A Glean movie guide
Chills Without the Spills
Scary, not messy.
Masterful suspense and psychological dread for those who prefer chills over gore.
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The movie list
- 01
The Others
A masterclass in Victorian atmosphere where the dread comes from what you can't see.
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 Sixth Sense
A haunting mystery that relies on emotional stakes and chilling supernatural encounters.
Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.
- 03
A Quiet Place
A high-tension survival story that uses silence and sound design to create relentless suspense.
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
- 04
The Conjuring
Delivers intense supernatural scares and a thick sense of dread without relying on graphic 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.
- 05
The Haunting
A legendary film that proves shadows and sound are scarier than any physical monster.
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…
- 06
The Babadook
A deeply unsettling look at grief manifested as a monster, focusing on psychological toll over gore.
A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.
- 07
The Blair Witch Project
The definitive found-footage film that generates pure terror through imagination and isolation.
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.
- 08
The Ring
Uses surreal, disturbing imagery and a ticking-clock mystery to build a pervasive sense of 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.
- 09
It Follows
A uniquely paranoid experience driven by a constant, slow-moving threat that never lets up.
A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.
- 10
10 Cloverfield Lane
A claustrophobic thriller that keeps you guessing about the true danger until the very end.
After a catastrophic car crash, a young woman wakes up in a survivalist's underground bunker, where he claims to have saved her from an apocalyptic attack that has left the outside world uninhabitable.