10 Horror Movies Millennials Watched Too Soon

While the horror The genre has traditionally been aimed at a more mature audience, several ‘gateway’ films are aimed at younger viewers and have a lower MPAA rating. Goosebumps is a great example, as well as Coraline, The Corpse Bride, and the TV show Wednesday. However, young people will find a way to watch content that is inappropriate for their age group, regardless of censorship.

Horror films are designed to terrify, disgust, and thrill audiences in equal measure, and there’s no fun in sticking to PG-13 horror films forever. As such, it’s no surprise that millennials were raised on more extreme films in the genre. Some of the best horror films may have been rated R upon release, but would likely receive a lower rating in some cases now. However, that doesn’t mean they’re appropriate for fans who experienced them at a young age.

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Arachnophobia

Directed by Frank Marshall (1990)

Many of the best horror films attack the simplest phobias people have, and Arachnophobia works perfectly on this. Despite being a PG-13 film, it features scenes that would leave young millennials scared, even if they weren’t afraid of spiders. Producer Steven Spielberg’s films have always tested the limits of censors, and the announcement of a remake proves that Jeff Daniels Arachnophobia has become a cult classic.

The production design is excellent and the mix of fake, real and mechanical spiders works incredibly well in the film. Anyone with even the slightest fear of spiders would feel uncomfortable in a crowded theater watching Arachnophobiabut several scenes tested the censors. The shower scene has a hint of bare breasts, as well as blood, decomposing corpses, and lots of intense spider attacks.

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Bichos 2: the main course

Directed by Mick Garris (1988)

When the wonderfully festive Gremlins wowed audiences with its puppet madness in 1984, its huge success inspired a series of creature features. One of these films was fun and well received Creatures in 1986. It featured nasty creatures Creatures introduced the Krites, who terrorize a small Midwestern family. However, it is the sequel to 1988, Animals 2: The Main Course, this was very inappropriate for millennials for several reasons.

Animals 2 The Main Course is one of the best horror films, but some of its scenes are definitely not suitable for young millennials. When the shape-shifting bounty hunters arrive, one of them transforms into a completely naked Playboy model and still has the magazine’s center clip stuck to her abdomen. The film is also surprisingly gory for a PG-13 release, with malevolent, hairy monsters tearing chunks of flesh out of people in several scenes.

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Final destination

Directed by James Wong (2000)

Final destination It was the starting point for one of the most inventive horror franchises and brought terror to an entire generation of millennials. The series managed to keep people away from tanning beds, elevators, bridges, and many other scenarios where death awaits its next victim. The first film features a terrifying scene in which one of the main protagonists, Devon, has a premonition that the plane they are on will explode.

When they are kicked off the flight, the plane explodes and vengeful death comes after them. What makes the film so scary for younger viewers is the lingering fear that you can never cheat death.

While the Final destination the series may contain some ridiculous deaths, they are still ridiculously gory. The final death scene in the first film is one of the most disturbing in the entire franchise, as a character has her throat slit by an exploding glass, is stabbed in the chest, and then ends up having her entire house explode.

7

The Descent

Directed by Neil Marshall (2005)

One of the first scenes of the horror film expertly crafted by Neil Marshall The Descentgives a brutal indication that the film will be a very uncomfortable experience. A shocking moment, set in a moving car, shows a man being suddenly impaled by copper pipes in an unexpected collision. It’s a big early scare and proves it The Descent is one of the best horror films of the 2000s and is not for the faint of heart.

Marshall proved with Dog Soldiers in 2002 that he was capable of bloody set pieces. There are equally disturbing actions in The Descent; Bones are broken and protrude from limbs, flesh is torn apart by the terrifying antagonists, and blood is spilled regularly, proving that young millennials shouldn’t be watching this.

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The Blair Witch Project

Directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez (1999)

Looking back The Blair Witch Project, Overall, it’s not a horror film, but it deserves its status as one of the most iconic films of the era and is too much for younger audiences for a number of reasons. The Blair Witch Project had a brilliant marketing campaign, and media reports at the time of release claimed that movie-goers were becoming ill in theaters due to the film’s intense horror. It was most likely the film’s handheld camera work.

