In truth, most of us love to be afraid. We can't get enough of it. That's why people gather in droves to scatter popcorn in their laps out of fear when a nightmarish horror movie comes out in theaters. With the release of Sinister 2, beckoning the public to enter the darkness and plunge into the consciousness of the terrible, gloomy and nightmarish. Here is a list from15 horror movies that will give you nightmares.
15. Babadook
Last year's indie horror film earned a reputation as one of the scariest films of our time. A stressed widow named Amelia (Essie Davis) is raising a paranoid, troubled child (Noah Wiseman) who confronts imaginary threats to her safety by creating dangerous Ruby Goldberg-style contraptions that endanger others. One night, she reads him a terrible storybook and accidentally wakes up a mythical creature, driving her into a frenzy. The emotional challenges that Amelia faces would be exhilarating and terrifying without the presence of a grinning demon lurking in every shadow to deprive her of sleep and peace of mind.
Director Jennifer Kent makes sure that the audience is hiding behind the fingers not only from the presence of Mr. Babadook; the look on her characters' faces when they know he's coming is enough to send shivers down their spines.
14. Reportage
In films likeUnfriended genres of found footage are blended through rigorous formal experimentation, but it's worth remembering that once upon a time, all you needed was a camera pointed at something inexpressible and the certainty that the filmmakers couldn't stop or control it. .[REC] was the start of the found footage craze as we know it, taking on the challengeThe Blair Witch Project , Last broadcast andCannibal Holocaust .
[REC] begins in the media, showing raw, unedited footage of a reporter (Manuela Velasco) and her cameraman (Pablo Rosso) interviewing firefighters for a story of public interest. The fire brigade is called to an apartment building in response to helping a sick resident (Martha Carbonell) who has recently contracted a disease that has turned her into a voracious zombie. Once the action starts, it never stops.Die hard horror movies,[REC] is proof that found film footage once seemed to be a viable future horror instead of a gray-haired figurative in need of rescue.[REC] was remade by Hollywood as Quarantine in 2008, but the Spanish original from 2007 is the real concern.
13. Woman in Black
"Woman in black" not only revived the declining fate of the legendary Hammer Films, but also surpassed the home of the best horror films."Woman in black" pits the young widow of Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe, who has just returned as the most famous wizard boy in the world) against an evil spirit that lives in a decrepit mansion. The children of the town of Critin Gifford, England, are forced to commit suicide, and Radcliffe discovers it's because of a ghost occupying a house on the outskirts of town.
The film is full of macabre imagery, but when Kipps enters the house for the last time determined to stop the woman in black, director James Watkins goes all in. He applies every conceivable tactic to the screen, not satisfied until you succumb to fright.The woman in black takes prisoners, forcing you to look away and knowing full well that you'll be back to see what you've missed.
12. It
Breakthrough art horror It hit multiplexes despite its all-too-respectable festival pedigree and intentionally formalistic style for one reason: it's absolutely chilling nightmare. High school student Jay (Mike Monroe) has the worst date of her life when her prospective fiancé (Jake Weary) sleeps with her and then drugs and ties her up. But this is only the beginning of her bad luck. Obviously, he gave her "It", and this "It" is really very bad. "It" is some form-shifting being that only the two of them can see, and it will slowly but deliberately walk in her direction until it gets to her and kills her. That is, unless she can sleep with someone else and pass it on to the next loser.
Director David Robert Mitchell captures his biggest jumping moments simply by setting up a camera a few dozen yards from It, which can take on the form of anyone, friend or stranger, and watch them. March steadily towards Jay. It's an amazingly effective strategy that turns every frame in the movie into some kind of joke out of the box. Without warning, someone can break out of the background of any frame and go to the camera, Jay, and we poor things in the audience. It will make you look over your shoulder at the street and into your dreams for weeks.
11. Evil Dead
I know what you're thinking. Which one of? A charming 1982 original or a sly, sick 2013 remake. Choose any of them and leave with an interrupted sleep. Both films are about a group of unsuspecting tourists mindlessly reading the Necronomicon, the Book of the Dead.
The original film prizes the tactile grotesque, in which the then-unknown Bruce Campbell is confronted by a host of grizzly demons created with low-budget, stop-motion effects that haunt his easily mortified flesh. Directed by Sam Raimi, many years before hestarred in films aboutSpiderman orOz the Great and Powerful , makes things pop out of every corner of the frame with mischievous joy, tormenting its star with every conceivable torment for one long night.
