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The horror genre brings a variety of markers to subtly (or not so subtly) tell our brains that we are about to be spooked, creeped out, and jump-scared. But it’s all that more terrifying when a film shocks us without warning that it’s about to happen.

An internet user wanted to know what films people thought ended up being more frightening than most horror movies out there. People’s answers ranged from being freaked out as a child to films that cover psychologically disturbing topics. So take notes for your next movie night and be sure to upvote your favorites as you scroll through and comment your thoughts below. 

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The Internet Thinks These Movies Are More Terrifying Than Any Horror Film, Here Are The 30 Best Examples Coraline - it's technically a kids movie but it's freaky as hell

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Presumably the movie that scared me the most, from anything I've ever seen. And I wasn't even a small kid anymore when I saw it

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    Does Watership Down count? The 1978 version. It's not categorized as a horror but as a KIDS animation/adventure yet it has blood and gore in it. Scared the s**t out of me as a kid, couldn't sleep for days. I still can't watch it.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Being scared and heartbroken all at once is not good at any age, as a kid it ruined me.

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    The Internet Thinks These Movies Are More Terrifying Than Any Horror Film, Here Are The 30 Best Examples HBO’s Chernobyl was hands down the scariest tv series I’ve ever watched. Radiation is terrifying

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, and now imagine living the scare. On May 1st, five days after meltdown all children in Poland were given Lugol's iodine as protection from radioactive fallout. At that time nobody outside of USSR really knew what happened because of total information blockade. So our government assumed the worst case scenario (that never really came true - as we know now) and acted accordingly. I was 11 at the time and only remeber some of what adults were saying, of course it was only wild speculations, but the fear was in the air...

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    The first unintentionally scary film may have been created near the beginning of cinema itself. Some readers might already be familiar with the stories of “L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat”, or “The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat,” causing 19th-century moviegoers to run out of the cinema in a panic. The film showed a train, arriving at a station, with the camera positioned in such a way that makes it look like it will hit it. 

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    Despite being a great story, this is likely a myth. Firstly, this was a silent film, so it’s hard to believe that moviegoers would think a magically quiet train was fully real as it drove toward them. Similarly, why would an audience of real people suddenly forget that the world was not in black and white? Regardless, it does make for a compelling story about a film that managed to be unintentionally terrifying and only 50 seconds long at the same time. 

    #4

    The Internet Thinks These Movies Are More Terrifying Than Any Horror Film, Here Are The 30 Best Examples Black Swan. That movie should be marked as horror.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, thank you for mentioning this movie here. It really made me feel the fine line between sanity and craziness. It really pulls you in.

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    #5

    Schindler's List. Can't believe such horror actually took place.

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    The Internet Thinks These Movies Are More Terrifying Than Any Horror Film, Here Are The 30 Best Examples Who Framed Roger Rabbit scared the hell out of me, especially with the Judge Doom scene at the end when it's revealed he's a toon.

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    Modern horror directors use a variety of “tricks” to make our brains believe we are in just as much distress as the characters on screen. The cheapest example is the use of high-frequency sounds played during the film. We don’t actually hear these, but prolonged exposure ends up putting us on edge and can even cause sleepless nights in the long run. So if you want to create a subtly hostile environment for your dinner guests, play something at 20–30 Hz.

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    The Internet Thinks These Movies Are More Terrifying Than Any Horror Film, Here Are The 30 Best Examples Mommy dearest. It's about a narcissistic actress who adopts a child, shows love initially, then turns into a horrible, abusive monster when the child starts thinking for herself. If you've been in an abusive relationship, this movie hits harder than any horror flick

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    #8

    The Internet Thinks These Movies Are More Terrifying Than Any Horror Film, Here Are The 30 Best Examples I saw Return to Oz when I was a kid during a sleepover. I didnt get any sleep that night.

    Saw it again a few years ago as a 30yr old. Still scary.

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    #9

    Not a movie but the handmaid's tale f*****g scares me to death.

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    Ellie Hope
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Excellent series, very similar to what women in Afghanistan are going through now.

