The Internet Thinks These Movies Are More Terrifying Than Any Horror Film, Here Are The 30 Best Examples

Love the movie and love the book, Neil Gaiman is an awesome storyteller. As the mother of 5 children though, I didn't allow them to watch/read until they were old enough to understand the fantasy story without it just being scary.

"I'm you other mother dear"

I love this movie, my daughter and I are planning coralline tattoos

Yes.. it is freaky

it is scary, i dont disagree. but the book it's based on i think would be classified as childrens horror, so it's still technically horror :S

It is not that long ago that Channel 4 in the U.K. decided that they wanted a nice Easter film with fluffy bunnies and ran with Watership Down.....

this and the animals of farthing wood traumatised many children so yes, yes it does count.

Its the most terrifying thing I have ever seen. My mum used to play it for me when I was four and I would always beg her to turn it off. It scarred me for life. I'm so glad my kids grew up watching moana instead.

I had a kind of masochistic attachment to this film as a child. It was painful to watch, but also so beautiful.

I first saw this at seven and had nightmares for a week even as an adult I was less disturbed watching Silence Of The Lambs than Watership Down

What's truly horrifying is the actual amount of non-famous radiation incidents and the many many prompt criticality incidents. Research SL-1 if you want a good example of how sensitive radiation is (warning, don't google it you have a weak heart)

More depressing than scary for me. Absolutely brilliant too.

Oh that series was so good. I recommend everyone watch it

This is well worth the watch. HBO/Max original series.

I want to watch this show just to make my Godzilla fan fiction seem scarier. See, I don't want to write a scary Godzilla story, but with Godzilla, it's good to cram in some horror and sadness to distract from how rediculous the concept of Godzilla is, and make it seem more mature.

Disturbing, but a good movie.

My daughter wanted to see that movie as a family event celebrating her birthday with myself, her father, and her little brother. My daughter loves ballet. Well, golly....was not the family movie experience we anticipated.

To me, the difference between terror and horror is the timing of whatever is frightening the audience. This could also apply to the difference between the actual feelings of terror and horror, I suppose. Terror is what we feel in anticipation that something awful is going to happen. Horror, on the other hand, is the feeling we experience DURING an awful event when it's actually happening. In cinema, this distinction draws a very clear line between films that are labeled as "horror" and those that fall into the "terror/thriller" genre. Black Swan, although it does have mild depictions of gore, is a thriller/terror film. Darren Aronofsky masterfully keeps the audience in a constant state of high anxiety along with his main character as her sanity is unraveling. We don't react to what happens to Nina, we experience it along with her. And that's what makes this such a truly terrifying film. You're never sure if you're understanding reality or not, or what Nina's insanity is going to show you next. That's terror.

It was disturbing

Yes it should be up there with Succession.

I cry every single time I watch that movie. I'm german so it hits even harder, like a fist closing around your heart.

And to think there are many who believe the Holocaust did not happen. It did and genocides have occurred many times since, just not at the total numbers. Humans can be horrible to other humans.

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Even knowing about it and knowing survivors, this truly hit me hard. Especially when a Jew was casually shot for fun.

"Can't believe such horror actually took place." And we shall never forget, no matter what some people think (you know who I mean, those suckers that don't want to celebrate VC day or want to have black people acting in German army). BTW, is there somebody interested in super cool story from WWII? I have a book from Czechoslovakian pilot, who fled and went to England to fight for freedom of his country. It was never translated to English, so if somebody here can help me with final touches, I would be really glad. I would prefer somebody with RAF background, but anyone interested in WWII planes will be appreciated. Mostly because of some slang terms there.

Yes, National Socialists say the same thing.

My brother hates this movie because of that scene. He loved it the whole way though, that scene, now we can't mention it around him or he'll go into hysterics.

I think the idea that creatures exist who can't be hurt by common means and unless the dip is not involved are pretty much invincible is pretty scary. You can't really defend yourself against any toon. If any of them decides to harm you spontaneously you're toast. There's no self defense.

As a child this scene gave me nightmares. Scared the s**t out of me

"DIIIIIIIIP!"

I loved it as a kid, when I watched ad an adult I couldn't believe how Fuked up it was

the thing is that faye dunaway over act so much that it border on slapstick

I think the scariest part was it was all true. this was really Christina Crawfords life with her mother Joan Crawford

I vacillate between loving this movie and loving to hate it. I love it for all its over the top campy quotable glory, but sometimes I struggle with some scenes having been raised by a narcissistic mother myself and recognizing some of Mommie's behavior. Yet for whatever reason, I don't find this movie scary. At all.

I still haven't seen the whole film. We were shown just one or two scenes in a uni lecture about abuse and mandatory reporting. Was a very clear image of what psychological abuse can look like and how it effects children.

must watch this. I had a horrible stepmother.