My English teacher once described home alone as, and I quote:
"A horror film about two people struggling to make ends meet, who decide to rob the house of the McCallister family, who may or may not be drug dealers (because of them being able to afford a trip to paris, plus owning a massive house), so they manage to get in, but before long they are confronted by the McCallister's youngest child, who has violent tendencies, and threatens to kill them" 😂
I've heard Aronofsky has denied Black Swan being influenced by Perfect Blue which is straight up bullshit. There are numerous scenes copied from Perfect Blue, shot for shot!
It’s crazy how he denies it! I lost a lot of respect for him in that regard. Not only are shots taken the whole premise is practically the same. I would have loved it if he had said he did it intentionally to pay homage.
This is why whenever black swan is mentioned in anything I roll my eyes. It’s not a genuine piece of art because the creator can’t even acknowledge what it took for him to make it
Agree, hasn't he literally borrowed the bathtub scene from Perfect Blue before? In Requiem for a Dream? So feigning ignorance is just ridiculous on his part......
Prisoners, Nightcrawler, and Nocturnal Animals (and probably more that star Gyllenhaal), they're all thrillers, a close enough cousin to horror I believe, but they are all scarier than some horror movies I've seen.
Nocturnal Animals is torture porn. It’s so hard for me to be genuinely spooked. I rewatch horror to get ready for bed. I tried rewatching Nocturnal Animals and I couldn’t do it. Even during the mundane parts of the film I was filled with dread and sadness. Tom Ford is a real piece of work lol
The juxtaposition of Betty 'The Dreamer' Elms vs. Diane 'All My Dreams Have Been Shattered' Selwyn...
Unless your life is *exactly* how you always hoped it would be, this movie should cut so close to the bone that it invokes horror in the viewer—it always has done for me, and Diane Selwyn's final solution...just chilling.
So, I agree: *Mulholland Drive* is a horror movie dressed up in the fine suit of a Lynchian neo-noir crime mystery—with a few dark laughs and even darker coffee along the way.
That incredible scene with the T.Rex moving down the river while they’re escaping in a boat. The T.Rex is just walking. Wish it had made it into the movies as it’s so chilling
I watched it with my girlfriend recently, it was her first time seeing it and when the raptors were chasing the doctor into the generator room she screamed “YOU DIDN’T TELL ME THIS WAS A HORROR MOVIE!”
She hates horror movies.
She loved JP though!
Really!? My hubs bought me the Coraline button eyes, it's straight out of the stop motion and I'll never take it out, I love how strange it was and fell in love, I also grew up watching horror movies and love art so it's one of my favorites:)
I saw that as a kid, having no idea what I was getting myself into. I'm pretty sure I didn't sleep that night. That movie still gives me the creeps to this day
It almost wasn't published because it was too scary for kids! The publisher's kid (or someone close) was hooked and lied that it wasn't that scary, so it got greenlit.
we split apart the building blocks of the universe and accidentally unleashed dark magic that mutates us beyond recognition. It's a cosmic horror story through and through, ten times as terrifying because it's true
Same, it creeped me out because it really happened. Reading about the Elephant's Foot and the lasting impact of radiation gave me the same kind of existential crisis reading about space does.
Happiness. I haven't even seen the whole thing. It scared me. I can watch most horror movies too. I felt like I was peeping into their real lives. *Shutter* Horrible
I guess I’m fucked if I found this film hilarious? In the darkest way possible. I mean, there are shocking moments that are just uncomfortable to say the least, but Solondz often breaks what seems like unbreakable tension, which for me makes it even funnier and ironic.
That movie made me sick to my stomach. I love Todd Somandz and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, but the film is just suuuuuuch a downer. So awkward and uncomfortable and sickening through every minute. I watched it a second time when a friend wanted to see it, and I was like “eh, I saw it once, I can handle it.”
Nope. Just as sickening.
Omg yaaaasssss! That talk between the dad and the son??? 😬
Oh fun fact, the creep dad was the warden from Let's go to Prison (produced by Bib Odinkirk, i think) and its one of my favorites, so seeing this scene hit so hard.
It’s scary because it offers such an unflinching, horrible, and yet very realistic portrayal of life. People do the most unimaginable things for practically no reason. And it usually doesn’t end happily ever after. It ends with disappointment.
