ever finish a good horror movie and
can’t bring yourself to get up and turn
on the lights let alone let go of your
pillow dear folks know just us okay
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we
count down our picks for another top 10
movies you shouldn’t watch alone
dial past and I’ll blow your house here
for this list much like the first one
will be ranking all the films that give
you the sense of helplessness and
eeriness you know that creepy feeling
you can’t shake as if someone is right
behind you
number 10 Halloween what the boo team in
masks serial-killing became a popular
symbol of horror with this film which
spawned an immensely successful series
of sequels when a six-year-old boy stabs
his older sister to death on a fateful
Halloween night he consequently finds
himself confined to a mental institution
for the next 15 years
pawn has escaped the deranged murderer
haunts the streets of his hometown to
stalk and kill a number of new victims
with his signature kitchen knife if you
watch this one alone be sure to keep the
lights on suspense had a new name after
this film and its name was Michael Myers
number 9 The Shining how do you like it
there may be no horror greater than the
one that originates in your own family
Wendy I’m home
Jack Torrance arrives at the Overlook
Hotel with his wife and son to begin his
job as the hotel’s caretaker
but soon strange happenings begin to
take place within the halls of the inn
and within Jack’s mine too he didn’t let
me finish my sins I said I’m not gonna
hurt you I’m just gonna bash your brains
originally welcoming the solitude as a
way to break his writer’s block jack is
slowly driven mad by the hotel’s curse
and attempts to take the lives of his
own family
this classic stanley kubrick adaptation
of Stephen King’s landmark is filled
with moments that have become a part of
pop culture here’s Johnny number 8 the
descent
when trapped in an underground cave with
no signs of escape just assume you’re
not alone when a group of women meet up
to go on an epic caving trip an
inconvenient accident leaves them all
confined to a rocky prison the worst of
it isn’t evident until they discover
what appeared to be flesh-eating
humanoid creatures down there with them
these inhabitants have adapted to life
underground and though they can’t
actually see strike without thinking
forcing the travelers to descend to
their most primal instinct to survive
the hellish cave number seven drag me to
hell this movie reminds us to always be
mindful of the ones we do wrong
Christine’s picture-perfect life is
disrupted by a desperate elderly lady
who needs an extension on her home loan
for Midway Bean who comes begging to me
when Christine denies her in hopes of
impressing her boss the old woman hexes
her with a curse that will torment her
mercilessly before damming her to an
eternity in hell sending the next three
days of her life dealing with evil
spirits and trying to ward off the curse
for good she faces such terrifying
demonic depictions in the mortal world
we shudder to think what awaits her on
the other side
number six evil dead I don’t know what
is wrong with you people
but there’s something dead and it freaks
possessions are no joke especially when
it happens to nearly everyone in your
group in this reboot of Sam Raimi’s Evil
Dead series five friends gather in a
cabin in the woods in order to help one
of their friends through a difficult
drug rehabilitation I read a passage
from that book it was some sort of
prayer I released something David
discovering a book of evil spells they
inadvertently summon a demon that begins
to possess each of them one by one the
remaining non possessed members see no
other way to survive then to kill each
subsequent possessed member until only
one survives actually maybe it’s better
to watch this one by yourself
I say Scott your song
I got this mother earth number five the
sixth sense
the souls of the dead sometimes have
unfinished business that keeps them from
passing on and it just so happens that
nine-year-old Cole is their means of
passage see anything are you sure
they’re their child psychologist Malcolm
Crowe is tasked with relieving the young
boy of his frightening visits but in the
end uncovers some very unsettling truths
about his own life the concept of being
tormented by restless souls is scary
enough but focusing on a child as the
subject for such terror adds a whole
other spine-tingling level I think I
might know a way to make them go away
listen to them
plus it’s an M night Shyamalan movie so
if you think you can handle a twist
ending with no one to keep you company
that’s your problem
number four hide-and-seek
like aims what kind of games pine teak
there comes a time in a person’s life
when you may need a fresh start after
his wife’s untimely death this father
felt a change of scene was necessary for
him and his daughter Emily I say well
this is my daughter Emily this is
sheriff half ready Emily to cope with
all the sudden upheaval in her life
young Emily develops an imaginary friend
named Charlie who may not actually be so
friendly what did you do who did it
who did then no charlie the apparition
only seems to present itself to Emily
but he bares a resentment towards anyone
that comes close to her who is Charlie
where’s let’s just say that if you watch
this one alone the more paranoid among
us might start to question if we truly
are alone I didn’t seek
number three sinister look at all these
new paintings you really getting good
nothing screams horror like a house
haunted by evil spirits struggling true