The Necronomicon returns in a remake/tribute to Feda Alvarez, this time opened by children faking the intervention of heroin addict Mia (Jane Levy). Alvarez can't match the original Raimi in terms of a pronounced, quickening heart rate effect, which is why he has a gag reflex. 2013's Evil Dead is a parade of sticky splatter and misplaced limbs. It will cause hysteria in the stomach patient even if he opens his eyes long enough to see. Whatever you choose, be sure to watch with the lights on.
10. Silent Hill
Fans of the wildly popular video game seriesSurvival Horror Silent Hill were shocked when it was announced that the last part of the game with a heartthrob "The walking Dead" Norman Reedus in the title role removed from development. If you don't know why fans will be dejected to lose another chapter in the ongoing saga, check out Christoph Hans' 2006 film adaptation of the game. FilmSilent Hill - a truly eerie experience.
Acting on the logic of nightmares, "Silent Hill" Hansa follows Rose da Silva (Radha Mitchell) and her adopted daughter Sharon (Jodelle Ferland). Sharon continues to sleepwalk and scream about a place called "Silent Hill", so Rose takes Sharon to the city of Silent Hill, the source of her nightmares. The two separate almost immediately, but Rose's troubles only really begin when the air raid sirens go off and a hellish red night descends on the sleepy city, sending all sorts of psychosexual ghosts after the rampaging mother. The brightly disturbing creatures that live in this alternate dimension can force you to drink coffee to prevent a restless night's rest.
9. Poltergeist
When the reboot hit theaters earlier this yearPoltergeist Gil Kenan, the question most often asked in the reviews: why do we need a newpoltergeist, if we already have a perfectly good one? The 1982 film is suburban horror at its finest. Combining producer Steven Spielberg's surprise with director Toby Hooper's surgically precise brutality, the concept of the nuclear family runs its course in the original film.
Every fan undoubtedly has their favorite spooky image, from a paranormal investigator with a sudden skin condition to unwanted guests in a swimming pool, but the movie is likely to go down in history for the presence of the world's least friendly clown doll. All potentially scary things in childhood come to life inPoltergeist , so it will never lose its power to give even the most persistent viewer a night of bad dreams.
8. Mom
Guillermo del Toro's success as a director of such unique blockbusters as "Pacific Rim" , « Hellboy" and "Blade 2 ", allowed him to become one of the most prominent producers in the world. In between mass productions of his own projects, he has curated several ghost stories that bear his unmistakable imprint.
The most effective of these films was the amazing "Mum" newcomer Andres Muschietti about a spirit living in the forest who raises two abandoned children as his own. When social services discover children and place them with their next of kin - Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Jessica Chastainfrom Game of Thrones ”), “mother”, the name that the children gave to the spirit, remains with them. The adults don't notice it (or her) at first, but something blood-curdling like a mom doesn't go unnoticed for long.
Mom, the most provocative sight in the latest horror movies, can only show her face or pull out a thin, decaying figure for people to carefully check their places under their bed before going to bed.
7. Something
The old-fashioned alarmist simply has no practical effects. Leading Director John Carpenter's Best Picture consists of an isolated, claustrophobic setting, America's eleven greatest character actors led by Kurt Russell in his most magnetically unkempt form, and a roguelike gallery of monstrous effects created by special effects guru Rob Bottin. Remake of the 1951 film " Thing from another world" , Carpenter's film follows a scientific team in Antarctica after an alien organism infiltrates their base and begins taking over the bodies of humans, which it then horrifically distorts.
Creature , like his lovingly crafted alien creature, is a matryoshka doll of frightening events. When you think you've seen it all, some new part of the "beast" opens up, and a new set of teeth or an obscene eye emerges from it. Bottin and Carpenter seem to have gotten into our unconscious brains and pulled out the most horrifying things they could imagine, so the film's tenacity is undeniable.
6. Monstro
Producer JJ Abrams, writer Drew Godard and director Matt Reeves (responsible for "Star Wars: The Force Awakens» , « Shed in a woods" and "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" ) had a lot of tricks in store when they conceived Cloverfield. First there was a brilliant ad campaign that only teased that something pretty big would attack New York, told from the point of view of a young man (T. J. Miller) with a video camera. Then the monster was discovered: a curvaceous giant alien capable of destroying skyscrapers. And if that doesn't scare you, perhaps the parasites it carries into space with it are greater than your speed.