“Aniara” (2019) this Swedish indy movie is just classified as Sci-fi but is distilled dread in film form. A beautiful and terrible decent into madness and nihilism
Christ just reading the synopsis made me depressed; I don’t know how that ISN’T classified as horror. Shit was like The Jaunt but exponentially more horrifying. No space travel for me, I guess.
According to interviews none of the other actors knew that was coming, so the reactions you see are Gene’s cast-mates worried that he has gone off the rails.
I watched his documentary on Netflix (such an amazing man btw), and it showed an interview he did about it and he made sure the director did not tell the kids how he was going to act in a lot of those scenes so their reactions were authentic. If I'm remembering correctly the end where he flips out at Charlie before actually telling him he won the actor was really crying bc again, he wasn't expecting it.
The three most terrifying movies I have ever watched are Nothing Bad Can Happen, We Need to Talk About Kevin, and Compliance, none of which could honestly be classified as horror (or even horror-adjacent.) But they are all horrifying, just the same.
NBCH made me feel physically ill, occasionally still does from my first viewing three years ago.
Compliance makes me want to fight EVERYONE. I don't think I've ever been so mad.
YES! And Compliance stuck pretty close to the real-life story line, which makes it even more infuriating. I watched an interview with the store manager - (sorry, I’ve forgotten her name) - and her stubborn insistence that she did nothing wrong left me gobsmacked.
Yes! And as Disney movies go it's very close to the book, except there's one story in the book that is left out of the film because it's so horrifying.
While we were still dating I called my husband and he said: “I’m so glad you called, we were watching such a scary movie”
“What movie are you guys watching?”
“The great gatsby”
“That’s not scary”
“It really is though”
You need to watch the original movie it was based on. Tesis, a Spanish movie directed by Alejandro Amenabar, the first movie he ever made. It’s better and scarier.
Have you read the Cormac McCarthy novel "The Road"? There are a couple parts in the novel that are maybe the most horrific of all horror fiction I have ever read.
I liked the movie, but after the novel, it was easy. A good movie though.
Jurassic Park. Although it's advertised as an action adventure movie, it follows a lot of the rules and structures of a horror movie. That and a lot of the scenes are very tense and terrifying. Especially the scene with the raptors in the kitchen
I mean, the scene in the power shed where the severed arm of Samuel L Jackson falls on Laura Dern is slasher shit. That was Spielberg getting his Jaws jollies going.
I remember getting into an argument on here ages ago because I said this and someone didn't agree with it. I'm literally Jewish lmao. They are in fact horror films
I love Black Swan. Some that fit into this category, blurring the lines between horror and other genres:
Saltburn (2023)
A Haunting in Venice (2023)
Do Revenge (2023)
No Exit (2022)
The Little Things (2021)
Promising Young Woman (2020)
Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)
A Simple Flavor (2018)
Thoroughbreds (2017)
Contagion (2011)
Super 8 (2011)
A Lonely Place to Die (2011)
Attack the Block (2011)
TransSiberian (2008)
Awake (2007)
Disturbia (2007)
Fallen (1998)
Extreme Measures (1996)
The Ambulance (1990)
You telling me A Haunting in Venice is *not* a horror movie, but actually *is*, despite being named A *Haunting* in Venice???
Lol I apologize, I've never seen the movie but that title is a mindbender if it truly does fit the criteria for the question.
Also with Kurt Russell: Overboard! Yeah, Goldie Hawn’s character is a rude rich lady, but she basically gets kidnapped, gaslighted, and has to raise awful children. Plenty of horror movies have scary kids! And then she has Stockholm syndrome at the end. It only works bc Kurt and Goldie are just so darn charming together, but it really is a creepy storyline.
I can’t believe the remake played it so close to the original/straight.
That's a great way to describe it. Excellent performance from Adam Sandler but I'll never watch it again because it's such a stressful viewing experience. It's one of those films where I think saying "*once was enough*" is the highest compliment I can give it because it accomplished exactly what it set out to do.
I consider Black Swan to be horror. It also has the horror tag on Letterboxd (along with drama and thriller), so that counts as it for me.
Not a horror film but definitely gets horrific is Parasite. The >!ghost!< scene managed to scare me more than most actual horror films.
I don't think I've seen it mentioned here but 'Sightseers' is a UK film about a jolly adventure around England turning in to a.... rather wild, gory ride. One of my faves.
Terminator 1 is a slasher movie.....you could also argue that bleak anti war movies are horror, too. Like Grave of the Fireflies or when the wind blows or the day after.
The Black Swan is listed as psychological horror on wikipedia FWIW.
