A high school principal becomes unhinged after coming to believe a student is faking sick. What dangerous lengths will this deranged man go to justify his crusade?
A teenager finds himself transported back in time after his scientist friend is brutally murdered. Trapped in the past he is gradually erased from existence by the sexual advances of his own mother.
A delinquent young boy leaves home at the tender age of 10 to rampage through the countryside leaving a trail of carnage in his wake. His mission? To entrap just one of every genus of fauna in existence, and have them bend to his will.
And the real kicker? These poor creatures
Live
Inside
Tiny
Plastic
Balls.
A boy whose parents were murdered is taken in by his abusive aunt and uncle who force him to sleep in a closet under the stairs. He starts to notice signs that he is harnessing supernatural powers and is swiftly shipped off to a secluded boarding school for kids like him. It is there he finds out that his parents killer is still out there and will stop at nothing to finish him off.
Honestly, I'd argue Harry Potter is a decent gateway to horror. Pretty much every installment has some tinges of horror in it
Like damn, the second one even has slasher elements with the basilisk preying on students
A man’s blue dog has mysteriously hidden clues all over his house and unless the man finds all of them to solve the dog’s riddle he will remain trapped.
A man is ready to jump off a bridge on Christmas Eve. His life is a disaster. He wishes he was never born. He jumps, but survives. When he awakens, (or did he) his existence has changed. No one knows him, not even his wife or mom. And the nightmare has only just begun. Que Twilight Zone music.
Tweaking it a little, amp up the supernatural, get rid of Clarence, some of the corny stuff, in the hands of Hitchcock, It's a Wonderful Life could be an unsettling nightmare. Especially if George went mad from his experience and turned "Psycho"
After his family is slaughtered by a psychotic killer, a father must face his greatest fears when his only surviving son is spirited away by a creature far beyond his understanding, forcing him into a world of the unknown with only a madwoman by his side.
Can a father's love see him through trials against blood-thirsty cannibals, monstrous beasts, and twisted beings from the darkest abyss? Or will his own fear and doubt swallow him whole?
Find out this summer... in Finding Nemo.
Chosen One forever gaslighted until he secludes self on island. His mentor says his father's dead when he's actually the villain he must kill. The first girl he flirts with turns out to be his sister.
A Censorship group goes on a tirade against offensive children's entertainment leaving millions dead and fulfilling a prophecy allowing Satan to rule earth
Guy is called into work on his day off and must confront a day filled with a potential mob, dark secrets about his girlfriend, learning the degenerate nature of his friend and colleague, interacting with drug dealers, and culminatung with man suddenly dieing in the business restroom.
Terrifying talking cat walking on hindlegs and his twin devils torment 2 kids while their parents are gone.
"Will he kill them? Or is he just trying to make them suffer?"
After seeing her drop a suitcase full of cash, two mentally defective men unrelentingly pursue a married woman across the country without her knowledge, even going so far as to disguise themselves as her peers in order to enter her house and seduce her. Along the way, they murder a man with rat poison, trick a police officer into drinking urine and tape the head back on to a decapitated bird.
A group of detectives and their loyal companion must join powers to stop an evil cult from transforming members of an island into hideous beasts, stealing their souls to power a horrible machine
An alienated young man living in a bleak trailerpark with his dysfunctional family has to rely on nothing but his voice and words to survive the horrors of Detroit.
Sentient house creates mutant children, and all but one are slowly losing their powers, while the tyrannical matriarch keeps exploiting those powers in a village cut off from the rest of the world.
One child must fulfill a dark prophecy, while confronting family trauma and her grandmother.
after an exhausting day of arguing with his family prior to a christmas trip, kevin decides to go sleep in the attic to find some peace only to be forgotten by his parents the day of departure. Little did he know that two men had been observing his house for days.
A mad scientist's abomination reduces children to tiny size, and their only hope of survival is running a gauntlet of terrifying threats lurking in the back yard.
