What's the vidya equivalent of this?

What's the vidya equivalent of this?

Slenderman

The Blair Witch games?

any overrated "horror" game with cheap jumpscares

so Slenderman

Outlast

Why?

He's not wrong

>people hate Blair witch project now

What happened?

Sup Forums has shit taste and never watched Blair Witch Project
Surprised?

I don't think you watched the movie...

What's the vidya equivalent of Jacob's Ladder?

Any boring walking simulator type game, the kind where precisely nothing happens the entire time

Outlast?
I mean there's a camera and shit.

Slenderman has that low budget feel while finding mainstream success

The Blair Witch Project is shit precisely because it has 0 jumpscares. Nothing ever actually happens in the damn movie.

But Slenderman relies on jumpscares

Silent Hill

Was gonna post this, the game was heavily inspired by Jacob's Ladder

Are we talking about the overall mythos or the shitty 2012 game?

Why are modern horror movies shit?

I remember birds being more scarier than any of this teen/torture jumpscare porn bullshit.

You've literally never seen BWP have you?

Not a fan of handycam movies.

the blair witch project has no jumpscares or torture porn though, it's a great movie that works because of how unsettling it is.

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Modern horror movies are fine, you're just not watching the right ones.

Have you even seen The Witch? Or It Follows? Or The Babadook?

The last one I saw was the conjuring.
Next one on the list is krampus.

>nothing happens
>then they all die in random house
>good
fucking millennials

I'm just surprised to see this movie posted on Sup Forums in any way. I remember when kids and teens thought the movie was real or somewhat based on a real story.

>cross back an forth over the same stream over and over
>if only there was a path for us to follow to get out of the forest
they deserved to die. Same with the actual directors of that film.

Any horror themed walking simulator.
>the whole movie is just one big build up to them all dyeing, off camera.
>the only good part is that one shot of that guy standing in the corner.
It's a shit movie that only nostalgia fags and hipsters like.

You mean overrated, aged like milk and set a bad precedent for games to come? Goldeneye on N64.

It's the movie that made found horror film a viable blockbuster formula. And did one better by actually building up tension without panning back and forth to a dining room table and fluff up the drama with whining instruments.
Just knowing I'm in the same thread as you is enlightening. Please share some of your finer tastes.

Great fucking movie

RE7

>actually building up tension
>running around yelling 'fuck!' is tension
You know the whole point of build up is the reward, right? Blare Witch doesn't deliver on this.

>nothing happening at day
>random shit happening at night
>suddenly they all die without seeing what happens
>building tension

Reminder the 2016 Blair Witch movie is fucking horrible.

>some retards arguing in the woods
>tension

You need a participation trophy? It was a low budget film. If they went with gore it would probably have looked terrible.

>Shaky Camera: The Movie

>in order to be tense it has to be gory

No. There was no tension because nothing happened for 99.9% of the film.

Super mario galaxy

just pointing out it's bad and very boring

Found footage is a shit genre for poor directors and BWP is partially responsible for its current popularity.

3 people arguing in the woods for most of the movie isn't scary. Rocks aren't scary. Sticks aren't scary. A tent being punched isn't scary. It's not scary nor is it even creepy. It has the same problem as August Underground - it's boring, the characters aren't likable, too much arguing and nothing happens.

The Haunting is somewhat similar to The Blair Witch Project. You never see any ghosts and it relies more on tension. Obviously, one is psychological and the other is found footage, but they're somewhat comparable because of their execution. The difference is that The Haunting characters are likable, it moves at a slightly faster pace and you actually see some scary things. Heather was supposed to pan the camera so we could see a monster, but the actress forgot and so we really see nothing. A horror movie in which you see nothing scary. Brilliant.

Overall, it's a product of its time. It started the trend of found footage. Wasn't the originator, of course. It did, however, originate a formula within the sub-genre. Nothing happens for the first hour other than some bumps in the night and false scares. Towards the end, the action picks up, gets tense and the movie suddenly ends. What a great legacy.

Isn't there some deep web game that's all in black and white with demons or some shit?
I don't remember the name but that shit seemed haunted.