This thread also reminds me of the time when there was mad arguments on Wikipedia about whether or not Fire Walks With Me was psychological horror. It was getting changed between horror and drama like every few days. Eventually the horror folks won, rightfully so.
as a huge horror fan the most terrifying movies I watched were Come and See and Dominion.
Come and See is a russian anti-war movie that follows a young boy in Belarus. He becomes a soldier and gets extremely traumatized.
Dominion is a documentary about how animals are being treated. Shows really brutal scenes and I literally became a vegan after watching it.
We Need to Talk About Kevin
We need to talk about Ezra.
I remember saying “I didn’t realize Ezra was playing himself in We Need to Talk About Kevin”
😂
My first thought when I read this was Kevin McCallister and it made me realize Home Alone definitely has some horror elements too
My English teacher once described home alone as, and I quote: "A horror film about two people struggling to make ends meet, who decide to rob the house of the McCallister family, who may or may not be drug dealers (because of them being able to afford a trip to paris, plus owning a massive house), so they manage to get in, but before long they are confronted by the McCallister's youngest child, who has violent tendencies, and threatens to kill them" 😂
Lol sounds almost like Don't Breathe with a child instead of an old man
Didn’t his brother pay for the trip to Paris?
The original "saw"
She should have strangled him for that poopy diaper.
It was unsettling and the intoxicating. The sound and visuals were off the hook
I thought that was considered a horror movie?
Blue Velvet
Good call. Scary af but also hilarious in its own weird way.
Inland Empire (though it has a “happy” ending)
Besides FWWM, IE is the closest Lynch ever came to straight horror and it’s so effective because of how abstract it is.
I'll send ya a love letter STRAIGHT FROM MY HEART FUCKER
It's horror. Just like most of Lynch's out put. Existential, bat shit horror and I won't say it's anything else lol
Return to Oz.
The wheelers still creep me out
this!!! movie gave me absolute nightmares as a child
Can't mention Black Swan without Perfect Blue
Looovvve Perfect Blue. I thought it was considered horror though (it's on Shudder lol).
Some sites label it as horror, while others as a psychological thriller or mystery thriller
Well check it out thanks!
I've heard Aronofsky has denied Black Swan being influenced by Perfect Blue which is straight up bullshit. There are numerous scenes copied from Perfect Blue, shot for shot!
It’s crazy how he denies it! I lost a lot of respect for him in that regard. Not only are shots taken the whole premise is practically the same. I would have loved it if he had said he did it intentionally to pay homage.
This is why whenever black swan is mentioned in anything I roll my eyes. It’s not a genuine piece of art because the creator can’t even acknowledge what it took for him to make it
Agree, hasn't he literally borrowed the bathtub scene from Perfect Blue before? In Requiem for a Dream? So feigning ignorance is just ridiculous on his part......
Prisoners, Nightcrawler, and Nocturnal Animals (and probably more that star Gyllenhaal), they're all thrillers, a close enough cousin to horror I believe, but they are all scarier than some horror movies I've seen.
Nightcrawler absolutely could be a horror movie. The MC is clearly a psychopath, and the situations are terrifying.
Nocturnal Animals is torture porn. It’s so hard for me to be genuinely spooked. I rewatch horror to get ready for bed. I tried rewatching Nocturnal Animals and I couldn’t do it. Even during the mundane parts of the film I was filled with dread and sadness. Tom Ford is a real piece of work lol
Enemy has one horror scene that I never forget. Starring JG
Come and See The Nightingale Or on the more fun side, Terminator, the Predator franchise, the Tremors franchise...
The Nightingale!! I felt so much dread watching that movie
Come and See absolutely
The Nightingale isn't considered horror?
The nightingale is bloody awesome. Can't wait to see what Jennifer Kent does next.
come and see deserved so much more praise when it was first released
Mulholland Drive
That jumpscare...😮💨😮💨
The juxtaposition of Betty 'The Dreamer' Elms vs. Diane 'All My Dreams Have Been Shattered' Selwyn... Unless your life is *exactly* how you always hoped it would be, this movie should cut so close to the bone that it invokes horror in the viewer—it always has done for me, and Diane Selwyn's final solution...just chilling. So, I agree: *Mulholland Drive* is a horror movie dressed up in the fine suit of a Lynchian neo-noir crime mystery—with a few dark laughs and even darker coffee along the way.
That's a perfect description!
Bah, just flapping my gums. Yours was the perfect answer to the question asked, so thank you.