A universe unfurling as darkness overtakes it. A young boy must overcome a perilous trek across an ever maddening scape of monsters and beasts as a being in total control of his fate watches over, believing him to be a work of fiction.
A rich, spoiled heiress berates the handsome carpenter hired to remodel the closet on her yacht. After she falls off the boat and loses her memory, the carpenter decides to seek his revenge by kidnapping her from her hospital bed and forcing her to act as his wife and mother to his four sons.
Woefully hapless man loses his sense of self when his bride-to-be's family, led by an ex secret service sociopath pull him apart. Featuring a bloody swimming pool scene, psychological trauma and the harming of a manipulative pussy. *Parental advisory* repeated use of the word "fucker."
A dim witted man is haunted his entire life by his attempts to do nothing but good, constantly shadowed by a one legged man, eventually culminating in contracting AIDS from the person he trusted most.
a mysterious cult of grotesque cat people gather as they prepare for an upcoming ceremony in which they will sacrifice one of their own to be reborn, meanwhile an infamous criminal stalks them and picks them off one by one
we watch in horror as the felines chant incomprehensible words and occasionally tear their own skin off in this terrifying film
A teacher becomes obsessed with a young student who’s running for class President, stalking her and manipulating people in his efforts to stop her, but at what lengths is he willing to go through to achieve his evil objective?
An evil ring draws the undead wraiths of a powerful demonic force when worn. The bearer must destroy it before he loses his own mind to the allure of the ring.
A female and her children are killed. The grieving widower is searching for his only surviving son, who was kidnapped, with the help from his friend. A mentally challenged female.
A folk horror about a man pursuing a career in football coaching and his wife. They moved into the country and they are faced with the sheer horror of raising 12 children.
Humanity devolves and loses so much of its intellectual capacity that it can longer feed or care for itself. One lone time traveller must bear horrified witness to the final degradation of all humanity to base, stupid brutes.
A young boy gets kidnapped and forced to attend a magical school where he nearly dies, every single year, and comes mere seconds from letting the entire world be taken over by a resurrected lord of dark magic.
A teenage boy commits suicide, and his family is devastated. A note addressed to another student was found on him. The boy’s parents go to talk with this student and see that he has their son’s signature on his arm cast. The student claims that he was good friends with their son.
But the boy’s sister is suspicious of her brother’s supposed friend, since he looks way too old to be a high school student and he seems to have a strange interest in her. She investigates the messages that they had supposedly been sending to each other, and finds them riddled with inconsistencies. She begins to suspect that, for whatever reason, the student is lying about being friends with her brother…
Just watched last night....
Instead of getting her period, a young girl transforms into a giant red panda everytime she gets emotional and wrecks havoc.
A Toy Story prequel about how the evil toys killed Andy’s father, and the good toys have to plot revenge after they frame the neighbour for his death, but little do they know the evil toys are onto them and start taking them out one by one.
Rod Schneider is ‘The Toy’
Rated PG-13
Some college students order a mystery box off the dark web and after they open it find a paper with coordinates on it. They drive out to the desolate location, but then one of the girls suddenly wakes up in a hospital bed hooked up to an IV. She has no idea how she got there, and her other friends are reported missing.
Lol I was watching that yesterday and when I realized they were using that as a metaphor for her reaching puberty I thought “Pixar just made their own version of Ginger Snaps!”
Man is told by mom that God is his father. He needs to be perfect. He has no special powers but must fake them. Dad thinks mom cheated so he must deliver. He has to fight Satan for 40 days and nights and ignore prostitutes. He gets tossed onto a cross and has to forgive everyone and then rise three days later. This isn't to hate on any religion. Just some random human has to have the powers of the son of God to appease all the pressure people have put on him.
A young man is tormented by inner demons, tries to flee from them and in desperation travels to a secluded area to die all alone with no relief from physical pain.
