21 Movies That Started Normal and Then Became Horrifying
‘Dogma’ comes to mind…
scary if you already know the bad guy is in the closet.
Possibly the most effective surprise, however, is when you didn’t even realize you were watching a horror movie. “I just watched Deep Rising (1998),” Redditor FolsgaardSE told r/Horror, calling it a “B-level action flick, then all of a sudden, in the last 15 minutes or so, (it) turns into a full-blown horror movie. (It) has a The Thing feel to it.”
They then asked for more “movies that randomly turn into horror movies,” and the answers from their fellow Redditors could only be horrifying.
Sunshine
Event Horizon
From Dusk Till Dawn
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Freaks
Stand By Me
It’s A Wonderful Life
Overlord
Hot Fuzz
The World’s End
Barbarian
Titanic
The Innkeepers
The ‘Burbs
Running Scared
Audition
Dogma
Fresh
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Psycho
Office Space
