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Comprehensive List of Horror Movies

Lock the doors. Turn off the lights. Grab your snacks. It’s time to watch your favorite horror movies for many reasons. Sometimes, it’s to seek the adrenaline rush, thrill, and suspense that rivets us in a movie theater or at home. Then, we want entertainment through clever storytelling and cinematic elements, such as films like The Sixth Sense or The Others. Some horror films, like Blumhouse’s Happy Death Day movies, offer humor, which is an appreciation. There are so many to choose from. Below is a comprehensive list of horror films. That way, you have many choices of horror movies to enjoy in the safety of your home.

1. The Prodigy

Like every parent, she knows her child is a saint and tries to be a good kid. But what happens when something takes over the child, and he no longer controls his intention?

I enjoyed the horror movie directed by Nicolas McCarthy because it’s beyond creepy figures lurking in shadows. Sarah’s only son, Miles, is acting up too much, which is disturbing. It’s a sign of evil with a supernatural force that overwhelms him.

2. Anna and the Apocalypse

Anna and the Apocalypse is a musical horror movie where zombies roam in the backward town of Little Haven. The undead people are causing all sorts of crazy stuff. But all that Anna and her friends do is dance and sing while trying to handle the Apocalypse. The worst part is that it is happening during Christmas time.

That’s right. The movie is a horror, comedy, and musical. I watched the trailer to take a break from work because it’s so much fun.

3. The Possession of Hannah Grace

A father claims his daughter’s life while performing an exorcism to drive the demons from her body and soul. The daughter ends up in the morgue when it is Megan’s shift. The body looks disfigured but is not dead. Megan is unaware of the young woman’s condition until they are locked in the basement with the two inside the corridors.

4. Slice

The movie poster says, “Dead in 30 Minutes or Less” and “A Way Out Alive.” The movie is a horror film, but it is also a comedy, which I enjoyed.

Austin Vesely wrote and directed this movie about a pizza delivery driver murdered on the job. The city tries to find the culprit with the usual suspects, such as drug dealers, ghosts, and a humiliating werewolf.

Did you recognize Joe Keery from Stranger Things? His role is the photojournalist, and he looks pretty good—Katherine Cunningham, Zazie Beetz, Hannibal Buress, and other quirky cast members star in this movie.

5. Ganja & Hess

Ganja & Hess is a horror movie filled with metaphor and allegory. Produced with a budget of $350,000, Ganja & Hess arrived in 1973 with accolades from the critics and won the Critics’ Week choice during the Cannes Film Festival the year it was released.

I found the movie dated, but you will appreciate it if you’re a devoted horror fan.

Sam Waymon, Mabel King, and Leonard Jackson also star in the movie.

“The last thing I want to do is make a black vampire film… If I had to write about blood, I was going to do that, but I could not just make a movie about blood.”

Bill Gunn told a friend explaining why he didn’t make another black vampire movie like “Blacula.”

6. Unsane

The most unjust and scary situation anyone experienced was being involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital. If you are in this situation, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights is your recourse.

It was hard for me to watch this movie because I felt vulnerable and trapped. It’s how Soderbergh used the iPhone, shooting each scene tight and sometimes with a wide-angle lens.

Soderbergh is a revolutionary filmmaker and doesn’t mind crossing cultural or social barriers.

7. No Solicitors

John Callas writes and directs this eerie but campy terror of a movie. Political satire weaves through the storyline, yet as a horror fan, I only wanted the scary stuff, which is pretty cheesy. Still, it is a festival winner at both Scare-A-Con and Fright Night festivals.

Nobody told the real estate agent about the “no soliciting” at the Cutterman’s home. They seem friendly and helpful, but an invite to dinner means corrupt under-the-table dealings. Drugging the guests tells the story of the horrific family business.

They soon undergo the frightful experience of slowly being eaten piece by piece. The family business is nothing but a farm for selling their internal organs.

8. Hostile

Written and directed by Mathieu Turi, Hostile is a creepy horror movie starring Brittany Ashworth, Grégory Fitoussi, and Javier Botet.

The story takes place after a worldwide epidemic has killed most of the population. The handful of those still alive struggle to survive by searching for shelter and food. A strange and creepy creature roams the area.

