It’s not always easy to file a movie under a specific genre. Tense thrillers can be funny. Comedies can make us cry. Dramas can feature amazing action. Movies not considered horror can leave us shaking in fear. Some are so terrifying, in premise, execution, or both, they actually are. And since it’s October, we’re celebrating some of our favorite non-horror movies that really do qualify as horror.
No Country For Old Men
Listed Genre: Western-Crime Thriller
The premise for No Country For Old Men reads like a typical horror film. “An unstoppable killing machine hunts down a man desperate to save himself and his family.” It’s also just as tense and dark as a typical horror film. And, like the best of the genre, it’s an allegory for an even scarier idea. Anton Chigurh, a villain far way scarier than most slashers, represents the coming of a terrible future no one can outrun.
Watership Down (1978)
Listed Genre: Kid’s Adventure-Drama
In 1978, the BBC adapted Richard Adams beautiful 1972 book into a film. The network took his exhilarating action-adventure story about rabbits and turned it into a bloody nightmare. And we mean bloody as in “full of blood.” Not bloody as in “bloody Hell,” which we imagine is what many parents said when they tuned in with their kids. This adaptation of Watership Down—which takes single sentences from the story and makes them into long, vicious, violent sequences—terrorized kids. It’s full of so much horrific death is still terrorizes them as adults, the way all great horror movies do.
Parasite
Listed Genre: Black Comedy/Thriller
One of the many (many) things that makes Bong Joon Ho’s Best Picture winner one of the best movies ever is that you can argue it firmly belongs to multiple genres. It works as a black comedy, a thriller, and a drama. But its DNA is that of a horror film. It’s essentially a haunted house story combined with an escape room nightmare and a creature in the basement story. Only one family doesn’t know it’s been invaded while the other family trapped itself. And that’s all before the violent, horror movie-esque ending.
If you don’t think Parasite qualifies as true horror, just remember the coffee table scene. Have you ever been more frightened for people who were in less physical danger?
Pan’s Labyrinth
Listed Genre: Dark Fantasy
It’s no surprise to see a Guillermo del Toro movie on this list since many of his non-horror entries are still unsettling and creepy. But Pan’s Labyrinth, techincally just a dark fantasy, is downright terrifying. It features memorable monsters both human and magical alike. They fill a story that finds nightmares in both the real world and another dimension. The fact it’s all told through the eyes of a child, one forced to watch her mother die, makes it that much scarier. Even its “happy” ending is shrouded in inherent darkness, the mark of a great horror film.
Uncut Gems
Listed Genre: Crime Thriller
Uncut Gems is easily one of the scariest movies I’ve ever seen. I was absolutely sick to my stomach from start to finish. It was like watching a literal car crash happen slowly—but also very fast—over a couple hours. That score? The pacing? The self-destructive behavior? It’s too much. And as if being an anxious ball of nerves the entire time wasn’t enough, it then ends like that. It’s worse than most traditional horror films! I loved Uncut Gems and never want to see it ever again. It’s simply too horrific.
Every movie on this list has haunted viewers forever. Most movies everyone considers horror can say that.
Honorable Mentions
Se7en: Some people think David Fincher’s classic crime-thriller is a perfect example of a non-horror horror movie. While huge fans, it didn’t make our list for one very good reason: we think it’s just a straight up horror film.
Ex Machina: We love Alex Garland’s haunting 2014 film, but Ex Machina didn’t make our list for the same reason as Se7en. We think its clearly sci-fi horror.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory: There’s a very good case for putting this iconic 1971 movie on our list. It features a horror-like premise, has one of the scariest scenes in movie history (the boat ride), and stars a terrifying recluse who builds a child-torturing factory. But ultimately Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is still a children’s fantasy with horror elements.
Children of Men: Cut out the last 30 seconds and this would have made the list.
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