This isn't bait. This is a prime example of people who so badly want to have an opinion on everything they parrot concepts they've read or heard from others and apply it where it seems like it could possibly make sense. In this case, they could not have been more wrong. BWP's popularity lies in its marketing, it mostly gets shit upon in review. It had 0 jump scares. It remains a favorite only among those with a deep interest in the genre.

So, you're looking for a video game that had:
>No budget
>Wildly successful marketing campaign to the point people thought it was real
>Deviated from the norms of its contemporaries
>Very effective in building tension
>Panned by those who wanted more of the same

>Very effective in building tension
still wrong

What? Sad Satan? There's no demons in that game, only some girls who do nothing expect scream and then hurt you in the end.

>Deviated from the norms of its contemporaries

>DUDE NOTHING HAPPENS THE MOVIE IS TRASH
Sup Forums just hit a new low
we Sup Forums now

Not wrong. It's completely subjective. It didn't work for you, congratulations, it worked for me. What horror movie was most effective on you? Perhaps we differ there as well.

what happens that isn't arguing and random fucking sticks and rocks?

I shouldn't have to explain what a norm is. BWP is what set off the found footage craze. Not to mention:
>The film is sometimes erroneously cited as an inspiration to The Blair Witch Project, but the concept for that film was developed in 1993 and production began in October 1997, five months before the premiere of The Last Broadcast.

Sadly, Slenderman really is the most accurate similary.

I was, for a moment, considering Five Nights at Freddy and Penumbra, as all three of them share similar "no budget, small team near amateurish production turning into a major success" story. But here is the difference: Five Nights at Freddy and Penumbra were not UTTER FUCKING TRASH. And I don't even like the bloody Five Nights at all - but it's still not nearly bad enough to carry any comparison to Blair Witch.

So Slenderman, even though as far as I know it never vent commercial in a big way, is most similar. Equally mindless, equally retarded, equally carried on the wings of gimmicks and young teenagers with their inexplicable fascination with really bad horror.

Seeing this thread and seeing people who defend Blair Witch: I seriously don't enjoy being a contrarian and I had watched it - on it's fucking release non the less.

I was fucking dissapointed back then and I'm completely dissapointed even today. It's garbage. Yeah, the found footage gimmick IS interesting.
The movie is awful. Bunch of insanely unlikable cunts walking in circles acting like insufferable cunts while nothing is happening and then the laughably forced and meaningless finale.

There is no tension, there is no functional symbolism, no actually terrifying thing happening. It's a bunch of INSANELY unlikeable people that wish would die as soon as possible acting as if something terrifying was happening.
But nothing is. It's not that the movie is not showing things - it's not leaving things to our imagination. It's not NOTHING. HAPPENING.

The movie was carried by gimmick and inexplicable fascination by children. Which is the same story than then made the phenomenons of Five Nights and Slenderman.

Except even the bloody five nights showed some kind of effort or idea.

Yes

Good post and I agree with these criteria.

Though has there ever been a game whose marketing made people think it was real?

Siren Blood Curse
How was this not mentioned yet

I hated Witch personally, but I've yet to watch the other two, they look good though.

What's the vidya equivalent of The Conjuring series? Something with great atmosphere, decent acting, likeable characters, good visual effects, generally very well made, but just not scary.

Good post. it's a movie I really enjoyed because it played off the audience's fear of the unknown and not actually being able to see what was harassing them, together with the eldritch stuff the witch was capable off like sending them in a perpetual circle when they tried to escape the forest. To me stuff like that is way more harrowing than some meat mountain chasing you through an abandoned house with his chainsaw set to 100

>3 people arguing in the woods for most of the movie isn't scary. Rocks aren't scary. Sticks aren't scary.
Actually all of those things COULD be scary, if the movie had a single idea beyond the found footage gimmick and if the characters weren't so fucking abysmal. Both the premise and the formula actually has quite a lot of promise to it. It's just really amazingly badly made. The people who made it not only really did not know how to make a movie: The did not have a single actual scary idea. But the concept and all of the materials it uses are in theory great material.