However, the film’s premise, in which three students disappear into the woods leaving only footage from their video camera, is incredibly disturbing. Thanks to the film’s clever marketing campaign and sensational media reports, some audiences believed the footage was real. When the chilling final scene appears, showing one of the main characters standing in a corner, possessed by an unknown force, the terror would have been too much for impressionable minds.

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Child’s play

Directed by Tom Holland (1988)

The possessed doll subgenre is one of the most incredibly successful and popular among horror fans around the world. With M3GAN spin off SOULM8TE expanding its roster, in addition M3GAN 2.0 underway, the demon doll movie isn’t going anywhere fast. The horror genre already featured several slasher villains, so when Chucky was revealed in 1988, Child’s playhe joined the likes of Freddy Krueger and Michael Myers in horror iconography.

The film follows a six-year-old boy who receives a sought-after doll for his birthday. Unfortunately, the toy has recently been possessed by the consciousness of a dying serial killer and subsequently embarks on a merry murder spree. The film is too intense for younger viewers due to the deaths being sadistic rather than excessively gory. A man is tortured by Chucky and has his limbs broken before he bleeds out and dies. The electric shock machine sequence would also be too intense for some.

4

The ring

Directed by Gore Verbinski (2002)

The late 1990s and early 2000s saw the emergence of some extremely demented Japanese horror films. One of them, the incredibly scary psychological horror from 1998, Ringu It proved so popular that a remake starring Naomi Watts was quickly put into development and brought horror to theaters in 2002. It’s a horror film with so much iconography to work with thanks to its superior original, but it still would have scared the life out of it. of millennials, however.

Verbinski’s excellent remake inspired many other productions, based on some of the burgeoning J horror films, to be greenlit. It also features some genuinely terrifying sequences. The film’s first death is edited in an effective and frightening way, and although the numerous scares don’t all land, the monstrous antagonist, Samara, would have been too scary for younger horror fans to handle. The ringThe ending of has a deeper meaning and is also one of the best horror movie scares of the time.

3

Mountain range

Directed by James Wan (2004)

The early 2000s were a great time to be a horror fan, and the era yielded many iconic horror films. However, the lasting legacy of the all-time classic, Mountain rangeis one of the best examples of how to create a franchise and at the same time scare the unwitting millennials. With Jigsaw confirmed to return to screens in Mountain range XIIt looks like the bloody, trap-filled series isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.

Films like Mountain range were on the rise in the 2000s, and millennials were subjected to several horror films based on the theme of torture and mutilation. Mountain range upped the ante when it came to gruesome and disturbing death scenes, and also brought iconic images like Billy the Puppet to the forefront of pop culture. These are the macabre traps in Mountain rangehowever, this would have terrified the millennials who were able to watch the film.

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The Shining

Directed by Stanley Kubrick (1980)

Despite being released long before the millennium, Stanley Kubrick’s incredibly haunting and disturbing film, The ShiningIt’s so ingrained in pop culture that its appeal has spanned decades. Based on the 1977 book by horror legend Stephen King, the film focuses on the sinister presence at The Overlook Hotel, where caretaker Jack Nicholson slowly loses his mind. It’s not a film for the faint of heart, especially if you’re an impressionable millennial.

As Jack becomes increasingly unhinged, the film’s various gory themes and images begin to appear in all their gloriously grotesque nature. The film is a psychological thriller, and while it isn’t overly gory or blood-soaked, aside from the famous elevator scene, it still manages to be disturbing in its own right. The reappearance of the dead twins is incredibly frightening, the psychological abuse that Jack’s wife Wendy suffers is horrific, and the authoritarian tension of the ending is very disturbing for younger viewers.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street

Directed by Wes Craven (1984)

There is one film that, despite being released long before the millennium, is sure to scare millennials if they have witnessed its macabre bloodshed; 1984 A Nightmare on Elm St. The film unleashed one of the horror genre’s best and most disturbing villains: Freddy Krueger; a janitor with horrific injuries, who terrorizes and kills teenagers in their sleep.

The first film became an extremely popular franchise, albeit with diminishing returns, but with A Nightmare on Elm StRobert Englund, suggesting that the villain could return, a new generation of horror fans may be haunted by Krueger’s serial killer. What makes the first film so disturbing is the light-hearted nature of how Krueger dispatches his victims in their sleep. Johnny Depp’s character Glen is murdered in a gloriously bloody scene, but what’s most frightening is Tina’s savage and cruel death.