Juliette finished her scavenging and headed back to camp. She is in a terrible accident and stranded in her car because of a broken leg.

She is right in the middle of a hostile desert. She must focus on surviving the danger of the post-apocalypse while the creepy creature lurks around the car.

The special effects are decent, and the story moves along with plenty of intense situations and a backstory. The creature lurking around the car is too much for me, so horror fans need to see this movie.

8. Hostile

Written and directed by Mathieu Turi, Hostile is a creepy horror movie starring Brittany Ashworth, Grégory Fitoussi, and Javier Botet.

The story takes place after a worldwide epidemic has killed most of the population. The handful of those still alive struggle to survive by searching for shelter and food. A strange and creepy creature roams the area.

Juliette finished her scavenging and headed back to camp. She is in a terrible accident and stranded in her car because of a broken leg.

She is right in the middle of a hostile desert. She must focus on surviving the danger of the post-apocalypse while the creepy creature lurks around the car.

The special effects are decent, and the story moves along with plenty of intense situations and a backstory. The creature lurking around the car is too much for me, so horror fans need to see this movie.

9. Greta

Neil Jordan directed Greta. His credits include Interview with a Vampire, The Crying Game, The End of the Affair, and Mona Lisa. The story is an idea by Ray Wright, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jordan.

It focuses on Frances, a young woman who becomes friends with a widow. The widow tricks and manipulates Frances to the point where Frances’ life is in danger. The movie trailer is worth watching because it tells most of the story.

10. Gretal & Hansel

It’s not a fairytale or a horror movie for the lighthearted. Gretal & Hansel follows a young girl with her little brother into a dark, foreboding forest. While looking for food and possible work, they fall upon the darkest core of terrifying evil.

Osgood Perkins, the son of Anthony Perkins (Psycho), does an excellent job directing the horrific and chilling story. And yes, there is a witch in the movie.

11. Arrebato

Ivan Zulueta directed this Arrebato in 1979. The 4K restoration Blu-ray means the quality of this classic film is worth buying for diehard horror fans. This horror movie is a blend of Super-8, sex and heroin, following Jose Sirgado, a horror movie director. Jose lives a life of drugs and doubts while he tries to complete his second film.

His ex-girlfriend shows up, and a package from an old friend is at his doorstep. The package contains a door key, an audiotape and Super-8 film. Next, the movie is the ultimate hallucinogenic catharsis from a vertigo strip of filming more and being filmed.

12. Red Snow

Filmed in just 13 days, Red Snow is a low-budget horror movie with a talented cast, making the cinema nightmarish and stiff. But it’s funny as a dark comedy about vampires and lots of blood.

Sean Nichols wrote and directed this film about Olivia Romo, a struggling writer of vampire romance novels. Shut in at a cabin at South Lake Tahoe, she defends herself against actual vampires during Christmas.

An injured bat named Luke crashes into her living room. He turns into a handsome vampire, and a romance blossoms. The problem is that he has vampire friends who want to suck Olivia’s blood while he tries to keep himself from taking a bite out of her.

13. Nope

Jordan Peele wrote and directed Nope, the award-winning director’s stab at the phenomenon of being horrific. Before the film arrived in movie theaters, it was all hush-hush.

The story is about a brother and sister who run a horse ranch and stumble upon something fantastic and horrific in the skies above. An owner of a theme park next to the farm tries to captialize on the mysterious and otherworldly phenomenon.

14. You Won’t Be Alone

Goran Stolevski helms this horrific, creepy tale about a witch. The horror movieoccurs in an isolated mountain village in 19th-century Macedonia, Southeast Europe. It tells a bizarre story about a young girl kidnapped by an ancient spirit and turned into a witch.

15. Halloween Kills

Gleaned from the characters John Carpenter and Debra Hill created, “Halloween Kills” brings back Jamie Lee Curtis in her iconic role and Judy Greer with Anthony Michael Hall.

Fed up with Michael Myers hunting them, the citizens of Haddonfield decide to pursue Myers and hunt him down. Some may think Myers will never die, no matter how hard Laurie Strode tries.

16. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It

Michael Chaves masterminds The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, which displays a chilling tale of terror, a true story. The story spends time with real-life paranormal investigators Lorraine and Ed Warren, starring Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson.

