4. Audition

Sometimes, a horror movie doesn’t need any ghosts, zombies or monsters to creep us out. All it takes is one deranged lunatic and her array of ways to take out a person. Slowly take out a person. That’s where 1999’s Audition shines the finest. It’s a horror film without any supernatural touch but it still makes us regret having to sit through its entire duration.

Takahashi Miike is the mastermind behind this brutal horror film. It’s about a rich man who’s looking for a new partner in life. Unlike most of us, he didn’t try to find a partner. He had women audition for the part. That’s when things went wrong because the woman he accepted as his new wife was pretty on the outside but a killer on the inside.

The majority of the film is just a build up to the gruesome torture scene at the end. It’s still worth watching though and believe us, you’ll never look at acupuncture the same way again.

3. Ringu

By now, every horror movie fan; even movie fans at that, have probably heard of the 1998 horror classic; Ringu. It’s the Japanese horror movie that gave a lot of people reason to avoid any mysterious tapes they found. It also made a lot of people fear for what happens whenever they watch TV.

We all know the premise of Ringu. A tape has been circulating and this said tape is cursed. Once a person views it, he or she dies within 7 days. When first watching the film, many thought that it was just a typical ghost haunting flick but when Sadako came out of the TV to kill her poor victims, that’s when many viewers shrieked their loudest.

Ringu has had many sequels, spin-offs and even Western adaptations. However, we can all agree on the fact that none of them is scarier than the 1998 original.

2. Uzumaki

Based on the manga of the same name by Japan’s premier horror-story Junju Ito, 2000’s Uzumaki tells the story of a cursed town and its fascination with spirals. While it’s hard to think of a reason why this would make for a good horror film, you shouldn’t let Uzumaki’s weird plot fool you. It will keep you up at night.

What starts out as a few individuals’ obsession with spirals turns into proportions of disaster as the town lets the innocent shape take over their lives. The town is slowly consumed with its obsession and at the center of the spiral is Kirie, a high school girl who saw the tragedy all before it unfolded. Sadly, the curse was too strong and there was no way out of it.

What Uzumaki lacks in supernatural forces it makes up for with body horror and creepy visuals. Rest assured, Uzumaki will creep you out from beginning to end.

1. Shutter

For shutterbugs, the film Shutter is not something to watch alone. The Thai film is one of the most popular films originating in the country and it’s also the most memorable horror film at that. It tells the story of a couple haunted by a ghost who seemingly wants to reveal something about her past.

After a night of partying, Tun and Jane get in a car accident and kill a woman. Natre was this woman and she was revealed to be in a relationship with Tun all along. Tun’s friends begin committing suicide one by one and just when they thought it was over…

Natre was trying to warn Jane of what Tun’s friends had done to her. Tun himself was part of the abuse that Natre endured. Throughout the film, Tun felt a sharp pain in his neck and his weight doubled. In the end, it was revealed that Natre’s ghost had been sitting on Tun’s neck all along.

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