Okay, first of all: Yamishibai. It's available on Crunchyroll, it's a 13-episode series of 5-minute shorts of varying creepiness levels. None of them are in-depth stories (because five minutes), but there are some great atmospheric gems as well as some jump scares.
Movie-wise, I tend to be fond of psychological horror more than gore/jump scares, so my all-time favorite is The Haunting (the original 1963 version). The book it's based on-- The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson-- is pretty amazing, too. Both of them are about a group of people brought to a haunted house by a scientist hoping to prove the existence of the supernatural. Um… Dark Water doesn't actually scare me, but I love it as a film and it is, technically, horror-- I'm not sure I can sum it up in a way that encompasses what I actually love about it, though, because some of it's a spoiler.
Let's see… The Tunnel is an indie film that is available entirely for free, legally, on the internet-- just go to youtube and search for "The Tunnel" and you should find it. The site contains their mission statement and is pretty rad as well. Actual story-wise, The Tunnel is a mockumentary about some reporters who go underground to do a report on abandoned waterways in Australia and… get more than they'd bargained for.
Game-wise… I'm sure everyone who's into that particular brand of horror knows the Fatal Frame games, so I won't go too far into detail except to say that I thought I wouldn't be able to play them because I get so nervous about horror games… and it turns out playing them is actually really relaxing for me. Not in a bad "this isn't actually creepy," way, but they're just really well-made and not the kind of terrifying that upsets me.
And… I think that's it for recs off the top of my head! I love horror, but I can be very picky what horror I actually like, so.
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Movie-wise, I tend to be fond of psychological horror more than gore/jump scares, so my all-time favorite is The Haunting (the original 1963 version). The book it's based on-- The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson-- is pretty amazing, too. Both of them are about a group of people brought to a haunted house by a scientist hoping to prove the existence of the supernatural. Um… Dark Water doesn't actually scare me, but I love it as a film and it is, technically, horror-- I'm not sure I can sum it up in a way that encompasses what I actually love about it, though, because some of it's a spoiler.
Let's see… The Tunnel is an indie film that is available entirely for free, legally, on the internet-- just go to youtube and search for "The Tunnel" and you should find it. The site contains their mission statement and is pretty rad as well. Actual story-wise, The Tunnel is a mockumentary about some reporters who go underground to do a report on abandoned waterways in Australia and… get more than they'd bargained for.
Game-wise… I'm sure everyone who's into that particular brand of horror knows the Fatal Frame games, so I won't go too far into detail except to say that I thought I wouldn't be able to play them because I get so nervous about horror games… and it turns out playing them is actually really relaxing for me. Not in a bad "this isn't actually creepy," way, but they're just really well-made and not the kind of terrifying that upsets me.
And… I think that's it for recs off the top of my head! I love horror, but I can be very picky what horror I actually like, so.