Top 10 Most Terrifying And Haunting Horror Movies | Maimovie

You either love or hate horror movies. Some genuinely enjoy the spooky feeling they get from watching a horror movie while others struggle to go to sleep for days after watching one. Which one are you?

Whichever type of person you are, we hope you’re down for some challenges today because we brought Maimovie AI’s rank of top 10 most “terrifying” and “haunting” horror movies. The classic clown, a haunted mansion, a strange cult in the middle of Sweden… Maimovie AI has brought a variety of movies to cater to all the different tastes in horror movies.

If you’re a horror movie enthusiast, see if you’ve missed any of these movies or if you agree with the ranking. If you’re usually scared of horror movies, why don’t you challenge yourself today?

We dare you to keep your eyes open the whole time.

The following list was based on Maimovie on February 22, 2022, under the “terrifying” and “horrifying” keytalks. Check out the Maimovie app or website to discover more movies and shows.

 

10. Doctor Sleep

2019, 2h 32m

Overview

Still irrevocably scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook, Dan Torrance has fought to find some semblance of peace. But that peace is shattered when he encounters Abra, a courageous teenager with her own powerful extrasensory gift, known as the ‘shine’. Instinctively recognising that Dan shares her power, Abra has sought him out, desperate for his help against the merciless Rose the Hat and her followers.

• Director: Mike Flanagan
• Stars: Ewan McGregor, Kyliegh Curran, Rebecca Ferguson, Cliff Curtis, Zahn McClarnon

5,329 Movie Tastes Related to
Doctor Sleep

Maimovie AI learns various movie tastes from social media, search
keywords, and other diverse crowd data. As a result, our AI has
characterized this movie with the following movie tastes

• slightly inferior
• director with uncanny ability
• tough acting
• geeking out
• standing tall
• cult classic
• iconic visual
• fairly faithful to book

Trailer
/ Trailer from Doctor Sleep

 

Ratings

7.3

78%

59

 

9. The Invisible Man

2020, 2h 4m

Overview

When Cecilia’s abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.

• Director: Leigh Whannell
• Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Aldis Hodge, Storm Reid, Michael Dorman, Harriet Dyer

5,325 Movie Tastes Related to
The Invisible Man

Maimovie AI learns various movie tastes from social media, search
keywords, and other diverse crowd data. As a result, our AI has
characterized this movie with the following movie tastes

• creating tension
• incredibly suspenseful
• psychologically thrilling
• futuristic society
• chilling thrills
• build a scene
• building tension
• full of suspense

Trailer
/ Trailer from The Invisible Man

 

Ratings

7.1

-%

72

 

8. It

2017, 2h 15m

Overview

In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.

• Director: Andy Muschietti
• Stars: Jaeden Martell, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Chosen Jacobs

5,329 Movie Tastes Related to
It

Maimovie AI learns various movie tastes from social media, search
keywords, and other diverse crowd data. As a result, our AI has
characterized this movie with the following movie tastes

• absolutely terrifying
• clownish
• truly terrified
• truly horrifying
• spine-chilling
• actually scared
• not scary at all
• frightful

Trailer
/ Trailer from It

 

Ratings

7.3

86%

69

 

7. Midsommar

2019, 2h 28m

Overview

Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.

• Director: Ari Aster
• Stars: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, Will Poulter, Vilhelm Blomgren

5,335 Movie Tastes Related to
Midsommar

Maimovie AI learns various movie tastes from social media, search
keywords, and other diverse crowd data. As a result, our AI has
characterized this movie with the following movie tastes

• nightmarish visual
• discomforting
• slightly disturbing
• genuinely disturbing
• deeply unsettling
• feeling uneasy
• disquieting
• profoundly disturbing

Trailer
/ Trailer from Midsommar

 

Ratings

7.1

83%

72

 

 

6. Take Shelter

2011, 2h

Overview

Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.