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    Noise has other uses, including loud, contrasting, and clashing sounds that make our brains strive for consonance. Like an interrupted melody, we feel discomfort until the noise or melody is resolved. Directors will then just keep us on edge until the end of a sequence or scene. While this might seem like literally cheap thrills, it’s quite common in the industry nowadays. 

    #10

    The Internet Thinks These Movies Are More Terrifying Than Any Horror Film, Here Are The 30 Best Examples Requiem For A Dream is scary as hell! If you really want your kids to understand why drugs are bad, just show them this movie (well, don’t show this movie to kids, maybe on their teen years)

    A lot of frightening scenes, graphic moments and a sad ending.

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    The Internet Thinks These Movies Are More Terrifying Than Any Horror Film, Here Are The 30 Best Examples In a weird way I find The Truman Show scary

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's because it is. If you watch the current content you realise, people would gobble this up and no one would care about Trueman's situation. Everyone would just want it. He'd have no way to get out and most likely judges would block attempts to get him in the know or out because no one else is concerned. USA already has laws that allows you to film people without their knowledge and truly weak privacy protection laws. So I think if a company really wanted, they could find loopholes to make this happen. And that's what's making it scary

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    #12

    The Internet Thinks These Movies Are More Terrifying Than Any Horror Film, Here Are The 30 Best Examples Trainspotting. The baby scene, but also Robert Carlyle's violently deranged character.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My mum made me watch this when I was around 13 or 14 and told me "this will put you off drugs for life" Thanks mum it totally worked

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    Some unsettling techniques are not just used in horror. Psychological discomfort is as present in the crime or drama genres as in any slasher film. Lighting and shadows play tricks on our brains, putting us on edge. Normally, we as the viewer have a better understanding of what is visible than the characters in the scene. But some directors obscure things for the audience as well, making us tense as we try to understand what is happening on screen while the characters do the same. 

    #13

    The Internet Thinks These Movies Are More Terrifying Than Any Horror Film, Here Are The 30 Best Examples As a child, I was terrified of the Pinocchio donkey scene.

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    The Internet Thinks These Movies Are More Terrifying Than Any Horror Film, Here Are The 30 Best Examples Children of Men. And it's only gotten more frightening in light of recent events.

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    Devon Archer
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A scientist wrote an article that this will essentially come true in a decade or so since there are so many plastics in our foods etc. it’s destroying fertility. Being able to have kids could eventually just not even be possible in the near future. It’s crazy.

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    Despite most people not actually enjoying the adrenaline rush caused by horror films or scary scenes in general, people do have a fascination with unusual circumstances and darker themes. It’s important to note that fascination isn’t the same as enjoying something, as it’s more just our brain thinking that a situation contains valuable information that we need to acquire, even at the cost of sleepless nights, cold sweats, and a rapid heartbeat. 

    #16

    The Dark Crystal. no questions.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had nightmares about the creatures in that film..the skeksis and garthim especially

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    The Internet Thinks These Movies Are More Terrifying Than Any Horror Film, Here Are The 30 Best Examples The Labyrinth. Gave me nightmares when I first saw it as a teen. Fucking Hoggle makes me shudder. Jim Henson for the creep factor. I saw one of the puppets in real life at a museum. I'll never be the same.

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    Mariele Scherzinger
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I saw this for the first time when I was perhaps 11, 12. David Bowie would forever define the term "sexy villain" for me.

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    Dr who, the double episode with the angels

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Doctor who is often horror light. The one that introduced the angels was much scarier, I thought. Also brilliant: The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances double episode.

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    1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Weeping angels and the vashta nerada (from the library episode) are the 2 most terrifying Doctor Who creatures in my opinion. I walk by angel statues and always side eye them now lol Edits for spelling lol

    Kat
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The darkness.... Terrifying... The one about Van Gogh makes me intensely sad ...

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was moved to tears when the Doctor took Vincent to the exhibition and he could see and hear what people thought of his work in the future.

