Explore the dark side of movie going with The Best Horror Movies to Watch Right Now guide. From Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and William Friedkin’s Exorcist to Jordan Peele’s Get Out and many others – movies that scared the globe. Please proceed to our breakdown, rankings, and experts’ take on the aspects of these films that made them horrifying throughout the decades. Learn how to face and overcome the fear and enjoy the best of horror movies with the help of our top movies list.
1 Psycho (1960)
‘Psycho” and it is one of the best directed movies by Alfred Hitchcock because it captures all aspects of psychological thriller that surely caused a stir in the lead character Norman Bates. The story depicts Marion Crane who steals money and after travelling, she finds herself at Bates Motel. One of the most dramatic scenes in the history of cinema, of course, is the shower scene where a stranger stabs Marion to death.
Gradually, its main character shows himself, and the mystery of the murderer and the tragic history of the Bates family is disclosed in the story that is full of suspense and elements of psychological thriller. It has been cited for its effective and unique plot, the development of characters, and Hitchcock’s competent handling of the project to make it one of the all-time horror movies.
2 The Exorcist (1973)
William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist” is a relic of the exalted age of horror films; focusing on the very disturbing story of a girl named Regan MacNeil who is possessed by a demon. When all medical treatments that are available for the child named Regan fail, her struggling single mother calls two priests – Father Merrin and Father Karras – to conduct an exorcism.
Thus, faith and temptation, as well as the sacred clash with the evil are the topics the film is devoted to – the priests’ fight against the demon possessing Regan. The scenes of Regan’s possession, such as projectile vomiting, the head-spinning and levitation scenes, were explicitly disturbing and remain a big reason why “The Exorcist” may be termed as one of the best horror films to date.
3 The Shining (1980)
A psychoanalytical horror film of ‘The Shining’ directed by Stanley Kubrick based on Stephen King’s novel is a great story of spiraling madness of the film’s main character, Jack Torrance. Jack Nicholson plays Jack who after getting a job during winter as a caretaker of the Off- season Overlook Hotel takes along his wife and son.
After the snow immures them in the hotel, the supernatural things happen, and Jack goes emotionally sick. Danny, the young son of Jack, is endowed with the psychic power of the “shining” to see evil phenomena at the hotel and the extermination of the hotel by demons. Hallucinations such as the sinister twins, and the room number 237, torment the family as Jack degrades to his slimmer days.
4 Halloween (1978)
‘Halloween’ was directed by John Carpenter and it can be regarded as one of the first slasher films telling the story of a maniac in a mask, Michael Myers. The plot of the movie is focused on Myers, a young man who in the childhood kills his sister on the night of Halloween and after that is placed in a mental hospital. Many years later he is able to flee from the mental hospital, and goes back to Haddonfield, Illinois, to continue the rampage on the Halloween night.
The film also identifies both the main survivor, Laurie Strode played by Jamie Lee Curtis, as the main target of Myers. Laurie and her friends are out doing preparations for the Halloween when Myers is relentlessly in the pursuit of his target creating a series of horrific night with full of suspense thriller scenes.
5 Night of the Living Dead (1968)
This first zombie film directed by George A. Romero already unveils the genre whith a film that surely deserves the name of cult. The plot line is developed as a number of people get into a remote farm house to simultaneously evade virus that turns people into flesh consuming zombies.
There are lots of tensions among people who are besiege in the house meanwhile outside monsters are becoming more and more each day the main hero is Ben, the leader of the group of survivors. First, the situation is tight, and the characters, the audience is afraid of what might happen next, second – the unknown is always frightening, third – the characters have conflicts.
6 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’, directed by Tobe Hooper has become one of the horrors most representative of the seventies for its approach to the theme. Specifically, it tells the tale of a group of friends whose RV comes into contact with a family of psychopathic savages – cannibals, in modern rural Texas.
The movie starts with the friends finding a deserted farmhouse unknowingly thanks to getting into the lair of Leatherface, a chain-saw wielding psychopath. Besides, given that the group is targeted and killed one by one, the film yields tension by its terrify da’ portrayal.
7 Alien (1979)
”Alien,” directed by Ridley Scott is a pioneering sci-fi horror movie in the history of film making. It is an Sci-fi movie which depicts the commercial spaceship named Nostromo, where the crew goes to a distant planet in response to the signal received. Further probing they find an abandoned alien vessel and a killer space alien that boards their craft.
There are thrills and chills as the crew, featuring warrant officer Ripley incarnated by Sigourney Weaver, has to deal with the deadly alien that does not cease to hunt down the remaining crew members. It features features of both sci-fi and horror genres as well as suspense as the characters are trapped in a ship with an unknown and powerful enemy.
8 Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Thus “Rosemary’s Baby” a movie by Roman Polanski is a psychological horror movie that offers the audience colors based on paranoia, deception, and witchcraft. The plot is based on Rosemary Woodhouse, acted by Mia Farrow, and her husband Guy, played by John Cassavetes, when they live in a new house in New York.
Shortly after moving into the house, Rosemary gets pregnant in somewhat bizarre manner. When she advanced in her pregnancy, Rosemary feels that there is something wrong and that the neighbors especially the old couple, the Castevet couple wants to harm her baby or herself. Horrible incidents and revelations make the protagonist, Rosemary, sear about malevolent plot surrounding her pregnancy.
9 The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The film ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ produced by Jonathan Demme is a psychological thriller and horror, it focuses on the FBI trainee Clarice Starling played by Jodie Foster who seeks assistance of an incarcerated serial killer and cannibal, Dr. Hannibal Lecter played by Anthony Hopkins and get assistance from him in capturing another serial killer famously known as Buffalo Bill.
Clarice is assigned to have a one-on-one conversation with Lecter in his super-max cell to get information on Buffalo Bill. Instead there evolves quite an elaborate and suspenseful tug of evil mind over the noble soul of Clarice and the psychopathic genius of Lecter who will only provide information in return for personal details about Clarice.
10 Get Out (2017)
‘Get Out’ is a murder mystery, black horror movie directed by Jordan Peele, that combines social commentary with psychological horror. It depicts the story of Chris Washington, played by Daniel Kaluuya, a young Black man who goes to meet his girlfriend’s family for a weekend getaway. Over the weekend though, Chris begins to learn some dark truths about the family and their comfortable suburban, liberal reality.
Racism, cultural appropriation and identity as well as the sense of approval by a white community as Chris goes through the increasingly creepy interactions with the homeowners. Chris learns of a horrible plot that threatens his life which adds suspense towards the climax of the movie.
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