Horror Movies Without Jump Scares
List by allhorrorSome people like jump scares, some people don’t. For those of you who think jump scares are a cheap cop-out, here’s our list of horror movies which prefer to creep up on you gradually, building a cerebral web of intrigue and atmosphere to drag you into their world. Certified to contain no cats jumping out of closets, no startling confrontations with mirrors, and no supposedly dead characters who pop back off the ground.
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The Shining (1980)
- Featured Supernatural, Psychological, Supernatural | Cult Classic, Ghosts, Isolation, Killer Parents, Madness, Motel, Nudity, Psychic, Winter, 80's
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86%
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8.4
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't ...
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Carrie (1976)
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93%
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7.4
Carrie may be ostracized, but the shy teen has the ability to move objects with her mind. So when the high school "in crowd" torments her with a sick joke at the prom, she lashes out with de...
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Let the Right One In (2008)
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98%
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7.9
Set in 1982 in the suburb of Blackeberg, Stockholm, twelve-year-old Oskar is a lonely outsider, bullied at school by his classmates; at home, Oskar dreams of revenge against a trio of bullies. He befr...
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The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
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52%
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6.5
Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror and unthinkable chaos when fate draws him to a sleepy West Virginia town whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that...
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Lake Mungo (2008)
- Found Footage, Supernatural, Twisted Mystery | Drama, Mockumentary, Paranormal Proof, Psychic, Ghosts
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93%
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6.1
16 year old Alice Palmer drowns in a local dam. When her body is recovered and, her grieving family buries her. The family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centered in and around t...
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The Blair Witch Project (1999)
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87%
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6.4
In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found....
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The Omen (1976)
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86%
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7.6
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the de...
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