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    1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The modern reboot that reintroduced the Cybermen as people forced to be made into these things was terrifying to me--and I was an adult when my boyfriend was introducing me to this one.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the first time I saw the show in the 70s, I hid behind the couch. Only show to ever scare me. Still a fan lol. Don't blink, aired the first time I left my teens home alone. Lol

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The sea devils, the autons , the giant maggots, the Master. All from the 70s. The autons again when Dr Who came back with Christopher Ecclestone almost stopped me going out shopping.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have to say the Jhon Simm's master nailed the deranged psychopath character in his first arc, as well as the driven to madness tragic villain in his second arc

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    1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It’s the episode with the library and David Tennant that seriously f****d me up lol. It was so good though and it’s still my fave episode

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My friend knew she could get me hooked on DW if she showed me the creepiest/scariest episodes she knew. Weeping Angels and 'are you my mummy?' was what she showed me Been hooked ever since

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Forget weeping angels, did you see Silence? They were more terrifying .

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Loved the episode but yes it gave me nightmares but I was also 7

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The older Dr Who series had a few as well. 'The Image of the Fendahl' (Tom Baker) and 'The Curse of Fenric' (Sylvester McCoy) both qualify. Also "The Daemons' (Jon Pertwee)

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, the night this was first broadcast, myself and a mate had been out for a meal. We recorded it and watched it when we got back, around midnight. Big mistake.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    :Yeah, you can have your Daleks and Cybermen. But, far and away the scariest were the Weeping Angels!!

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Hello?" "Tori, are you coming home yet?" "Oliver? Why aren't you in bed?" "I was watching Doctor Who." "You didn't watch the Weeping Angels episode, did you?" "..." "Ollie? Are you all right? Why did you call me?" "..." "Oliver? Are you there?"

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm traumatized by the scene when it shows the guy stretched like a canvas with just his skin!!!! Accidentally saw that when I was a kid big mistake!!!

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Library and Forest Of The Dead are the pair of episodes that I found nightmare inducing,

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Whatever you do, don't blink" I cannot look at a stone statue the same way now.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Use to hate the weeping angels as a kid, along those water zombies from Mars and the double gangers

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Doctor Who, the episode in the library. I can't watch it. Vashta Nerada are so scary.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Blink is the absolute best episode of doctor who. i love it. it's terrifying!

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ...this had me sleeping with the light on for a week, not to mention my dad showed it to me when I was 8... not the best idea

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember a Doctor Who episode with sea vampires and another one with cleaners. Not sure which Doctor it was, possibly Sylvester McCoy.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Doctor Who single episode: Midnight. Standalone episode. No explanation. No investigation. Total loss of control of a situation and nearly killed by mob mentality.

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    #19

    The Internet Thinks These Movies Are More Terrifying Than Any Horror Film, Here Are The 30 Best Examples AI: Artificial Intelligence. I watched that pretty young and the whole thing was fairly traumatizing.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    THIS MOVIE RUINED MY CHILDHOOD and my parents didn't understand why I found it so traumatizing. Honestly, I think this film might be the reason I had such awful childhood depression and why I was suicidal so young.

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    #20

    A scene from The Elephant Man by David Lynch. When the disfigured man is laying in bed and the carnival guy breaks in through the window and charges people to see his face haunts me.

    They way they dance around him laughing when he is dealing with so much mental anguish sticks with me.

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    “Heathers” bothers me because when it came out, it was really far-fetched parody. Now, it’s f*****g uncomfortable because of how realistic it seems. I went to school in a high-achieving town, with a serious teen suicide problem, and a couple of credible bomb threats to the schools. It upset me that everything portrayed in the film was plausible in regards to the experience I had there.

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    #22

    The Internet Thinks These Movies Are More Terrifying Than Any Horror Film, Here Are The 30 Best Examples Cats. It's absolute nightmare fuel

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think cats would have been cute if it was a fully animated movie that showed, well, cats animated like real cats

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    The Internet Thinks These Movies Are More Terrifying Than Any Horror Film, Here Are The 30 Best Examples Parasite. It was not marketed as a horror movie but...you know what I'm talking about

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Again, another thriller. People don't seem to have a good grasp of what a horror movie is. If a movie scared you, and it's marked as a thriller, it probably has the correct categorization.

