These are the fear-inducing horror movies that will have you leaving the lights on after you have checked under the bed. A sense of creeping dread, an air of unease, or the unshakeable feeling that you are being watched will be evoked by the most chilling and disconcerting offerings from the horror genre.
Are you looking for something to freeze you in fear like Sadako emerging from the TV screen in the J-horror Ringu did or the abject terror of REC’s final night vision scene?
Our unique rating system will help you find the movies that will stop you sleeping at night and have you checking over your shoulder on darkened streets.
Does the memory of the shapeshifting succubus from It Follows have you doing a double take in a crowded room? Then feel free to give it a maximum Fear rating and make your opinion count.
Likewise, if a door moving by itself failed to enlicit a response in Paranormal Activity or you thought the kids in The Blair Witch Project got themselves all worked up over nothing
then rate them accordingly in this category.
Whichever movies never fail to give you the fear or you are looking for others that will, you will find those fear inducing horror movies and more here.
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Top 10 Fear-inducing Horror Movies
1
Gerald's Game
Year: 2017
Released: 29 Sep 2017 |
Director: Mike Flanagan
9.1
2.5
3.6
2.7
The plot
While trying to spice up their marriage in their remote lake house, Jessie must fight to survive when her husband dies... [read more]
2
The Silence of the Lambs
Year: 1991
Released: 14 Feb 1991 |
Director: Jonathan Demme
8.6
8.5
84
4.6
The plot
A young F.B.I. cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial... [read more]
3
The Shining
Year: 1980
Released: 23 May 1980 |
Director: Stanley Kubrick
8.4
8.5
61
4.4
The plot
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence,... [read more]
4
Aliens
Year: 1986
Released: 18 Jul 1986 |
Director: James Cameron
8.4
9.0
87
4.7
The plot
The planet from Alien (1979) has been colonized, but contact is lost. This time, the rescue team has impressive firepower,... [read more]
5
Jaws
Year: 1975
Released: 20 Jun 1975 |
Director: Steven Spielberg
8.1
9.1
79
4.7
The plot
When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist... [read more]
6
The Exorcist
Year: 1973
Released: 26 Dec 1973 |
Director: William Friedkin
8.0
8.0
82
4.5
The plot
When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.
7
Shaun of the Dead
Year: 2004
Released: 24 Sep 2004 |
Director: Edgar Wright
8.0
7.8
76
4.5
The plot
A man decides to turn his moribund life around by winning back his ex-girlfriend, reconciling his relationship with his... [read more]
8
Let the Right One In
Year: 2008
Released: 12 Dec 2008 |
Director: Tomas Alfredson
8.0
8.3
82
4.2
The plot
Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.
9
The Evil Dead
Year: 1981
Released: 15 Apr 1983 |
Director: Sam Raimi
7.6
8.1
70
4.4
The plot
Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.
10
28 Days Later...
Year: 2002
Released: 27 Jun 2003 |
Director: Danny Boyle
7.6
7.4
73
4.4
The plot
Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.
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Krampus
Year: 2015
Released: 04 Dec 2015 |
Director: Michael Dougherty
6.8
5.9
49
4.1
The plot
A boy who has a bad Christmas ends up accidentally summoning a Christmas demon to his family home.
