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you may want to sleep with the lights on
after this one welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we’re counting down our picks
for the top 10 scariest nightmares in
movies for this list we’ll be focusing
on the nightmarish visions film
characters have experienced in their
sleep over the years
we will not be including daydreams fever
dreams or hallucinations such as the
dead baby seen from Trainspotting
however because those are lists for
another day by the way a spoiler alert
might just be in order number 10 the
woman appears the woman in black boy
most horror audiences might know the
woman in black thanks to Daniel
Radcliffe’s 2012 film but this 1989
British TV version produced for the ITV
network petrified a whole generation of
late 80s viewers following the same
story originally found in Susan Hill’s
novel young solicitor Arthur kid is
tormented by a spirit who haunts the
grounds of a widows estate he’s taken
care of
following her recent death Arthur goes
to bed still trying to make sense of a
toy soldier he finds mysteriously he’s
woken up by childlike ghostly whispers
quickly followed by the shocking
floating body of the woman in black the
lady’s nails on a chalkboard scream
makes this nightmare that much more
terrifying
[Applause]
number nine Zelda Pet Sematary good
Stephen King knows how to invoke
everyone’s deepest darkest secrets or
regrets turning them into monsters that
keep us up at night this film brings
these fears effectively to life as we
follow the terrifying ordeal of the
Crede family and the local pet cemetery
that can bring dead things back to life
kinda daddy but if Church dies what if
you guys pass go to the pet cemetery
while patriarch Lewis is dealing with
the consequences of reviving the dead
wife and mother rachel has her own
nightmares haunting her living with the
trauma of watching her older sister
slowly wither away from spinal
meningitis
Rachel’s nightmares of the sickly Zelda
are a gruesome reminder that the
greatest terror does not need to stem
from an unknown monster
[Music]
number eight Kara’s dream The Exorcist
why’d you get in line for shows reading
PO Box
Epson himself I got about another famous
character whose regrets manifest as
nightmarish dreams father Karras has to
deal with his inner demons before
beginning his epic battle with the
all-too-real demon Pazuzu which now
seems to inhabit the body of a young
Regan MacNeil boy
that’s ours mine guilt-ridden over his
belief that he didn’t do enough to help
his elderly mother who was sent to a
nursing home against his better judgment
Karras is completely distraught to hear
about her death I should have been there
I wasn’t there isn’t better there was
nothing you could do he bitterly and
drunkenly falls asleep only to be
tormented by visions of her calling for
help
short but sweet this dreams bizarre
editing jarring pacing and subliminal
demon flashes make us want to hide under
the bed not Reagan’s bed though
number seven beyond the grave Carrie
well he said that she’s young enough so
that she’ll forget all about it in time
many nightmares stem from traumatic
events whose distressing effect we can’t
shake poor sue seems to be the only
survivor of Carrie White’s prom night
massacre where she used her telekinetic
powers to get the ultimate revenge
the ethereal and dreamlike atmosphere in
the final scene as sue brings flowers to
Carrie’s final resting place should be
assigned to audiences that something’s
up notice the red car going backwards
but surely the carnage is now over nope
we’re jolted back to reality just as sue
is jolted out of her sleep in one of the
most shocking horror endings seeing
Carrie’s arm rise out of her grave is
sure to give Sue and us years of
recurring nightmares number six birthing
the fly give us a push you can push it
up come on watching your brilliant
scientist boyfriend experiment on
himself and slowly transform into a
monstrous fly creature is a fantastic
example of a living nightmare it’s also
a fantastic example of a David
Cronenberg movie don’t worry Veronica
comes to the terrifying realization that
she’s pregnant and that her mutated baby
daddy is only getting worse honestly
it’s too terrifying to imagine what kind
of horror that would elicit will be over
soon here we go this movie pulls no
punches though and gives us a visceral
depiction of Veronica’s literal worst
nightmare giving birth to a fly and you
can tell that Cronenberg is the master
and Orchestrator of wild nightmares come
to life because that’s him pulling the
creature out of Veronica number five
twins Dead Ringers don’t ever do that
again
separation can be a terrifying thing yep
this movie’s tagline couldn’t be more
accurate this is a movie about creepy
twin Gynaecologists once again directed
by David Cronenberg so we’ll try to
answer the question we know you’re dying
to ask yes Dead Ringers goes there and
beyond
just separate the twins certainly have a
weird symbiotic dependent relationship
and are not above secretly sharing women
when Beverly Falls for their client
Claire the result goes beyond a bizarre
incestuous love triangle in an extremely
painful disturbing and way too symbolic
dream
Beverly finds himself in bed with Claire
and his brother but is in fact literally
attached at the hip to Elliot let’s just
say he and Claire’s teeth make clear
what needs to happen to this
relationship I’m sorry I’m sorry I was
baby number four chestburster
aliens thank you damn lucky to be alive
kiddo in 1986 James Cameron had insanely
huge shoes to fill while making the
sequel to one of the most successful
beloved and terrifying science-fiction
films ever made
although we took a more action-heavy
approach aliens was not lacking in
thrills and became a huge success itself
one of its most surprising scenes not
only pays tribute to the originals most
famous sequence but also taps into the