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    #24

    W***y Wonka and the chocolate factory.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ah, the 1970's version with the boat ride from hell? WHY THE HELL WAS THAT EVEN NECCESSARY?!

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    #25

    The Internet Thinks These Movies Are More Terrifying Than Any Horror Film, Here Are The 30 Best Examples The cable guy. If it wasn't a comedy it would be one of the scariest stalker movies is ever seen.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love this movie. Very dark humor. Was ahead of its time and different than what people expected from Jim Carrey. And for me remains one of his finest.

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    The Internet Thinks These Movies Are More Terrifying Than Any Horror Film, Here Are The 30 Best Examples Child Catcher. I always thought in the back of my mind if I misbehaved as a kid my parents would toss me outside for the Child Catcher to grab me and throw me in his cart.

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    The Internet Thinks These Movies Are More Terrifying Than Any Horror Film, Here Are The 30 Best Examples Titanic. It's super scary to die in the middle of the ocean.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I watched it when it was in the theatres. Never have I been interested in those cruise ship vacations.

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    #28

    The Internet Thinks These Movies Are More Terrifying Than Any Horror Film, Here Are The 30 Best Examples Nightcrawler isn't scary in the traditional sense, but it's extremely unsettling

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    The Internet Thinks These Movies Are More Terrifying Than Any Horror Film, Here Are The 30 Best Examples Whiplash. Ever see JK Simmons and think "Boy, he's pretty intense. He might be really scary if he weren't so funny?"

    Yeah. No one laughs during Whiplash.

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    The Internet Thinks These Movies Are More Terrifying Than Any Horror Film, Here Are The 30 Best Examples The Killing of a Sacred Deer, on Netflix. Holy c**p, this movie is disturbing. Honestly? I thought after it was over ‘I didn’t like that.’ But it stuck with me, and I thought about it for days afterward. That’s when you know it was a good movie. That kid... holy s**t... Barry Keoghan... his acting was incredible.

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    1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Honestly, anything from Yorgos Lanthimos is scary AF. Can´t wait for ´Poor things´.

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    #31

    Toy Story 3. It gets so dark eventually and the bear just scares me.

    And Coraline, it should be labeled animation horror.

    I love both, also for how dark they are being for kids.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was an adult when I saw Toy Story 3 with my boyfriend. When we got to the scene where it looked like the toys were about to be destroyed, I almost thought they were going to go through with it unless Lotso suddenly had a change of heart. I think the whole theater was applauding when the little aliens saved the day.

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    The Internet Thinks These Movies Are More Terrifying Than Any Horror Film, Here Are The 30 Best Examples the joker movie starring joaquin phoenix... it's not scary-scary, like an actual horror movie, but it just feels so accurate to the real world; i just feel like something like that actually could happen in the real world (maybe not the ending but the rest of it)

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    The Internet Thinks These Movies Are More Terrifying Than Any Horror Film, Here Are The 30 Best Examples All dogs go to heaven

    Saw the first 20-30 mins in the theatre when I was about 5... 30ish years later still havent watched it, and still can picture the scene that caused me to lose it

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    1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You should try to watch it again. I had my scary movie shock when I was little and my husband later convinced me to watch my problem-movie again as an adult. I really didn't want to, but then I gave in and... it was so boring! I really watched that movie and could feel my heart rate slow down. I sat next to my husband who held me safely in his arms and watched that thing bored out of my mind. But then after that, I felt a lot less pressure on other things that made me anxious too. The experience of confronting something that had terrified me so badly and finding out it's actually boring and not at all scary helped me a lot of getting a new perspective on many other things that used to scare me too. It really helped me to become more calm and fight my anxiety. It's hard to do, oh boy it is really hard! But I can highly recommend it anyways. It's worth the stress and will give you peace. Do it together with someone who cares for you and is kind and understanding.

