13 Scary Movies Fans Unexpectedly Fell in Love With Immediately

What We Do in the Shadows is a hilarious mockumentary that follows a group of ancient vampire roommates navigating the challenges of modern life in Wellington, New Zealand. Packed with witty humor and clever vampire lore, this film delivers a fresh and comedic take on the vampire genre.

Train to Busan is a gripping South Korean horror-thriller that unfolds during a catastrophic zombie outbreak. A group of passengers must fight for their lives on a speeding train to the city of Busan, facing relentless hordes of infected creatures. This intense and emotionally charged film offers heart-pounding suspense and explores the human condition in the face of adversity.

The Cabin in the Woods is a clever horror film that satirizes genre clichés. Five friends vacation in a remote cabin, unknowingly becoming pawns in a ritual orchestrated by underground operators. This twisty narrative subverts expectations, offering a meta-commentary on the nature of horror films themselves.

The Faculty is about a high school whose teachers were taken over by aliens. As the students face off with their mutant teachers, can they cross clique divides to team together and survive the school day?

When two coroners examine the body of a recently deceased unidentified woman, they're shocked to find that her injuries have no typical explanation.

As they investigate her cause of death, the two men uncover more and more details about the woman's harrowing demise.

In this remake of the 1977 classic, a young dancer arrives at a prestigious dance academy in Germany on the same night that a fellow student is murdered. Can the new student uncover the truth behind the school's mysteries before it's too late?

When a vegetarian student enrolls in a veterinary school, she goes against her moral judgment to partake in the school's strange ritual of eating raw flesh. But once the blood touches her lips, something inside her changes forever.

Run is a psychological horror about a mother and her isolated, disabled daughter. The mom homeschools her teenage daughter, who relies on medications and a wheelchair. But when the daughter realizes she can walk, her mother's terrifying secrets emerge from the woodwork.

While hanging out online on a group video chat, a group of teenage friends receives a terrifying invitation to play a game from the account of their friend who recently passed away. As the scary game unfolds, secrets the friends so desperately tried to keep are revealed as they perish one by one.

This horror comedy film follows two men on a vacation in the depths of the forest, and a group of college students mistakes them for terrifying murderers. As this hilarious misunderstanding ensues, the students' fear causes their demise.

When the weird uncle of a family passes away, his niece and nephew inherit his fantastic old home. But as the new family makes itself at home, they realize the house has a mind of its own, and it isn't happy to have new residents.

This Finnish psychological horror movie is about a young gymnast with a tense relationship with her perfectionist mother. When the girl finds a strange egg in the woods, she takes care of it until it hatches into an intelligent creature that changes the child's life.

When a psychiatrist's patient takes her own life in front of the doctor, a terrifying entity takes hold of the psychiatrist's life. Eerily smiling figures appear in her daily life, and sinister events follow her as she battles against the spirits in hopes of surviving her newfound waking nightmare.

Have you seen any horror movies that impressed you more than you expected?

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