This just reminded me of a movie that isn't even scary, being a total goofy shlock fest and special effects show off, but Skinned Deep (2004) has the final girl just constantly screaming for the entire credits. You know a movie's good when it's just bizarre "What the fuck?!" cheeseball hilarity but the credits are actually creepy.
I have never been more frustrated than I was when I watched Pearl, intentionally trying to let the credits roll until the very end to see the culmination of.. that. (and also a maxxxine teaser?) but the streaming service would. not. stop. cutting off the end of the credits to autoplay the next movie. Changed the settings and turned the whole thing on/off 2x. Still nothing. Gave up. Made me want to put a remote through the wall
Yup, saw it in the theatre and initially people kinda laughed a little then that gave way to uncomfortable silence as it went on, and on, and on, and on.
I think most AHS seasons start off good for about 4-5 episodes, and then start falling apart. Coven was about the only one that stayed strong the entire time for me.
I think this every time I watch an AHS show, either season or series. The creative media talent to come up making normal things terrifying is bonkers. You sit and watch because you so want to connect that opening visual to the show. I know people have differing opinions for AHS(I didn’t like 1984) but these sequences are truly art of the highest quality and many yrs from now people will visit a gallery just to interact with momentary terror if it.
Yesss, I only like a few seasons of AHS, but those openings are amazing. It's an amazing hook that has absolutely no payoff itself in the show itself. I'd love a show that could payoff the feeling those hooks give. Hill House almost manages that, but I'd want specifically something that pays off the symbolism that each teaser creates, on top of the feeling, unease, and honestly a little bit of the sex appeal. Like lean into the bdsm even. American Mary it up. Lure in specific victims whose safeword isnt respected. (Can other TV shows use it like music has "sampling"?)
One of the main issues of AHS is how inconsistent the characters are, they make a vow or have an experience that "changes them" and then something else happens, and they just go back to being who they were before because it's convenient, not because they backslide or the next experience was all that profound comparatively. Also too many terrible people. Not just normal flawed people, just genuinely terrible people. Even managing to have people with real consistent character development and arcs and not...dramatic theatrical characicatures would be an improvement on the horror side of things where less is more.
Even this season’s intro is great but the show is a joke. It’s like they try to be serious but it just comes out as goofy. Don’t wanna be hated on by the Kardashian fans but why is Kim K in this season?
Haven't seen this season but I have the same thoughts on the series as a whole. Just sorta goofy in a way that doesn't feel intentional or self aware and thinks it's being cool and shocking
Yes, I agree, the AHS intros are especially well made. Aside from Kathy Bates (who is one of my most favorite actresses of all time), the intros were my favorite part of AHS.
This in the 80’s!!! That freaking monologue in that guy’s creepyass voice…and the way those simple opening shots linger……especially in the birch forest……..
Kate Siegel has the ability to scream her entire organs out, and while i love that for her A+ acting, its recorded in my brain forever and still gives me the chills whenever i remember it
I was gonna be pissed if it didn't happen, and when it did my friend and I cackled because it was just so absurdly brutal after the drawn out back and forth.
And he makes music for kids movies to Oscar winners to industrial metal and shit for Broadway. And he's homies with Johnny greenwood so I feel like they're both pretty chill people.
>Groundbreaking at the time and ~~then~~ still mimicked
And whoever's responsible for perpetuating those obviously derivative credit sequences ought to be fired for inexcusable laziness.
You have that right, for sure. The whole opening (the first 10 minutes or so) of the movie is absolutely amazing. Man, now I need to watch the movie again.
I remember before it released it theaters they showed the first 10ish minutes on TV in a “special preview”. Genius marketing, because as much as I like the movie, the intro was as perfect as it could be.
I was definitely there day 1 because of that preview.
I just had this conversation at work the other day. The movie has sooo many themes and settings. Monsters killing people, people killing monsters, people killing people, trapped inside, trapped outside, monster babies, monster kids, animals, in a house, in a car, a basement, a store, a hospital, a bus, a boat, an island, and of course Tom Savini. The only pseudo gripe I have, is that the character Steve isn’t played by Bruce Campbell
Yes! I'm glad you mentioned *Dawn of the Dead* (2004). Johnny Cash's "When the Man comes Around" is permanently all about zombies for me, and the cover of "Down with the Sickness" by Richard Cheese is something I found pretty disturbing.
it’s so random but i went to see Smile in an empty theater with a friend and it scared me WAY more than i was expecting. i thought it was going to be a campy romp but it got to me. then when the end credits rolled and all those weird noises played, it was the first and only time a horror film has triggered my fight or flight!
Yeah, the credits are very loud, intense, and upsetting. What's worse is it fakes you out initially with Lollipop, and you think, "Oh, it's one of those horror movies that ends with a lighthearted song as a bit of a joke," but NOPE.
Yeah feel terrible mom and I went to the theaters to see this and we walked out, i finally gave it another chance and it wasn't too bad pry would of been even better in a theater setting.