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    Melancholia

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was deeply depressed for days after watching "Melancholia", and I still get a little unnerved when I see a supermoon in the sky.

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    The Internet Thinks These Movies Are More Terrifying Than Any Horror Film, Here Are The 30 Best Examples The movie “9”. The way that machine just sucked the soul through the dolls’ eyes and mouth were burned into me.

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    No Country For Old Men

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    As a 10 year old, I watched „Spirited Away” and even I really love horror this movie gives me a strange feeling... but still an absolute masterpiece

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    Not really a movie, but I have a pathological fear of the Teletubbies

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    SAME!!!!!! THE SUN IS HIGH ON UNIDENTIFIED MAGIC MUSHROOMS AND THE TELETUBBIES ARE ADULTS IN BABY COSTUMES

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    #41

    The Witches

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    The Internet Thinks These Movies Are More Terrifying Than Any Horror Film, Here Are The 30 Best Examples Gravity. Scared the bajeesuz outta me. The idea of being untethered in space and just floating away with no way to do anything? F**k that

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    The Polar Express. Those creepy f*****g elves that looked like they just escaped prison

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes! I like Christmas movies, but not this one! I find it scary to throw children out of the train in the snow! And the waiters who start dancing! Scary! It doesn't make Christmas at all! And yet, I love horror movies but this one is disturbing.

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    #44

    Jumanji.

    Watched it for the first time as an adult and I was seriously uncomfortable for long parts of it.

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    The Internet Thinks These Movies Are More Terrifying Than Any Horror Film, Here Are The 30 Best Examples A Little Princess. That movie had me terrified I’d become some abused servant if my parents went missing.

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    The Internet Thinks These Movies Are More Terrifying Than Any Horror Film, Here Are The 30 Best Examples Click. I was expecting a very low, LOW-brow comedy, not a drama movie about the consequences of our actions, how time is not only finite, but the time we have with our loved ones is limited. It made me scared that one day I might look back and see that I wasted my life.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I cried at the one scene with Henry winkler and when he layed there dying at the end, like a plot twist from comedy to drama

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    #47

    Not a movie, but Courage the Cowardly Dog was terrifying

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    The Brave Little Toaster. Terrifying clown monster traumatized me as a child.

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    Well that part in Inception where Ellen Page is watching Leonardo and his wife from like an elevator or something and the wife suddenly turns and looks right at her was pretty terrifying.

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    I watched Contagion the other day and that definitely kept me awake

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    Threads - Nobody's mentioned it yet, it will give you nightmares. It is relentlessly bleak. You've seen nothing like it, I promise. It's the lead up to and long aftermath of a nuclear war presented as a factual documentary. It is not a date movie.

    EDIT - It's on Shudder (7 day free trial) and Amazon Prime, apparently, for anyone who wants to see for themselves.

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    Francis Coppola's *The Conversation* (1974) with Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Frederic Forrest, Cindy Williams, Terri Garr, and Harrison Ford.

    All of the paranoia we have about the devices we carry in our pockets began to take root in the technology featured in this tense thriller. There's a lot of cool filmmaking going on here, and one of the most upsetting seconds-long toilet scenes ever filmed. The monsters in this movie are us, and the tools we have created.

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    The Internet Thinks These Movies Are More Terrifying Than Any Horror Film, Here Are The 30 Best Examples The Spiderwick Chronicles scared the s**t out of me when I was young. It’s a PG kids movie, but I swear in some of the scenes the tension and jump scares felt like they were for a horror movie.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The books are amazing. I watched the movie, but it didn't have as big an impression on me because of the books, and I forget it.

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    #55

    The scene in Peter Jackson's King Kong when they encounter the villagers gave me nightmares as a kid.

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    Tom Hardeveld
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the fightscene in the trench with all the giant bugs ant the guy getting eaten by several worms at all his limbs.... *shudder* The fact that there was hardly any music made it even more unsetteling

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    Dear Zachary

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    The Garbage Pail Kids Movie

    For reference: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uigHV-gOHxs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uigHV-gOHxs)

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