Jug Face(2013)
2013 · Chad Crawford Kinkle · 81 min
When a supernatural pit worshipped by a remote community in the woods demands a new blood sacrifice, a young woman struggles to find a way to survive as the pit lashes out in anger.
Horror · Thriller · Drama
5.2197 votes
TMDB score
4/5
Intensity
2/5
Gore
4/5
Stays with you
How Jug Face scares
The dread builds slowly at first, rooted in family tension and small-town secrets, before tightening into something more claustrophobic and hopeless as the story moves toward its close. There are almost no jump scares here; the fear comes from watching someone trapped by both a community and a force she can't reason with, with a mounting sense that nothing good is coming. It leans into uncomfortable human ugliness as much as anything otherworldly, so the supernatural element feels almost secondary to the misery of the people involved. This is a heavy, grim watch best suited to people who like folk horror that sits in your stomach rather than one built for cheap thrills.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Jug Face rates psychological 4/5, visceral 3/5, gore 2/5, lingering effect 4/5, and overall intensity 4/5.
- Psychological: 4 of 5
- Visceral: 3 of 5
- Gore: 2 of 5
- Lingering: 4 of 5
- Intensity: 4 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 8 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 15 of 100 — leans Supernatural
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 78 of 100 — leans Disturbing
Intensity over runtime
Shape only — no eventsReveal pacing shapeHide pacing shapeHidden by default — shows where the tension peaks and lets up.
A slow-building folk-horror dread that simmers quietly through family and community tension before tightening into a tense, grim final stretch.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 4.
How scary is Jug Face?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, Jug Face rates 4/5 — one of the more punishing watches in the catalog, building its fear through slow-burn dread rather than shocks. It works on both fronts, unsettling the mind while going for the body. Expect it to be moderately gory and genuinely disturbing. Expect it to stay with you for days.
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