audience’s fear of the evil that lurks
inside heroine Ripley wakes up in a
hospital bed only to find an unfriendly
and unwelcome visitor trying to exit her
body the audience shares Ripley’s relief
that this was just a dream since we
cannot fathom this badass icon
succumbing to this terrible fate bad
dreams again you want something to help
you sleep No
number three lots of bugs drag me to
hell yeah I couldn’t wake up it’s
sometimes hard to know you’re in a
nightmare or in a scary scene for that
matter like when everything seems
peaceful and you’re lying in bed with
your loved one in this scene however the
creepy music and a pestering fly let us
know that things are not okay as we
witness Christine swallowing the bug in
her sleep just when we think that this
will wake her up
director Sam Raimi decides to up the
cringe factor and we watch in agony as
the evil gypsy woman attacks Christine
only to baptize her with a swarm of bugs
that fall right into her open mouth
ah if you’ve got a fear of insects you
may want to fast-forward through this
one it’s just a dream number two the nun
the conjuring – no who’s that ed and
Lorraine Warren or two of the most
famous real-life ghost hunters and
demonologists in the world in the sequel
to the conjuring we find them tackling
even more terrifying demonic forces
Lorraine played once again by Vera
Farmiga was always known to have visions
of things to come and seeing her husband
being killed in one of these visions
during a seance understandably puts her
on edge especially since the death is
always accompanied by a monstrous
demonic nun in one such dream as she
sleeps on her couch she and all of us
received quite a pants oiling scare as
the gruesome nun jumps out of a painting
and makes her plans very clear she wants
Edie Warren
before we unveil our number one pick
here are some honorable mentions
all right already number one classroom
nightmare a nightmare on elm street what
is seen is not always what is real
topping our list is none other than the
granddaddy of them all the king of
nightmares Freddy Krueger who are you
placing him at number one was a
no-brainer
the hard part was narrowing down
Freddy’s ultimate nightmare from two
decades worth of terrifying sequences
Freddy is the personification of the
nightmare and the dream master knows
exactly what to conjure up to make you
sweat the best example has to be Nancy’s
torturous dream when she falls asleep in
English class
Freddy uses her recently deceased
friend’s corpse to lure her outside and
deeper into her dream chasing her into
his industrial lair it’s nevertheless an
iconic turning point in Nancy struggle
as she realizes it’s only a dream that
she can eventually control Freddy do you
agree with our list
that’s just natural side effects of such
an unusually long hypersleep what other
movie nightmares gave you nightmares of
your own Oh
for more shocking top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com holy shit
[Music]
you may want to sleep with the lights on
after this one welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we’re counting down our picks
for the top 10 scariest nightmares in
movies for this list we’ll be focusing
on the nightmarish visions film
characters have experienced in their
sleep over the years
we will not be including daydreams fever
dreams or hallucinations such as the
dead baby seen from Trainspotting
however because those are lists for
another day by the way a spoiler alert
might just be in order number 10 the
woman appears the woman in black boy
most horror audiences might know the
woman in black thanks to Daniel
Radcliffe’s 2012 film but this 1989
British TV version produced for the ITV
network petrified a whole generation of
late 80s viewers following the same
story originally found in Susan Hill’s
novel young solicitor Arthur kid is
tormented by a spirit who haunts the
grounds of a widows estate he’s taken
care of
following her recent death Arthur goes
to bed still trying to make sense of a
toy soldier he finds mysteriously he’s
woken up by childlike ghostly whispers
quickly followed by the shocking
floating body of the woman in black the
lady’s nails on a chalkboard scream
makes this nightmare that much more
terrifying
[Applause]
number nine Zelda Pet Sematary good
Stephen King knows how to invoke
everyone’s deepest darkest secrets or
regrets turning them into monsters that
keep us up at night this film brings
these fears effectively to life as we
follow the terrifying ordeal of the
Crede family and the local pet cemetery
that can bring dead things back to life
kinda daddy but if Church dies what if
you guys pass go to the pet cemetery
while patriarch Lewis is dealing with
the consequences of reviving the dead
wife and mother rachel has her own
nightmares haunting her living with the
trauma of watching her older sister
slowly wither away from spinal
meningitis
Rachel’s nightmares of the sickly Zelda
are a gruesome reminder that the
greatest terror does not need to stem
from an unknown monster
[Music]
number eight Kara’s dream The Exorcist
why’d you get in line for shows reading
PO Box
Epson himself I got about another famous
character whose regrets manifest as
nightmarish dreams father Karras has to
deal with his inner demons before
beginning his epic battle with the
all-too-real demon Pazuzu which now
seems to inhabit the body of a young
Regan MacNeil boy
that’s ours mine guilt-ridden over his
belief that he didn’t do enough to help
his elderly mother who was sent to a
nursing home against his better judgment
Karras is completely distraught to hear
about her death I should have been there
I wasn’t there isn’t better there was
nothing you could do he bitterly and
drunkenly falls asleep only to be
tormented by visions of her calling for
help
short but sweet this dreams bizarre
editing jarring pacing and subliminal
demon flashes make us want to hide under
the bed not Reagan’s bed though
