10 Scariest Movies That Shouldn’t be Watched in the Dark

Whether you like zombies, ghosts, the occult movies or serial killers, over the years there is always one scary movie that still stands out in your mind and makes your heart skip a bit no matter how many times you see it, here’s list of top 10 movies that shouldn’t be watched in the dark.

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The Secret Window

This psychological horror focuses on a mystery writer who after a separation from his wife retreats to their lake side cabin to finish writing his latest book but when a psychotic stranger shows up every secret gets uncovered.

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The Skeleton Key

This top 10 horror movie is set in the bayous of Louisiana at an isolated plantation house. When a private caregiver finds a skeleton key and after refusing to heed any warning to stay out of the room she finds herself surround by black magic and the secrets of the Deep South.

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Pet Sematary

Only Stephen King could compound tragedy with more tragedy to make it into this top ten list. After a streak of tragedies strike a young family there was nothing that Lois Creed wouldn’t do anything to make his family whole again, but there are some lines that should never be crossed.

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Psycho

This classic horror film featuring Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates, the owner of the “Bates Motel” and Janet Leigh the misguided secretary that has the misfortune of renting a room. In this movie nothing ever is what it appears to be.

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Night Of The Living Dead

This zombie classic revolves around a group of strangers that find solace in an empty farmhouse after the “East Coast” has been taken over by the dead that have been resurrected by nuclear contamination and are hungry for human flesh.

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The Shining

This psychological horror movie centers around Jack and Wendy Torrance. Jack was an out of work writer who took a job as winter watchman for a mountain hotel. But once his family moves in strange occurrences start to happen and even stranger behavior out of Jack.

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The Sixth Sense

This psychological/supernatural movie featured Bruce Willis as Dr. Malcolm Crowe, a child psychologist with some very troubled patients such s Vincent Grey who committed suicide after having hallucinations to his newest patient 9 year old Cole Sear who is afflicted with the same illness. When the line between reality and insanity starts to fade everything starts falling into place.

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The Devil

This movie revolves around 5 people that are stuck in an elevator at a high-rise office building in Philadelphia and the men in the control room that watch the horror unfold. Every time the light in the elevator goes out another person is dead. Is it possible that there is a killer among them or is it the devil himself?

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The Strangers

This movie revolves around a couple’s relationship which was on the brink of breaking up. After attending a friend’s wedding they decide to stay the night at a family owned remote summer house. In between discussing their relationship they were confronted by three masked strangers and that was when they realized their troubled relationship was the least of their worries.

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Rosemary’s Baby

This top 10 occult classic is centered around Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse, a newly married couple that move into a New York City brownstone with some very unique neighbors. As Rosemary’s pregnancy progresses and Guy’s acting career reaches new heights, Rosemary starts to realize that everything is not as it seems and even worse- who could she trust?

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