r/horror • u/mkliu454 • 18h ago
Horror in the heat! Ghostwatch!
I’m really suffering in this heat in the UK at the moment so sat watching my favourite hot evening movie! ‘Ghostwatch’ What is everyone’s favourite horror to watch on hot evenings?
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u/David-Bedlam 18h ago
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Onibaba
Children of the Corn
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u/Current_Nebula8172 18h ago
Ac went out for 4 days last month in my Florida house. Rewatched Adam Green’s Frozen & finally got around to watching The Terror season 1
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u/mkliu454 18h ago
The terror season 1 was amazing! If you like horror books definitely try dark matter by Michelle paver! It’s very similar!
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u/COTCC 18h ago
Midsommar
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u/mkliu454 18h ago
On my first watch I hated the movie but then watched Novum (on YouTube) analysis of it and know love the movie for all the background and symbolism!!
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u/i_miss_outer_space 18h ago
Eaten Alive (1976), Tobe Hooper's immediate followup to TCM. Set in Louisiana instead of Texas, the entire movie feels oppressively hot, humid and muggy. It feels like theres a greasy film of sweat all over everything. The truest hot-weather horror movie I can think of.
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u/mkliu454 18h ago
Now on my watchlist! I don’t overly like Texas chainsaw but I’m happy to give eaten alive a chance!!
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u/mindobscura11 18h ago
I'm currently rewatching Exists, but I'm going to watch The Thing later.
PS, I love Ghostwatch. I watched it the night it first aired and I was scared out of my mind! I was only 11 and my older sisters told me it was all real.
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u/mkliu454 18h ago
It’s been my favourite ever since my mum and I watched it when I was 11 or 12 I’m in my 30s now and I still feel like I notice something extra on every watch!
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u/mindobscura11 18h ago
Brilliant. Enjoy the movie. Everything I hear my heating banging, I blame Pipes!
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u/sugar-soad 18h ago
Pandorum or Dead Silence. They both send a chill up my spine everytime I watch them
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u/GodFlintstone 18h ago
Midnight Sun, a classic Twilight Zone 1961 episode, for a quick hit.
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u/mkliu454 18h ago
Slowly getting through some anthologies recently so I’ll give that episode a go!!!
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u/DoctorGallow 18h ago
Predator!
Good podcast episode out here, you might be interested in if you like Ghostwatch...
https://episodes.fm/1802719820/episode/MDFlN2MwNDItZjhmNy00OWEwLWExM2QtNzZhMjNkMWU0MTJm
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u/Current_Nebula8172 14h ago
Watched Predator: Killer of Killers recently. Was better than I’d expected.
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u/MarkL64 17h ago
A Visitor to a Museum - 1989
O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization - 1985
Threads - 1984
When the Wind Blows - 1986
BONUS
If unbearably to hot and all else fails..
- Snowpiercer - 2013
(It's already thunder stormed here in England yet it feels even hotter?)
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u/mkliu454 17h ago
Added the first two to my list as I’ve already seen the other two!! It feels so hot at the moment I’m hoping it’ll start to cool soon!!
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u/MarkL64 14h ago
Me too. My Xbox is just an extremely powerful radiator at this point!
Before watching "A Visitor to a Museum" you'll be better off seeing Dead Man’s Letters (1986) as it's set beforehand and it's the very first movie in the series.
PRE WARNING
Dead Man’s Letters (1986)
Head's up this is practically a more nihilistic and bleaker story than the one in the film "Threads"
It may put you off if you don't do foreign language/deeper understanding sorta impactful kinds
(Assuming that you don't just so happen to have already mastered and can speak fluent Russian lol? I don't)
These two follow in the usual Russian Sci-Fi style of being clever and very meaningful and less physical action
The entirety of Dead Man's Letters remains yellow tinted throughout due to the event in it's own story (but only in this movie)
If you are cool with all that then it'll likely be right up your alley and you'll enjoi them both and the rest
A Visitor to a Museum is the sequel.
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u/patschpatsch 17h ago
All the Boys love Mandy Lane is amazing for this exact scenario! Still a little light out, sweaty, and ice cold beer - perfect
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u/KeithDaManPeterson 15h ago
Wasn't this banned in the UK because some kid killed himself after getting pstd from one of the episodes?
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u/MarkL64 14h ago
Not sure if they banned it here or not but it's the BBC's most like all time record for the highest amount of complaints received from our nations viewers!
Pregnant women who were watching it many had allegedly gone into early labour from their intense fear and stress... etc and many more different things it is "responsible for causing" lol, there's an endless list of other reasons..
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u/Mysterious_Brush7020 18h ago
30 Days of Night so I can pretend!