Come and See(1985)
1985 · Elem Klimov · 142 min
The invasion of a village in Belarus by German forces sends young Flyora into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Flyora finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.
Drama · War · Horror · History
8.22k votes
TMDB score
5/5
Intensity
3/5
Gore
5/5
Stays with you
How Come and See scares
Come and See doesn't build toward scares the way most horror movies do; it just slowly drags you deeper into a waking nightmare until the line between war movie and horror movie disappears. The camera stays close on a boy's face as the world around him gets more chaotic and senseless, and the dread comes from watching someone lose their grip on reality in real time. There are no monsters or ghosts here, only what people are capable of doing to each other, which ends up feeling far worse. It's not made to entertain or thrill you; it's made to sit with you long after, and it earns every bit of that weight.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Come and See rates psychological 5/5, visceral 5/5, gore 3/5, lingering effect 5/5, and overall intensity 5/5.
- Psychological: 5 of 5
- Visceral: 5 of 5
- Gore: 3 of 5
- Lingering: 5 of 5
- Intensity: 5 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 5 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 95 of 100 — leans Real-world
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 100 of 100 — leans Disturbing
Intensity over runtime
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It starts deceptively calm and grows steadily heavier, descending into an unrelenting, nightmarish gauntlet that barely lets you breathe by the end.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 4.
How scary is Come and See?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, Come and See rates 5/5 — 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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