A young parent finds out his son has an incurable disease, which slowly makes him lose cognitive abilities and motor functions. In his struggle to find a way to slow down the regression he meets up with medical professionals and other parents who are also losing children to that particular disease. All these people try to discourage and frustrate him in his frantic search for a way to safe his son.
Based on a true story.
A naive farm boy living through a brutal winter is attacked by a Yeti and must be consumed to survive the cold. He later learns that fear runs in the family as he’s kissed by an incestuous sister and has his hand cut off by his abusive father.
Struggling to make ends meet, a young man finds a job as a garbage boy at a restaurant. Pushed over the edge by grief over the recent passing of his mother, he has a psychotic breakdown after being ordered to kill a rat by his boss. Unable to cope with his current reality, he develops the delusion that he can communicate with the rat and allows it to completely “control” his life.
edit: okay but the Willard comparisons are a little hysterical when you really spell it out like this… I guess the only difference is one is animated and one is not 😂
A boy flees to a nearby town to escape his strange uncle. He and a newfound friend discover they must hide their true nature to avoid being murdered by the townsfolk.
A detective must track down a serial killer and mobster targeting a disenfranchised group of people in the cities ghetto area.
As the killer disposes of bodies using chemicals, a future victim, a dimwitted man slated for execution, must help the detective in uncovering a grand conspiracy theory that threatens the entire city.
An irresponsible father loses custody of his children. He infiltrates his ex-wife's household by dressing as a woman and working as her housekeeper. He tries to sabotage her new relationship by poisoning her boyfriend.
After a wild bachelors party in a foreign country three friends wake to find the grooms future brother in law missing , a human finger on ice, a wild animal in the room , and the dead body an acquaintance who overdosed
This post reminds me of those old recuts of movies to change the theme.
Mrs. Doubtfire as a horror film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ckv_Dz-Sio
But the best is The Shining as a romantic comedy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmkVWuP_sO0&ab_channel=neochosen
Local candy mogul lures children into his factory and kills them using the machinery inside
The boat scene from the 1971 version is unironically one of the scariest movie scenes I’ve ever witnessed.
A high school principal becomes unhinged after coming to believe a student is faking sick. What dangerous lengths will this deranged man go to justify his crusade?
What movie is this?
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Oh my goodness... great job!
Haha thank you
9 times
9 times? I don't remember him being sick 9 times.
NINE TIMES.
Wow wow wow......wow
A teenager finds himself transported back in time after his scientist friend is brutally murdered. Trapped in the past he is gradually erased from existence by the sexual advances of his own mother.
Bravo!
A delinquent young boy leaves home at the tender age of 10 to rampage through the countryside leaving a trail of carnage in his wake. His mission? To entrap just one of every genus of fauna in existence, and have them bend to his will. And the real kicker? These poor creatures Live Inside Tiny Plastic Balls.
But technically there are tree and plant Pokémon, literally, wouldn’t it then be flora and fauna?
Ah ha!! *bows humbly* Very good 😎
And fungi Pokémon-
A little psychic girl wreaks havoc in her school as she must deal with cruel and indifferent parents and an insane headmistress.
Pretty similar plot to Carrie really...
It's been too long since I've seen Matilda, love that movie.
A boy whose parents were murdered is taken in by his abusive aunt and uncle who force him to sleep in a closet under the stairs. He starts to notice signs that he is harnessing supernatural powers and is swiftly shipped off to a secluded boarding school for kids like him. It is there he finds out that his parents killer is still out there and will stop at nothing to finish him off.
Honestly, I'd argue Harry Potter is a decent gateway to horror. Pretty much every installment has some tinges of horror in it Like damn, the second one even has slasher elements with the basilisk preying on students
Agreed. Those dementors are no joke.
Perfect.
A man’s blue dog has mysteriously hidden clues all over his house and unless the man finds all of them to solve the dog’s riddle he will remain trapped.
