A good horror movie can really scare people, whether it’s through the story, the suspense, the monster, or the blood and guts. Scary movies don’t always hit the mark, and any horror fan will tell you that there are many movies that don’t belong in this genre.
The scariest horror movies are the ones you have to watch from behind a pillow or through your fingers. These are the movies you should watch at midnight with the lights off, because they’ll make even the most experienced horror movie fan cringe a little.
The scary movies you can’t finish probably show one or more of these things that people don’t like: cannibalism, body modification, creepy kids, or even the devil himself. Upsetting horror movies push the limits of what is really scary.
For Raw, this means being able to relate to and feel sorry for the cannibalistic bad guys. For The Human Centipede II, this means seeing people go through unbearable pain for a long time with little to no chance of getting better.
It doesn’t matter what the movie is about; some movies are just too scary to watch all the way through. Maybe only a true horror fan could finish one of these.
1. The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)
2. Terrifier
3. The Green Inferno
4. The Exorcist
5. The Descent
6. Hereditary
7. The Conjuring
8. Insidious
9. Ju-on: The Grudge
10. Ring
11. Silent Hill
12. It
13. The Fly
14. Cabin Fever
15. The Orphanage