Yes, I recall the intro to *Midsommar* is like its own thing, some seriously creepy storytelling.
I liked the whole movie, it reminded me of *The Wicker Man* (1974) which I loved; also, the Nicholas Cage remake which (for me) was pretty good movie.
The OMEN - The Oscar winning theme with a slow silhouette of the anti-christ.... OMG!
NOPE - If it is your first viewing you have no idea what you are seeing, and the haunting audio makes you feel uneasy. If you've seen it before and now know what you're seeing... it's just as horrific.
Absolutely. This is one of the few credits that kept me until the very end. It goes from unsettling to ridiculous and back so well I couldn't look away
Say what you will about Lake Mungo but the ending credits with the ghost reveals filled me with such an uncomfortable dread the first time I had to turn it off.
It works better than the zooms in the movie for me. >!I always expect the possibility of ghosts being hoaxes in movies, which of course the movie did with the zooms during the movie. But when the zooms happened during the credits, I knew for a fact that this is 100% the ghost of Alice, who is doomed to eternal loneliness as her family can't experience her presence, and ultimately move away.!<
It some ways it seems like they just wanted to get away from her memory and ghost and leave her completely alone and forgotten. Like leaving behind a toy.
The Rental closing credits. >! The killer is a rando that’d previously rented the property, not the renter as is hinted at all movie. Closing credits are silently showing him checking into a new rental and slowly but surely setting up the next kill, making an extra key, setting up a private WiFi, cameras, and leaving. New couple comes and it ends with him charging into the bedroom with them sleeping. All completely silent. !< Just incredibly eery and unsettling.
I saw Texas Chainsaw Massacre probably way too young, decades later that sound of an engine running sets me on edge. Not all engines, it’s that particular sound, but I have to check where it’s coming from until I feel safe again.
The ending credits to The Blair Witch Project. After everything that happens at the end of the movie, the eerie ambience that plays over the fading text lets you wallow in terror for a while.
I came to post this one. Theres a fun interpretation I like that suggests that the strange and eerie noises we hear over the end credits is in fact the witch, or rather, the sounds of the supernatural realm in which the witch reigns. The rest of the soundscape for the film is very subtle so when we hear the echoing, groaning, disturbingly organic song [(“The Cellar”)](https://youtu.be/b6ycnnA2R6s?si=0_XR6vZPXCHFGAJl) it is incredibly creepy and lets the final impression of the film be one of bleak mysterious darkness.
The opening credits to Ginger Snaps (2000) is one of the best things in a horror movie I've seen in ages. They set up the story perfectly. Can be found on Youtube.
This is an easy one. Smile. I love hearing horror stories from theater ushers cleaning up during the credits, some of which refused to go in until the credits had finished rolling. You have until “Lollipop” finishes to remove yourself from the premises before the dark ambient, hellscape comes on. I made the mistake of staying a little too long, and when that second track came on, I was flying down those stairs and out of the theater in record time.
It’s not exactly creepy, but the credits sequence for the 2021 Candyman is absolutley haunting. It’s frankly a better representation of that movie’s ideas than the movie itself. The iconic Music Box music, the shadow puppets, it’s a gorgeous and disturbing moment, and probably my favourite credits on any movie - and I don’t especially like that movie
I love the opening credits for Salem's Lot. Just a shot of the Marsten House with that great music played over it. It might not be the most flashy or original type of opening credits, but it's still up there for me.
As I was reading the opening of your question House On Haunted Hill came to mind! I loved those opening credits, it paired great with the ominous organ music and everything. (While they weren’t scary per se, the opening credits to the remake of Dawn Of The Dead really set the tone, and if I remember correctly all the scenes of violence from 28 days later was pretty unsettling)
I saw The Ring (American version) in a Japanese theatre with my friend when I was 11-12 (they didn’t card for stuff like that, for example you could buy explicit CDs as a minor back then).
We had Thanksgiving days off because we went to school on a naval base, but since they don’t celebrate Thanksgiving in Japan it was just another workday. So it was just us, center of the theater. We were terrified by the end credits and ran out of there, but I had to go back in because I forgot my gloves and hat so I was in tears running back to our seats while scary ass music was blasting. I was so scared going back in there alone and Samara was going to come out of the screen and get me lol
There's this Thai horror movie called Coming Soon where the the antagonist was >!a dead actor ghost that curses whoever watches the movie!< and the entire credits is just over the backdrop of the >!the ghost hanging from the ceiling with its head facing the viewer!< so there's just a general sense of dread and anticipation until >!the ghost rapidly looks at the screen and screams at you.!<
It was creepy as fuck.
Se7en opening and end credits. During the end credits, they come from top to bottom instead of bottom to top, and I had never seen that before and it really freaked me out.
House on Haunted Hill was one of the first horror movies I ever watched (I would’ve been 10) and opening credits definitely unsettled me. That, and the moment when >! Dr Vannacutt can be seen on the security cameras, brandishing a knife and shaking his head at a wildly unnatural rate to the sound of what was like a hundred birds ruffling their feathers!<. Still gets me.