Believed to be one of their most sensational cases, they fight for the soul of a young boy. For the first time in the U.S., a murder suspect claims demonic possession as a defense.

17. The Night House

David Bruckner brings us The Night House. A widow discovers her deceased husband’s disturbing secrets, which turn horrific and diabolical. Rebecca Hall is believable as the widow. The trailer shares more details.

The movie focuses on past events without flashback scenes. It’s all linear, and the special effects make it terrifying.

18. The Empty Man

The Empty Man will fill your horror obsession with the mysterious disappearance of teenagers. James, an unsettled retired cop, gets thrust into motion to investigate these disappearances. He follows leads, tying a secretive occult-determined group to a frightening provincial legend. James admits that his life — those nearest to him — is in horrific danger.

19. Spiral

Having a stand-up comedian, Chris Rock, portray the brazen Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks in a SAW spinoff movie is pretty spectacular. Zeke works in the shadow of a respected police veteran, played by Samuel L. Jackson.

Zeke has a rookie partner, played by Max Minghella. Both take over a grisly investigation into murders eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past. Zeke ends up at the core of the killer’s macabre game, unknowingly entrapped in an intensifying mystery.

20. Abigail

Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett directed the horror film. The cast includes Dan Stevens, Alisha Weir, Kathryn Newton, Kevin Durand, Angus Cloud and Giancarlo Esposito.

All the kidnappers need to do is collect a $50 million ransom after abducting the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of an influential underworld figure. Monitor the girl throughout the night in a remote mansion.

As the captors diminish one by one, they gradually realize with increasing terror that they have trapped themselves with an abnormal little girl.

21. Red Letter Day

Red Letter Day is a raucous horror-comedy but still scary. Cameron Macgowan wrote and directed the movie about a divorced mother who adjusts to a new life in a quiet suburban community. Her two teens receive eerie red letters demanding they kill each other or get killed.

Macgowan crafted a true neighborhood nightmare, and the acting is convincing.

The low-budget movie is scary and funny. Diehard horror fans will have a kind heart for the film.

22. Marrowbone

You will see some familiar faces in Sergio G. Sanchez’s Marrowbone, such as Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton and George MacKay. A screenwriter for such haunting films as The Orphanage and The Impossible, Sanchez has made a name for himself.

Marrowbone follows four siblings filled with secrets, enticing you to live inside their world. The siblings cross the Atlantic, escaping from a mysterious trauma that has a life of its own. They find refuge in an old home after the death of their mother, then uncover something horrific about the house, a more sinister occupant, and it turns into a haunting tale.

The siblings are lively, like kids, but also display uneasiness, coming across as an unusual romanticism and a beautifully framed movie.

Another character in the movie is the house, semi-abandoned with an unkept yard that marks the boundary between the home and the outer civilization—isolated with no signs of modern life.

23. The Last Witch Hunter

Breck Eisner directs The Last Witch Hunter as a large-scale and admirable movie, taking a distinct urban fantasy-horror universe. The film looks different from other films of the same genre.

It begins in the past with silver-haired warriors on a vital journey to slay the evil Witch Queen. She placed a curse on the whole countryside. The warriors fight bravely with suspense and terror as if fighting a monster, not a witch. All in all, this part of the movie is outstanding.

Come forward and meet Kaulder, played by Van Diesel, an immortal hero with a very complicated or uneasy personality. Michael Caine and Elijah Wood also star. If you are familiar with Diesel’s characters, you know he is still arrogant and badass.

Eisner uses a lot of action scenes with some horrifying scenes, a solid supporting cast, and CGI with animated monsters and crazy spells.

24. The Quiet Ones

The Quiet Ones is a horror film similar to The Sixth Sense or The Others, based on a true story. John Pogue directs this horror movie, which is worth seeing for fans of the genre.

An actual experiment at Oxford in 1974, this film brings to light the profound notion of what the supernatural experience might manifest in the minds of believers who have a few screws loose.

We watch Professor Coupland, graduate students Krissy and Harry and videographer Brian (Sam Claflin of The Hunger Games franchise). They investigate the psychic phenomena of the destructive young Jane with the rationale of treating her. Like all psychiatric treatment, it’s brutal and inhumane.

