Trauma horror movies are the ones that you pray to get through and live to tell the tale. These are the movies that cause the kind of mental scarring that will have your therapist referring you to a specialist such is psychological damage inflicted by them. Only the brave, the hardy, and the masochistic will find their viewing pleasures in this category.
Expect to see disturbing horror movies such as Takashi Miike’s sadistic Audition and the depraved A Serbian Film scoring high in these ratings.
But traumatic horror movies aren’t just those that lurk at the extremes of the genre, with the likes of the acclaimed Jacob’s Ladder and The Exorcist
also being defined by their unerring trait to stay with you long after their credits have rolled.
Whichever horror movies have left you with mental images that refuse to be forgotten no matter how much you beg them to be gone, this is the rating section for such assaults on your psyche.
But if you are the sort of sick puppy who thinks The Human Centipede was laugh-a-minute or Wes Craven’s The Last House on the Left was a walk in the park then make your views known for the horror movies that left you unscathed by rating them low on this particular scale.
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Top 10 Traumatic Horror Movies
1
Alien
Year: 1979
Released: 22 Jun 1979 |
Director: Ridley Scott
8.5
9.0
83
4.6
The plot
The commercial vessel Nostromo receives a distress call from an unexplored planet. After searching for survivors, the crew... [read more]
2
Kwaidan
Year: 1964
Released: 22 Nov 1965 |
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
8.0
7.6
4
4
The plot
A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.
3
I Saw the Devil
Year: 2010
Released: 12 Aug 2010 |
Director: Jee-woon Kim
7.8
7.2
67
3.8
The plot
A secret agent exacts revenge on a serial killer through a series of captures and releases.
4
A Page of Madness
Year: 1926
Released: 01 Jan 1975 |
Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa
7.6
3.8
2.9
1
The plot
A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.
5
The Fly
Year: 1986
Released: 15 Aug 1986 |
Director: David Cronenberg
7.5
8.2
79
4.4
The plot
A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes... [read more]
6
Jacob's Ladder
Year: 1990
Released: 02 Nov 1990 |
Director: Adrian Lyne
7.5
6.5
62
4.2
The plot
Mourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam war veteran attempts to discover his past while suffering from a severe case of... [read more]
7
Eraserhead
Year: 1977
Released: 31 Dec 1978 |
Director: David Lynch
7.4
8.4
3.9
4
The plot
Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly... [read more]
8
Audition
Year: 1999
Released: 03 Mar 2000 |
Director: Takashi Miike
7.2
7.2
69
3.8
The plot
A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one... [read more]
9
The Mist
Year: 2007
Released: 21 Nov 2007 |
Director: Frank Darabont
7.2
6.6
58
3.7
The plot
A freak storm unleashes a species of blood-thirsty creatures on a small town, where a small band of citizens hole up in a... [read more]
10
The Fly
Year: 1958
Released: N/A |
Director: Kurt Neumann
7.1
7.1
3.8
4.5
The plot
A scientist has a horrific accident when he tries to use his newly invented teleportation device.
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Jacob's Ladder
Year: 1990
Released: 02 Nov 1990 |
Director: Adrian Lyne
7.5
6.5
62
4.2
The plot
Mourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam war veteran attempts to discover his past while suffering from a severe case of... [read more]
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Jacob's Ladder
Year: 1990
Director: Adrian Lyne
The highly disturbing hospital section has been oft copied since but never equalled - petrifying.
Lauren Millington
This movie scared the shit out of me. Tim Robbins being awesome as always. Great combo. 5 stars!
Because I'm batman
One of the best headf*ck horror movies I've ever seen
Conan
Can't believe I hadn't seen this before it's so good! All horror fans should see it!
Arnold Chuckles
