these films prove that you don’t need an
r-rating to generate pure terror
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
horror movies that surprisingly aren’t
rated R before we begin we publish new
videos every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re looking at
some of the best horror movies that
you’ll be surprised to hear are rated PG
or pg-13
despite scenes containing violence and
gore Mike come on
cocoons popcorn guns monster shadows
move stupid as we look number 10 Joss
you’re gonna need a bigger boat one of
the most infamous horror movies of all
time this legendary early work from
filmmaker extraordinaire Steven
Spielberg is surprisingly low on blood
and gore considering the story centers
on a killer shark that’s largely because
Spielberg plays it coy when it comes to
the shark itself and the aftermath of
its attacks letting our minds fill in
the blanks with whores more frightening
than anything the film could actually
depict of course there’s still the odd
severed leg to remind us of the brutal
nature of the shark and its appetites so
we can’t call the film entirely
bloodless number 9 mama
this spooky tale focuses on two young
girls who spent an extended period of
time alone in the woods following the
death of their parents but after being
found and taken in by their uncle and
his girlfriend it slowly becomes clear
that the girls weren’t as alone as its
seed and an entity they call mama has
latched on to them much like our last
entry the film lets the audience do a
lot of the work for themselves often
generating scares from some wonderfully
spooky sound design the sound of Mama
alone is enough to give us the
heebie-jeebies and that’s a rare thing
in horror films
number eight killer Klowns from outer
space this 1988 horror movie sees a
group of aliens who by astonishing
cosmic coincidence look and act exactly
like circus clowns they proceed to
invade a small town to cause mayhem and
turn the town’s folk into delicious
cotton candy but surprisingly enough the
film only holds a pg-13 rating despite
decapitations acid pies and even one
port copping turned into a human
ventriloquist dummy they’re also one or
two scantily clad ladies to be found in
between the brightly colored carnage but
nothing so it splits it to warrant a
full R rating number 7 Ouija origin of
evil she’s channelling powers and forces
we do not understand a movie based on a
board game already has to fight pretty
hard to be scary but doubly so when it’s
trying to scare viewers without
resorting to extreme violence this
horror movie prequel pulls it off
however managing to deliver on scares
while keeping things relatively low in
the gorge apartment of course there are
still deaths aplenty and genuinely
disturbing demonic possession but for
the most part the film doesn’t go
overboard with the gore sticking to good
old-fashioned scares that hit their mark
more often than not maybe there’s hope
for board game movies after all number 6
fire in the sky or give us father for
what we’ve done
alien abductions are usually the stuff
of sci-fi rather than horror
but this 1993 genre mixing film takes
the concept of abduction to some
genuinely horrifying places after
vanishing for five days and Arizona
Walker mysteriously reappears with no
memory of what happened however the
memories of his horrible ordeal slowly
start coming to the surface and trust us
when we say that these memories were
best left forgotten mister well invested
mr. Walton did you make contact with
Ione the abduction flashbacks are not
for the faint of heart
especially if like us you aren’t a big
fan of eyeball violence how this one
manages to escape an r-rating is beyond
us but we’re squirming in our seat
either way
number five drag me to help you don’t
get a title like this movie without some
serious horror chops and Sam Raimi’s
2009 splatter Fest has chops despair to
say nothing of splats pops and crunches
after evicting an old woman from her
home a bank employee finds herself
horribly cursed and bizarre and gooey
incidents soon follow as can be expected
from the director of the Evil Dead
series this film is rife with popping
eyeballs bursting bodily fluids and even
a talking demonic goat but somehow
dodges an r-rating our rating or not
maybe try to avoid eating while you’re
watching this one you have been warned
number four insidious this tale of a
normal suburban family who find
themselves terrorized by a creepy
demonic entity is surprisingly light on
blood and guts instead relying on jump
scares and atmosphere to keep the
audience on edge even though he’s
rocking some seriously dangerous looking
claws the demon that menaces the Lambert