You’ll jump out of your chair or skin, whichever comes first.

25. Prey for the Devil

Daniel Stamm directed Prey for the Devil, and the movie begins with a worldwide upsurge in demonic possessions. The Catholic Church renews exorcism schools to instruct priests in the Rite of Exorcism.

An unlikely serviceperson, a budding nun, Sister Ann, rises on this spiritual frontline. Propel onto the spiritual battleground along with fellow student Father Dante. Sister Ann struggles for the soul of a young girl.

Sister Ann acknowledges that the same demon that possessed the girl is the same one who plagued her mother years ago. Sister Ann discovers the Devil has her exactly where he needs her, and he craves to get into her soul.

26. Candyman

Anthony’s painting career has stalled, and a fluke encounter with an old-timer reveals the tragically horrific nature of the actual tale behind Candyman.

Anthony wants to maintain his status in the Chicago art world, so he explores these gruesome details in his workshop.

He sees it as a refreshing way to restart his career and paint again. Unknowingly, he opens the door to an intricate past that tatters his sanity and releases a terrifyingly viral surge of violence, putting him on a collision trajectory with destiny.

Nia DaCosta wrote and directed Candyman, a horror movie with a bona fide story worth following.

27. Fantasy Island

Welcome to a spin on the television series Fantasy Island, a horror film. Jeff Wadlow directed the movie, which he also wrote, and Chris Roach and Jillian Jacobs co-wrote.

The obscure Mr. Roarke makes the secret dreams of his fortunate guests come true. With a luxurious but remote tropical resort as the background, one can’t help but feel it’s a true fantasy.

But the fantasies turn into nightmares. The guests have to decipher the island’s mystery to flee with their lives.

28. The First Omen

Arkasha Stevenson directed The First Omen, an American horror film written by Stevenson, Keith Thomas, and Tim Smith. It is based on a story written by Ben Jacoby.

In the film, Nell Tiger Free portrays an American woman in a prequel to The Omen. Upon arriving at a church in Rome, she stumbles upon a sister conspiracy plotting the birth of the Antichrist.

Bill Nighy, Ralph Ineson, and Sonia Braga are among the cast members.

29. Slender Man

Eric Knudsen created Slender Man. A mythical character spun on Something Awful, an Internet Forum. Now, a horror movie was written by David Birke with the same title.

The movie follows four high school girls living in a small town in Massachusetts. The girls conduct a ritual to unveil the lore of Slender Man. One of the girls disappears, and the others suspect she is Slender Man’s latest victim.

30. Smile

Dr. Rose Cotter witnessed a bizarre, terrifying incident involving a patient. After experiencing frightening circumstances, she can’t solve them.

As an overwhelming terror takes over the doctor’s life, she must face her troubling past to survive and escape her horrifying, twisted reality.

It appears the film is popular with horror fans because a sequel soon followed.

31. The Black Phone

The horror movie focuses on a dead phone that rings and rings to save a boy’s life.

The horror film follows a shy but intelligent 13-year-old boy named Finney, who a perverse killer abducts. Screaming does little good because the killer trapped the boy in a soundproof basement. Screaming does little good.

A disconnected phone rings. Finney picks up the phone and hears the killer’s previous victims, ensuring what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.

32. Last Night In Soho

The film descends into terror and mind games, following a young girl named Eloise. She’s intense about fashion design. Yet London is puzzling for her because it differs from where she grew up. There is a bad side to London, which is horrific.

Edgar Wright directs a stellar cast that includes AnyaTalor-Joy, Matt Smith, Diana Rigg, and Thomasin McKenzie.

Eloise can time travel to the 1960s, where she meets her idol, Sandie, a striking up-and-coming singer.

It’s a psychological horror movie that gradually builds like a Hitchcock thriller.

33. Fear of Rain

A teenager, Rain Burroughs, becomes caught in the synthetic psychiatric balderdash of labeling and being diagnosed with the made-up illness called schizophrenia.

Rain grapples, trying to figure out which of the harrowing voices, disturbing images, and traumatic feelings she goes through are genuine and which are all in her mind, imagination.