crime writer Ellison Oswalt thinks he’s
found a big break upon the discovery of
an unsolved family murder case hoping to
get closer to the answer he moves with
his family into the house of the
murdered family Ellison we didn’t move
in a few houses down from a crime scene
again
did we Tracy no just don’t say anything
if we did I don’t want to know about it
in the Attic one day he finds film reels
depicting the murders of several
families and soon realizes he’s in way
over his head
the thing that remains constant with
each film is the demonic figure present
in each shot who has now sought out the
Oswald family to make sure they suffer
the same fate
number two insidious though nothing gets
in between two parents and the
well-being of their child not even a
demonic entity using him as a vessel to
the real world Dalton has inherited the
ability to leave his body and travel to
the realm of the undying in the problem
is that with his astral body gone he’s
just left us with a physical body an
empty vessel when he gets trapped and is
unable to find his way back evil spirits
begin using his consciousness to wreak
havoc on the Lambert family but there
are other entities who are malevolent
and have a more insidious agenda with
supernatural scares of plenty even
dedicated horror fans will have trouble
turning the lights off after watching
this especially if they watch it by
themselves before we unveil our top pick
here are a few honorable mentions
Camilla got in touch with a medium we
learn from her that the doll was
possessed by a girl named Annabelle
Higgins she had lost her parents and had
taken a liking to my doll all she wanted
was to be friends
do you want
j-just help you justly not real
number one the babadook
how many six-year-old boys do you know
Robbie he’s do believe in monsters hey
have you ever heard the story of the
babadook well neither had this troubled
single mother and upon reading the
cursed book to her son she unleashed its
hellish torment onto both their lives
the sons overactive imagination leads
the mother to initially believe the
babadook exists and it’s getting worse
he’s becoming aggressive
however she believes it’s incessant
stalking causes the family to experience
increasing psychological trauma one
cannot escape the babadook once a person
becomes aware of his existence the film
gets its notoriety from the lack of
conventional jump scares and the
masterful employment of raw horror
elements exactly the kind of movie you
should watch in a big group with the
lights on and the basement door locked
so do you agree with our list what do
you want to talk about what movie made
you go to sleep with the nightlight on
for more awesome top 10s published every
day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
can’t bring yourself to get up and turn
on the lights let alone let go of your
pillow dear folks know just us okay
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we
count down our picks for another top 10
movies you shouldn’t watch alone
dial past and I’ll blow your house here
for this list much like the first one
will be ranking all the films that give
you the sense of helplessness and
eeriness you know that creepy feeling
you can’t shake as if someone is right
behind you
number 10 Halloween what the boo team in
masks serial-killing became a popular
symbol of horror with this film which
spawned an immensely successful series
of sequels when a six-year-old boy stabs
his older sister to death on a fateful
Halloween night he consequently finds
himself confined to a mental institution
for the next 15 years
pawn has escaped the deranged murderer
haunts the streets of his hometown to
stalk and kill a number of new victims
with his signature kitchen knife if you
watch this one alone be sure to keep the
lights on suspense had a new name after
this film and its name was Michael Myers
number 9 The Shining how do you like it
there may be no horror greater than the
one that originates in your own family
Wendy I’m home
Jack Torrance arrives at the Overlook
Hotel with his wife and son to begin his
job as the hotel’s caretaker
but soon strange happenings begin to
take place within the halls of the inn
and within Jack’s mine too he didn’t let
me finish my sins I said I’m not gonna
hurt you I’m just gonna bash your brains
originally welcoming the solitude as a
way to break his writer’s block jack is
slowly driven mad by the hotel’s curse
and attempts to take the lives of his
own family
this classic stanley kubrick adaptation
of Stephen King’s landmark is filled
with moments that have become a part of
pop culture here’s Johnny number 8 the
descent
when trapped in an underground cave with
no signs of escape just assume you’re
not alone when a group of women meet up
to go on an epic caving trip an
inconvenient accident leaves them all
confined to a rocky prison the worst of
it isn’t evident until they discover
what appeared to be flesh-eating
humanoid creatures down there with them
these inhabitants have adapted to life
underground and though they can’t
actually see strike without thinking
forcing the travelers to descend to
their most primal instinct to survive
the hellish cave number seven drag me to
hell this movie reminds us to always be
mindful of the ones we do wrong
Christine’s picture-perfect life is
disrupted by a desperate elderly lady
who needs an extension on her home loan
for Midway Bean who comes begging to me
when Christine denies her in hopes of
impressing her boss the old woman hexes
her with a curse that will torment her
mercilessly before damming her to an