family doesn’t do a whole lot of
slashing he actually appears to prefer
popping out when you least expected he
keeps those claws sharp though and we’d
hate to see what he can do when he gets
his demonic hands on somebody yep think
he’s related to Freddy Krueger and still
here
number three The Grudge I think I saw
something
that house this remake of the Japanese
films you own tells the story of an
American family that moves into a house
in Japan only to discover that it’s also
home to some seriously scary entities
that aren’t too happy about sharing
their abode this is another movie that
manages to do a lot with the power of
sound and the horrible noises made by
the entities are guaranteed to get under
our skin every time we hear them to say
nothing of the creepy way they crawl
around on all fours and the vacant looks
on their ghostly white faces Plus let’s
be honest sometimes kids are just plain
creepy
[Music]
number two the ring Samara
I need you to start telling me the truth
okay
and speaking of creepy ghost children
from American remakes of Japanese films
this 2002 horror sensation features a
mysterious VHS tape that condemns anyone
who watches it to a terrifying death one
week later the film like the tape itself
is full of frightening images from a
horse meeting a grisly end at the blades
of a boat propeller to the ghostly
Samara emerging from a TV screen to
claim her latest victim but very rarely
does the film go all out with gore
violence keeping it firmly in the pg-13
category given the hours of sleep we
lost after watching this one we aren’t
complaining number one the sixth sense
this 1999 horror film catapulted
filmmaker M night Shyamalan to
directorial super stardom and a cast
action hero Bruce Willis in a decidedly
new light as a child psychiatrist caring
for a young boy plagued with visions of
ghosts the ghosts that he sees aren’t of
the white sheep variety but rather
gruesome visions that still haunt us
today dinner is not ready what are you
gonna do
this is another entry that relies mostly
on tension and atmosphere to things that
generally don’t get a film an r-rating
however we’re still surprised that some
of the horrible sights this movie has to
offer only warranted a pg-13 rating do
you agree with our picks check out these
other great clips from WatchMojo and
subscribe for new videos every day
r-rating to generate pure terror
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
horror movies that surprisingly aren’t
rated R before we begin we publish new
videos every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re looking at
some of the best horror movies that
you’ll be surprised to hear are rated PG
or pg-13
despite scenes containing violence and
gore Mike come on
cocoons popcorn guns monster shadows
move stupid as we look number 10 Joss
you’re gonna need a bigger boat one of
the most infamous horror movies of all
time this legendary early work from
filmmaker extraordinaire Steven
Spielberg is surprisingly low on blood
and gore considering the story centers
on a killer shark that’s largely because
Spielberg plays it coy when it comes to
the shark itself and the aftermath of
its attacks letting our minds fill in
the blanks with whores more frightening
than anything the film could actually
depict of course there’s still the odd
severed leg to remind us of the brutal
nature of the shark and its appetites so
we can’t call the film entirely
bloodless number 9 mama
this spooky tale focuses on two young
girls who spent an extended period of
time alone in the woods following the
death of their parents but after being
found and taken in by their uncle and
his girlfriend it slowly becomes clear
that the girls weren’t as alone as its
seed and an entity they call mama has
latched on to them much like our last
entry the film lets the audience do a
lot of the work for themselves often
generating scares from some wonderfully
spooky sound design the sound of Mama
alone is enough to give us the
heebie-jeebies and that’s a rare thing
in horror films
number eight killer Klowns from outer
space this 1988 horror movie sees a
group of aliens who by astonishing
cosmic coincidence look and act exactly
like circus clowns they proceed to
invade a small town to cause mayhem and
turn the town’s folk into delicious
cotton candy but surprisingly enough the
film only holds a pg-13 rating despite
decapitations acid pies and even one
port copping turned into a human
ventriloquist dummy they’re also one or
two scantily clad ladies to be found in
between the brightly colored carnage but
nothing so it splits it to warrant a
full R rating number 7 Ouija origin of
evil she’s channelling powers and forces
we do not understand a movie based on a