When our heroes encounter monsters on the subway, it's terrible, but that's not what happens when they bite you. Cloverfield boasted a rather impressive rampage of monsters, but it pales in comparison to the nasty chemistry lesson the space bugs teach our heroes. The human body and extraterrestrial bacteria are incompatible. This piece of film could cost you several nights of sleep.
5. The city that was afraid of sunset
Alfonso Gomez-Reyes, director Sundance darlingMe and Earl and the Dying Girl , made the jump to feature films (from episodesAmerican Horror Story ) with a remake of this cult horror film, deservedly revered by horror fans of the 70s. Based on a string of bizarre, unsolved murders in Texarkana, independent trailblazer Charles B. Pierce "The city that was afraid of the sunsettransports us from one elegantly scary crime scene to another. The Phantom (Bud Davis), as he was dubbed in the papers, is just a huge guy in a crude burlap mask, and it is this simplicity that turns out to be so creepy. This huge mass of unmotivated aggression binds and kills one innocent couple after another, outmaneuvering every attempt to be caught by simply making it look like they're coming out of the woods to kill and then disappear into thin air.
The mere sight of a Phantom walking around with an incomprehensible, twisted purpose is enough to make you fall asleep with the lights on.
4. Exorcist
If it's not broken, don't fix it. And if he still keeps you awake with his pressure of unforgettable shocking pictures, why look for replacements? William Friedkin approached William Peter Blatty's novel with a fierce, unwavering spontaneity, bringing forth irresistible ideas and scenes with lightning speed and aiming precisely at an unsuspecting audience.Exorcist has not lost its ability to inspire terror since it took the world by storm in 1973. Linda Blair's green face as Regan's possessed child - and the 360-degree twist he makes around her neck - have become iconic.
And while the film's treatment of diabolical possession is certainly frightening, it barely matches the scenes in which our young heroine undergoes a horrific, invasive operation to find the scientific cause of her illnesses. The devil won't make you go through with it.
3. Wolf pit
When the first seasonreal detective" was coming to an end, some horror fans must have experienced acute déjà vu. A creepy loner from the wilderness, living in a complex maze that draws victims into a trap from which they have no hope of escaping? Very similar toWolf Creek .
Greg McLean's relentless debut is based on true cases of tourist kidnapping in Australia, but the outback fortress-like hideout of his giggling serial killer antagonist is a brilliantly disturbing invention. The same goes for the killer himself, played in a career-best performance by John Jarratt, who takes ferocious pleasure in presenting himself as Ozzy's sadistic antidote to Crocodile Dundee. McLean captures carnage like a war photographer, finding intense beauty in the chaos and bloodshed. The fact that this could happen is even more troubling.
2. Creatures from the abyss
It's funny to think that producer Roger Corman is now known to a generation of hungry hounds as the man responsible for "Dinocroc" , « Cobragator" and "Shark vs whale wolf" . Before joining Syfy, Corman was one of the savviest talent scouts in the film world. He was the first businessman to take a chance on Martin Scorsese, James Cameron and Francis Ford Coppola, among others. One of his lesser-known protégés was director Barbara Peters, who gave us the film that became the model for Corman's contemporary productions such as "Piranhaconda and Dinoshark .
"Humanoids from the Deep" is Peters' swansong as an art director, which is a shame as it's one of the most disgusting horror films of the 1980s. After an experiment went awry, turning aquatic wildlife into six-foot-tall, sex-crazed mutants, the seaside community took action to stop the threat.Of course, this is a horror film set in a small town, there is no such collaboration. After several separate attacks, all of the town's inhabitants are attacked by humanoids at the county fair. With their hideous features, overly long arms, and inhuman momentum, the monsters will stay with you long after the plot specificity is gone.
1 Nosferatu
Recently Robert Eggers, director of the famous new horror film"Witch" , said that his next project would be remaking F. W. Murnau's classic vampire film Nosferatu. Not that another hit on the material was a new gimmick - Werner Herzog did the same thing in 1979 and it was a masterpiece. In addition, Murnau's film is a thinly disguised adaptation of Bram Stoker's novelDracula , which has been filmed countless times. But this 1922 German Expressionist masterpiece is hard to beat in pure nightmare.
Murnau does a great job of making nature look like a force of evil, but the crux of the matter is Max Schreck's performance as Count Orlok (. Wild and regal at the same time, Orlok is one of the greatest characters in film history, and he remains one of the scariest. Nothing but make-up, dead eyes, and crustacean fingers, Shrek gives off an indelible impression of animal lust and ferocity. will probably never stop.