number seven beyond the grave Carrie
well he said that she’s young enough so
that she’ll forget all about it in time
many nightmares stem from traumatic
events whose distressing effect we can’t
shake poor sue seems to be the only
survivor of Carrie White’s prom night
massacre where she used her telekinetic
powers to get the ultimate revenge
the ethereal and dreamlike atmosphere in
the final scene as sue brings flowers to
Carrie’s final resting place should be
assigned to audiences that something’s
up notice the red car going backwards
but surely the carnage is now over nope
we’re jolted back to reality just as sue
is jolted out of her sleep in one of the
most shocking horror endings seeing
Carrie’s arm rise out of her grave is
sure to give Sue and us years of
recurring nightmares number six birthing
the fly give us a push you can push it
up come on watching your brilliant
scientist boyfriend experiment on
himself and slowly transform into a
monstrous fly creature is a fantastic
example of a living nightmare it’s also
a fantastic example of a David
Cronenberg movie don’t worry Veronica
comes to the terrifying realization that
she’s pregnant and that her mutated baby
daddy is only getting worse honestly
it’s too terrifying to imagine what kind
of horror that would elicit will be over
soon here we go this movie pulls no
punches though and gives us a visceral
depiction of Veronica’s literal worst
nightmare giving birth to a fly and you
can tell that Cronenberg is the master
and Orchestrator of wild nightmares come
to life because that’s him pulling the
creature out of Veronica number five
twins Dead Ringers don’t ever do that
again
separation can be a terrifying thing yep
this movie’s tagline couldn’t be more
accurate this is a movie about creepy
twin Gynaecologists once again directed
by David Cronenberg so we’ll try to
answer the question we know you’re dying
to ask yes Dead Ringers goes there and
beyond
just separate the twins certainly have a
weird symbiotic dependent relationship
and are not above secretly sharing women
when Beverly Falls for their client
Claire the result goes beyond a bizarre
incestuous love triangle in an extremely
painful disturbing and way too symbolic
dream
Beverly finds himself in bed with Claire
and his brother but is in fact literally
attached at the hip to Elliot let’s just
say he and Claire’s teeth make clear
what needs to happen to this
relationship I’m sorry I’m sorry I was
baby number four chestburster
aliens thank you damn lucky to be alive
kiddo in 1986 James Cameron had insanely
huge shoes to fill while making the
sequel to one of the most successful
beloved and terrifying science-fiction
films ever made
although we took a more action-heavy
approach aliens was not lacking in
thrills and became a huge success itself
one of its most surprising scenes not
only pays tribute to the originals most
famous sequence but also taps into the
audience’s fear of the evil that lurks
inside heroine Ripley wakes up in a
hospital bed only to find an unfriendly
and unwelcome visitor trying to exit her
body the audience shares Ripley’s relief
that this was just a dream since we
cannot fathom this badass icon
succumbing to this terrible fate bad
dreams again you want something to help
you sleep No
number three lots of bugs drag me to
hell yeah I couldn’t wake up it’s
sometimes hard to know you’re in a
nightmare or in a scary scene for that
matter like when everything seems
peaceful and you’re lying in bed with
your loved one in this scene however the
creepy music and a pestering fly let us
know that things are not okay as we
witness Christine swallowing the bug in
her sleep just when we think that this
will wake her up
director Sam Raimi decides to up the
cringe factor and we watch in agony as
the evil gypsy woman attacks Christine
only to baptize her with a swarm of bugs
that fall right into her open mouth
ah if you’ve got a fear of insects you
may want to fast-forward through this
one it’s just a dream number two the nun
the conjuring – no who’s that ed and
Lorraine Warren or two of the most
famous real-life ghost hunters and
demonologists in the world in the sequel
to the conjuring we find them tackling
even more terrifying demonic forces
Lorraine played once again by Vera
Farmiga was always known to have visions
of things to come and seeing her husband
being killed in one of these visions
during a seance understandably puts her
on edge especially since the death is
always accompanied by a monstrous
demonic nun in one such dream as she
sleeps on her couch she and all of us
received quite a pants oiling scare as
the gruesome nun jumps out of a painting
and makes her plans very clear she wants
Edie Warren
before we unveil our number one pick
here are some honorable mentions
all right already number one classroom
nightmare a nightmare on elm street what
is seen is not always what is real
topping our list is none other than the
granddaddy of them all the king of
nightmares Freddy Krueger who are you
placing him at number one was a
no-brainer
the hard part was narrowing down
Freddy’s ultimate nightmare from two
decades worth of terrifying sequences
Freddy is the personification of the
nightmare and the dream master knows
exactly what to conjure up to make you
sweat the best example has to be Nancy’s
torturous dream when she falls asleep in
English class
Freddy uses her recently deceased
friend’s corpse to lure her outside and
deeper into her dream chasing her into
his industrial lair it’s nevertheless an
iconic turning point in Nancy struggle
as she realizes it’s only a dream that
she can eventually control Freddy do you
agree with our list
that’s just natural side effects of such
an unusually long hypersleep what other
movie nightmares gave you nightmares of
your own Oh
for more shocking top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com holy shit
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