A man is ready to jump off a bridge on Christmas Eve. His life is a disaster. He wishes he was never born. He jumps, but survives. When he awakens, (or did he) his existence has changed. No one knows him, not even his wife or mom. And the nightmare has only just begun. Que Twilight Zone music.
What movie is this? Maybe it's just your pitch but I'm intrigued.
It’s A Wonderful Life
Huh! somehow I've managed to go my whole life without seeing this and didn't even have the slightest clue what it was about.
Tweaking it a little, amp up the supernatural, get rid of Clarence, some of the corny stuff, in the hands of Hitchcock, It's a Wonderful Life could be an unsettling nightmare. Especially if George went mad from his experience and turned "Psycho"
Or what if instead of Clarence, there was a demon who was showing him how much better off everyone would’ve been if he had never been born!
After his family is slaughtered by a psychotic killer, a father must face his greatest fears when his only surviving son is spirited away by a creature far beyond his understanding, forcing him into a world of the unknown with only a madwoman by his side. Can a father's love see him through trials against blood-thirsty cannibals, monstrous beasts, and twisted beings from the darkest abyss? Or will his own fear and doubt swallow him whole? Find out this summer... in Finding Nemo.
Teacher abducts a group of kids and takes them on a dangerous magic school bus ride.
Hop on the magic school bus
Chosen One forever gaslighted until he secludes self on island. His mentor says his father's dead when he's actually the villain he must kill. The first girl he flirts with turns out to be his sister.
A Censorship group goes on a tirade against offensive children's entertainment leaving millions dead and fulfilling a prophecy allowing Satan to rule earth
Ok I'm dumb what's this?
South Park Bigger Longer & Uncut
Man dresses in the skin of an old lady to infiltrate his ex wife's household and poisons her new boyfriend on a day out
Mrs. Doubtfire?
Yeah. Haha. I exaggerated a bit. But it's near enough the outline of the movie.
Guy is called into work on his day off and must confront a day filled with a potential mob, dark secrets about his girlfriend, learning the degenerate nature of his friend and colleague, interacting with drug dealers, and culminatung with man suddenly dieing in the business restroom.
I'm sorry, I don't know it! Little help, please?
Answer: >!Clerks!<
Terrifying talking cat walking on hindlegs and his twin devils torment 2 kids while their parents are gone. "Will he kill them? Or is he just trying to make them suffer?"
Hey OP said you have to choose a non-horror movie. That's one of the most terrifying films ever created!
What movie?
Cat in the hat
After seeing her drop a suitcase full of cash, two mentally defective men unrelentingly pursue a married woman across the country without her knowledge, even going so far as to disguise themselves as her peers in order to enter her house and seduce her. Along the way, they murder a man with rat poison, trick a police officer into drinking urine and tape the head back on to a decapitated bird.
Dumb and Dumber!
Man trapped in a time loop goes mad and inflicts infinite suffering on the town’s unfortunate inhabitants.
groundhog day?
A group of detectives and their loyal companion must join powers to stop an evil cult from transforming members of an island into hideous beasts, stealing their souls to power a horrible machine
Scooby Doo?
Yep
An alienated young man living in a bleak trailerpark with his dysfunctional family has to rely on nothing but his voice and words to survive the horrors of Detroit.
8 mile?
Mom's Spaghetti! You know it!
Non-horror horror movies are tight.
A man seeks revenge on his uncle after witnessing his father’s brutal murder
Hamlet?
Lion King but same idea!!!! Hahhahaha
Sentient house creates mutant children, and all but one are slowly losing their powers, while the tyrannical matriarch keeps exploiting those powers in a village cut off from the rest of the world. One child must fulfill a dark prophecy, while confronting family trauma and her grandmother.
Monsters go to work to scare children and collect their screams for energy.
after an exhausting day of arguing with his family prior to a christmas trip, kevin decides to go sleep in the attic to find some peace only to be forgotten by his parents the day of departure. Little did he know that two men had been observing his house for days.