I'm sorry, but right now you are literally defending what REALLY WAS the Slenderman of it's era. Like this was a CHILDREN AND DUMB YOUNG PEOPLE popular movie. Actual film critics and people above the age of 25 laughed at the movie at the time. It was a massive marketing ploy, but nobody actually ever though Blair Witch is ACTUALLY A GOOD MOVIE, OR GOOD FUCKING HORROR.

It's like people going around today trying to press fucking Halo games as "fine refined taste that the young people just don't get."

I'm pretty sure that people who like Tarkovski are going to fucking HATE BWP. So the problem is not just "nothing happening".

The problem is that it's vapid.

I personally hated The VVitch and It Follows. Babadook however, I really enjoyed, yet that's the one that receives the most shit. People don't like the possibility that their "monster" isn't "real". The movie is horror and it deals with loss, stress, and mental illness. However, because of those things, no one wants to say it's horror. They NEED a supernatural being who's killing people. It's unfortunate.

What are your top 3 horror movies in terms of effectiveness?

Since we're on horror movies to series companions, allow me to posit this:

Five Nights at Freddie's is just like SAW.

An excellent first installment that is a classic for the genre in its respective medium, and from that point forward, terrible cash in sequels for a quick buck that tore the whole series reputation down.

in the scene where they are scared out of the tent, there are several people dressed in (all white i think) costume who ran away from the people fleeing the tent but except for a couple blurs you cant see anything in the movie

it was clever and left so much to the imagination.

youre one of those people who is such a man you have to say what all characters should do throughout a movie.

The Shining
Rosemary's Baby
Repulsion

Honorable mentions should go to:
Alien
The Thing
The Ring (I actually enjoyed the American version as much as the Japanese one).
Sixth Sense

And yeah, you can call me a hipster or pretentious or whatever you like. I honestly haven't watched a more modern horror movie in some seven years. I've heard VVitch is good, I'm actually tempted to watch it, but until it's out I can't judge it.
I do remember a fun very low budget horror called "Thaw", I vaguely remember not being offended by "The Others", but that is also seventeen years old. I really don't know much about newer stuff.

I just know that Blair Witch fucking sucked.

Yeah, that was the one. I think its pretty spooky

nigga it literally has three games in the series

undertale

Thoughts on From Beyond?

No man's shit

What the Hen, the most redpilled game in the industry

I agree with you. The first game did good tension, and had a lot of great little moments that were genuinely creepy like seeing Foxy run down the hallway or the panic when the door's not working. Good atmosphere, too.

Fastforward three years later and the story's an incoherent pile of retconned shit, while he slaps angry eyebrows on Freddy to make him look "scarier" and he admits that he tailor-made the sequels for reddit.

It's a shame that FNAF started off so well.

>it's a 'promising movie has the chance to expand upon its newly established interesting universe but ends up being butchered in all subsequent movies in the franchise' episode

I agree, but I really can't blame Scott for cashing in on his cow. I know if I found a cow, you pretty believe I'd run it into the ground.

name a good horror movie

The third one was ridiculous, the second one was almost good.

What is mass effect

minecraft with nightmode only and 2x damage and 2x speed

>omg minecraft what an autistic retard

She did kill her dog.

Does Train to Busan count as horror? Best movie i have seen in a while.


The void was great too.

>call me a hipster or pretentious or whatever you like.
Wasn't the point of my post.

>The Shining
Loved it. This is pretty much universally loved, neither of us should feel bad about this one.
>Rosemary's Baby
Also loved it. Extremely effective in invoking a feeling a complete helplessness. She had nobody to turn to.
>Repulsion
Not a fan. I like movies in this style though, just like the other 2 you listed. They're made like movies, not as "horror" movies specifically. That may be a bad way to phrase it.

>Alien
Enjoyed it. Didn't think it was too special, but it was worth the watch. Didn't feel too tense.
>The Thing
I love Kurt Russell. Body horror usually comes off more as "Cool!" than tense, though. A fan of this one.
>The Ring (I actually enjoyed the American version as much as the Japanese one).
Parts of it were interesting. The concept was cool, I just felt like nothing of note happened.
>Sixth Sense
Haven't gotten to it.

