some stuff out.

    • sunbeam60@lemmy.one
      4·
      6 个月前

      By a country mile the “best” book I’ve read. I think the film does an admirable job of staying within and delivering the message of the book without being “not suitable for release without cuts” in some territories. I mean the baby spit roast isn’t really something one can put to film and expect to get license to release everywhere around the world.

      But funnily enough the book actually aims for, and IMHO hits, a completely different message than that of dread; for me, it makes me wholeheartedly appreciate the world, nature, and the good deeds we do for each other. It is also, and I’m aware I’m breaking no ground here, a treatise on love, fatherhood and courage. It makes me appreciate that, despite everything, we are still incredible blessed to live in today’s world.

      It is quite simply sensational.

      By the way, while very different in tone, Station Eleven really hit the same note for me; appreciate what you’ve got, it might just disappear.

  • seaQueue@lemmy.world
    10·
    6 个月前

    Event Horizon is still mildly terrifying 25y later. Sunshine was pretty bananas too. Shout out to Alastair Reynolds Inhibitor series of books as well.

  • Flyspeck@lemm.ee
    8·
    6 个月前

    The segment in the original Creepshow where Stephen King is transformed into a plant.

    Also The Fly.

  • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
    8·
    6 个月前

    The Suffering on the original Xbox.

    I know it’s mainly because I played it way too young but it still gives me creeps playing it as an adult.

    The bathrooms… beware the bathrooms…

  • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone
    7·
    6 个月前

    For me it has always been the The Enigma of Amigara Fault ever since I read it.

    It’s just so unsettling to me I don’t know why.

    • Tiefling IRL@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      6 个月前

      I love Junji Ito so much. That’s not even his most terrifying story, just his most popular. Though I’m not complaining, it’s a great story.

      The Netflix show is actually pretty great if you haven’t watched it. Though the first episode is the weakest.

      Fwiw, I’m an artist and get a lot of inspiration from his works