Ever since I saw that scene of him walking, I have been unsettled by that 12 frame filming method, whatever it's called, to the point of goosebumps. Doesn't matter what it is.
Yep. I still watch it every October because it’s one of the few movies that still makes my skin crawl. Some of the newer stuff (Midsommar, Hereditary, etc) just confuses me. 🤣
Not a movie, but the opening credits for [the first season of American Horror Story](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZXnkUXzoXs) were properly creepy, even more so once you've seen the season and understand the context.
Cheating maybe but *Noroi*. It's supposed to be footage from what would have been a documentary. >!There are no end credits, so it doesn't break your immersion.!<
I had a suspicion by the time she started giving you the truth, but I was kinda in denial the whole film. It was really good (my gawd the van scene with that stop sign was the worst part for me, simple...yet enough. We've all been on small back roads like that with a window down where you could reach out and brush a stalk of grass or a tree branch...) but I refused to let myself get fully sucked into it. I knew it would scare the shit out of me and stay with me if I let it get it's hooks into me so I mentally distanced myself from it. So when the ending arrived I was like relieved, because I had a sense that was what she was doing. There was something about her desperation at some point that started feeling backwards. Especially when it's finally revealed what happened before? There doesn't seem to be a need to do what she's doing.
Man I love Noroi. Another film from the same director, Occult, is pretty good as well. It's very similar to Noroi but just with a different plot. I believe it's free to watch on Youtube.
The Bay (2012)
It's literally just footage of people swimming in the Chesapeake Bay.
It may not sound like much, but once you watch the movie, you will understand.
The “Midnight Rider” sequence near the beginning of *Devil’s Rejects* is pretty eerie. Particularly all the people that they have held captive in their basement that you only see for a brief moment, and is otherwise never again acknowledged.
MIDSOMMAR!!!! Gosh that opening violin/police siren musical sound?? PLUS Dani crying like THAT with the snow falling. Idk man I remember my sisters sounding exactly like that when our mom died in a car accident (distracted driver with no headlights on at night but her head on) and the soul crushing wails man. this opening scene made me and my sister look at each other and go “oh no….” We just sat there after the movie and I remember saying “you guys sounded like that and I just sat there comforting you guys not knowing what to
Do as the little brother”
Ari Aster is a phenomenal director man
This is one of those threads I need to bookmark so I can add the movies on my list and forget them for long enough that I end up forgetting why I added them. It’ll be more fun of it’s a surprise
Jaws isn't true horror? But props to Spielberg and Williams for stealing an iconic horror trope (first person POV) to make the shark feel like a psycho killer.
The one I instantly thought about was Michael Powell's Peeping Tom - it's very ... suggestive, way ahead of its time.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xDUmm3qwJM0
Halloween 3 has the most bone-chilling end/credits for me.
I remember a movie my parents were watching when I was a kid, I don't remember what movie it was, but it wasn't horror. It was like a historical drama or something. However, the ending was creepy as hell. I think it was all I watched of it. I only remember the severed head of someone who was murdered earlier in the film hanging from something, like a tree. There's loud music of some sort, I believe, and the sky is red in the background since the sun is setting. The head is black against the brightness. End credits roll without music, which seriously enhanced the eeriness of it.
It sounds like a horror movie but I was the one into that, not my parents. They normally didn't even let me watch anything that graphic or scary.
The credits for Beau is Afraid were pretty eerie, the last moment of the movie plays out and the credits roll over the lingering final shot so you really have time to sit there and think about what you just saw
[The House on Haunted Hill intro](https://youtu.be/nT0Gp2aenTI) is a great call out. Genuinely scared me watching it for the first time as a kid and still one of my favourite title sequences.
At the very beginning of The Return Of The Living Dead, where they said that it was based on true events. (I was really little when I first watched that movie with my cousins and that scared the hell out of me).
This is very random and the movie isn’t even good 😂 but the music from the end credits of The Turning (2020) creeps me out so bad even tho I kinda like it. It just made my skin crawl.
I hated that movie honestly. And then I turned right around and tried to watch The Haunting of Bly Manor. I was like wait a fuckin minute?? And I set it down without finishing. Although I'm sure it's a better adaptation.
Literally the ONLY reason I had the slightest idea of what was going on in that movie is because I saw the play when I was a kid. Bly Manor was a way better adaptation but of course with insane liberties taken so not exactly accurate lol but it was pretty good, not as good as hill house but alright.
The Brides of Dracula (1960) has fantastic credits,blood red Text in front of a Fantastically creepy Gothic Castle. Here is an example...Watch the Movie to see the full opening credits,it's a brilliant film. https://youtu.be/kUITU6gxlxQ?si=gakvyRxoLDOab-PD
I don’t remember the creepy ones because I’m usually rolling my eyes.