board game already has to fight pretty
hard to be scary but doubly so when it’s
trying to scare viewers without
resorting to extreme violence this
horror movie prequel pulls it off
however managing to deliver on scares
while keeping things relatively low in
the gorge apartment of course there are
still deaths aplenty and genuinely
disturbing demonic possession but for
the most part the film doesn’t go
overboard with the gore sticking to good
old-fashioned scares that hit their mark
more often than not maybe there’s hope
for board game movies after all number 6
fire in the sky or give us father for
what we’ve done
alien abductions are usually the stuff
of sci-fi rather than horror
but this 1993 genre mixing film takes
the concept of abduction to some
genuinely horrifying places after
vanishing for five days and Arizona
Walker mysteriously reappears with no
memory of what happened however the
memories of his horrible ordeal slowly
start coming to the surface and trust us
when we say that these memories were
best left forgotten mister well invested
mr. Walton did you make contact with
Ione the abduction flashbacks are not
for the faint of heart
especially if like us you aren’t a big
fan of eyeball violence how this one
manages to escape an r-rating is beyond
us but we’re squirming in our seat
either way
number five drag me to help you don’t
get a title like this movie without some
serious horror chops and Sam Raimi’s
2009 splatter Fest has chops despair to
say nothing of splats pops and crunches
after evicting an old woman from her
home a bank employee finds herself
horribly cursed and bizarre and gooey
incidents soon follow as can be expected
from the director of the Evil Dead
series this film is rife with popping
eyeballs bursting bodily fluids and even
a talking demonic goat but somehow
dodges an r-rating our rating or not
maybe try to avoid eating while you’re
watching this one you have been warned
number four insidious this tale of a
normal suburban family who find
themselves terrorized by a creepy
demonic entity is surprisingly light on
blood and guts instead relying on jump
scares and atmosphere to keep the
audience on edge even though he’s
rocking some seriously dangerous looking
claws the demon that menaces the Lambert
family doesn’t do a whole lot of
slashing he actually appears to prefer
popping out when you least expected he
keeps those claws sharp though and we’d
hate to see what he can do when he gets
his demonic hands on somebody yep think
he’s related to Freddy Krueger and still
here
number three The Grudge I think I saw
something
that house this remake of the Japanese
films you own tells the story of an
American family that moves into a house
in Japan only to discover that it’s also
home to some seriously scary entities
that aren’t too happy about sharing
their abode this is another movie that
manages to do a lot with the power of
sound and the horrible noises made by
the entities are guaranteed to get under
our skin every time we hear them to say
nothing of the creepy way they crawl
around on all fours and the vacant looks
on their ghostly white faces Plus let’s
be honest sometimes kids are just plain
creepy
[Music]
number two the ring Samara
I need you to start telling me the truth
okay
and speaking of creepy ghost children
from American remakes of Japanese films
this 2002 horror sensation features a
mysterious VHS tape that condemns anyone
who watches it to a terrifying death one
week later the film like the tape itself
is full of frightening images from a
horse meeting a grisly end at the blades
of a boat propeller to the ghostly
Samara emerging from a TV screen to
claim her latest victim but very rarely
does the film go all out with gore
violence keeping it firmly in the pg-13
category given the hours of sleep we
lost after watching this one we aren’t
complaining number one the sixth sense
this 1999 horror film catapulted
filmmaker M night Shyamalan to
directorial super stardom and a cast
action hero Bruce Willis in a decidedly
new light as a child psychiatrist caring
for a young boy plagued with visions of
ghosts the ghosts that he sees aren’t of
the white sheep variety but rather
gruesome visions that still haunt us
today dinner is not ready what are you
gonna do
this is another entry that relies mostly
on tension and atmosphere to things that
generally don’t get a film an r-rating
however we’re still surprised that some
of the horrible sights this movie has to
offer only warranted a pg-13 rating do
you agree with our picks check out these
other great clips from WatchMojo and
subscribe for new videos every day
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