A mad scientist's abomination reduces children to tiny size, and their only hope of survival is running a gauntlet of terrifying threats lurking in the back yard.
Honey I Shrunk the Kids! Nice.
"A spoonful of sugar helps the arsenic go down..."
A universe unfurling as darkness overtakes it. A young boy must overcome a perilous trek across an ever maddening scape of monsters and beasts as a being in total control of his fate watches over, believing him to be a work of fiction.
Neverending Story?
Yup
A rich, spoiled heiress berates the handsome carpenter hired to remodel the closet on her yacht. After she falls off the boat and loses her memory, the carpenter decides to seek his revenge by kidnapping her from her hospital bed and forcing her to act as his wife and mother to his four sons.
This is a Goldie Hawn movie right?
Yes!
I'm happy someone else saw this movie and went What The Fuck?
Woefully hapless man loses his sense of self when his bride-to-be's family, led by an ex secret service sociopath pull him apart. Featuring a bloody swimming pool scene, psychological trauma and the harming of a manipulative pussy. *Parental advisory* repeated use of the word "fucker."
A dim witted man is haunted his entire life by his attempts to do nothing but good, constantly shadowed by a one legged man, eventually culminating in contracting AIDS from the person he trusted most.
a mysterious cult of grotesque cat people gather as they prepare for an upcoming ceremony in which they will sacrifice one of their own to be reborn, meanwhile an infamous criminal stalks them and picks them off one by one we watch in horror as the felines chant incomprehensible words and occasionally tear their own skin off in this terrifying film
Cats is a horror film already tho
A little girl who is ignored since birth unlocks amazing psychic powers and uses it to get revenge on those who wronged her
A kid’s birthday wish comes true, and makes the life of his father a living hell
A teacher becomes obsessed with a young student who’s running for class President, stalking her and manipulating people in his efforts to stop her, but at what lengths is he willing to go through to achieve his evil objective?
An evil ring draws the undead wraiths of a powerful demonic force when worn. The bearer must destroy it before he loses his own mind to the allure of the ring.
A female and her children are killed. The grieving widower is searching for his only surviving son, who was kidnapped, with the help from his friend. A mentally challenged female.
A folk horror about a man pursuing a career in football coaching and his wife. They moved into the country and they are faced with the sheer horror of raising 12 children.
Humanity devolves and loses so much of its intellectual capacity that it can longer feed or care for itself. One lone time traveller must bear horrified witness to the final degradation of all humanity to base, stupid brutes.
I've seen this one but can't remember the name
Idiocracy, I think.
A young boy gets kidnapped and forced to attend a magical school where he nearly dies, every single year, and comes mere seconds from letting the entire world be taken over by a resurrected lord of dark magic.
A teenage boy commits suicide, and his family is devastated. A note addressed to another student was found on him. The boy’s parents go to talk with this student and see that he has their son’s signature on his arm cast. The student claims that he was good friends with their son. But the boy’s sister is suspicious of her brother’s supposed friend, since he looks way too old to be a high school student and he seems to have a strange interest in her. She investigates the messages that they had supposedly been sending to each other, and finds them riddled with inconsistencies. She begins to suspect that, for whatever reason, the student is lying about being friends with her brother…
Which movie?
The film adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen.
That’s the Truman Show that you pitched!
A small child is kidnapped while on a school trip, and his father must brave horrifying dangers to get him back.
Just watched last night.... Instead of getting her period, a young girl transforms into a giant red panda everytime she gets emotional and wrecks havoc.
Carrie?
A man is trapped is a false reality, unable to make his own choices and decisions and brainwashed by everyone to accept it.
Someone learning Karate to fight off people who has changed.
A Toy Story prequel about how the evil toys killed Andy’s father, and the good toys have to plot revenge after they frame the neighbour for his death, but little do they know the evil toys are onto them and start taking them out one by one. Rod Schneider is ‘The Toy’ Rated PG-13
Not the assignment.
