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Scary movies that aren't gory

Gore and fear are two different levers, and plenty of the scariest films ever made barely touch the first one. These are the ghost stories, the slow hauntings and the held breaths: frightening on purpose, squeamish-friendly by design. Nothing here will make you look away for the wrong reason.

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The Sixth Sense
1999 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 86%★ 8.2mystery · thriller · dramaNetflixHulu

Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.

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The Others
2001 · dir. Alejandro Amenábar
🍅 85%★ 7.6horror · mystery · thriller

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.

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A Quiet Place
2018 · dir. John Krasinski
🍅 96%★ 7.5horror · drama · science fictionParamount+

A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.

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A Quiet Place Part II
2021 · dir. John Krasinski
🍅 91%★ 7.2science fiction · thriller · horrorParamount+

Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.

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The Conjuring
2013 · dir. James Wan
🍅 86%★ 7.5horror · thrillerMax

Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.

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The Conjuring 2
2016 · dir. James Wan
🍅 80%★ 7.3horrorMax

Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.

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Insidious
2011 · dir. James Wan
🍅 66%★ 6.8horror · thriller

A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought.

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Sinister
2012 · dir. Scott Derrickson
🍅 64%★ 6.8horror · thriller · mysteryHuluPeacock

True-crime writer Ellison Oswalt is in a slump; he hasn't had a best seller in more than 10 years and is becoming increasingly desperate for a hit. So, when he discovers the existence of a snuff film showing the deaths of a family, he vows to solve the mystery. He moves his own family into the victims' home and gets to work. However, when old film footage and other clues hint at the presence of a supernatural force, Ellison learns that living in the house may be fatal.

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The Ring
2002 · dir. Gore Verbinski
🍅 72%★ 7.1horror · mysteryNetflixParamount+

Journalist Rachel Keller investigates a strange videotape that may be behind the untimely deaths of four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring in order to save herself and her son.

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The Babadook
2014 · dir. Jennifer Kent
🍅 98%★ 6.8drama · horrorRent or buy

A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.

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Get Out
2017 · dir. Jordan Peele
🍅 98%★ 7.8mystery · thriller · horrorPeacock

Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.

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It Follows
2015 · dir. David Robert Mitchell
🍅 95%★ 6.8horror · mysteryParamount+Peacock

A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.

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The Witch
2016 · dir. Robert Eggers
🍅 91%★ 7horror · fantasy · mysteryPrime Video

In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.

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The Invisible Man
2020 · dir. Leigh Whannell
★ 7.1thriller · science fiction · horrorRent or buy

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.

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Signs
2002 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 76%★ 6.8thriller · science fiction · horrorHulu

A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.

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The Village
2004 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 43%★ 6.6drama · mystery · thrillerHulu

When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.

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Psycho
1960 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 97%★ 8.5horror · thriller · mysteryNetflixPeacock

When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

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Rosemary's Baby
1968 · dir. Roman Polanski
🍅 97%★ 8drama · horror · thrillerParamount+

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.

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The Shining
1980 · dir. Stanley Kubrick
🍅 84%★ 8.4horror · thrillerMax

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 prepared for the madness that lurks within.

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Lights Out
2016 · dir. David F. Sandberg
🍅 74%★ 6.3horror · mystery

Rebecca must unlock the terror behind her little brother's experiences that once tested her sanity, bringing her face to face with a supernatural spirit attached to their mother.

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Bird Box
2018 · dir. Susanne Bier
🍅 64%★ 6.6horror · thriller · dramaNetflix

Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.

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Us
2019 · dir. Jordan Peele
🍅 93%★ 6.8horror · mysteryMax

Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.

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Hereditary
2018 · dir. Ari Aster
🍅 90%★ 7.3horror · mystery · thrillerPrime VideoMax

Following the death of the Leigh family matriarch, Annie and her children uncover disturbing secrets about their heritage. Their daily lives are not only impacted, but they also become entangled in a chilling fate from which they cannot escape, driving them to the brink of madness.

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1408
2007 · dir. Mikael Håfström
🍅 80%★ 6.8horror · mystery

A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.

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The Haunting of Hill House
2018 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 8.5mystery · dramaNetflix

Flashing between past and present, a fractured family confronts haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.

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Stranger Things
2016–2025 · 5 seasons · Netflix
★ 8.6action & adventure · mystery · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.

Every title above links to its kindred spirits. Find the one you love, then follow the thread. Or browse the mood behind this shelf: dread, tense, unsettling.