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Somehorrorfilms resonate particularly for milennials because of how they impacted their lives.
Some greatmovies about millennials resonate with the entire generationand are considered cinematic classics.
In fact, some iconic horror movies defined millennials' childhoods growing up.
It features one of themost gruesome 1980s horror movie deathsthat scarred an entire generation of viewers.
Amanda Wyss plays Tina, who falls asleep and has a terrifying dream of being chased by Freddy.
She nearly escapes but is then caught when she finds the backdoor of her house is locked.
It is the first murder in the film and establishes how dangerous Freddy Krueger can be.
Meanwhile, millennials, who were mostly in their teens, were enthralled by the movie’s weirdness.
AlongsideOctober Sky, this filmmarked Jake Gyllenhaal’s breakthroughin the industry.
One of thescariest supernatural horror moviesof all time is Hideo Nakata’sRingu.
Its widespread popularity led to an entire franchise of films that continues to entertain viewers.
The plot ofThe Ringis based on an old Japanese urban legend about a cursed VHS tape.
VHS had defined the lives of millennials, and so, the film’s premise intrigued them all.
Poltergeistcontinues to scar millennials today because it’s ahorror movie that hits differently as a parent.
Dr. Marty looks into the mirror and halucinates that he is peeling his face off with his own hands.
A Nightmare on Elm Street, released in 1984, explores the terror faced by a group of teenagers haunted in their dreams by Fred Krueger, a vengeful spirit. As they confront a series of mysterious deaths, Nancy Thompson uncovers the truth about Krueger’s dark past and seeks to stop him.
The movie features a twist ending that has become iconic in pop culture.
He might just be Willis' second most famous character.
Shyamalan’s eerie filmmaking adds a sinister tone to Malcolm’s experiences.
After troubled teen Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes on a local golf course after a night of sleepwalking, he has a vision of a man in a rabbit suit telling him that the world will end in 28 days. Returning home, Donnie sees that a jet engine has fallen on his bedroom in the night, and begins to feel increasingly detached from reality. Scrambling to make sense of the bizarre and unexplainable events that have altered his life, Donnie finds himself unravelling a tangled web of disaster and fate.
The moment when he realizes it is one of the quintessential millennial movie moments.
Nevertheless, can the dead truly return from the grave?
Gage expectedly turns murderous, and claims Jud as his first victim.
An American remake of the original Japanese supernatural horror film, Ring, The Ring follows a journalist who discovers she has seven days to live after watching a cursed videotape. Attending the funeral of a girl who dies under mysterious circumstances, the victim’s mother asks Seattle journalist Rachel to investigate the death. After learning about the urban legend behind the video tape the girl watched, Rachel views the tape in the hopes of finding a lead - only to find herself succumbing to the same curse.
As they document their search for the Blair Witch legend, strange and unsettling events unfold.
When one thinks of iconic millennial horror movies,The Blair Witch Projectimmediately comes to mind.
It is considered to be the first film of its scale that was marketed almost entirely on the internet.
A remake of the 1982 horror film of the same name,Poltergeistrevolves around the Bowen family, whose home has been invaded by evil, supernatural forces.
It also popularized the found footage genre and inspired a franchise.
This subversive use of viewers' fear of the unknown captivated millennials' imagination.
Millennial horror cinema is characterized by an uptick in torture horror.
Directed by M. Night Shyamalan, The Sixth Sense is a psychological thriller about a young boy who can see and communicate with ghosts. Bruce Willis as Dr. Malcolm Crowe, a child psychologist who tries to help Cole, played by Haley Joel Osment, while grappling with his own personal demons. The movie features a twist ending that has become iconic in pop culture.
Filmmakers have tried recreating its narrative structure and mimicking its level of gore for the past couple of decades.
They are given tasks to complete in exchange for their lives.
The tasks are demanding, often involving self-mutilation.
Eager to start afresh, the young doctor, Louis Creed, and his family–his wife, Rachel, their daughter, Ellie, and their two-year-old toddler, Gage–move to their new home in the small rural town of Ludlow, Maine, alarmingly close to a busy highway. However, after the inadvertent death of Rachel’s cherished tomcat in an awful accident, reluctantly, a desperate Louis will take his friendly neighbor’s advice to bury it in an ancient Micmac graveyard: a mystical burial ground imbued with alleged reanimating powers. Now, despite the terrible results and the insistent warnings from a recently deceased, tragedy-stricken Louis has no other choice but to go back to the Indian cemetery, in high hopes that, this time, things will be different. Nevertheless, can the dead truly return from the grave?
However, the most iconic moment inSawisn’t one of violence.
The corpse in the room gets up at the end and is revealed to be the Jigsaw killer.
Introducing Jigsaw with a Shyamalan-like twist was a great creative choice!
The Blair Witch Project is a 1999 horror film that follows three film students who venture into the Black Hills near Burkittsville, Maryland. As they document their search for the Blair Witch legend, strange and unsettling events unfold. Presented as found footage, the film is directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, and it pioneered the found footage genre in mainstream cinema.
Moreover, the film can be sobering with its exploration of the inevitability of death.
The most traumatizing scene in the franchise is in the first sequel movie.
The film opens with a scene on the highway where a log truck will cause a pileup of bodies.
1996’s Scream follows a teenage girl who is targeted by a masked killer a year after her mother’s murder who uses horror movies as a deadly game against her and her friends.
Saw is the first installment in the horror franchise directed by James Wan. Released in 2004, the film follows two men who awake shackled in a derelict bathroom, discovering they are part of a sadistic game orchestrated by the enigmatic Jigsaw, requiring them to follow cryptic instructions to survive.
Final Destination 2 follows a group of strangers as they desperately try to escape an inevitable and gruesome fate after a premonition saves them from a deadly highway pileup. Seeking to cheat death, they must uncover the mysterious pattern of their survival while striving to evade a series of fatal accidents meticulously orchestrated by an unseen force.
