# Great Realistic Minimalist Horror **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 8, 2019, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-realistic-minimalist-horror/833661 "2019-05-08T11:22:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-realistic-minimalist-horror/833661/1 "2019-05-08T11:22:25Z")
I saw “Room For Rent” (2019) and I had no idea it was a horror movie. I don’t like gore, and I like a good story. I think its why I’ve stayed away from the genre. Although I don’t remember gore, I couldn’t stand “Rosemary’s Baby” despite being a fan of Cassavetes acting (and his directing). There wasn’t a lot of movement, the setting was in the house for the most part, but it didn’t remind me of all the horrors people around me would discuss. I don’t like cliches, and would hope the acting was good. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-realistic-minimalist-horror/833661/2 "2019-05-08T12:54:50Z")
Since you have seen _Rosemary’s Baby_, you shout try to see _The Tenant_, which presupposes you’ve seen the other film. It’s great psychological horror – generally realistic and with a great final scene. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-realistic-minimalist-horror/833661/3 "2019-05-08T13:56:09Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > try to see _The Tenant_, which presupposes you’ve seen the other film. What the hell was up with all those people across the way standing in the lighted windows? It’s never explained, and it gives me the heebie jeebies just thinking about it. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-realistic-minimalist-horror/833661/4 "2019-05-08T14:08:09Z")
Don’t know that it qualifies as horror, but I always thought Wait Until Dark pretty scary based on a simple premise. Plus - Audrey Hepburn! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-realistic-minimalist-horror/833661/5 "2019-05-08T14:31:42Z")
_Session 9_ fits the the description of minimalist, I think. Not a lot of action, very little gore but atmospheric and disturbing as hell. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-realistic-minimalist-horror/833661/6 "2019-05-08T15:20:55Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > What the hell was up with all those people across the way standing in the lighted windows? It’s never explained, and it gives me the heebie jeebies just thinking about it. I know! That is one of the best, incomprehensible movies I’ve seen 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-realistic-minimalist-horror/833661/7 "2019-05-08T15:56:21Z")
_We Need To Talk About Kevin_ is a pretty good example of this. Minimalist - simple set pieces, few camera cuts or weird angles, mostly shot during the day or in brightly lit interior areas. Realistic - no supernatural elements or superhuman monsters, just a woman (Tilda Swinton) trying to raise a really fucked up kid. It has some weak plot elements, but overall I thought it was pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-realistic-minimalist-horror/833661/8 "2019-05-08T15:59:30Z")
_Don’t Look Now_ (1973), with Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie, has just a hint of a supernatural tone, but bunches and bunches of creepiness. ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-realistic-minimalist-horror/833661/9 "2019-05-08T18:41:24Z")
[https://www.c-span.org](https://www.c-span.org). Kind of slow in parts though. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-realistic-minimalist-horror/833661/10 "2019-05-08T20:08:32Z")
One of my go to favorites for a non-gore horror movie would be [The Others](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0230600/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1). ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-realistic-minimalist-horror/833661/11 "2019-05-09T14:56:56Z")
I vote The Others too! Also, The Haunting of Hill House - series on Netflix. ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2019, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-realistic-minimalist-horror/833661/12 "2019-05-11T13:57:07Z")
_Cookers_: very minimalistic, real scary, not much gore. _Open Water_: most of it takes place in one small area of the Caribbean Sea. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2019, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-realistic-minimalist-horror/833661/13 "2019-05-11T17:25:06Z")
Hide and Seek - DeNiro ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2019, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-realistic-minimalist-horror/833661/14 "2019-05-11T18:36:13Z")
I would consider “Peeping Tom” minimalist, with some genuinely unsettling scenes. Repulsion Death and the Maiden (intense enough to lift it past just “suspense”) ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2019, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-realistic-minimalist-horror/833661/15 "2019-05-11T21:12:32Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > I would consider “Peeping Tom” ) Great movie, and a great example. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2019, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-realistic-minimalist-horror/833661/16 "2019-05-12T01:46:23Z")
Thanks! I spose Blairwitch qualifies. “Bad Boy Bubby” (like Blairwitch - didn’t do much for me) ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-realistic-minimalist-horror/833661/17 "2019-05-13T01:55:31Z")
> [@Gray\_Ghost](#): > > [https://www.c-span.org](https://www.c-span.org). > > Kind of slow in parts though. “Laws are like sausages — it is best not to see them being made.” —attributed to Otto von Bismarck. ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-realistic-minimalist-horror/833661/18 "2019-05-13T15:30:38Z")
Robin Williams in “One-Hour Photo” ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-realistic-minimalist-horror/833661/19 "2019-05-13T16:17:11Z")
The Autopsy of Jane Doe was good this way, and The Witch ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-realistic-minimalist-horror/833661/20 "2019-05-13T16:24:22Z")
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