"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.

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

The Jaunt by Steven King

One of my favorites short sci-fi stories ever.

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

Also, Scorn is kinda unsettling.

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

Subnautica. Had to finish it in creative mode, it was a bit too much for me.

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

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.

The short-story Dread by Clive Barker.

Go in cold, no spoilers.

Contingency, from Local58

Emergency broadcasts of any sort, fictitious or no, already put me on edge, but the idea of the US government having one ready to go, specifically to order people to commit suicide to spite some kind of existential threat, is especially chilling.

https://youtu.be/3c66w6fVqOI?si=JsF_-x6A65iwbaC_

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.

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

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...

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

Also The Fly.

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.

The stupid zombies in Thief. Just the first one you encounter. It's lying on the ground with flies flying above it. And every time you go near it it gives out this loud awful moan. I hate it!

But the game is too good not to play.

Inescapable fate from 'Final Destination.'

Buddy Holly and Carole Lombard both decided to get in a plane at the last minute. Some tourist decided to go to the World Trade Center instead of the Metropolitan Museum. If you start thinking about it, it can drive you crazy.

• The deadlights in Stephen King's IT. ::: spoiler The scene where the turtle is dead hits me right in the existential dread. spoiler :::

• SOMA. There were sections in the game that were scary, but the entire concept is really a mind melt. It's not like it's not a common theoretical question, but going through it step by step is another thing. And if you go to the home page of it and read some of the short stories, it really adds to the whole experience.

I saw the 1982 version of The Thing when I was, like, 6 on HBO and had nightmares for almost a year. I’m 45 now, and that film still freaks me out!

All of them, that's why I can't do horror.

Signalis is a great game with a story that stuck with me for weeks. I wouldn't say it "terrifies me" but it's definitely both disturbing and heart wrenching.

Supersize Me

Event Horizon

Warning! Spoilers! I'd use the spoiler tag, but no matter how I do it (correct or incorrect), it doesn't show up for me.

Perfect Blue.

Not for the conventional murder or bad things happening, but the whole structure of not knowing what's real and what is just an illusion and not knowing how much time has passed.

The three body problem/rememberance of earth's past trilogy keeps me up a night every once in a while.

The Zone from the STALKER games disturbed me for years, but I'm such a grizzled veteran of the Zone now that I enjoy being in it. Night is still a little terrifying, though, and I don't care to use nightvision. Kills the vibe.

Hereditary really stuck with me after watching it—and I’m in my 30s. It would really get in my head when I was trying to fall asleep for at least 2 weeks. Would have to double check the corners of my ceiling.

The Bible

Soma

The "Don t look up" movie was a little too real for me.

I could never get past some levels on the Playstation 1 Spiderman game because all the villains aside from Rhino and Mysterio creep me out.

Not sure if this is what you were looking for, but this song is a masterpiece of horror manifest through audio. In fact the whole album is a piece of art, troubling and dark but so well crafted.

https://youtu.be/CwnxBWWLy9c?si=CAiSx58pHDkFMscQ

Edit: fixed wording

One that I really like is Dear David by Adam Ellis. And yeah yeah, I know that he's going for the usual "true ghost story" marketing shtick or whatever, but these stories that don't just use cheap jumpscares and instead build a sense of constant threat and impending doom are the ones that make it harder for me to sleep at night.

~~I heard that the movie is trash though 🙈~~