For my top three, I'd go: The Changeling, The Shining, Blair Witch Project. Rosemary would definitely make top 5. That said, there are a ton of amazing horror movies that don't make me tense or scare me at all.

Time. Time happened, and the novelty wore off.

>The Exorcist
>Carnival of Souls
>Island of Lost Souls
>Bride of Frankenstein
>Videodrome
>Kuroneko

>inb4 'those are all shit lol'

I think if he had kept making horror sequels, I'd be softer on him. Elm Street and Friday the 13th for instance were fun franchises even in their fourth or fifth installments.

FNAF doesn't really have that cheesy fun factor, because he started making them for kids and removed the horror elements. It feels less like a cash cow and more like he sold his soul. The series is unrecognizable at this point.

>make a point saying BWP was hated by critics and people overall
>likes the Thing even if it was met with the same reaction
can you please be consistent

>Elm Street ... fun franchises even in their fourth or fifth installments.

The main game isn't much like it, but Cry of Fear has a roughly hour long section of it's 5-7 hour story that is heavily inspired by the Blair Witch.

Blair Witch worked because of how mysterious and novel it was.

Now that everyone knows exactly what it is the magic is gone and left is just a boring movie.

>It Follows
Seconding this recommendation. Also, anyone looking for good modern horror should check out Oculus. That one is my personal favorite.

The Visit, The Conjuring and Sinister are pretty good too but not as worthwhile as the two mentioned above.

You didn't think it was scary? I got scared/creeped out at the clapping scene and the wardrobe scene.

>F13
>Fun

I like some of those movies, but Part 8, 9, things like that - they're boring.

>Jason Takes Manhattan
>Takes place on a boat mostly

Scream, Evil Dead, Dracula, Frankenstein and something else I'm forgetting are the only quality horror franchises. I'd say Phantasm, but that's such a cult thing.

>I got scared/creeped out at the clapping scene and the wardrobe scene
Same experience here

You think a good horror movie has to have jump-scares in it? I haven't seen a bigger pleb than you since I left Sup Forums.

>They're made like movies, not as "horror" movies specifically. That may be a bad way to phrase it.
That is actually really good way to phrase it, and probably sums up my problem with BWP. I don't enjoy horror genre - not in cinema and in particular at least. I enjoy good movies. I enjoy good stories, or good symbolism, or good structure. Something that has meaning. Every single one of the movies I listed - I'd argue - has a VERY STRONG POINT.
It works with some kind of theme. Or with a character. Or an object of symbolic weight.

What the hell does BWP have?
The character are really some of the most obnoxious people I've ever seen in a cinema. And for no reason: they are not well written, it's not a character study. They are just annoying. And what the fuck is the point of making them annoying?
They act completely illogically ONLY to create a secondary conflicts because there is literally nothing else to kill the runtime with: but all that achieves is to make you lose any remaining investment.

And then the horror elements come and... what the hell is the horror again?
People who don't act like people arguing over shit nobody would do or say in their situations, and then...

The movie basically goes "scary thing here: fill out yourself please, because we had no idea".
Rosemary manages to create absolute terror out of sunny bright day downtown Manhattan.
This movie absolutely fails to create anything to actually feel scared about with bunch of people in a fog-covered bog.

It actually takes skill to make it as not scary as they did. They cheat with loud noises and spastic camera... but what is the object of fear?

Sorry. You sound like a reasonable person, so don't take any of this personally. I actually hate that movie. I find it so incredibly cheap and dishonest with the viewer that I can't think of many others that made me this annoyed.

MGSV:The Phantom Head Transplant

Oculus is pretty damn good, excellent use of flashbacks. I wasn't a huge fan of It Follows, probably because I saw it after seeing some other movie that basically has the exact same plot. The Autopsy of Jane Doe is pretty good. Don't Breathe is a bit more suspense than horror but it's another good one.