Are there any good horror films that try to draw on old age/being elderly as a source for fear...

You sound upset, are you trying to make a horror film about being old? Trying to use getting up to pee in the middle of the night as a new kind of jumpscare? Your film career will go nowhere, clean your room instead.

I was suggesting that he make a movie where someone is cursed to age rapidly

Warlock 1989

This was nightmarish desu, I don't want to be old bros

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I can't think of a horror movie that does that. The closest I can come up with is Lifeforce which has ET vampires that turn people into desiccated mummies who spread the disease.

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So Click ?

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The Visit, kind of.

The Taking of Deborah Logan is about an Alzheimer's patient who may or may not be possessed by a demon

It's also the best found footage movie and one of my favorite horror films

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>It's also the best found footage movie

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I like it as a twisted "13 going on 30" premise. Maybe "9 going on 90". Just wakes up one day and skipped all the dope parts in life but now has to suffer in a low budget nursing home where he is abused by a mean black nurse daily. Fuck im getting goosebumps already.

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>It's also the best found footage movie

That's really not saying a whole lot

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Obviously, it doesn't exist because people wouldn't want it. It's one of the hidden truths of society, and therefore no one will willingly admit to the idea consciously.

Yup. Definitely going with the smith and wesson retirement plan.

Of course with the 20 yo boomer meme we'll probably be logan's run'd by xirs in the very near future

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I can't believe this got away with such a seedy sex scene. I know she's technically in the body of a 30-year-old, but inside she's 13 for crying out loud.

You know, there's multiple reasons I'm suicidal, but just the existence of old age alone is enough to make me want to kill myself.

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not horror but here you go
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I have this on my wall.

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Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Nothing seems worth it.

True enough. At least no kids here and not ever likely so at least I won't be a burden and just an hero when I choose to.

>tfw you realize that anybody old/decrepit enough to accurately know what the worst effects of old age are like will also be incapable of communicating it, let alone directing a movie about it

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friendly reminder that your mom misses you and you should call more often, even if just to say what dumb shit you read on the internet today

Joke's on you, I don't have any family.

if my parents wanted me to be successful they should have raised me better. all the stress of great expectations without any help or guidance. fucking boomers man.

Yeah, this season kind of fits that.

The Skeleton Key (2005)
Dont know if its good, watched it as a kid

>good horror film
>jumpscare

but is it kinö?

It is a weird film, the Et vampires tits are kino but the film is kind of meh.

Sucks that these old people don't know how to Torrent stuff. They look so miserable just sitting there like that.

Deep down I really want to get a vasectomy because it would be nice to know I’ll never get a girl preggo, and also I have fucking terrible genes that I wouldn’t dare to pass on. Only problem is I’m 21 and everyone would probably think I’m fucking weird and also I’d probably miss the feeling of actually nutting.

>The last month of his life, Selby spent in and out of the hospital and died in Highland Park, Los Angeles, on April 26, 2004 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He refused morphine on his deathbed, although he was in pain.[11] The New York Times published his obituary the next day.[12]

after being a neet living in a retirement community, i realized it would make a good script. a good dark-comedy, horror film.
have a bunch of stuff written down, but haven't tried pulling it all together.

They’re practically guaranteed to have a cocktail of mental illnesses by that age. also they’re too tired to want to do anything.

Came to post this.

It actually utilize properly the genre.

want to work on it together? unironically

This is what will happen to all the boomers who just sit in front of the TV all day.

TV literally turns your brain off, so it deteriorates over time.

I shoot blanks now from a year of chemo and radiation. Kind of weird but I save a ton on toilet paper and truly makes JO sessions quick distractions since I don't even have to get out of the chair.

The only possible consolation is that we'll probably die in an SHTF scenario long before we're ever old. I think I'd actually take that over aging.

>and also I’d probably miss the feeling of actually nutting.
You don't stop nutting because of a vasectomy dude. It just removes the sperm, that's a small part of the nutting.

oh fuck for real? haha I thought it cuts off all of your semen.

there’s still the social problem, though. Id be bound to tell somebody at some point and everyone would think I’m a psycho

There's always Bubba Ho Tep

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Bubba Hotep?

I'm hoping for singularity in our lifetime, and if not then I guess i'd like to die in a puppy dog avalanche.

It would be good as fuck if executed correctly, but nobody would want to watch it because it would be quite literally the least sexy movie of all time, less sexy than Schindler's List, and nobody wants to think about their own mortality in that kind of way.

the dutch angles and poor lighting make this look creepy. but while looking at the photo I can't help but wonder if the old folks aren't actually having fun lol.

Just tell them you're not comfortable passing on some disease in your family. Surely most people would understand.

This.

I'd like to see a horror film from the point of a nursing home'd or otherwise "considered" invalid old person who is the only one that can perceive the threat, whatever it is, but the tragedy is that none of the zoomer people around them, family included perhaps, will believe them and they have to solve that shit by themselves.

Nobody has mentioned amour by Haneke the absolute state of this board I swear

FUND IT, SHLOMO!

cannes bait

About Schmidt

There are none because people make movies about previous or current parts of their lives, but there are no people to reflect on being old.

The thing I'm most afraid of is dementia, people on both sides of my family have had it, and watching my grandpa go from living at his home to being moved into my uncle's house to living in a retirement community and remembering nothing over the span of 3 years was depressing. The last time I remember seeing him was 5 months before he died, he didn't recognize anyone or remember where he was. Shit sucks.

they aren't.