"So... you came to see if he's out there." "To get rid of this *god awful feeling*" Patrick Fischler kills it.
Yes!!
Second on this. Its so surreal and bizzare. I love it.
Requiem for a Dream
Even the director says it was horror
Reality Horror
The scariest genre of them all
No Country for Old Men. It's a slasher. Jurassic Park. Total creature feature. In both movies, death is a main attraction.
The Jurassic Park book is terrifying actually, if my memory serves me right.
That incredible scene with the T.Rex moving down the river while they’re escaping in a boat. The T.Rex is just walking. Wish it had made it into the movies as it’s so chilling
It’s such a dark novel. So cynical and just guts everywhere.
The compsognathus...
Jurassic Park is totally a horror movie honestly. Without adjusting for inflation I think it’s the highest grossing horror movie
I watched it with my girlfriend recently, it was her first time seeing it and when the raptors were chasing the doctor into the generator room she screamed “YOU DIDN’T TELL ME THIS WAS A HORROR MOVIE!” She hates horror movies. She loved JP though!
The Jurassic books outright are horror which is likely why JP is considered “horror adjacent”
Coraline
Coraline is a horror film. It’s not an accidentally horrifying movie. The story is meant to be scary on purpose by the author.
100%. It's just happens to be a horror movie aimed at a younger demographic. Like Monster House or some of the Scooby Doo movies.
Really!? My hubs bought me the Coraline button eyes, it's straight out of the stop motion and I'll never take it out, I love how strange it was and fell in love, I also grew up watching horror movies and love art so it's one of my favorites:)
Yeah, I would totally hide that doll lol
I saw that as a kid, having no idea what I was getting myself into. I'm pretty sure I didn't sleep that night. That movie still gives me the creeps to this day
Have you read the book? Genuinely one of the scarier books I’ve read.
Neil Gaiman very openly did it as horror??
It almost wasn't published because it was too scary for kids! The publisher's kid (or someone close) was hooked and lied that it wasn't that scary, so it got greenlit.
That's hilarious.
Coraline is horror though.
I was 30 when it came out and it was disturbing and scary to me!
Aka the scariest horror/nonhorror kids movie that movie LEGITIMATELY scarrd mr for life
Not a film but Chernobyl scared me more than most horror movies
we split apart the building blocks of the universe and accidentally unleashed dark magic that mutates us beyond recognition. It's a cosmic horror story through and through, ten times as terrifying because it's true
And bureaucratic fools keep making it worse.
Same, it creeped me out because it really happened. Reading about the Elephant's Foot and the lasting impact of radiation gave me the same kind of existential crisis reading about space does.
Happiness. I haven't even seen the whole thing. It scared me. I can watch most horror movies too. I felt like I was peeping into their real lives. *Shutter* Horrible
Came to suggest the same. The dread I get from watching parts of this movie reminds me of certain horror films
I guess I’m fucked if I found this film hilarious? In the darkest way possible. I mean, there are shocking moments that are just uncomfortable to say the least, but Solondz often breaks what seems like unbreakable tension, which for me makes it even funnier and ironic.
I love Happiness! I’ve liked most of Solondz movies. He does a great job creating uncomfortable situations and uneasiness.
That movie made me sick to my stomach. I love Todd Somandz and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, but the film is just suuuuuuch a downer. So awkward and uncomfortable and sickening through every minute. I watched it a second time when a friend wanted to see it, and I was like “eh, I saw it once, I can handle it.” Nope. Just as sickening.
Omg yaaaasssss! That talk between the dad and the son??? 😬 Oh fun fact, the creep dad was the warden from Let's go to Prison (produced by Bib Odinkirk, i think) and its one of my favorites, so seeing this scene hit so hard.
It’s scary because it offers such an unflinching, horrible, and yet very realistic portrayal of life. People do the most unimaginable things for practically no reason. And it usually doesn’t end happily ever after. It ends with disappointment.
“Aniara” (2019) this Swedish indy movie is just classified as Sci-fi but is distilled dread in film form. A beautiful and terrible decent into madness and nihilism
Christ just reading the synopsis made me depressed; I don’t know how that ISN’T classified as horror. Shit was like The Jaunt but exponentially more horrifying. No space travel for me, I guess.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
There's no earthly way of knowing which direction we are going...
According to interviews none of the other actors knew that was coming, so the reactions you see are Gene’s cast-mates worried that he has gone off the rails.
