The Best Horror Movies To watch

The Best Horror Movies To watch

The Conjuring

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The Conjuring, about a family in 1971 beset by demonic forces when they move into a farmhouse with a tragic history, came around. But the movie still delivered on unexpectedly high levels, combining an outstanding cast (Vera Farmiga, Lili Taylor, Patrick Wilson) with a well-crafted story full of mystery, suspense, sympathetic characters, and—most importantly—nerve-jangling frights; the “hide and clap” scene is now a classic, though the first big reveal of the story’s creepy villain (an undead, Satan-worshiping witch who’s hungry for souls and children) is also a spill-your-popcorn moment no matter how many times you see it. These are jump scares done right.

The Babadook

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The Babadook, which relies heavily on the “kids are creepy” feeling, centers on a recently widowed mother of a 6-year-old son who—after reading a pop-up book about a top-hat-wearing ghoul named Mister Babadook—spends the rest of the movie screaming bloody murder and attempting to convince his mom that the Babadook is real.Have you noticed how children are kinda automatically scary, no matter what they’re doing or saying? Like, they could just look over at you and whisper, “I wish I had some pizza,” and you’d be like, “AAAH! STOP!”

The Cabin in the Woods

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Zombie movies are very scary. Yes, even when they have very beautiful men like Chris Hemsworth and Jesse Williams in them! The Cabin in the Woods is about five friends who arrive at a cabin in the middle of nowhere for a trip. They end up being completely terrorized by the undead. Although this will give you nightmares...it’s also probably a pretty solid excuse to avoid that friends’ trip your group chat keeps trying to plan.

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A true-crime novelist is suffering from writer’s block, so he moves into the house of a family that was murdered. (It’s probably important to mention they were killed in that home. Honestly, I feel like he could have written the story without moving in there, but! To each his own!) While in the home, he discovers a bunch of spooky home movies that prove he’s in a much creepier situation than he initially thought. It’s horrifying!

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The Fourth Kind is a fake documentary, which is totally the scariest kind of movie because it’s designed to make you question what’s real and what’s not. It leaves you with the long-lasting kind of fear that makes you freak out when you wake up and look at the clock at 3:33 a.m. even years after seeing the film, because you genuinely think you’re about to be abducted by aliens.

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Stephen King adaptations have been popular ever since the author became a reliable source of best-selling terror in the mid-1970s. But if it feels like King-inspired movies and TV have become a tidal wave lately, gushing out of Hollywood like blood from the elevators in The Shining, it’s probably down to the incredible success of Andy Muschietti’s It, which currently holds the title of “highest-grossing horror film of all time.”