We love a good horror movie. A movie that keeps you on the edge of your seat is definitely a testament to a great horror movie.
It takes a lot to make a good horror movie; the film has to have a certain atmosphere, draw you in and make you care.
If you love a great scare, then check out these movies!
1. The Blair Witch Project (Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sanchez, 1999)
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This one is definitely a classic. When this movie came out over 20 years ago, it gave birth to the “found footage” genre in the horror world. This is a movie whose cheeky viral marketing allowed people to think it was a genuine documentary. Three students hike into a forest, intending to make a supercilious video-diary history project about the local tradition of the “Blair Witch”. They are never seen again and this footage is all that is recovered.
2. It Follows (David Robert Mitchell, 2014)
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In this sleeper hit, a young woman discovers that she is being followed by a demonic figure that only she can see after sleeping with a stranger, a STD (sexually transmitted demon), if you will. She realises that she has been inducted into a supernatural death cult and that the demonic figure will eventually kill her unless she sleeps with someone else. And so it goes on: a viral chain-letter of sex and shame.
3. Goodnight Mommy (Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala, 2014)
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Movies with kids are hard to pull off, which is why this Austian thriller is a cult favourite to many. The story centers around two boys whose mother’s face is covered in bandages. Soon, the boys start to suspect that whether the woman in the bandages is even their mother at all. Hang on to your seats, this film is going to make you question everything in life.
4. The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973)
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This is arguably the most famous horror movie of all time. In William Friedkin’s horror masterpiece, a priest is called in to cast out a devil occupying the body of a 12-year-old girl in Washington DC. But, the demon will not leave so easily. The effects and prosthetics are still staggeringly good and the cataclysmic confrontation of good and evil is genuinely horrifying.