okay so i like dont really watch horror but ive always wanted to get into it, i like haunted house stuff, i like "psychological horror" like. idk get out and black swan if that counts?? i DONT like gore (not to b An Empath but its just like so distractingly yucky ☹️). im big on Comedy and im one of those childish bitches who doesnt like grown up movies but i want toooooo youre so smart and i want to be Pretentious (COMPLIMENT) like you [[bonus points for anything good to watch while tripping?? thats my preferred state to watch movies lmfaooo]]
LISTEN… i actually think its completely fine to not wanna watch shit you find boring or gross! i talk my shit but i have a lot more ire for people who swim upstream to paint their tastes as Actually Very Complex And Edgy despite only wanting to watch stuff for younger audiences. when someone is like “i watch kids stuff because it’s what i like” im like GET IT!!!!!!!! WATCH THINGS THAT MAKE YOU HAPPY!!!
THAT HAVING BEEN SAID ☝️ here’s a little chunky list of some of my favorite horrors that i think may appeal to you (and if they don’t, then you acquired an even more complete understanding of what you do and don’t like and the world is still a better place!)
The Others (2001) was probably one of my very first brushes with a horror movie that’s beautiful, moving, not really bloody at all, and with an ending that leaves your head spinning. a twist on the haunted house genre that i’ve rewatched again and again and again.
Crimson Peak (2015) is also ostensibly a haunted house period piece, but, being a Del Toro, it comes with all the trappings of his usual work: incredible visuals, a delightfully gothic story, and pity for the monstrous. a little bloodier than The Others, but in a way that’s very restrained (for the most part) and very stylized.
Possession (1981) is simply one of the best movies of all time. Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani (especially, especially Isabelle Adjani) give the fraught performances of a lifetime as a couple on the outs as something grows between them—whether that something is physical, spiritual, emotional, supernatural, extraterrestrial, evil, or any of the above is part of the core tension. two people losing their minds both together and against one another.
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) is a bit of a weird one, and if you’re the type of person who wants solid answers out of a movie it might not be your thing, but as far as a bloodless movie that made me so fucking scared and tense, Picnic at Hanging Rock has so much to offer!
my double feature Cronenberg offering here is gonna have to be Existenz (1999) and Crimes of the Future (2022); while Cronenberg is essentially synonymous with body horror, his body horror isn’t always gory or even unpleasant. Existenz is a little like if The Matrix was freaky with it; Crimes of the Future dips heavily into the idea of physical pain being made obsolete and injury (more especially surgery) becoming pleasurable and desirable, as well as asking some interesting questions about the future (and present) of humankind.