A Glean movie guide
Chills Without the Spills
All of the fear, none of the blood.
Masterful suspense and supernatural dread for those who prefer tension over gore.
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The movie list
- 01
The Others
A masterclass in gothic atmosphere that relies on shadows and sound rather than graphic shocks.
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.
- 02
The Conjuring
Proof that a movie can be terrifyingly intense and effective without relying on physical violence.
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.
- 03
A Quiet Place
A high-concept survival thriller that uses silence to build nearly unbearable levels of environmental tension.
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
- 04
The Sixth Sense
A chilling psychological mystery famous for its emotional weight and legendary narrative twist.
Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.
- 05
The Ring
A relentless supernatural mystery that trades blood for a pervasive, ticking-clock sense of impending doom.
Rachel Keller is a journalist investigating a videotape that may have killed 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 so she can save herself and her son.
- 06
The Haunting
The definitive ghost story that proves what you don't see is often scarier than what you do.
Dr. John Markway recruits three strangers for a sleep-disorder study at the eerie and isolated Hill House. It soon becomes clear his real interest lies in the mansion itself and its sinister history, as they are forced to confront the nature of its horror…
- 07
The Babadook
A deeply unsettling look at grief that uses psychological dread and sound design to get under your skin.
A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.
- 08
Poltergeist
A classic suburban nightmare that delivers big scares through imaginative supernatural special effects.
The Freelings' suburban home becomes the center of paranormal activity that opens a portal to the 'other side'. With help, they must cross over to get their daughter back.
- 09
The Blair Witch Project
A pioneer of found-footage horror that creates pure terror through suggestion and the fear of the unknown.
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.
- 10
Signs
A slow-burn sci-fi thriller that masters the 'less is more' approach to building suspense.
A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.