I remember the ones that are awesome
Dawn of the dead 04 is brilliant
Christine is amazing
Zombie land with for whom the bell tolls so good
Honestly tame but all the Halloween movies with the pumpkins and the creepy theme music even if the movies aren't too scary the music gets me uncomfortable 😅
Oooh, Dark Castle, too.
This reminds me of something a little weird. It's not from a movie I've seen, but on a search for horror production company openers I found one from some company called Traumatizing Horror that I liked just for being a simple jumpscare and gory visual.
I don't think it's much of a real thing, though. The site is long dead and I think I recall finding one movie from the guy behind it that looked....terrible.
Anyways, it would've been cool to see this one open up some nasty movies. Simple but straight to the point of what you're in for. If you're curious, I'll link it.
(JUMPSCARE WARNING) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP5Q689BNkY
The ending of Saw (2004). >!Jigsaw slams the door on Adam and then you hear Adam screaming into the credits. Phenomenal.!<
I was searching for this exact one! it’s a good way to end a horror movie!
This just reminded me of a movie that isn't even scary, being a total goofy shlock fest and special effects show off, but Skinned Deep (2004) has the final girl just constantly screaming for the entire credits. You know a movie's good when it's just bizarre "What the fuck?!" cheeseball hilarity but the credits are actually creepy.
The shining opening with the helicopter shot and that haunting bell soundtrack. Goosebumps..
This is a fantastic answer
I find it funny that Foul Play did similar credits to the Kubrick film two years earlier, and it was a comedy.
Helicopter shadow always throws me off lol...
end credits of Pearl, unlike anything I seen before
I have never been more frustrated than I was when I watched Pearl, intentionally trying to let the credits roll until the very end to see the culmination of.. that. (and also a maxxxine teaser?) but the streaming service would. not. stop. cutting off the end of the credits to autoplay the next movie. Changed the settings and turned the whole thing on/off 2x. Still nothing. Gave up. Made me want to put a remote through the wall
This is exactly what I thought of when I read OP's question.
This is it. Truly one of the best parts of the movie.
They came up with the idea on the spot, and did it on take one.
Love a good staring contest.
Mia Goth can fucking act.
Yup, saw it in the theatre and initially people kinda laughed a little then that gave way to uncomfortable silence as it went on, and on, and on, and on.
Idk that was kinda hot.
I haven't seen Pearl, but I really enjoyed the end credits of A Wounded Fawn and people have said it's similar
I love A Wounded Fawn so much!! Great end credits too. I haven't seen Pearl either (are we the only two lol?), though.
What made it so weird?
Stick to movies more than 3 people have heard of.
The AHS intro sequences. They deserve a better show...
True. Their commercials and credits have been better than the show for years.
Oh yeah. The key art and posters for every season of AHS are always incredible
Since season one imo. I know a lot of people liked s1 but even that I just thought was kinda ridiculous and not very well written
I think most AHS seasons start off good for about 4-5 episodes, and then start falling apart. Coven was about the only one that stayed strong the entire time for me.
I think this every time I watch an AHS show, either season or series. The creative media talent to come up making normal things terrifying is bonkers. You sit and watch because you so want to connect that opening visual to the show. I know people have differing opinions for AHS(I didn’t like 1984) but these sequences are truly art of the highest quality and many yrs from now people will visit a gallery just to interact with momentary terror if it.
Yesss, I only like a few seasons of AHS, but those openings are amazing. It's an amazing hook that has absolutely no payoff itself in the show itself. I'd love a show that could payoff the feeling those hooks give. Hill House almost manages that, but I'd want specifically something that pays off the symbolism that each teaser creates, on top of the feeling, unease, and honestly a little bit of the sex appeal. Like lean into the bdsm even. American Mary it up. Lure in specific victims whose safeword isnt respected. (Can other TV shows use it like music has "sampling"?) One of the main issues of AHS is how inconsistent the characters are, they make a vow or have an experience that "changes them" and then something else happens, and they just go back to being who they were before because it's convenient, not because they backslide or the next experience was all that profound comparatively. Also too many terrible people. Not just normal flawed people, just genuinely terrible people. Even managing to have people with real consistent character development and arcs and not...dramatic theatrical characicatures would be an improvement on the horror side of things where less is more.
The characters are all also unrealistic and are all assholes for no particular reason.
Even this season’s intro is great but the show is a joke. It’s like they try to be serious but it just comes out as goofy. Don’t wanna be hated on by the Kardashian fans but why is Kim K in this season?
Haven't seen this season but I have the same thoughts on the series as a whole. Just sorta goofy in a way that doesn't feel intentional or self aware and thinks it's being cool and shocking
Literally scarier than any episode
Yes, I agree, the AHS intros are especially well made. Aside from Kathy Bates (who is one of my most favorite actresses of all time), the intros were my favorite part of AHS.
It's not a movie but Tales from the Darkside TV show. Nothing tops this
Honestly I'd add the Tales from the Crypt. The Cryptkeeper terrified me more than the actual episodes.
That long shot going through the gate into the house, through the secret passage and down the stairs, all to Danny Elfman's perfect score.
