12 Horror Movies You Shouldn't Watch at Night

These are the films in which we close our eyes in the most terrible scenes, and our palms are covered with cold sweat. They have a place for madness, and mysticism, and simple things that become creepy to the point of horror. It's scary to watch them to the end, but it's also scary to turn them off.

We've collected a dozen films after which only a blanket seems to be the safest place, and even that is doubtful.

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1. "The Shining" / The Shining. Stanley Kubrick, 1980

The events of the film take place in the Overlook Hotel, which inspires distrust from the very first minutes. An empty large building, in which the family of the writer Jack Torrance settles, does not bode well, because even the gloomy appearance of the hotel in the "sleeping" season can reject anyone.

2. "Call" / Ringu. Hideo Nakata, 1998

In the winter of 1998, the world first saw The Call. And since then, the horror genre has been divided into what was "before" and what became "after". There are no special effects familiar to our eyes at all, the heroines do not squeal with fear so that they lay their ears, and no one runs along the dark corridors with a flashlight that goes out every now and then. Everything is completely different here. The whole film seems to be electrified by fear and tension. The Hollywood remake of 2002 was in many ways just as good.

3. "The Exorcist" / The Exorcist. William Friedkin, 1973

The daughter of a famous actress suddenly begins to have seizures that are difficult to explain to doctors of various specialties, and even the local priest is not ready to believe that the girl is possessed by the devil. If you're tired of comedy-like horror movies where all the scare is based on a cheap "Boo!", then you're in the right place.

4. "Silence of the Lambs" / The Silence of the Lambs. Jonathan Demme, 1990

Clarissa Starling investigates the case of a maniac who kidnaps young girls. But to catch one maniac, you need another maniac. Psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter, who agrees to cooperate in exchange for conversations, is serving a term in a psychiatric hospital. And these conversations can cost her not only nerve cells.

5. "Saw: The Game of Survival" / Saw. James Wan, 2004

Two men wake up in an unknown room that looks like a large bathroom. With difficulty restoring the events of the past day, they are trying to find out what is happening here. It turns out that they have become part of someone's cruel game.

6. "Alien" / Alien. Ridley Scott, 1979

“In space, no one will hear your cry…” Somewhere in deep space, a cargo tanker unexpectedly makes a stop near a little-studied planet. A signal comes from it, and the team decides to land and find out what is there. The find is amazing, but the team is much more surprised not by the spaceship itself and its dead crew, but by something mysterious in its “hold”.

7. "28 days later" / 28 Days Later ... Danny Boyle, 2002

The future depends on us. But that's not the case at all. The future depends on us only indirectly, and we have almost no power to influence it, unless you are lucky enough to become one of the lucky few chosen by fate ... And what awaits these few in the world of chaos and the danger of death at any moment? Just a fight for survival.

8. "The skin in which I live" / La piel que habito. Pedro Almodovar, 2011

World-renowned surgeon Robert Ledgard has discovered the secret to creating artificial human skin. He assures his colleagues that he is performing experiments on mice, but secretly keeps a young woman named Vera locked up in his country house, who is the main object of his experiments.

9. "Shelter" / El orfanato. Juan Antonio Bayona, 2007

In a former orphanage - a large old mansion - the couple live with an adopted curly-haired boy named Simon. The boy behaves as is customary in houses with such surroundings. He befriends invisible children who play frightening games, first with him, and after his disappearance, with his mother.

10. The Conjuring James Wan, 2013

The worst thing is that the film is based on real events. The chilling story of Ed and Lorraine Warren, world famous detectives who investigate paranormal cases. They were approached for help by a family terrorized by a dark spirit on a secluded farm. And then the battered detectives are faced with the most frightening case in their lives.

11. "Sleepy Hollow" / Sleepy Hollow. Tim Burton, 1999

A New York constable who has grown weary of the police's barbaric methods is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate mysterious murders. All the victims, according to the local population, die from the sword of the headless horseman ... Crane has to make sure that this is not a legend, but a terrible truth.

12. "Psycho" / Psycho. Alfred Hitchcock, 1960

You won't see gushing fountains of blood, decapitated dead, or other things that disgust many people. But that doesn't mean you won't be scared. Hitchcock and without creepy shots will make you tremble with horror even half a century after the premiere of the film.