She sees shadows and hears cries from her neighbor’s attic, hiding a horrific secret. Caleb, a charmingly uneasy new boy, says he’ll help Rain. Yet, she wonders if he is even real.

The movie is a frightening thriller, taking you inside Rain’s mind as she confronts the terrifying hallucinations to determine whether genuine horror exists and hides right next door.

34. Freaky

Freaky gets entangled as a body-swap movie where a teenage girl switches bodies with a persistent serial killer. The cast looks promising with Vince Vaughn, Kathryn Newton, and Celeste O’Connor.

It’s horrific and funny as seventeen-year-old Millie tries to survive the lethal halls of Blissfield High.

It’s the inhumanity of the popular crowd that gets her down. Yet she becomes the latest target of The Butcher, her town’s notorious serial killer. Her senior-year angst soon becomes the least of her worries.

Mille becomes trapped as a middle-aged maniac, and she looks like a massive psychopath who’s the mark of a city-wide search. Now, The Butcher looks like her and has brought his longing for more bloodbaths to the homecoming dance.

35. Goodnight Mommy

The film stars Naomi Watts, and it’s a remake of the Austrian movie with the same title.

The horror movie follows twin brothers arriving at their mother’s country home. They discover she has covered her face with bandages, explaining she had cosmetic surgery.

The boys immediately discern something amiss with her odd behavior, setting strange new house rules, smoking in her bathroom, and secretly ripping up a drawing they gifted her.

Her conduct grows increasingly eccentric and unpredictable. A terrifying thought festers in the boys’ minds. A sinking apprehension that the woman underneath the dressings, preparing their food and sleeping in the next room, is not their beloved mother.

36. The Grudge

The storyline is derived from the Japanese film Ju-On: The Grudge, written and directed by Takashi Shimizu.

Horror movie alums Sam Raimi produced the American version of the Shimizu film, a twisted take on the horror classic. Yet, Raimi’s version is scarier. If you worship horror, you will treasure this movie. The bathtub scene is visually more sinister than all the clips I’ve seen — it’s super frightening.

37. Black Christmas

Here’s a horror holiday movie for us diehard horror fans. Who wants to watch White Christmas!?

It’s a timely horror movie that looks like a 1974 slasher classic. But as a present tone, a campus killer faces a formidable sisterhood.

Hawthorne College closes for the holidays, yet Riley Stone and her Mu Kappa Epsilon sisters, including athlete Marty, rebel Kris, and chef Jesse, prepare a series of seasonal parties.

A black-masked stalker kills sorority women, and the body count advances. Riley, with her squad of sisters, asks themselves if a man is trustworthy or if they are all killers.

Whoever the killer is, he realizes that young women of this generation aren’t about to be victims.

38. The Turning

Inspired by Henry James’ milestone novel, the haunted-house horror thriller The Turning is a beguiling tale starring Finn Wolfhard from Stranger Things.

The story begins at a mysterious estate in the Maine countryside. A newly appointed nanny, Kate, takes charge of caring for two disturbed orphans, Flora and Miles. Shortly, she learns that the children and the house conceal dark secrets. Things may not be as they seem.

39. Countdown

The Countdown is a techie horror movie that follows a nurse who downloads an app, claiming to predict when an individual will die. The app tells her she has three days to live.

A figure haunts her as the clock ticks, noting her death is near. She has to find a way to save her life as time runs out.

The trailer is acutely frightful, and horror buffs will get their blood pumped.

40. Antlers

The horror movie surpasses others with excellent direction by Scott Cooper. It has a stellar cast, including Keri Russell and Jess Plemons.

The movie follows a young, creepy boy in a small town in Oregon. He reads his story to his teacher, and it’s so sinister and undeniably horrifically evilly wild.

His story is so sinister that it is deniably evil and wild. The town’s sheriff and teacher investigate the possible horrors within this boy’s life.

41. Underwater

Underwater is a horror movie about a crew of underwater researchers who must scramble to safety after an earthquake destroys their underground laboratory. But something has awakened.

The horror movie stars Twilight‘s Kristen Stewart, and she looks good in the trailer, wearing a bra and cropped blonde hair.

Though the movie follows Stewart, she has a talented cast supporting her. Its style looks terrifying.

