7 Horrors That Gave Genre Veterans Nightmares Without a Single Jumpscare

Horror movies use different tropes to scare the audience, with the most obvious of them being jumpscares that are waiting for a viewer around the corner together with a loud nasty sound. However, some genre’s staples manage to creep you out and haunt your mind without using this technique.

Here are 7 inventive, yet extremely frightening horrors, handpicked by Redditors.

1. Sinister (2012)

First comes Ethan Hawke’s supernatural flick, following a disgraced true-crime writer, who finds films depicting relentless murders in his new house.

It’s notorious for having “one of the scariest soundtracks ever” made for a movie , as voiced by @BD_Sanchez.

2. Rec (2007)

This Spanish movie is truly a gem of the subgenre of found footage horrors. It centers on a reporter following the exploration of an infection spreading inside a dark apartment building and the aftermath of a quarantine introduced for its inhabitants.

3. The Blair Witch Project (1999)

The trope of the found footage reaches its apotheosis in this sensational and now cultish flick, as we follow three college filmmakers, who hike into the forest to film a documentary about the notorious local creature known as the Blair Witch.

4. The Strangers (2008)

Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman’s psychological horror focuses on a couple whose vacation gets disturbed by three masked criminals breaking into their place. It was inspired by the real-life multiple homicide the Manson family performed in 1969.

5. The Mothman Prophecies (2002)

Next Reddit’s choice is Richard Gere-starring supernatural film about a journalist, shaken by the death of his wife, in his research of unexplained phenomena, including the horrifying Mothman, a humanoid creature reportedly seen in West Yorkshire.

6. Hell House LLC (2015)

Another found-footage flick in the list is shot as a documentary following a group of haunted house creators, who are preparing their popular Halloween attraction named Hell House for the opening, which is going to cause the city’s biggest tragedy.

7. When Evil Lurks (2023)

To conclude, we have last year’s peculiar horror, set in a remote village, where two brothers find a man whose body was possessed by a demon. They decide to get rid of him to prevent the evil from spreading, however, they cause even more chaos.

Source: Reddit