Didn't read all the thread but sounds like a new concept.
Just steal the argument of every movie where the character is in a mad house and he claims not be crazy bit everything points to that, and even theie family abandons him, then he discovers he was victim of a trap and gets lobotomized so he can never escape...
Well just change it for a X dude who awakes one day and realize that now is an old men, and has been for years in a nurse home, starts asking cuestions but nobody takes him seriously, tries to get out but his to old to walk, days pass and finally their family goes to see him for all the shit hi is causing and then he is horrorized when he sees his kids are 40-50 year old men and treating him like shit, after being abandoned he founds a diary or videos or shit and discovers that someday he becomes crazy and can't remember anything because a witch/lifeforce steals his best years, don't know just give it an ugly end.
I invented this in 3 minutes some one with talen could do much better

Late Phases is a werewolf movie with an old blind main character living at a retirement place. Not sure if it's any good though, I only caught the beginning of it once.

Correction, I meant alzheimers. How fitting that I forget that.

>Deliver for Amazon FLEX
>Good work, better pay
>Get delivery to a shabby apartment complex over the river
>First thing I see is an old Mexican man walking his dogs outside
>Can't get in through the doors, the buzzer's gone and the directory's been gouged out
>One of the orderlies helps me inside
>Imagine an old, 1970s style tenement, the walls covered in crayon drawings and words such as, "LOVE" and "HOPE"
>Have to get a cart to take packages up to the customer's small, darkened apartment. Neighboring apartment's door was covered in the aforementioned drawings and words
>I'm getting anxious
>Have to return cart
>Return it to the washing room, and as I'm walking out I notice there's something written on the complex calender - no events, no appointments, just an announcement
>"Your loved ones might not answer your calls, they might ignore you and hate you. But you're still wanted, you still deserve respect as a human being."
>Finally broke, and made it back to my car before choking up
You have not seen misery until you've gone to places the poor and callous toss their parents.

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Late phases I’d like that

>Synecdoche, New York
>San Junipero
Also just movies about confronting death in general, like
>Jacob's Ladder

It's not about being old.
It's just an horror movie where an old women steals the body of a girl.
But imagine that movie from POV of the lawyer guy that was body swapped before, unable to move or do anything just watching how the girl fails to save you.
Just like that movie of the quadraplegic guy who can only blink his eyes, being trapped in your body for being old, crippled in an ugly situation could be kino, but Hollywoof preffers jumpscares.

Which one was the one where the kids visit their grandparents but it’s unsure if the grandparents are trying to kill them or just have dementia

That twist fucked me up the first time I saw it
Good movie

The visit?

I imagine dementia/Alzheimer's could be something along the lines of what Sam Neill experiences in this movie, only less stylized. The idea of losing even your sense of reality is absolutely terrifying. Personally, I'd rather commit suicide than have that happen.

>Reality isn't what it used to be.

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this may be a scary thought for you zooomers but it also shows why the movie's not made. only a zoomer guessing about what it's like to be old would think of such a thing in the first place.
btw scaredyfag teens someone who's even 30 knows that by the time you get old you change your mind about what's important and what's intolerable etc. so you're hardly ever in a worse mood than you were when you were younger

That isn't true, middle-aged men and elderly men have a higher risk of suicide.

Not a film but perfectly encapsulates the horror of ageing/dementia. Everywhere at the End Of Time by The Caretaker is a six album series that starts out as beautiful, tranquil samples of old jazz, soul, big band, and orchestral music from the 20s-40s but slowly degrades into horrifying dark ambient/music concrete until finally ending on a surrealistic closing song that sounds like a farewell choir song played through the muddied ears of a man reaching the final stage of brain decay. Very haunting series that might scratch the itch you have for this movie concept if listened in one complete go.

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That’s the one!

The Caretaker is wonderful. I love how the best taste stuff is never on its home board.

that's because they fucked up their lives (divorce) not because they're decrepit

The Notebook.

Don't Look Now and The Shining

Dunno the best thread would be:
Supernatural or some other natural phenomenon (aliens would come under this).

every time i hear the phrase 'plan for retirement' my blood pressure goes up

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Many writers have produced novels in their eighties. They're perfectly capable of communicating complex ideas, but said people have obviously been spared from the worse effect of old age, losing your mind.

you and me both user i live paycheck to paycheck and i am 30

>the worst*
I'm not French, just inattentive.

There are a ton of movies that feature scary old people. Pic related just as an example I watched recently. It's a very common theme.
It's usually not explicitly about the fear of old age, but the theme/idea is implied by the images.

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And the idea is further emphasized by contrasting the scary old people with young protagonists.
Also the theme of disease or being crippled, like the young protagonist coughing blood...

It's so prevalent in modern horror that it's symptomatic at this point.
I think it shows our culture's obsession with our physical bodies, which means religion stopped working as a coping strategy.

I'd say it's not that writers were luckily spared from those effects, but that being writers primed their brains to be more resistant, because of how you use it when writing a book. Unless you get proper alzheimer's you're probably a lot safer from dementia. I don't blame Terry Pratchett for "dying off from totally natural causes at home" once his alzheimer's made it clear he could no longer write, though.

It's always been prevalent, you goon.

how about mortal brain injury? film taken from the first person about a person whos accelerating condition causes his bearings on perception slip further and further until he stops existing?

If you say so. I'm not an expert on horror movie history, but I know that in the movies of the last 5-10 years I've seen it more often.

Whereas in the 80s 90s there was more "crazy evil people" or something.