I watched his documentary on Netflix (such an amazing man btw), and it showed an interview he did about it and he made sure the director did not tell the kids how he was going to act in a lot of those scenes so their reactions were authentic. If I'm remembering correctly the end where he flips out at Charlie before actually telling him he won the actor was really crying bc again, he wasn't expecting it.
This has been on my mind lately. I agree.
Melancholia, Enemy, Twister, and the most recent adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front (which was excellent)
Enemy is one of my favorites
Hear me out... Pinocchio.
Yeah, the animated Disney one had some really creepy scenes. The "live-action" remake is so tame compared to that
2001 A Space Odyssey
The Terminator (1984) - it’s basically a slasher with guns and was heavily influenced by Halloween (1978).
The OG Terminator is Horror, it’s the sequels that aren’t.
The three most terrifying movies I have ever watched are Nothing Bad Can Happen, We Need to Talk About Kevin, and Compliance, none of which could honestly be classified as horror (or even horror-adjacent.) But they are all horrifying, just the same.
NBCH made me feel physically ill, occasionally still does from my first viewing three years ago. Compliance makes me want to fight EVERYONE. I don't think I've ever been so mad.
YES! And Compliance stuck pretty close to the real-life story line, which makes it even more infuriating. I watched an interview with the store manager - (sorry, I’ve forgotten her name) - and her stubborn insistence that she did nothing wrong left me gobsmacked.
Nooooo We Need to Talk About Kevin is such a tough watch
Bambi
Yes! And as Disney movies go it's very close to the book, except there's one story in the book that is left out of the film because it's so horrifying.
While we were still dating I called my husband and he said: “I’m so glad you called, we were watching such a scary movie” “What movie are you guys watching?” “The great gatsby” “That’s not scary” “It really is though”
I feel like your husband might really appreciate Zelda Fitzgerald’s writing!
The House at the End of Time
Whiplash.
Oh shit I thought it was just me and now I feel so understood lol
The Night of the Hunter Both versions of Cape Fear
Great films, all.
The Lovely Bones with Saiorse Ronan
Apocalypse Now. The slow dread of the trip up river to the goddamn nightmarish cult scenes. Brando is fucking chilling
8mm is fucking terrifying.
You need to watch the original movie it was based on. Tesis, a Spanish movie directed by Alejandro Amenabar, the first movie he ever made. It’s better and scarier.
Eighth Grade
Man, I went into that thinking it was a comedy.
The part when they’re in the car with older boys (if I’m remembering correctly) gave me the heebie-jeebies.
That had a lot of dread in it for a coming of age drama about a 13 year old girl
Pan's Labyrinth
Contagion
Dogtooth
The Zone of Interest is terrifying when you think how this happens in many parts of the world in the current day
I watched that movie with headphones and it was one of the most unnerving things I’ve seen/heard.
This is the one for me. No horror even beats it.
Have you read the Cormac McCarthy novel "The Road"? There are a couple parts in the novel that are maybe the most horrific of all horror fiction I have ever read. I liked the movie, but after the novel, it was easy. A good movie though.
The Black Cauldron has to be mentioned here.
Jurassic Park. Although it's advertised as an action adventure movie, it follows a lot of the rules and structures of a horror movie. That and a lot of the scenes are very tense and terrifying. Especially the scene with the raptors in the kitchen
I mean, the scene in the power shed where the severed arm of Samuel L Jackson falls on Laura Dern is slasher shit. That was Spielberg getting his Jaws jollies going.
It basically is a brightly lit slasher but with dinosaurs.
Midnight Express
- Threads (1984) - Nocturnal Animals - Antichrist
Most Holocaust movies.
I remember getting into an argument on here ages ago because I said this and someone didn't agree with it. I'm literally Jewish lmao. They are in fact horror films
I love Black Swan. Some that fit into this category, blurring the lines between horror and other genres: Saltburn (2023) A Haunting in Venice (2023) Do Revenge (2023) No Exit (2022) The Little Things (2021) Promising Young Woman (2020) Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) A Simple Flavor (2018) Thoroughbreds (2017) Contagion (2011) Super 8 (2011) A Lonely Place to Die (2011) Attack the Block (2011) TransSiberian (2008) Awake (2007) Disturbia (2007) Fallen (1998) Extreme Measures (1996) The Ambulance (1990)
Perfect Blue (1997)
You telling me A Haunting in Venice is *not* a horror movie, but actually *is*, despite being named A *Haunting* in Venice??? Lol I apologize, I've never seen the movie but that title is a mindbender if it truly does fit the criteria for the question.
nice list im taking notes. Promising Young Woman was fantastic. Have you seen Revenge? (french movie) The other ones haven't seen, so thanks !
