Horror Movies for Newbies
List by allhorrorWhen you only want to be a little scared. These are what you might think of as the beginner horror films, movies with only a lightly creepy atmosphere and minimal gore. But even some veteran horror fans appreciate the more artful approach of subtle, psychological horror over the crudeness of an ax to the brain. These are our picks of great cozy entertainment for curling up over a cup of tea on a rainy day.
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Arachnophobia (1990)
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92%
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6.4
A large spider from the jungles of South America is accidentally transported in a crate with a dead body to America where it mates with a local spider. Soon after, the residents of a small California ...
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The Woman in Black (2012)
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66%
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6.4
The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated ho...
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The Ring (2002)
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71%
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7.1
It sounded like just another urban legend: A videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel...
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Carriers (2009)
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66%
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6.0
Four friends fleeing a viral pandemic soon learn they are more dangerous than any virus.A deadly virus has spread across the globe. Contagion is everywhere, no one is safe and no one can be trusted. F...
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Mama (2013)
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65%
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6.2
Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued ...
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The Final Girls (2015)
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70%
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6.6
A young woman grieving the loss of her mother, a famous scream queen from the 1980s, finds herself pulled into the world of her mom's most famous movie. Reunited, the women must fight off the film...
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Tremors (1990)
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85%
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7.2
Hick handymen Val McKee and Earl Bassett can barely eke out a living in the Nevada hamlet of Perfection, so they decide to leave town -- despite an admonition from a shapely seismology coed who's ...
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Cat's Eye (1985)
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67%
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6.3
Three short stories by shock-meister Stephen King are linked by a stray cat that roams from one tale to the next in this creepy triptych that begins as Dick (James Woods) tries to quit smoking by any ...
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Fragile (2005)
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46%
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6.1
Haunted by memories of a patient's death, a nurse takes a job at an antiquated hospital for children. Soon she learns that the kids fear a ghost that prowls the floors and will not allow anyone to...
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Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
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90%
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6.9
Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik's, a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors a crush on fellow co-worker Audrey Fulquard, and is berated by Mr. Mushnik daily. One day as Se...
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