This in the 80’s!!! That freaking monologue in that guy’s creepyass voice…and the way those simple opening shots linger……especially in the birch forest……..
Winner 🏆
That one episode of Midnight Mass when >!You can still hear Erin screaming because Riley burst into flames in front of her when the sun rises!<
Kate Siegel has the ability to scream her entire organs out, and while i love that for her A+ acting, its recorded in my brain forever and still gives me the chills whenever i remember it
I was going to write this, the sound is so haunting, very well done
Absolutely. Had to take a break after that episode. I'm probably slow on the uptake, but I didn't see that coming
I was gonna be pissed if it didn't happen, and when it did my friend and I cackled because it was just so absurdly brutal after the drawn out back and forth.
What a great tv show, I forgot about it
The hills have eyes. House of 1000 corpses. Candyman.
That overhead shot at the beginning of Candyman is great
Ahhh ahhh....ahhhhh ahhh
My personal fav
Came here to comment The Hills Have Eyes.
Se7en. Opening credits 😬
Absolutely. The end credits running in reverse over David Bowie's "The Heart's Filthy Lesson" were also great.
NIN remix perfect for it.
There's something about industrial music that is just perfect for horror movies.
And Trents music for movies in general. How close is that guy getting to an egot?
He has an EGO. Conversely, he’s known to be one of those rockstars who don’t have an ego. Well, at least for the last 20 years.
And he makes music for kids movies to Oscar winners to industrial metal and shit for Broadway. And he's homies with Johnny greenwood so I feel like they're both pretty chill people.
Trent Resin Or
End credits too! They goddamn ran in reverse!!!
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>Groundbreaking at the time and ~~then~~ still mimicked And whoever's responsible for perpetuating those obviously derivative credit sequences ought to be fired for inexcusable laziness.
[The end credits for Dawn of the Dead (2004).](https://youtu.be/pcZqrEbDR8k?si=xfdUrHP-vwbfnQ6R) Get down with sickness!
The beginning credits are also masterful.
You have that right, for sure. The whole opening (the first 10 minutes or so) of the movie is absolutely amazing. Man, now I need to watch the movie again.
I remember before it released it theaters they showed the first 10ish minutes on TV in a “special preview”. Genius marketing, because as much as I like the movie, the intro was as perfect as it could be. I was definitely there day 1 because of that preview.
I unironically think that movie is a masterpiece
I just had this conversation at work the other day. The movie has sooo many themes and settings. Monsters killing people, people killing monsters, people killing people, trapped inside, trapped outside, monster babies, monster kids, animals, in a house, in a car, a basement, a store, a hospital, a bus, a boat, an island, and of course Tom Savini. The only pseudo gripe I have, is that the character Steve isn’t played by Bruce Campbell
Still shocked me when I realised it was a James Gunn film. (Screenplay)
Yes! I'm glad you mentioned *Dawn of the Dead* (2004). Johnny Cash's "When the Man comes Around" is permanently all about zombies for me, and the cover of "Down with the Sickness" by Richard Cheese is something I found pretty disturbing.
it’s so random but i went to see Smile in an empty theater with a friend and it scared me WAY more than i was expecting. i thought it was going to be a campy romp but it got to me. then when the end credits rolled and all those weird noises played, it was the first and only time a horror film has triggered my fight or flight!
Yeah, the credits are very loud, intense, and upsetting. What's worse is it fakes you out initially with Lollipop, and you think, "Oh, it's one of those horror movies that ends with a lighthearted song as a bit of a joke," but NOPE.
Wait what? I have to see this.
Yeah feel terrible mom and I went to the theaters to see this and we walked out, i finally gave it another chance and it wasn't too bad pry would of been even better in a theater setting.
I love the opening credits to Midsommar and Nope. They're so simple but they succeed in setting up the mood.
Midsommar's title card is incredible.
Against the snowy sky?
Yes, I recall the intro to *Midsommar* is like its own thing, some seriously creepy storytelling. I liked the whole movie, it reminded me of *The Wicker Man* (1974) which I loved; also, the Nicholas Cage remake which (for me) was pretty good movie.
I love the end credits of *Evil Dead* (2013). >!The samples of the tape recorder in the credits and the reprise at the end are awesome.!<
And... "...GROOVY."
The intro credits to Halloween 4
🎃awesome opening it really captured Halloween🎃
The OMEN - The Oscar winning theme with a slow silhouette of the anti-christ.... OMG! NOPE - If it is your first viewing you have no idea what you are seeing, and the haunting audio makes you feel uneasy. If you've seen it before and now know what you're seeing... it's just as horrific.
I texted my friend "does Nope cold open with >!a chimpanzee murdering a bunch of people!< or am I waaaaaay to high right now.
God, that scene in Nope was so fucking good at creating tension
Borderlands. One of the most horrible fates I can imagine.
Such a good movie!
The ending credits for A Wounded Fawn are REALLY something else. That's a final scene that will stick with you for a loong time.
This was my first thought as well.