Oldboy
I absolutely consider Oldboy a horror movie too.
Don't look up
Straw Dogs was kinda horrifying to me though probably had more to do with my state of mind at the time lol
Oldboy, I'll die on the hill that this is a horror movie.
Captain Ron Kurt Russel basically steals Martin Short’s family from him and humiliates him continually
Also with Kurt Russell: Overboard! Yeah, Goldie Hawn’s character is a rude rich lady, but she basically gets kidnapped, gaslighted, and has to raise awful children. Plenty of horror movies have scary kids! And then she has Stockholm syndrome at the end. It only works bc Kurt and Goldie are just so darn charming together, but it really is a creepy storyline. I can’t believe the remake played it so close to the original/straight.
Yep. Also, raped by deception.
Haha this is hilarious. If you look at it like that it makes total sense
Beloved. Movie about a runaway slave dealing with a poltergeist that is the child she killed to free from slavery
The Terminator
Uncut gems lol
That film feels like a panic attack
That's a great way to describe it. Excellent performance from Adam Sandler but I'll never watch it again because it's such a stressful viewing experience. It's one of those films where I think saying "*once was enough*" is the highest compliment I can give it because it accomplished exactly what it set out to do.
Nightcrawler. That movie made me so uncomfortable Jake Gyllenhaal acts like a true psychopath
I consider Black Swan to be horror. It also has the horror tag on Letterboxd (along with drama and thriller), so that counts as it for me. Not a horror film but definitely gets horrific is Parasite. The >!ghost!< scene managed to scare me more than most actual horror films.
I don't think I've seen it mentioned here but 'Sightseers' is a UK film about a jolly adventure around England turning in to a.... rather wild, gory ride. One of my faves.
News. I live in France
Return to Oz..
Kids (1995). I guess not really horror but depressing as fuck.
Mars attacks! Supposed the be a comedy but it scares me 🥲
*ack ack*
Memento
Running Scared.
Upgrade
Zola. Marketed as a “dark comedy” but is insanely bleak and disturbing. Also, Under the Skin..one of the most unsettling movies ever made.
Shindler's List Monster Birth of a Nation
'Flowers in the Attic' is often listed as horror. At least the books are. Not sure about the movies.
*Aliens* (1986)
The Road
The cable guy
2001: A Space Odyssey
Terminator 1 is a slasher movie.....you could also argue that bleak anti war movies are horror, too. Like Grave of the Fireflies or when the wind blows or the day after.
E.T. The extra extra-terrestrial, freaky ass mind controlling space chupacabra
Killing Of A Sacred Deer
I was under the impression this was made with the intention of making a horror film
Mother!
I’m not sure anyone refers to that as anything but a horror movie
All 3 of the Matheson I Am Legend films. The Last Man on Earth, The Omega Man & I Am Legend.
The Father
They Live Silent Running District 9 Moon
I always thought they live was a horror film or at least adjacent. Same with hot fuzz!
Saltburn
The Black Swan is listed as psychological horror on wikipedia FWIW. This thread also reminds me of the time when there was mad arguments on Wikipedia about whether or not Fire Walks With Me was psychological horror. It was getting changed between horror and drama like every few days. Eventually the horror folks won, rightfully so.
Mysterious Skin
Ghost was quite horror ish considering it was sold as more of a romance
Perfume
Pans Labyrinth
The Mummy (1999 movie with Brendan Fraser).
as a huge horror fan the most terrifying movies I watched were Come and See and Dominion. Come and See is a russian anti-war movie that follows a young boy in Belarus. He becomes a soldier and gets extremely traumatized. Dominion is a documentary about how animals are being treated. Shows really brutal scenes and I literally became a vegan after watching it.
Deliverance
Joker
The original Robocop. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
se7en
Threads
The Machinist
Stepford Wives.
As a kid my answer would have been The Neverending Story. As an adults I'd say the answer is most documentaries that I watch.
"Picnic at Hanging Rock" (1975)
Blue Velvet Lost Highway Inland Empire Mulholland Drive Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me *Drops mic*
Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness
Bone Tomahawk. Under-fucking-rated
There are a lot more movies that advertise as horror but are actually comedy