5 Horror Films That Mess With Your Head

There are a lot of horror films that have been made over the years, but there are really only a few of them that can actually scare a person. For me getting scared is not a loud noise or a door slamming or a monster jumping out of the trees suddenly. A real horror movie is disturbing, a real horror movie messes with your head and makes you think. Here are five movies that I think does this to the people watching them, because it affected me in ways that regular cheap thrill horror films just don’t do.

Session 9

Session 9 is definitely a movie that has freaked me out. It takes place in one of the scariest places imaginable… an abandoned insane asylum. A group of guys take a job to remove the asbestos from the decaying hospital. One of the workers begins listening to old recorded psycho therapy sessions. While he listens to them the madness begins.

This movie does a great job of keeping the audience on the edge of their seat. You have no idea what is going on until the very end. The recorded sessions of the movie are really the scariest part. It puts your imagination to work and you can’t help but get an incredibly disturbing mental picture of what was going on in the patients' head. The movie does a great job with playing with the viewers emotions and fears.

The Exorcist

This satanic horror film had people fainting and throwing up in the movie theaters when it came out. I guess this could be considered one of the most evil movies ever made. To this day when I watch it, the movie makes me feel uneasy. I don’t see how you can watch this movie and not feel an evil presence watching it with you.

The Exorcist follows a mother dealing with the demonic possession of her young daughter. She seeks out the help of a priest in hopes that through an exorcism her daughter can be saved.

The visuals used in this film were practical but effectively chilling. The 360 head turn, the throwing up of green goo, and the demonic voice coming from a little girl were just a few of the iconic things that made this movie a horror classic. The subject matter itself was effective in making your soul duck and cover. What takes this story to a whole new level of creepy is that it was based on an actual documented exorcism that took place in 1949 on a 14 year old boy.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

This little film took horror movies to a whole new level of craziness. It's a nightmare of death you will never forget. It looked way too real to be a movie, and that is why it was so messed up. If you look at the remake it is very polished and cinematic. The original version was just ground down and dirty.

The film follows a group of five close friends who end up at the residence of a demented family of cannibalistic psychopaths. The leading lady finds herself an involuntary guest at the home of death.

One of the scenes that’s burned into my memory is when they bring down the grandpa who looks like a walking rotting corpse. The family members hold the poor girls head over a bucket while the old man tries to knock her out by repeatedly by dropping a hammer on her head. It’s such an intense movie and the whole time you really want that girl to get out of that situation. It can be an exhausting movie to watch.

Jacob's Ladder

This horror film took me on trip that I still have flashbacks from. This is one of the trippiest movies I have ever seen. It does a great job with screwing with your head. The film is about a guy who begins to have severely insane hallucinations, which he thinks is all part of a government conspiracy.

This movie takes you down so many rabbit holes you don’t know what to believe. It’s an unsettling series of events that leads to, in my opinion, one of the greatest most mind-blowing endings ever in a movie.

Rosemary’s Baby

This film was brilliantly twisted and sadistic. I’ll admit it kept me up at night, but not because I was scared. It was because I just couldn’t get it out of my head. I couldn’t help but think about and what happened in the story. I was trying to figure out why and I just couldn’t.

Rosemary starts to experience these incredibly odd, unpleasant things in her new apartment. She finds out she is pregnant after a crazy nightmare in which Satan pretty much makes love to her. It’s not the most pleasant scene to watch. She starts suspecting that her neighbors have something to do with all the strange things going on around her.

What happens at the end of this movie is very awkward and quite troubling.