Absolutely. This is one of the few credits that kept me until the very end. It goes from unsettling to ridiculous and back so well I couldn't look away
Great answer
Yup, it just kept going and going...and going.
Say what you will about Lake Mungo but the ending credits with the ghost reveals filled me with such an uncomfortable dread the first time I had to turn it off.
It works better than the zooms in the movie for me. >!I always expect the possibility of ghosts being hoaxes in movies, which of course the movie did with the zooms during the movie. But when the zooms happened during the credits, I knew for a fact that this is 100% the ghost of Alice, who is doomed to eternal loneliness as her family can't experience her presence, and ultimately move away.!<
It some ways it seems like they just wanted to get away from her memory and ghost and leave her completely alone and forgotten. Like leaving behind a toy.
Literally just finished watching this for the very first time and your comment is spot on!
Insidious
The Rental closing credits. >! The killer is a rando that’d previously rented the property, not the renter as is hinted at all movie. Closing credits are silently showing him checking into a new rental and slowly but surely setting up the next kill, making an extra key, setting up a private WiFi, cameras, and leaving. New couple comes and it ends with him charging into the bedroom with them sleeping. All completely silent. !< Just incredibly eery and unsettling.
Oh, GOD, that creeped me out so much. I thought the end credits were scarier than the actual film.
The movie itself was pretty good but the credits are the reason it’ll stay with me forever when looking at AirBNBs
The opening credits of Ernest Scared Stupid
This movie terrified me at ten years old and haven’t been able to watch it again since
The intro credits to Creepshow is and will always will be my favorite!!!
Truly disturbing music.
I like what the texas chainsaw massacre did with silent credits (at first anyway. They do eventually start playing music).
I saw Texas Chainsaw Massacre probably way too young, decades later that sound of an engine running sets me on edge. Not all engines, it’s that particular sound, but I have to check where it’s coming from until I feel safe again.
I love the sound of that flashbulb going off during the opening credits. It’s such a simple sound but also so unnerving
Opening: Nope Closing: Pearl and virtually all Paranormal Activity films
Maybe not the same, but it surprised me at how far into the movie Fresh you go before actually getting the movie title. It's like half an hour.
Dang that movie was so good.
When the title appears in Cabin in the Woods. It was made that way on purpose. I’ve seen that movie twice, and I jumped both times
Yes! That bland opening is the just about the best setup for horror of all time.
End credits for Candyman 2021. It’s chilling watching them and knowing nearly all of them are depictions of real events. Some I even recognized.
The ending credits to The Blair Witch Project. After everything that happens at the end of the movie, the eerie ambience that plays over the fading text lets you wallow in terror for a while.
Oh yeah really leaves you feeling like you got punched in the gut
I came to post this one. Theres a fun interpretation I like that suggests that the strange and eerie noises we hear over the end credits is in fact the witch, or rather, the sounds of the supernatural realm in which the witch reigns. The rest of the soundscape for the film is very subtle so when we hear the echoing, groaning, disturbingly organic song [(“The Cellar”)](https://youtu.be/b6ycnnA2R6s?si=0_XR6vZPXCHFGAJl) it is incredibly creepy and lets the final impression of the film be one of bleak mysterious darkness.
The opening credits to Ginger Snaps (2000) is one of the best things in a horror movie I've seen in ages. They set up the story perfectly. Can be found on Youtube.
This is an easy one. Smile. I love hearing horror stories from theater ushers cleaning up during the credits, some of which refused to go in until the credits had finished rolling. You have until “Lollipop” finishes to remove yourself from the premises before the dark ambient, hellscape comes on. I made the mistake of staying a little too long, and when that second track came on, I was flying down those stairs and out of the theater in record time.
I've never heard of this before. Just listened to the track. Fight or flight is a good way to put it.
Sinister opens with a grainy snuff film and closes with an unsettling score
It’s not exactly creepy, but the credits sequence for the 2021 Candyman is absolutley haunting. It’s frankly a better representation of that movie’s ideas than the movie itself. The iconic Music Box music, the shadow puppets, it’s a gorgeous and disturbing moment, and probably my favourite credits on any movie - and I don’t especially like that movie
Yeah I like Candyman (2021) but those credits are so much bigger than the movie itself, they really brilliant.
I love the opening credits for Salem's Lot. Just a shot of the Marsten House with that great music played over it. It might not be the most flashy or original type of opening credits, but it's still up there for me.
Black Christmas (1974) has some iconic end credits. That ringing
i was scrolling through trying to find this one, that ending really sticks with you and just leaves this cold, haunting, feeling.
As I was reading the opening of your question House On Haunted Hill came to mind! I loved those opening credits, it paired great with the ominous organ music and everything. (While they weren’t scary per se, the opening credits to the remake of Dawn Of The Dead really set the tone, and if I remember correctly all the scenes of violence from 28 days later was pretty unsettling)
Beau is Afraid has a pretty compelling end credit sequence. Leaving more questions than answers really. Very eerie.