• Director: Jeff Nichols
• Writer: Jeff Nichols
• Stars: Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Katy Mixon, Shea Whigham, Ray McKinnon

5,299 Movie Tastes Related to
Take Shelter

Maimovie AI learns various movie tastes from social media, search
keywords, and other diverse crowd data. As a result, our AI has
characterized this movie with the following movie tastes

• biblical proportion
• sense of foreboding
• going nuts
• anxious
• paranoid
• tour de force
• nightmare scenario
• slow moving

Trailer
/ Trailer from Take Shelter

 

Ratings

7.3

92%

85

 

5. Sleepy Hollow

1999, 1h 45m

Overview

New York detective Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of mysterious deaths in which the victims are found beheaded. Locals believe the culprit to be none other than the legendary Headless Horseman.

• Director: Tim Burton
• Stars: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Casper Van Dien

5,325 Movie Tastes Related to
Sleepy Hollow

Maimovie AI learns various movie tastes from social media, search
keywords, and other diverse crowd data. As a result, our AI has
characterized this movie with the following movie tastes

• dark and gothic
• Gothic atmosphere
• dark and moody
• shaking head in disbelief
• dark and gloomy
• visually striking
• gloomy atmosphere
• visual marvel

Trailer
/ Trailer from Sleepy Hollow

 

Ratings

7.3

69%

65

 

4. The Lighthouse

2019, 1h 49m

Overview

Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

• Director: Robert Eggers
• Writer: Robert Eggers
• Stars: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman, Logan Hawkes, Kyla Nicolle

5,324 Movie Tastes Related to
The Lighthouse

Maimovie AI learns various movie tastes from social media, search
keywords, and other diverse crowd data. As a result, our AI has
characterized this movie with the following movie tastes

• exquisite cinematography
• absolutely mesmerizing
• moody cinematography
• feeling of isolation
• oppressive atmosphere
• absolutely phenomenal
• top-notch cinematography
• phenomenal acting

Trailer
/ Trailer from The Lighthouse

 

Ratings

7.5

90%

83

 

 

3. Hereditary

2018, 2h 7m

Overview

When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter’s family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry.

• Director: Ari Aster
• Writer: Ari Aster
• Stars: Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Gabriel Byrne, Milly Shapiro, Ann Dowd

5,326 Movie Tastes Related to
Hereditary

Maimovie AI learns various movie tastes from social media, search
keywords, and other diverse crowd data. As a result, our AI has
characterized this movie with the following movie tastes

• truly horrifying
• genuinely disturbing
• such high hopes
• hyped up
• skin crawling
• slightly disturbing
• nightmarish visual
• slowly building up

Trailer
/ Trailer from Hereditary

 

Ratings

7.3

89%

87

 

 

 

2. The Others

2001, 1h 41m

Overview

Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.

• Director: Alejandro Amenábar
• Writer: Alejandro Amenábar
• Stars: Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Eccleston, Alakina Mann, James Bentley

5,327 Movie Tastes Related to
The Others

Maimovie AI learns various movie tastes from social media, search
keywords, and other diverse crowd data. As a result, our AI has
characterized this movie with the following movie tastes

• build a scene
• masterpiece
• noir atmosphere
• suspenseful atmosphere
• slowly building up
• whodunit
• psychological mystery
• fearful

Trailer
/ Trailer from The Others

 

Ratings

7.6

83%

74

 

1. The Orphanage

2007, 1h 45m

Overview

A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.

• Director: J. A. Bayona
• Stars: Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Príncep, Mabel Rivera, Montserrat Carulla

5,298 Movie Tastes Related to
The Orphanage

Maimovie AI learns various movie tastes from social media, search
keywords, and other diverse crowd data. As a result, our AI has
characterized this movie with the following movie tastes

• genuinely thrilling
• psychologically thrilling
• hair-raising
• bumping at night
• build a scene
• spine-tingling
• jolting
• psychologically horrifying

Trailer
/ Trailer from The Orphanage

 

Ratings

7.4

87%

74