eternity in hell sending the next three
days of her life dealing with evil
spirits and trying to ward off the curse
for good she faces such terrifying
demonic depictions in the mortal world
we shudder to think what awaits her on
the other side
number six evil dead I don’t know what
is wrong with you people
but there’s something dead and it freaks
possessions are no joke especially when
it happens to nearly everyone in your
group in this reboot of Sam Raimi’s Evil
Dead series five friends gather in a
cabin in the woods in order to help one
of their friends through a difficult
drug rehabilitation I read a passage
from that book it was some sort of
prayer I released something David
discovering a book of evil spells they
inadvertently summon a demon that begins
to possess each of them one by one the
remaining non possessed members see no
other way to survive then to kill each
subsequent possessed member until only
one survives actually maybe it’s better
to watch this one by yourself
I say Scott your song
I got this mother earth number five the
sixth sense
the souls of the dead sometimes have
unfinished business that keeps them from
passing on and it just so happens that
nine-year-old Cole is their means of
passage see anything are you sure
they’re their child psychologist Malcolm
Crowe is tasked with relieving the young
boy of his frightening visits but in the
end uncovers some very unsettling truths
about his own life the concept of being
tormented by restless souls is scary
enough but focusing on a child as the
subject for such terror adds a whole
other spine-tingling level I think I
might know a way to make them go away
listen to them
plus it’s an M night Shyamalan movie so
if you think you can handle a twist
ending with no one to keep you company
that’s your problem
number four hide-and-seek
like aims what kind of games pine teak
there comes a time in a person’s life
when you may need a fresh start after
his wife’s untimely death this father
felt a change of scene was necessary for
him and his daughter Emily I say well
this is my daughter Emily this is
sheriff half ready Emily to cope with
all the sudden upheaval in her life
young Emily develops an imaginary friend
named Charlie who may not actually be so
friendly what did you do who did it
who did then no charlie the apparition
only seems to present itself to Emily
but he bares a resentment towards anyone
that comes close to her who is Charlie
where’s let’s just say that if you watch
this one alone the more paranoid among
us might start to question if we truly
are alone I didn’t seek
number three sinister look at all these
new paintings you really getting good
nothing screams horror like a house
haunted by evil spirits struggling true
crime writer Ellison Oswalt thinks he’s
found a big break upon the discovery of
an unsolved family murder case hoping to
get closer to the answer he moves with
his family into the house of the
murdered family Ellison we didn’t move
in a few houses down from a crime scene
again
did we Tracy no just don’t say anything
if we did I don’t want to know about it
in the Attic one day he finds film reels
depicting the murders of several
families and soon realizes he’s in way
over his head
the thing that remains constant with
each film is the demonic figure present
in each shot who has now sought out the
Oswald family to make sure they suffer
the same fate
number two insidious though nothing gets
in between two parents and the
well-being of their child not even a
demonic entity using him as a vessel to
the real world Dalton has inherited the
ability to leave his body and travel to
the realm of the undying in the problem
is that with his astral body gone he’s
just left us with a physical body an
empty vessel when he gets trapped and is
unable to find his way back evil spirits
begin using his consciousness to wreak
havoc on the Lambert family but there
are other entities who are malevolent
and have a more insidious agenda with
supernatural scares of plenty even
dedicated horror fans will have trouble
turning the lights off after watching
this especially if they watch it by
themselves before we unveil our top pick
here are a few honorable mentions
Camilla got in touch with a medium we
learn from her that the doll was
possessed by a girl named Annabelle
Higgins she had lost her parents and had
taken a liking to my doll all she wanted
was to be friends
do you want
j-just help you justly not real
number one the babadook
how many six-year-old boys do you know
Robbie he’s do believe in monsters hey
have you ever heard the story of the
babadook well neither had this troubled
single mother and upon reading the
cursed book to her son she unleashed its
hellish torment onto both their lives
the sons overactive imagination leads
the mother to initially believe the
babadook exists and it’s getting worse
he’s becoming aggressive
however she believes it’s incessant
stalking causes the family to experience
increasing psychological trauma one
cannot escape the babadook once a person
becomes aware of his existence the film
gets its notoriety from the lack of
conventional jump scares and the
masterful employment of raw horror
elements exactly the kind of movie you
should watch in a big group with the
lights on and the basement door locked
so do you agree with our list what do
you want to talk about what movie made
you go to sleep with the nightlight on
for more awesome top 10s published every
day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
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