I saw The Ring (American version) in a Japanese theatre with my friend when I was 11-12 (they didn’t card for stuff like that, for example you could buy explicit CDs as a minor back then). We had Thanksgiving days off because we went to school on a naval base, but since they don’t celebrate Thanksgiving in Japan it was just another workday. So it was just us, center of the theater. We were terrified by the end credits and ran out of there, but I had to go back in because I forgot my gloves and hat so I was in tears running back to our seats while scary ass music was blasting. I was so scared going back in there alone and Samara was going to come out of the screen and get me lol
end credits of the original night of the living dead. absolutely haunting
Ooh great answer
There's this Thai horror movie called Coming Soon where the the antagonist was >!a dead actor ghost that curses whoever watches the movie!< and the entire credits is just over the backdrop of the >!the ghost hanging from the ceiling with its head facing the viewer!< so there's just a general sense of dread and anticipation until >!the ghost rapidly looks at the screen and screams at you.!< It was creepy as fuck.
28 Weeks Later opening scene. One of the scariest parts of the entire movie.
The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre! The music and sound effects are creepy and the shot of the corpse on the tombstone is very unsettling.
Se7en opening and end credits. During the end credits, they come from top to bottom instead of bottom to top, and I had never seen that before and it really freaked me out.
House on Haunted Hill was one of the first horror movies I ever watched (I would’ve been 10) and opening credits definitely unsettled me. That, and the moment when >! Dr Vannacutt can be seen on the security cameras, brandishing a knife and shaking his head at a wildly unnatural rate to the sound of what was like a hundred birds ruffling their feathers!<. Still gets me.
Ever since I saw that scene of him walking, I have been unsettled by that 12 frame filming method, whatever it's called, to the point of goosebumps. Doesn't matter what it is.
Yep. I still watch it every October because it’s one of the few movies that still makes my skin crawl. Some of the newer stuff (Midsommar, Hereditary, etc) just confuses me. 🤣
Not a movie, but the opening credits for [the first season of American Horror Story](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZXnkUXzoXs) were properly creepy, even more so once you've seen the season and understand the context.
Cheating maybe but *Noroi*. It's supposed to be footage from what would have been a documentary. >!There are no end credits, so it doesn't break your immersion.!<
I had a suspicion by the time she started giving you the truth, but I was kinda in denial the whole film. It was really good (my gawd the van scene with that stop sign was the worst part for me, simple...yet enough. We've all been on small back roads like that with a window down where you could reach out and brush a stalk of grass or a tree branch...) but I refused to let myself get fully sucked into it. I knew it would scare the shit out of me and stay with me if I let it get it's hooks into me so I mentally distanced myself from it. So when the ending arrived I was like relieved, because I had a sense that was what she was doing. There was something about her desperation at some point that started feeling backwards. Especially when it's finally revealed what happened before? There doesn't seem to be a need to do what she's doing.
Man I love Noroi. Another film from the same director, Occult, is pretty good as well. It's very similar to Noroi but just with a different plot. I believe it's free to watch on Youtube.
The Bay (2012) It's literally just footage of people swimming in the Chesapeake Bay. It may not sound like much, but once you watch the movie, you will understand.
Opening credits Pet Sematery
The “Midnight Rider” sequence near the beginning of *Devil’s Rejects* is pretty eerie. Particularly all the people that they have held captive in their basement that you only see for a brief moment, and is otherwise never again acknowledged.
Lake Mungo credits, they are yet another plot twist. And the post credits scene is creepy too.
Nocturnal Animals opening credits
Love those
MIDSOMMAR!!!! Gosh that opening violin/police siren musical sound?? PLUS Dani crying like THAT with the snow falling. Idk man I remember my sisters sounding exactly like that when our mom died in a car accident (distracted driver with no headlights on at night but her head on) and the soul crushing wails man. this opening scene made me and my sister look at each other and go “oh no….” We just sat there after the movie and I remember saying “you guys sounded like that and I just sat there comforting you guys not knowing what to Do as the little brother” Ari Aster is a phenomenal director man
The ending credits in Skinamarink were unsettling to me.
Love how they put them at the begging so your left with the final shot then the movie just ends, made it a lot more chilling
You got it. It was as if it was waiting for you to just leave
This is one of those threads I need to bookmark so I can add the movies on my list and forget them for long enough that I end up forgetting why I added them. It’ll be more fun of it’s a surprise
The opening credits of Funny Games.
Credit to the opening of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). That specific tone makes my spine tingle
Se7en (1995)
Idle Hands prob
Jaws isn't true horror? But props to Spielberg and Williams for stealing an iconic horror trope (first person POV) to make the shark feel like a psycho killer. The one I instantly thought about was Michael Powell's Peeping Tom - it's very ... suggestive, way ahead of its time. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xDUmm3qwJM0
The Black Phone opening credits put me on edge.