42. The Hunt

The studio had shelved The Hunt for a long time because of the political climate in the United States. An accurate parody of the dark internet conspiracy theory, a globalist elite group gathers at a remote Manor House.

Here, for the first time, they hunt humans for sport. But the Illuminati’s master plan goes off the rails because a hunted woman is better at the hunters’ game than they are.

Crystal turns the tables on the killers, picking them off one by one as she makes her way toward the mysterious woman at the center.

For a horror movie, you’ll experience underlying humor with an intensity that boils to eruption.

43. Ready or Not

Ready or Not is a bizarre horror movie where you know you shouldn’t take it seriously. The story follows newlyweds who must suffer through a deadly ritual with their fiancé’s family after the wedding.

For obvious and horrific reasons, the family is not only eccentric but wealthy, implementing a dangerous, time-honored game in which not just the newlyweds fight for survival.

You might see familiar faces, such as Andie MacDowell and Adam Brody.

44. Crawl

The horror film is about a giant hurricane crashing into a Florida hometown. Haley ignores evacuation directives and searches for her missing father instead, which makes for an intense horror thriller.

She locates him severely injured and stuck in the family home’s crawl space. The two become cornered by swiftly advancing floodwaters. Their period to flee runs out, and the intense storm with surging water levels is not what causes the threat to survival. They must deal with a massive and savage alligator.

The horrific film stars Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper, and Morfydd Clark.

45. MA

It seems like it’s all for fun and games. But soon, it turns into a horror movie. Ma welcomes everybody to her home to party and drink, yet good luck making it home.
Sue Ann is an outsider in a quiet Ohio town.

One day, she buys alcohol for Maggie, a new teenager in the city, after Maggie asks her. Sue Ann takes advantage of the trusting teen and some of Maggie’s friends.
She allows the teenagers to hang out in her basement.

But they must follow some house rules, such as staying sober, not cursing, calling her “Ma,” and never heading upstairs.

But as Ma’s friendliness changes to obsession, what begins as a teenage fantasy becomes a horrifying nightmare, and Ma’s place goes from the funniest hangout to the worst place in the world.

Tate Taylor directs Octavia Spencer, Diana Silvers, and Juliette Lewis.

46. Child’s Play

It’s the contemporary remake of the 1988 horror classic.

If you loved Chuckie, you’d love this movie about Karen, a single mother who gifts her son Andy a Buddy doll, heedless of its more demonic nature.

Now, Andy and his friends try to destroy Chuckie. But he’s one tough buddy doll. He even wields a kitchen knife.

47. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

You might have heard about these scary stories before, and boy, are they creepy! These old and simple horror stories told over a campfire are captivating, with a lesson learned.

Alvin Schwartz wrote the frightening children’s book series. Famed horror filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is one of the producers.

The large cast includes Zoe Colletti, Michael Garza, and Gabriel Rush.

48. Us

Jordan Peele wrote and directed the horror movie Us, which follows a family on a wicked summer vacation, expecting to have a great time with friends. Still, their tranquillity turns to anxiety and chaos when some creepy visitors arrive without being invited.

The horror film is well-thought-out and has enough horror to keep you hiding behind your popcorn. Elizabeth Moss co-stars in the movie, and she brings a sinister character to a whole new level.

49. Alien: Romulus

Alien is a franchise, which Ridley Scott first directed in 1979, that introduced Sigourney Weaver. The franchise has lasted decades and is now a streaming series.

Fede Alvarez helmed Alien: Romulus, a horror movie set in space written by Dan O’Bannon, Fede Alvarez, and Rodo Sayagues. In the film, a group of young people encounter an unimaginably terrifying alien life form. Ridley Scott began the franchise in 1979 with Alien. Then, James Cameron brought us Aliens in 1986, and David Fincher delivered Alien 3 in 1992. Alien Resurrection, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, arrived in 1997.

50. Immaculate

Immaculate follows Sister Cecilia, played by Sydney Sweeney. A devout American nun journeys to a distant convent in the Italian countryside. What starts as a warm welcome for Cecilia quickly spirals into a nightmare as she realizes her new home holds a sinister secret and unspeakable horrors.

Michael Mohan directs the horror movie that twists, dips and turns for 89 minutes, leaving traumatized and haunted.