Horror movies have been around terrorizing moviegoers for decades, creating stories revolving around supernatural killers and ghosts or demons. They have created some of the most twisted paranormal killers like Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees, iconic hauntings/possessions like in The Conjuring and The Exorcist, and even killer dolls like Annabelle and Chucky.
However, some of the more successful horror movies are grounded in reality with little to no paranormal elements. The added level of fear comes from viewers realizing that the events they just watched could absolutely happen in real life.
10 The Roommate (2011)
2011's The Roommate sees obsession go to a whole new level with the main character befriending her new roommate who slowly starts to copy her. At first, it’s small things like clothes and hair, but slowly it gets more aggressive with the roommate targeting friends and boyfriends.
The climax of the movie comes when the main character confronts the roommate and ends up killing her out of defense and later telling her boyfriend she wants to lay off roommates for a while. While the movie sports a whopping 3% on Rotten Tomatoes, the concept itself is scary enough to make everyone cautious of future roommates.
9 House At The End Of The Street (2012)
Jennifer Lawrence stars in this psychological horror movie that follows her and her mother moving to a new town for a fresh start. For the first half of the movie, fans are lead to believe that her mysterious and attractive love interest is secretly hiding his sister in his basement to keep her from killing anyone.
However, the twist comes when viewers find out that his sister actually died young and his parents forced him to dress like her, causing him to snap and murder his parents. To cope with the trauma, he kidnaps women who look similar to his sister and keeps them locked in his basement.
8 The Visit (2015)
While most M. Night Shyamalan movies have some sort of supernatural twist, this movie has its feet firmly planted in reality. The Visit follows two teens visiting their grandparents for an extended stay, only to notice their grandparents acting weird at night and slowly getting more aggressive.
The twist comes when the siblings discover that their grandparents, who volunteer at a mental facility, were killed by two of their patients who took their spots after learning of the two teens’ visit.
7 Ready Or Not (2019)
Most of Ready or Not is based on a twisted tradition that has been passed down to a board game tycoon family where the newly married member has to choose a card with a game they need to plan. The main character has the misfortune of choosing the only game that will result in her new family trying to kill her, Hide and Seek.
The whole movie follows the main character as she fights to survive her twister in-laws and become an iconic final girl. The only part that’s paranormal is when it’s revealed that the family made a deal with the Devil and they end up all exploding because they failed.
6 The Stepfather (1987)
This movie plays upon the themes of a stranger coming into someone's life that they just do not trust. The movie, which came out in 1987 and was remade in 2009, follows the main character whose mom just married a mysterious man. Throughout the movie, the main character starts to investigate the new stepfather to find out that he’s actually a serial killer in hiding.
Following a confrontation, the stepfather seemingly dies, however, true to a classic horror movie trope, the body disappears in the end. The end of the movie sees him finding a newly single mother with a child to target.
5 Disturbia (2007)
Shia LaBeouf plays a teen who gets put under house arrest for punching his teacher after a confrontation at school. Bored out of his mind, he starts to watch his neighbors only to witness his older neighbor murder someone, much like the main character from Alfred Hitchcock's iconic movie, Rear Window.
With the help of his two friends, he starts his own investigation after the police dismiss his concerns. The film ends with his mother being taken as the next victim, but Shia's character comes through and saves the day in the end.
4 The Strangers (2008)
One of the more horrifying horror movies in recent years, The Strangers follows a couple, whose relationship is on the rocks, as they stay in a remote cabin. They are soon terrorized by three masked killers who slowly torture and chase them around, trying to kill them. The scariest part is when the one main character asks why, and they respond with “Because you were home.”
One of the reasons this film is considered so scary is that it's partly based on a true story. The film quickly became a hit due to its disturbing nature and even warranted a sequel.
3 You’re Next (2011)
In You're Next, viewers watch a woman visiting her boyfriend's family at a mountain house. Things take a drastic turn as they are slowly being brutally killed off one by one, but the one thing the killer didn’t account for was the main character’s previous experience living with her father who was a doomsday prepper.
In the end, she discovers that her boyfriend and one of his brothers actually hired the killers, and like all other final girls before her, she ends up killing everyone else but in a twist, ends up getting shot by the police as they arrive and assume she was the killer.
2 Scream (1996)
Scream follows the iconic final girl, Sydney Prescott as she fights off a masked serial killer who has a vendetta against her. Scream has been a cult classic since it premiered due to it not only playing upon horror movie tropes but calling them out as they happen with one character being the horror movie guru.
The movie sees multiple people in her life either killed off or a suspect, causing her to lose trust in almost everyone. In the end, she manages to outsmart the two killers—one of whom is her boyfriend—and kills them both. Scream continued for an additional three movies with another already on the way.
1 Hush (2016)
Viewers of Hush follow a deaf writer living in a secluded cabin in the woods while she tries to avoid a masked serial killer hellbent on killing her. The worst moments of the movie are towards the beginning when the killer first shows up, realizes his new victim is deaf, and toys with her.
He proceeds to take her phone and send photos of her writing to her laptop. She manages to lock him out of the house, but he makes it clear he isn’t leaving until she dies. In typical final girl fashion, she ends up killing the man and sitting on her porch, covered in blood, as the police finally arrive.
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