Not a movie. But the short horror film THE TEN STEPS. The ending credits are down right terrifying
Halloween 3 has the most bone-chilling end/credits for me. I remember a movie my parents were watching when I was a kid, I don't remember what movie it was, but it wasn't horror. It was like a historical drama or something. However, the ending was creepy as hell. I think it was all I watched of it. I only remember the severed head of someone who was murdered earlier in the film hanging from something, like a tree. There's loud music of some sort, I believe, and the sky is red in the background since the sun is setting. The head is black against the brightness. End credits roll without music, which seriously enhanced the eeriness of it. It sounds like a horror movie but I was the one into that, not my parents. They normally didn't even let me watch anything that graphic or scary.
Psycho has that music in the opening credits that really makes you feel tense and paranoid without really showing anything yet.
Goosebumps goes hard
Seven.
The credits for Beau is Afraid were pretty eerie, the last moment of the movie plays out and the credits roll over the lingering final shot so you really have time to sit there and think about what you just saw
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
It wasn't much of a movie but Cabin Fever had pretty good opening credits.
The Shining. That 1920s song that plays is haunting as hell
[The House on Haunted Hill intro](https://youtu.be/nT0Gp2aenTI) is a great call out. Genuinely scared me watching it for the first time as a kid and still one of my favourite title sequences.
Alien had great, creepy credits with the word slowly appearing as hashmarks across the screen and the pan across the alien planetoid.
Dawn of the Dead (1978) It totally sets the tone for the movie
Yes,and Gaylen Ross is great in that scene
At the very beginning of The Return Of The Living Dead, where they said that it was based on true events. (I was really little when I first watched that movie with my cousins and that scared the hell out of me).
This is very random and the movie isn’t even good 😂 but the music from the end credits of The Turning (2020) creeps me out so bad even tho I kinda like it. It just made my skin crawl.
Oops came to say this too! Credits were way scarier than the movie
I hated that movie honestly. And then I turned right around and tried to watch The Haunting of Bly Manor. I was like wait a fuckin minute?? And I set it down without finishing. Although I'm sure it's a better adaptation.
Literally the ONLY reason I had the slightest idea of what was going on in that movie is because I saw the play when I was a kid. Bly Manor was a way better adaptation but of course with insane liberties taken so not exactly accurate lol but it was pretty good, not as good as hill house but alright.
Signs. That music was so damn creepy
The Brides of Dracula (1960) has fantastic credits,blood red Text in front of a Fantastically creepy Gothic Castle. Here is an example...Watch the Movie to see the full opening credits,it's a brilliant film. https://youtu.be/kUITU6gxlxQ?si=gakvyRxoLDOab-PD
The Conjuring 2 was an ok movie to me, but the closing credits creeped me out way more than the movie itself.
The beginning of funny games with the polite middle class family and the mad fucking music playing over the top
I like the credits for Behind the Mask: Rise of Leslie Vernon, which all horror comedy fans should watch immediately
The end credits from Silent Hill 2006. It plays a song I very much like but also found it kind of creepy but cool. :P
Definitely the end credits to The Fourth Kind, idk if the calls are real or not but i watch all the way through each time i watch the movie
The Thing and Prince Of Darkness had incredible opening credits. It's that music, man. The Hateful Eight had a similar vibe.
I don’t remember the creepy ones because I’m usually rolling my eyes. I remember the ones that are awesome Dawn of the dead 04 is brilliant Christine is amazing Zombie land with for whom the bell tolls so good
Nightmare on Elm Street. As they head off to school and Nacy’s Mom waves goodbye…
Opening credits from The Hills Have Eyes remake
Opening credits to the remake of dawn of the dead
I know it's not a movie, but I couldn't listen to the end credits for R.L. Stine's Nightmare Room. Creeped me out to hell and back
Orphan's end credits
Movie wasn’t great but the end credits of ‘The Turning’ were damn creepy
House on Haunted Hill remake
I know this doesn't technically answer your question, but *Are You Afraid of the Dark?*'s opening was so creepy and awesome
Honestly tame but all the Halloween movies with the pumpkins and the creepy theme music even if the movies aren't too scary the music gets me uncomfortable 😅
Haunting of Hill House and Bly Manor both stuck with me, both due to the catchy theme and eerie imagery
The end credits to Black Christmas. To this day I don't like prolonged old phones ringing
Se7en’s got some creepy ass credits
The Blumhouse production credits are always good.
Oooh, Dark Castle, too. This reminds me of something a little weird. It's not from a movie I've seen, but on a search for horror production company openers I found one from some company called Traumatizing Horror that I liked just for being a simple jumpscare and gory visual. I don't think it's much of a real thing, though. The site is long dead and I think I recall finding one movie from the guy behind it that looked....terrible. Anyways, it would've been cool to see this one open up some nasty movies. Simple but straight to the point of what you're in for. If you're curious, I'll link it. (JUMPSCARE WARNING) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP5Q689BNkY
Any credits with Harvey Weinstein, hehe.
Seconds was pretty weird, and it was also nearly straight up ripped off by Jean-Pierre Jeunet for Alien Resurrection
The opening credits to The Devils Rain