Items20The creator’s order
  1. 1The Others (2001)The Others (2001) 7.6/10 on IMDbReleased 2 Aug 2001Locked doors and drawn curtains make this haunted-house story tense before anything crosses a room. Grace is protecting two children who cannot tolerate strong light, so opening up the house is itself a risk. Nicole Kidman's clipped authority makes every household rule feel brittle. There are…0
  2. 2It Follows (2015)It Follows (2015) 6.8/10 on IMDbReleased 4 Feb 2015The threat walks. That simple choice makes streets, school corridors and the far background of a shot worth checking, long after a conventional scare would have released the tension. A young woman's curse becomes a problem of never knowing which approaching stranger matters. Sudden appearances do…0
  3. 3Cure (1997)Cure (1997) 7.5/10 on IMDbReleased 27 Dec 1997A detective investigating apparently disconnected murders meets a man whose calm questions are more destabilising than a monster's entrance. Kiyoshi Kurosawa lets conversations stretch until familiar roles seem to drain out of the people having them. The violence can arrive abruptly and is grisly;…0
  4. 4The Witch (2016)The Witch (2016) 7.0/10 on IMDbReleased 19 Feb 2016A failed crop, a missing child and a family already primed to suspect sin make the woods frightening without requiring something to leap out of them. Robert Eggers puts the pressure inside the household: blame keeps finding a new target, while harsh daylight offers little comfort. It includes…0
  5. 5Relic (2020)Relic (2020) 6.0/10 on IMDbReleased 3 Jul 2020The family house becomes harder to read as three generations confront the grandmother's decline. Gaps beside cupboards, murky glass and rooms that seem to extend beyond their proper boundaries make ordinary care feel physically uncertain. A few sudden scares occur, but Natalie Erika James builds…0
  6. 6The Blair Witch Project (1999)The Blair Witch Project (1999) 6.5/10 on IMDbReleased 14 Jul 1999Daylight arguments about the route gradually become as frightening as the noises outside the tent. With three student filmmakers lost in woodland, the camera's inability to show enough is the point: every hurried turn risks losing the only view you have. Its restraint about revealing a threat makes…0
  7. 7Lake Mungo (2009)Lake Mungo (2009) 6.2/10 on IMDbReleased 30 Jul 2009Family interviews and repeated examination of photographs turn grief into an uneasy habit of looking again. This Australian mock-documentary rarely behaves like a conventional haunting, and its still images let anxiety gather in a corner of the frame. It also contains one very potent sudden scare,…0
  8. 8Under the Skin (2014)Under the Skin (2014) 6.3/10 on IMDbReleased 14 Mar 2014Glasgow's everyday conversations become unnerving when the woman conducting them seems to be studying human behaviour from outside it. Familiar streets give way to stark spaces with almost no reassuring bearings, while Mica Levi's score makes seduction feel like an approaching mechanism. Sexual…0
  9. 9The Blackcoat's Daughter (2017)The Blackcoat's Daughter (2017) 5.9/10 on IMDbReleased 31 Mar 2017An almost empty boarding school over a winter break gives small gestures a disquieting amount of space. Osgood Perkins makes a telephone call, a pause at a doorway or a walk towards the boiler room feel charged with expectation. A handful of jolts and some brutal violence interrupt the cold…0
  10. 10Session 9 (2001)Session 9 (2001) 6.3/10 on IMDbReleased 10 Aug 2001An asbestos-removal crew's deadline, resentment and money worries make the abandoned hospital feel unsafe before the old interview tapes begin to matter. The recordings introduce an intimate voice into enormous empty spaces, while the men's ordinary work carries them further apart. Its tension…0