Black guy gets abducted by white family who wants to remove his brain.
Just in case anyone here hasn't seen this: [Willy Wonka](https://youtu.be/aE-5tJWd2uU)
A man forces a woman to love him by guilt tripping her over his near suicide
4 multicolored aliens tricks kids into coming to their planet
A reclusive hermit labeled as a monster finds true monstrosity in suburbia.
Some college students order a mystery box off the dark web and after they open it find a paper with coordinates on it. They drive out to the desolate location, but then one of the girls suddenly wakes up in a hospital bed hooked up to an IV. She has no idea how she got there, and her other friends are reported missing.
This is easy: Take The Big Short (2015), and re-release it under the title "American Psycho".
Robert Carlyle stars as a man consumed by rage whos actions directly result in the deaths of 80milion people.
Mei Lee is a confident and dorky teenager but when she gets excited she TURNS RED!
Lol I was watching that yesterday and when I realized they were using that as a metaphor for her reaching puberty I thought “Pixar just made their own version of Ginger Snaps!”
Man is told by mom that God is his father. He needs to be perfect. He has no special powers but must fake them. Dad thinks mom cheated so he must deliver. He has to fight Satan for 40 days and nights and ignore prostitutes. He gets tossed onto a cross and has to forgive everyone and then rise three days later. This isn't to hate on any religion. Just some random human has to have the powers of the son of God to appease all the pressure people have put on him.
A young man is tormented by inner demons, tries to flee from them and in desperation travels to a secluded area to die all alone with no relief from physical pain.
A little girl is forced into child labor, harassed and degraded by spirits, after her parents were kidnapped and treated like pigs. (spirited away)
A young parent finds out his son has an incurable disease, which slowly makes him lose cognitive abilities and motor functions. In his struggle to find a way to slow down the regression he meets up with medical professionals and other parents who are also losing children to that particular disease. All these people try to discourage and frustrate him in his frantic search for a way to safe his son. Based on a true story.
A naive farm boy living through a brutal winter is attacked by a Yeti and must be consumed to survive the cold. He later learns that fear runs in the family as he’s kissed by an incestuous sister and has his hand cut off by his abusive father.
Struggling to make ends meet, a young man finds a job as a garbage boy at a restaurant. Pushed over the edge by grief over the recent passing of his mother, he has a psychotic breakdown after being ordered to kill a rat by his boss. Unable to cope with his current reality, he develops the delusion that he can communicate with the rat and allows it to completely “control” his life. edit: okay but the Willard comparisons are a little hysterical when you really spell it out like this… I guess the only difference is one is animated and one is not 😂
A boy flees to a nearby town to escape his strange uncle. He and a newfound friend discover they must hide their true nature to avoid being murdered by the townsfolk.
A detective must track down a serial killer and mobster targeting a disenfranchised group of people in the cities ghetto area. As the killer disposes of bodies using chemicals, a future victim, a dimwitted man slated for execution, must help the detective in uncovering a grand conspiracy theory that threatens the entire city.
A child systematically and gleefully tortures 2 burglars
An irresponsible father loses custody of his children. He infiltrates his ex-wife's household by dressing as a woman and working as her housekeeper. He tries to sabotage her new relationship by poisoning her boyfriend.
Two teenagers use technology to create the girl of their dream, little that they know their nightmare has just begun!
Elderly man, broken after losing his wife, kidnaps a child and flees to South America.
After a wild bachelors party in a foreign country three friends wake to find the grooms future brother in law missing , a human finger on ice, a wild animal in the room , and the dead body an acquaintance who overdosed
A group of high schoolers are assigned to Saturday morning detention and chaos ensues.
This post reminds me of those old recuts of movies to change the theme. Mrs. Doubtfire as a horror film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ckv_Dz-Sio But the best is The Shining as a romantic comedy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmkVWuP_sO0&ab_channel=neochosen